※ [本文转录自 NBA 看板] 作者: hllwolfkhan (卸阿金老板) 看板: NBA 标题: [外絮] Nuggets' Anthony coming of age 时间: Sat Dec 19 02:06:49 2009 原文:http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci_13936850 翻译:http://bbs.hoopchina.com/0912/1049248.html ============================================================================== Nuggets' Anthony coming of age By Anthony Cotton The Denver Post Posted: 12/06/2009 01:00:00 AM MST Updated: 12/06/2009 01:06:46 AM MST Anthony is bringing the same type of leadership to the Nuggets that he did to the 2008 U.S. Olympic team. (Karl Gehring, The Denver Post )Related Articles Dec 6: Melo morphs into fitness freakWhen you're the boss, sitting at the head of the table of a wildly successful team, this is the time of year that can drive you nuts. Take, for example, Carmelo Anthony, currently presiding atop the basketball world, thanks in part to an eclectic Team Melo group that includes an Academy Award-winning actor, a trainer to the stars, the greatest basketball player of all time and a hoops shaman who is really a lawyer by trade. Given that, how can you possibly personalize your holiday largesse? Perhaps Anthony should be content to simply give back on the court, with a gift that keeps on giving, as the leading scorer in the NBA and an evolving leader for a Nuggets team with title aspirations. Perhaps he can lead Denver one step further next spring, all the way to the NBA Finals, following up on his breakout postseason showing. A performance, Nuggets coach George Karl said, that helped define Melo last spring as "being the man, the reason why you win playoff series, and there are only a few people who can do that year in and year out." Do that this season and all those chants of "MVP, MVP" raining down from the Pepsi Center rafters these days won't seem like some cheesy knockoff from the Staples Center but rather like that Olympic gold medal sitting at home, a tangible reflection of all the hard work put in by Anthony. Certainly, the CEO knows whatever gifts he might decide to bestow this holiday season, the odds are they wouldn't be enough to reflect his true appreciation. "There were people in my life years ago, now that I look back on it, I'm going, 'What did I have them there for?' " Anthony said. "Now, you grow up, and you see that. "The team that I have now (around me) is strong, they ain't gonna let me go sideways no more, and I need that." The influential friends Not long after he returned from the Beijing Olympics in August 2008, Anthony went to Nike headquarters in Portland, Ore., ostensibly, he said, for a couple of days of business. Instead, he got something of a wake-up call from none other than Michael Jordan. The two spent hours talking about the state of Melo. "He still has the greatest influence on me," Anthony said. "I've always had chances to sit down with him, but this was about everything — the past, right now, the future. He told me some things he was thinking, some things he