Sacramento Kings’ Coachie and ‘the kids’part1 Working with players nearly six decades his junior, coaching legend Pete Carril faces the daunting task of teaching the new Kings how to hoop the American Dream 沙加缅度国王队的教头与他的孩子们 和一群小他六十岁的孩子们一起工作，传奇教头Pete Carril扛下艰难的挑战，教导这些新 国王们如何实现自己的「美国梦」 http://0rz.tw/FojET By Nick Miller [email protected] More stories by this author... This article was published on 01.21.10. “Three, four, five.” 「三、四、五。」 The Sacramento Kings’ afternoon practice winds down and one by one players head for the showers. Assistant coach Pete Carril remains out on the floor, his khakis hopelessly wrinkled, throwing big men Jason Thompson, Spencer Hawes and Jon Brockman chest-high passes, urging them to work on their jump shots. The 79-year-old Carril’s mechanics remain forever sharp: thumbs down, knees bent, following through, consistent delivery. He’s a perfectionist. And demanding; he rattles off each made basket. 国王队的午後练习结束，球员们鱼贯进入淋浴间盥洗，助理教练Pete Carril仍待在球场上 ，老旧的卡其裤布满皱摺，他指导着小汤，阿屁和洛克人胸前传球的动作，督处他们的跳 投练习。七十九岁的老教头始终精神奕奕。姆指下压，膝盖弯曲，然後投球，不断地重复 练习，他是个完美主义者，要求近乎苛刻，每投出一球都会听到他不厌其烦的教导声。 “Six, seven. Eight!” 「六、七、八。」 Carril moves the three Kings to a new spot and restarts the drill. When the hoops stop falling, he prods: “You can make it to five, eh?” Carril要求球员换个位置，然後一切重新来过，当篮框不再晃动时，Carril激励球员：「 你应该可以连进五个，对吧？」 Across the gym, Kevin Martin yells that lunch is ready. 球场的另一端马丁大叫：「放饭啦。」 “We’re working with the master here,” Hawes hollers back. 「卖吵，我们和大师在练球。」阿屁回应道。 Martin threatens that the pizza will disappear fast. 马丁威胁再拖披萨就要被分光了。 “They didn’t tell Luke Skywalker to stop working with Yoda,” Hawes shouts. Ribs as to whether Hawes is truly a Jedi ensue. 阿屁吼回去：「没有人会打扰天行者路克和尤达大师修行。」阿屁自以为是绝地武士。 ﹝译者：他不要当恰恰宾克斯就好了。﹞ This year’s Sacramento Kings—“the kids,” as Carril says—are the ultimate NBA underdogs. No one expected them to do well. Israeli up-and-comer Omri Casspi is just 21. NBA Rookie of the Year candidate Tyreke Evans is 20. Brockman, Hawes and Thompson are all under 23. Carril, whom many affectionately refer to as “Coachie,” jokes that they’re so green, one player—no names—didn’t even know who Red Auerbach was. 今年的国王是Carril戏称的孩子军，同时也是本季联盟中最凶猛的斗牛犬，没有人期待他 们可以如此顽强，以色列的未来之星卡卡才二十一岁，ROY竞争者reke才二十，洛克人、阿 屁和小汤都未满二十三岁，被大家尊称为“Coachie”的Carril笑这群菜到菜虫掉满地的小 朋友中居然还有人不知道红头奥拜克是谁。 The generation gap cuts both ways. Evans, who’s forged a close bond with Carril, remembers first meeting the five-foot-six 79-year-old and thinking, “ How does he know the game of basketball?” 年龄的代沟还是造成了影响，目前已经被Carril驯服的reke回忆起他第一次见到这个五尺 六寸，七十九岁高龄的老头心中所浮现的想法「他真的懂篮球？」 Oh, but he knows. Thirteen Ivy League championships at Princeton University; 513 career wins; a spot in the Hall of Fame—hoops are coach Carril’s American Dream, and he’s one of the last basketball emissaries, a true teacher in this iPhone, Xbox and Facebook world. As Kings head coach Paul Westphal says, this year’s Kings are “the passion that gets him up in the morning.” 