註：這是勇狼戰前的文章 https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/warriors/article/minnesota-s-jonathan-kuminga -looks-player-22497631.php MINNEAPOLIS — Anthony Edwards has seen, all along, what the Golden State Warrio rs have seen but couldn’t make fit. When Jonathan Kuminga attacks the man in fr ont of him, he is rarely stoppable. When he is handed the reins, and given comma nd of a basketball, he is power and strength and a kind of off-the-hardwood athl eticism that is in the 1%, at this level. 明尼亞波里斯——Anthony Edwards 一直以來都看得出來，金州勇士看到了 Jonathan Kumi nga 的優點，卻始終無法讓他融入球隊。當 Kuminga 攻擊眼前的防守者時，他幾乎無人能 擋。當他被賦予主導權、掌控球權時，他所展現的力量、體能，以及在這個層級只有前 1% 球員才具備的非凡運動能力，都令人印象深刻。 It was everything else, really, that strained Kuminga’s relationship with Golde n State until it broke, inconsistent playing time and inconsistent vision and pu blic contract-extension fussings leading to the unceremonious ship to Atlanta fo r Kristaps Porzingis in February. The Kuminga era, the idea of Joe Lacob’s two- timeline approach, is over and gone in the Bay Area. 真正讓 Kuminga 與金州勇士的關係日益緊張、最終走向破裂的，其實是其他種種問題。不 穩定的上場時間、不一致的建隊願景，以及公開的續約爭議，最終導致他在 2 月被草率送 往亞特蘭大，換來 Kristaps Porzingis。Kuminga 時代，以及 Joe Lacob 所構想的雙時間 軸建隊策略，在灣區都已成為過去。 Kuminga, though, still has plenty of fans on Golden State’s staff. Believers, e ven. And he has landed in a situation in Minnesota, alongside the exuberant Edwa rds and under head coach Chris Finch, where the former No. 7 pick may truly and finally find himself. 不過，勇士教練團中仍有不少人支持 Kuminga，甚至相信他的潛力。而如今他來到明尼蘇達 ，與充滿活力的 Edwards 並肩作戰，在總教練 Chris Finch 麾下，這位前選秀會第 7 順 位球員或許終於能真正找到自己的定位。 “Yeah, y’all see what’s going on,” Edwards said in a viral video in Septembe r, welcoming Kuminga upon his arrival in Minnesota. “This s— over with. Run th is s— up.” 「沒錯，你們都看到了現在是什麼情況。」Edwards 在 9 月一段瘋傳的影片中說道，當時 他正歡迎剛來到明尼蘇達的 Kuminga。「那些鳥事都結束了。讓我們大幹一場。」 On Wednesday, in Minnesota, the Warriors will come face to face with a version o f their former heir who — through four games — has been streamlined. After rep ortedly taking less money in free agency to land on a two-year, $13 million deal with theTimberwolves, the 23-year-old Kuminga has looked the part of a ready a nd willing secondary offensive valve (47% from three-point range) and lockdown p oint-of-attack defender (a 37.5% field goal percentage surrendered as the primar y defender, per the NBA). 週三，勇士將在明尼蘇達正面迎戰這位昔日接班人，而從前四場比賽來看，Kuminga 的角色 已經變得更加明確。據報導，他在自由球員市場上願意接受較低的薪資，與灰狼簽下兩年 1 ,300 萬美元的合約。現年 23 歲的 Kuminga 展現出隨時準備好、也願意擔任第二進攻選擇 的樣子（三分球命中率 47%），同時也是一名能夠在第一線鎖死對手的防守者（根據 NBA 數據，當他擔任主要防守者時，對手的投籃命中率僅有 37.5%）。 The baseline stats haven’t popped off the page: 11.5 points, 5.8 rebounds, 2.5 assists in 29.8 minutes a game. But Kuminga has run the floor. He has scrapped. He has endeared himself to Finch, a known players coach whom Steve Kerr has offe red heady praise for. 他的基本數據並不特別亮眼：場均上場 29.8 分鐘，得到 11.5 分、5.8 籃板、2.5 助攻。 但 Kuminga 積極跑動、努力拚搶，也贏得了 Finch 的青睞。Finch 以善於與球員相處、深 受球員信任著稱，Steve Kerr 也曾對他給予高度評價。 “He’s doing everything we asked him to do,” Finch told reporters in Minnesota on Sunday, “or that he said he wanted to do when he came here about guarding, and defending, and hustle plays, that kind of stuff … and then he’s just reall y letting the ball come to him, and he’s trusting the offense and his teammates , and he’s getting a lot of good looks ’cause the ball’s really moving, and h e’s just playing within flow.” 