Rockets coach Mike D'Antoni explains why he doesn’t like calling timeouts
by Paolo Songco
May 2, 2019
Houston Rockets head coach Mike D’Antoni puts a lot of faith in his players.
So much so that D’Antoni often opts against calling timeouts in crucial
junctures, and instead just lets his players play out the possession.
火箭總教練Mike D'Antoni總是對手下球員充滿信心，
因此很多時候D'Antoni在關鍵時刻會刻意選擇不叫暫停，而讓球員自行去發揮。
Speaking to Michael Pina of Sports Illustrated, D’Antoni shed some light on
his thought process during these types of instances:
在接受《Sports Illustrated》Michael Pina訪問時，
D'Antoni也談到關於他在比賽中的思維。
“What am I gonna do, say ‘Oh, let me take the ball out of James’s hand,
then take it out, call a timeout, put it back in their hands in the exact
same spot they were?'” D’Antoni says. “We just go with it.”
D'Antoni表示：
「我能怎麼做？哦，叫了個暫停，將球從Harden的手上拿過來，
暫停過後再將球交回他的手中繼續打？我們只需要順其自然就好。」
It’s hard to argue against D’Antoni’s logic here, especially when he has
the reigning MVP on his side. Then again, this has always been his style in
his 15-year tenure as an NBA head coach.
在這裡很難跟D'Antoni的邏輯去做爭辯，特別是當他手中有MVP等級的球星時，
而且這也是D'Antoni執教15年來的一貫風格。
One other trademark for D’Antoni is his refusal to call timeouts when
opposing teams go on scoring runs. The 67-year-old actually believes that
this is not a good tactic:
另一方面，當對手連續得分的時候，D'Antoni也不會叫暫停，他認為這不是個好策略。
“There are no analytics that really proves that if you call a timeout, it
stops the run of the other team,” he says. “Actually, there’s evidence
that doesn’t support that.”
D'Antoni繼續說道：
「沒有任何數據可以真的說明如果你叫了暫停，可以阻止對方球隊的節奏。
事實上，數據顯示叫不叫暫停和對手手感無關。」
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