http://bbs.hoopchina.com/htm_data/2/0509/48492.html我在纽约1993年季候赛轰爆公牛的那个那个扣篮，他们做了张华丽的海报。人们叫它“THE DUNK”。我想这些商人仍然在靠它赚钱。我自己的办公室里也有一个，就在我对面的墙上，每天我都会看到。
那次扣篮看起来像是在他们整个球队头上扣进的。在那海报上你能看见Michael、Horace Grant和Bill Cartwright。那次扣篮使我名震天下，我们当时要对抗公牛，对抗乔丹。我打了场了不起的比赛，那记扣篮，直接把他们扔进棺材钉上了钉子。
那是系列赛第一场，公牛最不想遇见的就是我们。因为我们打的是体能球，我们的球队就是以此为根基建立的。莱利教练想要只防守第一的球队，所以他找来了Anthony Mason, Charles Oakley，当然还有我。跟我们相比，公牛的球更加讲究技巧——虽然他们防守也很好，但他们的防守靠的是速度和技术，不像我们，我们是群魔鬼筋肉人。
比赛中我不得不经常防守乔丹，他是篮球场上的终极球员。人们总问我：“你怎么才能阻止他？”我实话告诉你们，乔丹是没办法防守的。你所能做的唯一一件事情就是竭尽全力跟上他，挑战他的每一次出手。以你全部的力量死死缠住他，在裁判允许的最大限度下跟他肉搏。
提到裁判，我总是先让他们知道我的比赛是什么样的。通常你一开始让裁判看见的比赛方式便会成为他心里默认的，之后他会让你整场比赛都那么打。要是你一上来打得很软，之后你的每次身体接触就都会被判犯规。这就是为什么我每场比赛从一开始就打得很强硬，他们可能会吹我个犯规，我会过去大声抱怨。之后，他们就随我怎么折腾也不会管了。
回来再说乔丹，这家伙可真能说。我第一次跟他比赛的时候没等开始他就跑过来说：“不等比赛结束，你就会称我为Mr. Jordan。”这就是他自我介绍的方式。不过虽然他喋喋不休，但跟运动史上最强的选手竞争总是件过瘾的事儿。
所以就像我一开始说的，我那次打了场好球。肉搏战从开始战到最后，比分一直咬得很紧。最后时刻，我们领先三分有球权。那是个挡拆，尤因应该出来掩护，然后我从三分线右侧往里突。整场比赛公牛都把我们逼向底线，每次我看上去要跟尤因打挡拆，阿姆斯特朗都会跳到我的高位堵住我，卡特莱特则在低位等着封盖。
我抬起头，知道卡特莱特不在那里，但是阿姆斯特朗看不见，他跟每次一样堵高位。事实上那次是卡特莱特坑了阿姆斯特朗，我长驱直入，卡特莱特已经来不及回防。整场比赛我都在等待，我知道整场比赛，总会有一次他们的防守出现破绽，我抓住了机会。
于是我起跳了：那场面就像枪战片的慢镜头，冲向底线是我有一秒钟的时间考虑下一步，他们留给我很大的空当，而我觉得浑身充满能量。于是我起跳了。
我从来不怕面对内线的大个子们，这些人是比赛的一部分。我一辈子都在跟比我高大的人对抗——从我还是个孩子的时候就是这样。我在无数比格兰特更大好的家伙头上扣过，所以我无所畏惧，我知道面对对手我必须更强硬才有希望。
所以我把球换到左手、起飞，把球砸进篮筐。他们半支球队的人都向我冲来，但是太晚了。我当时没意识到自己做了什么，只是想着赶快回防。但是所有人都是一副“上帝啊这家伙干了什么”的表情。每个人都像是发了疯，我却只想着快点回防。每一次你对公牛来上这么一记暴扣他们总会立刻向你反扑，以各种更狠的方式找回来。但是这一次我猜菲尔杰克逊心里想的是：“天，我们得暂停。”
那场球我们赢了——叫我永世难忘的比赛。但是不幸的是，我们没能赢得那个系列赛。我们3-2领先而且常规赛的时候对公牛四战三胜，我们还有主场优势。可我们还是输了。那是整个赛季最让人难受的部分。
——以上是john starks的原话，由Chuck O'Donnell转述
John Starks回忆“The Dunk”（19楼 纤细纯良少年 翻译）
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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