http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/truebluepistons.html Posted on Friday, March 6, 2009 By Keith Langlois Chuck Daly: Cut from the finest silk 抽丝剥茧Chuck Daly Chuck Daly was the first coach of a pro sports team I dealt with on a daily basis. This was back in 1986 and the Pistons were a team – and an organization, really – filled with alpha males. Jack McCloskey, the firebrand general manager. Isiah Thomas, the mercurial point guard. Bill Laimbeer, the brash center. Chuck Daly是我第一个每天相处的职业运动教练。那要回到1986年，当时活塞是一个 充满火爆浪子的球队与组职。煽动者GM – Jack McCloskey。脾气善变的控卫 – 笑 笑汤。无礼的中锋 – 蓝比尔。 It didn’t stop there, either. Vinnie Johnson always thought he would have been an All-Star if someone would have made him a starter. Adrian Dantley was no shrinking violet. Dennis Rodman arrived as a floppy puppy who clung to Daly as a father figure. John Salley loved the spotlight. For all of their competitive fire and all of their professionalism, you would not call the old Bad Boys a low-maintenance bunch. They were not all like Joe Dumars. 还没完呢。Vinnie Johnson 总认为他如果当上先发就会成为全明星球员。Adrian Dantley 对於能搞破坏可是一点也不介意。Dennis Rodman 以趴趴狗之姿把 Daly 当成父亲一样 的黏住。John Salley 爱死镁光灯了。就他们的好斗和职业精神来说，你不会称坏孩子 是一群不需要刻意费心思去对待的人。他们不是全都像Dumars一样。 Yet Daly handled all of those massive egos and disparate personalities with whatever is three steps beyond equanimity. Daly处理这些过份膨帐的自我和与众不同的个人特质，就是要他们冷静以对。 And I made the rookie mistake of thinking all pro coaches handled people so deftly. 我犯下了菜鸟的错，以为所有职业运动教练都这麽厉害。 More than two decades later, after dealing with coaches in all four major professional team sports, I’m still waiting for someone to join his company. 在过了二十多年，和四个主要职业运动的教练相处过後，我仍然在等某人能加入Daly的 阵中。 On Friday, the Pistons announced, at the request of the Daly family, that their Hall of Fame coach, class of ’94, has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer at age 78. 星期五活塞在 Daly 家人的请求下宣布，他们的名人堂教头在78岁这个年纪被诊断出罹 患了胰脏癌。 I always cringe when I hear or read that someone fights cancer heroically, because that implies those who are taken quickly somehow didn’t fight hard enough or were something less than heroic. I’m not sure how you fight something you can’t see or comprehend, something that’s clobbered the best and brightest who’ve been chasing a cure for generations. 当我听到或读到某人英雄对抗癌症时总是畏缩，因为那暗示那些很快就被死神召换回去 的人不够努力对抗病魔，或是不够英勇。我不懂你要怎对抗一个你看不到或不了解，这 世代最棒最聪明的人也拿他们没辄的疾病。 But whatever dignity there can be in dealing with the scourge of pancreatic cancer, one of the most aggressive and virulent members of an especially vile family, Chuck Daly will muster. The man stood at mid-court in Boston Garden for a Game 7 when it had to be 104 degrees courtside on a Saturday afternoon in late May and never sweat a drop, never had a strand of his perfectly coiffed hair step out of place. 但不管要用什麽样的尊严去面对这最折磨人的胰脏癌，这个癌症家族中最具侵袭性且 致命的成员，Chuck Daly一定会鼓起勇气的。这个在当年五月尾声，星期六下午球场 内温度华氏104 的第七战站在波士顿花园球场中央的男人没掉过一滴汗，也没让他那 整理过的完美发型乱过。 Cancer might beat him, but it won’t cow him. 癌症或许会打击他，但无法恐吓他。 “He’s going to fight this, no question,” Pistons longtime trainer Mike Abdenour said. “He will handle this with grace and dignity and fight it to nth degree.” 