http://www.denverpost.com/nuggets/ci_9090053 Tuned-out Karl should hit road 無人收聽的Karl該走路了！ By Mark Kiszla The Denver Post Hey, it's Stan Kroenke's money. If the billionaire owner of the Nuggets wants to pay coach George Karl for doing nothing, all we can do is watch as Denver gets rudely bumped from the NBA playoffs year after year. Hey，金塊隊老闆Stan Kroenke的錢，似乎請Karl來卻沒做啥事，而我們能做的，就 只是眼睜睜看著金塊每年跌跌撞撞的走進季後賽。 Broomed 107-101 by the Los Angeles Lakers, Karl was left to explain Monday why he couldn't get it done when it mattered most for the fifth consecutive season. 在被湖人隊掃出門後，Karl留下來解釋為何他不能搞定，最重要的是連續五年搞砸。 Trade Allen Iverson? Give up on Carmelo Anthony? Dump the salary of Marcus Camby? 交易AI？放棄Melo？還是不給Camby錢？ Any analysis of what's wrong with the Nuggets must start with Karl. 如果不先從Karl這點分析，任何分析都是錯的。 "He's our coach. But I think we all should be evaluated in the offseason," Nuggets vice president of player personnel Rex Chapman said. "This is the second year in a row this same crew has come up short. Everybody needs to look in the mirror." 金塊人事副主席Chapman說：「他是我們的教練，但我想我們應該要好好的在球季後 評估一下。連續兩年同樣的人出問題，大家都需要照一下鏡子。」 With two years remaining on Karl's deal and an aversion to buying out contracts, Kroenke has six million reasons to rationalize the retention of his veteran coach. Karl合約還有兩年，同時也反對買斷合約，老闆Kroenke有六百萬個理由去留住教練。 But can the Nuggets really afford to keep the status quo, come back another for another NBA season with the same cast of characters and expect anybody in Denver to buy it? 但是金塊有能力維持現狀，季復一季的維持同樣的陣容，然後期待那個在丹佛的人買下？ "It can stay the same if your goal is to win 50 games. But I don't think that's the goal. The goal is to win a championship," Chapman said. 「如果你的目標是贏得50勝，那我們可以全然不變；但我不認為這是我們的目標。 我們的目標是總冠軍」，Chapman說。 So something has got to change. 所以，必須做出要改變。 "I think we're a top 10 team in the NBA. But, unfortunately, there might be six teams in the Western Conference better than we are," Karl said. 「我想我們是NBA當中前十的隊伍，但，不幸的是，西區有六支隊伍比我們好」，Karl 這樣說。 Denver does not play defense. Denver does not share the basketball. But, worse of all, Denver does not listen to its coach. 金塊不防守，金塊不分球，但最慘的是，金塊不甩教練。 The Nuggets have tuned out Karl. 金塊已經不聽Karl的話了。 And that's no secret. 這不是秘密。 You don't need to be inside the Denver locker room to know these players have stopped investing their attention in Karl. It's has been evident to anyone who has watched the playoff series on television. 你不用進到金塊的更衣室就知道，這些球員已不再將注意力投在Karl上。只要從電視上 看這個系列戰就可以知道這件事了。 While Karl preaches, his players are asleep in the pews. During breaks in the action against L.A., the Nuggets often seem more interested in getting a drink than in hearing the wisdom of their coach. 當Karl在說教時，它的球員看起來好像在位子上睡著了。在對抗湖人的休息時間，比起 聽教練的話，金塊球員似乎更想喝杯水。 Denver leads the league in blank stares during timeouts. 金塊在暫停時間的「眼神茫然注視」在聯盟居於領先地位。 Once players stop listening, is there anything left to tell a coach except goodbye? 一旦球員不再聽話，那除了跟教練說「再見、再見」，還有啥好說的？ With two all-stars in the starting lineup and one of the league's richest payrolls, why are the Nuggets such frustrating underachievers? A longtime NBA scout told me the reasons for failure are as simple as 1-2-3. 先發當中有兩個全明星級的球員，有聯盟最貴的薪資，為什麼金塊會成為如此令人沮喪的 低成就者？長期的NBA觀察告訴我，失敗的理由簡單的跟123一樣。 This is not fantasy basketball. 這不是fantasy basketball。 No accountability means no commitment. 不負責代表沒有承諾。 If a coach can't get players to listen to him in the huddle, how can he expect them to run back on defense? The one major adjustment Karl made during the series was to bench Anthony Carter. There was one major flaw to the strategy. It forced Allen Iverson to play point guard. And everyone in the NBA knows A.I. is a scorer, not a passer. 如果教練沒辦法讓球員一起聽從他，那怎麼可以期望球員回去防守？這個系列主要的調整 在於讓AC坐板凳。這個策略有個主要的缺點。這迫使AI打控衛。NBA裡每個人都知道AI是 個得分好手，並非傳球的人。 When the organization decided it would be wiser to return to Denver between road games in California, veteran players had so little respect for Karl's authority that they complained with more passion than they sometimes show on the floor. 當這個組織決定在LA的兩場比賽中間回到Denver，是個較明智的決定時，這些老練的球員 對於Karl的權威毫不尊重，他們抱怨的程度比他們有時在場上的情形更為激動熱烈。 After a Game 2 loss in Los Angeles that Anthony called totally unacceptable, Karl called a optional practice, rather than ordering his team to work in the gym. So it was no surprise when Denver starters failed to show up. 在輸掉G2之後，Karl說要來個選擇性的練習，而非命令它的隊伍待在體育館內活動。 所以，金塊的先發球員全部都沒有出現，一點也不令人驚訝。 Talk to NBA personnel who have watched Karl work for decades and they suggest maybe the coach has lost his energy to do battle with stubborn millionaires. 和已經看karl工作數十年的NBA personnel談這件事時，他們認為也許這個教練已經沒有 精力在和他們那群頑固、具有百萬身價的球員對抗。 Ask Chapman if the Nuggets can succeed with both Anthony and Iverson trying to share a single basketball, and the answer is an emphatic yes. 問到Chapman金塊是否能夠成功的讓Melo和AI分享一個球，而答案當然是「yes」。 Karl loves the game, as evidenced by the emotion in his voice when talking about his son, Coby, advance in the playoffs with the Lakers. Karl喜愛球賽，從他和他兒子Coby說話聲音中的情緒可以知道。 But has the fire gone out? 但是，這個火力有出來嗎？ In the 86th game of the season, it is too late for a coach to demand respect of his players. 在本季的第86場比賽，要一個教練去要求他的球員尊重，為時已晚。 The easy thing to do would be to keep Karl as coach. 要Karl繼續當教練是容易的事。 The hard thing is do would be to find a coach who demands commitment to winning from the opening tip to the final buzzer. 困難的是，要如何去找到一個教練，承諾「從跳球開始贏到比賽結束」。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 在Denver Post看到這篇，應該算是好消息嗎？ 很粗略的大概翻一下，有錯請包含。 我原本想找找看有沒有「譙」今天裁判的外電但沒找到。 一盤好菜也要好廚師，換個好教練吧～ --

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