Some people may have thought Cousins acted like a punk when he’d get face-to-face with an opponent or flail his arms after absorbing a flagrant foul. Monique Cousins saw it as a natural reaction any 17-year-old would have after taking a vicious shot. “DeMarcus has had his front teeth knocked out four times,” she said. “ Every team he plays, the scouting report says, ‘Foul Cousins until he loses his cool.’ Who else deals with a scouting report like that? Each game he gets pounded and pounded and hit and scratched. “Ask yourself this: If five guys intentionally pounded on you for an entire game, how would you react?” 表弟被对手恶性犯规後会用脸去顶着对手的脸，或者猛烈地拍击 自己的手臂，有些人觉得表弟这种举动很无赖，但表弟的妈妈 Monique Cousins认为这是任何十七岁少年被恶意犯规後的正常 反应。 「表弟的门牙被打掉四次，每次敌队的侦查报告都是『对表弟犯 规直到他失去理智』，有其他人的侦查报告会这样做吗？每场比 赛对手总是对他又打又敲又抓。」 「你扪心自问：如果对方五个人整场比赛都故意一直撞你，你会 怎麽做？」 In his final high school game, Cousins fouled out with about 3 minutes remaining on a technical foul. His team lost 52-39. An article in the Birmingham News indicated that Cousins, who scored just seven points, continuously complained to officials about a lack of foul calls and that he taunted the opposition after opening the game with a hook shot. Former NBA star Charles Barkley drove in from Atlanta to watch Cousins for the first time. “Very disappointing,” said Barkley when asked to discuss Cousins’ play. Hughley prevented Cousins from speaking with the media after the game. A few weeks later – even though he was ranked as the No. 2 recruit in the nation – sportswriters didn’t even vote him as the top player in the state. 高中最後一场比赛，比赛剩下最後三分钟时表弟因为一次技术犯规 犯满毕业，球队最终以52-39输球，伯明罕新闻报的一篇文章这样 写着：表弟只得到七分，他整场比赛不停地向裁判抗议漏判，而且 他还在比赛开始不久一次钩射得分後挑衅对手。 前NBA球星Charles Barkley特地从亚特兰大开车来看表弟打球。 ﹝这是巴克利第一次来看表弟打球。﹞ 「非常失望。」当被问及表弟的表现如何时，恶汉这样回答。 Hughley於赛後禁止表弟对媒体发言，几周後，最佳球员的票选出 炉，表弟虽然被评价为全国新秀第二名，但没有任何体育作家投票 给他。 For awhile Cousins had considered signing with Alabama-Birmingham to play for Mike Davis, but by that point he was ready to leave the state. He said he needed a fresh start, and it’s tough to get a fresh start in an old place where people harp on your past instead of offering encouraging words about your future. “DeMarcus lives on Front Street,” Hughley said, “and there’s a lot responsibility that comes along with living on Front Street. He’s done an unbelievable job considering all the people that are out there waiting for him to screw up. “People are trying to get a kid to act like an adult all the time when adults don’t even act like adults. No one is perfect. I’m just glad life isn ’t fair, because we’d all go to hell for what we’ve done.” 不久後表弟被认为会就读阿拉巴马大学为Mike Davis打球，但其实 表弟已经准备好要离开，他想要有一个新的开始，待在一个人们总 是用揭疮疤代替鼓励的旧地方很难有新的开始。 Hughley：「表弟在前街区长大，在那里生活就会被赋予许多责任， 当大家都等着看他笑话时，他完成了不可思议的工作。」 「即使是一个大人也不可能总是像个大人，但大家却希望一个孩子 能像大人一样成熟，没有人是完美的，我很高兴生命是不公平的， 因为我们终将为自己的所作所为下地狱。」 