felt I needed to do." That talk led to another, perhaps more surprising, encounter. Through mutual friends, Anthony soon found himself in California for another sit-down, this one with actor Will Smith. The role Smith was playing on this day wasn't Muhammad Ali, but Dale Carnegie. "It was, 'Come over to my house and we'll just talk,' " Anthony said. "It was about positive reinforcement. He was giving me positive energy, talking about how to build a team around you, how to have it protect you. There was a lot of stuff I needed to know." Some of the pieces were already in place. Gunnar Peterson is an avid enough basketball fan that he has season tickets for the other team in Los Angeles, the Clippers. But his primary occupation is as fitness trainer to the stars, with a clientele ranging from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Jennifer Lopez. Before the 2003 NBA draft, Anthony's agent hooked him up with Peterson, and they've been together ever since. In Denver, most of Anthony's weight training is supervised by Steve Hess, the Nuggets' strength-and-conditioning coach. To keep his basketball skills sharp in the offseason, Anthony sees Idan Ravin, a former Washington lawyer who, through his sometimes unorthodox basketball drills with Anthony, Chris Paul, LeBron James and others, has become known in league circles as "The Hoops Whisperer." Mix in private chefs, advisers, teammates and coaches and pretty soon you have a virtual global village, trading on a single product — Carmelo Anthony. "I don't care about who does what; none of us do," Hess said. "This is about Melo and what he needs to get better. What do we have to do to make him better?" Transformation takes place Ask Anthony a question about his transformation, his evolution into a complete player — a team player — and his initial reaction is laughter. "Who? Me? Like what?" The man is conflicted. On one hand, he admits, some things are different, but he insists he has always put team first. "Winning's all I've wanted to do," he said. "It's easy to say that, but then if you go out there and not do it, or if you win in the regular season and not in the playoffs, then people will say that you don't care about winning. But how can you say that? It's not like I went out there and tried to lose all those games in the playoffs. . . . You start winning games in the playoffs, then people start saying that everything has changed." As he talks, not far from the visiting locker room in the Pepsi Center the morning before a recent game against New York, players, coaches and officials from the Knicks are heading onto the court for a shootaround. Virtually all of them make a point to acknowledge Anthony's presence, some genuflecting to the point where you almost expect them to reach out for his hand to kiss his ring. Almost three years ago, some members of that same organization were ready to throw down with Anthony in the midst of a bench-clearing brawl at Madison