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INDIANAPOLIS –
His coach was trying not to cry. I remember that.
The band was playing “Sweet Caroline” and the crowd was singing along
and Doug McDermott was stepping to the free-throw line. I remember that.
印第安那波里斯 -
我還記得那一刻, 當他的教練強忍著淚水.
球場上的樂隊正在演奏著 " 甜美的卡洛琳 "
觀眾哼著唱著跟著這首歌.
我還記得那一刻, McD 正準備踏上罰球線.
The referee hands the ball to McDermott.
The band stops playing. But the crowd,
well, the crowd doesn’t stop singing. I remember that.
裁判把球交給了 McD.
樂團這時停止了演奏, 但是群眾呢,
群眾並沒有停止繼續唱著這首歌, 我還記得.
Reaching out …
(伸出手~)
Picture what I’m picturing, almost 4½ years later.
Today Doug McDermott is one of the newest members of the Indiana Pacers,
but in March 2014 he was playing his final home game at Creighton.
It’s senior night. He came into the game needing 34 points to become
the eighth man in major college basketball history to reach 3,000.
Does he get there? Well, hang on. We’ll get there.
那一刻的畫面還深深印在我的腦海裡, 就這樣來到了四年半後
今天 McD 是溜馬隊裡面最新的一位成員.
但在 2014 年的三月, 他正在克瑞頓大學, 打他大學最後一場主場比賽
那晚是主場的最後一場比賽. 他需要在比賽中得到 34 分
來成為大學籃球歷史中第八位三千分俱樂部的成員.
他有達到他的目標嗎? 等等, 那一刻會來的.
But right now McDermott is standing at the line of his final
home game at Creighton, bouncing the ball, picking it up and
bending his knees, and something is happening that I’ve never
seen in 25 years as a sports writer: The crowd won’t stop singing.
McDermott raises the ball to his head. They’re still singing.
到了這一刻, McD 站在他大學生涯最後一場主場比賽的罰球線上,
輕輕拍著球, 拿起球, 微蹲, 然後這一刻, 我記者生涯中沒看過的事情發生了
觀眾沒有停止唱著歌, McD 慢慢舉球準備罰球, 觀眾還是繼續在唱著歌.
Touching me …
(輕觸我~)
For two hours, McDermott has given the crowd the show of a lifetime.
He has been making magic, right before our eyes,
and the show is almost over and now the crowd is thanking him, with song.
在那兩個小時中, McD 給了全場觀眾一場永生難忘的表演.
在他手中各式的驚奇一直出現, 就在我們的眼前
而現在這場秀快要結束了, 全場觀眾站了起來, 肩搭著肩
唱著歌來感謝他這場令人難忘的表現.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRpbqx3-63c (現場觀眾唱著甜美的卡羅琳)
Touching you …
(輕觸你~)
Four years later, the hair is standing up on Doug McDermott’s arms.
He’s telling me it’s happening. I’m watching it happen.
We’re sitting in two chairs at Bankers Life Fieldhouse,
where the Indiana Pacers have just introduced their newest
free-agent acquisitions — McDermott and Tyreke Evans —
to the media. This is the first time I’ve been in the same room
with McDermott since March 8, 2014, and I’ve brought a leather
folder to our meeting, waving it haphazardly as we talk.
Doug’s looking at the folder, but I’m not ready for that just yet.
I bring up senior night from 2014. I’m here to ask questions,
but now he’s asking me one.
四年後, 這是個令 McD 緊張又興奮的一刻.
他跟我說這一刻終於要到來了. 而我正見證他發生.
我們兩個人坐在溜馬主場的椅子上,
溜馬剛剛向媒體介紹了他們新簽下的兩名球員 - McD , 跟 Tyreke Evans
在 3/8/2014 (最後一場主場之後) 我第一次又跟 McD 同處一房
我帶了一個皮製的文件檔案夾, 在聊天的時候隨意著揮著
McD 偶而看著檔案夾, 但我還沒有準備好跟他聊這個話題,
我先問他說他還記得 2014 年他在主場的最後一場比賽嗎?
我是來這邊訪問他的, 但是他卻問了我一個問題.
“You were there?”
McD : "你那天也在場?"
I’m nodding. My turn to ask: Do you remember the song?
我點了點頭, 換我問了他個問題 : "還記得那首歌嗎?"
McDermott’s turn to nod.
輪到了 McD 點了點頭..
“Just thinking about it,” he says, “gives me the chills.”
"只要一想到那天" 他說 "我依然一陣冷顫(震撼)"
* * *
What happened that night in Omaha was completely out of character
for Doug McDermott. I remember that. The son of a coach,
he was going to play the game the right way or he wasn’t
going to play. So even with his gift for shooting the ball,
a gift that borders on the supernatural,
he grew up a rebounder and a screen-setter and a passer.
