大鳥的期中報告

看板PACERS (印第安那溜馬)作者LanewGo (六兩加油)時間18年前 (2008/02/23 18:46)推噓27(27推 0噓 18→)

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1. How active were you in trying to make a trade? 你有多積極去嘗試作交易？ A. We were very active, believe it or not. We've been talking over the last two months about different situations, different deals. Really, when it came right down to it, we didn't think we could make a deal that would make our team any better than it is now. We didn't want to do anything at the last minute that would jeopardize some of the things we'll be able to do before the draft and in the summertime. 不管你信不信，我們非常積極。過去兩個月我們一直討論在各種不同的狀況與交易；然而事實上，流傳過的交易沒有一個可以讓球隊變得比現在更好。我們不在最後一分鐘前冒著危險去做交易，而我們將會在選秀前與暑假期間有所作為。 2. Were other teams asking for too much in return? 其他的隊伍是否想趁火打劫？ A. Probably not giving us enough for what we think our players we were worth. We had some situations that were very close but this time of year, with our team playing like it is, we didn't think we could get a player in here that could help us down the stretch. We've been in a lot of games in the fourth quarter and we just don't have that one guy, or couldn't get that one guy, we thought could make a difference going down the last 8-10 minutes of the game to get that one basket or one rebound we need. The way we look at it, we don't have Jamaal, we don't have Jermaine and we don't know when they're coming back – hopefully soon – but if they're in there we think we can win a lot of these games. As far as trading and getting one of these guys, no, we didn't think we were in position to do that. 有可能是我們覺得他們給的不值吧！我們有些即將成功的交易，但一個球隊玩到現在這樣，我們不覺得可以找到一個幫球隊撐到底的球員。今年有一票第四節的比賽，我們沒有或找不到「那個人」，可以在最後八到十分鐘把球放進籃框或是抓個致勝籃板，把球隊帶往勝利。往球場看，我們沒有丁丁，我們沒有嘴砲歐，而且我們也不知道他們甚麼時候可以回到球場－希望很快－但如果他們倆在場上，我想我們可以贏得一拖拉股的比賽。要透過交易得到像他倆這樣的天才，哪那麼簡單！我們不會這樣做的。 3. Will some of the discussions you had this month likely be re-visited after the season? 季後是否會和這些球隊重啟交易大門？ A. No question. A couple teams we talked to wanted to wait until the summer to take a look at it. It involved different players but they just thought it was better for all parties to hold off until the summertime. 毫無疑問是的。和我們交涉過的一些球隊想等到暑假再看看。但因為牽扯不同的球員，在暑假期間再來談對大家都是好的。 4. How will circumstances in the offseason be more favorable to trades than during the season? 為什麼在季後談交易會比在季中來得好？ A. You have more time. You have the draft, probably after the draft they'll see what type of player they've gotten and then they'll look their team and see their needs and go from there. 你總需要多些時間。選秀權是主要原因，球隊會根據他們選秀結果去決定讓球隊走往哪個方向。 5. How big a challenge will it be to change the team, considering the number of long-term contracts on the roster? 因為那些長肥約，改變球隊的挑戰很大嗎？ A. Obviously you'd like to have some room where you can make some deals and either take on some money or give some money back. We're right at the tax and we're not going over the tax. Our owners have told us they'd like to stay under the tax and I understand that. That's been our goal all the way through. If we have the type of team that we need that one player to get us over the hump to maybe get us to the NBA Finals, I don't think it matters to them whether we go over the luxury tax or not but until then we're at $67 million and we're going to stay there for awhile unless we can make a deal to get under. And if we do that, it's going to be a major deal. If not, we've got to stay within our budget. 當然，當討論交易，不管是要給別人錢或是別人給我們錢，有些薪資空間總是比較好討論。我們就快到薪資上限了，但我們不會去超過。老闆告誡我們要在薪資上限下處理交易，我當然了解，這也是我一直努力的目標。