[情報] 球隊新聘請Sachin Gupta擔任副營運總裁

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Wolves to Hire Sachin Gupta as VP of Basketball Operations 你狼今天從活賽管理層挖角了Sachin Gupta擔任VP，預計是負責設計交易、簽約等內容。有點架空雷登原本的職責的意思。 Prior to his brief stint in Detroit, Gupta spent time with the Houston Rockets as a special advisor to Daryl Morey. This was actually Gupta’s second stint with the Rockets, his first coming back in 2006 when he was Morey’s first hire for the front office after Morey was hired away from the Boston Celtics. Gupta also spent time with the Philadelphia 76ers 在去年到活塞任職前，Gupta曾待過火箭、塞爾提克、七六人，是Rosas過去的同事。 OK... I know most of that is just a resume word salad and not very exciting, but here’s the fun part: Gupta, a graduate from MIT, is most well-known as the man responsible for developing the NBA Trade Machine on ESPN.com! Yes, THIS NBA TRADE MACHINE! Gupta最廣為人知的成就是，他設計了ESPN網站上知名的NBA TRADE MACHINE。可見他對於CBA(Collective Bargaining Agreement 集體談判協議)是非常純熟的。 Gupta’s second stint with the Rockets, his first coming back in 2006 when he was Morey’s first hire for the front office after Morey was hired away from the Boston Celtics. 2006年莫雷上任後，第一個簽的制服組就是他 Gupta, a recent computer science and electrical engineering graduate of MIT who was working as a software engineer for ESPN at the time, stuck around when the talk was over to chat with Morey one-on-one. 當時Gupta剛從麻省理工畢業，在ESPN當工程師。 Morey, of course, met with many young adults looking to enter the sports world, a hypercompetitive industry with depressingly low odds to break into. But Gupta left an impression on Morey because of how proactive he was, even as a relative outsider, in pushing the boundaries of statistical analysis. The fact that Gupta had proven his coding ability as an engineer at ESPN made him even more desirable. 雖然Gupta在NBA圈內完全是個外行人，但他的數據分析能力已經給莫雷留下了深刻的印象。 When Morey was hired by Houston just a little over a year later, Gupta immediately applied for one of the numerous positions Morey posted to fill out his staff. His role with the Rockets was one that started off in a more traditional, technical variety, building the databases and generating the reports that Morey and VP of Basketball Operations Sam Hinkie would use to help them make decisions. 一開始，Gupta在火箭的工作是建立數據庫，協助莫雷和Sam Hinkie作為決策參考。 But while Gupta’s connection to Morey may have helped him get his foot in the door, he was also fortunate enough to work in an environment that was built on meritocracy. Emboldened by the open environment Morey and Hinkie created, Gupta, who became an expert on the ins and outs of the NBA’s Collective Bargaining Agreement while developing the trade machine at ESPN, began branching out, pitching trade ideas to Morey and Hinkie despite not having the job title most would deem necessary to be taken seriously. 經過多年磨練，Gupta在CBA精算上大有斬獲，設計了ESPN TRADE MACINE，並且開始設計各種交易方案讓莫雷和辛基參考。 One such instance was the buildup to the summer of 2010, the year of LeBron, when every team in the league was clearing cap space, convincing themselves that they had a real chance to sign James and turn their franchise around. The Rockets took the the road less traveled, using their cap space to capitalize on the rest of the league’s unrealistic optimism in order to gain additional youth and draft picks, such as Jordan Hill, a future 1st round draft pick, and the right to swap first round picks with the Knicks, pieces which would prove valuable as the team tried to rebound from the devastating injuries to Yao Ming and Tracy McGrady. 2010年所有球隊都在想辦法清空間，準備裸簽大魚時，Gupta認為市場對於空間的價值太過樂觀。所以火箭在其他球隊拚命清空間時，反其道而行，開始高價賣空間收選秀權、新秀和首輪籤互換。 That trade, according to those involved with the Houston front office at the time, was the brainchild of Gupta. Over the years this would prove to be Gupta’s forte, even more so than the comfort level with statistics that got him in the door. 火箭內部消息指出，順利擺脫Tracy McGrady的大約是Gupta傑作。 He would eventually leave the Rockets to pursue an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, although that time away from the game proved to be brief as Gupta was immediately brought in to be Hinkie’s #2 when the Sixers hired the now-controversial executive away from the Rockets in the spring of 2013. The Rockets, according to sources, were going to try to bring Gupta back once he was finished with his MBA, but his familiarity with Hinkie and the chance to be the #2 man in Philadelphia would make the decision easy. Gupta後來跑去唸書，在這個期間跟隨辛基在七六人精算。 It’s not really all that surprising, considering his background in computer science, that Gupta’s role with the Sixers would be characterized by most as being an “analytics guy”, a marginalization rarely done for a team’s second in command. Truth be told Gupta’s role with the Sixers rarely involved hands-on work manipulating code or databases, graduating to become a stakeholder of such systems rather than the architect. 