[外電] IGGY值得更多的尊重? -- CSNPHILLY

[cz (i might be wrong)]

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John Gonzalez


Outside the Sixers locker room, just a few minutes after an announcement that
named Andre Iguodala as a finalist for the 2012 Olympic team (see story),
Doug Collins talked to the media. The coach was pleased.

IGGY入選美國2012奧運(初選)名單後，Doug Collins在休息室外接受媒體的訪問。


"When he was trying out for the team, when he was in the mix for the World
Championships, my son Chris was working with the team," Collins said. "He
relayed to me that Coach K said he needed Dre to be the best on-ball
defender. He’s the guy you can put on someone to take him out of the game.
That’s his calling card. He can guard multiple guys and lock in. One thing
Coach K and that U.S. Olympic team is doing now is they’re rewarding people
who have made a commitment over the last four or five years. I think Dre has
a great chance to make the team if he stays healthy, and he’s gotten off to
a great start for us this year. I couldn’t be more proud of Dre."


「(上屆奧運時) 我兒子Chris也在為美國隊工作，所以從Iggy參加測試、一直到美國
隊奪冠Chris都有參予。Chris向我透露K教練需要Dre，Dre是最好的、對持球者的防守
球員。和Dre對位的進攻者基本上已經是空氣了，而他還可以做好協防和包夾。

目前K教練和美國奧運代表隊正在選人，對於過去四五年來願意參加國家隊的球員會優
先考慮。我認為只要能保持健康，Dre很有機會入選；今年到目前為止他也表現得非常
出色，我為他感到無上光榮。」 Doug Collins說


There’s a lot of that going around. During a timeout in Monday’s
mid-afternoon clash against the Milwaukee Bucks at the Wells Fargo Center --
which the Sixers won, 94-82 (see recap), to preserve their perfect home
record -- Tom Lamaine announced over the PA system that the "entire
organization" is thrilled for Iguodala. The crowd cheered. Then some fans --
the rabid ones that Adam Aron keeps leashed up behind the visitors basket --
chanted "U-S-A." They did that more than once against the Bucks, regularly
resorting to merry jingoism while Iguodala put up 21 points, seven rebounds
and four assists.


對於 Iggy 的讚揚還不只這樣；在周一主場打敗密爾瓦基公鹿隊、保持主場完勝的比賽
中，主場播報員 Tom Lamaine 表示整個球隊都因為Iggy的好表現而受到鼓舞。主場球
迷非常興奮，一些狂熱分子甚至大喊「U-S-A」，就好像來訪的公鹿隊是外國人一樣。
當天Iggy也用21分、7籃板4助攻的表現回報給球迷。


“He’s in a good spot right now,” Collins said about Iguodala. “He really
is.” In an unusual season that’s already produced all sorts of surprising
and unforeseen developments -- from Spencer Hawes emerging as a significant
contributor, to the Sixers working a comfortable grove into the Atlantic
Division’s first-place couch -- that last part about Iguodala might be the
most unexpected twist yet. The eighth-year veteran is in a good spot at the
moment. The team is winning and he’s producing. The boos have been mostly
replaced by cheers, and when you hear his name mentioned, the accompanying
commentary rarely involves the words “trade” and “now.” With the way this
season is going, it makes you wonder whether many of us were wrong about
Iguodala. Or, if we weren’t wrong about him, were we too harsh?


「他最近超旺的」 Doug說。在這個不尋常的球季中，七六人的驚喜連連，從Spencer
Hawes大爆發、球隊站上大西洋組排頭，Iggy也扭轉了人們對他的印象。這位費城的八
年老鳥正在帶領球隊獲勝，噓聲逐漸變成掌聲，交易的傳聞也漸漸平息。看著本季七
六人的表現，真讓人懷疑我們過去對Iggy的評價是不是錯了、或過於嚴苛。


It has not been easy here for Iguodala. When the Sixers traded the other AI,
there were great expectations that Iguodala would develop into a superstar or
at least the organization’s next viable All-Star candidate. It didn’t
happen. When his growth as a player was stunted somewhere between very good
and great, Iguodala became an easy target for people looking to blame someone
specific for all that mediocre Sixers basketball. On a team that was, for
years, mostly made up of no ones, Iguodala -- for all his failings -- was
someone. He took the heat because there was no one else to torch.