A few hours before Kentucky’s basketball team left for a Feb. 16 game at Mississippi State, DeMarcus Cousins’ phone began to ring as he ate a piece of sausage pizza at the Wildcat Lodge. As he answered, Cousins activated the speaker so some visitors could hear. “What’s up (expletive)?” a voice on the other end said. “You ready to get dominated? I hate you so much! You’re the biggest baby in the SEC – the biggest (expletive) ever!” The caller had just referred to Cousins using a homophobic slur and a racial slur, but instead of getting upset, he started laughing as he scrolled through more than 100 missed calls and text messages all beginning with Starkville, Mississippi’s 662 area code. “I guess I’ll have to change my number,” he said. “But I think I’ll wait until after the game so I can see what they say after we beat them.” The scenario provided a perfect example of how far Cousins – who scored a team-high 19 points in Kentucky’s overtime victory the following night – has come since arriving at Kentucky. 二月十六日，几小时後肯塔基将对上密西西比州大，表弟正在野猫 队宿舍吃披萨时手机响了。 表弟用扩音接电话，让其他人也能听见谈话内容。 「搞什？」电话那头传出声音「你准备好被宰了吗？我看你很不爽， 你只不过是SEC里最巨大的小baby，最巨大的！」 对方开始用一些侮辱同性恋和种族歧视的字眼辱骂表弟，但表弟没 有因此而沮丧，他边笑边给我们看他手机里一百多通未接来电和简 讯，所有来电的区域码都显示着662。﹝密西西比州Starkville区 的区码。﹞ 「我猜我该换号码了，但我想等到比赛结束後再换，因为我想看看 他们被我们击败後会说甚麽？」 这场比赛表弟攻下全队最高的十九分帮助球队在延长赛获胜。这个 例子是表弟目前在肯塔基生活的最佳写照。 Even though he’s expected to enter the NBA draft after the NCAA tournament, Cousins said he recognizes how much he’s developed since arriving at college nine months ago. “Everyone needs at least a year of college,” he said. “It helps you mature and it gets you one step closer to becoming a man. There are baby steps to becoming a man, and I’ve taken a lot of them during the last year.” Much of that is because of head coach John Calipari, who Cousins had signed to play for at Memphis before getting out of his letter of intent to follow him to Kentucky. No coach in the country does as good of a job as Calipari of preparing one-and-done caliber players for the NBA – mainly because he’s hard on them and refuses to treat them like superstars. 表弟被预期大一球季结束後便会投入NBA选秀，表弟说他必须承认 这九个月的大学生活帮助他成长许多。 表弟：「大家都应该至少在大学待一年，大学能帮助你成熟并更接 近成为一个男人，成为男人就像婴儿学步，但这一年来我已经有了 长足的进步。」 最大功臣就是肯塔基教练John Calipari，本来表弟要去曼菲斯打球， 但接到卡教练的信後，他便追随卡教练到肯塔基去。 在国内没有人像卡教练一样提供如此多大一生给NBA﹝原文是指到大 学过水一年就投入职业运动的球员﹞，这主要是因为他在球员身上下 了需多苦心并拒绝为这些孩子戴高帽。 “His whole life, when he was challenged to do stuff he didn’t want to do, he ’d react like a 13-year-old,” Calipari said. “So when he wasn’t in shape and we were doing conditioning, he’d start having fits. “I’d say, ‘Fine, go on the side until you can finish these drills. When he figured out that I wasn’t budging and that none of it would work with me and that it wasn’t going to upset our practice, he slowly started coming around. “When he found that by getting in shape and doing it right and listening, he was being elevated as a player, he was like, ‘I’m going to listen and do what the guy tells me to do.’” Calipari said he couldn’t be more impressed with Cousins’ personality and the way he respects his coaches and teammates. “He’s not some self-absorbed jag-off,” Calipari said. “He’s really not. He’s got a huge heart for other people. He cares about how they feel.” 「他过去总是被迫去做一些他不想做的事，所以他才会有像个十三 岁小孩的反应，当他脱离那样的环境後，我们开始帮她做调整，而 他也开始适应。」 「我通常会叫他去旁边想想，等想通再回来，当他了解到我不会让 步，没有任何事能动摇我，而且也不会对球队练习有任何不良影响 後，他渐渐地能跟上脚步。」 「当他发现『了解情况，把事情做对，聆听别人的忠告能帮他更像 一个篮球员』後，他开始喜欢『听别人的忠告并去践行』这件事。」 卡教练对表弟这个人以及他对待教练和队友的印象非常深刻。 「他不是那种只为自己想的浑球，他真的不是，他很为别人着想， 他在乎别人的看法。」 