但reke还是有耳闻过Carril的丰功伟业，十三次长春藤联盟冠军，生涯513胜，篮球名人堂 成员，在这个iPhone、Xbox和脸书充斥的世代，他是仅存的几位篮球大师之一，一位真正 的篮球导师，西法说：「今年的国王是他早上还能醒过来的动力。」 Carril’s motivation? To prove—to both the kids and himself—that with hard work and smarts, you can still live the American Dream. That David still can take down Goliath. Carril的动力是甚麽？他和他的孩子们想要证明靠着智慧和努力不懈，你仍可以实现美国 梦，大卫打倒哥利亚的故事不是不可能。 Carril’s Adidas sneakers hardly lift off the ground—he’s recovering from plantar fasciitis—as he shuffles over to sit in an ergonomic chair alongside the Kings practice court. “These guys always drive to the hole” and dunk, Carril says of his workout with the bigs. “Sometimes, you have to work on taking a shot.” 因为足底筋膜炎关系，Carril已经走不太动了，他拖着脚步走到一旁的椅子坐下，他看着 刚刚一起练习的球员们说：「这些兔崽子拿了球就想找洞钻，想要灌篮，有时候你也必须 试着跳投。」 Sportswriters who’ve written about Carril during his 13 seasons with the Kings overuse the Yoda analogy, but Coach, polite and patient and generous with his time, endures the pet name. “I always answer by saying I was last in my class,” he jokes. 帮Carril在国王的十三年经历写书的作家认为国王太操这位尤达大师了，但温文儒雅的 Coach对自己的时间倒是很慷慨，不过他不太爱大家对他的昵称，「我每次都说这是最後 一次敎球了。」 Still, it’s apt: Yoda, an aging, legendary and quotable teacher of short stature, used the Force, which gave him insight into the balance of the universe. Carril shares Yoda’s wispy gray hair, legendary stature, affinity for condensing life’s lessons into brilliant sound bites and a matchless intuition for how the game of basketball should be played. 把他比喻成尤达大师真的再适当不过了，身材矮小、德高望重、充满传奇性色彩，懂得因 材施教的老师，透过原力了解到宇宙万物间的平衡。Carril也像尤达一样披着稀疏的白发 ，有着传奇地位，喜欢用高昂的嗓音分享人生经验，对於篮球比赛有着无可匹敌的直觉。 He aims to share this knowledge, but with these young Kings it sometimes gets lost in translation. Carril wanted Hawes to study Vlade Divac, for instance, but when Coach gave the 7-foot-1 center a VHS tape, Hawes appeared confused by the old-school technology. 他企图分享他的知识，但这群小鬼有时候搞不懂Carril的话，Carril要阿屁多研究老狄， 以老狄当榜样，但当他把老狄的录影带拿给阿屁时，阿屁不知道要怎麽看这个骨董玩意。 “But when times get tough, that’s usually the guy I go talk to,” the 21-year-old center says. 「不过当我遇到瓶颈时，我常会去请教他。」阿屁说道。 For Coach, the first step to figuring it all out when times are tough is easy. It starts when you walk out onto the court—when you get out of bed in the morning. He says you simply have to be able to answer the question: “ What do you stand for?” 对於Coach来说，突破瓶颈的第一步很简单，当你离开球场後，隔天早晨醒来的第一件事就 是扪心自问「我到底为了甚麽？」 Part of the family 家庭的一份 When coach Carril shows up for lunch at East Sacramento’s 33rd Street Bistro, he doesn’t arrive through the crowded front entrance. How’d he sneak in? Who knows, but there he is, scooting his chair forward, sporting a navy, Granny Smith green and eggshell white argyle sweater. “I always get the Mediterranean salad here,” he announces with a husky East Coast accent before settling in to chat. 当Carril现身在东沙加缅度第三十三街Bistro餐厅准备享用午餐，但他刻意绕过了入口的 群众，谁知道他在躲啥？