By Dave D'Alessandro/The Star-Ledger November 30, 2009, 6:28PM General manager Kiki Vandeweghe will take over as coach of the New Jersey Nets. 篮网经理 Kiki Vandeweghe 即将接手纽泽西的总教头。 Combining a soft voice with hard arguments, Kiki Vandeweghe made an eloquent case for trading Jason Kidd, Richard Jefferson and Vince Carter over the last 19 turbulent months, and then helped Nets president Rod Thorn expedite the rebuilding process by getting young talent in return for their gigantic contracts. 轻柔的声音加上强硬的言词，Kiki Vandeweghe 在过去十九个月中， 宣布交易走 Jason Kidd, RJ, VC 等人。 并以交易走巨大合约换来年轻球员来帮助 Thorn 加速重建过程。 Now, with the team’s rebuilding phase stuck in a record-tying, 0-17 quagmire, Thorn figures the general manager who brought the younger players to New Jersey should be responsible for getting them to grow up a little faster. 但现在，球队的重建过程卡在记录持平的零胜十七败， Thorn 认为带来的这些年轻球员的总经理有责任让他们成长的更快一点。 Vandeweghe will be announced as the 16th coach in the franchise’s NBA history Tuesday, and could take over the hot seat as early as Wednesday night against the Dallas Mavericks at Izod Center, though that has yet to be decided. Vandeweghe 即将在星期二被宣布成为这只球队的第十六任教练， 而且也很可能将接手这个烫手山芋，在星期三的晚上在主场对抗小牛队， 尽管这尚未确定。 Del Harris, the distinguished head coach with the Rockets, Bucks and Lakers who retired last summer after a one-year stint on Vinny Del Negro’s staff in Chicago, will be brought in to be Vandeweghe’s top assistant. Del Harris，这名着名的总教头，曾经任教於火箭、公鹿、湖人， 任教完在芝加哥一年任期的 Vinny Del Negro 幕僚工作之後， 於上一个夏天宣布退休， 而他将成为 Vandeweghe 的首席助理教练。 The 51-year-old Vandeweghe has never been a coach, and the team officials say he was initially reluctant to take the job created by the dismissal of Lawrence Frank on Sunday morning in Los Angeles. 五十一岁的 Vandeweghe 没担任过一名教练，而球队官员也说他一开始拒绝了 接手这个在法兰克离职之後的工作。 But Thorn mandated that Vandeweghe occupy that role, if only because his imprint on the roster is indelible, as he is especially close to Devin Harris, Yi Jianlian and Courtney Lee — the three young players acquired for Kidd, Jefferson and Carter. 但是 Thorn 授权 Vandeweghe 接手这个角色，只因为目前这个阵容跟他很有关系， 他和 Devin Harris, 易建联，还有Courtney Lee都保持着良好关系。 而这三位球员也是从 Kidd, RJ, VC 等交易而换回来的。 It is in that one area — player development — that Vandeweghe admits is a personal strength. His earliest success story occurred in Dallas, where he helped transform Dirk Nowitzki from a rookie bust into a world-class player in two years. 球员的发展，就是在这个领域，Vandeweghe 承认这是他个人的强项。 他最早发展成功一个球员的例子是 Dirk Nowitzki，他在达拉斯时帮助 Dirk 在菜鸟时期的普通球员成为世界知名的人物。 Vandeweghe didn’t deny his role — “We spent every evening in the gym, at least two hours of film and workouts,” he said in a conversation last February. But at least one person said Vandeweghe was being modest. Vandeweghe 并不否认这个角色：「我们花了不少时间在体育馆中， 至少有两小时的影带观看还有练习训练。」 在去年二月他在对话当中说了这句话，但至少有一个人说 Vandeweghe 是谦虚的。 “Dirk deserves most of the credit, of course,” Mavericks owner Mark Cuban said in a recent interview. “But I think Kiki was certainly instrumental in helping Dirk understand how to be successful in the NBA. That’s what Kiki is good at ... communicating.” Mark Cuban 在最近的一次访谈中说过：「Dirk 值得获得大部分的功劳， 但我认为 Kiki 帮助了 Nowitzki 如何在NBA里成功。 