[外電] Q&A: Flip on the season so far (I)

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http://goo.gl/VSR98p (內容蠻長的，只能簡略解釋一下) MP: Minnpost, FS: Flip Saunders Minnpost: Let’s start with a positive. You could argue that the team’s top priority this season is the development of Andrew Wiggins. Thus far that seems to be relatively on course. Has it gone about the way you expected? Flip Saunders: When we made the trade, there is no question that we switched somewhat, although we thought if we kept Ricky together with those guys we could be a blended team [of veterans and young players]. So based on where we were, and where everyone thought Wiggins was — coming out of college in Kansas people thought he was inconsistent and that you didn’t know what you were going to get out of him — I think over the last month or six weeks we are way ahead of where I thought we would be. I think that is a combination of things. One is, we lost guys, so he has had a lot of responsibility he has had to accept. So that is part of the reason he has become more mature. Another is that Ryan [Saunders, Flip's son] and the other coaches have worked with him extremely hard and that we haven’t let up on him. It is an off day today [from practice] but he has to come in and watched 15 minutes of film, so he understands what he has to continually do and work on. I think everybody knows he is quiet, but he has really opened up a lot, especially with us — I don’t know about you guys [in the media]. But he is very coachable. He wants to be good and will accept criticism. He has gotten to the point now where he knows when he is making a mistake. That is the difference between him and Zach [LaVine] at times. Zach still doesn’t know at times that he is making a mistake when he makes mistakes. 關於 Wiggins 的成長，老桑認為從過去一個月到六個禮拜可以看出，比預期進度更快。他認為有幾個原因，球隊傷兵問題，讓 Wiggins 必須擔負更多責任。再來是老桑的兒子和其他教練團成員的努力，即使在休兵日，Wiggins 要觀看比賽影帶來修正錯誤。老桑也提到 Wiggins 與教練團有更多互動，十分受教，接受批評。他已經進入能夠當下了解自己犯什麼錯的階段，LaVine 還無法做到這點。 MP: You have called Wiggins out a couple of times and said he is not hustling or he is taking plays off. To say that about a 19-year old kid in the NBA would normally be regarded as a risk. But you were confident enough in his makeup? FS: Well because he wants to be great. People always say to me, ‘Well you never called out KG.’ Well, I never had to. There was never a time that KG didn ’t play hard. He might do other things that were bad, but never that. You asked me a question one time about me going after the better players. [Specifically, I asked him if he was tougher on the players he liked.] I think that is an obligation that you have, that you don’t want a player to look back and say, ‘I wish he had said something to me.’ So is it a risk? Yeah, but coming in, it helps that Billy Duffy is his agent and I know Billy well and he helps out and so everyone is on the same page, knowing that we all want the same thing — we want him to be great. Part of our organization, when we made that trade with Love, it was Wiggins. This might sound stupid, based on our record, but someone asked me, ‘Are you closer to a championship today than you were a year ago?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ Because there was no way — there was not as much upside with the team last year. It could be a playoff team. But this team, potentially, adding the right pieces, is closer, because you have a guy with the potential to be a top five player, having a player with the ability to create shots for himself. 對於有時用較嚴厲的方式指導 Wiggins，老桑認為這是 Wiggins 成長必經之路。愛之深，責之切，也許對一名19歲年輕球員有風險，老桑覺得那也是身為教練的義務，而且 Wiggins 的經紀人 Billy Duffy 也和球隊站在同一陣線上。大家對 Wiggins 有遠大期望，與這支球隊未來發展緊密聯繫著。 