原文出处： http://0rz.net/7910V -- Being an assistant coach in the NBA is a labor of love. 对篮球抱有高度热情才足以在NBA当一个助理教练。 Just ask Larry Drew, Herb Brown, Bob Bender, Greg Ballard and David Fizdale, the quintet in the nice suits surrounding Hawks Head Coach Mike Woodson. 只要问L.Drew、H.Brown、B.Bender、G.Ballard和D.Fizdale，这群跟随总教练M. Woodson一同在老鹰队打拼的5人小组就知道。 After 82 games (not including pre-season games), frequent travel, morning practices, shootarounds, and countless hours watching film to prepare scouting reports for upcoming opponents, winding down becomes a necessity not only to avoid burnout but to preserve sanity. 在经过漫长的82场比赛(这还不包括季前赛)，频繁的旅行，一大早就进行的训练、投 球练习以及花在看比赛影片，蒐集、准备即将交手的对手资料上数不清的时间，不仅仅是 为了避免失去热情还为了让头脑保持清醒，适度的放松成了NBA助理教练的生活必需品。 Each coach finds his own way to unwind, with most — surprise! — doing something involving coaching basketball. 每一个教练都会找到自己的方式去释放压力，而大多数人的选择是 - 令人讶异地 - 做一些包括指导篮球的事情。 Working with the Hawks’ guards for six-plus months isn’t enough for Drew, who during the summer runs the Larry Drew Advanced Guard Academy in Los Angeles. 和老鹰的後卫们一起努力超过6个月的时间对Drew来说还不够，他整个暑假的时间都花 在洛杉矶的Larry Drew後卫进阶学院。 “I did one youth camp, four high school camps and actually did a pro version of it and got a tremendous response,” said Drew (right), who has 23 years of experience as an NBA player and coach. “I’ve done camps in the past but this was a little different because I wanted to focus in on the guards and perimeter players.” 拥有以球员及教练身份在NBA生存共23年经验的Drew说"我用与对待职业球员相同的态 度办了1梯次青少年、4梯次高中生的篮球训练营，并得到相当巨大的回响。过去我就曾办 过这类型的篮球营，但这次和以往有些不太一样，因为这次我将重心摆在後卫和外线球员 上面。" The camp, which boasts such alumni as Kobe Bryant, Jason Kidd, Gilbert Arenas and Richard Jefferson, focuses on the fundamentals and uses former NBA stars like Michael Cooper, Eddie Johnson, Reggie Theus, Norm Nixon, Patrick Ewing and Phil Ford, as well as Hawks colleagues Woodson, Brown, Bender and Fizdale. 这个篮球营以曾有Kobe、J.Kidd、G.Arenas、R.Jefferson等人参与而自豪，另外该营 的重心摆在基本动作的训练上，并广邀前NBA球星，如M.Cooper、E.Johnson、R.Theus、N. Nixon、P.Ewing、P.Ford以及Drew在老鹰队的同事Woodson、Brown、Bender和Fizdale驻营 指导。 “We’re really focused and zeroing in on just those specific skills needed to play the point guard or shooting guard position,” said Drew. “We got such a positive response from it last year that we’ve been asked to take it cross-country. I’ve actually been asked to do one here in Atlanta. I’m going to sit down with some people and see if we can make that happen.” Drew说"我们真的特别注重那些身为一个控卫或得分後卫所需具备的特殊技巧，我们在 去年获得相当正面的回应，甚至还有人希望我们到国外去举办这个篮球训练营。我真的被 要求在亚特兰大也办一梯次篮球营，我会跟一些人坐下来好好谈一谈以确定是否有那举办 的可能性。" When Brown wasn’t helping Drew he was taking his 40-plus years of basketball knowledge to the Middle East. He started by coaching the United States entry in the Maccabiah Games, something that has become a regular part of his life. Brown帮助Drew之余还将他40余年的篮球知识带到中东部，他的教练生涯始於教导参与 Maccabiah运动竞赛的美国队，那现在已经成为他生活的一部分了。 (译按：Maccabiah Games首页请见http://www.maccabiusa.com/israel.htm) “I actually started out in the ‘70s when I was on the selection committee for the Maccabiah Games for the Men’s Open team,” recalled Brown, who has coached bronze-medalists in 1997, 2001 and 2005. “I love Israel, I love coaching basketball and it was something I didn’t even think about.” 曾带领球队於'97、'01、'05年分别夺铜的Brown忆道"我真正开始执教是在'70年代， 当时我被选为Maccabiah Games男子公开赛的委员。我热爱以色列，热爱当篮球教练，而这 甚至是我连想都没想过的。" This past summer Brown (right) took over the team, comprised of college players , a little more than two weeks before the games and still led them to a medal. 上一个暑假Brown在比赛前2个多礼拜接管了那支由大专生组成的球队，但仍带领他们 顺利夺牌。 He then returned to Israel in August, this time with Atlanta Spirit, LLC co-owner Ed Peskowitz to participate in an initiative called “Playing for Peace.” 之後他在8月回到以色列，这一次他是和Atlanta Spirit LLC老板之一的E.Peslowitz 去参加一个刚开始举办，以提倡和平为目的的活动。 “Playing For Peace is a nonprofit group, that is trying to get the Arabs and the Israelis together through sports,” said Brown. “We try to develop a partnership where people can work together and understand that they can live together. It’s modeled after a program that they have in South Africa and a program that they’ve run in Northern Ireland.” Brown说"Playing For Peace是一个非营利组织，目的是让阿拉伯及以色列人藉由运动 而和解。