原文出处： http://myurl.com.tw/f0r5 -- CHICAGO -- So you think you know everything about the Pistons, huh? You know that Rasheed Wallace's middle name is Abdul, and Tayshaun Prince has a wingspan of 7 feet 2 inches. 芝加哥讯 -- 你认为你了解活塞所有大小事了吗，哼？你知道溪蛙的中名是阿布都， 而小王子双臂翼展长达7尺2寸吗？ Well, here is something you didn't know. 嗯，这里还有一件你不知道的事。 The Pistons have a head coach. 活塞有一位总教练。 Yes! It's true. His name is Flip Saunders. You have probably seen him in front of the Pistons' bench. You might have heard people blame him for last year's playoff loss to the Miami Heat. You might even have complained about him yourself. 是的！这是真的。他的名字叫做Flip Saunders。你可能在活塞板凳席前面看过他。你 可能听过有人因为去年季後赛输给迈阿密热火而怪罪他。甚至你自己就曾抱怨过他。 What you have probably not done is given him credit. That's OK. He's getting it from a higher authority. 你可能不曾做过的是给他一点鼓励。那没关系。他得到了高层人士的称赞。 "He has adapted to these players, this culture," said Joe Dumars, whose opinion is the only one that really matters. "He understands the personnel better, so he is able to deal with it better. He knows when a guy is tired. He knows if he needs to come out of a game if he's rattled. He is empowered this year to do it . And that comes with being here for a year, going through last year and now coming back and saying, 'OK. I understand better.' " "他已经适应了这些球员和这里的文化，"老乔说，老乔的意见才是真正唯一值得在意 的。"他更了解全体人员了，所以他可以处理得更好。当一个球员疲倦时他会知道。他会知 道一个球员的表现是否已经开始慌乱，是否该把他换下场休息。他今年已经能够做到这样 。那是他待在这里一年所得到的经验，经过了去年，他现在可以大声地说，'好，我更了解 大家了。'" And what about X's and O's? 那战术方面呢？ "Well, he's known for that," Dumars said. "That is kind of his calling card." "嗯，他有一定的素养，"老乔说。"那有点像是他的名片。" Dumars fired Rick Carlisle after two years, with little public warning. He fired Larry Brown after two years, mostly because Brown almost begged to be fired. Saunders will last beyond this, his second year, because he brings similar coaching chops to Carlisle and Brown, but without any of the personal animosity. It is almost impossible not to get along with the guy -- though, on occasion, Rasheed Wallace has tried. 因为少数舆论的警告，老乔在卡帅执教两年後火了他。他在老布朗执教两年後火了他 ，主要是老布朗自找的。老桑将会待上更久的时间，他的第二年，因为他带给球队类似於 卡帅和老布朗的成绩，但却没有任何私人的恩怨存在。要跟他不和睦相处几乎是不可能的 事 -- 虽然，溪蛙曾经这样试过。 Within the Pistons organization, there is almost universal praise for Saunders. The coach has shown the Pistons why he lasted a decade in Minnesota with slightly above-average talent. He gets the most out of his teams. He never makes a spectacle of himself. 在活塞球团内部，对於老桑几乎是一致的赞赏及认同。这个教练已经向活塞展现了为 什麽他可以在球队天份只比平均高出一点点的情况下还能在明尼苏达待上十年。他让他的 球队发挥了最大的潜力。他从不曾让自己出洋相。 And he manages to win while integrating young players into his lineup, one of the hardest tasks in pro coaching. Carlos Delfino and Jason Maxiell have become important contributors under Saunders, and Amir Johnson is expected to be next. 而且他在年轻球员融入阵容的同时还能帮助球队获胜，这是职业教练最难完成的任务 之一。C.Delfino和J.Maxiell在老桑调教下已经成为了重要的替补球员，而A.Johnson也可 望成为下一个板凳杀手。 "Absolutely, I have no complaints with personnel issues," Dumars said. "He is probably the most accommodating, adaptive coach that I've dealt with in terms of personnel and the way he deals with people." 我对他在处理人事问题部份完全没有不满之处，"老乔说。"以人事问题及他和人们相 处的方面来说，他可能是我接触过最亲切也最能适时做出调整的教练。" Saunders, like most coaches, is on edge for games. The Pistons are famously loose. Earlier in the playoffs, I asked him if he had gotten used to his team's cool nature. He said he would probably never be totally used to it, but he had accepted it. 就像大部分的教练，老桑对於球赛容易感到紧张不安。而活塞则是出了名的沉着镇静 的。在季後赛早些时候，我问他是否已经习惯他的球队冷静的天性。他说他可能永远都无 法完全习惯，但他已经接受了。 There is a perception that Saunders has simply maintained the Pistons' excellence -- he vacuums the living room and pays the mortgage on time, but he didn't build the house. The truth is that in professional sports, you can't coast into contention. Saunders has made some dramatic changes. 　　有一种看法是老桑只不过是维持了活塞的卓越 -- 他清空了客厅，准时付了贷款，但 他不是盖房子的人。在职业运动的实情是，你不能毫不费力地成为有竞争力的球队。老桑 已经做了某些巨大的改变。 In two years under Brown, the Pistons did not play one possession of zone defense. Brown was a man-to-man ... uh, man. Saunders installed his zone before he settled into his office. 