http://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/why-the-lakers-apparently-passed-on-drafting-kristaps-porzingis/
Why the Lakers apparently passed on drafting Kristaps Porzingis
節錄重點
Kupchak structured Porzingis' private Lakers workout as essentially a
challenge of his manhood rather than a validation of his gifts.
...
The Lakers, though, wanted to test Porzingis' physicality, and especially his
"bigness," in that workout. They overvalued Porzingis' need to prove he could
play in the low post and wrongly equated his shaky stamina with his overall
NBA readiness.
Lakers assistant coach Mark "Mad Dog" Madsen, notorious for physical play in
his 2000-09 NBA career, was pushed on Porzingis in the workout. To put it in
preschool-level simple terms, the workout looked a lot like Big Bird being
pushed all around the court by his dinosaur-ish friend Snuffleupagus.
Then-Lakers head coach Byron Scott, whose outdated mindsets have been well
documented, even kidded Lakers staffers after watching Porzingis wilt with
exhaustion that Scott had better get a contract extension if the club decided
to draft Porzingis and wait for him to grow up.
湖人之所以之所以跳過KP選Russel，是因為庫胖在測試時把重點放在KP的體能和耐力，
派瘋狗Madsen把KP頂到筋疲力竭，而不是他的速度跟投射能力，
Scott(原文狠狠酸了一下他的過時腦袋)還看著累壞的KP跟湖人的Staff開玩笑，
表示如果湖人選這小子慢慢養，他最好要先跟湖人延長合約....