[外電] Timeline: How C's landed Stevens

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Timeline: How C's landed Stevens Chris Forsberg | ESPNBoston.com 2013/7/5 新教練Brad Stevens到C’s的時間軸 WALTHAM, Mass. -- Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge doesn't remember the first time he met Brad Stevens. But he remembers sitting courtside for the 2010 NCAA men's basketball title game and telling Celtics owner Steve Pagliuca that Stevens was one of the top coaches in the college game. 安吉不記得什麼時後第一次見到Stevens，但是他記得2010 NCAA冠軍賽告訴C’s老闆Steve Pagliuca Stevens是大學最好的教練之一。 A little more than three years later, Ainge beamed as he introduced Stevens as the 17th head coach in the history of the franchise during Friday's press conference at the Celtics' training facility. But how exactly did we get here, with Boston quietly dropping a coaching bombshell on Wednesday evening via a team-issued press release? Here's a recap of Stevens' recruitment through the accounts of those at Friday's introduction: 而在那個時間點約三年之後，安吉向大家介紹，Stevens是C’s的第17任總教頭，這中間的真正的過程是什麼呢? 按照時間順序如下： * Eleven days ago, after officially completing a transaction with the Clippers that sent Doc Rivers westward, Ainge made an exploratory phone call to Stevens to gauge his interest. "[It was] before [Thursday's] draft, so [Ainge] had a lot going on," said Stevens. "It was a simple, probably a feeler phone call, like, 'Are you interested?' Yeah, it's the Boston Celtics. It's hard to say that you wouldn't be, not only interested, but a little bit like, 'Hey, I'm going to wreck my car thinking about the fact that the Boston Celtics are calling and asking me to consider being their head coach.' It was a good conversation, but we left it as, 'Hey, we'll talk in a few days.'" *11天以前，當冰河確定要去快艇以後，安吉就打電話給Stevens，偷偷問他有沒有興趣， Stevens表示， “那是在周四選秀日之前發生的事情，所以安吉當時應該忙到不行，那只是一通簡單的電話，問我有沒有興趣，拜託~是波士頓賽爾提克隊耶，是要怎樣才能拒絕? 我不只有興趣，我甚至興奮到想要砸爛自己的車(誇飾)，安吉和我的對話進行的很不錯，最終我們的結論就是我們過幾天再談一下吧。” * After taking Gonzaga's Kelly Olynyk in the first round of Thursday's NBA draft, Ainge met with reporters and suggested the team had not made any further progress on its coaching search. He had been in contact again with Stevens, but with Boston finalizing a blockbuster swap with the Brooklyn Nets, the conversations didn't pick up steam until the weekend. *周四選秀當天，當我們得到Gonzaga的飄髮哥Kelly Olynyk，安吉告訴記者：我還沒想好教練要找誰(挖鼻孔)，當然這時他已經跟Stevens再度連絡，但是大家都在注意和籃網的那包交易(嗚嗚兩老我會想你們的)，大眾並沒有注意到安吉喜歡偷偷來這件事情。 * With the back-and-forth between Ainge and Stevens continuing to gain speed, Ainge pitched the idea to Boston's ownership group and arranged for the one and only in-person meeting. Ainge, assistant general manager Mike Zarren, Pagliuca and co-owner Wyc Grousbeck -- with contract in hand -- flew discreetly to Indiana on Wednesday morning, landing at Indianapolis Executive Airport, a tiny business airport in Stevens' hometown of Zionsville, where the staff were blissfully unaware of the celebrity hoop brass that had arrived. The group piled into a waiting vehicle and zoomed to Stevens' residence to meet with his family. Ainge knew from the beginning that