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INDIANAPOLIS –
His coach was trying not to cry. I remember that.
The band was playing “Sweet Caroline” and the crowd was singing along
and Doug McDermott was stepping to the free-throw line. I remember that.
印第安那波里斯 -
我还记得那一刻, 当他的教练强忍着泪水.
球场上的乐队正在演奏著 " 甜美的卡洛琳 "
观众哼著唱着跟着这首歌.
我还记得那一刻, McD 正准备踏上罚球线.
The referee hands the ball to McDermott.
The band stops playing. But the crowd,
well, the crowd doesn’t stop singing. I remember that.
裁判把球交给了 McD.
乐团这时停止了演奏, 但是群众呢,
群众并没有停止继续唱着这首歌, 我还记得.
Reaching out …
(伸出手~)
Picture what I’m picturing, almost 4½ years later.
Today Doug McDermott is one of the newest members of the Indiana Pacers,
but in March 2014 he was playing his final home game at Creighton.
It’s senior night. He came into the game needing 34 points to become
the eighth man in major college basketball history to reach 3,000.
Does he get there? Well, hang on. We’ll get there.
那一刻的画面还深深印在我的脑海里, 就这样来到了四年半后
今天 McD 是溜马队里面最新的一位成员.
但在 2014 年的三月, 他正在克瑞顿大学, 打他大学最后一场主场比赛
那晚是主场的最后一场比赛. 他需要在比赛中得到 34 分
来成为大学篮球历史中第八位三千分俱乐部的成员.
他有达到他的目标吗? 等等, 那一刻会来的.
But right now McDermott is standing at the line of his final
home game at Creighton, bouncing the ball, picking it up and
bending his knees, and something is happening that I’ve never
seen in 25 years as a sports writer: The crowd won’t stop singing.
McDermott raises the ball to his head. They’re still singing.
到了这一刻, McD 站在他大学生涯最后一场主场比赛的罚球线上,
轻轻拍著球, 拿起球, 微蹲, 然后这一刻, 我记者生涯中没看过的事情发生了
观众没有停止唱着歌, McD 慢慢举球准备罚球, 观众还是继续在唱着歌.
Touching me …
(轻触我~)
For two hours, McDermott has given the crowd the show of a lifetime.
He has been making magic, right before our eyes,
and the show is almost over and now the crowd is thanking him, with song.
在那两个小时中, McD 给了全场观众一场永生难忘的表演.
在他手中各式的惊奇一直出现, 就在我们的眼前
而现在这场秀快要结束了, 全场观众站了起来, 肩搭著肩
唱着歌来感谢他这场令人难忘的表现.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRpbqx3-63c (现场观众唱着甜美的卡罗琳)
Touching you …
(轻触你~)
Four years later, the hair is standing up on Doug McDermott’s arms.
He’s telling me it’s happening. I’m watching it happen.
We’re sitting in two chairs at Bankers Life Fieldhouse,
where the Indiana Pacers have just introduced their newest
free-agent acquisitions — McDermott and Tyreke Evans —
to the media. This is the first time I’ve been in the same room
with McDermott since March 8, 2014, and I’ve brought a leather
folder to our meeting, waving it haphazardly as we talk.
Doug’s looking at the folder, but I’m not ready for that just yet.
I bring up senior night from 2014. I’m here to ask questions,
but now he’s asking me one.
四年后, 这是个令 McD 紧张又兴奋的一刻.
他跟我说这一刻终于要到来了. 而我正见证他发生.
我们两个人坐在溜马主场的椅子上,
溜马刚刚向媒体介绍了他们新签下的两名球员 - McD , 跟 Tyreke Evans
在 3/8/2014 (最后一场主场之后) 我第一次又跟 McD 同处一房
我带了一个皮制的文件档案夹, 在聊天的时候随意著挥着
McD 偶而看着档案夹, 但我还没有准备好跟他聊这个话题,
我先问他说他还记得 2014 年他在主场的最后一场比赛吗?
我是来这边访问他的, 但是他却问了我一个问题.
“You were there?”
McD : "你那天也在场?"
I’m nodding. My turn to ask: Do you remember the song?
我点了点头, 换我问了他个问题 : "还记得那首歌吗?"
McDermott’s turn to nod.
轮到了 McD 点了点头..
“Just thinking about it,” he says, “gives me the chills.”
"只要一想到那天" 他说 "我依然一阵冷颤(震撼)"
* * *
What happened that night in Omaha was completely out of character
for Doug McDermott. I remember that. The son of a coach,
he was going to play the game the right way or he wasn’t
going to play. So even with his gift for shooting the ball,
a gift that borders on the supernatural,
he grew up a rebounder and a screen-setter and a passer.
