http://goo.gl/o34twL MP: You have a lot of assistant coaches and I’m not sure it has ever been laid out what they do. FS: They do a lot. Everybody has responsibilities of games and of players. Sam [Mitchell] works with some of the forwards and especially works with AB [Anthony Bennett] a lot, AB and Thad. He works with the offense a little bit. Sid [Lowe] and Ryan [Saunders], they look at the defense. Sid has some of the guards, Mo and some of those guys and Ryan probably works more specifically with Wig and with Zach, the young guys. D.A. [David Adelman] works a lot with special situations, and he also works with Chase and also works a lot with Bazz. And Cal [Calvin Booth] works with our big guys. I am one who kind of likes to get everyone immersed in everything. They each all have teams that they scout and they all work on the board [for the scouting report in the locker room] and they work on the court. 關於教練團的分工，Sam Mitchell 負責環節偏進攻面，還與球隊中幾位前鋒共事，像是 AB、Thad，尤其是指導 AB。Sid Lowe 和 Ryan Saunders 負責環節偏防守面，另外 Sid 也與 Mo 等幾位後衛共事，而 Ryan 則負責關照年輕球員，特別是 Wiggins、LaVine。 David Adelman 負責球場上一些特殊狀況，並與 Budinger、Bazz 共事。Calvin Booth 負責帶陣中幾名長人。老桑負責整合上述事務。 MP: Did the experiment with [former Sacramento coach Mike] Malone in his brief time, was that helpful? FS: Yeah it was good. I brought Mike in more than anything else for him. You get fired and everyone calls you in the first 48 hours and two weeks later you don’t get any calls. Then you have a tendency to think “Everyone forgot about me.” He came in and confirmed a lot of what we thought as a staff; about our players and how we were playing and what we needed to work on; where were we pretty good and where we needed to show improvement. He did a good evaluation because he scouts us and that is another set of eyes for us, our personnel and what it can be. So I think it was good. I’ll continue to talk with him over the course of the season and we might bring him in another time, if it is something that works out. 關於和 Mike Malone 短暫合作是否有幫助。老桑表示這個邀請舉動讓 Malone 倍感溫馨 ，而且由於他有追蹤灰狼隊的近況，所以給予球隊不少寶貴意見，哪些地方是好的，哪 些地方需要更精進，提供教練團不同觀點。整體來說，老桑認為效果不錯，會持續保持 與 Malone 的聯絡，也許會再度邀請他來。 --- MP: What about the double duty for you? Are these two jobs together what you expected? FS: Yeah. We’ve put more on just because of the injuries, so everything has changed. I will say this: Glen [Taylor, the Wolves owner] has been supportive because we all have the same vision and we all kind of know where we are at the moment. We knew with the injuries what it would do to us. Overall most of the times we have been pretty competitive in games. The last couple haven’t been as good — I really do think Wiggins and some of the others have hit the wall, hit is hard, Wiggins and Mo both, because we ask them both to do so much. I’ll tell you, I couldn’t envision anyone else coaching right now, coaching this team, based on what has happened. If we had brought in a young guy, they would feel like they were in quicksand, maybe asking for a rope. And if we had brought in a veteran type guy, he’d be walking in that door every day trying to trade nine guys, to get better right now. From that perspective it has been easier because we have set the course. And you are either rebuilding or you are not. When you try and jump back and forth that is usually when you end up being in total mediocrity all the time. But actually I’m not in a rebuild; I’m in a building. Because I haven’t been here before, I took the team over. Because when you decide to build you are basically the one who sets the vision about how you are going to go about doing it. Right now I look at our team and we are in a building situation. Within that there are certain dynamics you have to follow in order to do that. And they can be painful, for everybody—players, coaches, fans, everybody. Very painful. But you have to understand that you have to stay in that lane. You have got to bite your lip a little bit to get through it. 被問到身兼教練和總管，老桑表示老闆 Glen Taylor 始終表達支持，他們有著共同的願 景。依照目前局面，老桑認為先把球隊發展方向設定好，比起目標反覆不定來得好。而 老桑用建造期而不是重建期，來形容目前球隊的處境。當然，這過程對於球員、教練、 球迷來說，經歷陣痛在所難免，只能咬緊牙關撐過去。 MP: Because of the way this season has gone, would it be hard for somebody else to come in and coach the team next year? FS: You know what, I haven’t really even thought about that. You can hire the best coach, both for the short term and the long term. My main thing as a coach, taking everything else out, is that I want to be able to get all of our guys together, let them play for a couple of weeks and then see what you have after that and figure out, where are we really. I probably won’t know where this team is at until twenty more games, until we are at the 60-game mark. 關於下一季找尋新教練的疑問，老桑並沒有正面回答，只表示到目前還未思考過，現階 段專注於整合這支球隊。 MP: But wouldn’t it be really hard to have somebody come in next season with the situation as in-flux as it is right now? FS: Well hopefully it is not going to be in flux next year. Because what this year is going to do is figure out where our guys are at — who we like, who we don’t like. And with another high draft pick and who we have, we should pretty much know the vision and be able to put the plans out that “Here is who we are going to be. And here is how we are going to play.” 老桑再被追問，目前不穩定的局面下，是否欠缺吸引他人來執教的誘因。老桑也希望這 一切動盪僅止於這季，因為這季的工作，球隊要思考哪些球員在長期或短期計畫中，哪 些球員不在未來計畫中。有了明確藍圖，加上今夏的選秀權，自然會有誘因。 MP: Do you have a sense right now as to an 8-to-10 person roster a year from now? FS: Probably, yeah. I have a sense. The dynamics can change, depending on draft picks and a lot of other things. You never know in this thing because there is always somebody out there that thinks they can make it big. This year more than anything else, teams are making moves and they are making them early because a lot of teams think they can win a championship. In the past there were maybe two or three teams that think they could win it. Well now, you probably have about 14 teams that legitimately think they have a chance. Based on that fact, they are looking to get that one more piece. 對於一年後球員名單中的八到十人，是否有概念了。老桑回應大致上有，不過仍存在些 變數，像是夏季選秀，或是其他事情，例如這一季不同以往，有許多球隊自覺有爭冠機 會，想在交易市場中揮出全壘打。 MP: Yeah, that ‘stack the stars’ paradigm doesn’t seem to be as reliable as it was even a year ago. FS: Well, you have to get the right ones. Get the right ones. The dynamics change. What it boils down to with the stars—stars win playoffs. Teams can win regular seasons but stars win playoffs. You can say all you want about San Antonio — and Pop has done a phenomenal job and everything — but they have won because their stars, Duncan, Parker and Ginobili, have been stars in the playoffs. And now Leonard. So from that perspective, stars are going to win championships — star quality. Now does Atlanta have star quality with Teague, Millsap and Horford? They are pretty damn close. And Korver even? They are pretty close. 不過收集巨頭似乎不再可靠了？老桑認為要補到正確的拼圖，大家都了解好的團隊能在 例行賽贏球，但球星能幫你贏得季後賽。 MP: But one or more of those guys will have to be a star in the playoffs? FS: Listen, I envision Ricky Rubio being a star, no matter what anyone says. I envision that Wiggins is going to be a star. We can have some other guys that are going to be on that edge, and have the ability to do that. And if we do that, we are going to be a pretty good team. 目前有誰符合呢？在老桑個人心中，Rubio 是其中一位，Wiggins 即將是另一位。 End --

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