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Sean Marks: It was team effort getting to playoffs, a ‘small stepping stone’
for Nets
Before asking Sean Marks any question on his Joe and Evan Show Monday, Evan
Roberts had a simple message for the Nets GM.
“I freaking love you!,” said Roberts. It got even more effusive after that,
as Roberts ticked off all the Marks moves that got the Nets to the playoffs.
Roberts finished by noting that not only did he “freakin’ love” Marks, every
Nets fan does as well.
在週一E.Roberts在訪問S.Marks之前，跟S.Marks說我非常愛你，感謝您的每一個操作，讓
籃網進入了季後賽，我也相信每一位籃網的球迷也非常的愛你。
What was left for Marks to say?
“I’m very, very fortunate, and it starts with the group that we have here,”
Marks said. “Because by no means is it one person making decisions. I think
this is such a collaborative effort here.”
S.Marks說我非常的幸運，可以跟著這個籃網的團隊，這些的操作並不是我一個人的決定，
而是大家一起努力的。
Collaborative, schollaborative! Still, the Nets GM spoke, as he always does,
about how important his organization is to the rebuild, starting with how the
17 guys on the bench went from being paired with the Knicks in early December
to being a post-season team by early April.
“You could tell the guys just needed to get over the cusp, and they were
really close then,” Marks said of the slow start. “And it’s a credit to the
players and the coaching staff because they never gave up. ... They just kept
grinding and grinding and grinding away and pounding at that rock, and next
thing you know you go on a nice little win streak here, and then mid-December,
all of a sudden, the tide’s turned a little bit.”
S.Marks說到我非常相信教練跟球員們，因為他們一直都在努力從未放棄過，直到12月中的
一波連勝，讓我們挺進了季後賽。
And of course, he lavished praise on his partner in crime, Kenny Atkinson.
“Kenny’s done a terrific job. Absolutely terrific,” Marks said. “And it’s
been great to see how he’s continued to improve, adapt, trust staff members,
trust himself and stay true to who he is. Nothing’s changed. With Kenny, what
I love about him, you see what he is. He’s grinding away on the court every
single day. He puts in the long hours and so forth, and he right now epitomizes
what this team stands for, which is competing on a nightly basis.”
我必須稱讚K.Atkinson，他做得非常好，他持續的改善球隊、適應、信任助教團們，並且
相信自己，讓這個團隊在每場比賽都保持著競爭力。
And as we predicted, Marks would not concede that the Nets turnaround is
complete. Far from it.
“It’s another great little stepping stone in how we’re trying to build this,
” Marks said. “You have to try and go through teams that have had success,
and they’ll show you how to perform, how to prepare and so forth.”
但我還不認為籃網已經取得成功了，相信球隊還必須通過季後賽的考驗。
Marks did have strong praise for D’Angelo Russell, his big risk and now big
reward. He wouldn’t talk extension (he can’t) but he did talk about DLo
buying in.
S.Marks談到了Dlo，對於Dlo的合約問題S.Marks沒有正面的回應，將話題轉到給予Dlo最大
的稱讚，對於交易DLo來是一個高風險的操作，但現在有了回報。
“I think D’Angelo has shown that he’s a Net, and what he’s done out there
for this whole year, he bought in completely,” Marks told Roberts.
“His leadership skills have continued to grow and so forth. ...
我認為Dlo的領導能力持續的進步，並且他在籃網的這一年，自己很清楚該做些什麼。
“D’Angelo will have decisions to make. Obviously we, as an organization, will
have decisions to make. But there’s something to be said for keeping your own
guys, developing your own guys and continuity within the offense and so forth.
But as you know, this is one of those businesses that things change quickly.”
對於Dlo合約的事，我們會盡快的決定。但我們必須確保球員們持續的成長，你也知道這世
界變化的很快。
He was asked if he was frustrated by an inability to acquire a stretch 4 at the
trade deadline.
“Was I frustrated? I don’t know,” he started. “We looked at a few different
scenarios and so forth, but I think we have to remember how we’re trying to
build this thing and I think you have to be strategic and it comes at different
times. If we’re trying to do it all at once, I think that’s when maybe we
make a mistake.
“So if the right deal wasn’t to be made, we didn’t do it, knowing that we
weren’t just one player away.”
And, no, this being Marks, there were no clues about other free agents.
對於交易截止日之前沒有透過交易而得到延伸四號球員，感到沮喪嗎?
我不知道，但我認為必須確定建隊的方向，並制定好戰略，而一步一步的來，別想要一步
到位。我不會為了交易而交易，因為交易不單只是交易球員而已。
自從S.Marks上任之後，對於自由球員的問題口風非常得緊，不容易被套話，這就是Marks。
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