Monique Cousins relocated her family to Lexington last summer to help Cousins adapt to college life. Cousins’ 16-year-old brother, Jaleel – who stands 6-6 and weighs 255 pounds – enrolled at an area high school and everything seemed great. But after a few months Monique’s mother fell ill and she had to move back to Mobile. By that time she said she was more than comfortable with leaving her son alone in his new surroundings. “He’s in an environment where he can be himself,” she said. “No one is out to get him anymore. He doesn’t have a target on his back.” Hughley senses the same thing when he talks to Cousins on the phone. “He’s been allowed to resume his childhood and his maturation process,” Hughley said. “He was always under so much scrutiny in Alabama that he was always guarded. In some ways he was like Michael Jackson. That part of his life was taken from him.” Monique去年暑假举家迁移到莱辛顿以便帮助表弟适应新环境，表 弟十六岁的弟弟Jaleel已经六尺六寸高，两百五十五磅重，转学到 当地高中，所有事情看起来都好极了。 但几个月後Monique觉得身体开始不舒服，所以他又搬回摩比港， 他说他很放心把儿子留在那里。 「他现在的生活可以让他真正做自己，没有人再找他麻烦，他的背 後不再有标靶。」 Hughley也藉由和表弟通电话感受到同样的事。 Hughley：「他终於可以找回他的童年并安心的成长，在阿拉巴马 他一直活在大家的监视下，他一直被盯着，某方面来说他就像Micheal Jackson，这种生活夺走了他的自我。」 Cousins knows his size and tattoos make for an intimidating look, but he says he’s approachable and will talk to anyone – whether he’s walking through campus or eating crab legs at Hooters with Wall and Bledsoe. The players refer to themselves as “Three Amigos.” “I’m not going to bite anyone’s head off,” he said. “You respect me. I’ ll respect you. I’m having so much fun. I never thought college would be like this.” The liberating feeling is obviously paying dividends on the court. 表弟知道他的体型和身上的刺青看起来很吓人，但他说他其实很平 易近人，愿意和任何人讲话，不管是他正走过校园或是他和Wall以 及Bledsoe正在餐厅啃蟹脚都可以找他聊天。其他球员都说表弟、 wall和Bledsoe是三剑客。 「我不会咬人，你敬我一分，我敬你三分，我在这的生活很快乐， 我从没想过大学生活会是这样。」 这种自由的感觉也在场上转化成正面的表现。 During one late-season stretch, Cousins posted double-doubles in 10 of 12 games. He was named Freshman of the Year in the SEC and is now projected to be a Top 5 pick in this summer’s NBA draft. Cousins has had a few less-than-flattering moments. He walked out of a huddle while Calipari was yelling at him last week. Earlier this season he was kneed in the head by Louisville’s Jared Swopshire during a skirmish for the ball. Cameras caught him throwing a forearm into Swopshire’s head. Still, those things are minor compared to the reputation that preceded Cousins ’ arrival. No matter what happens in the NCAA tournament and beyond, Cousins will always be able to say that he did more than just live up to his expectations at Kentucky. He surpassed them. “Everyone in Alabama comes up to me now and says, ‘I saw DeMarcus on TV last night,’” Hughley said. “These are some of the same people who used to criticize him and talk behind his back. I think the state is starting to appreciate him now. Everyone here is getting behind him. They’re happy for him. “Mainly because he proved them all wrong.” 球季尾声的最後十二场比赛，表弟有十场比赛缴出双十成绩，他获 选为SEC的年度大一生，而且预期是今年选秀的前五顺位人选。 当然本季他也不是全然过的这麽顺遂，上周球队作战术下达时，他 因为被卡教头吼而离席，本赛季初他在争球时被路易斯维尔大学的 Jared Swopshire用膝盖击中头部，之後表弟被镜头抓到他用头击 回敬对手。 但表弟本季的表现让这些事都变得不那麽重要，不论三月疯结果为 何或是之後发生甚麽事，表弟都能抬起头来说他已经做的比大家所 期望的更多。 他战胜了那些看衰的眼光。 Hughley：「每个住在阿拉巴马的人都来找我，跟我说『我昨晚在 电视上看到表弟耶。』而这些人全是当初在他背後说三道四的人， 我想我们州已经开始懂得欣赏他，支持他，为他感到高兴。」 「而这全是因为他证明他们错了。」 〈完〉 --

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