原文出处： http://0rz.tw/872GF -- Now they were on I-75, heading south toward Ohio and making good time. 现在他们在I-75号公路上，向南开往俄亥俄准备度过欢乐时光。 They had two stops that day: One was in Akron, to see Kevin Wilson's father, who's 91, lives alone and still fixes pot roast on Saturdays. 他们那天有两个站：一个站是亚克朗，要去看Kevin Wilson高龄91岁的父亲，他独居 而且在星期六仍会自己准备炖肉。 The other was just outside Cleveland, in a village called Brooklyn Heights -- home of Walter and Kay Saunders, parents of Pistons head coach Flip Saunders. 另一站就在克里夫兰外一个叫做布鲁克林高地的村庄 -- Walter和Kay Saunders，活 塞总教练老桑的父母亲的居住地。 Wilson, who holds the title "special assistant" on Saunders' coaching staff, was behind the wheel that day. But Saunders will tell you that his friend has steered him through much more than traffic in his career, selflessly helping him along because, well, that's what Wilson does. 在老桑的教练团队中被称为"特助"的Wilson是那天的司机。但老桑会告诉你说他的朋 友不只为他开车更在他的人生的道路上为他指引方向，一路无私地帮助他，嗯，那就是 Wilson所做的。 It was basketball that brought the two together 40 years ago, and it unites them again tonight, as the Pistons play the Cavaliers in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference finals in Cleveland. The Pistons lead the series, 2-1. 是篮球让两个人在40年前碰在一起，而当今晚活塞作客克里夫兰进行东区冠军赛第四 战时，它让他们在今晚又再一次团聚。活塞目前以2比1在该系列赛中领先。 "Even back when he was out of coaching and working for my brother (Greg), I would talk to him," Saunders said of Wilson. "Bobbin (Wilson's wife) would always kid that if the phone rang at 1 or 1:30 a.m., they used to be scared something bad was happening -- until they came to figure out it was just me calling. "甚至回到他还没开始执教，仍在我兄弟Greg下面工作时，我就会和他聊天了，"老桑 这麽说Wilson。"Bobbin(Wilson的老婆)总会戏称如果电话在凌晨一点或一点半响起，他们 总会害怕是不是有什麽坏事发生了 -- 直到他们发现那通电话只是我打过去的。" "I used him a lot as far as a sounding board. I still do. We're like brothers. We can be honest and not sensitive, something that can be tough for people." "我总是把他当成谘询意见的对象。直到现在。我们就像是亲兄弟。我们可以诚实相待 而不对於一些对其他人来说可能难以接受的事情过度敏感。" Like many friendships, the relationship between Saunders and Wilson was built over time -- long before Saunders, 52, became one of the NBA's most respected coaches and Wilson, a former college head coach, became his trusted adviser. 就像许多友谊关系一样，老桑和Wilson之间的情谊历久弥新 -- 远在52岁的老桑成为 NBA最受人尊敬教练之一而Wilson，这位前大学总教练成为他最信任的顾问前就存在了。 When Saunders was 12, he used to hang out with the Ashland College men's basketball team. It was a privilege that came with being Greg Saunders' little brother. 当老桑12岁时，他时常和艾许兰学院男篮队一起出去。那可是Greg Saunders的兄弟才 有的特权。 Greg, seven years older than Flip, was an undergrad at Ashland and student manager of the team at the time. Wilson was Ashland's 6-4 starting point guard, a scrappy defensive-minded recruit of the late Bill Musselman. By the time he graduated, Wilson was a two-time Division II All-America who was good enough to be a late-round draft pick of the Baltimore Bullets (in the supplemental draft) and the ABA's Los Angeles Stars in 1970. 比老桑年长七岁的Greg当时是艾许兰学院的学生而且是球队的学生经理。