在老布朗执教的两年，活塞没有在任何攻防间采用区域防守。老布朗坚持使用人盯人 的防守方式...嗯哼，老兄。老桑在进驻办公室前就开始灌输大家他的区域防守观念。 Saunders calls his defense a "hyperbolic paraboloid transitional floating zone, " which is also where you end up when you listen to too much Pink Floyd. 老桑说他的防守是一个"双曲线抛物面的变迁浮动空间，"这听起来就像你听了太多心 理学宗师佛洛伊德的理论一样，会让人雾煞煞。 Essentially, the HPTFZ is a matchup zone, which means it combines elements of man-to-man defense with zone principles. And though fans often view Saunders as soft, the zone is proof he sticks by his beliefs. Players instinctively prefer man-to-man defense, and the Pistons did not play the zone particularly well in Saunders' first season. But rather than scrap it, he emphasized it more. 本质上，这套HPTFZ是一种区域带盯人防守，意味着在区域防守基调中加入人盯人的元 素。尽管球迷们总认为老桑很软弱，这套HPTFZ仍足以证明他还是很坚持自己的信念。球员 本能上一定会比较喜欢人盯人防守，而老桑执教的第一个球季活塞在区域防守方面表现并 不是特别出色。但他并未放弃，反而更加强调其重要性。 "Zone is all about communication," Tayshaun Prince said. "We didn't do a good job with the zone last year. We worked on it a lot this year. It's hard to keep those (Bulls) in front of us, being so fast. The zone has helped us a lot in this series." "区域防守要守得好首重沟通，"小王子说。"我们去年区域防守守得不好。我们今年更 常使用区域防守。要把公牛挡在我们前面是件困难的事，因为他们的速度飞快。区域防守 确实在这个系列赛中帮助我们许多。" Last year, Saunders helped forge an offense of stunning efficiency despite a starting lineup that had one player, Ben Wallace, who could barely shoot. 去年，老桑让活塞展现了令人惊讶的进攻效率，尽管先发阵容中有一位球员，班蛙， 几乎没有任何投射能力。 This year, with Chris Webber in Wallace's place, Saunders has five unselfish, talented and versatile players. For a coach with this kind of offensive mind, this is almost unfair. It's like giving Bobby Fischer three queens. 今年威爸取代了班蛙，老桑拥有五位不自私，充满天份而且多才多艺的球员。对一位 像这样擅长组织进攻的教练来说，这几乎是不公平的。这就像是给B.Fischer三枚皇后。 (译按：Fischer为天才西洋棋手，相关资料请见：http://0rz.tw/f12DX) Will it be enough for the Pistons' fourth championship? Nobody knows. That title was supposed to come last year, after the Pistons won 64 regular-season games. And when it didn't, Saunders got much of the blame. 这样就足以让活塞拿下第四座总冠军吗？没有人知道。那冠军原本被预期去年就可以 夺下的，因为活塞在例行赛拿下了队史新高的64胜。所以当活塞未能赢得总冠军，老桑得 到的评论贬大於褒。 But look at it this way: In 2005, the Pistons lost to the eventual champion Spurs in seven games. In 2006, they lost to the eventual champion Heat in six games. So 2006 was not the colossal failure it was made out to be. 但请你用这样的角度看：'05年，活塞与最终冠军队伍马刺鏖战七场後让出了冠军盃。 '06年，他们一样在六场比赛後才输给了最後拿下冠军的热火。所以'06年的结果并不像大 家原本想的那麽糟，是吧？ Saunders will never be confused with Vince Lombardi or even Chuck Daly. His personality fits him as snugly as his suits. He peppers his interviews with coach speak like "we did some positive things" and "your greatest strength is your greatest weakness." 大家绝不会把老桑和V.Lombardi(着名美式足球教练，曾指导绿弯包装人队赢得两届超 级盃冠军。)或甚至是C.Daly搞混。他的个性就如同他的衣服一样适合他。接受访问时，他 会说那种标准的教练式说法，例如"我们有些事做得不错"和"你的优势也是你的致命伤"之 类的话。 But he has done an excellent job in difficult circumstances. Yes, coaching the Pistons can be difficult. I mean, it's not as hard as coaching the Grizzlies. But it is harder than it seems. In the minds of many people -- maybe even some players -- anything the Pistons accomplish is the players' doing, while anything that goes wrong is Flip's fault. 但他在困境中已经做到一件了不起的事。是的，指导活塞是件困难的事。我的意思是 ，那不像执灰熊教鞭般困难。但那比看起来还要困难一些。在许多人心中 -- 或甚至在部 分球员心中 -- 活塞所有的成就都是球员的功劳，而活塞表现不好则是老桑的问题。 He could complain about it. He does not. 他可以抱怨，但他没有。 "That was one of the things that Flip talked to me about when I talked to him about this job," Dumars said. "He said, 'I welcome the challenge of coming here and following Rick Carlisle and Larry Brown.' He said, 'I'm not shying away from it. I don't mind.' 那是当我和老桑谈论工作时他告诉我的事情之一。"老乔说。"他说，'我乐意接受来到 这里所需面临的挑战，并在卡帅和老布朗接连离开後接下教练职务。'他说，'我不会回避 ，也不会在意。'" "That was important to me. Because when you have two very successful coaches like Rick Carlisle and Larry Brown, that next coach coming here can't be afraid to step in those shoes." "那对我来说很重要。因为当前任教练是优秀如卡帅和老布朗之流的人物，接下来的教 练绝不能害怕被拿来做比较。" --

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