http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci_9090053 Tuned-out Karl should hit road 无人收听的Karl该走路了！ By Mark Kiszla The Denver Post Hey, it's Stan Kroenke's money. If the billionaire owner of the Nuggets wants to pay coach George Karl for doing nothing, all we can do is watch as Denver gets rudely bumped from the NBA playoffs year after year. Hey，金块队老板Stan Kroenke的钱，似乎请Karl来却没做啥事，而我们能做的，就 只是眼睁睁看着金块每年跌跌撞撞的走进季後赛。 Broomed 107-101 by the Los Angeles Lakers, Karl was left to explain Monday why he couldn't get it done when it mattered most for the fifth consecutive season. 在被湖人队扫出门後，Karl留下来解释为何他不能搞定，最重要的是连续五年搞砸。 Trade Allen Iverson? Give up on Carmelo Anthony? Dump the salary of Marcus Camby? 交易AI？放弃Melo？还是不给Camby钱？ Any analysis of what's wrong with the Nuggets must start with Karl. 如果不先从Karl这点分析，任何分析都是错的。 "He's our coach. But I think we all should be evaluated in the offseason," Nuggets vice president of player personnel Rex Chapman said. "This is the second year in a row this same crew has come up short. Everybody needs to look in the mirror." 金块人事副主席Chapman说：「他是我们的教练，但我想我们应该要好好的在球季後 评估一下。连续两年同样的人出问题，大家都需要照一下镜子。」 With two years remaining on Karl's deal and an aversion to buying out contracts, Kroenke has six million reasons to rationalize the retention of his veteran coach. Karl合约还有两年，同时也反对买断合约，老板Kroenke有六百万个理由去留住教练。 But can the Nuggets really afford to keep the status quo, come back another for another NBA season with the same cast of characters and expect anybody in Denver to buy it? 但是金块有能力维持现状，季复一季的维持同样的阵容，然後期待那个在丹佛的人买下？ "It can stay the same if your goal is to win 50 games. But I don't think that's the goal. The goal is to win a championship," Chapman said. 「如果你的目标是赢得50胜，那我们可以全然不变；但我不认为这是我们的目标。 我们的目标是总冠军」，Chapman说。 So something has got to change. 所以，必须做出要改变。 "I think we're a top 10 team in the NBA. But, unfortunately, there might be six teams in the Western Conference better than we are," Karl said. 「我想我们是NBA当中前十的队伍，但，不幸的是，西区有六支队伍比我们好」，Karl 这样说。 Denver does not play defense. Denver does not share the basketball. But, worse of all, Denver does not listen to its coach. 金块不防守，金块不分球，但最惨的是，金块不甩教练。 The Nuggets have tuned out Karl. 金块已经不听Karl的话了。 And that's no secret. 这不是秘密。 You don't need to be inside the Denver locker room to know these players have stopped investing their attention in Karl. It's has been evident to anyone who has watched the playoff series on television. 你不用进到金块的更衣室就知道，这些球员已不再将注意力投在Karl上。只要从电视上 看这个系列战就可以知道这件事了。 While Karl preaches, his players are asleep in the pews. During breaks in the action against L.A., the Nuggets often seem more interested in getting a drink than in hearing the wisdom of their coach. 当Karl在说教时，它的球员看起来好像在位子上睡着了。在对抗湖人的休息时间，比起 听教练的话，金块球员似乎更想喝杯水。 Denver leads the league in blank stares during timeouts. 金块在暂停时间的「眼神茫然注视」在联盟居於领先地位。 Once players stop listening, is there anything left to tell a coach except goodbye? 一旦球员不再听话，那除了跟教练说「再见、再见」，还有啥好说的？ With two all-stars in the starting lineup and one of the league's richest payrolls, why are the Nuggets such frustrating underachievers? A longtime NBA scout told me the reasons for failure are as simple as 1-2-3. 先发当中有两个全明星级的球员，有联盟最贵的薪资，为什麽金块会成为如此令人沮丧的 低成就者？长期的NBA观察告诉我，失败的理由简单的跟123一样。 This is not fantasy basketball. 这不是fantasy basketball。 No accountability means no commitment. 不负责代表没有承诺。 If a coach can't get players to listen to him in the huddle, how can he expect them to run back on defense? The one major adjustment Karl made during the series was to bench Anthony Carter. There was one major flaw to the strategy. It forced Allen Iverson to play point guard. And everyone in the NBA knows A.I. is a scorer, not a passer. 如果教练没办法让球员一起听从他，那怎麽可以期望球员回去防守？这个系列主要的调整 在於让AC坐板凳。这个策略有个主要的缺点。这迫使AI打控卫。NBA里每个人都知道AI是 个得分好手，并非传球的人。 When the organization decided it would be wiser to return to Denver between road games in California, veteran players had so little respect for Karl's authority that they complained with more passion than they sometimes show on the floor. 当这个组织决定在LA的两场比赛中间回到Denver，是个较明智的决定时，这些老练的球员 对於Karl的权威毫不尊重，他们抱怨的程度比他们有时在场上的情形更为激动热烈。 After a Game 2 loss in Los Angeles that Anthony called totally unacceptable, Karl called a optional practice, rather than ordering his team to work in the gym. So it was no surprise when Denver starters failed to show up. 在输掉G2之後，Karl说要来个选择性的练习，而非命令它的队伍待在体育馆内活动。 所以，金块的先发球员全部都没有出现，一点也不令人惊讶。 Talk to NBA personnel who have watched Karl work for decades and they suggest maybe the coach has lost his energy to do battle with stubborn millionaires. 和已经看karl工作数十年的NBA personnel谈这件事时，他们认为也许这个教练已经没有 精力在和他们那群顽固、具有百万身价的球员对抗。 Ask Chapman if the Nuggets can succeed with both Anthony and Iverson trying to share a single basketball, and the answer is an emphatic yes. 问到Chapman金块是否能够成功的让Melo和AI分享一个球，而答案当然是「yes」。 Karl loves the game, as evidenced by the emotion in his voice when talking about his son, Coby, advance in the playoffs with the Lakers. Karl喜爱球赛，从他和他儿子Coby说话声音中的情绪可以知道。 But has the fire gone out? 但是，这个火力有出来吗？ In the 86th game of the season, it is too late for a coach to demand respect of his players. 在本季的第86场比赛，要一个教练去要求他的球员尊重，为时已晚。 The easy thing to do would be to keep Karl as coach. 要Karl继续当教练是容易的事。 The hard thing is do would be to find a coach who demands commitment to winning from the opening tip to the final buzzer. 困难的是，要如何去找到一个教练，承诺「从跳球开始赢到比赛结束」。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 在Denver Post看到这篇，应该算是好消息吗？ 很粗略的大概翻一下，有错请包含。 我原本想找找看有没有「谯」今天裁判的外电但没找到。 一盘好菜也要好厨师，换个好教练吧～ --

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