And a scorer, of course, because he shot the ball so well.
But scoring was never his sole focus.
那場McD 在克萊頓主場最後的比賽, 並不是典型的 McD 的比賽.
我還記得, McD , 那位教練的小孩,
堅持用正確的方式打每場比賽, 否則他寧可不打
所以即使他是一個天賦滿點看不到天花板的射手,
他還是在比賽中成長為一名優秀的籃板手, 擋拆大個, 和傳球手.
當然他也常常是個得分手, 畢竟他的投射能力實在太出色了
但得分從來不是他的主要目標.
On the night of March 8, 2014, scoring was his sole focus.
I remember that, but maybe I’m remembering wrong,
so I’m asking McDermott if he played that game —
how to put this delicately … — “determined to get yours?”
但在 3/8/2014 那場最後的比賽, 他決定要好好得分了
我記得故事是這樣寫的, 但或許我記錯了,
所以我問 McD , 那場比賽, 恩怎麼說呢, 你下定決心拿下那目標?
“Absolutely,” he says, and he’s happy to be honest.
This is a magical night we’re remembering —
“maybe the most special game of my career,”
he says — and to maximize the magic he needed to score 34 points.
"當然囉" McD 說, 而且他是開心的誠實的說
這是一場大家都會記得的奇幻之夜
"這或許是我籃球生涯中最特別的一場比賽"
他說－ 而要讓這場奇幻比賽更奇幻, 他必須要想辦法得到34分
“I wanted to get 3,000 at home,” he says.
"我想在家裡拿下 3000 分" ,McD 說
This was his final chance, so plays like this were happening:
Late first half, McDermott has the ball on the wing.
He dribbles to the corner. A teammate, a 6-11 center named Will Artino,
cuts to the rim. Artino is alone for a layup.
McDermott sees him. Doesn’t pass it.
這是他最後一次的機會, 所以這場比賽他是這樣打的:
在上半場末段, McD 在側翼拿到球,
他稍微運到了底線, 他配合良好的隊友 , 6-11 的中鋒,
Will Artino, 快速空手切到了籃框邊, 沒人盯著他, 他正準備上籃
McD 一如往常的看到了他, 但是他並沒有傳球.
McDermott shoots a 3-pointer. Makes it.
McD 在底線射了一個三分球, 球應聲入框.
He makes six shots in a row, and by halftime he has 22 points.
With 11½ minutes left he has 32 points for the game,
2,998 for his career. He catches a pass on the wing,
well behind the 3-point arc, maybe 25 feet from the basket.
He’s defended, so he dribbles twice — backward — and lets it fly.
Thirty feet later the ball is in the net and McDermott has 3,001 points and ...
他接著連續的投進了六球入框, 過了半場他已經得到了 22 分.
當整場比賽剩下十一分半的時候, 他已經得到了 32 分.
他的大學生涯已經得到了 2998 分, 而他在側翼接到了一個傳球,
就在三分線之後, 離籃框 25 尺, 他被防守著, 所以他快速的運了兩下球
然後後退, 讓球飛..... 在 30 尺之後, 球進入了網, 而 Mcd 得到了生涯 3,001 分
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKyM9DGVks 三千分 (背景隱隱的歌聲)
And maybe now is the time to tell you what had happened one year earlier,
Creighton’s 2013 senior night. McDermott was a junior that season,
but he already had more than 2,000 career points and a likely place in
the 2013 NBA draft lottery, and it was assumed he would turn pro.
That night Creighton beat Wichita State to win the Missouri Valley
Conference title, and McDermott scored 41 points on just 18 shots.
He was 15-for-18 from the floor. A few weeks later he was looking
into the cameras and saying the unthinkable:
“I’ve decided it’s best for me to come back my senior year.”
然後..我們把時間回到這球破網的一年前, 克瑞頓大學的最後一場主場
那時候McD才大三, 但他已經早早把得分破了 2000 大關了.
NBA選秀正等著他, 他被預期是樂透區的球員, 所有人都覺得他會去打NBA
那個晚上克雷頓大學擊敗了威齊托大學, 得到了密蘇里山谷聯盟的冠軍
McD 只花了十八次投籃, 就得到了 41 分. 他在18次出手中進了15球.
然後再過幾個禮拜, 他對著新聞記者的鏡頭說出那令人難以置信的決定:
"我決定 對我來說 最好的 就是回來繼續唸完大四 帶著球隊更上層樓"
One year later. Another senior night. McDermott passes the 3,000-point mark,
and with 11½ minutes left he has 35 on the game.
