More like No Big Deal, if you ask Quentin Richardson. Apparently forgetting the Knicks are 4-9 and staring up at Boston in the Eastern Conference standings, Richardson openly mocked the Celtics and their heavily hyped trio of Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Paul Pierce yesterday. 阿Q昨天嘲笑超塞队的G.A.P连线。 Richardson's words are sure to add some spice to what already was likely to be a bare-knuckled matchup between the two longtime rivals on national TV tonight at Boston's TD Banknorth Garden. 阿Q让今天两个世仇间的交手多了一点火药味。 “It's not that big a deal to us," Richardson said of facing the 11-2 Celtics. “It's like the media makes more of The Big Three and all of them. We're not in awe of them. They ain't won no championships. They have a good record right now, but that don't matter. Dallas showed that [last season]." 这不是啥大问题，一切都是媒体的吵作。他们又还没拿下总冠军，现在的战绩不能代 表啥，看看去年的小牛。 Richardson was referring to the Mavericks' first-round flameout against the Warriors after winning a league-best 67 games in the regular season. The Knicks' veteran small forward seems to think the Celtics could be capable of a similar nosedive this year based on their thin lineup beyond Garnett, Allen and Pierce. 去年小牛的惨剧，阿Q认为今年超塞队也会上演。 “They're not that deep of a team," Richardson said. “After those three, there's a significant dropoff." 　板凳太薄弱，除了那三只外。 Knicks president/coach Isiah Thomas didn't disagree with Richardson's assessment of the Celtics, though Thomas wore a grin the whole time. 老汤并没有否定阿Ｑ的看法，他总是咧嘴笑着。 　　 “The Celtics have always had a lack of depth," he said, recalling his days with Boston arch-rival Detroit in the 1980s. “I remember when [the Pistons] were coming up, you had to beat [Robert] Parrish, [Kevin] McHale, [Larry] Bird and those guys. You always said, ‘Boy, if we could ever get to Greg Kite, we'll be OK.' But we never managed to get to Greg Kite. We always saw those three guys." 超塞队的板凳深度总是他们的死穴。之前跟他们交手的时候，我们只要看好那三 只:酋长、麦海尔、大鸟。 But Richardson, whose rebounding and defense were key factors in the two-game winning streak the Knicks will carry into Boston, wasn't smiling when he laid into the Celtics. 阿Q是这波二连胜的钥匙男，面对超塞队，可能笑不太出来。 That's because the rivalry is somewhat personal for Richardson, who jawed with Pierce during an altercation-filled preseason victory by the Knicks at the Garden last month just days after a 40-point Celtics rout in Boston. 上次热身赛的交手充满口水。被超塞队狂电40分後的几天，尼克在主场扳回颜面。 Maybe the memories of that are why Richardson didn't appear too worried about firing up the Celtics with his bulletin board comments. 超塞队可能不会被阿Q的话激怒。 “They were going to be fired up to play us anyway because the last time we played them, we beat them in the preseason in a game," Richardson said. 他们可能会想起上次在热身赛被我们击败的情形。 “I think they wanted to win because they played their guys a lot of minutes," he said, referring to The Big Three all playing the game's final nine minutes. 他们是很想赢球的，最後的九分钟，三巨头都一直待在场上。 A re-heated rivalry with Boston would be a good thing, as far as Thomas is concerned. He said he was disappointed along with the rest of the league to see the Knicks-Celtics feud dimmed this decade by the struggles of both clubs. 对决重新被炒热可能是件好事。过去的十年，这两队都过得不太妙。 Thomas also remains a tried-and-true Celtics hater - he said yesterday that he has no green garments in his entire wardrobe - and wants Boston to give him a reason to renew that bad blood. 老汤讨厌绿色，他不穿绿色的衣服。 “With me personally, it's always a rivalry against the Celtics," Thomas said. “That's ingrained in me. I think we need to build up a little history with this team." 这是一场硬战，我们需要打点成绩出来。 --

※ 发信站: 批踢踢实业坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 218.164.118.192