Square Garden. Some things have indeed changed. "People at 25 aren't the same people they were at 19 years old," Anthony said. "That's just natural. You grow up. I don't want to do the same things that I was doing last year, just like last year I didn't want to do the same things I was doing the year before. It's growing, but I wouldn't call it change, though." There are professional athletes, young men, who never acknowledge change, who keep the same posses. Others realize hanging out with the boyz may no longer be the best way to become a man. "I wouldn't feel right saying to my people, 'I can't be with y'all no more' — I would never do that, that wouldn't be me," Anthony said. "I still talk with 'em, we still laugh at jokes, we still hang out after the season. But they know now, they know where my mind-set is at." Melo mentions the "Stop snitching" video in 2004 that featured a cameo appearance by him. "Of course that wouldn't happen now. There's a lot of things that wouldn't happen now," he said. "Now, will I make another mistake? Who's to say I wouldn't? But as long as I don't make the same mistakes that I've made in the past, then I'm good with that." Pro athlete vs. celebrity It could be argued that the difference between Anthony circa 2004 and Anthony today is that he is a pro. Back then, he was a star. That's not an uncommon occurrence in the NBA, the final stop on a ride for players who grow up in a system that coddles talent from an early age. A little more than 25 years ago, Marc Iavaroni was the fifth starter on a Philadelphia 76ers championship team, playing up front with Julius Erving and Moses Malone. Today, the Toronto Raptors assistant coach wonders if the direction in today's NBA is a positive one. "Moses was back in the gym two weeks after the season was over, and that was usually after playing deep into June," Iavaroni said. "There was never any confusion, you just loved playing the game. Back then, it was much more intrinsic. Now, players get so many extrinsic rewards, they love being celebrities, they love being stars." In the summer of 2004, two of the NBA's brightest stars, Anthony and James, went to Athens, Greece, and drove Larry Brown deep into a bottle of ouzo, the Olympic coach seeing the duo as major headaches in a bronze- medal performance. Four years later, the United States was back atop the hoops world, in large part because of the work of Anthony and James. Iavaroni sees the triumph in Beijing as perhaps a turning point for the sport, that the members of the American team have brought the best elements of their victory — defense and team play — back into the NBA. That has certainly been the case with Anthony. "I don't know if he's just gotten better or said to himself: 'You know what, man? I need to take a bigger piece of the pie, as far as leadership and responsibility,' " said Nuggets guard Chauncey Billups, the man who has been credited for much of the Nuggets' success in that area over