Kings forward Anthony Tolliver was settling in for a movie night with his wife
Sunday when his phone started to receive notifications that the Kings were co
nsidering trading star DeMarcus Cousins.
“I was like, ‘Yeah right, that’s not going to happen, Tolliver said.
About a half-hour later, the deal was done.
“We watched ‘SportsCenter’ pretty much the rest of the night,” Tolliver sa
id.
星期日時，Anthony Tolliver正在與他的老婆一起看電影，而他在手機收到了國王可能會
交易Cousins的消息
「我當時感覺是，喔好吧，不過這件事情不會發生」
然後半小時後，交易發生了
「結果在那天晚上剩下的所有時間我們都在看SportCenter」
“If your franchise player gets traded, what does that say about everybody els
e?” said guard Darren Collison, whose name has also surfaced recently in trad
e rumors.
“It’s been really emotional the last couple days,” Collison said. “(Cousin
s and Casspi) are my two closest friends on the team, and to see them go like
that is unfortunate.”
「當你隊上的招牌球員都被交易走時，這對剩下的球員說明了什麼?」Darren Collison說
，這位過去幾天名字也出現在交易流言中的球員
「最近的幾天我情緒一直是非常激動的，Cousins跟Casspi是我在隊上最親密的隊友，看
著他們被交易走實在是太不幸了」
“Thirty points (a game from Cousins), you can’t find that nowhere else,” Co
llison said. “His rebounding, his determination, his competitiveness, his wil
l, his fire – don’t even worry about filling those shoes.
“I think with us, we have to literally play team basketball. It sounds like s
uch a generic statement, but that’s how we’ve got to try to win games.”
「Cousins一晚可以得30分，你無法在其他地方找到這種表現了，他的籃板、他的決心、
他的競爭力、他的意志力、他的火爆，他的位置是無法取代的」
「我認為我們在一起時能夠真正意義的打團隊籃球，這聽起來很正常，但這就是我們如何
去贏下比賽的」
Forward Willie Cauley-Stein said he was surprised by the trade. But he added h
e didn’t think the front office would have made it “if there was nobody here
that they think could fill that void just a little bit, at all.”
“It’s a lot to do with the team now and not so much one guy,” Cauley-Stein
said. “If we want to continue to win and progress, our team has to be good. O
ur team has to do all the little things right.
“It can’t just be one guy anymore. I think all in all it’ll make us better,
more guys getting more roles and playing together. It’ll be interesting, tho
ugh.”
前鋒Willie Cauley Stein則說他對交易感到吃驚，但他表示他認為管理層不會把事情弄
成「完全沒有任何人可以取代Cousins」(意思是其他球員多少可以填補一些)
「現在為了這個球隊我們必須做很多事情，而一個人做不來那麼多」Stein說
「如果我們想要繼續贏球了話，和進步了話，我們必須要把團隊調整好，我們的隊伍必須
做好每一件小事情」
「現在不能孤軍奮戰了，我認為最終來看這會使我們變得更好，更多人承擔更重的責任，
然後大家一起打球，這會很有趣的」
Cauley-Stein, who figures to assume a bulk of Cousins’ minutes, said he perso
nally felt motivated by the change.
“I think we’ve got enough guys that’s in it for the right reasons that I do
n’t see why we couldn’t make the eighth seed,” Cauley-Stein said. “For me,
that’s my mission the next 25 games. So you might see a different spark from
me. Like, I’m trying to win.
“Before, I didn’t have no – playing 10 minutes, 15 minutes, I didn’t have
a lot of say in what we do. Now we just lost two verbal leaders, somebody else
has got to step up and be a verbal leader. So I think, ‘Why not me?’?
Stein在Cousins被交易後會有更多的上場時間，而他也說了這使得覺得更有動力了
「我認為我們已經有了足夠的人手所以我不覺得我們為何不能進入西區第8」Stein說
「對我來說，在之後的25場比賽這是我的任務，所以你可能會看到我展現不一樣的鬥志，
我正在努力去贏球」
「在之前，我每場比賽就打10或15分鐘，對於現在的我們該做什麼我也沒什麼好說的，現
在我們失去了兩位領袖，現在一定要有人站出來承擔這個責任，所以我想為什麼不是我呢
?」
The three players the Kings received in the trade – guards Buddy Hield, Tyrek
e Evans and Langston Galloway – arrived in Sacramento on Tuesday but did not
participate in a light evening practice. A team spokesman said they still had
to pass physicals and would be on the court for practice Wednesday. The Kings
resume play Thursday against Denver at Golden 1 Center.
三位國王在交易中得到的球員-Buddy Hield、Tyreke Evans、Langston Galloway，在週
二地帶沙加緬度但是還沒參加球隊的訓練，在週三訓練之前，他們還需要先通過體檢，而
國王將會在週四在主場迎戰金塊隊。
“It’s going to be a little bit on the fly,” coach Dave Joerger said of inte
grating the new players into his system. “There’s not a lot of practice time
in 25 games (left). So you’ve got to stick with some of the things that you
’ve been doing, even as you slowly work through some other things.”
Joerger said the Kings will likely play smaller now with Cousins and Barnes go
ne. Tolliver should see more time at power forward, with rookie Skal Labissier
e a possible backup, though Joerger suggested even having one big – Cauley-St
ein or Kosta Koufos – on the court with four guards.
「飛行對他們確實會有一點影響」國王教練Dave Joerger說到
「在我們剩下的25場比賽我們將不會有太多的練習時間，所以你一定要關心你一直都正在
做的事情，儘管你有可能要處理其他的事情」
Joerger表示在Barnes&Cousins離開後國王接下來將會打更多小球戰術，Tolliver會有更
多時間打大前鋒，新秀Skal Labissiere作為他的替補，除此之外Joerger還提出一大四小
的陣容，Stein或是Koufos搭配四個後衛
Hield, a rookie, and Evans are shooting guards, and Galloway was New Orleans’
backup point guard. Joerger also said guards Arron Afflalo and Ty Lawson – w
ho were injured entering the break – practiced fully Tuesday and Garrett Temp
le could be available Thursday. So the Kings have plenty of bodies in the back
court.
新秀Hield跟Evans都是得分後衛，而Galloway在紐奧良鵜鶘時擔任替補控球，Joerger同
時也說了Affalo跟Lawson，兩位之前受傷的球員在週二參加了完整的練習，然後Garrett
Temple週四有機會上場，所以國王的後場人手非常充足。
Hield landed at Sacramento International Airport on Tuesday afternoon with a g
aggle of Kings fans on hand to greet him. Grinning, the rookie out of Oklahoma
told reporters, “Everybody embracing me like this, I kind of feel like I wan
t to be here now.”
Hield在週二中午抵達了沙加緬度國際機場，而當時有許多國王球迷來迎接他，關於這件
事情，Hield說
「每個人都像這樣歡迎我，我已經開始覺得我想在這裡打球了。」