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Golden State Warriors assistant coach Alvin Gentry was not quick to forget
his time with the Phoenix Suns as a coach.
勇士队的助理教练Alvin Gentry还没忘记在太阳队担任教练的那些日子.
The Warriors up-tempo style of play winning an NBA championship was seen as
vindication for both Gentry and former Suns head coach Mike D'Antoni.
勇士的快节奏球风让他们赢得了总冠军, 而这似乎给了Gentry及前太阳教练Mike D' Antoni
一个清白.
"It's a great way to play and you can win championships this way," Gentry
said to Bickley & Marotta on Arizona Sports 98.7 FM. "I feel that what Mike
did for this league, not only do the players enjoy playing that way, but I
think most fans enjoy watching the game that is played that way."
"这是一种很棒的球风, 你可以用它来赢得冠军," Gentry在Arizona Sports的电台中提到.
"我觉得Mike D' Antoni为这个联盟做的, 不只是让球员享受这样的打球方式, 而且大部分
的球迷也喜欢这样的打球风格."
Gentry was an assistant coach for the Suns from 2003-2009 and was the head
coach from 2009-2013.
When talking about those past Suns teams, Gentry couldn't help but look back
on things such as the negative perspective some took on the style of play
that has now won a championship.
Gentry在2003-2009担任太阳的助理教练, 而他在2009-2013期间则为太阳的总教练.
当Gentry谈到过去的太阳队时, 他不禁回想起以前有些人对这样的球风抱持悲观的态度,
然而这样的球风却在现在拿了冠军.
"I know we got a lot of grief in Phoenix for not winning a championship for
things like that, but we happened to be playing great San Antonio teams at
that time," Gentry said.
"And then there was a stretch when we lost to the Lakers and they won
championships."
"我知道没能夺得冠军, 在凤凰城的大家都很悲痛, 但在那个时后, 我们可是在与伟大的
马刺队对抗," Gentry说. "然而之后我们又输给了湖人, 他们夺冠了."
"If there's one thing we could have done a little better, if we were just a
little better defensively then we may have gotten over the hump," Gentry said.
"假如我们的防守可以再好一点, 那我们也许可以跨越那个障碍." Gentry说.
Besides the similarities in style of play, Gentry also saw similarities in
the players.
"Those teams were very similar to our teams. You got Steve Nash, you got
Steph Curry, you got guys that are really versatile players. We have Boris
Diaw who is very similar to a Draymond Green type," Gentry said.
除了球风类似之外, Gentry也看到球员们的相似之处.
"那支球队(太阳)跟我们现在的球队很像. 你有Steve Nash, 你有Steph Curry, 队上有
许多的多功能球员. 我们以前有的Boris Diaw就跟Draymond Green的类型很相似,"
Gentry说.
Gentry was a part of plenty of heartbreak for the Suns and admits that teams
need some luck to win a championship.
"Any team that had won the championship at some stage, there's got to be a
little luck involved," Gentry said.
"The 2010 team in the Western Conference Finals, everyone remembers Metta
World Peace's tap-in. If we turn and box him out it that could have been a
foul."
Gentry跟许多人一样曾为太阳心碎, 他承认当时那支球队需要些运气才能夺冠. "假如某支
球队夺得了总冠军, 那这之中一定有些运气存在," Gentry说. "在2010的西区冠军赛, 每个
人都记得World Peace的那球. 假如我们把他卡位出去, 那可能会是个犯规."
Gentry now moves on to his new job in New Orleans as head coach of the
Pelicans. As anyone would be, Gentry is thrilled to get to coach 22-year-old
superstar Anthony Davis.
"He's an extremely hard working kid," Gentry said. "Obviously we will play
up-tempo basketball and the one thing that we have to do is we got to get
better defensively."
现在Gentry在纽澳良接下了新工作, 他是鹈鹕队的总教练. 像其他人一样, 对于能拥有
22岁的超级巨星Anthony Davis, 他很兴奋.
"他是个很努力的孩子," Gentry说. "我们会提高打球的节奏, 且我们必须要做的事情是让
球队防守变得更好."