LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers are taking a little while to click, which is normal and just fine Lebron James 的克里夫兰骑士队需要花一些时间上膛, 这很正常而且蛮好的 By Kelly Dwyer Reference: http://ppt.cc/GdBs All-Star games can be fun. The mix of unselfish superstars, outrageous skill sets, and the exhibition setting can lead to some thrilling play – whether that comes in the form of five fancy passes leading to a highlight finish, or some one-on-one brilliance. 全明星赛可以充满乐趣。不自私的明星球员，高超的篮球技艺，和表演赛的比赛氛围 ，让我们总是可以看见一些不可思议的演出─无论是经由绚丽的五人传球演出的华丽 灌篮，或是那些充满天赋的一对一单打。 All-Star games can also be truly boring. NBA superstars might be tighter than ever as they text away to each other following games or barnstorm with each other selling sneakers overseas in the summer, but that doesn’t guarantee they’ll play well together. Passes will miss their target. The usual alpha-males will actually back down and defer with the ball. Instructions won ’t be barked out, because nobody wants to hurt anyone else’s feelings. 全明星赛也可以非常无聊。在例行性夏季商业表演活动场合上，NBA 全明星们也可能 聚拢在一起，但集合一群明星球员并不表示他们一定会有出色的演出。传球可能会开 始失了准头，长久以来担任球队领导球员的人会开始退让同时处理球来显得犹豫，他 们不会大声喊出或是指责队友应该负责的任务，因为没有人想伤害对方的感情。 The Cleveland Cavaliers have three current All-Stars on their team; they have a former lottery pick as a top reserve forward, a former four-time All-Star as a utility man, a former Rookie of the Year, and a reserve swingman that likes to think of himself as an All-Star. The team has lost two out of its first three games to start the season, with its lone win coming in overtime against a Bulls team that was playing without its starting backcourt down the stretch. 克里夫兰骑士队目前就正拥有三位明星球员。一位最棒的前锋，一位四届全明星的 工具人，和一位前NBA最佳新人。但开季前三场球，他们就输了两场，那孤单的一胜 还是和失去Rose的公牛队战到延长赛才获得的。 The defense looks bad, the offense looks choppy, and LeBron James looks listless. 他们的防守糟透了，进攻起伏不定，而 Lebron James 看起来无精打采 At their absolute best, when (and not “if”) the Cavaliers finally put it altogether, they are not going to be a perfect team. They will not be rattling the 70-win cage, and the team’s front office will have to deftly manage surrounding the stars with role players then can at least approximate the team’s obvious needs. This will not be a knockout defensive team, and there will always be some level of perimeter uncertainty between LeBron James and Kyrie Irving. Toss in the ultra-usage of one Dion Waiters, the type of player James never had to deal with as he ham-and-egged it with Dwyane Wade in Miami, and you’ve got growing pains. 在现在这个状况，纵使骑士尽了全力，把大家聚拢起来，他们仍然不是一只完美的 队伍。他们不会坐上直达70胜的电梯，而教练团必须要设法管理那些围绕在明星球 员周边的角色球员，如此才能至少看到这个球队真实的需求。他们不会是个令人印 象深刻的防守团队，而Lebron James和Kyrie Irving之间将会一直存在某程度担心 被边缘化的不确定感。而Dion Waiters像颗骰子，你永远不晓得会掷到他的哪一面 ，而Lebron James 从未和这类型的球员合作过，那位过往合作过最相像的球员- Dwyane Wade，他和James可是传着同一条裤裆长大的，於是，你必然得经过一些成 长的阵痛。 James was noticeably indifferent down the stretch of Tuesday night’s blowout loss to the Portland Trail Blazers. Cleveland started out well enough, beginning the contest 10-10 from the field, but it could not create distance and pull away from a Blazers squad that was whipping the ball around the court and scoring with nearly as much ease. Portland’s defense adjusted its screen and roll coverage, Tristan Thompson and Dion Waiters started fancying themselves better scorers than they really are, and James basically gave up on the game in order to … teach his young teammates a lesson? 