原文：http://goo.gl/SZPuWt 虎扑翻译：http://bbs.hupu.com/16170285.html 因为这篇虎扑已经有翻译了，我就不翻了， 已修正少部分翻错的、改人名、改用语习惯、转正体、加入几段没翻出来的。 Q&A with Karl-Anthony Towns: Rookie of the Year Favorite Talks Thibs and More 访谈Karl-Anthony Towns：年度最佳新秀最有力的竞争者谈论Thibs以及其他事物 By Jared Dubin , Featured Columnist May 3, 2016 Karl-Anthony Towns just finished one of the greatest rookie seasons in modern NBA history. Whenever the voting results are announced, Towns is likely to run away with the Rookie of the Year Award, if not win it unanimously. Karl-Anthony Towns刚结束了NBA近年来最好的新秀赛季之一，不论投票结果何时公布， Towns必将一致通过拿下年度最佳新人奖项。 Taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves, Towns averaged 18.3 points, 10.4 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.7 blocks per game on his way to a 22.5 player efficiency rating (PER), the seventh-highest for any rookie since the ABA-NBA merger in 1976. 作为2015年的状元秀，Karl-Anthony Towns打出了一个几乎完美的新秀赛季，他场均得到 18.3分10.4篮板2.0助攻1.7火锅，效率值达到22.5，这是自从1976年NBA和ABA合并後第七 高的新秀效率值。 He wasn't just the league's best rookie during the 2015-16 season; he was already one of its best overall players—the rare first-year player to establish himself as a legitimate two-way star. At 20 years old, he's already on the cusp of superstar-level production. By next season, Towns could be a top-10 player in the NBA. 他不只是2015-16球季联盟最好新秀，也已经是2015-16球季中最好的球员之一，在第一年 就展现出他攻防两端的能力，20岁时的数据产出就快达到巨星等级，下季Towns有机会成为 NBA前十名等级的球员。 He's that talented, and his team just hired a coach—former Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau—who should push him to new heights on both sides of the ball. 他是那麽样的有天赋，而球队刚刚雇用了前公牛队的主教练Tom Thibodeau作为新任教头， 大家期待Thibs能让他的攻防都更上一层楼。 Towns recently sat down with Bleacher Report to discuss Thibodeau, apprenticing under Kevin Garnett, why so many future NBA stars choose to go to Kentucky, his imaginary friend, Karlito—who has his own bobblehead—and more. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of our chat. 最近，Towns接受了Bleacher Report记者Jared Dubin的采访，他谈到了Thibodeau、 Kevin Garnett、Kentucky大学、他的虚拟朋友Karlito(已经有了自己的摇头公仔)， 以下是采访节录： Bleacher Report: Something that seems likely to be relegated to a footnote by the time your career is over, especially because of who your next coach is, is that Sam Mitchell was your coach as a rookie. Just as an example, few people would remember Paul Silas coached LeBron for the first year and a half of his career. What’s something you learned from Sam’s coaching this year that you’ll carry with you for the rest of your career? Bleacher Report(以下简称“BR”)：当你职业生涯结束时，人们会渐渐遗忘Mitchell曾是 你的新秀赛季主教练，尤其是考虑到他的继任者是谁。举个例子，现在很少有人还记得是 Paul Silas执教了Lebron James的第一个半赛季。这个赛季里，从Mitchell的执教中，你 学到的哪些东西会贯穿整个职业生涯？ Karl-Anthony Towns: Sam Mitchell really taught me how to be a professional. I came in with a great mindset, a great mentality about the game of basketball, how to conduct myself; and Coach [John] Calipari did that. But it's different when you come in the league, him teaching me how to do certain things: how to talk to people, how to talk to officials, how to do this and that. He taught me so much about how to be an NBA professional. Him coaching me, being a former player, it had a huge effect on me. It allowed me to have a much easier transition into the role that I was given. Karl-Anthony Towns(以下简称“KAT”)：Sam Mitchell教会我如何做一名职业球员。我进 NBA时就带着对篮球比赛的良好心态，也知道如何管理自己的言行，这是John Calipari教 练教会我的。但是，到了NBA之後事情是不一样的，Mitchell教我如何做到这些具体的事情 ：如何跟人们说话，如何跟裁判交流，这个怎麽做那个怎麽做。他教了我很多很多，帮助 我成为真正的职业球员。作为前NBA球员，他的教导对我有巨大的影响，这让我能更容易地 适应自己被赋予的角色。 