the past year. "He was a good player early, a good player with a lot of potential. Right now, he's on the curve to being a truly great player. He's added an aspect that a lot of people never get, and that's leadership. "That's what makes you great, not just scoring 25, 30 points a game. I welcome that." In the year leading up to the 2008 Olympic Games, Anthony was the leading scorer for Team USA. In Beijing, his focus was finding something else to bring to the table. "I really felt I was the glue to that team, bringing guys together, getting guys together in the morning before practice, going to workouts, getting together after practice and shooting," Anthony said. "It was time for me to do something else instead of going out there and just scoring. For people to see that — see that my game is growing and I'm growing — I had to do that." That was the same approach Anthony brought back to the Nuggets at the start of last season. And while the trade of Allen Iverson for Billups made the task of establishing himself as a voice of reason much, much easier, Anthony said it would have happened regardless. "Coming in after the Olympics, with the whole world seeing what I did with that team, it was easy," he said. "I didn't have anything on my plate, it was clean. It was like a fresh start." There are some who argue that unless the Nuggets can break through to the NBA Finals, Anthony would have to be considered as something of a lesser light to James and Dwyane Wade, who have played in the NBA Finals and, in the latter's case, won a championship. Anthony disagrees. "I know a lot of people probably think that way, but I can't," he said. "I have my own lane, LeBron has his own lane, Dwyane has his own lane, I got my own lane. I like it like that. It's me — I don't have to worry about walking around being compared to somebody else. "Tell me what I can do. Don't compare me to this person or that person. I don't want to live like that. Of course I want to win a championship. Who doesn't? But I don't want to win one just because Dwyane Wade got his. I want to get mine because I want to get mine." Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci_13936850#ixzz0a3xE4j2z ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 要是你是联盟里一支球队的老板，而且恰好那支球队的情况相当不错，那麽现在这个时候 就是到了狂欢的收获季节了。 就拿美乐帝来说，他现在已经处於现今篮球的顶尖水平了，这要部分归功於一支完善的 “melo智囊团”，这其中包括一个奥斯卡影帝, 训练师一个,篮球之神以及一名律师。 鉴於以上情况，他会以什麽表现来报答他们的付出呢？也许美乐帝该继续他在球场上的神 勇表现，继续领跑得分榜，继续不断的成熟长大，对他们来说这就是最好的礼物。 也许来年春天时，美乐帝会以他劲爆的季後赛表现带着中金块百尺竿头更进一步，闯入总 决赛。主教练卡尔曾在去年春天表示希望美乐帝能成为一个能帮助球队取得季後系列赛胜 利的球员，而这麽多年来这样的球员并没能出现多少。 做你该做的，我们的百事中心球馆里也能听到震耳发聩的"MVP"欢呼声了，一点也不逊色 於斯泰普斯中心里的阵势，虽然有点俗气，就像在美乐帝家中静静躺着的那没金牌一样， 毕竟这记录着美乐帝的付出代表着美乐帝的成长和进步。 当然，球队CEO知道，不管啥礼物都不能表达，他们对这个休赛期的改善的感激之情。 "很多人在我生命中来来往往，现在我经常会回顾自己在他们身上学到了些什麽。换做以 前的我，是看不得这麽清的。"美乐帝说 现在我打的不是寂寞了，我身边的队友越来越强大鸟，我用不着再孤军奋战鸟，这样的感 觉真好 找对羁绊选对人 北京奥运会後，美乐帝来到了位於俄勒冈州波特兰市的NIKE总部。他说，这表面上是一次 商业活动而已，但恰恰相反，美乐帝跟那个人进行一次两个小时的谈话，此番交谈让美乐 帝受益颇多。 "那个人对我的人生有很大的影响，而我也有幸一直有机会跟那个人促膝长谈，关於过 去，关於现在，关於未来，我们什麽都聊。