[外電] Udrih has case for long stay

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Udrih has case for long stay

http://www.sacbee.com/kings/story/767573.html

It was only 10 minutes. And as Beno Udrih saw it, it wasn't a pleasant 10
minutes.

　　那只是短短的十分鐘而已，但對Beno Udrih而言，那十分鐘成了他人生的重大轉折點
。

Before the point guard became the rising star in Sacramento, signing with the
Kings on Nov. 1 as an emergency fill-in for the injured Mike Bibby and
beginning his career anew four years in, he was a member of the Minnesota
Timberwolves.

　　Udrih 在11月1 日被國王簽下，補上Mike Bibby的位置，現在他成為了在沙城上昇中
的新星。在那之前，他曾一度是灰狼的一員。

A welcome trade from San Antonio had landed him with the T-wolves on Oct. 29,
but just as Udrih prepared to stay afloat in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, he was
cut. Set free, really.

　　10月29日，馬刺把Beno送往明尼蘇達。當Beno正準備好要前往這個萬湖之州時，灰狼
把他給砍了。

"My agent told me I'd have to fly to Minnesota the next day," said Udrih, who
signed a one-year contract with the Kings for the league minimum of $826,046.
"He had called the general manager or somebody (in the Timberwolves' front
office), and he said, 'Yeah, we want to see what Beno is going to bring to
the table.'

　　「那天，我的經紀人跟我說明天要飛到明尼蘇達。他和灰狼上層的人聯絡過了，而對
方說：『我們很想看到Beno會為我們帶來些什麼。』」和國王以聯盟最低薪簽約的Beno說
。

"And then, 10 minutes later, they waived me."

　　「十分鐘後，他們和我說掰掰...」

Udrih sought a setting in which playing time would be plentiful and
competition minimal, and Minnesota obviously was not it. At point guard, the
T-wolves had the well-respected Randy Foye, the seventh overall draft pick in
2006; Sebastian Telfair, the 13th overall pick of the 2004 draft with plenty
to play for; and established veteran reserve Marko Jaric.

    Udrih 想要找一個地方能讓他有充足的上場時間，可明尼蘇達看來並沒有那個空位。
在控球上，他們早就有了積極培養的2006第七順位Randy Foye，天下第一控的親戚2004第
十三順位Sebastian Telfair ，另外還有老將學友哥。

Udrih, who spent so much of his first three seasons dreaming of big minutes
with the Spurs while playing behind Tony Parker and, in the later years,
Jacque Vaughn, was concerned.

　　在生涯的前三季，Udrih 都是在Tony Parker 的身後當替補，後到的Jacque Vaughn
最後也插隊排到他前面。

"They had a bunch of guards … so I was really not sure about going (to
Minnesota)," Udrih said. "I was not happy about that trade. But still, it was
a young team, and I just told myself that they were going to need some
players. That's what I was telling myself.

　　「他們有一海票的控衛，所以我也很好奇我去了要幹嘛？雖然我覺得這個交易並不適
合我，但灰狼是隻年輕的球隊，那邊也許會有我幫上忙的地方，我這麼告訴自已。」Beno
說。

"Ten minutes later, my agent says they waived me."

　　以上是Beno對灰狼隊的控訴。

The outcome, of course, has fallen largely in Udrih's favor. Minnesota enters
Arco Arena tonight with the second-worst record in the NBA (12-48), unable to
know how different things would have been if Udrih had stayed.

　　正所謂「塞翁失馬，焉知非福」，灰狼的決定成就了今天的Udrih 。當初他們如果把
Udrih 留下來，戰績可能不會到聯盟第二糟的12勝48敗吧！

The day after the Timberwolves waived Udrih, they learned Foye had a stress
reaction in his kneecap. Foye missed the season's first 43 games. Ironically,
Timberwolves vice president of basketball operations Kevin McHale told
Minnesota media that his questions about Udrih's durability were a factor in
his decision to cut the guard.

