KOBE當隊友真恐怖...
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/chris_ballard/05/27/kobe0602/index.html?eref=T1
Kobe's well-honed killer instinct
(因為要唸書 所以不全翻 提重點跟我喜歡的片段)
It's 1989, and Bryant is 11 years old and living in Italy, where his father,
Joe, is playing professional basketball. One day Kobe bugs Brian Shaw, a
Boston Celtics first-round pick playing in Rome because of a contract dispute,
to go one-on-one. Eventually Shaw agrees to a game of H-O-R-S-E. "To this day
Kobe claims he beat me," says Shaw, now a Lakers assistant. "I'm like, Right,
[I'm really trying to beat] an 11-year-old kid. But he's serious." Even back
then Shaw noticed something different. "His dad was a good player, but he was
the opposite of Kobe, real laid-back," says Shaw. "Kobe was out there
challenging grown men to play one-on-one, and he really thought he could win."
Kobe小時候在義大利長大。11歲的那一年有幸遇到義大利打球的Shaw。Kobe一直纏著
Shaw來一場一對一。最後他們比了一場HORSE(有點類似環遊世界的定點投籃比賽)。直到
今天Kobe仍認為他贏了比賽,但是Shaw笑笑的說我對一個11歲小孩會多認真呢?但是那
時候Shaw就注意到Kobe與眾不同。他不斷跟大人挑戰,而且相信自己可以贏的。
(有點像澤北榮治 XD)
It's 1995, and Bryant is the senior leader of the Lower Merion team, obsessed
with winning a state championship. He comes to the gym at 5 a.m. to work out
before school, stays until 7 p.m. afterward. It's all part of the plan. When
the Aces lost in the playoffs the previous spring, Bryant stood in the locker
room, interrupting the seniors as they hugged each other, and all but
guaranteed a title, adding, "The work starts now." (Bryant remains so amped
about his alma mater that when he taped a video message for the team a few
years ago, it contained few of the usual platitudes and instead had Bryant
reeling off a bunch of expletives and exhorting the boys to "take care of
f------ business!")
Kobe高中的時候就一直想著要贏得州冠軍。他早上五點上課之前進健身房,下課之後繼續
健身到晚上七點。當他高三(美國有些高中是四年制)的時候在季後賽輸球,他在休息室
打斷當時高四的互相惜別,當場保證明年要贏得冠軍,並且烙下「一切從現在開始」。
時至今日,Kobe還是很關心他的高中母校。幾年前他曾經錄了一段影片回去給學弟加油
打氣。然而,卻不是預期的精神鼓舞,而是三字經連篇的瘋狂激勵文(請見原文)
Bryant had already begun to coax teammates into staying late or coming in at
odd hours so he could hone his skills. "We'd play games of one-on-one to 100,
" says Schwartz. "Sometimes he'd score 80 points before I got one basket. I
think the best I ever did was to lose 100-12." Imagine the focus required to
score 80 freakin' baskets before your opponent scores one. And Bryant's
probably still pissed that Schwartz broke double digits.
Kobe那時候就已經開始誘導他的隊友留下來練習或是在奇怪的時間練習,而原因是因為
這樣子他才有對手可以練習自己的技巧。他的高中隊友(原文前一段在講說有一次練習
的時候他們比三打三搶十分。比賽九平的時候,平常都是暖板凳的Schwartz突然有個
大空檔,但是上籃放槍沒進,也輸了那場比賽。結束之後Kobe追上他並且開始他的疲勞
轟炸,似乎剛剛那個放槍讓他們輸掉了州冠軍)Schwartz常常就被Kobe拉去打一對一,
而且是比到100分。Schwartz回憶的說「有時候Kobe常常得到了80分我才得到第一分。
我記得我最好的一次是100-12輸球吧。」你可以想像需要何等的專注力才有辦法80-0嗎
,而且Kobe大概還在生氣他竟然被得了12分吧。
It would be a pattern: Bryant bearing down on players he once idolized. At
Magic Johnson's summer charity game in 1998 he went after Orlando Magic star
Penny Hardaway so hard -- in a charity game -- that Hardaway spent the fall
telling people he couldn't wait to play the Lakers so he could go back at
Bryant. And, more famously, Kobe attempted to go one-on-one against Jordan in
the '98 All-Star Game, waving off a screen from Karl Malone. Take your
pick-and-rolling butt out of here; I've got Jordan iso'd! That one didn't go
over so well with the Mailman. "When young guys tell me to get out of the way,
" Malone said at the time, "that's a game I don't need to be in."
這情形對Kobe而言逐漸變成了常態(原文前一段說了他剛被交易到湖人之後,West要他
跟Michael Cooper一對一看看他的技巧,結果打了十球之後West就不用打了,並直言
Kobe大概是全隊球技最強的)。1998年魔術的慈善比賽的時候,他超級認真的想單吃
一分錢Hardaway。結果賽後那個暑假,Hardaway逢人便說他等不及球季開始對上湖人
的比賽,因為他要回敬Kobe。另一個比較著名的例子,1998年明星賽。有一球Kobe嘗試
要單打Jordan,結果老前輩Malone過來幫他設單擋,結果Kobe揮手把Malone趕走。賽後
Malone小不爽的說「當年輕小伙子叫我閃開的時候,這就是一個我不想參與的比賽。」
In Bryant's mind, however, no one is unbeatable. As a rookie with the Lakers,
despite his coming straight out of high school, he approached Harris. "He said
, 'Coach, if you just give me the ball and clear out, I can beat anybody in
this league,' " recalls Harris. When that pitch didn't work, the 6' 6" Bryant
returned. "Then he'd say, 'Coach, I can post up anybody who's guarding me. If
you just get me in there and clear it out, I can post up anybody.' " Harris
chuckles. "I said, 'Kobe, I know you can, but right now you can't do it at a
high enough rate for the team we have, and I'm not going to tell Shaquille
O'Neal to get out of the way so you can do this.' Kobe didn't like it.
