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标题[外电] Odom raises his game as Lakers raise theirs
时间Mon Feb 25 09:53:09 2008
中文标题：老二跟着湖人举起来了！>////<
By GREGG PATTON
The Press-Enterprise
LOS ANGELES - For a while there, it looked like Lamar Odom's unfortunate
legacy as a Laker would be pretty simple.
有一段时间，老二看起来他在湖人不幸的生活永远都不会改变了。
He was a lament: "The best we can get for Shaquille O'Neal?!?"
他一直是湖人迷心中的痛：这是我们拿O'neal来换到的吗？
For three and a half years -- as the Lakers played to a mediocre level that
frustrated fans and left star Kobe Bryant seeking a ticket out of town -- he
was a constant reminder that the golden championship era of 1999-2002 was
gone.
有三年半的时光，湖人一直是让球迷恼怒的中阶球队，并让明星Kobe Bryant愤而萌生
离开的念头：事实是，1999-2002的黄金王朝已经不在了。
He was the designated No. 2 option behind world-beater Bryant, a role which
he never embraced, nor fit. Every rumored trade -- always for some guy who
would save the Lakers -- included his name.
他一直都是被硬塞了第二得分手这个位置，排在世界第一的神後面，这是一个他一直都
没有什麽好表现的位置，也不适合的位置。每一次有交易的乳摸--每一次对象都是"可
以拯救湖人"的人--都包括了可怜的老二。〒△〒
It was as if the Lakers would never be good again, until they could exchange
Odom for someone, anyone.
一切的情况看起来就像:直到湖人可以把Odom交易掉，湖人永远都不会成为强队。
Funny how it worked out. The Lakers are good again, and look who's still here
-- and suddenly appreciated.
好笑的是，现在湖人又是强队了，看看谁还在这--而且开始被尊敬、感谢。
If the trade for Pao Gasol instantly shot the Lakers into championship
contention, among the happy fallout has been Odom's restored reputation. If a
lot of people considered him an inadequate No. 2, he's a big-time No. 3.
如果Pau Gasol的来到让湖人瞬间变成热门夺冠队伍，那在众多副作用里面其中之一，
就是Odom的名声终於重新攀升了。大家认为他是个很短的老二，可是事实上他是个超强
的老三啊
"I don't know if I felt underappreciated," said Odom on Saturday night,
before the Lakers -- masquerading as the visiting team against the Clippers
at Staples Center -- won for the eighth time since Gasol joined the team nine
games ago. "I've always been comfortable in my own skin."
「我是不知道我有感觉不被感谢或没被尊敬啦，」Odom在星期六晚上说，在湖人假扮客队
在Staple Center自家主场打败快艇，自从Gasol九场比赛前被交易来之後第八次赢球。
「我一直比较习惯做我自己。」
But he knows that he is being re-evaluated.
不过，他还是知道他现在正被球迷们重新审视。
"Especially when you can finish the game with a win," he said, smiling. "I
think people understand what I do now, how I play. They'll notice the
intangibles. On a great team, they see I can do a little bit of everything."
「特别是当你顺利的打了一场好球，拿下这场球赛，」他微笑的说。「我想人们懂了我
的功能，我的打法。他们会注意到那些很抽象的东西。在一个好的球队上，他们看到我
每项都可以做一点。」
Like the triple-double he produced recently against Minnesota. And the way
his rebounding numbers have gone up (from about 10 per game to about 13 per
game) since Gasol joined the team. And the way he's still scoring at a
respectable pace, about 13 points per game.
就像他最近对上灰狼时的大三元。还有他自从Gasol的加入以来的篮板数增加(从原本每
场10篮板到13篮板)。还有，他还是很稳定的拿分，平均每场13分。
"I'm even shooting a little bit less," he said.
「我甚至比较少投篮呢。」他说。
If Odom was a convenient scapegoat when the Lakers floundered, he's suddenly
a major plus.
如果Odom在湖人一崛不振的时期只是个好用的球员，那他现在已经是一个极大的优势。
Now in his ninth year, Odom looked like a guy who was destined to always miss
the NBA championship bus. He was drafted the No. 4 overall pick by the
Clippers, where he had fun on a losing team.
现在，在他的生涯的第九年，老二曾经看起来像是注定拿不到冠军。他当年以第四顺位
的身分被快艇选中，在这支常败军里打的却很愉快。
"We were a bunch of young guys who just really enjoyed playing with each
other," said Odom, who suffered through four losing seasons as a good player
on a bad string of teams.
