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Will Funn and Jason Kidd have never met. I’m almost certain of it.
Funn, 27, is a 6-3 point guard who dropped oodles of dimes when he played at
Portland State. He actually led the NCAA in assists in ‘04–05. His semi-pro
career has taken him to Mexico, England and by a random twist of fate, to
Edmonton, Alberta Canada. Funn ran the point this spring for the Edmonton
Energy of the International Basketball League.
If the league had a Most Valuable Player and if I had a say in determining
who got that non-existent award, I would say that it should have went to
Funn. He averaged 14 points, 12 assists and 8.9 rebounds in Edmonton, leading
them to a league-best record.
While Funn’s coaches and teammates will remember him as the catalyst to
their run-and-gun offense, I’ll remember him for one thing: he made me
appreciate Jason Kidd.
Over the last seven or eight years, I’d downplayed JKidd’s game.
I knew he was good in Dallas and Phoenix. I knew that in his New Jersey days,
he was a true triple-threat for every minute he spent on the floor. He’d
reel off triple-doubles the way that Shaq drops LOL’s on the end of his
tweets.
The thing was, though, that the triple-double was very rarely the
overwhelming, oh-my-god-did-you-see-what-JKidd-did-last-night kind of line. He
’d hit the floor, do a little bit of everything and his team won. A lot. His
stat line would often read 14 points, 12 rebounds, 13 assists. My brother and
I started calling these low double-digit triple-dips “Jason Kidd
Triple-Doubles.” They were nice, but not eye-popping. The fact that he did
it so regularly actually worked against him when we watched him.
Over a two-month span, Will Funn changed that for me. With a courtside seat,
I watched this guy become the embodiment of his job title. Defenses wilted
when he pushed the rock. He’d grab a rebound on the defensive end and be
gone up the court before the big man he out-rebounded would have a stride
behind him. Guards and forwards would be on their heels as they backpedaled,
trying to figure out what would come next.
Would he drive and draw the double, then kick it out to a dead-eye
three-point shooter on the wing? Would he lose his defenders on a
spin-dribble and drop the ball in the hoop like he was the only one on the
court? Was there a trailer on the break, salivating at the prospect of
lowering the boom on his opponents? The same questions would come up all
night. The answer: 15 points, 13 rebounds, 12 assists. And another W.
Seeing these subtle Jason Kidd triple-doubles up close had me mentally
backpedaling like one of the guys who had to guard Funn. I wanted more of
JKidd, Kenyon Martin, Kerry Kittles, Keith Van Horn and Jayson Williams…er,
maybe Dikembe Mutombo. But of course, it’s gone.
In his second run in Dallas, Kidd isn’t the same player he was. Known as
-ason Kidd in his prime, a jab at his lack of a jumper, he may as well be
Jason Ki– in the present. Once feared across the League on the defensive end
of the floor, his age seems to be catching up to him. He might be producing
at a decent clip, but the stops aren’t there like they used to be. In
signing Kidd to a $25 million, three-year deal with the Mavs, maybe Mark
Cuban sees something that we don’t; maybe he inked the point guard wearing a
retro Mavs Kidd jersey and an old pair of Zoom 95s. We’ll find out this year.
第二次來到達拉斯，Kidd不再是以往那位球員。過去因為缺少跳投被稱為ason Kidd，現
在也許可以稱為Jason Ki--。他的防守曾經令人畏罪懼，但受到年紀影響現在退化了。
小牛以3年25M簽下Kidd，Mark Cuban也許看到一些我們沒看到的。
While the triple-doubles don’t come as often as they used to, they’re still
there some nights. His three of them in ‘08-09 were third-most in the
League, behind LeBron (7) and Chris Paul (6). A MVP candidate in New Jersey,
Kidd is still an adequate point guard, who finished fifth in the league in
assists (8.7 per game), and averaged 9 points and 6 rebounds a night last
season.
Kidd的三雙不再那麼多，但是仍是聯盟前幾。0809是排名第三，排在LBJ與CP3後面。LBJ
七次CP3六次。在籃網時曾是MVP候選人，Kidd的助攻上季排第5，外加9分6板，仍是一位
不錯的球員。
I talked with one of Will Funn’s teammates at the end of their season in
July. As the marksman on the wing in my earlier scenario, the guy told me he
might have had a triple-double once in his life. To almost average one? To
even be a threat for one every night? It was unimaginable to him.
“I’ll tell you this,” he said to me, in full on admiration of the guy. “
That was the best point guard I’ve ever played with. He made this so much
fun.”
I’d imagine Kenyon Martin, Kittles, Van Horn and a slew of other NBA players
would say the same for Jason Kidd.
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