坐定位後，穿着鲜艳毛衣的他说：「我总在这吃地中海沙拉。」 He also might go unnoticed on the Kings bench at games. Carril sits in the second row, behind first-year coach Westphal and next to assistant Shareef Abdur-Rahim, flanked by giants, and rarely stands during timeouts. He wears a modest hodgepodge of sweaters, sweater vests, sport coats and khakis, a style carried over from his Princeton days; most coaches don made-to-measure suits. “Diamond dealers … they’d starve if they had to depend on guys like me,” Carril says. 在比赛中他总是很低调坐在板凳区，Carril一向坐在第二排，和Rahim一起坐在西法後面， 很少在暂停中起身，他穿着花色毛衣、针织背心、运动外套和卡其裤，一如他从前在普林 斯顿的风格，大部分的教练都会注意自己的衣着，但Carril笑称：「如果钻石商想赚我这 种人的钱，他们会先饿死。」 If the Kings are winning a game, Coach rests back self-assuredly, arms crossed. If it’s tense and the crowd’s on their feet, he’ll chomp gum and occasionally stand to watch. But if the Kings face defeat, he’ll bury his palm into his bald forehead and gaze down at the hardwood. This was a common sight last season—the worst in Kings history. It was so bad, Carril was uncertain whether he’d return this year or retire. 如果国王打的不错，Coach就会双手抱胸，很安稳地坐在板凳区；当局势变的紧张让观众 都坐不住时，他还是会坐着继续嚼他的口香糖，偶尔才会站起来看；但一旦国王国王面临 吞败的危机时，他就会用手按住额头，瞪大双眼瞧着场上的惨况。这是上一季很常见的景 象，国王打出队史最糟的战绩，Carril甚至不确定他这季是要回到球场或是退休。 He says the last thing he wants to do, though, is to go back to Princeton, wandering the halls and the recently christened Carril Court like “some old relic.” 他说他最想做的一件事是回去普林斯顿逛逛，看看以他命名的球场和一些从前的事物。 “To have a life without basketball would be difficult for me,” Carril acknowledges. Carril承认篮球改变了他的一生。 Plus, a kind of family has developed in Sacramento. Kings general manager and disciple Geoff Petrie, who played under Carril at Princeton from ’67 to ’ 70, first knew Coach as a mentor. “Then he became my friend,” says Petrie, who hired Carril to the Kings staff in 1996. 此外，Carril也在国王队建立了一种家的感情，派总管於1967-1970年时在普林斯顿给 Carril带过，那是他第一次认识Carril这位良师益友，从此他们成为了朋友，1996年派总 管把Carril找来国王任教。 “And now, he’s really part of our family,” Petrie says. “When I reflect on my own life, it’s really been one of the great things that’s happened to me. I would and do seek his counsel on just about anything. Except electronics.” 派总管说：「现在他已经成为我的家庭的一员，当我回忆人生过往，这肯定是最美好的回 忆之一。除了电器类产品，每件事我总会问问他的意见。」 Coach and Petrie watch a lot of games together, arguing, debating, challenging each other. Coach is more than a teacher; he’s like a father. Coach和派总管一起看过无数的比赛，他们争吵、辩论、挑战过彼此的意见。Coach身为一 位老师之外更扮演着父亲的角色。 First big loss 首次的惨败 Born in Bethlehem, Pa., Carril didn’t see a lot of his actual dad, sometimes for weeks at a time. His father, an immigrant from León, Spain, worked all kinds of odd shifts at Bethlehem Steel Company, which Carril says ran from one end of the town to the other. Carril出生於宾州的Bethlehem，Carril不常见到他父亲，有时候好几周才会见到一次面。 他的父亲是西班牙León的移民，在宾州的钢铁公司任职，Carril说这间公司和他家刚好在 镇上的两端。 