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Klay Thompson yelled at Kerr, coaching staff when initially moved to bench,
but has settled in well

KT起初被下放板凳時對Kerr及教練團大吼大叫，但他最後調適得很好

In six games coming off the bench for the Warriors, Klay Thompson is
averaging 19.2 points a game with a 62.4 true shooting percentage and he's
hitting 44.1% from 3 — all numbers that are up from the 49 games he started
before that. He's doing all that in three fewer minutes a game, too.

在勇士板凳出發的6場比賽中，KT以62.4%的真實命中率平均拿下19.2分，三分命中率
44.1%--全部的數據都比先發49場還來的高。他每場少打3分鐘卻完成了這些事。

Klay Thompson is thriving in his bench role — and the Warriors are 5-1 in
those six games — but that doesn't mean he handled it well when first told
what was happening. Kendra Andrews of ESPN did a deep dive into Thompson's
sixth-man role and had this from Steve Kerr.



Thompson initially didn't take the news well. Kerr told ESPN that Thompson
yelled at him and some of the assistants. Later, he came back to apologize to
the coaches.
"It was not an easy conversation," Kerr said. "This is maybe the hardest part
about getting further away from our prime. It's just, after 12 years [of
Thompson starting], it wasn't easy. And still moving forward, it's not going
to be easy. But I told him, 'If you really embrace it, you can help your team
win.'"



You can't fault a competitor for reacting that way. Kerr and Thompsons said
it was a wise decision to make the move just before the All-Star break, which
gave Thompson time to process the change and come at it with a better
attitude (although he scored 35 points in that first game off the bench, so
he handled it well that night, too).



We've had a front-row seat this season to watching Thompson deal with his
basketball mortality. He is a future Hall of Fame player and part of one of
the NBA's great dynasty teams, but few players get to wind down their careers
on their own terms. Few get the John Elway exit. Thompson and the Warriors as
a whole are dealing with that as their dynasty era sunsets — it took Kerr a
long time to come around on starting Jonathan Kuminga and Brandin Podziemski,
giving this roster what it needed to have a chance at a run this season. It's
not easy to accept that we're not what we once were and things have changed
both with us and around us. Golden State has struggled with that top to
bottom.

我們本季已經坐在第一排看過KT面對他的籃球生涯退化。他是個未來名人堂球員，且是
NBA偉大王朝球隊成員之一，但很少球員能以自己的方式結束生涯。很少人能像John


Fortunately for Thompson, he seems to have found his lane and is thriving
now. He and Chris Paul off the bench dramatically change the non-Stephen
Curry minutes for the Warriors, and that's one thing that gives them a chance
when the postseason comes.

對KT來說幸運的是，他似乎已經找到他的路線且茁壯強大。他與CP3從板凳出發戲劇性地
改變Curry不在場時的勇士，而這給會在季後賽來臨時多給他們一點機會。


https://reurl.cc/G4v1zD


心得：對KT來說應該一開始真的很難接受啦，記得當初收官時被放板凳就
很不爽了。還好後來有慢慢接受調適心情。


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