http://goo.gl/BYChTw Minnpost: How are you approaching the next 40 games with respect to Pek, Rubio and Martin? [All have been injured for more than 30 of team’s first 42 games.] Flip Saunders: Integrate them in. It is an evaluation of everybody. What is the blend of this team going to be going forward? What are the lineups that are going to be able to play together? What is going to be their effectiveness? But we probably aren’t going to really begin to know that until probably March, how they will all be playing together. 针对 Peko、Rubio、K-Mart 在剩余赛程，老桑表示尽全力让他们融入球队。这是一段评 估过程，各种阵容组合，各种球员搭配，检视最终效果。不过也许要到三月左右，届时 全员到齐，才开始看得出成果。 MP: Do you think Rubio will be ready by March? FS: I sure as hell hope so. MP: But what you said about his condition the other day sounded pretty serious. FS: Well it is. But based on the progress of what he has done, I mean, I have said this all along but I am hoping in two weeks he is playing. 老桑确定也希望 Rubio 能在三月前归队。被追问 Rubio 的情况比最初评估严重，老桑 回答的确是，不过 Rubio 这期间也朝着回归目标努力，还是强调希望在两个星期内看到 他打球。 MP: And Martin the same? FS: We looked at Martin and we thought he was really close. We thought he might be able to play two games ago but he has a knot on his hand now, it is looking like a golf ball. So we don’t know what it is and until we really know, we can ’t say. 关於 K-Mart，老桑表示归期近了，本来前几场就能出赛，但後来他的手突然冒出一个高 尔夫球般大的肿包，要再等等。 MP: The only guy of those three you really know about, and based on just one game [now three] is Pek. If he can give you 20 minutes a night is that much more helpful? FS: Yeah I think it is. If Pek can play the next 41 games [now 39] and give us 20 minutes, he is going to be able to come back next year and give you 25 to 30. And then you are going to have a two-headed sword with Gorgui [Dieng]. And there are going to be times when we play those guys together, see if they can play together. So it is going to be 41 games of interesting lineups and just kind of seeing where everyone is going to play out. Peko 是三位中状况最明朗的，关於他的出赛时间，老桑认为 Peko 如果能在剩余赛程， 平均每场做出20分钟的贡献，下一季有能力朝每场25至30分钟目标迈进。也表示会在尝 试把 Peko 和 Dieng 同时摆在场上，观察效果如何。 --- MP: Okay. If you had to guess right now, will you guys be active in the next month leading up to the trading deadline? FS: I believe we will always be active. One reason we will be active is that we have two trade exceptions … MP: When do they expire? FS: Not until next year. But we have two trade exceptions that we would be able to take a player back without having to give up somebody. So [Wolves will deal with] people who are either trying to free up cap space, or to bring in another player or whatever. Based on what we have, we have guys people are looking at [to trade for]. They are thinking, “[The Wolves] are in a rebuild. And they have some guys who might be able to help a team.” 关於交易截止日，老桑并没有透露太多，只说球队目前拥有两个交易特例，相信球队还 是会积极探询各种可能。 MP: Can you be more specific. K-Mart? [Kevin Martin] FS: No, I don’t want to trade K-Mart. MP: Just because you like the spacing? FS: I like the spacing and I think he is a guy who can bring something to this team. [At this point, Saunders asked to be off the record and essentially said he didn ’t want to get into specific players being on or off the trade market.] 当被追问能否具体说明，记者举例 K-Mart，老桑表示球队不想交易 K-Mart，理由是他 有助於拉开团队攻击范围，是球队正面资产。老桑接着便要求关於交易这一小段的访谈 停止录音。 MP: Let’s talk about some of the guys on the roster we haven’t mentioned thus far. Chase Budinger, I mentioned to you about a month ago that he just doesn’t seem to have the same lift he had before his knee surgeries. It looked to me, shortly after that, that you wanted to get his confidence up and you began using him more in the rotation. As it turned out, he had a couple of really good games that then ended in heartbreaking fashion — he missed a big shot to win or lose one game and had a key turnover in another. So is it physical or is it attitudinal or is it both? FS: I think it is probably more — he as much as anybody on the team misses Rubio. Because he is a guy who moves without the ball and he needs the ball to get to him and right now Mo [Williams] is more of a scoring-type point guard and Zach [LaVine] doesn’t have the ability to hit guys at the right time right now — he is like a young quarterback who locks into the one receiver and that’ s it. I think because of the injuries over the last couple of years, and you put frustration on top of that, not being able to play how we want to play. I don’t think anybody has questions about attitude being affected when you are not playing well as a team and also individually. 谈到 Budinger 低迷的状态，到底是身体上或是心态上的问题，还是都有问题？老桑认 为不只这些，首先 Budinger 擅长无球打法，Rubio 的缺席对他影响深远。再来过去几 季伤痛不断，无法照着教练指示打球，沮丧感达到高点。当你打不好球，不管是个人还 是团队，心态上多少会被影响。 MP: Yeah, I shouldn’t have said attitude. I didn’t mean [Chase] was sour, it is more like confidence would really help him but every single time he starts to establish confidence something happens. And I was wondering if that was bad luck or if he is not capable physically anymore in some sense? FS: I think it is fair to say that that has happened. You still give him a lot of opportunities and hopefully he will kick in with those opportunities. 总会发生什麽事情让信心重建功亏一篑，到底是运气不佳，还是身体状态无法回到过去 。老桑认为都已经发生了，球队仍然不断给他机会，希望他能抓住其中几个。 --- MP: GRIII [Glenn Robinson]. In some interesting ways you have sacrificed a lot in order to keep him on the roster. Obviously you have some faith in this guy. FS: I think he is going to be a player in our league. I’d like to get Martin back so I can get [Robinson] in the D-league so he can play some, to see where he is really at. We’re not willing to give up on the kid yet, because I think he really does have — he’s got size, he’s got quickness, he’s got some strength. Great kid, works really hard. And I think he is going to be a player in our league, and that is why we’ve given a lot to keep him around. 关於 GRIII，老桑认为他拥有良好先天条件，态度也积极，未来有机会在联盟据一席之 地，球队现阶段计画 K-Mart 归队後，能送 GRIII 到发展联盟，在那里他会有较多出 赛机会。 MP: At this point, with everything that has happened, would it be helpful or too much of an issue to put Zach in the D-league for awhile? FS: We haven’t really thought about that. My main thing too — you know Napier is averaging 20 minutes a game and Miami still sends him to the D-league. That would be the advantage of having our own D-league team. If we did have it close by, if it is your D-league team, and your own coaches who are coaching the same system and everything else, you can have a benefit from that. But I haven’t really thought about that. I’d like to play Zach with Ricky, just to see how he plays off Ricky too. 被问到 LaVine 下放发展联盟的可能，老桑倒是回应球队还未思考过，想先观察 LaVine 和 Rubio 同场搭配的效果。 MP: Anybody in Europe that you control the rights to close to being ready? I hear there is one. FS: Yeah there is one I can’t pronounce the name of, [Nemanja] Bejelica. He is probably the most ready kid that is out there. MP: Will he be ready for you next year? FS: Could be. We are going to visit with him in the spring and summer. He’s 6-10, skilled power forward. 有哪位球队握有签约权的欧洲球员可能会来报到，老桑提到 Bjelica，但是不晓得怎麽 发音...XD。球队将找时间拜访这位6尺10寸的大前锋。 --

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