「我們要求他做的事情，他全都做到了，」Finch 週日在明尼蘇達接受記者訪問時表示，「 或者說，他來到這裡時自己說想做的事情，像是盯防、守住對手，以及積極拚搶之類的…… 除此之外，他真的很願意順其自然地等待球傳到自己手中，也信任球隊的進攻體系和隊友。 由於球的流動非常順暢，他獲得了很多不錯的出手機會，而他就是順著比賽的節奏打球。」 The irony here doesn’t need spelling out. 其中的諷刺意味，不言而喻。 “What I would tell him all the time is like, ‘You gotta do some of the things that you don’t want to do to do the things that you want to do,’” Warriors as sistant Kris Weems told the Chronicle in October. “And I don’t think he really understood that. Steve wasn’t necessarily — he was asking, like, run the floo r, get to the corner, and everything. But JK wasn’t always absorbing how import ant playing off the ball was for us. 「我一直都會跟他說：『你必須做一些自己不想做的事，才能做自己想做的事。』」勇士助 理教練 Kris Weems 10 月接受《舊金山紀事報》訪問時表示。「我不認為他真的理解這一 點。Steve 的要求其實不算特別複雜——就是要他快速跑動、移動到底角之類的。但 JK 並 沒有真正理解，無球打法對我們有多重要。」 “Like, Wiggs figured it out, even though Wiggs didn’t always understand why he was in certain places,” Weems continued, reflecting on former Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins. “But he started to figure out the pin-ins, and how to be able to attack, using (Stephen Curry) as the decoy. JK just was like, ‘Just give me the ball, man.’” Weems 接著談到前勇士前鋒 Andrew Wiggins：「像 Wiggs 就弄懂了這一點，儘管他並不總 是明白自己為什麼要待在某些位置。但他開始理解如何利用掩護擺脫防守，以及如何把 Ste phen Curry 當成誘餌來發動攻勢。JK 卻只會想著：『直接把球給我就好了，老兄。』」 Beyond a two-year, $46.8 million extension with Golden State in 2025, Kuminga an d Golden State simply and clearly never saw eye-to-eye on his value financially, leading to this summer’s on-the-cheap prove-it deal in Minnesota. None of it m ay have mattered, though, if Kuminga didn’t prove a “square-peg, round-hole” fit with Kerr and Golden State’s system, as one Warriors source put it. He had more than his fair share of moments: monthlong stretches in 2023-24 and 2024-25 averaging over 20 points per game, a dynamic scoring run in the Warriors’ secon d-round playoff loss to Minnesota in 2025, even a 10-game stretch at the start o f last season where he visibly bought into the concepts the staff was preaching, as the team source said. 除了 2025 年與勇士簽下兩年 4,680 萬美元的延長合約之外，Kuminga 與勇士顯然始終無 法在他的薪資價值上取得共識，這也導致他今年夏天只能在明尼蘇達簽下一份低薪的證明自 己合約。不過，正如一位勇士消息人士所說，如果 Kuminga 與 Kerr 及勇士體系之間不存 在「方枘圓鑿」的問題，這一切或許根本不會發生。他也曾有過不少亮眼表現：在 2023-24 和 2024-25 賽季，曾連續一個月場均得分超過 20 分；2025 年勇士在季後賽第二輪敗給 明尼蘇達時，他曾打出一段極具爆發力的得分表現；甚至在上賽季初期，他也曾連續 10 場 比賽明顯接受並執行教練團反覆強調的戰術理念，球隊消息人士如此表示。 None of it stopped Kuminga dipping in and out of consistently defined rotational roles at Kerr’s whim. In Minnesota, through an early stretch with Finch, he’s carved out a clear and consistent role as a two-way wing on a Western Conferenc e contender in need of such wing help. 然而，這些表現都沒能讓 Kuminga 擺脫在 Kerr 的安排下，時而獲得明確輪替角色、時而 又失去定位的處境。在明尼蘇達，與 Finch 合作的初期，他已經在這支西區爭冠球隊中站 穩腳步，成為一名角色明確且穩定的攻防兼備側翼，而灰狼也正需要這樣的側翼戰力。 From afar, now, many with the Warriors are pulling for Kuminga. 如今，勇士內部有不少人都在遠方默默支持 Kuminga。 “It was a two-way kind of, street, where it ultimately just didn’t work out,” assistant Bruce Fraser told the Chronicle last week. “But JK had some really g ood promise here. And I just think — this is a league that is unforgiving, and there’s change, and you always hope that when change comes for a coach or a pla yer, that it works out well for ’em. Because everyone loves JK. 「這段關係是雙向的，最終只是沒有成功。」助理教練 Bruce Fraser 上週接受《舊金山紀 事報》訪問時表示。