He understood it, but in his heart he didn't accept it."
在Kobe眼中,沒有人不能被打敗的。還是湖人菜鳥的時候,他跟教練Del Harris說「教練
,只要你把球給我並且把其他人清開,我可以打敗聯盟內任何一個人。」當他的訴求沒有
得到教練首肯的時候,他又跟Harris說「教練,我可以在禁區單打任何一個人,只要你讓
我在禁區要球並且清開所有人。」Harris跟Kobe說「我知道你可以,但是現在在這個星光
閃閃的球隊並沒有辦法讓你這樣子。我不可能跟歐肥說離開禁區讓你在禁區單打。」Kobe
了解,但是內心深處無法接受這個事實。
It is 2000, and Bryant is an All-Star and franchise player. Still, after
guard Isaiah Rider signs as a free agent, Bryant repeatedly forces him to
play one-on-one after practice -- Bryant wins, of course -- to reinforce his
alpha alpha male status. When six-time All-Star guard Mitch Richmond arrives
the next year, he gets the same. "He was the man, and he wanted us to know it,
" says Richmond. "He was never mean or personal about it, it's just how he was.
"
2000年的時候,他已經成為明星球員以及球團招牌人物。但是依然的,在Isaiah Rider
簽下自由球員合約加入球隊的時候,他不斷的強迫Rider跟他在練球結束後來比一對一(
當然的Kobe都贏)以鞏固自己球隊一哥的地位。隔年六屆明星賽球員Mitch Richmind加
入的時候,也遭受一樣的待遇。Richmind說「他是一哥,並且他要我們都知道。他不曾
粗魯或是針對個人,這只是Kobe在當Kobe而已。」
Not that Bryant never loses, but beat him at your own risk. Decline a rematch
and . . . well, that's not an option. "If you scored on him in practice or did
something to embarrass him, he would just keep on challenging you and
challenging you until you stayed after and played him so he could put his
will on you and dominate you," says Shaw, Bryant's teammate from 1999 to 2003.
This included not allowing players to leave the court. Literally. "He'd stand
in our way and say, 'Nah, nah, we're gonna play. I want you to do that [move]
again,' " Shaw says. "And you might be tired and say, 'Nah, I did it in
practice.' But he was just relentless and persistent until finally you'd go
play, and he'd go at you."
Kobe不是不會輸球,但是要打贏他請自己承擔後果。拒絕再比一次不是選擇。Shaw說「
如果你在練習的時候單吃他得分或是讓他出糗的話,他會不斷的挑戰你,直到你同意練習
結束之後留下來跟他繼續比賽。這還包括不准球員離開球場!他會阻擋他們的去路並說著
:不不!我們要繼續比賽。我要你再做一次剛剛的動作。你也許累了然後跟他說我剛剛練
習的時候已經作過,但是他會堅持不放棄的要球你直到你同意,然後他就會想盡辦法打敗
你。」
"If he's a ruthless s.o.b., I kind of respect that," says Ravin. "Why should
he be passing up opportunities? Why pass it to a guy who doesn't work as hard
, who doesn't want it like you do?
Ravin(神樣之訓練員,顧客名單包括Carmelo, Arenas, and Brand 被稱為the hoops
whisperer)曾說過「如果他是一個沒有禮貌的混帳,我尊敬這樣的評語。他為甚麼要
放棄機會?為甚麼要傳球給一個沒有你來得努力練習,沒有你這麼想要成功的另一個人
呢?
"Even now, every little challenge matters to Bryant. Here he is at the end of
a practice last week. Each Laker has to take a free throw. Everybody hits his
except Bryant, who rims one out. The only shooter left is Derek Fisher, who
shot 88.3% from the line this season. Bryant stands to the side of the basket
, fidgeting. As Fisher's shot arcs toward the rim, Bryant suddenly takes two
quick steps and leaps to goaltend the attempt. "Of course," forward Lamar
Odom says later, "he couldn't be the only one to miss."
Odom說「就算是現在,任何一個小挑戰Kobe都當作是一回事。上個禮拜練習快結束的時候
,每個球員都需要罰一球。所有人都罰進了,除了Kobe之外。還沒投的只剩下Fisher。
要期待Fisher沒罰進還蠻困難的。於是Kobe鬼鬼祟祟的靠近籃框。當Fisher投出的時候,
Kobe突然上前兩步並且蓋掉那球,儘管已經勾天頂了。想當然,他不可能當唯一沒罰進
的球員。」 (這時候就顯現出歐肥的價值了 XD)
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唸書去
還好我不是Kobe的隊員,或是他的同學 不然大概1000-0都不是問題吧...
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