B/R: There were a couple of things he took heat for throughout the year. Early in the season, you weren't playing as much, weren't playing in crunch time. Zach LaVine was playing off the bench as a backup point guard rather than next to Ricky Rubio. But then by the end of the season, when you guys were all starting together along with Andrew Wiggins, you kind of took off a little bit, showed us flashes of what we all expect to see over the next five to 10 years. Do you think that early-season strategy helped you reach the level you reached both personally and as a team over the second half of the season? BR：Mitchell的一些作法整个赛季都被批评，像是赛季早些时候，你打的时间不是很多， 关键时刻也上不了场，Zach LaVine还在打替补PG而不是先发SG。但到了赛季末，你们都开 始跟Andrew Wiggins一起打先发了，你也开始一点点地爆发，让我们看到了未来五年甚至 十年的希望。你觉得，不管是个人还是球队方面，赛季早期的策略是不是帮助你达到了後 半个赛季的高度？ KAT: Everything has a reason. We did that, and at the end of the day, like he said, he didn't want to wear me out. You don't want to wear me out. As a rookie, you've got to take extra precautions. Who knew I was going to play 82 straight games and not get injured and have a setback or anything? You've got to prepare for things even when they're not happening yet. It's just like an alarm system. You buy an alarm system before an accident happens and after it, you're happy. It's one of those things. Everything had a purpose. I fully trusted him, fully believed in him, fully bought into what he said. And whatever he said, it went. KAT：任何事情都有其原因。到了最後，我们做到了，就像他说的那样，他不想让我耗尽体 能。作为新秀，你必须采取额外的预防措施，谁知道我连续打完82场比赛能不能不受伤、 不倒退或者其他什麽事情。你必须未雨绸缪，这就像是一个预警系统。事情发生前你就买 好预警系统，如果真有事情发生，你会因此得益。我的情况也是这种事情的一种，事出必 有其因。我完全信任他，完全相信他的决定，完全接受他说的话。他说的那些事情，最後 也都一一应验了。 B/R: The workload thing lets us transition to your next coach pretty nicely. Tom Thibodeau, he rides his top guys for a lot of minutes. And it's not just in games. He has these legendarily tough and taxing practices too. Are you excited for that, dreading it, some sort of emotion I haven't thought of? BR：训练量的话题正好让我们过渡到你的新任主教练，Tom Thibodeau用球星打的时间都很 长，而且不光是比赛，他的训练也以强度和繁重着称。对此，你会感到兴奋还是恐惧，或 者其他我没想到的感觉？ KAT: I went to the University of Kentucky, so I don't think anything could beat a Coach Calipari practice. I'm OK with it. I'm going to go in, and I'm going to work my tail off and see where that gets me. KAT：我大学去的可是Kentucky，所以，我不会觉得谁会比Calipari教练训练更狠。对此我 没有问题。我会接受，我会拼命训练，看看能把自己提升到什麽高度。 B/R: Obviously, you know Thibs as one of the best coaches in the NBA, but did you know any of the details of the "Thibodeau defense" before he came on? BR：很显然，你知道Thibs是NBA最好的教练之一，但在他来之前，你知道“Thibodeau式防 守”的细节吗？ KAT: No. I knew a little bit about it, but not enough to say that "I know it." A little bit, just because of experience and being on the playground and being at the University of Kentucky; I learned a little bit. I just can't wait to learn the way he plays defense and have a whole 'nother playbook and philosophy in my mind for the rest of my career. KAT：不了解。我只知道一点点，但是没到“了解”的程度。因为在Kentucky大学打球的经 验，我只知道一点，我了解过一些。我现在等不及想要学习他的防守理念，让我剩余的职 业生涯拥有一种截然不同的战术思想和哲学。 B/R: How hard are you lobbying Kevin Garnett to come back and give you one more year of Thibodeau-specific teachings because of his experience with Thibs? BR：你会努力游说Kevin Garnett回归，继续指导你一年学习Thibodeau的执教理念吗？他 之前曾与Thibs共事过。 KAT: We all love KG. We all love KG. We loved his presence on the court. But that's not my job. He deserves to do whatever he wants to do in his career. He's earned that right. He's earned his Hall of Fame status. Whatever he chooses, we're going to support him, and we're going to love him no matter what he does. KAT：我们都爱KG，我们都爱KG，我们喜欢他出现在场上。但这不是我的工作，他有资格做 任何想做的事情，他争取到了这种权利，他争取到了自己的名人堂资格。不管如何选择， 我们都会支持他。不管做出什麽决定，我们都会爱他。 B/R: Something that was always noticeable watching your games on TV was how much KG would talk to you when you guys were on the bench together. He was always in your ear. You'd see Vines and tweets and all this stuff. BR：在电视上看你比赛的时候，总会看到KG在板凳席上跟你们说话。他一直都在你耳朵边 说着什麽，你能在Vine或者Twitter上看到这些影片。 KAT: [Laughing] It was both ways, man. It's both ways. Towns：(大笑)这样的对话都是双向的，哥们，互相的。 