Leaders: current season
(2004-05 regular season stats)
Detroit San Antonio
Points per game Richard Hamilton (18.7) Tony Parker(16.6)
Assists per game Chauncey Billups (5.8) Tony Parker(6.1)
Rebounds per game Ben Wallace (12.2) Nazr Mohammed (7.6)
Field goal pct. Antonio McDyess (.513) Tim Duncan (.496)
Three-point FG pct. Chauncey Billups (.426) Beno Udrih (.408)
Free throw pct. Chauncey Billups(.898) Manu Ginobili (.803)
Blocks per game Ben Wallace (2.4) Tim Duncan(2.6)
Steals per game Ben Wallace (1.4) Manu Ginobili (1.6)
Minutes per game Richard Hamilton (38.4) Tony Parker(34.2)
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在训练中....
采访中....Q. Can you talk about the relationship between the two coaches and what that adds to this series? A: Of course it's got to be pretty special for them. You always hear Pop talking about Larry. You see them always together in the summers. I knew the last year for The Finals, Pop was so excited for Larry and talking to him on the phone all the time, helping each other.
So they are good friends. But, you know, at this stage, you want to win so bad, you really don't care much about who is on the other side, even if my brother is playing for the Pistons, I wouldn't care, I'm going to try to win, beat him, make him score fewer points. They are probably in the same spot.
Q. Can you talk about how much the layoff, I assume, has helped your ankle?
A: Yeah, it's helped it tremendously. It's good to have a little time off in between, not only myself but Manu had a couple dings and Tony with his knee hurting a little bit. So just a lot of different guys with things, so time to heal, it was a good little break. You have to fight against the rust and whatever else, but I think we'll break through that pretty soon and really get back into our flow.
Q. Can you reflect on when you injured it in Detroit, and that was probably the worst. A: Yeah, I don't know what to say about that, just trying not to think about it as much as possible. It happened, kind of a freak thing and hopefully it will never happen again.
Q. Can you talk about the problems or the challenge facing two active defenders like Rasheed Wallace and Ben Wallace poses for you. A: Their entire team are a bunch of great defenders because they really work as a unit. I think Ben and Rasheed do an exceptional job with that because they are so active and they help each other on the weak side. They are both very good weak side shot blockers, and they use that defensive ability to really help each other. So you can't just account for one, you can't just say, "okay, I know where one guy is and I can work on him." You also have to open keep your eye open for the other guy coming in. That in itself is a big challenge.
Q. As someone who has been through knee rehab can you even speculate or imagine what it must be like to come back from multiple major knee surgeries?A: No, not at all. Not at all. Antonio is an exceptional guy. I can't believe he is where he is and playing the way he is. He's gone through so much, and from the minor injuries that I've had, my knee scope and my ankle problems throughout the year, and just getting back on the floor and trying to regain that confidence, I can't imagine going through something that major and getting back on the court and trying to regain the confidence of your body and your movements and people around you and all of that. It's amazing what he's done.
Q. You were talking a minute ago about Ben and Rasheed as defenders, but Rasheed specifically, what's the toughest thing about playing against a guy like that on the floor?A: His athleticism, he understands defense, he understands the game, so he'll he's a strong defender, but he uses his length, he uses his jumping ability and he can get away from your body and really affect shots. Just accounting for his body and trying to take away some of that, that spring, and as I said, he understands what he's doing with it, so he allows himself the space and the ability to recover.
Q. When you look at what he's done for that team, how much of an X factor is he?A: I don't consider him an X factor. He's a huge part of what they do. I don't think you can consider a guy like that an X factor. He's an integral part of them winning and last year, I think you can rule out the X factor talk. He's a part of their team, he needs to play well for them to play well and that's just the bottom line.
Q. Given the connection with Pop and Larry, how similar are the defensive approaches and philosophies between the two teams?A: Very similar. I think the major difference is the personnel. They do it different because of the different guys that they have with Rasheed and Ben anchoring it, and a lot of the big bodies that they have anchoring their defense. We do a lot of the same with us, but they also have some big guards, some big, strong guards. I don't think we have the same principles, but we do predicate a lot of what we do on making stops and being able to limit people's offense.
Q. Because of the way Manu and Tony have developed, do you feel more so than the last few times you've been the Finals that if you had a stretch where you don't score or offensively you are not doing it, you are better able to withstand that now because of them?A: Absolutely. We have not only them playing that much better, but the understanding of our offense, the execution of our offense is a lot better. And it's not just coming down and throwing it to me and making things happen. We're moving the ball, we're pushing up the floor, we're running. Tony and Manu are both exceptional offensive players, but you get people in there like Bruce in the corners and Rob and Brent and guys that can really shoot the ball, they can create for other people, and I think that's what we've been relying on this entire post season, really getting to the point where our execution and our ball movement makes everybody a weapon.
Q. Tony, you guys played incredible in that Phoenix series, do you think you need to play better to beat this Detroit team?
A: Well, I think we need to play better. It's going to be tough against Detroit. They are a very good team and they match up very good against us, a great defense and they play a little bit like us and so we just have to play even better. I think we can play better defense. Against Phoenix, we played pretty good D but I think we can do better.
Q. You mentioned a lot of things about Rasheed and being selfless and stuff and a lot of those same things can be said about you, you're a scorer who has to play point guard and distributing the ball and you picked your spots in the last series to shoot, can you talk about the balance that you constantly have? A lot of times you pass up shots and you could score more and maybe make the All Star team, stuff like that and you give it up for the team.
A: Yeah, you know, I can remember when Coach Brown first started with us, that was my biggest struggle was knowing when to try to take it over and scoring the ball and when to kind of fall back a little bit and distribute and get everybody else involved. Now it's kind of become second nature to me and playing for Coach Brown for so long and learning so much from him, it's become second nature to me. It's been tough, you know, it's been tough knowing that, you know, I've always really just been a scorer, knowing how to distribute and when to distribute and who to get it to at what time, you know, it's been tough to learn but I think I'm doing a good job of it now through a lot of experience.
You know, I think as a point guard, you've got to kind of pick your spots and know when, you know, the team is kind of dragging a little bit and when we're in a rut, if I can try to pull them out or pull us out of it with some baskets or make some plays maybe for other people, I think that's the key. I think that's definitely the key. I think my ability to be able to score, you know, makes it look easier than it really is. A lot of people feel the same way, but, you know, don't have that, can't score in so many ways like I can.
Q. This team is pretty tight, isn’t it?
A: We all came from some long roads, Ben in Orlando and now here, Chauncey I say pretty much that I'm the only guy to be drafted by the Pistons, but everybody else had to take a different road to get here.
We're united, period. It doesn't necessarily mean that on the floor, you know, we're a group of guys off the floor, and we always hang out with each other. It doesn't matter if it's on the floor, we're always united.
This is a team full of veterans that know what they want and we know what we've got to do when we go out on the floor. We can go out and make practical jokes and all that stuff on the floor, but once we're on the court, it's different.
Q. Can you talk about how winning this year might even be better than last year just considering everything you've had to overcome this season.
A: It definitely would be a great feeling. Winning last year was unbelievable. You know, we were all excited and things like that. Nobody believed that we could do it.
This year, you know, now everybody was coming after us and, you know, it took us a while to understand that we were the champs and every team that we played against, it's their championship game, with the melee that happened in Detroit, with Coach being out, being sick and guys being hurt and things like that. At the end of the day, you can say that we're right back here again for another chance to win a world championship, you know, I would not replace all of that stuff we did earlier for nothing, because we grew up. You know, the one thing that we learned from that is that we all had each other's back. We stayed connected through it all and we're right back here again.
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