「我们只是一群爱打球的小伙子。」Odom说，他在生涯的前四个球季球队一直积弱
不振。
The Clippers, as was their style, let him drift away when his contract
expired, and he signed with Miami. In the 2003-04 season with the Heat, he
got his first taste of the playoffs, but it wasn't Miami's time -- nor Odom's
-- yet.
快艇就跟他们的惯例一样，在Odom的合约到期时把他放走了，Odom接下来跟迈阿密签了
约，在03-04年第一次打进了季後赛，但那还不是迈阿密的时代；也不是Odom的时代，
至少还不是。
After that one year on the East Coast, he found himself heading back to LA to
join Bryant and the ghost town that once was a proud Lakers franchise. Gone
were O'Neal, Coach Phil Jackson, and one-year interlopers Karl Malone and
Gary Payton.
在那之後，他发现他又回到了洛杉矶，加入了Kobe跟这个只能缅怀前几季紫金王朝的
空空如也的城镇。那一年，欧肥、菲尔爷爷、只签一年合约的邮差Malone跟手套Payton
都走了。
The trade stung again in 2006 when Shaq and the Heat won the NBA title.
这个交易在06年Shaq跟热火拿下冠军的时候，又重重的刺伤了Odom。
Last summer, as Bryant demanded his freedom from LA, and the front office
angled after the likes of Kevin Garnett and Jermaine O'Neal to appease Kobe,
it looked like Odom was the man most likely to disappear.
上个暑假(07年暑假)，Kobe要求被交易，不然就给他如Garnett或小欧尼尔，这一切看起
来Odom从人间蒸发了一样。
Eight months later, the Gasol Miracle happened, and everything changed. As
Clippers coach Mike Dunleavy put it, when he heard that Memphis had
gift-wrapped the Spaniard to the Lakers, "I thought they had the best team in
the league. It's pretty apparent you're going to get a lot better when you
don't have to give up a starter and you get a player of (Gasol's) caliber."
八个月後，耶稣神蹟发生了，所有事情都改变了。就像快艇教练Dunleavy说的，当他
听到灰雄把这西班牙人打包好送给湖人的时候，「我以为他们一定是联盟内最好的球队，
这是很明显的，当你不用放弃任何先发球员就拿到Gasol这种等级的球员。」
What you hear about Odom most often is that Gasol's arrival took the pressure
off the 6-10 New York native. Odom shrugs and disagrees.
当Odom被提起的时候，经常大家会说Gasol的到来减轻了Odom的压力。Odom耸肩反驳。
"No, if anything, there's more pressure to come through," said Odom. "Even
when we play bad, we're supposed to win."
「其实不是。真要说的话，其实这是更多压力。就算我们当天手感不好或怎样，我们还
是应该要赢。」
That doesn't seem to be a problem. As the new and improved Lakers continue to
rack up wins -- Saturday's was their seventh in a row -- more and more people
are jumping on their bandwagon. And for the first time in his career, Odom
finds himself on a team with much more hope than disappointment, with more
expectations than excuses.
这看起来不像是个问题。这个更新更好的湖人队不断累积胜场数量--星期六的胜利是
他们第七场连胜--越来越多人变成了临时湖人球迷。在他生涯中的第一次，Odom现在
处在一个希望比失望多，期望比藉口多的球队。
"I've never been in the position of playing for the No. 1 or the No. 2 team,
in either conference," said Odom, who contributed 20 points, 10 rebounds,
four assists and two blocked shots to the Lakers 113-95 win over the
Clippers.
「我从未在一个在全联盟第一二名球队打球过的经验。」Odom说，对上快艇时他贡献了
20分10篮板4助攻2火锅。
"For me, it's carpe diem -- seize the moment. Go out there and try to win as
many games as possible."
「我现在必须把握当下。站到球场上，并试图赢每一场。」
As a valued piece of a powerhouse, no longer a symbol of a fallen dynasty.
现在他是一个在发电厂里价值不斐的重要零件，而不是一个逝去的王朝的象徵。
这...大家就随便看看吧，感觉这一篇没有翻的很好，又赶着在比赛前翻完..
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2F：推 Kobe824:堆~ 所以说老二变长了吗? XD 02/25 09:55
3F：推 rickykobe:感恩推~不过20分10篮板4"助攻"2火锅 不是抄截 02/25 09:58
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