How high is he going to go?
Creighton has been playing in the CenturyLink Center Omaha since 2003,
and the school record for points in the building is 42 set in 2008
by Cavel Witter. Entering this night, McDermott’s career-high is 44.
He breaks both marks, finishing with 45.
就這樣過了一年, 就是今晚這個三千分的最後主場之夜. McD 突破了三千分大關,
在比賽剩下十一分鐘多的時候, 他已經得到了 35 分,
他還要繼續得分嗎? 克雷頓大學在 CLC 主場已經打了十年,
主場最高得分是 2008 年 Cavel Witter 得到的 42 分,
而在這場比賽之前 McD 生涯最高分是44分.
他打破了這兩項技術, 一口氣在這場比賽中得到了45分.
There’s so much going on here. It’s Creighton’s first season in the Big East.
It’s McDermott’s last season in Omaha. And on the sideline,
on the Creighton bench, is the Bluejays’ head coach,
the man trying not to cry as the crowd is singing “Sweet Caroline”
— no music from the band, just 18,000 voices —
as his son goes to the foul line one last time.
有太多事情在這年發生了. 這是克雷隊第一次打到了NCAA 一級大東區
也是 McD 在克雷頓大學的最後一年 而且 還有一件事
坐在克雷頓大學的板凳區上的, 還有克雷頓藍鳥的總教練
這位先生在群眾唱著"甜美的凱洛琳"時一直努力忍住不哭,
沒有樂隊在演奏音樂, 只有 18000 位現場人聲合唱,
從他兒子在剛剛站上罰球線開始就一直持續...
Oh, right. Probably you know, but maybe you forgot:
Creighton’s coach then, and now, is Greg McDermott. Doug’s father.
對了, 你可能已經知道 或已經忘記, 克雷頓大學的總教練
正是葛雷格 McD , McD 的爸爸
“So much going on,” Doug is telling me all these years later,
and I figure it’s a good time to open that leather folder.
"太多事情發生又過去了" McD 在幾年後這樣告訴我
我想, 應該是我打開我的皮製文件夾的時候了
* * *
For the Pacers, Doug McDermott is going to generate a lot of points —
for Victor Oladipo. And for Myles Turner. And Domantas Sabonis.
McDermott will do that by being a shooter opposing teams must
defend 25 feet from the rim. You’ve heard the term “stretching the floor,”
I suppose. McDermott is going to elasticize that thing for the Pacers
after making 49.4 percent of his 3-pointers last season in Dallas.
對溜馬來說, McD 可以很容易帶出很多得分, 幫歐拉, 幫奕迅, 幫小沙
因為對防守的隊伍來說, 他們必須認真的防守距籃框 25 尺外的 McD
我們常常會聽到 拉大攻擊空間, 而這就是 McD 要幫溜馬做的事
他上季在達拉斯是不可思議的 49.4% 的三分命中率
And he’ll score some, too. McDermott is a career 7.9-ppg scorer
in four NBA seasons, though the Pacers could get more than that.
Unlike any of his previous four pro stops,
McDermott will be surrounded by offensive talent that will
make him his team’s No. 4 or even No. 5 scoring option on the floor.
That doesn’t make him disregarded. It makes him dangerous.
那當然 McD 也會得一些分, 他在 NBA 生涯四季平均每場得 7.9 分
但我們相信 Pacers 會讓他得到更多. 不像他前四季的那些球隊
McD 會被一大堆非常強的進攻天分所圍繞, 他可能會成為球隊的第四或是
甚至第五得分點, 但這並不會讓他被輕視, 這只會讓他更恐怖.
“He’s obviously an elite shooter, and a great cutter,”
Pacers president Kevin Pritchard was telling me last week
after the news conference that introduced McDermott.
“You’ll see him make great cuts and get layups.
We see him as an underutilized talent.
I don’t think he’s ever been with a team where a team says,
‘You’re our guy, you’re not going anywhere,
we love you, just focus on being the best player you can be.
You’re going to have three or four tough games,
and we don’t care. You’re our guy.’ For us, that’s the big thing.”
"他是一個非常菁英的射手, 也是一個空手跑位專家"
溜馬總裁 KP 在 McD 上週的加盟記者會後跟我說.
"你會看到他常常跑進跑出禁區得到很多的上籃機會,
我們認為 McD 還有很多還沒被完全開發出來的天分"
"而且我們不認為 McD 來過這種球隊, 像我們溜馬一樣的球隊"
"我們溜馬會不斷告訴他, 你跟我們是一夥的, 你不會到那些別的地方去的,
我們愛你喜歡你, 你只要認真的準備好表現自己最好的一面就好.
