http://www.sacbee.com/kings/story/2410904.html If someone hadn't handed Omri Casspi the latest edition of Sports Illustrated, it might have been days before he hunted one down. But before the Kings played at Milwaukee on Saturday night, the rookie small forward was shown the four-page spread with the headline, 'Welcome, the King of Israel.' The NBA's first Israeli player smiled, his eyes widening at the prominence of the pictures of him inside America's most storied sports magazine. 在对公鹿前，他上了杂志，四页还有头条「欢迎，以色列的国王」。 "Nice," he said. "Very nice." 「很好」他说。 Casspi wasn't expected to show up on the Kings' active list on most nights during his first season, let alone see himself dubbed 'The King of Israel' in bold, 70-point font just days before Christmas. omri并不被期待菜鸟球季就可以常常在国王的名单中，更不用说可以在杂志上看到自己。 The July summer-league performance in which he shot 29.5 percent and was a turnover machine made him look like D-League material with Kings coach Paul Westphal saying then he was a challenging project player. Five months later, Casspi is the newest Kings starter and easily the most productive rookie not taken as a lottery pick. 在夏季联盟他命中率只有29.5%，而且是个失误机器。五个月後，omri是最新的国王先发球 员，而且是非乐透区新秀中最有贡献的。 Not that he's about to revel in his newfound reputation. Casspi looked at the article for no more than 30 seconds. omri并不陶醉其中，他看那文章并不超过30秒。 "I'm not really trying to think about it, you know," Casspi said. "Maybe when I go back home (to Israel), when I have a couple of days with myself to think about the season and what I need to improve and how I did and how everything went for me in my first season. 「我真的没有想要去想，你知道。也许当我回到家，有几天我会去想想这个球季，还有在 我第一个球季该改进什麽，我如何去做」 "But there's no time now. I've got to keep rolling. Every game, every game. I've got to stay focused. I can't think about nothing else. Don't relax. Get ready for the next game. Sleep well. Eat well. That's about it." 「但现在没有时间，我必须持续转动。每场比赛我都必须集中注意力，我无法不去思考， 不能放松，为了下场比赛准备，睡好吃好，就是这样」 It's that focus that led Westphal to begin to believe in Casspi nearly as much as he believes in himself. Casspi routinely reminds anyone who asks that he's "not here to fail," and he hasn't. 这让西佛开始相信omri就像他自己相信自己一样。omri常常说自己不是来这边失败的。 He's tied for fourth in scoring among rookies with Golden State's Stephen Curry at 11.8 points per game despite averaging seven-plus fewer minutes (32.3 for Curry to Casspi's 24.9) than the seventh pick of the 2009 NBA draft. 他在得分方面和Curry一起名列菜鸟第四，平均11.8分，但上场时间比他少了7分多钟，而 且Curry可是第7顺位。 Casspi's field-goal percentage of 51.2 is second among rookies with San Antonio forward DeJuan Blair leading (59.6). It's Casspi's three-point shooting, though, that has surprised everyone but him. Casspi ranks seventh in the league in three-point shooting (45.5 percent) and first among rookies. omri的51.2%命中率在菜鸟中名列第二，Blair第一。omri的三分球让每个人都很惊讶，除 了他自己。omri的三分球命中率在联盟中排名第七，而且是菜鸟第一。 "I shot 50 percent in Europe (playing for Maccabi Tel Aviv) from three last season," Casspi said. "I didn't take as many attempts as now (2.8 per game), but it was something I was working on in the summer. I knew the NBA three-point line is farther out from the basket (than the European line), and I needed to work at it." 「我在欧洲的最後三个球季命中率50%，我过去没有投这麽多，但我暑假真的下了苦工，我 知道NBA的三分线远很多，所以我必须下功夫」 Much of his post-summer league work was done in Bradenton, Fla., where Casspi spent three weeks with David Thorpe, the trainer Kevin Martin has employed throughout his career. 他夏季联盟後就在佛州训练，花了三礼拜和Thorpe，也是KM的训练员在一起。 "We worked on little things – the way I handle the ball, because sometimes I drive the ball a little too low," Casspi said. "(Thorpe) never talked with me about my form, and he always reminded me that Kevin doesn't have the typically right form, but he's a great shooter. 「我们着重於一些小东西--我投球的方式，因为有时候我运球有点低，他从来不跟我谈 我的姿势，他总是提醒我KM姿势也不标准，但他是个伟大的射手」 "Sometimes, guys have a very good-looking shot and it doesn't go in, and other guys don't have the beautiful stroke and it works." 「有时候，人们有个很好看的姿势，但就是投不进，其他人没有漂亮的姿势，但就是会进 Minnesota small forward Corey Brewer worked with Casspi, Martin, New Jersey's Courtney Lee and others during those sessions and said Casspi had no problem rediscovering his range. 灰狼小前锋酿酒人、omri、KM、李和其他人在一起训练，他说omri没问题的啦」 "He was shooting the cover off it," Brewer said. "When you watch somebody shoot, you can tell if they can shoot the ball or not, and he could shoot. … I thought he could be a good NBA player. He's got that three-four (small forward, power forward position), a nice body, he can shoot it, he can take fours out, get his shot off over threes." 「当你看某个人投篮，你可以知道他会不会投篮，他是会投篮的。我认为他可以成为一个 好的NBA球员，他能够打3、4号，他可以投篮」 Yet just as Casspi didn't necessarily foresee himself being written about in Sports Illustrated two months into his NBA career, he never thought he'd be known as a shooter. That style has been an adjustment to the way in which more-heralded rookie teammate Tyreke Evans plays. Together, the Kings' duo has started quite a story in Sacramento. 但omri还是没办法预见自己在进NBA两个月内就被报导，他从不认为自己是个射手。 "If teams are going to leave me wide open, then I'll shoot," Casspi said. "Tyreke draws a lot of attention when he penetrates, so as long as he is going to learn to kick it out more and do those little things, we're going to be a lot better team. We have to punish them. That's what I want to do." 「如果我有空档，我就会投，reke切入时吸引了很多的注意，所以只要他能够学会如何解 决，我们就会是一只很棒的球队，我们必须惩罚他们，那就是我想做的」 ===================================================== 看来今年的新秀真的是真货，很谦虚的真货 -- --

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