selling Stevens on the NBA wouldn't be easy. "I was aware it was going to be a challenge, just because he had been approached by NBA teams and by big-time college programs before," said Ainge. "And I knew that. So I knew it was going to be a challenge. It was probably going to be more of me selling him, than selling him on me. I knew it would be a challenge." *在選秀會之後，安吉和Stevens的互動越來越密切，安吉向老闆們提議，他想要安排一次面對面聚會，所以大夥兒(安吉，Mike Zarren，Pagliuca，Wyc Grousbeck)浩浩蕩蕩的出發了，他們帶上了合約飛往Indiana，降落在一個靠近家鄉的小機場Indianapolis Executive Airport，之後到了Stevens的家和教練一家人相見歡。安吉知道要向NBA推銷(sell)這個大學教練並不簡單安吉說 “我知道這會是一個艱鉅的任務，因為Stevens以前也有和其他NBA或是名校的說客接觸過，我也知道，這個任務困難在於… 到最後可能變成是我要請他給我機會，而不是我給他機會的狀況。 * Ainge believes the Celtics had one big factor working in their favor: Stevens had built up the Butler program to the point where he could feel confident leaving the school, even as it prepares for a move to the Big East. But he also had to sell Stevens on the idea of jumping to the pros, a move with a low success rate. Ainge reassured Stevens that, as general manager, he wasn't fearful of that prospect. "There are no guarantees that he'll be a successful coach, but he's a guy that I'm buying stock in," said Ainge. "In a big way." *安吉相信C’s這回是有一個優勢，就是Butler已經接近完全體，甚至可以挑戰Big East了， Stevens在這個階段已經比較可以放心Butler了。但是安吉還是要說服Stevens從大學籃球跳到職業籃球，前車之鑑…成功率並不高… 安吉再次向Stevens說，他身為C’s的GM已經無所畏懼任何(失敗)結果，安吉的說法是， “我無法完全保證Stevens一定會成為一名成功的NBA教練，但是我願意投資這個績優股，非常大量的投資。” * Zarren and Stevens' wife/agent, Tracy, had negotiated the parameters of a the six-year, $22 million deal he would soon sign. But Stevens was running a basketball camp on the Butler campus and the meeting ended before he was ready to sign the deal. "As we sat there and we were talking, I sensed that it was a really good fit, and I sensed that they were wanting this opportunity," said Ainge. "I don't think there's any magical thing that was said. It was just a feeling that they had." Ainge believes the six-year commitment, one that's rather unprecedented for a first-time NBA coach, made a strong sell. *安吉和教練的老婆大人/經紀人Tracy談過後，他們的共識是六年22M的合約，都準備要簽下去了，但是Stevens還有在Butler校區舉辦籃球訓練營，暫時來不及簽，安吉說， “當我們坐在那裏討論時，我真的感覺到這就是我們在找的教練了，我感覺到他們也很期待這個機會，這一切真是太神奇了~~” 安吉真的相信，六年的NBA合約真的很夠誠意! * That meeting ended abruptly due to a plumbing issue at the Stevens' basketball camp that forced Tracy to go troubleshoot. "They were running a basketball camp at Butler and his wife had to leave the meeting early to go fix the toilets at the basketball camp," Ainge said with a laugh. "I sent her a quick text on her way out [that said], 'You don't have to do that with the Celtics, we have someone that does that.'" [這一段就是以後會流傳很久所謂的廁所的故事!?] *為什麼這麼兩情相悅的會議會被打斷呢? 安吉哈哈大笑表示， “他們Butler的籃球訓練營出了點問題， Stevens的妻子需要早點離開去修馬桶我在她趕去的時候傳簡訊說，在C’s妳就不用修馬桶了，我們有專門修馬桶的人。” * The Celtics' contingent returned to their plane and were optimistic they would soon have a deal. But ownership, so smitten by the meeting, implored Ainge to stay until a deal was secured. "Wyc and Pags were walking onto the plane, and Wyc and Pags say to me, 'You shouldn't fly back with us, you should stay,'" explained Ainge. "All of a sudden, they liked this guy so much, and [his] family, [so they said,] 'You gotta stay back. You're not flying back with us; you stay back until that contract is signed by him.'" *聊完後，大夥兒浩浩蕩蕩的要回到他們飛機了，而且他們很樂觀這會成功，要準備回去時，這時老闆Wyc和Pags踏上飛機後告訴安吉， “你不用回來了，你應該留下來完成這件事情。” 