Suns top pick Dragan Bender's track carries promise 太阳首选的龙哥带来了承诺 http://goo.gl/aMWRQj The Suns’ decision process to take a spindly, 7-foot-1 Croatian with their highest draft slot in 29 years began two summers ago. 在太阳29年来最高的选秀顺位中，我们选择了一个身材细长的七尺一寸克罗埃西亚长人。 而他是在两年前的暑假被注意到的。 Dragan Bender was a 16-year-old playing against older teens in the Under-18 European Championship in Konya, Turkey, with Suns assistant general manager Pat Connelly and Suns international scouting consultant Emilio Kovacic on hand. 当龙哥还是一个16岁的小帅哥的时候(原谅我翻译自肥，我喜欢帅哥球员XD)，他就在 欧洲18岁以下的冠军杯中出赛。那时候太阳的总经理助理 Pat Connelly 跟国际球探 Emilio Kovacic 掌握到了他的资讯。 Bender looked like a potential future No. 1 pick, posting two near triple-double performances and having a 34-point, 14-rebound, no-turnover game against Lithuania, which had another of Thursday’s first-round picks, Domantas Sabonis. 龙哥看起来就像是一个潜在的状元人选，他打出了两次大三元，还在对立陶宛的比赛 中交出 34 分 14 篮板无失误的表现。而那个被他打爆的立陶宛有着另一个本次选秀 会中的主角，就是小 Sabonis 。 “He did some incredible things there,” Suns general manager Ryan McDonough said after picking Bender fourth overall Thursday night. “He was 6-10 at the time. He is 7-1 now. Playing like a point forward. Honestly, in some of those videos, he looked a lot like Toni Kukoc.” 「他做了一些不可思议的事情。」麦当劳在星期四晚上接受访问时透露。「那时候他 才 6-10 ，现在却已经成长到了 7-1 ，而且打得像是一个大前锋了。老实说，在他 的一些影片中，我们看到他表现得像是 Toni Kukoc 一样。」 Bender, the draft’s youngest player at 18, has modeled his game after Kukoc, another tall, skilled player who developed to his prime in Europe before coming to the Chicago Bulls when he was 25 years old. 身为这次选秀中最年轻的18岁球员， Bender 他的模板 Kukoc 是另一个身材高大， 技术精湛的球员。而 Kukoc 从欧洲被带到公牛队的时候他已经25岁了。 Bender just hints at being able to do some of the things – and more – from Kukoc’s game. Offensively, he shows a shooting touch with a high release, improving his 3-point shot from 27 percent in a second-division Israeli league last year to 36 percent with Maccabi Tel Aviv this year. He has a passing feel and desire to make teammates better but shows a knack for finishing too. Bender 暗示了他可以从比赛中做到一些 Kukoc 能够做到的事情──而且或许更多。 进攻上，他展现了高度的投射能力。他的三分球从以色列次级联赛的 27% ，到去年 成长为 36% 。他也有传球的感觉，能够使队友变得更好，却也能独力完成 play。 “You saw some of that passing, that magic feel he had with the ball,” McDonough said. “He’s a special player.” 「我们看了一些他的传球，当他持球这样做的时候，有着魔术般的感觉。」 麦当劳说：「他是一个很特别的球员。」 Defensively, he is agile enough to defend the perimeter and long and competitive enough to fill out his body for interior defense. 在防守端，他的敏捷度足以保护周围，而身高也能够掩护他的内线防守。 There was not much opportunity for Bender to back up his game’s promise this year, playing for a Maccabi team that emphasizes winning with older players but was disappointing as its first club to not reach the Euroleague Top 16 in 22 years. 今年 Bender 并没有足够的机会来表现出自己的比赛。他所效力的球队 Maccabi 强调 胜利应该倚赖较为年长的球员，，但令人失望的是他们的俱乐部却没有打进欧洲22强。 “I’m looking forward to start with the practices, start with everything,” Bender said. “I’m just trying to put myself on the court and show everybody that I can play with these guys on the court.” 「我期待着从练习中开始一切。」龙哥说：「我只是希望把自己放在场上，而且告诉 所有人我能够跟他们一起上场。」 Thursday verified every difficult decision Bender had made in his life. He left his parents – a railroad engineer and a fruits and vegetables picker -- and his small town of Capljina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, (population 28,000) at age 12 to join Nikola Vujcic’s basketball academy in Croatia at age 12. By 15, he was playing professionally for KK Split. 星期四对於 Bender 的生命体验来说，其实是一个很艰难的决定。他必须要为此离开 自己的双亲，一个铁路工程师跟一个蔬果挑选员──还有他在Capljina, Bosnia 跟 Herzegovina 的小镇。(人口两万八千) 当他加入 Nikola Vujcic 的篮球学院时才 12 岁，而15岁的时候，他已经开始帮 KK split 队打职业比赛了。 “That (the NBA) was my dream from the beginning,” Bender said. “And then when I realized I can do it, I can make it happen, I just started working even hard for that, though I didn’t play a lot last year in Maccabi. I definitely put work in the mornings and individual work just to make it happen.” 「这(加入NBA)从一开始就是我的梦想。」Bender 说：「而当我认识到我可以做到这 些，这真的有可能发生，我就为此开始了更辛苦的锻链。虽然去年我并没有太多的上 场机会，但我一定会从早上开始一天的个人训练，这一切都只是为了让美梦成真。」 Bender, who will not turn 19 until after the season starts in November, only averaged 13.4 minutes in Israeli League play and 8.6 minutes in Euroleague games. 在新球季开始前都还未满十九岁的龙哥，去年平均只上场 13.4 分钟，而在欧洲联盟 的比赛中甚至只有每场 8.6 分钟。 “For me, as an 18-year-old guy, it was really tough to find minutes on the court,” Bender said. “We were losing some games and it’s always easier to go with veteran player, older guys than with a young guy, unexperienced. I struggled a lot with minutes on the court but I did have time to work individually and every aspect of my game.” 「对我这样一个十八岁的球员来说，想要争分争秒的争取上场时间是很重要的。」 龙哥表示：「我们在拥有一些资深球员的情况下还是输了一些比赛。老球员甚至可能 比年轻球员打得更像雏儿。虽然我还是在这样的情况下争取到一点上场时间，但我并 没有太多的机会在各方面展现我自己的能力。」 The Suns will not be so reticent for him to play and progress. They see the rare 7-foot player who could not only finish pick-and-rolls and pick-and-pops but initiate them too. They seen an unselfish player fitting into their goals of having a team with versatility on both ends of the floor. 对於他的上场跟进步，太阳显然不会再让他那麽委屈了。我们看到了一个不只能在挡 拆挡投上有所建树，甚至还能以他当成开始的七尺长人。彷佛预示到，把这样无私的 球员作为我们的目标後，他能够在球场的两端都做出贡献。 “Bender, to me, has a great opportunity to play on the perimeter,” Suns coach Earl Watson said. :He can handle the ball really well and he’s open to growing and that’s always a positive.” 「能投外线的龙哥，对我来说是一个很好的机会。」花生说：「而且他还可以控球， 并且具备成长性。他始终看起来很正面。」 Bender plans to join the Suns this season. He reportedly has a $1.3 million NBA buyout in his contract with Maccabi, who can receive half of that from the Suns. 龙哥计画在本季就加入太阳。早先於此，NBA官方就帮他付出了1.3M的合约买断金， 太阳会支付其中的一半。 This is the fruit of enduring the franchise’s second worst season. The Suns selected Alex Len at No. 5 three years ago but had not picked higher than Bender’s No. 4 spot since 1987, when they drafted Armon Gilliam. 这是太阳史上第二糟糕的球季带来的果子，太阳在三年前的第五顺位选择了小兰。 但这个顺位也没有龙哥的第四顺位来得高。上一次太阳拿到第四顺位已经是 1987 年选到 Armon Gilliam 的事了。 The Suns had a difficult time choosing between Bender and Washington’s Marquese Chriss at No. 4 but wound up with both when they traded for Sacramento’s No. 8 pick to also add Chriss. 太阳在选择龙哥跟 Chriss 作为第四顺位人选时显得很为难，但最後因为跟国王 换到八号签所以两个都带走了。 (编按：一个养不好你有养两个吗？) "I think it’s a great thing, first of all, for the Phoenix organization,” Bender said. “Just to have young guys on the team that combine with older veterans who can help us adjust ourselves to the NBA as quickly as possible. The other thing is that it’s great for practice to set up the tempo. I guess it’s going to be even better in practices to compete every day. 「我认为加入凤凰城太阳队是一件很棒的事情。」龙哥表示，「我们集结了很多年轻 人，之後就是寻找一些老将来帮助我们成长到 NBA 的水准。另外就是，透过训练来 调整节奏是很棒的。我想我在每一天的训练中都会变得越来越好。」 “I’m excited about that part. I just want to play hard and show everybody that I can play with these guys on the court equally. Just prove myself on the court. I’m going to try everything and put everything on the court.” 「我对这个部分非常兴奋，我只是想努力打球，并且让大家看到我可以跟这些人一样 的发挥。只要保证让我能上场就好了。我会尽我一切的努力并把一切带到场上来。」 -- ★▃▃ ◣ ▅▅▅▅ ▄▄ █ ▇▇ ▄▄◣ ◢ ██▋ 　 ▅▅ █ ▅▃▉ ▊ █▅ ◣◢ ▄▄ █ｓ▋▄▄▄ ◣▊▄ █ ▄▄▄◥ █▆ ◥◢ █▄ █ ▋ ▄▄▌█▊██▌ 04-05╴╴╴ ╴ ╴╴◤▄▄◤ ◤ █▅▅▅ ◤ █▄▌▄▄◤ █ Ｐｈｘ-Ｓｕｎｓ ▕▕▕▕╱ ├╯05-06 ◤◥▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ ◥ ★ Ｄａｌ-Ｍａｖｓ --

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