這一切對Iggy來說是得來不易的。當七六人把AI交易走，大家都期待Iggy成為超級巨星
、明星賽球員，但看起來他卻只是一個中上程度的角色。被視為為球隊一哥的Iggy因而
成為眾矢之的。


It didn’t help that former general manager Ed Stefanski handed Iguodala the
Sixers PIN number and instructed him to withdraw more cash from the team bank
account than Iguodala could possibly carry. (He’ll make around $13.5 million
this year and $14.7 million next year. In 2013-14, he has a player option for
close to $16 million.) It isn’t Iguodala’s fault that he received a fat
contract, but that hardly mattered to the critics who would have happily
bashed him over the head with his overstuffed wallet if given the opportunity.

即便前GM Ed Stefanski用了一張肥約綁住了Iggy，那也不能說是Iggy的錯；但這卻讓
批評者可以借題發揮，把錯怪到他頭上。


By the end of last season, it appeared that many Sixers fans and much of the
media were done with Iguodala -- and he sounded done with all of us, too.
After Miami dismissed the Sixers from the playoffs, Iguodala was asked
whether he expected to be in Philadelphia this season -- to which he
responded that he expected to be "back in the NBA." If the locals were all
too willing to drive him to the airport and send him off to an unknown NBA
outpost, Iguodala’s answer made it seem like he was happy enough to take
everyone up on the offer and leave town.

上個球季結束時，許多球迷和媒體都認為Iggy玩完了、該滾了，在我們看來也是。七六
人在季後賽遭到熱火淘汰以後，有人問Iggy下個球季是否會留在費城、會被交易到哪隊
；而當時Iggy的答案也像是他很樂意打包、尋找下一站幸福。


Over the last few years, I’ve written more than once that the Sixers ought
to trade Iguodala  -- not because he isn’t a good player (he is), but
because the team wasn’t a contender and it felt like the time to try
something different. Not to mention that Iguodala has never been a good fit
as the face of the franchise. He has been a hard person for the fans to
embrace because, as one NBA executive told me, Iguodala is reserved and "his
personality doesn’t make it easy."

過去幾年中，我也說過好幾次「七六人應該交易掉Iggy」這種話。不是因為他不好，
事實上他是好球員；但球隊沒有競爭力、也到了該換人當家做主的時後，更何況Iggy
從來就不是頂尖球星。他也不是球迷會喜歡的那一型，一位NBA經理也跟我說過Iggy的
個性本來就是比較低調、含蓄的。


Iguodala still has a lot of work to do on the off-court/promotion front -- he
ducked out on Monday before anyone could ask him about the game or his
involvement with the Olympic team -- but the other concerns about him seem
less pressing lately. With the Sixers atop the division standings this year,
it feels right -- even necessary -- to keep Iguodala around. Per usual, he’s
doing a little of everything for the Sixers this season. Entering the Bucks
game, he was second on the team in points (14.3) and assists per game (3.8),
and third in rebounds (6.2). He was also fourth in the NBA in steals per
game. It’s hard to imagine the Sixers being in first place without him.

在吸引球迷上，Iggy還需要多多努力。周一那場比賽、奧運名單公布，大家都想問他些
什麼，他卻低著頭就走掉了。但在球場上表現，對他來說似乎是較為輕鬆如意的事情；
今年七六人在分區保持領先，Iggy功不可沒。一如往常，他在各方面都能夠有所貢獻。
對公鹿賽前，他場均14.3分、3.8助攻，都是球隊第二，籃板則以6.2排球隊第三，超截
更是全NBA第四名。若七六人少了他，根本不可能位居分區第一。


"I think Dre is a complete player," Collins said. "When he doesn’t have to
carry the load and have a huge night for us offensively, I think that plays
into his wheelhouse. He can make plays, he can rebound, he can make shots. I
just think if you put him in a situation where you say you got to go out
there and give me 22 or 23 every night, that detracts from his greatest
strength. When he can really focus in on defense, when we get in the open
court, that really helps him."

「我覺得Dre是全方位球員。當他不需要什麼都做、專注於進攻的時候，比賽就會進入
他的掌握。他能創造得分機會、能抓籃板、有投射能力。我認為如果你要求他每天晚上
得22、23分，那會降低他的效益。當他專注在防守上、在全場進攻上，那才是他的籃球
。」Doug表示。


It’s been suggested in the past, by Collins and others, that Philly had it
all wrong -- that Iguodala is actually one of the league’s best players, and
that he’s far more respected around the rest of the NBA than he is here.
That always sounded crazy to me. But now Iguodala is a finalist for the
Olympic team. And now the Sixers are winning. And now it doesn’t sound quite
as crazy.

以前 Doug 和其他人都說過，Iggy是真正的頂級球星，他受到的重視遠不如他應得的。
我以前覺得這很荒謬，但Iggy確實是奧運隊的一員、也正帶領著七六人贏得比賽，他正
在用場上表現來證明自己值得這樣的評價。




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