http://goo.gl/VSR98p (内容蛮长的，只能简略解释一下) MP: Minnpost, FS: Flip Saunders Minnpost: Let’s start with a positive. You could argue that the team’s top priority this season is the development of Andrew Wiggins. Thus far that seems to be relatively on course. Has it gone about the way you expected? Flip Saunders: When we made the trade, there is no question that we switched somewhat, although we thought if we kept Ricky together with those guys we could be a blended team [of veterans and young players]. So based on where we were, and where everyone thought Wiggins was — coming out of college in Kansas people thought he was inconsistent and that you didn’t know what you were going to get out of him — I think over the last month or six weeks we are way ahead of where I thought we would be. I think that is a combination of things. One is, we lost guys, so he has had a lot of responsibility he has had to accept. So that is part of the reason he has become more mature. Another is that Ryan [Saunders, Flip's son] and the other coaches have worked with him extremely hard and that we haven’t let up on him. It is an off day today [from practice] but he has to come in and watched 15 minutes of film, so he understands what he has to continually do and work on. I think everybody knows he is quiet, but he has really opened up a lot, especially with us — I don’t know about you guys [in the media]. But he is very coachable. He wants to be good and will accept criticism. He has gotten to the point now where he knows when he is making a mistake. That is the difference between him and Zach [LaVine] at times. Zach still doesn’t know at times that he is making a mistake when he makes mistakes. 关於 Wiggins 的成长，老桑认为从过去一个月到六个礼拜可以看出，比预期进度更快。 他认为有几个原因，球队伤兵问题，让 Wiggins 必须担负更多责任。再来是老桑的儿子 和其他教练团成员的努力，即使在休兵日，Wiggins 要观看比赛影带来修正错误。老桑 也提到 Wiggins 与教练团有更多互动，十分受教，接受批评。他已经进入能够当下了解 自己犯什麽错的阶段，LaVine 还无法做到这点。 MP: You have called Wiggins out a couple of times and said he is not hustling or he is taking plays off. To say that about a 19-year old kid in the NBA would normally be regarded as a risk. But you were confident enough in his makeup? FS: Well because he wants to be great. People always say to me, ‘Well you never called out KG.’ Well, I never had to. There was never a time that KG didn ’t play hard. He might do other things that were bad, but never that. You asked me a question one time about me going after the better players. [Specifically, I asked him if he was tougher on the players he liked.] I think that is an obligation that you have, that you don’t want a player to look back and say, ‘I wish he had said something to me.’ So is it a risk? Yeah, but coming in, it helps that Billy Duffy is his agent and I know Billy well and he helps out and so everyone is on the same page, knowing that we all want the same thing — we want him to be great. Part of our organization, when we made that trade with Love, it was Wiggins. This might sound stupid, based on our record, but someone asked me, ‘Are you closer to a championship today than you were a year ago?’ and I said ‘Yeah.’ Because there was no way — there was not as much upside with the team last year. It could be a playoff team. But this team, potentially, adding the right pieces, is closer, because you have a guy with the potential to be a top five player, having a player with the ability to create shots for himself. 对於有时用较严厉的方式指导 Wiggins，老桑认为这是 Wiggins 成长必经之路。爱之 深，责之切，也许对一名19岁年轻球员有风险，老桑觉得那也是身为教练的义务，而且 Wiggins 的经纪人 Billy Duffy 也和球队站在同一阵线上。大家对 Wiggins 有远大期 望，与这支球队未来发展紧密联系着。 MP: You say he has opened up. He is still pretty inscrutable with the media. What is his makeup like? FS: Dry sense of humor. When we talk, it is amazing — he has a smile about him all the time. He is pretty upfront and pretty honest. He tells me when he is tired and he has told me when he can keep on going. When you get on him and criticize him, and point things out to him, he’ll agree a lot of times. He is a willing learner. During the fifteen minutes we just spent in here, he was glued to the TV and the things we were watching. He talks more now. Before, it was pretty much always a one-way conversation. Now it is a two-way. He is agreeing with things and he is questioning things. You have to look at where he was at. He was a 19-year old and he was under scrutiny for the last two or three years, the cover of Sports Illustrated and everything else. That’s a lot of pressure. And I think he thought the best way to deal with it early was just not to deal with it. 老桑继续提到 Wiggins 与教练团间沟通，随着球季进行，更多的双向互动，最大重点是 Wiggins 很愿意学习。老桑认为 Wiggins 在19岁这年纪，过去两、三年持续被外界检视 ，甚至登上运动画刊封面，承受不少压力，但他有自己的一套与压力共处。 MP: You still don’t have a great idea of what the team will look like a year or two from now. But as you look at Wiggins as a cornerstone, how do you see him in this franchise? What kind of role? Do you want him to be a Lebron-type, or a Pippen-type? Without necessarily having to make direct comparisons, how do you envision him leading? FS: We want him to be Lebron, Kobe, Pippen. Because they are all two-way players. A lot of those guys were their team’s best offensive player but also their team’s best defensive player. And their tenacity, the team goes through it. Wiggins is in a much-more difficult situation than what Garnett had. Because Garnett had some vets that were going to be there for awhile and really locked in and we just don’t have the same type of guys. With Garnett the vets had had a lot of success — Terry [Porter] had been to the NBA Finals and was going to be a coach. And we had a lot of good players — Gugliotta. So we never asked KG to carry us offensively [early in his career]. We have had to ask that of Wiggins. My biggest thing, the one thing KG could always do, he could always create shots at the end of games — that’s tough when you are a power forward. Wiggins will be able to create shots for himself or for somebody else and be able to do that off the bounce. 老桑期望 Wiggins 成为攻防两端均衡发展的 two-way player。也指出过去 KG 有不少 老鸟像是 Terry Porter、Googs 从旁协助，减轻 KG 不少进攻重担。相较之下，Wiggins 面临的挑战比起当初 KG 更加严峻。 MP: Is it helpful to have Sam Mitchell around as well? Because Sam and KG were a tight relationship early in KG’s career? FS: Yeah, Sam’s good to help around anyone. But because of their age similarity, Ryan spends more time with Wiggins probably than any of our guys. And Wiggins has probably opened up more to him, just because they have more in common. Sam is more into the whole-team type thing than into the individual. Sam Mitchell 曾是 KG 年轻时的心灵导师，他在教练团中对於 Wiggins 是否有帮助。 老桑认为因为年龄相近，他的儿子 Ryan 和 Wiggins 比较能聊得来。而 Mitchell 对球 队帮助是整体的，不单是针对个别球员。 MP: Aside from Wiggins, as you look at the first 41 games of the season, the record is not good, but what are the bright spots that you see? FS: Muhammad. There is no question that Muhammad — Wig probably misses him a little bit now, because with those two guys in there you are always creating some type of mismatch. There will have to be a smaller guy on one of them. 除了 Wiggins，上半季另一个亮点，老桑认为毫无疑问是 Bazz。当他们两人同时在场上 时，能制造出许多 mismatch 的机会。 MP: Which is why you starting using Robbie Hummel as a large small forward, as a stand-in for Muhammad? FS: Yeah, pretty much. But if you look at where Muhammad was at a year ago compared to where he is now, he is one of the top five guys in terms of most-improved player. Then there is the development of Gorgui [Dieng]. He has proven he is a solid guy and one of the top young big-players in the league. And Zach is a lot better now than he was the first week of the season and through training camp. So there is no question that the development of our young guys is the silver lining in this situation. 老桑同意 Hummel 先发原因与 Bazz 相同，制造 mismatch 的机会。也顺便提到 Bazz、 Dieng、LaVine 的成长，强调球员养成是这个球季的收获。 --

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