[爆料] Learning from the best

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http://www.nba.com/usabasketball/williams_070815.html

Early last season, Deron Williams spoke of the transition from his first to
his second season, and he said how he used what he learned as a rookie to
help him work on his game the following summer.

Obviously, it worked.

"Deron just came along so fast," Chris Bosh said about Williams' development.
"He can shoot the ball well, he's big, he's physical, he's quick, he can run
an offense and he's unselfish."

Williams led the Jazz to the Western Conference Finals last season, should
have been an All-Star, and has established himself as the best player in his
draft class (with apologies to Chris Paul) after finishing sixth in Rookie of
the Year voting the season previous.

"For point guards," Mike Miller said, "that rookie year is a tough
transition. And to see what he's done from that year to the next is what you
expect out of great basketball players. He's definitely put himself in the
top echelon of point guards in this league."

So, while Williams is likely the third-string point guard for Team USA this
summer behind Jason Kidd and Chauncey Billups, he could very well be the
floor leader when the 2012 Olympics come around.

And for now, he's taking this opportunity to learn from the guy that was his
favorite player growing up in Texas.

"He's a guy that I grew up trying to emulate, trying to be like as a kid,"
Williams said of Kidd. "And it's kind of surreal right now to be playing on
the same team as him, playing under his wing and learning from him."

Kidd seems to be the ingredient that Team USA was missing in Japan last
summer, the floor general that can bring a bunch of talented individuals
together and make them into a great team.

"We have great scorers, great rebounders, great finishers, great defenders,"
Bosh said. "And he's kind of that missing piece that just bonds everybody
together."

Almost everybody on this team has already talked about how enjoyable it is to
play with a point guard of Kidd's caliber, and they've only been together for
four days. Kidd will tell you that his teammates just don't want to
disrespect their elders, but we know better.

So Williams takes it to heart when Kidd offers him advice, and from the
sounds of it, that happens often during the course of practice.

"He gives me little pointers here and there," Williams said. "Anything he
sees that I'm doing wrong or I could do differently. Whether it's something
simple as, you know, I made a chest pass today when I should have made a
bounce pass. He came over and told me 'Drop it down low. There's not as many
hands to get through.' He's just helping me out."

And the youngster is always willing to listen.

"He's a great kid," Kidd said of the teammate he jokingly calls his son. "He
wants to get better. He's always asking questions or just being very
observant."

So, while Williams clearly improved between his rookie and sophomore seasons,
he could certainly make a similar jump this summer by just spending time with
Kidd here in Las Vegas.

"It's definitely a great learning experience for me," Williams said,
"something I can definitely use for my future. Being around a guy like that
for 2 1/2 weeks is going to be tremendous for me."

Evidently, just being one of the best point guards in the league is not
enough.

"You can always learn," Williams said. "You can always improve. You can
always get better. You just gotta stay hungry to do that. I think there's a
lot of maturing I can do as far as being a leader on my team."

If Jerry Sloan is reading this, I think he just smiled (although I'm not sure
I know what a Jerry Sloan smile looks like).

Even Kidd, after 13 seasons in the league, is still working hard on his game.
After Wednesday's three-hour practice, he went over to the auxiliary gym to
shoot 200 jumpers with his shooting coach, while most of the younger players
were eager to get back to the hotel and relax.

That just might be Deron Williams 10 years from now.

"He has all the tools to be one of the top point guards," Kidd said, "if not
the top point guard, when it's all said and done."




Deron加油阿!

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推 sam369:
推 waskage:變強再變強！！
推 makswu:跟基德隊長學習是要學搶籃板嗎?
推 CarlosBoozer:                       月半
推 species:D-Will真的很幸運,可以得到Stockton和Kidd教導
推 jeromeshih:可以問一下最後一句是說什麼嗎?看不太懂
推 sam369:
推 waskage:如果最後他不是最好的控衛，他也有工具成為最好控衛之一。
→ waskage:是這樣的意思嗎？
推 Stockton:Kidd可以搶籃板比中鋒還多，月半 不行＠＠？？
推 sam369:
推 popstarkirby:籃板跟陣容也有點關係啦^^
→ popstarkirby:在爵士隊,大概掉到他面前前就被AK BOOZER OKUR等等
→ popstarkirby:扯下來了
→ CarlosBoozer:之前非人大的文章有提到，爵士有做籃板任務分配，
→ CarlosBoozer:如果我沒誤解的話，意思就是籃板不干Deron的事吧
→ CarlosBoozer:(在這邊拜請有沒有用啊..)
推 sam369:
推 RonnieBrewer:三太子
→ sam369:
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