这就是Kiki的强项：沟通。」 It is that talent that the Nets hope Vandeweghe can bring to the gym every day over the next five months, now that their younger players are starting to get healthy again. 这也是篮网希望在接下来五个月当中 Vandeweghe 能将这些带入体於球馆， 而现在她的年轻球员也将开始恢复健康。 The job, however, is merely temporary; contracts for Thorn and Vandeweghe both expire after this season, and neither has the authority to bring in long-term deals of any kind until the ownership transfer to Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov is completed sometime next year. 但这个工作目前看来也只是短暂的，因为 Thorn 和 Vandeweghe 的合约 即将在这个球季之後到期，而两人也没有权力再带入哪些长期的合约， 直到俄罗斯富豪 Mikhail Prokhorov 在明年接管球队为止。 But over the next 65 games, Vandeweghe can at least be sure that the new head coach will follow management’s agenda, something he wasn’t always sure about when Frank was coaching a crippled, makeshift roster. 但在下六十五场比赛，Vandeweghe至少可以保证是球队的新总教头， 且将密切注意管理阶层的行事日历这些他过去不是很了解的事情。 Development of the younger players is the priority, perhaps at the expense of everything else: As Thorn put it Sunday night, the Nets “won’t take on any contract that would materially affect us going forward” into the 2010 free agent market. 发展年轻球员是他的最高优先权，或许在可能损害某些情形之下， Thorn 在星期日的晚上说明了篮网不会拿下任何伤害 2010 自由市场作为的合约。 That is in harmony with Vandeweghe’s stated goal after he engineered the Kidd deal in February of 2008. 而这也和 Vandeweghe的计画一样，就在他策划了Kidd的交易之後。 “I’m never satisfied with being ‘sorta’ competitive,” Vandeweghe said then. “I want to go for it — not just win, but win big. ... But the worst thing to be in this league is to be mediocre. Sometimes, you have to bide your time, like we learned in Denver.” Vandeweghe说：「我从不因为拥有一点点的竞争能力而满意， 我不只要赢球，目标还要赢的更大。 有时候最坏的情形是在联盟当中成为很中庸的球队。 可是你也必须忍受这段黑暗时期，就像我在丹佛所学到的」 As GM in Denver, Vandeweghe followed a similar formula of cap-clearance and free-agent acquisition, and turned the worst team in the NBA around in just three years. The Nuggets were Western Conference runners-up last season, and aside from point guard Chauncey Billups, Denver’s nucleus was assembled almost entirely by Vandeweghe. Vandeweghe在丹佛担任 GM 时，曾经进行着清空薪资空间还有自由球员的获得， 而在三年之间将一支很弱的队伍转变。而金块在上个球季也成为了西区冠军的 挑战者，而除了 Billups，丹佛的核心几乎都是由 Vandeweghe 所组成。 Meanwhile Monday, Frank held a conference call to cap his six-year tenure as coach and was gratified that every player he left behind spoke highly of his leadership. Remarkably, the Teaneck native conducted the call from his old office at the practice facility, where he was cleaning out his desk. “That goes to show you, I don’t really know where to go,” Frank said. “I put my GPS on ‘Home,’ and it went here — go figure.” 而就在星期一的同时，Frank进行了电话访问来总结他六年的教头生涯， 也满意球员对他领导能力的赞扬。 这位 Teaneck 当地人在他的前公司，也就是练习中心，打了一通电话。 法兰克说：「这也说明了，我不知道该往哪边去，但我把gps设定为"家"， 而他却带我倒了这里。」 http://www.nj.com/nets/index.ssf/2009/11/nj_nets_kiki_vandeweghe_takes.html --

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