Avery Johnson doesn't enter his third full season as coach of the Mavericks facing a crossroad, but facing a challenge. It's not any different than the one he's talked about since Day 1. Avery Johnson即将进入他第3季的执教，他没有要在十字路口上(自己想像意思^0^)但 他仍然要面临挑战。这挑战跟他刚来的第一天说的并没有差别。 "When I took over, all I talked about was getting to the Finals and winning a championship," Johnson said. "I haven't backed off that." 当我接管球队後，我说我们要的是打进冠军赛然後得一个冠军，我现在还是不会退缩。 Johnson has built a two-decade career in pro basketball by not backing off. His vision and opinions remain as sharp as his Louisiana drawl cutting through the noise. Whether the noise is coming from roar of the crowd or the second-guessing of NBA pundits, Johnson is secure in his path for the Mavs. Johnson在职篮中渡过了二十年的生涯从来没有退缩过。 The Mavericks didn't make any major moves this summer by design. Johnson and Co. explored what was out there - yes, Kevin Garnett - but decided to stay the course and not blow up the core. Johnson is excited about the veteran addition of Eddie Jones and intrigued by the "animal" potential of Brandon Bass. 小牛队这一季没有做大型的举动。Johnson跟他的团队找寻过外面有什麽-是的,Garnett- 但决定仍然保持同样的阵容而不要打乱。Eddie Jones的加入以及Brandon Bass的"野兽" 潜力让AJ很兴奋。 As for last season, Johnson didn't call losing in the first round a failure. It's not winning the title that's the disappointment. Not what round the Mavs lost in or to whom. Celebrating the team's successes, and there have been many, is one of the points Johnson hopes to stress. 至於上一季，AJ并不认为上一季在第一轮被打败是失败。另人失望的是没有赢得一个冠军 。不是小牛在第几轮输或是输给了谁。庆祝球队的成功，是AJ着重的事情之一。 The team gets together officially for the first time Monday at Media Day and training camp gets going full force with Tuesday morning's first practice. The preseason opens Oct. 9 with defending champion San Antonio at American Airlines Center. The regular tips off Halloween Night at defending Eastern Conference champ Cleveland. 球队在星期一的媒体日将第一次正式集合然後训练营将在星期二开始。季前热身赛将在十 月九号开始，在美航中心对上卫免冠军马刺队。季赛第一场将在万圣节跟东区冠军，骑士 队开打。 Mavs.com met with Johnson inside his American Airlines Center office recently to catch up before the start of camp. Mavs.com在开季前在美航中心跟AJ见面。 Tell me a little bit about your summer. 告诉我一些关於你暑假的事。 Summer has been too long overall. I like the short summers. I like summers where we only have three days as a staff to get ready for the draft and then after the draft we've got to get right to the Vegas summer league. I like short summers. Hopefully we'll have a chance to have a short summer next time. 整体而言，暑假太长了。我喜欢短的暑假。我喜欢那种只有三天准备选秀然後选完後就去 拉斯维加斯暑假联盟的暑假。我喜欢短的暑假。幸运的话，我们下次可以有个短一点的暑 假。 Did you get away from basketball? 你有远离篮球嘛? I took my family to Italy for two weeks. Everybody needs a little time to get away and be with their families. Being in Italy was a real special time for our family. We were exposed to a lot of history and saw a lot of interesting sights. It was good to get away. The phone doesn't ring as much, but basketball is always there. Other than that I've been here in the office pretty much working. 我带我家人去义大利玩了两星期。大家都需要一点时间来远离然後跟家人一起相处。在义 大利对我家人来说是个很特别的时光。我们曝在历史下然後看了很多有趣的景象。是一个 很好的远离。电话不常响，但篮球当然还在那。除了这之外我大多在办公室忙着工作。 What have you learned about how last season ended as the summer went on? 你在这季结束後学到了啥? You're constantly learning about your team. You're constantly learning about situations. You're constantly learning. Every year, every team is different. I don't think any situation is exactly the same. If it is, then you should be able to make the right decisions. Our decisions are quick and they have to be precise. When you take a step back and take a look at it, you learn certain things. A lot of the things I was concerned about last year when we were on those great winning streaks and everybody was telling the team how good we were, a lot of those situations came to pass in the playoffs. 你要不断的了解你球队。你要不断的了解现况。你要不断的学习。每一年，每一队都很辛 苦。我不认为所有的情况都是完全相同的。如果是的话你应该就能做正确的选择。我们的 选择必须要快跟精确。当你退後再看他时，你会学到一些一些东西。去年我们在连胜时时 我很在乎大家都在跟我说我们是多好的球队，很多情况再季後赛过後就改变了。 You've said that you saw warning signs when you were winning. What were they? 你说你在赢时看到了很多警告标示。