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Bill Simmons寫Tracy McGrady
裡面有些部分小弟認為寫得很好
尤其是訪問Jeff Van Gundy跟Roc Rivers兩位曾直接帶領他的教練
論數據McGrady的數字絕對是名人堂等級的
但美式運動常常強調隊上的最佳球員應該同時要擔任領導者
McGrady從來不是天生的領導者
他也不像Dwight一樣不是天生的領導者卻想當老大
McGrady在休士頓的頭三年Jeff Van Gundy是球隊的老大
Daryl Morey開除Van Gundy後 雇用了新的教練Rick Adelman
Adelman上任時希望McGrady能當隊上老大
McGrady卻連試都不想試 因為這樣很難做他自己
那22連勝時誰是隊上老大勒?
"Probably Chuck Hayes" Daryl said
再節錄一段
"Your best player has to set the tone, without question," Van Gundy explains.
"If he doesn't do that, then it has to be the head coach. But it's better if
the player has it. Tracy was never a leader, but he was a helluva basketball
player. If you coached him or coached against him, you would have a much
different view. McGrady made people better — he was a great, great passer.
Wasn't a great shooter, but he was a great scorer, could guard, pass, was
smart, rebounded. He could do everything. I mean, even Bryant came out and
said some nice things … it's not like Kobe Bryant goes out and blows smoke
up people's ass."
Van Gundy希望大家別過度使用季後賽是否成功來評斷一個球員的成就
最好的例子是2007的Kevin Garnett(32勝)跟2008的Kevin Garnett(82勝 包括季後賽)
基本上是同一個球員 由此可見成功跟失敗之間的差別是很小的
"Easy to coach," Van Gundy gushes about McGrady. "Smart as hell. Not the
greatest practice player of course. He understood he had to give X amount of
level in practice to avoid confrontation with the coach, and that's what he
did. But he was totally unselfish in the way he played the game. TOTALLY
unselfish. I was there every night. Was I looking forward to coaching him in
the second game of a back-to-back against a bad team? No, not gonna happen.
But if you put him against a great team? He always showed up. Look at his
playoff numbers versus his regular-season numbers. How many guys had better
playoff numbers? Seriously, how many?"
再來是Doc的話
Rivers realizes now how difficult everything was for McGrady, especially when
it became more and more clear that Hill was never coming back. "Tracy wasn't
a leader at all," Doc says, "and unfortunately for him, he had to be. He was
too young and suddenly it's like, 'This is your franchise.' That's a lot to
ask. And we were always in a holding pattern because of Grant. We never knew
when he was coming back."
我們花了近10年的時間在說Kobe是不是對隊友太嚴厲了,是不是太常責罵他的隊友,Kobe的
超強好勝心是不是有時候反而成為他的絆腳石時,McGrady則是個完全不同的球員,他的隊友
可以跟他玩在一起,但隊友們不會為了他而上戰場,他的隊友們不會有"我不能讓這個人失望
"的感覺
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