突然之間老闆們真非常欣賞這名教練(和教練的家人們)，所以真的很希望安吉能馬上拿到簽完合約。 * A confident Ainge talked his way onto the plane. About an hour after the group arrived back at the team offices in Waltham on Wednesday, they received a fax copy of the signed contract, making the deal official. High-5s were thrown, but the team couldn't announce the deal immediately because Stevens wanted to inform his Butler players before they found out, particularly via social media. *安吉自信滿滿的還是上了飛機(差點被老闆丟下了!?)，就在當天一個小時之後，星期三在Waltham的辦公室就收到了傳真來已經簽好的合約，大家就很興奮的擊掌，可是他們還是要忍著保持低調，因為他們要在媒體爆炸前，好好讓教練有時間跟Butler的球員好好說再見。 * The Celtics quietly prepped a press release on the transaction, while Stevens alerted the Butler community. At 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday, the release went out via email and Twitter, shocking both the NBA and college worlds (maybe more for the fact that the two sides had kept everything so quiet). *C’s安安靜靜的利用這段時間準備了一個記者會，然後在星期三晚上5:40他們就大肆的用email和twitter嚇嚇所有NBA和大學的媒體。 (看來C’s和Stevens都很會守密呢，更增加了驚訝的程度) (譯按：其實光是這種細節，就可以顯示這教練和安吉真的滿合的吧) * The Stevens family flew to Boston on Thursday and spent the day roaming the region. Stevens woke up early on Friday and immersed himself in film of his new team before the late-morning press conference. "I'm not sure [Stevens] has [digested the entire process], but he had the computer out this morning, watching film, and that was the biggest smile I've seen on his face throughout this process," said Tracy Stevens. "This is the level he gets to coach at, and he gets to coach these amazing players, and against amazing players." *星期四Stevens一家人就飛到波士頓了，花了一天認識一下環境。星期五一大早教練就在研究C’s的影片了，直到記者會開始， Stevens妻說， “我不是很確定Stevens已經消化了整個過程，但是他一早就在用電腦看影片了，而且他邊看邊笑得很開心(大家自行想像= =)，這是我在整個過程中看他笑的最開心的時候，他即將要在這個等級執掌教鞭，要帶領一群很棒的籃球員，去和一群很棒的籃球員競爭。” * Stevens expected to fly home on Friday in order to honor a commitment as part of the local Connersville parade in Indiana. That should tell you a little something about his character. Work will resume soon after as Stevens is expected to fly to Orlando to observe the Celtics as they dive into a week of summer league play. But Ainge noted that Stevens is also eager to start meeting up with Boston players to build relationships and the two must finalize a staff that will include former Rivers assistants in Jay Larranaga and Jamie Young, who are both in Orlando to coach the summer squad. *Stevens周五晚些會飛回Indiana，為了赴約接受眾人的祝賀，這件事情就能告訴我們一些教練的人格(非常重視約定且飲水思源)。之後，繁忙的工作就要開始了，他接著會飛到奧蘭多準備夏季聯盟，但安吉表示教練其實也非常期待可以和C’s的隊員們見面建立關係，安吉和教練還要最後討論一下，冰河身邊的助理教練Jay Larranaga和Jamie Young的定位。 -- 同場加映夏季聯盟照片 pic.twitter.com/GzhRtdzTLd pic.twitter.com/MzOX5ZMcz4 夏季聯盟賽程 http://ppt.cc/lski 第一場台灣時間明晚11pm 重建go~ -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 111.248.227.107 ※ 編輯: rainingdayz 來自: 111.248.227.107 (07/07 02:55)

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