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发帖数: 12553 | 1 我们从内部，从基础的方面打造了这支球队。。。
WARRIORS OWNER JOE Lacob is known for a lot of things in business and in
life. But as a basketball owner, he's known for telling The New York Times
that the Warriors were "light-years ahead" in terms of culture, process and
talent.
The Warriors didn't just assemble this team for the ages on the fly, with
one crazy summer. They built it from within, with savvy draft picks, the
right infrastructure under team president Rick Welts and sagacious guidance
from Kerr.
"We live and breathe this every day," Lacob said. "We plan what we're going
to do and hopefully we make the right decisions. We don't always. But I
think history so far has proven that we've made some good decisions."
Good decisions like building around Curry on a manageable four-year, $43
million contract extension, despite a history of ankle issues early in his
career. Or being disciplined about keeping salary-cap space for the summer
of 2016, when revenue was set to explode as the new television contract
kicked in. Or not trading Klay Thompson for Kevin Love in 2015. Or finding a
second-round pick named Draymond Green who became a future superstar and
Defensive Player of the Year.
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All of those moves allowed them to add Durant to the 73-win team and go from
the NBA's darlings to its villains.
"That [NBA] owners meeting, the July after we got Kevin, was a difficult one
," Lacob said. "I felt really personally persecuted by the other owners."
Lacob understands very clearly why other owners and fans around the league
resent him and the Warriors even as they respect the dynasty they've
assembled. But if you're asking him to ease up a little, or even just to
sympathize, it's not happening.
"We can't worry about that," he said. "Our job is to win. Our job is to do
the best for our fans and for our partners and our organization.
"The truth is, we've got to keep doing it. You can't just rest on your
laurels. We have to start working on next year right now."
In other words: No mercy.
You see, Lacob adheres to the Ayn Rand doctrine of hardcore free-market
capitalism. A philosophy the Russian-American author called, "the virtue of
selfishness."
"Every man is an end in himself," she wrote in "Atlas Shrugged," her 1957
novel. "He exists for his own sake, and the achievement of his own happiness
is his highest moral purpose."
So devoted to the Randian worldview is Lacob that he named his dogs John
Galt and Howard Roark, the main characters from Rand's seminal works.
In 2016, after the Cavaliers rallied back from a 3-1 series deficit to beat
the Warriors in the NBA Finals, Lacob said that it took him 30 minutes to
get over the loss and start thinking about how the team could get better the
following year.
"When somebody else wins or does well, my dad doesn't think, 'Oh, that's so
unfair,'" said Warriors assistant general manager, Kirk Lacob. "He
immediately goes to, 'How can we beat them?'
"If you don't want to lose, be better. Don't complain about it, do something
about it."
Kirk Lacob said he had lunch with his father Friday afternoon before Game 4
and all he wanted to talk about was the upcoming NBA draft and what the team
could do to improve for next season.
"He's going to be really happy for like the next five minutes," Kirk Lacob
said. "And then he's going to yell at us about the draft. He's been doing
that for the last week."
For as much as the Warriors dynasty was built on Kerr's humanism and Curry's
joyfulness, Lacob's ruthless devotion to improvement is also a key tenet of
the culture.
It's what makes Golden State's dominance as much a story about the rest of
the NBA's futile pursuit of this team as it is about the Warriors overcoming
their own existential angst and sustaining a level of excellence no one
else can match.
Some teams have tried to copy the Warriors' style of play by targeting
versatile, two-way players who can guard multiple positions on defense and
stretch the floor on offense. Others have brought in multiple superstars in
Frankenstein-esque science experiments to match the Warriors' talent. Other
teams punted on this season, knowing it would take several years to even
think of lining up the players and salary cap space to challenge Golden
State.
"You can't just rest on your laurels. We have to start working on next year
right now."
Warriors owner Joe Lacob
As James put it before Game 4, "Everyone is trying to figure out: How do you
put together a group of talent, but also a group of minds to be able to
compete with Golden State?"
It's hard to say if any of these approaches will ultimately be enough to
topple Golden State, or if the Warriors empire is only fallible from within.
