※ [本文转录自 NBA 看板] 作者: Fernandez05 (Rudy Fernandez) 看板: NBA 标题: Re: [转录] 灰狼总管 Kahn 的公开信 时间: Sat Jun 27 16:03:31 2009 http://tinyurl.com/l2qtj5 A post-draft night letter from David Kahn Posted on June 26th, 2009 – 11:51 AM By Jerry Zgoda David Kahn and the Wolves asked me to pass this along and post it here on the blog. Dear Timberwolves Fans and Supporters: 亲爱的灰狼迷,和所有支持我们的人 It’s been five weeks since I arrived in Minneapolis and I hope you can feel what I feel: change. 从我到Minneapolis来已经5个礼拜了,我希望你们也能够感受到我在这5个礼拜内所感受到 的:改变。 I especially want to talk about last night’s draft and explain why we made the decisions we did. 我特别想聊聊昨晚的选秀，并且解释一下为什麽我们做了那些决定。 First, from a philosophical standpoint, I believe that teams should select players in the top 10 of the NBA Draft who have the chance — and I underline the word chance — to be special later in their careers. You do not use the fifth and sixth picks to select rotation players, but only players that figure to be starters, if not out-and-out stars. 第一，从一个哲学的角度来看，我认为一个球队在选秀前十顺位里应该选择的，是那种有 机会，是的，有机会成为明星的那种球员，有机会在球员生涯内与众不同的那种球员。 你不应该用你的5或6号选秀权去选一个最多就只是个先发，而不是个明星的正常轮替球员 So, we were committed to taking two players who fit that description, and we were less concerned about the positions they played, assuming they were not power forwards. 所以，我们不在乎他们是哪个位置，而是预计选了除了PF以外，当下最好的两个球员。 There were several two-person options we would have been comfortable with at those selections. 我们在选秀前有一些不错的组合 It wasn’t until late Thursday afternoon that I thought there was a chance Ricky Rubio might be available for us at No. 5. I had actually been told by somebody who I deeply respect in the NBA that Ricky would be selected third by Oklahoma City. But we were prepared for all options nonetheless. 但是直到星期四的下午以前，我都不认为我们有机会选到Rubio，我曾经被一个NBA里我 身为尊敬的人告知雷霆队将会选走Rubio，虽然如此，我们还是做好了各种准备。 Ricky has one of the most tenacious, most capable agents in our sport, Dan Fegan. He cares deeply about his clients. I explained to Dan late afternoon that we were singularly motivated to build an NBA championship-contending team in Minnesota — that it might take a few years, of course — but that nobody here cared about anything other than competing for an NBA title. That we have only one life to live, and that we must spend our lives trying, as Pat Riley once taught me, to leave footprints. Rubio有着一个非常顽强,有能力的经纪人，Fegan。他很在乎他的客户。我在下午时跟 Fegan说我们非常积极的想去打造一只冠军队伍，这可能会花上几年，但是这里的人在乎的 不是别的，就是冠军。我们每个人都只有一个人生可以活，我们每个人都必须，用我们人 生的时间，去留下一些足迹，就像Pat Riley教过我的一样。 I purposely selected Ricky with the fifth pick, not the sixth, to help with his buyout situation. Ricky and his family have taken a very bold step to enter the NBA despite having two years remaining on his contract with his Spanish team. I know that they would have preferred that we try to move to the second or third pick to take him, and I respect their wishes, but my belief was that we need during these next 15 months to acquire multiple pieces to make this a championship-contending team over the next three-to-four years. The price for moving to No. 2 or 3 was far too steep. 我故意在第五顺位而不是第六选择Rubio，这可能对他会多一点帮助，Rubio和他的家庭走 了很勇敢的一步，他们暂时放下还在西班牙的两年合约而选择投入NBA选秀，我知道他们可 能更想要在2或3顺位被选，但我们的打算是在未来两年内能建造出一个有冠军竞争力队伍 的雏型，再把顺位往前移动的代价太高了。 Ricky is a proven professional who played against the USA in the Gold Medal game in the Beijing Olympics. He is a virtuoso, a rare player who may well be unique. I have long believed that he has the chance to become one of basketball’s brightest stars. You’ve seen the highlights — he is like an orchestra conductor with the basketball. Ricky是一个已经证明自己有能力面对挑战的球员，他是一个珍宝，是很稀有的很独特的 那种球员，我从很久以前就一直相信他会成为篮球界里最闪亮的那颗星之一，你们也看 过他的highlights了，他就像是一个管弦乐团里的指挥那样特别。 He will be our starting point guard here the moment he walks through our front door. We may have to wait a year, or even two, but he is worth the wait. We must be patient. This is a big step for he and his family. 当他走进我们的大门的那刻，他就是我们的先发PG，我们可能要等待1年，或2年，但他值 得我们的等待，我们必须要很有耐心，因为这对他和他的家庭都是很重要的一件事。 