※ 引述《Lyotard (非人)》之铭言： : 高中毕业後，他选择就读当年仍由火爆教头 Knight 执掌男篮队的印 : 大，就是为了去印大担任四年的球队经理。Frank 跟着这位恩师学了 : 不少东西，也让心思敏捷的他成为一个在工作上积极干练、守纪务实 : 的助教幼苗。 ESPN 报导这段过程，其实蛮令人心酸的： After four years as an Indiana University student manager, suffering the endless indignities that must have come with those duties, Frank made an appointment with the coach's secretary to probe him on coaching basketball beyond his graduation in 1992. He came to the office and waited, but Knight had no time for him. Come back tomorrow morning, he was told. And he did. And he waited. Nothing. Same time, tomorrow. Again. Knight had no time for him. And again. And again. For two weeks, this happened. For two weeks, Lawrence Frank waited on Bob Knight, the way he had done for four years by his side. 在印大当了四年的学生经理，在这个职位上必然蒙受了无尽的羞辱， 在 1992 年毕业前夕，Frank 与 Knight 的秘书敲了拜会的时间，希 望 Knight 能指点一下在毕业後如何走向教练生涯的迷津。他到了办 公室并且耐心等候，但 Knight 始终腾不出时间见他，於是要他明早 再来。然而第二天，他的等待还是落空。然後是第三天，第四天，教 练始终没有见他的时间。 Knight 就这样让他在旁边等了两个星期， 就像这四年来 Frank 始终在教练身边等候着那样。 Finally one day, the secretary sent him into the coach's office. 终於有一天，秘书将他召进了教练的办公室。 What can I do for you?" Knight asked him. 「我能为你作什麽？」Knight 问他。 Frank wanted advice. What was his next step? What did he need to do to get into coaching? "Just slow down," Knight told him. "You have a while before you become the next hot John Wooden." Frank 想要一些建议，希望知道自己若要成为教练，下一步该作什麽？ 「把步调放慢下来吧，」 Knight 告诉他：「距离你成为下一个伍登 还有很长一段距离。」 ------------------------------------------------------------ 这一路上，有一堆人告诉 Frank「你办不到」，但他就是这麽一步步 地爬上来了，而且爬得比很多人还要快。对於这样在过程中处处被人 否定与质疑的亲身感受，也成为他在第一场比赛之前精神演讲的主旨。 Then he finished by telling the players a story. A reporter had asked Frank how he, a guy who had never played the game at any level, thought he would be able to connect with the best basketball players in the world. One Nets player remembered what Frank said from there as follows: "I didn't give him a very good answer. But then I thought about it after I walked away. And what I realized is: Everyone on this team, at one point in their lives, had someone say, 'You can't do this.'" Frank went around the locker room and pointed out various examples: Kenyon Martin, the stuttering kid who got teased by his classmates; Brian Scalabrine, the guy from the sticks of Washington state; Tamar Slay, who was ignored by all the major basketball programs in college; Jason Kidd, who s upposedly couldn't shoot well enough to be an NBA All-Star. Lawrence Frank? He was just a short, nerdy kid with absolutely no natural athletic talent who until Monday had been one of Byron Scott's assistant coaches. But he was a lot like them, he said, because he overcame people telling him he couldn't coach the best players in the world. And he did it the same way they did: with hard work, dedication and a belief that never wavered. It was that belief, that dedication and that kind of work ethic the Nets have to take into every game. --

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