"People always try to copy winners," Lacob said. "That may or may not be the
right thing to do, because things always change. I think you have to re-
evaluate every year and see what you want to do for the future."
For the Warriors, that is going to start being a very expensive proposition
as Durant, Thompson and Green are all in line for massive new contracts in
the next few years. Lacob said Friday night that he intends to offer
extensions or new deals to all of them this summer.
"All good things cost a lot," he said simply. "We're going to try to sign
Klay and Draymond to extensions this summer. They've earned the right to do
whatever they want; maybe they want to wait until free agency. I can't
control that. But we'll do whatever we can to keep them.
"We've proven that if we think we're competing for a championship, we'll be
in the luxury tax. No one wants to be, but we expect to be. All I can tell
you is we're going to sit down and do our planning on how we're going to
improve the team for the future and setting ourselves up in the future. And
it could go a number of different ways."
"People always try to copy winners," Warriors owner Joe Lacob said. Gregory
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THERE'S A GLIMMER of hope for the rest of the league in that last statement.
"It could go a number of ways."
For now, it's about as good as any other team or superstar in search of a
title can hope for after yet another year of Warriors dominance.
It's also what made this fourth run so exhausting and precarious compared to
the first three. There were plenty of times this year when it seemed the
Warriors might not be able to summon the right kind of attitude and energy
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After a lethargic loss in Indiana in April, Kerr publicly wondered if his
team needed to care more. That didn't go over well with the players, and
Kerr subsequently walked the statement back.
Kerr and general manager Bob Myers met privately after that loss in Indiana
to discuss what could be done to rouse the team from its late-season slumber.
"I told Steve, because he was upset after Indiana, 'We have to give them the
benefit of the doubt. They've earned that,'" Myers said. "Was I worried? My
first thought was, 'Yes.' But my second thought was, 'Have they let us down
yet?'"
Kerr had already pushed every button he could think to push throughout the
team's languid regular season, which ended with 10 losses in the final 17
games. If the Warriors were going to find their way back, it would have to
come from within.
They'd have to fight for it and through it, without the joyful lift they all
felt when all this was new.
"Doing the same thing over and over again. It's tough to get up every night,
" Green said. "But we enjoy competing. We enjoy competing."
It was the same for all of them. Kerr quietly battled the same health issues
he has for the past three years. Imagine a migraine every day of your life
and you'll get some sense of the constant suffering Kerr's spinal fluid leak
has caused him. The only differences this season are that he's learned to
manage it better, and most people stopped asking him about it.
Myers had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his hip and spent most of the
playoffs limping around. In years past, the former UCLA player has kept his
connection and love for the game strong by playing pickup with coaches and
staffers. But he's not cleared to do that until September as his hip heals,
so he could only watch as others played.
After Game 1 in Houston, Myers, Kerr and second-year forward Patrick McCaw
sat together by the court while the rest of the team practiced. In April,
they'd all gone to bed not sure if McCaw would ever walk again following a
frightening fall during a game in Sacramento.
The game had been taken away from all of them. Joy replaced by pain. And yet
there they were, sitting together on the court while a team for the ages
geared up for a final, championship push.
"When you have something to be excited about when you wake up in the morning
," Kerr said. "And you have a great family like I do, it's all worth it."
A week or so later, Myers and his wife welcomed their third child, a girl,
into the world.
Three weeks later, the Warriors added their third championship in four years
to the trophy case. They celebrated in the same building and at the same
restaurant -- Morton's The Steakhouse in Cleveland -- as they did for the
first championship in 2015.
So much had changed since that first year. For the Warriors and for the
league. And yet there was a sweetness in the symmetry.
"It's like your first kid; there's nothing like it," Myers said in comparing
championship runs. "And then you try to get more." | l******r
发帖数: 18699 | 2 丫是说狗洞不属于这个联盟。丫还不滚出去？！
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guidance
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【在 n****4 的大作中提到】
: 我们从内部，从基础的方面打造了这支球队。。。
: WARRIORS OWNER JOE Lacob is known for a lot of things in business and in
: life. But as a basketball owner, he's known for telling The New York Times
: that the Warriors were "light-years ahead" in terms of culture, process and
: talent.