但如果我們需要的是總冠軍的最後一塊拼圖，我覺得老闆就不會在乎豪華稅了；但如果需要，那將是一筆大交易。但現在沒有那種交易的可能，所以我們還是得保持在薪資上限以下。 6. You have some young players like Danny Granger that are improving but is your nucleus strong enough, or do you need to pursue changes to the core of the team? 球隊有像小葛的年輕新秀，但你覺得球隊核心這樣就夠了嗎？還是你會繼續追求真正的球隊核心？ A. We need to make some changes, no question about that. We're not happy where we're at right now at all. If you look at our team and I looked at it before the start of the season, obviously you wanted your players to be as healthy as they possibly can. We added to this team, because we knew the style Jimmy was going to play, and we brought in shooters to help open up the middle for Jermaine O'Neal and let Tinsley push the ball a little bit more. Obviously we've got to get better in a lot of areas. We know that. When we went into the season, I thought we could be a team that could win 41 to 45 or 46 games – that we could be a playoff team. I still believe they can be a playoff team but obviously they've got to get better going down the stretch. We can't give games away like we have been in the past. But as far as building this team, we've got to get players go out and get the type of players that play the style Jimmy wants to play and also get the type of players that play on a more consistent basis. Yeah, I like Danny Granger, I likeMike Dunleavy, I like Shawne Williams – I like the core group of guys we have. It's just that we have to get better and we have to add to that. 毫無疑問，我們需要改變；現在這樣的情況沒人會開心。看著我們的球隊，在季前誰不希望球員們可以健康的打球。我們找了些射手讓歐比玩，並且讓嘴砲歐和丁丁有更可發揮的空間；明顯的，我們在很多方面都有進步。進入球季後，我想我們可以是41、45、46勝等級的球隊，當然是隻季後賽球隊。我依然相信我們可以進入季後賽，但明顯的，我們必須在比賽最後關頭做得更好。我們不能像過去幾場一樣，將比賽拱手讓人。拼湊這支球隊，我們有可以讓歐比玩的選手，我們也有可以讓球隊更堅實的球員。是的！我愛小葛，我愛小鄧，我愛香威－我愛這些球隊的核心球員。我們的球隊核心會更好，我們也會增加競爭能力。 7. What's been the most disappointing aspect of this season? 你覺得球隊哪方面是你最失望的。 A. Players playing on a consistent basis. I look at Marquis Daniels and Marquis is not playing at a level I thought he would play at. He's been up and down. Just consistency throughout the year; guys have not played on a consistent level the way they should be playing. 球隊的一致性(好難翻，就是保持一樣的狀態)。阿丹沒達到我的要求，大好大壞，看天吃飯。保持一致性；這些球員並沒有達到一致性的境界。 8. Knowing the fans' frustration level, from where you sit how frustrating was it not to be able to make a move now? 你知道球迷挫折感多大嗎？你覺得看著球隊沒有變動有多失望？ A. It's a three-step (process). You've got the trading deadline, you've got the draft and you've got the summer. We're all frustrated. We're not happy where we're at here. Being 11 or 12 games under .500 is not acceptable. Going into this season, I thought –I know – we have a good nucleus, it's just that we're not playing on a consistent basis. There's got to be changes made and we're going to make them and we're going to do the things necessary to get this team better. You can question everything we've done here but if we have a healthy team throughout the year I think we're sitting in a better position. Nobody asked for miracles here. They know we're trying to build and get back to where we was a few years ago and we're going to do that. It's going to take some time; how much time, I don't know but it's going to take some time. Injuries play a major partin this and we're going to have injuries going forward. It's just that you've got to have the type of players that can step in and do the job for you. 有三個步驟。交易大限、選秀、放暑假期間。我們都很失望，現在這樣沒人開心。離五成勝率還有11、12場勝場真是讓人不能接受。當球季開始，我知道我們有好的核心，只是我們不能保持一致性。球隊需要改變，我們將會有所動作，只要對球隊好我們都會去做。你可以質疑我們作的一切，但如果球員整年保持健康出賽，我們不會是在這個名次上的。