Stan Van Gundy: Greg Monroe, Andre Drummond 'an ideal pairing'
Two seasons ago, the Detroit Pistons' future seemed pretty straightforward:
Andre Drummond an Greg Monroe would, in time, together form one of the most
imposing frontcourts in the league. Last summer, though, things got
complicated when Josh Smith was added in free agency as then–general manager
Joe Dumars tried to make a push for the playoffs. The three did not fit
together, and, with Monroe's restricted free agency coming up this summer,
many thought his days in Detroit were numbered.
两个赛季以前，活塞的未来似乎很清楚，那就是Andre Drummond和Greg Monroe这一对
前场搭档。去年夏天，活塞总管Joe Dumars为了进季后赛而奋力一搏，接着从自由市场
上交易来Josh Smith，这让事情似乎变得复杂了。这三人组合无法兼容，随着今年夏天
Monroe将变成受限自由球员，似乎预告他留在活塞的日子已经不多了。
New Pistons president and head coach Stan Van Gundy made it clear he was a
Monroe fan as soon as he took the job. Now he has spoken even more strongly
about the tandem, via Pistons.com's Keith Langlois:
活塞新任的总裁和教头Stan Van Gundy在上任后说得很清楚，他就是Monroe的粉丝，
在接受活塞官网的记者Keith Langlois的采访后，他更加强烈地表达了他这个想法:
“I think it is an ideal pairing,” he said. “If I look at just the film
I've watched now and looking at the numbers, you would say that Greg and
Andre together were great offensively. That was a great combination on the
offensive end of the floor, especially when the three guys around them were
shooters – more conventional perimeter types. That worked very, very well.
Now, it didn't work very well defensively. I think it puts a lot of
responsibility on Greg Monroe to have to guard out on the perimeter.
“我认为Monroe和Drummond是一对理想组合。”Stan Van Gundy说。“从我现在看到的
录影带和数据来看，Monroe和Drummond的组合在进攻端非常出色。尤其是在场上其他三人
都是射手的情况下，这两人的搭配非常好。两人在防守上的表现不佳，我认为Monroe承担
了过多的防守责任。”
“But I think there are things we can do in terms of schemes and things that
would make it a little easier on Greg to make that unit better defensively
and then take advantage of the offensive end of the floor.
“但我们可以为他制定一些战术，让他在攻守两端都发挥作用。”
Van Gundy added that he likes Monroe even more than he did before going over
film