「毫无疑问，他一定会奋战的，」活塞长时期的训练师 Mike Abdenour说。「他会优 雅，有尊严地处理它，用 n 倍的力量反击。」 It was Daly’s unparalleled ability to dance coolly above the flames that made him the perfect choice to coach the Dream Team, the 1992 Olympic team that was the first to incorporate professionals into the mix. 这也是 Daly 独有的能力，能在火舌之中冷静地跳着舞，让他成为1992年奥运梦幻队 最佳教练的人选。那年也是职业球员首次参与奥运。 USA basketball probably had no idea now right they got that one. 美国篮球协会当时或许不知道他们找对人了。 “There were some huge egos there,” Palace CEO Tom Wilson said. “You never heard a bit about them. Somehow you had to manage all that stuff with a goal toward winning and managing minutes for guys who all felt they were the best player in the world. It was perfect. Plus the persona – Daddy Rich, the smooth operator. The image was perfect for that group of guys. The best coach in the world and the best group of players.” 「当时队上每个人的自我意识都很强，」宫殿 CEO Tom Wilson 说。「你从不曾听闻这 些。你得把这些人的目标导向为赢球，还要好好分配这些都觉得自己是世界上最棒的球 员的上场时间。那些人的形象很完美。世界上最棒的教练和最棒的一组球员。」 Now, the likelihood is that team was so far ahead of the rest of the world that it didn’t need a coach at all to win the gold medal, but I’ll suggest that one large reason that team is remembered with such universal respect is because with Daly in charge, it went about its business without incident, without the hint of in-fighting or ego clashing. 现在，世界其他地方的人可能觉得这个球队根本不需要教练就能赢金牌，但我得说那个 球队能够受到普遍尊崇很重要的一个原因是有 Daly 在掌管，让球队没有插曲，没有内 部斗争或球员自我意识的冲突。 Chuck Daly was the dream coach for the Dream Team. Chuck Daly 是梦幻队的梦幻教练。 “His gift was his charm, I think,” Wilson said. “He used to always say, ‘ The best thing I have going for me as a coach is my ability to go deaf.’ Because people would come off the floor complaining about being taken out, swearing at him, he’d just ignore it and move on. His sense of perspective was always amazing and his ability to talk to you like you were the only person in the room. And that’s what he did with players.” 「我认为他的魅力就是他的天赋，」Wilson说。「他以前总是说『身为教练我最棒的是 我装聋的能力。』因为人们总爱抱怨被换下场，咒骂他，他就是忽视然後继续其他的事 。他的洞察力总是惊人，你也有那种和你讲话时让你以为你是房间里唯一一个人的（专 注）能力。这就是他对球员做的。」 “I played behind Joe Dumars and Isiah Thomas and I was having a real good game and Chuck pulled me out,” said Pistons assistant coach Darrell Walker, who played under Daly during his last season as Pistons coach in 1991-92. “ As I walked past the bench I started cussing him out. ‘Why do you have to take me out of the game, Chuck, damn. What are you doing?’ 「我总是打 Dumars 和笑笑汤的替补，我当时有一场很棒的比赛，然後 Chuck 把我换下 场」，活塞助理教练，在 Daly 执教活塞最後一个球季时打过活塞的Darrell Walker 说 。「当我走过板凳时我开始咒骂他『你干嘛得把我换下场，天杀的Chuck。你在做什麽？ 』」 “Chuck didn’t say anything, then about a minute later he walked down to me and said, ‘You get it all out of your system, D-Walker?’ I just busted out laughing and told him I was sorry. But that’s what he meant by having selective hearing. You can’t react to everything players say in the heat of the moment. He had great wisdom. I learned quite a few things from Chuck, things that I keep with me to this day.” 「Chuck 什麽也没说，过了一分钟後他走向我说，『D-Walker，你完全失控啦。』我 忍不住笑出来，告诉他我很抱歉。但这就是他选择性听取的用意。你不能对球员在气 头上时的每件事都做反应。他有很棒的智慧。我从 Chuck 身上学到了一些事， 这些事 到现在我都还记着」。 待续 XDD --

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