在星期二那场对拓荒者的溃败，James坐在场边带着令人注目的冷淡。骑士开局打得 并不差，10-10的开局，但骑士拉不住拓荒者的攻击，他们在场上迅捷的传球，轻松 的得分。而之後，当拓荒者扩大了对挡拆的防守范围，Tristan Thompson 和 Dion Waiters 开始幻想他们自己是一个比原本还棒的得分者，而James基本上已经放弃了 这场比赛只为了 …. 替他的年轻队友上一课? That can be the only excuse, right? From LeBron’s postgame remarks to several reporters last night, as relayed by Sports Illustrated’s Ben Golliver: 这的确是唯一的理由，不是吗? 如同 Lebron 昨晚在赛後评论对记者所说的: “There’s been a lot of losing basketball around here for a few years. A lot of guys who are going to help us win haven’t played a lot of meaningful basketball games in our league. When we get to that point where every possession matters, no possessions off, we have to move the ball, share the ball, be unselfish, we’ll be a better team. A lot of bad habits have been built over the last couple of years. When you play that style of basketball it takes a lot to get it up out of you. But I’m here to help.” “这个球队在这些年来输了非常多场球。在这里来帮助我们赢球的人之中，很多人 在这个联盟里还未打过太多场有意义的球赛。当我们得分的时候，每次持球都要是 有意义的，不要让球停下来，我们必须让球流动，分享球权，不要自私，我们会变 成一只更好的球队。当你曾经用那样的方式打球的时候，要矫正是很费功夫的。而 我来这里是来帮忙的。” It’s good that LeBron is here to help, but he absolutely cannot play the role of the martyr for this to succeed. It’s just fine for a coaching Phil Jackson to clip his nails on the bench and refuse to call a timeout when his team is on the losing end of a 14-2 run, but James can (to put it lightly) significantly influence the outcome of a pro basketball game. Lebron会到这里来帮忙固然是美事一桩，但他绝不能像个殉道者般一夫当关地扛着 球队迈向成功。像Phil Jackson 般的风格其实也蛮不错的，当球队在比赛的最後 被14-2 痛宰的时候，在板凳席修剪他的指甲而且吝惜喊出任何一次暂停，即便 James 拥有在一场比赛中扭转乾坤的能力。 With that in place, it’s easy to understand why James would martyr-it up. 有了这样的想法，我们便很容易理解为什麽James会做出这样的举动 Kyrie Irving (who missed 14 of 17 shots) fell back on bad habits on both ends of the ball last night, attempting isolation plays offensively when the movement broke down while getting torched by a resurgent Damian Lillard defensively. Waiters also felt the Lillard burn a few times, and he was an absolute nightmare offensively – acting as a terrible, chucking Dion Waiters-stereotype even on the shots he did make. Kyrie Irving (在他的17次投球中，投丢了14颗) 在攻守两端都落入了从前的坏习惯 ，当防守的步调被火热的Damian Lillard搞得支离破碎的时候，他企图在进攻中用不 停的单打讨回来; 而另一位Waiters 也同样在某些时候被Lillard 火烫的手感灼伤， 於是他在进攻中变成了一个彻底的黑洞，打得糟糕，独断，如同那些过往他典型的风 格，即便他的确命中了一些球。 Anderson Varejao was lured all around the court by Portland’s offense, so he was little help as a rim protector. Tristan Thompson abandoned the off the ball workmanship that made him such a killer in the Bulls win, and coach David Blatt made some curious substitutions both late and midway through quarters. 拓荒者的进攻迫使Anderson Varejao在整个球场不停地补位，缺少队友的帮忙宛若 整个半场都是他的防守圈。Tristan Thompson放弃了争抢进攻篮板，放弃了成为一 位如同他在对公牛胜利的那场比赛中所扮演的致命杀手。而教练David Blatt在比赛 每节的中段和尾声总是会做出一些匪夷所思的调度。 It was … it was the work of a team that was just put together a few months ago. 