: The Warriors didn't just assemble this team for the ages on the fly, with
: one crazy summer. They built it from within, with savvy draft picks, the
: right infrastructure under team president Rick Welts and sagacious guidance
: from Kerr.
: "We live and breathe this every day," Lacob said. "We plan what we're going
| L**9
发帖数: 1 | 3 显然
一垫管一年，见过么？
原告变被告，见过么？
and
guidance
going
【在 n****4 的大作中提到】
: 我们从内部，从基础的方面打造了这支球队。。。
: WARRIORS OWNER JOE Lacob is known for a lot of things in business and in
: life. But as a basketball owner, he's known for telling The New York Times
: that the Warriors were "light-years ahead" in terms of culture, process and
: talent.
: The Warriors didn't just assemble this team for the ages on the fly, with
: one crazy summer. They built it from within, with savvy draft picks, the
: right infrastructure under team president Rick Welts and sagacious guidance
: from Kerr.
: "We live and breathe this every day," Lacob said. "We plan what we're going
| D****3
发帖数: 1 | 4 这话还是说在亚七三之前 哈哈 piapia
[在 ne5234 (Nessun Dorma) 的大作中提到：]
:我们从内部，从基础的方面打造了这支球队。。。
:WARRIORS OWNER JOE Lacob is known for a lot of things in business and in
:life. But as a basketball owner, he's known for telling The New York
Times
:that the Warriors were "light-years ahead" in terms of culture,
process and talent.
:The Warriors didn't just assemble this team for the ages on the fly,
with
:one crazy summer. They built it from within, with savvy draft picks, the
:right infrastructure under team president Rick Welts and sagacious guidance
from Kerr.
:"We live and breathe this every day," Lacob said. "We plan what
we're going to do and hopefully we make the right decisions. We don'
;t always. But I
:think history so far has proven that we've made some good decisions.&#
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:Good decisions like building around Curry on a manageable four-year, $43
:.......... | L**9
发帖数: 1 | 5 你不说，还没注意，
一看，light years，尼玛果然73胜光年总亚军啊。
【在 D****3 的大作中提到】
: 这话还是说在亚七三之前 哈哈 piapia
: [在 ne5234 (Nessun Dorma) 的大作中提到：]
: :我们从内部，从基础的方面打造了这支球队。。。
: :WARRIORS OWNER JOE Lacob is known for a lot of things in business and in
: :life. But as a basketball owner, he's known for telling The New York
: Times
: :that the Warriors were "light-years ahead" in terms of culture,
: process and talent.
: :The Warriors didn't just assemble this team for the ages on the fly,
: with
| n****4
发帖数: 12553 | 6 是吗，这样的话，这位上周五晚上喝酒的时候又说了一次
【在 D****3 的大作中提到】
: 这话还是说在亚七三之前 哈哈 piapia
: [在 ne5234 (Nessun Dorma) 的大作中提到：]
: :我们从内部，从基础的方面打造了这支球队。。。
: :WARRIORS OWNER JOE Lacob is known for a lot of things in business and in
: :life. But as a basketball owner, he's known for telling The New York
: Times
: :that the Warriors were "light-years ahead" in terms of culture,
: process and talent.
: :The Warriors didn't just assemble this team for the ages on the fly,
: with
| D****3
发帖数: 1 | 7 呵呵 piapia 马后炮赶上变形密了
[在 ne5234 (Nessun Dorma) 的大作中提到：]
:是吗，这样的话，这位上周五晚上喝酒的时候又说了一次
:在遥远的北方，沿北冰洋海岸的是荒芜的冻土带，全年除四到六周的生长
:期外，一直封冻。但是在生长期，太阳从不下落，将短暂然而旺盛的生命
:赐予无数野花——紫罗兰、雏菊、勿忘草、黄水仙和蓝花。 |
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