With the sixth pick, we selected Jonny Flynn. I truly believe that Jonny is as much a scorer as a playmaker and will thrive playing off of Ricky. I also believe that, together, we will have one of the most dynamic defensive backcourts in the NBA over time. You will love Jonny Flynn. He, too, will be special. 在第六顺位，我们选了Jonny Flynn，我真诚的相信Jonny是个可以好好跟Ricky合作的得分 手和Playmaker，我也相信，同时拥有他们两个，我们就等於在未来几年拥有联盟里最朝气 蓬勃的後场搭挡，你们一定会喜欢Flynn的，他也一样是那麽的特别。 And I also believe that there is a tendency in the NBA for all of us (myself included) to become too formulaic in our thinking. If you think of the Detroit Pistons backcourts during their championship run, with Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars and Vinnie Johnson, or the Celtics with their backcourt of Danny Ainge and Dennis Johnson (and before Ainge there was Gerald Henderson), or the Lakers with Jerry West and Gail Goodrich, or the Knicks with Walt Frazier and Earl Monroe, there are many instances of championship success that is not so paint-by-the-numbers. 我也认为在现在的NBA，我们所有人（包括我）的思想都越来越公式化，如果你想到底特律 的Isiah Thomas和Dumars，或是Celtics的Ainge和Dennis Johnson，或是湖人的West和 Goodrich，甚至是尼克的Frazier和Monroe，他们都不是那种一个正规的队伍组合。 It can and will work. 但他们却成功了。 At the 18th pick, we did not believe we could identify a player who would be worthy of that rookie scale slot and become part of our core nucleus, so in an attempt to further stockpile assets, we traded it for a future first-round pick with only modest lottery protection. This will prove to be valuable. We also traded one of our two second-round picks for a 2010 second-round pick. 在18顺位时，我们不认为我们还能选到一个足以成为核心的球员，所以我们把他交易掉换 来明年金块的第一轮，我们也交易掉了我们的一个第二轮去换明年的第二轮。 Finally, we selected Wayne Ellington with the 28th pick, one of the stars off the North Carolina National Championship team. Wayne is a 6-foot-5 shooter who has improved dramatically this season. He will help us soon. And, last but not least, we used our remaining second-round pick to take Henk Norel, a teammate of Ricky’s in Spain, who is long and athletic. Norel has one year remaining on his contract. 我们在28顺位选了Wayne Ellington，北卡冠军队伍的成员之一，他是一个今年进步 非常多的6"5射手，他能够很快的帮助我们。最後，我们把剩下的那个二轮选了Henk Norel 他是Rubio在西班牙的队友。 What excites me most about this team is the following: 这个球队最让我兴奋的是 Al Jefferson, at 24, is the oldest player of our four future building blocks. Kevin Love is 20. Jonny Flynn is 20. Ricky is 18. Wayne Ellington is 21. And let’s not forget Corey Brewer is 23, Ryan Gomes is 26 and Sebastian Telfair just turned 24. AL,是我们未来核心内最老的球员,但他也才24岁,Love 20岁,Flynn 20岁,Rubio 18, Ellington 21,也别忘了Brewer才23,Gomes26,还有Telfair才刚刚满24 We will need a special coach who understands that we are very much in the development stage and need to be shaped and molded. I have already talked to Al Jefferson and kevin Love about the qualities they would like to see in their new coach — what kind of person we should be seeking — and will also consult with our new players. Players respect structure and discipline. They want to know where they stand. And they want to know the coach has their back. I am eager to hear from Ricky, Jonny, Wayne and some of our existing players as we prepare our list. 我们还需要的，是一个知道我们还在发展阶段，还需要许多修饰及调整的教练，我已经问 过AL和LOVE他们想要他们的教练有什麽样的特点，我们也会考量到新加入的球员们，并且 建立新的秩序与纪律，这些年轻人想要知道他们该站在什麽地方，他们也希望教练能站在 他们背後支持他们。等我们准备好我们的名单後，我将会很急於听到Ricky, Jonny, Wayne 和其它本来球员们的想法。 These are fun times, I hope, to be a Timberwolves fan as we continue on this journey. There will be bumps and bruises along the way, but I believe we are pointed in the right direction. 我希望，对於灰狼的球迷来说，随着我们的旅程进行，这将会是一段有趣的时光，虽然路 上难免有阻碍与颠簸，但我相信我们是朝着正确的方向前进。 As always, thank you for your interest and passion. It makes our jobs easier. 谢谢您的兴趣以及耐心，这些都会让我们做得更好。 David Kahn 不好意思，小弟可能不是很了解灰狼，所以若有翻错烦请指正！感谢！ -- ◢███◤ █ █ ＲＩＳＥ ★ ＷＩＴＨ ★ ＵＳ ★ █ Ｂｌａｚｅｒｓ███ ███ ◤ ◢█◣ ◢◢◣ ██◣ ◢█◤ ██◣ ◢█◤ ◢█◣ ◥██ █ ◤ █ ◢█◤ █ ◤ █◤◤ █ ◤ █ ◢ █ ◤ █ ◢ █ ◤ ◤ ◤ ◢ █◤◢ █ █◤◢ █ █ ◢ █ █ █ ◢ █ █ █◤◢ ◢ ◢ █ █ █ ◥█◤ ◤ ◤ █ ◥◤◥ ◤ █ ◥◤█ ◥█◤ ██◣ ███ ███ --

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