　　在灰狼砍掉Udrih 的隔天，他們就得到了Foye受傷的消息，Foye因此缺席了前43場比
賽，真是相當囧的一個情況。相當諷刺地，Kevin McHale告訴明尼蘇達的媒體他砍掉Udrih
的原因，就是因為覺得他的耐戰性不足。

"When you do your investigation, I guess the biggest concern I had was that
(San Antonio) really felt that, injury-wise, he had been hurt quite a bit,"
McHale said. "You're (thinking), Well, we've got unknowns right now (on the
roster). I don't think we were in a situation where we were willing to bring
in two unknowns. We already had Sebastian here."

　　「當我在思考要不要留下這個球員時，容易受傷是一個相當負面的因素。我們的名單
還沒有定下來，而我不希望名單中有太多的不確定。更何況我們已經有Sebastian 了。」
大家都在等著他辭職的McHale說。

Meanwhile, Udrih has played well enough in Sacramento to earn a nickname.
"The Tasmanian Slovenian," so named by Kings television personality and team
director of player personnel Jerry Reynolds, has been on quite a tear in the
last five games.

　　在McHale大力宣揚他砍人正當性的同時，Udrih 已經在五場比賽後獲得了沙城所有人
的喜愛。他甚至被球評Jerry Reynolds取了個綽號「塔斯馬尼亞的斯洛維尼亞人」。
（Jerry：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Reynolds_(basketball_coach)）
（註：綽號的其他相關放在最後，不過這個綽號好像真的就這麼鳥Orz）

In that span, Udrih has averaged 22.6 points and 5.8 assists while shooting
56.5 percent from the field and continuing to prove himself. When the Kings
traded Bibby to Atlanta on Feb. 16, Udrih's emergence was no small part of
the equation.

　　在這段時間中，Udrih 交出了平均22.6分、5.8 助攻的成績，而命中率是56.5趴。當
國王在2 月16日將Bibby 交易至老鷹，其中有很大一部分就是認為Udrih 已經足夠擔起控
球的重任。

His impending free agency this summer meant the Kings would most certainly
lose Udrih if Bibby had remained, and Udrih's early play had intrigued the
Kings' front office more than enough to warrant a closer look at the
situation.

    如果Bibby 還留在這兒的話，那麼即將成為自由球員的Udrih 就會離開。但Udrih 用
他的表現，使國王球團做出另外一個選擇。

And it appears Udrih, 25, could be here for years to come. This summer, the
Kings will be in a position to offer part or all of their midlevel exception
(approximately $6 million) to retain Udrih. The chance the Kings gave him
after his 10-minute Minnesota stay, Udrih said, will not be forgotten.

　　看來25歲的Udrih 將會在沙城留上一段時間了。這個夏天，國王將會以部份或者全額
的中產來留下Udrih 。國王給Beno的機會，他說他將永遠不會忘記。

"This is the team that gave me an opportunity to show myself," he said. "I'm
really happy here. I like it. We'll see what comes at the end."

    「我在這隻球隊得到了機會證明自我。我在這裡很高興。讓我繼續證明我到底能夠做
些什麼吧！」Udrih 說。

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註：塔斯馬尼亞的斯洛維尼亞人原因似乎只是Udrih來自Slovenia而且是Tasmanian族...
    下文的作者說這樣叫他不就像叫「非洲來的美國人」之類的...
    好像已有不少人對這個綽號提出反感，但是我不確定是不是還會這樣叫他

http://charlotteblogcat.blogspot.com/

One of the Sacramento announcers called Udrih the “Tasmanian Slovenian,”
 although I’m not sure if that actually works as a nickname. If you wanted
to label him as a sort of whirling-dervish type, wouldn’t he have to be
called the “Slovenian Devil”? After all, it’s the “Devil”-part of “
Tasmanian Devil” that lets you know someone’s crazy and out-of-control;
otherwise, the person is merely from Tasmania and not necessarily crazy
(unless you’re prejudiced against Tasmanians). A “Tasmanian-Slovenian”
 would technically just be a guy who lives in Slovenia and has Tasmanian
ethnicity, similar to an African-American here in the U.S.

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