「但 JK 在這裡確實展現出很好的潛力。我只是覺得，這個聯盟是很殘 酷的，而且人事變動總是會發生。當教練或球員面臨改變時，你總是希望事情最後能有好的 結果，因為大家都很喜歡 JK。」 “And he had some good years, and it was just … he has a chance to do some real ly good stuff in Minnesota,” Fraser continued. Fraser 接著說：「他也曾有過幾個不錯的賽季，只是……他現在有機會在明尼蘇達打出一 番成績。」 The stage is set, though, for an act of vengeance Wednesday. ESPN reported Tuesd ay that Timberwolves star Edwards will miss extended time after a knee procedure , which will inevitably open up necessary self-creation opportunities against Go lden State. Kuminga, too, will likely spend time checking fast-rising Warriors r ookie Yaxel Lendeborg, their 2026 first-round pick who is a month older than Kum inga — a player now entering his sixth NBA season — and has already seized the kind of role that Kuminga could never consistently find in the Bay Area. 不過，週三這場比賽已經具備了復仇的舞台。ESPN 週二報導，灰狼球星 Edwards 接受膝部 手術後將缺席一段時間，這勢必會讓 Kuminga 在對陣勇士時獲得更多必須由自己創造進攻 機會的空間。此外，Kuminga 很可能也會花上一些時間防守迅速崛起的勇士新秀 Yaxel Len deborg。這位勇士在 2026 年選秀會首輪選中的球員，比 Kuminga 還大一個月（而 Kuming a 如今即將迎來自己的 NBA 第六個賽季） 卻已經搶下了 Kuminga 在灣區始終無法穩定取 得的那種角色。 In his second NBA game, Lendeborg played 37 minutes against Memphis. This is par tly by necessity, with a rehabbing Jimmy Butler and Moses Moody. Also, though, p artly because Kerr has a clear trust in Lendeborg to endure and process criticis m around his own mistakes. Kuminga, by contrast, didn’t play 37 minutes in a ga me for the Warriors until his second NBA season. Lendeborg 在自己的第二場 NBA 比賽中，對陣曼菲斯時就上場了 37 分鐘。這部分是出於 現實需求，因為 Jimmy Butler 和 Moses Moody 都還在復健。但另一方面，也因為 Kerr 明確信任 Lendeborg，認為他能夠承受並消化針對自身失誤的批評。相比之下，Kuminga 直 到 NBA 生涯第二個賽季，才首次在勇士單場出賽達到 37 分鐘。 Did Kuminga ever have the chances to fail, back in stouter years of Golden State ’s roster, that Lendeborg will have this season? 在金州勇士陣容更為強盛的那些年，Kuminga 是否曾有過像 Lendeborg 本季這樣，即使犯 錯也能繼續嘗試的機會？ “No,” the Warriors source told the Chronicle. “Not even close. Because we wer e trying to win titles. And we should be. If you can win a title, you just win a title. F— development.” 「沒有，」勇士消息人士告訴《舊金山紀事報》。「完全不能相提並論。因為我們當時的目 標是爭奪總冠軍，而且本來就該如此。如果你有機會拿下總冠軍，那就直接去拿。去他的球 員養成。」 Golden State got its title in Kuminga’s rookie season in 2021-22. It did not ge t its future superstar in Kuminga. Its asset management decayed over the years t o the point where the Warriors simply got back Porzingis in that February trade, a player who played 15 regular-season games last season and was paid $20 millio n guaranteed to potentially play in zero games this season. 金州勇士在 Kuminga 新秀賽季的 2021-22 年奪下總冠軍，卻沒能將他培養成球隊未來的超 級球星。多年來，勇士的資產管理逐漸走下坡，最終在今年 2 月的交易中，只換回了 Porz ingis。他上賽季僅出賽 15 場例行賽，而本季即使一場都沒打，也能領到保障的 2,000 萬 美元薪水。 Kuminga, for his part, has a prime chance to cement himself Wednesday and beyond . 至於 Kuminga，他有絕佳機會從週三這場比賽開始，進一步確立自己的地位。 “I think everyone would’ve expected him to figure it out at some point,” the Warriors source said. “Not even figure it out — be more consistent, is probabl y the best way to put it. But a lot of young guys, it takes a new situation and hearing the same things to be like, ‘Oh.’” 「我想，大家都預期他遲早會找到自己的方向，」勇士消息人士說。「與其說是找到方向， 不如說是表現得更穩定，這可能是最貼切的說法。但很多年輕球員都需要換個環境，重新聽 到同樣的道理，才會突然恍然大悟。」 - 我只是想放張圖 https://i.imgur.com/ra17ciN.jpeg -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 49.216.90.199 (臺灣) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/NBA/M.1793325170.A.76C.html