辛基給Gupta對外的職稱是數據分析師，但費城內部的消息顯示，Gupta並沒有參與數據庫多少。更多的是利用數據操盤和設計交易。 One of the frequent criticisms of Sam Hinkie’s front office was its lack of traditional “basketball guys” at the top, as none of Hinkie, Gupta, or Ben Falk (VP of Basketball Strategy) played high level basketball. To say that was intentional may be overstating the situation, but it certainly wasn’t something Hinkie seemed to shy away from, either, looking to build the best staff of decision makers he could, not just the smartest collection of basketball minds who happened to have the genetics required to physically compete at an NBA level. 辛基和Gupta在費城的時候常常被質疑，這些菁英出身的管理層不懂球，外行領導內行。當然，費城之後的成就眾所周知。 Michael Carter-Wliiams, fresh off a Rookie of the Year season, was traded at the 2015 trade deadline, a move criticized by many because they traded a “known” commodity (whatever that actually means) for an unknown future reward, highlighting a key fundamental difference in thought process. Teams, more often than not, are unrealistic about the actual value of their players, especially young players, and turn down countless offers that may never become available later on down the line. 止損麥卡威的那筆交易也是Gupta的傑作之一，大部分的球隊很容易高估這種類型的新秀，隨著時間讓他們貶到一文不值。 Perhaps no trade exemplifies an organizational philosophy, and creativity in using their unique cap situation to their advantage to “create luck”, better than the trade with the Sacramento Kings. The trade brought in Nik Stauskas, Carl Landry, Jason Thompson, the right to swap draft picks (at the Sixers’ discretion) in both the 2016 and 2017 drafts, as well as a future draft pick from the Sacramento Kings Gupta設計的、最經典的交易，就是那筆吃兩年兩千萬的垃圾合約，從國王迪爺那裡騙(?)來了兩年首輪互換、一個無保護首輪。 The right to swap picks with the Kings was viewed by many, perhaps even the Kings themselves, to be worthless, a window dressing addition to the trade that was never going to materialize. The outside view thought there was no chance for the Kings to be worse than the Sixers, who at the time were about to embark on an almost historically bad season. So what’s the point? 很多球隊制服組認為首輪互換沒有意義，但Gupta反其道而行，他已經從尼克要了一個，這次又從國王裡拿到了兩個。 While characterized as an “analytics guy”, Gupta was more often than not at the forefront of trade activity with the Sixers, constantly brainstorming trade ideas and with an uncanny ability to look at the trade from the other side and correctly assess their motivations and ambitions, coupled with a deep understanding of the collective bargaining agreement and a creative mind. Depending on relationships with other team, time constraints, and schedule, Gupta would also, from time to time, conduct at least part of the negotiations himself. 在辛基的經典交易之中，Gupta參與了腦力激盪、設計交易方案、精算CBA、以及部分的交易談判。 In fact, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the Sixers’ front office proceedings, there wasn’t a trade of significance that Gupta didn’t have his hands in, an aspect of the Sixers’ rebuild even their most ardent detractors would almost universally admit was well executed. 費城的消息指出，Gupta參與了交易的所有過程。 “His whole life revolved around that day in February,” one Sixers staffer told me, referring to February’s trade deadline. Those same sources describe Gupta as the driving force behind the Kings’ transaction, a trade which now looks to have set the Sixers up so enviably for the near- and long-term future. 費城的消息源指出，在那筆坑爆迪爺的交易中，是由Gupta主導並完成。 Since leaving the Sixers over the summer Gupta returned to his native Boston area, rediscovering a work/life balance that’s impossibly difficult to maintain in the world of front office executives. He’s remaining close to the Sixers’ ownership group, working as an adviser to their many sports franchises and business dealings. He’s also kept in contact with NBA circles, heading to various events, such as this month’s D-League showcase, the life of an NBA addict with every intention of getting back in the game. Gupta在辛基被開除後離開了七六人，但還是跟前上司們(莫雷、辛基)保持了聯繫，CP3那筆交易中他應該也參與了設計交易內容、精算CBA等等。圈內的評價： David Aldridge： Some keep saying there’s "plenty of time" for the Wizards. Meanwhile: The Pels hired David Griffin (PBO)/Trajan Langdon (GM); Minnesota hired Gersson Rosas (PBO)/Sachin Gupta (VPBO); Nets hired Jeff Peterson/Andy Birdsong (assistant GMs). Major talent getting scarfed up. 這次的管理層選人在NBA圈內的評價似乎很高。這次管理層的改組，可以想見未來的大方向。 Gianluca Pascucci負責選秀、低順位、發展聯盟淘寶 Sachin Gupta和雷登負責設計交易、精算CBA Rosas則是擔任主要決策及對外的門面畢竟前述三位制服組在NBA圈內對於業務能力評價高，但較不擅長和其他隊伍交流。而小桑則是擔任將制服組掏來的新秀煉蠱練出可用之兵的任務。看得出來球隊是想往金塊、籃網等隊的建隊模式發展。插播一個，你狼近期重點考察了後衛NAW、前鋒Little的試訓。也試訓了若干個順位15~20左右的射手。雖然時間很趕，但從這個制服組的構成來說(Rosas也在廣播中提到過)，近期可能會有選秀權向下交易的可能。今年這種小年，如果能多摳到一個次輪是很不錯的，也符合球隊煉蠱的大方向。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 118.163.247.88 ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Timberwolves/M.1559099310.A.9DA.html

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