And a scorer, of course, because he shot the ball so well.
But scoring was never his sole focus.
那场McD 在克莱顿主场最后的比赛, 并不是典型的 McD 的比赛.
我还记得, McD , 那位教练的小孩,
坚持用正确的方式打每场比赛, 否则他宁可不打
所以即使他是一个天赋满点看不到天花板的射手,
他还是在比赛中成长为一名优秀的篮板手, 挡拆大个, 和传球手.
当然他也常常是个得分手, 毕竟他的投射能力实在太出色了
但得分从来不是他的主要目标.
On the night of March 8, 2014, scoring was his sole focus.
I remember that, but maybe I’m remembering wrong,
so I’m asking McDermott if he played that game —
how to put this delicately … — “determined to get yours?”
但在 3/8/2014 那场最后的比赛, 他决定要好好得分了
我记得故事是这样写的, 但或许我记错了,
所以我问 McD , 那场比赛, 恩怎么说呢, 你下定决心拿下那目标?
“Absolutely,” he says, and he’s happy to be honest.
This is a magical night we’re remembering —
“maybe the most special game of my career,”
he says — and to maximize the magic he needed to score 34 points.
"当然囉" McD 说, 而且他是开心的诚实的说
这是一场大家都会记得的奇幻之夜
"这或许是我篮球生涯中最特别的一场比赛"
他说－ 而要让这场奇幻比赛更奇幻, 他必须要想办法得到34分
“I wanted to get 3,000 at home,” he says.
"我想在家里拿下 3000 分" ,McD 说
This was his final chance, so plays like this were happening:
Late first half, McDermott has the ball on the wing.
He dribbles to the corner. A teammate, a 6-11 center named Will Artino,
cuts to the rim. Artino is alone for a layup.
McDermott sees him. Doesn’t pass it.
这是他最后一次的机会, 所以这场比赛他是这样打的:
在上半场末段, McD 在侧翼拿到球,
他稍微运到了底线, 他配合良好的队友 , 6-11 的中锋,
Will Artino, 快速空手切到了篮框边, 没人盯着他, 他正准备上篮
McD 一如往常的看到了他, 但是他并没有传球.
McDermott shoots a 3-pointer. Makes it.
McD 在底线射了一个三分球, 球应声入框.
He makes six shots in a row, and by halftime he has 22 points.
With 11½ minutes left he has 32 points for the game,
2,998 for his career. He catches a pass on the wing,
well behind the 3-point arc, maybe 25 feet from the basket.
He’s defended, so he dribbles twice — backward — and lets it fly.
Thirty feet later the ball is in the net and McDermott has 3,001 points and ...
他接着连续的投进了六球入框, 过了半场他已经得到了 22 分.
当整场比赛剩下十一分半的时候, 他已经得到了 32 分.
他的大学生涯已经得到了 2998 分, 而他在侧翼接到了一个传球,
就在三分线之后, 离篮框 25 尺, 他被防守着, 所以他快速的运了两下球
然后后退, 让球飞..... 在 30 尺之后, 球进入了网, 而 Mcd 得到了生涯 3,001 分
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QKyM9DGVks 三千分 (背景隐隐的歌声)
And maybe now is the time to tell you what had happened one year earlier,
Creighton’s 2013 senior night. McDermott was a junior that season,
but he already had more than 2,000 career points and a likely place in
the 2013 NBA draft lottery, and it was assumed he would turn pro.
That night Creighton beat Wichita State to win the Missouri Valley
Conference title, and McDermott scored 41 points on just 18 shots.
He was 15-for-18 from the floor. A few weeks later he was looking
into the cameras and saying the unthinkable:
“I’ve decided it’s best for me to come back my senior year.”
然后..我们把时间回到这球破网的一年前, 克瑞顿大学的最后一场主场
那时候McD才大三, 但他已经早早把得分破了 2000 大关了.
NBA选秀正等着他, 他被预期是乐透区的球员, 所有人都觉得他会去打NBA
那个晚上克雷顿大学击败了威齐托大学, 得到了密苏里山谷联盟的冠军
McD 只花了十八次投篮, 就得到了 41 分. 他在18次出手中进了15球.
然后再过几个礼拜, 他对着新闻记者的镜头说出那令人难以置信的决定:
"我决定 对我来说 最好的 就是回来继续唸完大四 带着球队更上层楼"
One year later. Another senior night. McDermott passes the 3,000-point mark,
and with 11½ minutes left he has 35 on the game.