MP: You say he has opened up. He is still pretty inscrutable with the media. What is his makeup like? FS: Dry sense of humor. When we talk, it is amazing — he has a smile about him all the time. He is pretty upfront and pretty honest. He tells me when he is tired and he has told me when he can keep on going. When you get on him and criticize him, and point things out to him, he’ll agree a lot of times. He is a willing learner. During the fifteen minutes we just spent in here, he was glued to the TV and the things we were watching. He talks more now. Before, it was pretty much always a one-way conversation. Now it is a two-way. He is agreeing with things and he is questioning things. You have to look at where he was at. He was a 19-year old and he was under scrutiny for the last two or three years, the cover of Sports Illustrated and everything else. That’s a lot of pressure. And I think he thought the best way to deal with it early was just not to deal with it. 老桑繼續提到 Wiggins 與教練團間溝通，隨著球季進行，更多的雙向互動，最大重點是 Wiggins 很願意學習。老桑認為 Wiggins 在19歲這年紀，過去兩、三年持續被外界檢視，甚至登上運動畫刊封面，承受不少壓力，但他有自己的一套與壓力共處。 MP: You still don’t have a great idea of what the team will look like a year or two from now. But as you look at Wiggins as a cornerstone, how do you see him in this franchise? What kind of role? Do you want him to be a Lebron-type, or a Pippen-type? Without necessarily having to make direct comparisons, how do you envision him leading? FS: We want him to be Lebron, Kobe, Pippen. Because they are all two-way players. A lot of those guys were their team’s best offensive player but also their team’s best defensive player. And their tenacity, the team goes through it. Wiggins is in a much-more difficult situation than what Garnett had. Because Garnett had some vets that were going to be there for awhile and really locked in and we just don’t have the same type of guys. With Garnett the vets had had a lot of success — Terry [Porter] had been to the NBA Finals and was going to be a coach. And we had a lot of good players — Gugliotta. So we never asked KG to carry us offensively [early in his career]. We have had to ask that of Wiggins. My biggest thing, the one thing KG could always do, he could always create shots at the end of games — that’s tough when you are a power forward. Wiggins will be able to create shots for himself or for somebody else and be able to do that off the bounce. 老桑期望 Wiggins 成為攻防兩端均衡發展的 two-way player。也指出過去 KG 有不少老鳥像是 Terry Porter、Googs 從旁協助，減輕 KG 不少進攻重擔。相較之下，Wiggins 面臨的挑戰比起當初 KG 更加嚴峻。 MP: Is it helpful to have Sam Mitchell around as well? Because Sam and KG were a tight relationship early in KG’s career? FS: Yeah, Sam’s good to help around anyone. But because of their age similarity, Ryan spends more time with Wiggins probably than any of our guys. And Wiggins has probably opened up more to him, just because they have more in common. Sam is more into the whole-team type thing than into the individual. Sam Mitchell 曾是 KG 年輕時的心靈導師，他在教練團中對於 Wiggins 是否有幫助。老桑認為因為年齡相近，他的兒子 Ryan 和 Wiggins 比較能聊得來。而 Mitchell 對球隊幫助是整體的，不單是針對個別球員。 MP: Aside from Wiggins, as you look at the first 41 games of the season, the record is not good, but what are the bright spots that you see? FS: Muhammad. There is no question that Muhammad — Wig probably misses him a little bit now, because with those two guys in there you are always creating some type of mismatch. There will have to be a smaller guy on one of them. 除了 Wiggins，上半季另一個亮點，老桑認為毫無疑問是 Bazz。當他們兩人同時在場上時，能製造出許多 mismatch 的機會。 MP: Which is why you starting using Robbie Hummel as a large small forward, as a stand-in for Muhammad? FS: Yeah, pretty much. But if you look at where Muhammad was at a year ago compared to where he is now, he is one of the top five guys in terms of most-improved player. Then there is the development of Gorgui [Dieng]. He has proven he is a solid guy and one of the top young big-players in the league. And Zach is a lot better now than he was the first week of the season and through training camp. So there is no question that the development of our young guys is the silver lining in this situation. 老桑同意 Hummel 先發原因與 Bazz 相同，製造 mismatch 的機會。也順便提到 Bazz、 Dieng、LaVine 的成長，強調球員養成是這個球季的收穫。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 1.169.189.50 ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Timberwolves/M.1422194081.A.EED.html