我们试着发展一个夥伴关系，让人们可以一起工作，让人们知道他们可以在一起 生活，那在他们於南非实施以及曾在北爱尔兰实施过的计画後已经定型化了。" Ballard also served as a basketball ambassador, traveling to Italy to coach basketball as part of the NBA’s “Basketball Without Borders” program. Ballard也担任篮球大使的工作，在义大利指导篮球，推广NBA"篮球无国界"的计画。 “It was very nice,” said Ballard (below, right), who is in his 12th season as an assistant coach following an eight-year NBA playing career. “You had the best 17-year-olds around Europe coming, maybe 60 of them, from different countries. We taught them basketball fundamentals, we coached them, we played a lot of games. That was a real treat. 在8年的NBA生涯後紧接着有12个球季担任助理教练工作的Ballard表示"那真的很棒， 你能指导来自全欧洲各地，不同国家的17岁篮球员，可能有60个之多。我们教导他们篮球 基础，指导他们，一起打了很多场比赛，那真的是很享受的一件事。" “[Hawks scout] Harold Ellis went to Africa,” he continued. “They have four of them now, in South America, Africa, Europe and China.” 他继续道"老鹰球探H.Ellis去了非洲，他们现在派了球探到南美、非洲、欧洲和中国 等4个地方。” Bender stayed in the continental United States, but could not stay away from the basketball court. Bender虽留在美洲大陆，但仍离不开篮球场。 “Having been a college coach for as long as I was, I still look at the off-season as part of the season,” said the 48-year-old native of Quantico, Va., who is in his second season with the Hawks and fourth as an NBA assistant after spending 13 years as a college coach. “With our team, we try and get the players together as much as we can through mini-camps and the summer league, put them in a structured situation. Beyond that, any time you do get during the off-season I’m with my family. We really enjoy Atlanta and the Southeast. There’s so much to do. So you try and pack a lot into a short period of time." 48岁，於维吉尼亚州Quantico土生土长的Bender，花了13年时间在大学当教练，之後 在NBA当了4年助理教练，今年则是他在老鹰的第2季，他表示"像我这样在大学当了这麽久 的教练，我依然将挥军季後赛视为本季努力的目标。在老鹰队，我们在迷你训练营及夏季 联盟时试着将球员们尽可能地凝聚在一起，让他们打出有组织性的比赛。除此以外，所有 暑假休兵的时间我都陪着家人，我们在亚特兰大及东南部过得很快乐，有太多事情想做， 所以只能尽可能在最短的时间内完成最多的事。" Fizdale, the youngest of the group found it the easiest to get away from hoops to recharge his batteries — his time at Drew’s camp notwithstanding. 这群助理教练中最年轻的Fizdale找到最轻松的充电方式是远离篮球 - 尽管他还是花 了些时间参与了Drew举办的篮球训练营。 “I like to travel. I like the beach, I’m a big reader,” said the 31-year-old Fizdale, in his second year with the Hawks. “I love reading things like “The Art of War,” strategists’ books." 年仅31岁，在老鹰执教第2年的Fizdale说"我喜欢旅行，喜欢海滩，更是一个喜爱阅读 的人。我喜欢看"战争的艺术"、"战术"之类的书。 “I’m also a movie buff,” he continued. “If there’s a new movie out I make sure I see it. Part of it is I’m one of those people that wants to know everything. If people are talking about something and I don’t know about it, I hate that. I like to know what is going on.” 他继续道"我也是一个电影狂热者，如果发现有新电影上映，我肯定会去看，一部分是 因为我是一个什麽事情都想知道的人，如果人们正在谈论一些我不清楚的事，我讨厌那样 的情形，我希望能知道到底发生了什麽事。" Of course, all five assistants know that now matter how far they may get from Atlanta — be it on another continent, on a sandy beach or simply absorbing a book or movie — the next season is never too far away. 当然，5位助理教练都知道不管他们暑假休兵期间离亚特兰大有多远 - 在另一个洲教 球，在沙滩度假或只是纯粹在家看书或电影 - 下一个球季都不会离他们太远。 “We spend a lot of time preparing for the draft,” said Drew. “When the season does end we jump right into it. We bring a lot of kids in and work them out, then evaluate them. We spend time in Chicago for the pre-draft camp. It’s watching kids play and workout all the way up until draft day. Then, once the draft is over we prepare for Summer League. It’s almost a 12-month job.” Drew说"我们花了很多时间准备选秀会，当球季一结束我们马上就投身其中了。我们让 许多孩子们到球队接受测试，试图从中评估，找出堪用、合适的人选。我们花时间在芝加 哥办了一个选前测试营，目的是藉由练习比赛来观察这群孩子们的表现如何，直至选秀会 为止。之後，一旦选秀会结束，我们就开始准备夏季联盟的相关事宜，几乎整整12个月我 们都有得忙的。" “This past off-season we did a lot,” agreed Ballard. “We had a mini-camp in May and June, then we had our regular Summer League in July, then we had a mini-camp in August and a mini-camp in September. So we were definitely working this off-season. That’s to try to make our players better. So if you see Josh Childress handling the ball better you know why. If you see Josh Childress shooting the ball better you know why.” Ballard深表同意"过去这个暑假我们做了很多事情，在5、6月我们办了一个迷你训练 营，之後在7月我们按往例参加夏季联盟的比赛，之後在8、9月又分别举办了迷你训练营， 所以我们真的整整一个暑假都在工作，而那全都是为了试着让球员们更加进步。所以如果 你看到J.Childress能更纯熟地处理球或投球更具准头，你就会知道原因为何。" --

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