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John Starks回忆“The Dunk”（19楼 纤细纯良少年 翻译） 由 CaptainKirk 发表在HoopChina·篮球场 - NBA区 http://bbs.HoopChina.com
THEY MADE A NICE POSTER OF that dunk I had for the New York Knicks against the
Chicago Bulls in the 1993 playoffs. They call it 'The Dunk." I think they're
still making money off that poster. I have one up in my office and I look at it
every day. I have it up on the wall right in front of my desk.
By time I landed, it looked like I had dunked on then" whole team. You have
Michael in the poster, Horace Grant, and Bill Cartwright. In my mind, that was
my coming-out game. We played against Chicago, against Michael. I was having a
great game and I just capped it off with that play.
That was Game 1 of the series. The Bulls didn't like playing against us because
we were so physical. Our team was built around that. We weren't really built for
offense. Coach Pat Riley wanted a defensive-minded team, and he went out and got
defensive-minded players like Anthony Mason, Charles Oakley, and myself Chicago
was a little bit more of a finesse team, even though they were a good, solid
defensive team because they used their quickness and athleticism to defend.
When we played them, I had to guard Michael a lot. Michael was a complete
player. People always ask me, "What did you do to try to stop him?" No one thing
was going to work against him. The only thing you could do is try your best to
stay in front of him, contest all his shots, and play him as physically as you
can--as much as the referee allows you.
With the refs, from the get-go, I let them know how I would be playing. Normally
if you let the referees know how you're going to be playing, they'll let you
play that way the whole game. If you started off soft and not playing
physically, and then all of sudden got up and tried to play physically, they're
going to call a foul. That's why I started off physical in any game. They may
call a foul, and I may get to complaining. After that, they just let me play.
Michael, he didn't hardly talk during the game. When I first came to the Knicks
and played against him, he did. He was just saying before one game, "You're
going to be calling me Mr. Jordan before the game is over." That was his way of
introducing himself. But it was a lot of fun competing against arguably the best
player ever to play this game.
So, like I said, I was having a real good game. It was a very physical, very
intense game and it got down to the final minute. It was a close game, and we
had the ball. It was time for the play I had stored in my mind the whole game.
It was a pick-and-roll situation. Patrick Ewing was supposed to step out, and I
was supposed to come off the pick-and-roll. All game long, the Bulls had been
forcing us baseline on that play. This particular time coming down, every time I
looked like I was getting ready to come off this pick-and-roll, BJ. Armstrong
would jump to my high side, knowing Cartwright was down there to take the
baseline away. I knew that all I had to do was look and Armstrong was going to
jump.
And that's exactly what I did. I just looked, knowing Cartwright wasn't there.
Armstrong didn't see that Cartwright wasn't there, and he just jumped to my high
side. In fact, Cartwright kind of bumped Armstrong off, and I just took off
because Cartwright was late in getting there. I had it stored in my memory bank
all game long that there was going to be a time in the game when this play was
going to come together.
So I took off: It was a bang-bang play. Once I took the baseline, I had a second
to think about what I was going to do. They left an opening, and I had so much
energy flowing through me, I just took off.
I was never intimidated to go inside against the big guys. That's part of the
game. The way I looked at it, I've been playing against bigger guys all my
life--even on the playground growing up as a little fellow. Going back to
elementary school, I played against guys bigger than me. I had dunked on many
guys bigger than Grant in my lifetime. There was no fear factor going in there.
I knew I had to go in strong.
So I went up, switched the ball to my left hand, and dunked it. Half their team
had come running over, but they were too late. When I dunked it, I didn't think
it was going to pump up the team. I was just thinking about trying to get back
on defense. Everybody else was like, "Oh my God." Everyone else was going crazy.
I was just thinking about running back on defense. When you made a great play on
the Bulls, they came right back at you, pushing the ball up hard. But I guess
Phil Jackson was like, "OK, we need a timeout."
We won that game--the game I'll never forget. But unfortunately, we didn't win
that series. We were up 3-2 in that series and had beaten the Bulls three of
four times that year in the regular season. We had the best regular season
record and home-court advantage in the playoffs. We just didn't get it done.
That was the most frustrating part of that season. To have home court and not
get it done, that's frustrating.
--As told to Chuck O'Donnell
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WHEN THE COACH OF THE WESTCHESTER Wildfire walks into the locker room and begins
to draw up a pick-and-roll or tell his team how to rotate on defense, every set
of eyes is glued to him.
John Starks overcame incredible odds to make it in the NBA He played
collegiately at Northern Oklahoma College, Rogers State College. Oklahoma Junior
College, and Oklahoma State. Later, he bagged groceries to make ends meet while
waiting for a call from an NBA team. He spent thousands of hours practicing,
played in three minor leagues, and paid every due there was to be paid before
the New York Knicks gave him his big break in 1990.
Four seasons later, he played in the NBA All-Star Game. A few seasons after
that, he was named the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year.
It's the kind of fairy tale story the Wildfire players dream about.
"They're very receptive to what I'm telling them," says Starks, who has coached
the Wildfire for two seasons. "Being a former minor league player, I know you're
pretty much going to get guys that listen. They know you've been there and been
through all the rigors. And you know pretty much what it takes for them to
achieve their goals.
"You're always going to get some guys who don't pay attention. But for the most
part, a lot of these guys want to get better. The ones that truly want it, you
can tell those ones right away, because they pay attention and ask you
questions. that's what it takes.
Starks had what it takes: Speed, quickness, and a lot of heart. He ranks 11th in
Knicks history with 8,489 points. In the playoffs, he's fourth in points and
second in steals. In the playoffs, he's made more than twice as many
three-pointers as anyone else in Knicks history. And although many Knicks fans
are still bitter over Starks' 2-of-18 shooting performance in Game 7 of the 1994
Finals, ex-Madison Square Garden president Dave Checketts once observed that "no
one ever played with more heart than John Starks."
But the very thing that made him great, is fiery competitiveness--was often hard
for Starks to harness. He walked a fine line between passion and chaos,
sometimes dipping his size 11 Nikes into the latter side. There was the
clothesline takedown on Scottie Pippen, the time he flipped off the Miami Heat
crowd, and the time he undercut Kenny Anderson, who fell and broke his wrist.
And, of course, there was the infamous head butt on Reggie Miller.
En between forearm shivers and shoving matches, Starks became a student of the
game. watching and studying the way coaches moved their players like chess
pieces.
"When your career kind of winds down, you look to see what kinds of things you
can get into. I was always telling guys what to do out on the court. I remember
once when I was playing, one of the guys said. 'Man. you should be the coach.'
"All coaches learn from other coaches and kind of develop their own style. I've
been fortunate. I've played for some great coaches. I played for John MacLeod. I
played for coach [Pat] Riley. I played for Don Nelson. I played for Jerry Sloan.
I played for some great coaches, so I got a chance to pick up a lot of things
from them."
COPYRIGHT 2004 Century Publishing
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