他们是啥? I don't talk about them publicly. Our team knows. We talk about it behind the scenes. You address it in different ways. One of the ways we addressed it is that some of our players have just matured. They're going to get better. Some of it is just roster moves. We made a couple of really subtle moves that we think can be huge for us. We think Devean George being in our system another year, for example, is going to help us. Whether it's coaching or player moves or players maturing, all of those we feel we've addressed, but we still don't know what's going to happen. 我不会在公开的场何说。只有我们队上知道。我们都在私下讲的。你用很多不同技巧去 让球队更好。其中一种方式就是我们的一些球员成熟了。他们会越来越好。其中一种方式 是改变球员名单。我们做了一些我们认为对我们有好很大好处的精湛的动作。我们觉得 Devean George在我们球队再待一年对我们是很大的帮助。不论是教导球员,教动作或帮助 球员更成熟，我们认为我们做了，但我们还是不知道会发生什麽事。 Considering the roller-coaster ride of the last two years, you've stayed consistent with the core built around Dirk Nowitzki. Why do you believe in that philosophy? 考虑到过去前两年的云宵飞车式，你还是暂时决定以Dirk Nowitzki为中心建立球队。为 何你相信这个哲学? It gives you your best chance. At the end of the day if you win, you did it right. If you don't win, you didn't do it right. Historically, and from what I've seen, it gives you the best chance. We probably could have made a trade this year, but we're not going to liquidate our whole team just to get one player. Then you don't have a point guard, you don't have center. It's just Dirk and the other guy. We're not going to do that. You can't play basketball with two players and without a really strong supporting staff. 他给你最好的机会。在一天最後，如果你赢了，你做对了，果你没有赢，你做错了。根据 历史和过去几年我看到的，他给你最好的机会。我们这一年也许可以做到一点交易，但我 们不想消除整队只为了得到一个球员。然後你就没有控卫，你没有中锋。只剩下Dirk跟另 外一个球员。我们不会那麽做。你不能只用两个球员打球，然後没有强大的支援。 Is there a temptation when you see some "Big Ticket" items floating out there this summer? We always think about it. We always communicate about it. That's our job. We owe it to our fans to make the best decisions we can. You want to take a really hard look at your time and that's I why disagree with the result of last season. The whole perception is we got upset when we lost in the first round. That really makes me laugh. We didn't win the championship. We didn't get to the Finals. When I took over, all I talked about was getting to the Finals and winning a championship. I haven't backed off that. So if we had lost in the second round to Utah, would we have had a better season? We did not get to the Finals and give ourselves a chance to win the championship. That's the only way you can win a championship. You've got to get to the Finals first. So you're saying that losing in the first round is the essentially the same as losing in the West finals. Now people really understand how special the year before was. Coming out of that year it was like we choked. When you're one of two teams playing in basketball, the team that wins did everything right. Their coach made all the perfect moves. Their star player made all the right moves. That's what you deal with. That's why I was trying to tell everybody coming out of the Finals season that we should celebrate that more. We should celebrate that accomplishment. I was dealing with my players about that all year. Don't let anybody make you feel bad about losing in the Finals. That was a heck of an accomplishment for a young basketball team still without a lot of experience. Most of the teams that win championships have at least an experienced point guard and a great inside game. We didn't have either and still got there. We had to battle all last year with that. I was telling the team that was an awesome opportunity and a lot of teams haven't had a chance to get there. Do you feel that message has sunken in? Now they understand that and realize it wasn't that bad. We spent so much time apologizing for losing in the Finals. We just hope to get a little bit better internal leadership. Our leaders are maturing and our young players are growing up a little bit. How much do you communicate with Dirk in the off-season? For some reason or another we communicated more this summer than any summer. Whereas other times I don't know if I talked to him one time over the summer, this summer I talked to him quite a bit. What did you talk about? Everything. The team, life, everything. Is that another step in his development? Yes, in being on the same page as the head coach and we are on the same page. I'm always trying to help him see things the way I see it. More than on the court, we talk about the mental part and communication. Is the signing of Eddie Jones similar to what you wanted to accomplish with Doug Christie? Yes. I'm trying to get that Adrian Griffin-type player with more offense. He's not in the best shape that he should be in right now, but we want to build it day-after-day, week-after-week, month-after-month. Once we get him in the type of physical condition that he needs to be in, we think he can help us. Do you think he'll potentially make more of an impact in the playoffs than the regular season? I want to have it both ways. That brings up another point. We diminish the regular season so much. Here we are winning like we've won - we've won 127 games in two years - and it's like that's not good enough. Yes it is good. The regular season is important. Otherwise stop taking the fans' money for 82 games and just let everybody just make the playoffs. That's just not the media or the fans' perception, you hear the players talk that way. How do you reprogram them? You absolutely have to do that. It's valuable time. It's hard to win games in this league. Is that why your challenges this year are more mental? It's always been mental. Mentally, at first, we had to try to get them to play some defense and then mentally trying to deal with losing in the Finals and now mentally not winning the championship last year. I didn't say losing in the first round. Is there still a spot on this team for a Chris Webber or PJ Brown? We'll take a look at it if any of those guys make sense. We did sign Eddie Jones and just wait until we unleash the animal Brandon Bass. Why have you gone with a different look at backup power forward with Bass? We wanted somebody rough and rugged. He's 6-8, 255 pounds and we're going a different route. It gives me more flexibility. I didn't have a chance to play Dirk at 3 at all last year and I like that sometimes. I had that the year before with [Keith] Van Horn. I didn't have that last year. We hope to utilize Dirk at 3, 4 and 5 instead of just 4 and 5. You and the franchise have made a commitment for Devin Harris as the starting point guard even though he's not a traditional point guard. That's OK. Different is not always bad. Jason Terry has been different and we've won our share of games, and Devin is different. We feel he's maturing and we like a lot of the things we saw last year and I like what I've seen this year. His body is looking stronger, he's worked an awful lot on his shot and he has a clearer understand of what we need and what it takes. Devin has always had the physical tools, he's fundamentally sound and a smart kid. Is there a point when all of that needs to connect? You've got to connect it all. Sometimes it takes longer for others, but he's a kid that we obviously have made an investment in and we want that investment to pay dividends for us consistently. Does having Devin there change Jason Terry's role? JT is still JT. JT is still a guy that can flat out make shots. He can play multiple positions and they play well together. They play well independent of one another and that's what we're excited about. So is the shooting guard spot up for grabs like it was last year? Yes. You've had a platoon at center for the last two years. Do you want to see either Erick Dampier or DeSagana Diop grab the reins? Yes. It's going to be hard because Damp won't be ready. It'll be nice. We're going to miss Damp. He's one of the most underrated centers in the league. He does a lot of dirty work. We're going to miss him for the first part of training camp and early in the season. He should be ready sometime after the beginning of the season. How was Diop's development been? He's still making some strides. In terms of rebounding and blocking shots, he's a very smart player. He understands where we want him to get his offense more than any year. Greg Buckner recently called Jerry Stackhouse the true leader of his team. Do you see that? I don't think we have a leader, but Stack does handle the locker room pretty good. Even though he's one of our older players, I've seen and heard him talk about being more responsible this year because he knows the window is pretty small now. http://tinyurl.com/yq26r3 这篇应该是新的 Sept. 28, 2007 --

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