But Dad did teach a few things. “‘You’re going to find out when you get older that strong people are always picking on weak people,’” Carril remembers his father saying. “‘And smart people are always taking things from the strong.’” 父亲敎了几件事，Carril回忆起父亲的话：「当你长大後你必须为自己找出路，这是个弱 肉强食的社会，而懂得用脑的人就能够控制强者。」 Carril adopted this refrain as the title of his 1997 book, The Smart Take From the Strong. In it, he describes his dad heading out the front door, but stopping and pointing his finger at his head. “Use el coco,” he’d say, or “Use your head.” Carril采用了父亲的话作为他97年出版的书的书名「智者全拿」，在书中他提到父亲为他 开启一扇窗後，就要求他运用自己的智慧生存下去。 Most kids in Bethlehem grew up with a ball in their hands. Carril was no exception. His father preferred soccer—“Real Madrid, everything stops when they play”—but Carril took to basketball under the tutelage of his first mentor, high-school coach Joseph Preletz. By senior year, Carril was all-state. Bethlehem的小孩都是和皮球一起长大的，Carril也不例外。他的父亲偏爱足球，喜欢皇家 马德里，每次皇马的比赛都会让他停下手边一切的工作。但Carril受到高中教练Joseph Preletz的启发选择了篮球，高年级的时候他已经成为州明星。 “[My dad] only saw me play twice in my career, once in high school and once in college,” Carril says. 「我爸只来看过我的比赛两次，高中一次，大学一次。」 At Lafayette College, Carril played under Butch van Breda Kolff, who would go on to coach at Princeton and later the Los Angeles Lakers. Van Breda Kolff emphasized unselfishness, things like reducing “the amount of tension involved in the game by passing the ball,” Carril says. 在Lafayette学院时，Carril受教於Butch van Breda Kolff，他之後分别带过普林斯顿和 洛杉矶湖人，「他强调无私，藉由传球让球队紧密地结合在一起。」Carril回忆道。 Did it work? “No, I shot the ball every time I got it,” Carril says, joking that he picked up ball hogging in the Army during the Korean War. 这对Carril有效吗？「没，我每次拿到球就投了。」Carril笑称韩战的时候他在军队里是 自干王。 Carril himself began coaching and, in 1959, got the varsity gig at Reading High School in Pennsylvania. “‘You know, I hear you’re a teacher. But in this town, if you don’t win, you’re going to get fired,’” Carril’s superintendent warned. 1959年Carril开始了他的教练生涯，在宾州的Reading高中他尝到人情冷暖，当时他的主管 警告他：「我知道你是一位老师，但在这个镇上，如果你不能赢球，你就得滚。」 This is around the time Carril first tasted defeat. Carril第一次尝到挫败的滋味 It was the state championship. Reading had the game in its hands, but one mental error cost dearly. “We lost the game because one of my players misread a clock,” Carril reminisces, emphasizing the ck in clock as if, some five decades later, he’s still irritated by the gaffe. 在州冠军赛时，Reading胜券在握，但一次失误付出昂贵的代价。「因为一位球员没注意到 进攻时间导致我们输掉比赛。」Carril回忆道，他强调如果注意到时间的话比赛就会截然 不同，都已经过了五十年他还在为那次失误懊恼。 Carril mentions the half-century-forgotten defeat the day after a recent double-overtime loss to the Lakers. “I’d be driving and then I’d think of the [Reading] game, and my heart would start running. I’d move my car over to the side until it passed,” Carril shares. Carril提到前几天二度延长输湖人的比赛，这场比赛让他想起了Reading的比赛，他的心情 激动不已，逼着他开着车到处晃直到情绪平稳下来。 “I took my losses hard.” 我还是把失败看的太重了。 待续.... --

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