How high is he going to go?
Creighton has been playing in the CenturyLink Center Omaha since 2003,
and the school record for points in the building is 42 set in 2008
by Cavel Witter. Entering this night, McDermott’s career-high is 44.
He breaks both marks, finishing with 45.
就这样过了一年, 就是今晚这个三千分的最后主场之夜. McD 突破了三千分大关,
在比赛剩下十一分钟多的时候, 他已经得到了 35 分,
他还要继续得分吗? 克雷顿大学在 CLC 主场已经打了十年,
主场最高得分是 2008 年 Cavel Witter 得到的 42 分,
而在这场比赛之前 McD 生涯最高分是44分.
他打破了这两项技术, 一口气在这场比赛中得到了45分.
There’s so much going on here. It’s Creighton’s first season in the Big East.
It’s McDermott’s last season in Omaha. And on the sideline,
on the Creighton bench, is the Bluejays’ head coach,
the man trying not to cry as the crowd is singing “Sweet Caroline”
— no music from the band, just 18,000 voices —
as his son goes to the foul line one last time.
有太多事情在这年发生了. 这是克雷队第一次打到了NCAA 一级大东区
也是 McD 在克雷顿大学的最后一年 而且 还有一件事
坐在克雷顿大学的板凳区上的, 还有克雷顿蓝鸟的总教练
这位先生在群众唱着"甜美的凯洛琳"时一直努力忍住不哭,
没有乐队在演奏音乐, 只有 18000 位现场人声合唱,
从他儿子在刚刚站上罚球线开始就一直持续...
Oh, right. Probably you know, but maybe you forgot:
Creighton’s coach then, and now, is Greg McDermott. Doug’s father.
对了, 你可能已经知道 或已经忘记, 克雷顿大学的总教练
正是葛雷格 McD , McD 的爸爸
“So much going on,” Doug is telling me all these years later,
and I figure it’s a good time to open that leather folder.
"太多事情发生又过去了" McD 在几年后这样告诉我
我想, 应该是我打开我的皮制文件夹的时候了
* * *
For the Pacers, Doug McDermott is going to generate a lot of points —
for Victor Oladipo. And for Myles Turner. And Domantas Sabonis.
McDermott will do that by being a shooter opposing teams must
defend 25 feet from the rim. You’ve heard the term “stretching the floor,”
I suppose. McDermott is going to elasticize that thing for the Pacers
after making 49.4 percent of his 3-pointers last season in Dallas.
对溜马来说, McD 可以很容易带出很多得分, 帮欧拉, 帮奕迅, 帮小沙
因为对防守的队伍来说, 他们必须认真的防守距篮框 25 尺外的 McD
我们常常会听到 拉大攻击空间, 而这就是 McD 要帮溜马做的事
他上季在达拉斯是不可思议的 49.4% 的三分命中率
And he’ll score some, too. McDermott is a career 7.9-ppg scorer
in four NBA seasons, though the Pacers could get more than that.
Unlike any of his previous four pro stops,
McDermott will be surrounded by offensive talent that will
make him his team’s No. 4 or even No. 5 scoring option on the floor.
That doesn’t make him disregarded. It makes him dangerous.
那当然 McD 也会得一些分, 他在 NBA 生涯四季平均每场得 7.9 分
但我们相信 Pacers 会让他得到更多. 不像他前四季的那些球队
McD 会被一大堆非常强的进攻天分所围绕, 他可能会成为球队的第四或是
甚至第五得分点, 但这并不会让他被轻视, 这只会让他更恐怖.
“He’s obviously an elite shooter, and a great cutter,”
Pacers president Kevin Pritchard was telling me last week
after the news conference that introduced McDermott.
“You’ll see him make great cuts and get layups.
We see him as an underutilized talent.
I don’t think he’s ever been with a team where a team says,
‘You’re our guy, you’re not going anywhere,
we love you, just focus on being the best player you can be.
You’re going to have three or four tough games,
and we don’t care. You’re our guy.’ For us, that’s the big thing.”
"他是一个非常菁英的射手, 也是一个空手跑位专家"
溜马总裁 KP 在 McD 上周的加盟记者会后跟我说.
"你会看到他常常跑进跑出禁区得到很多的上篮机会,
我们认为 McD 还有很多还没被完全开发出来的天分"
"而且我们不认为 McD 来过这种球队, 像我们溜马一样的球队"
"我们溜马会不断告诉他, 你跟我们是一伙的, 你不会到那些别的地方去的,
我们爱你喜欢你, 你只要认真的准备好表现自己最好的一面就好.