沒人期待奇蹟發生，球迷知道我們正在讓球隊恢復幾年前的榮光，而我們一直在作；但是需要時間。至於需要多久，我不知道，我只知道需要些時間。我們會帶著目前的處境繼續往前，我們總是需要有某些球員可以進入比賽並且打好他的球。 9. What do you think of the job Coach Jim O'Brien has done in his first season? 半個球季下來，你覺得歐比做得如何？ A. I'm very happy with a lot of things that's transpired here in the last five or six months. Jimmy brought in a new style. It takes the players awhile to adjust to that style. He plays a tempo I think our fans really like. It's the type of style that I like. It's just that we're missing low-post players that can score for him to take the pressure off the outside shot. I think our players sometimes give into the 3-point shot too much. I like them to take the shot when they're open. I don't like contested shots at the end of the game when it's a close contest. But if you don't have an inside presence it makes it difficult for your outside perimeter players to get open shots. 我對於過去五六個月這裡所發生的感到高興，歐比帶來了新的風格。球員需要為了風格改變，歐比玩的節奏是球迷喜歡的，也是我喜歡的。只是我們失去一個低位球員可以在低位拿分並且使外線射手減少壓力。我覺得我們三分有時丟得太多，但我喜歡球員有空檔時就投。我不喜歡每次在比數接近時最後幾個浪投的球。但我們在內線沒有威脅性，所以外線很難有好的出手機會。 10. Is Danny Granger capable of becoming a superstar-level player? 你覺得小葛會到全明星等級嗎？ A. When we drafted Danny we thought he could become this type of player. I know he's going to be a lot better than what he is now. Danny's being more consistent with his play night-in and night-out. I think Shawne Williams will continue to grow. Dunleavy's having a lot better year. We've got two players that could be in the running for (Most Improved Player). Dunleavy's a little banged-up but over the course of the year overall he's played very well. Shawne Williams is coming. He's a little inconsistent right now but he should be a junior in college. In a couple of years I think he's going to be that type of player. So we do have a nucleus of a few guys we think, going forward, we have to build around them – and Danny's the key. 我們選他的時候就覺得他會是全明星球員，我知道他會比現在來得更加的好。小葛每天保持一致性的出賽，我想香威也會持續成長，小鄧今年表現得很好。我們有兩個球員在最佳進步獎的行列中。小鄧有時腦充血，但整年下來，他的確打了個好球。香威也快到達這種階段了，只是他目前不太能保持一致性，但他還年輕。我想給他個幾年，香威也會到達小鄧等級的。我們有這幾個球隊核心，我們會圍繞著他們去建造－然而小葛是鑰匙、那個人。 11. Is there enough talent in the free-agent market to consider making trades just to clear room under the salary cap? 只要有薪資空間，會想要在FA市場中尋求交易嗎？ A. Clearing salary cap space is a lot harder than you think it is. A lot of people just don't like to take on $10-12 million and there's very few teams out there that are capable of doing that. I think the way we're going to build this team is take a player and trade him, whoever it is, and if you can make some money in the trade to help you down the road, that's good. If not, you have to trade player for player or player for multi-players and try to build your team in a way … you can do it without having a lot of money under the cap. It might take two players for one, it might take three for one but obviously having some room and having the ability to do different things is key. 清薪資空間比你想得難多了。一票人不想只拿一兩百萬，然後一些球隊也不想超過上限。我想先簽後換是個方法，可以讓你交易後降低薪資，當然很好。不然就是交換球員，或一換多去建立球隊，這些都是沒有很多錢可以運用下可以做的。有可能二換一、三換一，但明顯的，有薪資空間去做些不同的事才是關鍵。 12. Have you decided what your nucleus is? 你決定球隊核心成員了嗎？ A. We've got some very good basketball players, we just don't have a lot of superstars on our team. When I talk about nucleus, I talk about Danny Granger, I talk about Jermaine O'Neal, I talk about Jamaal Tinsley, I talk about Mike Dunleavy. The core group here, really, is Jermaine, Danny, Mike, them are guys you can build around, and Shawne as he gets older. That's a nucleus and you've got to build around that. We have other players. You can go down through there and Jeff Foster, he's a leader, he's the type of guy that plays hard every night. But we've got to get more talent on this team and we understand that whether it's through the draft, free agency or trades and we will do that. 