B/R: What were those conversations like? Was it always basketball, or was it other stuff too? BR：你们的对话大概是什麽内容？都是篮球吗？还是也会有别的？ KAT: [laughing] Me and him talked about basketball, but we had other conversations where we were out there. Just joking around, being funny to him, and we're just laughing about it during the middle of the game. Like I said, he's like an older brother to me. And I was his younger brother. We just always tried to find ways to be doing something with each other or just laugh about something or just talk. We had that kind of rapport. We had that kind of trust and feeling for each other. KAT：(大笑)我和他会谈论篮球，但也会谈别的。开开玩笑啊什麽的，比赛期间我们有时会 乐得不可开支。如我所说，他就像是我大哥，而我是他小弟。我们都会尽力找办法跟彼此 做点什麽，有时候就是纯粹的谈笑。我们已建立起了非常融洽的关系，对彼此非常信任。 B/R: No judgment, but were you ever close to a Big Baby (Glen Davis) moment where he was bringing you to tears? BR：你有过那种他把你骂到哭的“Big Baby时刻”吗？ KAT: Oh, no. Not really. If it was anything with tears, it was laughter. KG is a personality, but he's a great friend of mine. KAT：没有哦，完全没有。如果有什麽事情导致落泪的话，那也是笑的。KG很有个性，但 他是我特别好的朋友。 B/R: The mix you guys had in the locker room is really interesting. You had all the young guys the team expects to be really good eventually, and then you had the three older heads in KG, Tayshaun Prince and Andre Miller. It even seemed like it was intentional on (former president of basketball operations and head coach) Flip Saunders' part that there was a point guard, a wing and a big. What was that locker room dynamic like with the age gap and the life experience gap between the young core and the vets Flip brought in? BR：你们球队的更衣室组成非常有意思，你们有一帮前途光明的年轻球员，还有三个老家 伙：KG、Tayshaun Prince和Andre Miller，有时候看起来，这甚至是前任主帅Flip Sau- nders故意为之，正好是一个控卫、一个侧翼、一个内线。你们年轻核心与Flip带来的老球 员之间存在年龄和人生经验的差异，那麽你们更衣室的氛围是什麽样的呢？ KAT: It's amazing the veterans that we had, how Flip's vision of having veterans not only included having very talented and Hall of Fame-ballot veterans, but having veterans that had great personalities. And their personalities meshed in completely well with ours, and that's why we were so successful at getting better and progressing so quickly to the team that we wanted to be. Tayshaun, Andre Miller, KG...they meshed with us so well, personally, and in our lives and everything. Our locker room—other than Kentucky—was the best I've ever been a part of, and that's a testament to Flip's vision. KAT：我们的老球员们都非常棒，Flip在选择老球员方面极有眼光，他不光是找未来的名人 堂成员，还有那些个性极好的球员。他们的个性与我们的性情非常匹配，这让我们在个人 提升和球队整体迅速进步方面都非常成功。Tayshaun、Andre Miller、KG……不管是帮助 我们生活还是其他一切，他们都与我们建立了非常融洽的个人关系。除了Kentucky大学之 外，我们的更衣室是我待过最好的，这正是Flip卓越眼光的最好证明。 B/R: With Kentucky, so many future NBA guys go there. What is it about Cal, other than the fact he consistently puts guys into the NBA, that draws so many good players there? BR：说到Kentucky，很多未来进入NBA的球员都去了那里。对於Calipari来说，除了他能经 常把麾下子弟送入NBA之外，他还有什麽其他特质吸引这麽多优秀球员？ KAT: I think they feel the vibe. I think it's all about a vibe. It's like a house. You know if it's the house for you and your family or if it's not within the first few seconds of being there. And I think when I went to Kentucky, I just felt like I was home. I knew that was gonna be the place that I was going to play my collegiate career at. Towns：我觉得他们都能感受到Kentucky的氛围，我认为都是氛围的功劳。Kentucky就像是 一个家。只要去到那里待几秒钟，你就能感觉得到这里是不是你的家。我记得当我去Kent- ucky时候，我就感觉跟回家一样，当时我就认定，这里就是我要完成大学生涯的地方。 B/R: Something else on the court: When you guys played Golden State at the end of the year and beat them at their place, you did a better job of taking Stephen Curry on switches than almost any big man in the league throughout this season. What was the strategy you had when you got switched into that matchup? BR：你们在赛季末客场击败了勇士，你换防Curry的效果，比联盟中其他大个都要好。当你 面对Curry的时候，你的策略是什麽？ KAT: Be very competitive. Make it very hard for him to even get a look at the basket. Using my length, my size, my quickness against him and make it very difficult. I'm a competitor. I love to play against the best of the best. When you're playing against the MVP, and to possibly guard him, I tell everyone I want to guard the best of the best. I wanted those switches. I wanted to go against him one-on-one on an island and to go out there and compete. I'm glad that I was able to help my teammates in that way and help my team win the game. KAT：就是保持竞争性，让他的比赛变困难，甚至看不到篮框在哪。用我的身高、臂展和 速度对付他，让他的比赛变得更麻烦。我是一个竞争者，我喜欢和最好球员中的最好球员 比赛，当你面对MVP的时候，还有可能防他，我就告诉每个人，我想防最好球员中的最好 球员，我想换防，我想跟他在岛上一对一对决，去跟他竞争。我很高兴我能以那样的方式 帮助队友，并且帮助球队赢下比赛。 B/R: After having such a great and such an acclaimed rookie year—Western Conference Rookie of the Month every month, probable Rookie of the Year, people talking about All-NBA teams, throwing around things like "the best rookie big man since Tim Duncan," things like that—how do you pinpoint which areas of your game to improve over the summer? Is it just a general "I have to get better" type of thing, or do you have specific areas you want to work on? BR：你的新秀赛季打得太好了，不仅拿下了每个月的西区最佳新秀奖，还可能是今年的 NBA最佳新秀，人们开始谈论年度最佳阵容，甚至有“Tim Duncan之後最好的内线新秀”这 样的讨论。那麽到了夏天，你会如何选择具体的提升方面？还是说只是“我必须变更好”这 样一般性的说法？你有没有具体想要训练的点？ KAT: I've always been a big philosopher of in the offseason you work on every single facet of your game. Don't pinpoint something. Because you limit yourself if you specialize in something, and I'm not a specialist in anything. I'm a person and a player who bases off of versatility, trying to do every single thing really well. That's what I'm going to do this summer. I'm going to do everything I can to my body, to my physical skill set, even adding some components that I feel I can add. I'm just going to do that to be the most complete player I can be. KAT：我一直秉承这样的理念——你在休赛期要训练每一个方面，而不是单独的几个点。 因为，如果专门训练某些方面的话，你会限制自己。我在任何方面都不算特别精通，我是 一个多方面发展的球员，会在任何方面都尝试做到最好。这就是我夏天要做的事情，我会 努力在身体和技巧的各个方面都进行训练，甚至会加入一些自己感觉能加的东西。我会去 做这些事情，让自己成为力所能及的最有竞争力的球员。 B/R: And I have to ask about Karlito. Obviously, everybody knows Karl-Anthony had a great rookie season, but what was Karlito's like? What's he working on this summer? What are his life plans? BR：现在，我必须问问Karlito的事情了，很显然，每个人都知道Karl-Anthony有一个出色 的新秀赛季，那Karlito呢？他会在夏天练什麽？他的人生规划呢？ (Note: Karlito is Towns' imaginary friend. He sits on Towns' shoulder and gives Towns advice. He also has his own Twitter and Instagram accounts with over 22,000 combined followers, as well as his own bobblehead and logo-printed golf balls. You can't make this stuff up.) (注：Karlito是Towns想像出来的朋友，他坐在Towns的肩膀上给予建议。Karlito还有自己 的Twitter和Instagram帐号，总计有超过22,000个粉丝，他还有自己专属的摇头娃娃和带 logo的高尔夫球。你绝对无法想像有这种事情。) 补充Karlito摇头娃娃图片： https://www.instagram.com/p/_uZ_6zzN4d/?taken-by=karlito_towns https://www.instagram.com/p/5dSpVmTN7o/?taken-by=karlito_towns 补充Karlito高尔夫球图片： https://www.instagram.com/p/BEvsltHzNxD/?taken-by=karlito_towns KAT: I think Karlito had a quiet rookie year. I think he was letting me do more of the talking. And I think after letting me do what I can do, I think next year he'll be a big part of the year, and I think you'll see a lot more of him. Towns：我觉得Karlito的新秀赛季很安静，我觉得他说话很少，更多让我自己决定怎麽做 。我觉得，下赛季他会发挥更多作用，我认为你会更多地看到他。 B/R: Is he going to start talking more, like going all Draymond Green on everyone? BR：他会跟你说更多话吗？就像是Draymond Green对每个人那样？ KAT: Like a Lil' Penny (Penny Hardaway). KAT：我感觉会是像Lil' Penny一样. (注：Lil' Penny是Nike为Penny Hardway打造的第二形象，也是一个随时相伴身边的小伙 伴，曾以它为主题，推出了众多球鞋产品。) 补充Lil' Penny图片： http://imgur.com/VSUP068 http://images.solecollector.com/complex/image/upload/yg5pmi3rzol9yzuczdmy.jpg 补充Towns跟左肩上的Karlito讲话被LaVine抓包，赶紧别过头去： http://imgur.com/hKsLs0S --

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