The last time Jerryd Bayless played in Las Vegas, he remembers having quite the strut, and an attitude to go along with his swagger. As a rookie for the Trail Blazers, he had just torched the NBA Summer League with a 29.8-point average in four games, set a scoring record and garnered the league's Most Valuable Player award. He remembers feeling on top of the world, as good as Olympians Chris Paul and Deron Williams, and ready to make an immediate impact in the NBA. 这几段在说，Bayless去年在夏季联盟出色优异的表现让它拿到最有价值球员，这种感觉 让他彷佛置身在世界顶端，就像参加奥运的CP3与Deron Williams一样。 他觉得他已经准备好要给整个NBA一个立即的冲击。 "I thought, 'Pfft. What can you tell me? I scored 30 a game,'" Bayless said. "I wasn't quite that cocky but ... at the same time, (I was feeling) there's not really too much you can say to me right now. Who else has done that coming into the league? Chris, D.Will ... none of them came in and scored 30 a game. But it was the worst possible thing. At the time I thought it was the best possible thing, but for me and this team, it was the worst possible thing." As many players before him have discovered (Qyntel Woods once left Vegas as the leading scorer), success in summer league doesn't necessarily translate into success in the NBA. In what he considers a frustrating learning experience, Bayless in his rookie season mostly sat on the bench, averaging 12.4 minutes in 53 games. 然而，从过去不少例子可发现夏季联盟的成功本来就不必然地代表在NBA也会出头天。 对於Bayless来说，这一个球季是个令人挫折的经验，大部分被冰在板凳上，在53场 比赛中平均上场12.4分钟。 "The NBA can humble you pretty quick," said Bayless, who averaged 4.3 points and 1.5 assists. "And it definitely did that to me last year." "NBA能够很快的让一个球员谦逊(渺小)起来" There was a 10-game stretch in January and February when Bayless flourished. While starter Steve Blake was injured, Bayless became the backup to Sergio Rodriguez and averaged 11.0 points and 2.8 assists, including key performances in road wins at New Jersey (23 points) and New Orleans (19 points, six assists). Ready to show point guard skills But for the most part, Bayless was predictable, never able to shed the attacking, Tasmanian devil-style play that was fed and created in summer league. In part, the Blazers had only themselves to blame for his lack of development in running an offense. They played Bayless at shooting guard last summer while former first-round pick Petteri Koponen played point guard. Still, Bayless refuses to accept that as an excuse. "It's my fault," he said. "Scoring 30 and all that stuff -- it's great and obviously looks good and what not -- but for this team and what this team needs, I need to be more of a distributor and hit the shot when it's there for me. I went the wrong direction, I guess. I just didn't do the right thing." 每场得30分固然很棒，但是为了这支球队的所需，我更需要是一个球的掌控分配者， 以及在投篮的机会出现时，我就稳稳当当的把握住。我想我过去选错了方向，我没有 做对的事情。 Today, when Bayless leads the Blazers into their summer league opener against Toronto, he will once again be the focal point of the team's coaching staff and upper management. But this time, Bayless says he will be intent on showing the Blazers his point guard skills, rather than posting gaudy statistics. "Being the point guard of (the Blazers) is what I want to do," Bayless said. "And I know I'm going to be prepared this year, because I had a lot of time to sit and watch last year. I think I figured out a lot of things." Bayless said he plans to apply his studies of two NBA point guards in particular -- Blake and Denver's Chauncey Billups. From Blake, he said he's learned about pace -- knowing when to push, when to set up the offense. He studied how Blake played off Brandon Roy, drifting into the corner for three-pointers, and the types of passes Blake made to Roy off the Blazers' "power" series -- which are down screens designed to get the ball to Roy. "I told Steve after the playoffs that I don't think he gets enough credit for how good he is," Bayless said. "People don't realize that Steve is really good, I mean, he did some great things for us." During the season, he watched Billups, a bulky guard like himself, who came into the league as a scorer. He studied how Billups blended "the best of both worlds" -- scoring and assisting. "And truthfully, it took (Billups) a long time to figure out what it took," Bayless said. "(Knowing that) it took him that long, I've been on the watch, and I've dissected what he has done and added that to my game. When I have (a scoring opportunity), I'm going to take it. But other than that, I'm going to run the team." The Blazers aren't totally convinced Bayless is a true point guard. Coach Nate McMillan admits that he sees Bayless much like he did Jarrett Jack -- a player who thinks he is a point guard but is probably better suited to be a combo guard, or a point/shooting guard. "What some people get caught up in is making this guy or that guy into something," McMillan said. "But I say let's take advantage of what the guy does. So I want to see him play point guard in Vegas, but not necessarily become one. Just play it. If you score, that's fine, but show me you can create things." McMillan said he envisions pairing Bayless and Rudy Fernandez together this season, which will include stretches of Fernandez playing point guard. In fact, a preseason priority for McMillan is to play Fernandez at point guard, which he feels will allow Bayless to use his strength as a scorer. Bayless insists he is a pure point guard, and emphatically shoots down notions that he is a combo guard. He is intent on showing it this week during the Blazers' five summer league games. Nobody knows specifically what Bayless has to do to prove he can play point guard. General manager Kevin Pritchard, McMillan and Bayless all say it's an intangible skill set, but one that is discernable when right. "It's not necessarily going out and passing the ball, or not scoring, its being aggressive and being able to run the team," Bayless said. "It's taking what the defense is giving you, getting people into their spots. It's not just one particular thing." Playing some important pickup The one particular thing it is: an opportunity. If he shows he can play the position it bodes well for his future on a team that is carrying only two "point guards." If there are questions after summer league, it could lead to even more rumors that the Blazers are looking to acquire an upgrade at point guard this summer. "It is an opportunity for me, whether I can take advantage or not is up to me now," Bayless said. "Hopefully I can do some things that coach likes and figure this thing out. I just want to be part of this team, help this team and play. Whether that's scoring, assisting, whatever -- being the point guard of this team is what I want to do." "我想成为这支球队的一部份，帮助这支球队运作，不管是得分，助攻或是其他有的没的 --身为这支球队的控卫就是我想做的" He says he has been playing pickup games in his hometown of Phoenix against NBA players Mike Bibby, Amare Stoudemire and former University of Oregon player Alex Scales. In those pickup games he rediscovered his jump shot and his confidence. Last season, Bayless made 36.5 percent of his shots, including 7 of 27 from three-point range (25.9 percent). And it wasn't that he missed, he missed badly. "I've never shot that bad in my life," Bayless said. "My whole life I have been a shooter. I just didn't have the confidence last year. It won't be like that this year, I will tell you that much." Bayless上个球季的投篮命中率仅36.5%(包括三分球的27投7中)，他不仅仅是投失了， 而是彻底的投失了....(那Outlaw季後赛那些投篮要怎麽评语XD) Bayless说"我人生中从来没有投的那麽糟糕过，我一直都是个射手，我只是上个球季 没有信心，但今年不会这个样子了，我会好好的表现的。" --

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