Stan Van Gundy: Greg Monroe, Andre Drummond 'an ideal pairing'
Two seasons ago, the Detroit Pistons' future seemed pretty straightforward:
Andre Drummond an Greg Monroe would, in time, together form one of the most
imposing frontcourts in the league. Last summer, though, things got
complicated when Josh Smith was added in free agency as then–general manager
Joe Dumars tried to make a push for the playoffs. The three did not fit
together, and, with Monroe's restricted free agency coming up this summer,
many thought his days in Detroit were numbered.
兩個賽季以前，活塞的未來似乎很清楚，那就是Andre Drummond和Greg Monroe這一對
前場搭檔。去年夏天，活塞總管Joe Dumars為了進季後賽而奮力一搏，接著從自由市場
上交易來Josh Smith，這讓事情似乎變得複雜了。這三人組合無法兼容，隨著今年夏天
Monroe將變成受限自由球員，似乎預告他留在活塞的日子已經不多了。
New Pistons president and head coach Stan Van Gundy made it clear he was a
Monroe fan as soon as he took the job. Now he has spoken even more strongly
about the tandem, via Pistons.com's Keith Langlois:
活塞新任的總裁和教頭Stan Van Gundy在上任後說得很清楚，他就是Monroe的粉絲，
在接受活塞官網的記者Keith Langlois的採訪後，他更加強烈地表達了他這個想法:
“I think it is an ideal pairing,” he said. “If I look at just the film
I've watched now and looking at the numbers, you would say that Greg and
Andre together were great offensively. That was a great combination on the
offensive end of the floor, especially when the three guys around them were
shooters – more conventional perimeter types. That worked very, very well.
Now, it didn't work very well defensively. I think it puts a lot of
responsibility on Greg Monroe to have to guard out on the perimeter.
「我認為Monroe和Drummond是一對理想組合。」Stan Van Gundy說。「從我現在看到的
錄影帶和數據來看，Monroe和Drummond的組合在進攻端非常出色。尤其是在場上其他三人
都是射手的情況下，這兩人的搭配非常好。兩人在防守上的表現不佳，我認為Monroe承擔
了過多的防守責任。」
“But I think there are things we can do in terms of schemes and things that
would make it a little easier on Greg to make that unit better defensively
and then take advantage of the offensive end of the floor.
「但我們可以為他制定一些戰術，讓他在攻守兩端都發揮作用。」
Van Gundy added that he likes Monroe even more than he did before going over
film