当然那个人也会告诉我他觉得我应该去做的 。"美乐帝说。 紧接着还有一个更出人意料的相遇在等着美乐帝呢。通过某"红娘"的前线，美乐帝在加州 见到了Will Smith，这次Will的角色更像是卡耐基，而不是像拳王阿里那样的英雄，硬汉 。 "约会的地点定在了他家中，约会有助於感情的建立及巩固。他的一番话让我干劲满满的 ，他教会了我如何找对羁绊，好的羁绊才会很好的照顾你。从他身上我感到了自己还有很 多东西要去学。" 在让我们翻翻出一些老照片来。Gunar Peterson是一个狂热的篮球迷，他有快艇队的季票 。实际上他是一名健身教练，他名下的明星学员包括施瓦辛格和詹妮弗洛佩兹。2003年美 乐帝成为探花郎那时起，他跟美乐帝就在经纪人的牵线下走到了一起。 而美乐帝平时的力量训练主要是由队中的力量-体能教练负责。而为了在休赛期保持好自己 的状态，阿瓜又找到了华盛顿的Idan Ravin，这为当过律师的教练会有特别的方法了训练 球员，美乐帝，小皇帝，蜂王都是他的得意门生，在联盟里，他被人们尊称为"The Hoops whisperer"。 融合了私人教练，顾问，队友和教练的的共同努力，这样的"全球化社会大生产"为的是一 个培训出一个更出色的独一无二的美乐帝来。 "我们的团队中每一个人都不会计较和关心是谁做了哪些事情，我们的注意力全都放在了 美乐帝身上，如何催熟美乐帝，如何让甜瓜更美哇。" 瓜熟蒂落 当提及美乐帝的成长史，他是怎样进化成一名全能球员——名团队球员的，他的第一反应 竟然是大笑。 "什麽？我？你说什麽？" 美乐帝有点矛盾，美乐帝说他坚持把球队的利益放得最高，而有时候有的事情是他身不由 己 "不断的赢球就是我唯一想要的，说法话谁都会，能不能做到就是另一件事情了，或者你 能在常规赛取得很好的成绩，而已进季後赛就萎掉，这也非常的糟糕。一旦碰上了这种情 况，舆论就会笔锋一转说你根本一点都对球队，对赢球的事情上心。这时候你会觉得有的 委屈，有点无能为力，球队没能在季後赛中赢球，我也不希望看到这样的局面啊。而一旦 你能带领球队在季後赛中取胜了，舆论又会反过来讨好你，说你进步了，成长了。" 就在采访美乐帝的同时，做客丹佛的尼克众将士已经离开他们的更衣室，去场上热身和投 篮了。他们关於美乐帝达成一点共识，在美乐帝强大的火力面前，他们几乎都能沐浴到总 冠军奖杯的圣光 想想，就在差不多三年前，金块跟尼克在麦迪逊花园广场发生了冲突，当时的一些尼克队 员现在还在球队中。嗯，时间再转，时间在变，的确发生了不少变化。 "25岁的你肯定跟19岁的你大不同了。你会长大成熟，这都是正常的自然现像。我不希望 在今年还在犯跟去年同样的错误，就像去年的时候你不希望重复自己前年的错误一样。我 个人认为把这样的转变称为长大成熟更合适一些。" 一些年纪轻轻就成为职业运动员的小家伙们常常会把这两者混为一谈。还有一些家伙认为 和其他那些JR们一起出去瞎混已不再是证明自己已经成为男人的最好方法了。 "我从没有想过要跟我周围的人说什麽绝交的话，我也肯定不会那样做。我们还会开开玩 笑，在赛季结束後出去喇赛。但他们对我也很体贴，能体谅我会把自己的注意力和精力放 在球队上。" 美乐帝还提到了2004年的视讯事件对他的影响很大，让他从中学会了很多。 "当然我不会让这样的事情再次发生了。到了我这个年纪我也知道该做什麽不该做什麽了 。我不能保证我不会再犯错误，我只是不会在同一个地方跌倒两次，这就是我进步的地方 。" 职业球员？大明星？美乐帝有话说 我一致认为，与2004年那时相比，美乐帝显然更成熟了。从那时起，他已经是一个明星球 员了。在NBA这个联盟里这也不是什麽大不了的事情，这里聚集了一大批从小就备受关注的 天资卓绝的球员。 暴龙队的助理教练Marc Iavaroni在25年前与ulius Erving和Moses Malone携手为76人拿 下了当年的总冠军，而如今他甚至为NBA的前景担忧起来了。 "Moses在赛季结束刚两个星期後就会回到体育馆中进行训练，而且在通常情况下是我们之 前刚刚经历了一个艰苦的六月赛程。对於回归训练大家从来没有什麽迟疑，因为我们对比 赛充满了渴望和热爱。那时的我们真的是很傻很天真。而现在球员们去争取更多的奖项， 他们希望自己被崇拜，喜欢成为明星的感觉。" 2004年夏,03梯双星前锋2人率领美国队出击希腊,而他们却成了布朗教头的一块心病,布朗 的球队表现糟糕,而布朗也把球队只取得第三的矛头指向了这对一时瑜亮。 4年後,他们终於如愿率领美国队重回世界篮坛巅峰，他们两人的努力可谓居功至伟、一时 瑜亮。而Iavaroni把美国男篮在北京的凯旋视作一个新的契机，无疑，这批美国队的成员 们会把在国家队中所学到的防守和团队精神带回到NBA这个联盟中去。 当然，美乐帝肯定这麽做了。 "我不清楚是不是更威武了，或者他是在给自己打气：'该时候鼓足干劲大干一番了，我要 变强，我要变成熟'。他在很早已经就是一名出色的球员了，而且潜力无穷。而他现在正 逐渐的成为一名真正的伟大的球员，他的领导才能增长了不少呢，要知道很多球员一辈子 都没能表现出什麽领袖气质。而这正是让你成为伟大球员的关键所在，而不是你可以拿下 25分30分你就有什麽了不起了，我很乐意看淡美乐帝变的成熟。枪希说道 在20008北京奥运会前，美乐帝一直保持着队中的得分王保证，而在北京奥运会上，美乐帝 更专注於做一些别的事情。 "我感觉自己完全就是球队的接着剂,我能将大家牢牢的团结在一起,早晨我把大家集合起 来去训练,在训练和投篮结束後还能让大家聚在一起讨论.是时候换到做些除了得分以外的 事情了.我得让大伙看看,已经到了美乐帝成熟时了,当然我也必须成熟起来了,你说对麽?" 在上赛季,美乐帝把在国家队学到的东西带回了金块。在AI和枪希那笔交易之後,美乐帝理 所当然的成为了球队中讲话最有分量的那位,只是一切都在大家没有察觉之时默默的发生了 "在全世界的见证下,美国队拿下终於夺回了久违的世界冠军.於是我如释重负,终於能长舒 一口气,以轻松的姿态迎接新的挑战," 有人认为除非美乐帝带领着金块打破球队历史,闯入总决赛才能跟小皇帝和炎帝相提并论, 因为这两位已经各自率领着自己的球队打入了总决赛,而炎帝还拿下了总冠军. 美乐帝对着看法并不同意。 "我知道对於大多数人而言难免有这样的想法，但我不那麽觉得，我、小皇帝、炎帝3个人 有着各自不同的轨迹，我们都有属於自己的一片天地。我也很满意自己现在的处境。我不 会因为拿来跟别人做比较而迷失自己，我就是我。" "告诉我该怎麽做。请不要那我跟别的球员做比较，我不希望被包围在这样的舆论里。谁 不想拿下总冠军呢，当然我也不例外，当然，理由也绝对不是跟我一届的炎帝已经有了一 枚冠军戒指了。我是真正的渴望得到一枚属於自己的总冠军戒指。以上。" -- 友:ㄟ，老泄，排排你的第一队吧! 泄:PG:T.Parker SG:M.Ginobili SF:C.Anthony PF:K.Garnett C:T.Duncan --

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