6尺4寸高的 Wilson是艾许兰的先发控卫，防守凶狠的他为新任的B.Musselman所招募。截至毕业为止， Wilson两度入选第二级联盟全美明星队，这已足以让他在'70年於选秀末段获得巴尔的摩子 弹队(在补充选秀会上)以及ABA洛杉矶明星队的青睐。 Wilson also happened to be Greg's roommate -- a bonus for Flip. It wasn't long before Wilson started treating Saunders as if he were his kid brother, making up other nicknames for the impressionable boy, like Flopper and Noz. Wilson碰巧也是Greg的室友 -- 这对老桑来说是个意外的收获。不久Wilson就开始把 老桑当作他的小兄弟来照顾，也为这个易受影响的男孩取了几个绰号，例如Flopper和Noz 。 "The best story he tried to convince me of was that, when he was in college, he drove his car from Cleveland to Detroit across Lake Erie," Saunders recalled. "他试图让我信服的最棒的故事就是当他大学时，他开着他的车从克里夫兰横越伊利湖 到底特律，"老桑回忆道。 Wilson said: "Actually, the first time I saw Flip, I was in high school, a regional game, and Greg guarded me. So now we're at Ashland College -- now called Ashland University -- and Greg says that he has this younger brother who's really into basketball. Flip ended up being on my team at the summer camp I coached, and played great. Wilson说："事实上，我第一次看到老桑是我高中的时候，那是一场地方球赛而Greg负 责防守我。後来我们在艾许兰学院时 -- 现在被称为艾许兰大学 -- Greg说他有一个非常 热爱篮球运动的小弟。老桑最後参加了由我执教的球队，而且表现很好。 "That's how he got affiliated with us. He would come down just about every weekend and watch me play. He started wearing my number, No. 24." "那是他为什麽能加入我们的原因。他几乎每个周末都会来看我打球。他还开始穿我背 号24号的球衣。" Though Wilson was a star player, he was a little shy socially. Not his roommate , though. 尽管Wilson是个明星球员，他在社交方面仍显得有些害羞。但他的室友可不是这样。 "Well, Greg liked to date -- a lot -- and I didn't, so he'd say, 'I've got a date, you watch my little brother,' " Wilson said with a laugh. "So I got stuck making the popcorn and watching TV shows with Flip." "嗯，Greg喜欢约会 -- 非常喜欢 -- 而我不喜欢，所以他会说，'我有个约会，你帮 忙照顾我小弟吧，'"Wilson笑着说。"所以我时常和老桑一起做爆米花，然後一起看电视。 " But their evenings usually ended the same way, talking basketball. 但他们的夜晚通常以相同的方式画下句点，谈论篮球。 "Right from the get-go, he would ask more questions than anybody else," Wilson remembered. "But his real claim to fame was that he was a real hustler. He'd dive for loose balls, take charges -- and he just didn't worry about his job, but the other four (players) and what their job was. He was always trying to tinker with offenses." "从一开始，他就比任何人有更多的问题，"Wilson还记得。"但他真正让人欣赏之处是 因为他真的是一个拼命三郎。他会为了争球而扑倒在地，负起防守重任 -- 他不只会担心 自己份内的事有没有做好，还会顾虑到其他四名球员以及他们的工作。他总是积极尝试各 种进攻方式。" Then shifting to the grown-up version of Saunders, who's in his second season as Pistons coach, Wilson says: "Flip is probably to pro basketball what Bill Walsh is to pro football. Bill Walsh brought that West Coast offense, and that's the way Flip is -- very innovative with lots of little wrinkles. We change up all the time. Our playbook is huge. How these guys have it memorized, I have no idea. But that's his edge." 接着从老桑的成长再谈到他当活塞教练的第二个球季，Wilson说："老桑在职业篮球界 的成就或许就像B.Walsh相对於职业美式足球界一样。Walsh发明了西岸进攻战术，而那和 老桑所做的不谋而合 -- 运用许多小技巧来加以创新。我们总在改变。我们的战术本相当 有份量。有多少球员真的能全部记住呢，我没有概念。但那就是他的强项。" --

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