我們有很好的球員，我們只是沒有超級巨星。當我講到核心，我總會談起小葛、嘴砲歐、丁丁、小鄧。他們就是核心，球隊圍繞他們打造，還有成熟點的香威。這就是核心，然後圍繞他們去打造球隊。我們有其他球員，像佛爺，他是個領袖，他是個每個晚上都賣命打球的球員。但我們要有更好的天分，我們了解透過選秀、FA或交易，我們可以辦到。 13. Where do you see Jermaine O'Neal fitting into the future here? 你覺得嘴砲歐適合這個球隊的未來嗎？ A. We'll look at all avenues with Jermaine. Jermaine hasn't been healthy. Jermaine hasn't really practiced. He hasn't been in top condition for awhile. Going forward, we will look at all options. I think the key right now is to get him healthy, get him back in this season and this summer take a look at everything. He understands that and we understand that. When you look at our cap, he takes almost a third of our cap and we expect, when you pay a guy what we're paying him, he's got to produce. Being in a small market, he's got to be able to do the things that he's done in the past and help this team grow. But when he's not playing, it takes a lot out of us, there's no question about it. So we have to take a look at all of our options this summer. 我們看透嘴砲歐的一切了，他是個玻璃人；他並不十分有經驗，又不在顛峰狀態。走著瞧吧！我們會看看有的選擇。目前關鍵就是他在這球季能健康的打球，然後暑假我們才能兜售看看。他了，我們也了；拿了我們三分之一薪水的傢伙，應該要在場上做出點事情。在這個小市場的球隊，他應該要打得跟以前一樣並且幫助球隊成長。毫無疑問的，他拿了我們很多卻穿西裝爽爽的過。所以暑假我們走著瞧。 14. Has Jermaine indicated his intentions about his contract option (O'Neal has the option to forego the final two seasons of his contract and become a free agent)? 嘴砲歐有說他想怎樣使用PO嗎？ A. You mean as far as opting out? Come on. Actually, he hasn't talked to me about it but I assume that he will not opt out. 你該不會想說他要自己走吧！別傻了。事實上，他還沒跟我提到這個，但我想他會賴著不走的。 15. Does this team have necessary leadership? 這個球隊有必需的領導才能嗎？ A. You know, these guys get along very well. I think they like one another, but that's not leadership. I don't think we have what I call a great leader in that locker room. Players will say, 'Come on, I'm a leader.' No. It's not there. When a guy's late, if you have a leader he goes to that guy and says, 'Look, we don't do that here.' If a guy misses a bus, 'We don't have that.' If the team gets beat on a last-second shot and a guy misses a defensive assignment,the leader goes to that guy and says, 'Hey, come on, what are you thinking?' We don't have that. And until we have that we will struggle, at times, there's no question about it. But as far as 'the leader,' no, we don't have that. 你知道的，這些球員單打獨鬥很強。我想他們喜歡彼此，但那不叫做領導才能。我想我們休息室內還沒有我覺得好的領袖出現。球員總是說，"我是個領袖"，但那並不是。當有個球員遲到，領袖走向那個人說，"聽好，我們不玩這套的"。如果有隊友錯過巴士，他會說，"我們不會這樣"。如果一個球隊在最後一秒被幹掉而一個球員防守交代不清，他會說， "嘿！你在想三小"；我們還沒有這樣的球員。毫無疑問，在領袖出現前，我們會打得很掙扎。但目前，球隊裡沒有領袖。 16. Can it develop from someone on the team or must it be brought from the outside? 領袖是要在球隊內養成，還是去外面找一個？ A. It's tough to bring a player in the first year to be a leader from outside. I can see Danny Granger, over time, being that. Danny's one of them kids that comes in here right now, looks around, keeps his mouth shut, practices hard, plays hard, takes everything in and goes home. I know what he's thinking. His time will come and he'll probably be that guy. 很難去外面找一個球員在第一年就可以當領袖的。我觀察小葛，小葛是一個閉上嘴認真練球、賣命打球、並且每晚做好每一件事的球員。我知道他在想啥，他的時代會來臨，他有可能就是「那個人」。 17. Are the team's ongoing fourth-quarter problems a sign of that lack of leadership? 第四節症候群是不是缺乏領袖的一個指標？ A. They get very down on themselves because the same thing's happening over and over. If you notice, in the last however many games we've been in and lost, it's always been the key player from the other team making the plays to win the games. We haven't got that out there. Ours is hurt. Until we get him back we probably will struggle in that area. But at the same time, a lot of our young guys are going through some situations knowing what they have to do to get us over the hump. As we go forward, I think these guys will be good enough and learn enough from these stars that are doing this to us that they will overcome that and continue to get better at that. 他們對於第四節慘案一直發生是很沮喪的。如果你有注意，很多比賽在最後關頭，總是別隊的領袖捅我們一刀送我們上山。我們沒有「那個人」，這樣是很傷的。我們會在這樣的狀況下持續掙扎，直到「那個人」出現。但同時，這些年輕小朋友開始知道在某些狀況下他們該做什麼。隨著比賽進行，我想這些球員會從那些捅我們刀的球星中學到教訓，他們會克服並且會做得更好。 18. If this team was healthy, could this team make noise in the playoffs? 如果這些球員都健康，溜馬會在季後賽有所作為嗎？ A. If we're healthy and we start playing with confidence and getting more consistent – I see the same things, guys put their heads down and get frustrated and we've got to overcome that. You can't win on a consistent basis with your head dragging at the end of games. It's winning time, Magic Johnson always said. That's the time you have to go after people. You can't make mistakeson the defensive end or the offensive end. But if we are healthy I think we can make a push and if we can overcome a lot of this that's happened to us at the end of games, yeah, we can be a playoff team that could make some hay. Obviously we're going to play either Detroit or possibly Boston, which are very good, but you've seen it last year. Golden State beat Dallas. But you have to be on a roll and you have to play at a high level going into the playoffs to have a chance. 如果我們健康並且開始有自信並保持一致性－我看到一樣的場景，人們沮喪的看著我們逆轉情勢。沒有一致性是不可能贏球的，你不能在防守端或攻擊端犯錯。但如果我們健康，我想我們會有衝勁並且讓那些捅過我們刀的隊伍在比賽結束前付出代價。是的，我們是一隻季後賽隊伍並且具有威脅性。明顯的，第一輪我們將會面對底特律或超賽，他們是很強的球隊，但你有看過去年的季後賽吧！土匪是如何吃牛排的！但是在進入季後賽前，球隊必須要運轉得好，並且打出高水準的比賽，才有這樣的機會。 19. How challenging has this first year in charge of all basketball decisions been? 第一年負全責的挑戰有多大？ A. I've been around here for awhile. I thought this summer with the additions we picked up. Travis has been hurt; his foot has been bothering him for the last month, month-and-a-half. Kareem's starting to come on and does some good things. Stephen Graham, I think's going to be a very nice player in this league. I hate to bring this up but I knew we was going to have injuries but I didn't know it would be like this for long periods of time. I thought we had a bench that would play on a consistent basis and get us over the hump in a lot of the games. I thought, looking at the additions we made and our bench, they'd come in and extend the lead instead of losing the lead. We haven't played on a consistent basis and we haven't played the way Jimmy wants them to play on a consistent basis. Jimmy brought in a new style and these guys haven't adapted to it the way I thought they would. 我在這工作有一陣子了。我想著暑假與選秀。低能受傷了，他的傷勢困擾他一個半月了；羅許開始表現不錯。Graham可以是個不錯的球員。我討厭談到這些，但我們總會有一些傷兵，並且像現在這樣持續一陣子。我想我們需要有一致性的板凳區，可以幫我們在傷兵期間越過一些阻礙。我想，我們板凳區上場時應該要拉開比數而不是失掉優勢。我們沒有一致性，也不能打得像歐比想要的那樣。歐比帶來了新風格，但這些球員並不如我想像的已經適應了歐比的戰術。 ===== 第一次翻譯，如果有錯請鞭小力點。因為是菜英文，所以附上原文，原文網址如下： http://www.nba.com/pacers/news/bird_080222.html -- http://www.wretch.cc/album/duepcst -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 85.177.178.24 ※ 編輯: LanewGo 來自: 85.177.178.24 (02/23 18:47)

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