你一定會有三四場吃力的比賽, 但我們不在乎, 因為我們是一起的"
"對溜馬來說, 這是一件很重要的事"
For me, McDermott is a memory from 4½ years ago.
He’s a piece of paper in my leather folder, though not the only piece.
In 25 years as a sports writer — has to be a thousand or more games —
I’ve saved exactly two box scores. One was from May 31, 2007.
LeBron James scored 48 that night. It was the Eastern Conference finals,
Cleveland at Detroit. Game 5. The Cavaliers won 109-107 in double overtime.
LeBron scored the Cavs’ last 25 points,
including every point in both overtimes.
Yes, I saved that box score. Wrote about it last year, in fact.
對我來說, Mcd 則是我 4.5 年前的一段記憶.
他是我皮檔案夾裡面的一張紙, 當然他不是唯一的一張.
我已經當了 25 年的運動記者, 採訪了超過一千場比賽.
但我只留下兩場比賽的分數盒子(比賽紀錄) 一場是 5/31/2007
LBJ 在那場比賽得到了 48 分, 那是東區冠軍賽,
騎士對戰活塞第五場, 騎士隊最後在雙重延長賽中以 109-107 擊敗活塞,
LBJ 得到了騎士隊最後 25 分. 還包含兩次延長賽中的所有得分.
對, 我把那場比賽紀錄留下來了, 我也在一年前寫了一篇關於那場比賽的文章.
https://imgur.com/XQxxJwt McD 的 3000 分比賽的分數盒子(和簽名)
The other box score? The only other box score I’ve ever
taken home and just sort of … kept? The one from March 8, 2014.
The night Doug McDermott scored 45 points on senior night to
reach 3,000 points, passing two of the 10 top scorers in
college basketball history —
Indianapolis' Oscar Robertson (2,973) and Hersey Hawkins (3,008)
— in one night. The night a crowd of 18,868 serenaded him a cappella
with “Sweet Caroline” as he shot free throws at the
CenturyLink Center Omaha. The night his coach,
his father, took out his son for the final time in Omaha,
hugging him and rubbing his head as he walked away.
When Greg McDermott turned back to the court, he was biting his lip.
另外一個分數盒子呢, 另外一個我也天天帶回家,然後保存的盒子
就是這張 3/8/2014 的比賽, 這場 McD 在最後主場得到 45 分的比賽
這場 McD 得到 3000 分的比賽, 超過了大學籃球歷史前十名人堂球員
Oscar Robertson (2,973) , 和 Hersey Hawkins (3,008) - 在這個晚上.
在這個晚上全場有 18,868 人用合聲在他罰球時唱著 "甜蜜的卡羅琳"
就在這個晚上, 他的教練, 也是他的爸爸, 走上場去拉著自己的兒子,
在他兒子最後一場克羅萊大學的主場, 抱著他, 並且揉著他的頭,
當McD 的教練爸爸葛雷格走回場邊的時候, 他緊咬著他的嘴唇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHKsuZYXHLg McD 得到了三千分, 爸爸摸摸頭
So I’m pulling the box score out of the leather folder,
just to show him, and Doug McDermott sees it and grabs it and studies it.
I’m not sure he understands what it meant to me —
as a basketball fan, a father, a son —
to have been there that night, but maybe he does.
Because now he’s asking me something I hadn’t expected,
and it’s only fair:
After years of putting athletes on the spot with questions,
it’s my turn to squirm.
所以我謹慎的把這個分數盒子從皮製文件夾裡面拿出來
我只是想給他看, 而 McD 看到了 , 把這張紙接出去, 認真的讀著
我不懂他知不知道這一張紙 這一場比賽 對我有多重要
我身為一個籃球迷, 身為一個父親, 身為一個兒子 -
對於身在那場重要的比賽, 對我有多麼的重要...
但或許他知道, 因為他問了我一個我沒想過的問題,
而且這問題問的恰如其分..
在這麼多年來 我問了這麼多的運動員一些難以回答的問題
但今天輪到我一時語塞
“You want me to sign it?” he asks.
" 要不要我幫你簽名?" McD 問我.
We don’t collect autographs in my business,
and other people in the media are watching,
and I say the only thing I can say:
你也知道的我是運動記者, 我們運動記者是絕對不蒐集簽名的
而且在場還有很多其他的記者..
但是在這情況下 我想 我其實也應該 其實也只能說 :
Yes, please.
好的, 請幫我簽名..
再聽一次最完整版, 全場觀眾為 McD 合唱的 甜美的卡洛琳
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLDSRNwpX8