[外電] 2007球季初Glen Taylor專訪（18）

[jerod (KG4MVP)]

CP: If Kevin ever decided he wanted to leave, would you try and make that
happen? Or, if despite the best efforts of you, Kevin, and Kevin McHale, this
team is not performing well with the core you have, would you ever consider
moving Kevin without his asking?

Taylor: I don't think it will happen either of those ways. I think the way it
would happen is more like the second thing: We have surrounded Kevin with
players we want and that he thinks he wants—not 100 percent, but as much as
we can—and for some reason, it doesn't work. That's how I think it would
come, and I think then we would come to a mutual conclusion.

I don't know who would come to the other first. But let's say I went and
said, Kevin, we are not doing well. I think Kevin would then say, Well, with
my salary and my deal we are not going to win here. I want to go where I have
a chance to win. Would you trade me? Or I might say to Kevin, Kevin, you can
stay here, but I've got to bring in young guys. Do you want to stay here? And
my guess would be that he wouldn't really want to go through that.

But I think it is a mutual thing. We've been together so long that I don't
think he is going to independently come to me and say, Glen I want to leave.
I think he would have done it by now if he wanted to do that, and he has
never done that. He has always said, and we have said, I want to play with
you my whole life and I hope we are together and we have a good team. And we
both have said, Yeah, but that means we both have to believe we are going to
win. So I think there could be a scenario [where he leaves], but I don't
think it will be because Kevin puts pressure on me or that I would blindside
him. If it happens, it will be because we talk to each other and say, you
know, it isn't going so good this year. I think we need to sit down at the
end of the year and talk. And I think we would both know what we are going to
talk about. That is how my relationship works with him.



People say, "Just trade Kevin." But the possibility of trading him to a team
that could win is not easy. He knows that, too. If he became a free agent,
the only teams he could sign up with are very poor teams, probably not as
good as the Timberwolves. So it has to be a thing that is good for him and
good for me. You'd have to sit down together and he would have to say, Yes I
am willing to do it. I will give you time to negotiate a deal. These are the
teams I would go to. And that list couldn't be too limited, and would have to
be very private, or we wouldn't be able to negotiate a good deal. Then we
would have to negotiate a deal that was good for us—a couple of young
players and a couple of draft picks, so we could build a team around [that
trade].

Right now we've got Shaddy [Rashad McCants] and we've got Foye, and they are
players you could potentially build a team around, depending on how they
develop.


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