这就是… 这就是一个在多个月前才成军的球队需要处理的课题 It was the work of a team with a lot of bad habits to fix, it was the work of a team running with a rookie head coach, and it was the work of a team filled with formerly-friendly contemporaries that now have to become trusted teammates. 他们有太多的坏习惯需要矫正，他们需要和一位菜鸟教练进行良好的磨合，他们需要 将从前那些同侪的友善客气转化成为队友间绝对的信任 Of course, cable TV morons won’t recognize this, because they have airtime to fill as they preach to the sort of drooling simpletons that would be home watching basic cable sports chatter in the middle of a weekday. The Cleveland Cavaliers will likely saunter into Utah on Wednesday night, win handily against a rebuilding Jazz squad, move their record back up to .500 and have 78 more games to figure it out. 当然，有线电视那些低能儿不会意识到这件事，因为他们只想喂养那些坐在家中 聊天扯蛋留着口水看看运动比赛的傻蛋。克里夫兰骑士队很有可能在星期三晚上 ，面对重建中的爵士从容地获得一场比赛胜利，将他们的胜率拉回五成，并且还 剩78场比赛去找出他们的问题 James’ Heat team, in spite of some fits of brilliance, didn’t figure out its spacing and defensive schemes until the playoffs in his second year with Miami. That’s after 148 regular season games and an extended 2011 playoff run to the Finals. For nearly two whole years, that Heat team mostly succeeded merely by acting as the sum of their parts, and they nearly won a title that way. Once it clicked, two titles resulted. 想想James当时待的热火队，尽管天份洋溢，仍然直到第二年的季後赛才找到拉出 空间和防守的方法。这件事情发生在148场常规赛加上2011年完整的季後赛和决赛 的历练之後。将近整整两年，热火队只是将他们每个人拼凑起来，在没有任何化学 变化的状况下，他们几乎就要获得了冠军。而子弹一旦上膛，两个总冠军就到手了。 It may take this Cavs team just as long, but that’s just fine. When it clicks (and it will click), they’ll be just fine. 这个过程可能会花费骑士队很长的时间，但没关系。 因为当子弹一但上膛，他们会很好的 The Cleveland Cavaliers have real basketball problems, and not cable TV fodder, to deal with. The offensive movement is lacking for long stretches. Their perimeter defense is porous, and the Varejao/Love front court is providing little resistance in the paint. The team is not rebounding as well as it should, LeBron James has not been his usual self around the basket so far this season, David Blatt’s in-game adjustments could use quite a bit of work, and someone needs to tell Dion Waiters and Tristan Thompson exactly where they rank in the pecking order. 克里夫兰骑士队确实有一些真正的篮球问题要处理，他们的进攻流转缺乏延续性 ，他们的防守千疮百口，而Varejao 和 Love 这对前场组合在油漆区缺乏足够的 坚持，这个球队的篮板能力还未完全发挥，Lebron James 至今还未打出他最自在 的篮球风格，David Blatt的临场调度还有很多功课要做，另外必须还要有人去告 诉Dion Waiters和Tristan Thompson谁才是球场上的老大。 Then there is the whole problem of never being here before. Not just for Love and Irving, who’ve yet to play a playoff game. Not just for Blatt, well-respected but without any NBA coaching experience. Not just for Waiters and Thompson. For LeBron James. For all of them. This is something entirely new for each and every member of this potentially-dynastic but imperfect squad. 这是一个全队都必须面对的课题，不只是对 Love 和 Irving，别忘了，他们俩 从未打过季後赛; 不只是对 Blatt，他虽然备受尊崇但却从未有过NBA执教的经 验; 当然，也不只是对 Waiters 和 Thompson。 这是 Lebron James的课题，也是全队每一个人的课题，这场旅程对於每一位身 处在这个还蹒跚起步但却具有王朝潜力的球队成员都将会是一场全新体验。 Tipoff is at 9 p.m. Wednesday night, Cleveland-time. 克里夫兰时间 星期三晚上 九点 --

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