[轉錄][外絮] Donnie Walsh Would Consider Isiah Th …
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標題: [外絮] Donnie Walsh Would Consider Isiah Thomas for GM Position
時間: Mon Jul 12 00:31:14 2010
Donnie Walsh Would Consider Isiah Thomas for GM Position
Donnie Walsh 考慮讓 Isiah Thomas 回來當GM !!!!!
OK, let's play a game.
First, I want you to think of an incredibly important position for your job.
Someone who's essentially your right-hand man. Someone with power and control.
Got it?
讓我們先來玩個小遊戲.
首先,想像一下你的工作中,有個對你非常重要的職位,
這個職位的人會是你最優秀的左右手,他能力優秀且能控制一切.
了解?
Now think of the absolute worst candidate possible. I'm not talking "a bad fit
but highly qualified," I'm saying that his or her career history is an outright
disaster zone. His or her resume needs a quarantine from the EPA. Not only has
he or she failed at every turn in your chosen position, but his/her greatest
failure actually occurred while working for the very company you are
considering hiring him/her for.
接下來,想像一個最糟糕最爛的可能人選,
我說的不是一個"優秀,但只是不適合這個位置"的人選,
而是指那個人過去的職業生涯完全是一場可怕的災難,
應該讓環保局把他隔離起來以避免他又跑了回來,
不只是說他會搞砸每一件事情,基本上說起來僱用他本身就是一個最大的錯誤.
That's pretty much the tree that Donnie Walsh is barking up today.
沒錯,這就是 Donnie Walsh 現在正要幹的事情.
Walsh told Chris Broussard of ESPN Saturday that he'd consider Isiah Thomas for
the general manager position of the Knicks if he elects to hire one. Thomas was
the President of the Knicks from 2003 until 2008. During that time, he managed
the following positive moves:
‧ Drafted David Lee
‧ Did not burn down Madison Square Garden.
Yeah, that's about it.
Walsh告訴ESPN的人,若是他想請一個GM的話,他考慮讓Isiah Thomas回來.
Thomas在2003~2008時,擔任尼克隊的總裁,在這段時間中,他幫尼克做了以下幾項
有建設性的措施:
‧選了David Lee.
‧沒有把麥迪遜花園廣場給燒了.
沒錯,就是這樣.
Thomas managed to acquire nearly every terrible contract in the league, from
nearly every player considered to have significant off-court problems or be
incompatible with others on-court. Who could forget these hits?
‧ Traded for Eddy Curry
‧ Traded for Steve Francis
‧ Traded for Stephon Marbury
‧ Signed Jerome James
‧ Drafted Renaldo Balkman. And, oh, yeah, a sexual harassment civil suit that
cost the Knicks over $11 million and somehow managed to tarnish the Knicks more
so than his basketball-related moves.
他當時幾乎簽下了聯盟所有最糟糕的合約,不是球員在場外有大問題,就是場上的球員
彼此有矛盾,誰能忘記以下這些事情?
‧交易來 Eddy Curry
‧交易來 Steve Francis
‧交易來 Stephon Marbury
‧簽下 Jerome James
‧選秀選了 Renaldo Balkman. 喔對了,還有性騷擾案件花了尼克超過$11M
而且把尼克搞的黯淡無光.
How bad was Isiah Thomas in a management role? A month ago, the Utah
Jazz selected Gordon Hayward with the ninth pick in the draft. This constitutes
the last pick Thomas traded away. Nearly two years after Thomas was replaced,
the Knicks were still dealing with his direct effects. This is excluding the
next three years of traded or swapped picks that Walsh was forced to suffer in
order to ditch the remaining horrific contracts (and he still can't find a way
to move Curry). It wasn't just a short-term series of poor decisions, it was an
epic collection of outright disasters.
Isiah Thomas 當一個管理者到底有多糟糕呢? 一個月前爵士以第九順位選到了
Gordon Hayward, 而那個選秀簽就是Thomas送出去的大禮,
看看即使在他被開除了兩年後的現在,尼克仍然還壟罩在他的陰影當中,
更別提接下來三年Walsh還得努力的填補他搞的濫約的坑
(他還是沒想到該怎麼處理Curr的濫約才好),
這些可不是一些短期的錯誤決定,這根本是史詩級的災難豪華組合版
And yet, when the Knicks were courting LeBron James, the most powerful player
in the NBA at this moment, Walsh sent Thomas to speak with James. Now he's
considering giving him a gig once more. Even with Walsh running the show,
having Thomas around is a bad PR move that can garner almost no positive net
effect. Any positive contribution he may make will be attributed to Walsh,
while any blunder he makes will be exaggerated tenfold.
不只如此,之前尼克想要拉攏LBJ的時候,Walsh也是讓Thomas去找他談的.
現在Walsh居然還想再給他一次機會.即使有Walsh在,讓Thomas待在身邊就已經會搞壞公共
關係,幾乎不會任何正面的效果.
到時候任何他做的正面貢獻都會被歸到Walsh身上,但若是他又捅出了什麼摟子,
卻都會被十倍的放大.
But then, it's not like this move can be seen as out of nowhere. Walsh has been a
solid and fairly brilliant executive in this league for decades. But his last
deputy acting as general manager?
但現在看來,這件事情還是有可能發生.
Walsh是聯盟中近十年來非常謹慎且傑出的總管,但他的前任副手有像樣嗎?
David Kahn.
This is a bizarre pattern, like when The Beatles opened up that terrible retail
clothes boutique. Knicks fans have to be wondering how much longer Thomas will
haunt their Garden.
這真的是一個很詭異的情況,大概跟披頭四穿著嚇人的廉價女裝出來表演差不多詭異,
尼克球迷應該會很疑惑到底什麼時候才能脫離Thomas的魔掌.
消息來源: http://0rz.tw/jX0cn (NBA FanHouse)
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