你一定会有三四场吃力的比赛, 但我们不在乎, 因为我们是一起的"
"对溜马来说, 这是一件很重要的事"
For me, McDermott is a memory from 4½ years ago.
He’s a piece of paper in my leather folder, though not the only piece.
In 25 years as a sports writer — has to be a thousand or more games —
I’ve saved exactly two box scores. One was from May 31, 2007.
LeBron James scored 48 that night. It was the Eastern Conference finals,
Cleveland at Detroit. Game 5. The Cavaliers won 109-107 in double overtime.
LeBron scored the Cavs’ last 25 points,
including every point in both overtimes.
Yes, I saved that box score. Wrote about it last year, in fact.
对我来说, Mcd 则是我 4.5 年前的一段记忆.
他是我皮档案夹里面的一张纸, 当然他不是唯一的一张.
我已经当了 25 年的运动记者, 采访了超过一千场比赛.
但我只留下两场比赛的分数盒子(比赛纪录) 一场是 5/31/2007
LBJ 在那场比赛得到了 48 分, 那是东区冠军赛,
骑士对战活塞第五场, 骑士队最后在双重延长赛中以 109-107 击败活塞,
LBJ 得到了骑士队最后 25 分. 还包含两次延长赛中的所有得分.
对, 我把那场比赛纪录留下来了, 我也在一年前写了一篇关于那场比赛的文章.
https://imgur.com/XQxxJwt McD 的 3000 分比赛的分数盒子(和签名)
The other box score? The only other box score I’ve ever
taken home and just sort of … kept? The one from March 8, 2014.
The night Doug McDermott scored 45 points on senior night to
reach 3,000 points, passing two of the 10 top scorers in
college basketball history —
Indianapolis' Oscar Robertson (2,973) and Hersey Hawkins (3,008)
— in one night. The night a crowd of 18,868 serenaded him a cappella
with “Sweet Caroline” as he shot free throws at the
CenturyLink Center Omaha. The night his coach,
his father, took out his son for the final time in Omaha,
hugging him and rubbing his head as he walked away.
When Greg McDermott turned back to the court, he was biting his lip.
另外一个分数盒子呢, 另外一个我也天天带回家,然后保存的盒子
就是这张 3/8/2014 的比赛, 这场 McD 在最后主场得到 45 分的比赛
这场 McD 得到 3000 分的比赛, 超过了大学篮球历史前十名人堂球员
Oscar Robertson (2,973) , 和 Hersey Hawkins (3,008) - 在这个晚上.
在这个晚上全场有 18,868 人用合声在他罚球时唱着 "甜蜜的卡罗琳"
就在这个晚上, 他的教练, 也是他的爸爸, 走上场去拉着自己的儿子,
在他儿子最后一场克罗莱大学的主场, 抱着他, 并且揉着他的头,
当McD 的教练爸爸葛雷格走回场边的时候, 他紧咬着他的嘴唇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHKsuZYXHLg McD 得到了三千分, 爸爸摸摸头
So I’m pulling the box score out of the leather folder,
just to show him, and Doug McDermott sees it and grabs it and studies it.
I’m not sure he understands what it meant to me —
as a basketball fan, a father, a son —
to have been there that night, but maybe he does.
Because now he’s asking me something I hadn’t expected,
and it’s only fair:
After years of putting athletes on the spot with questions,
it’s my turn to squirm.
所以我谨慎的把这个分数盒子从皮制文件夹里面拿出来
我只是想给他看, 而 McD 看到了 , 把这张纸接出去, 认真的读著
我不懂他知不知道这一张纸 这一场比赛 对我有多重要
我身为一个篮球迷, 身为一个父亲, 身为一个儿子 -
对于身在那场重要的比赛, 对我有多么的重要...
但或许他知道, 因为他问了我一个我没想过的问题,
而且这问题问的恰如其分..
在这么多年来 我问了这么多的运动员一些难以回答的问题
但今天轮到我一时语塞
“You want me to sign it?” he asks.
" 要不要我帮你签名?" McD 问我.
We don’t collect autographs in my business,
and other people in the media are watching,
and I say the only thing I can say:
你也知道的我是运动记者, 我们运动记者是绝对不蒐集签名的
而且在场还有很多其他的记者..
但是在这情况下 我想 我其实也应该 其实也只能说 :
Yes, please.
好的, 请帮我签名..
再听一次最完整版, 全场观众为 McD 合唱的 甜美的卡洛琳
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLDSRNwpX8