Lakers proved they're not yet champions http://tinyurl.com/ptqku2 It was all very predictable this time. The lukewarm start. The missing step late. The fuzzy shooting touch throughout. 这些都是可以预料到的。 有气无力的开场。 随後是凌乱的节奏。 整场冰冷的投篮手感。 Having already taken Game 3 on this trip, the Lakers – these Lakers, still discovering what they’re about and the playoffs are about – weren’t going to take Game 4, too. No way. No how. Not now. 在客场拿下Game 3之後，这支湖人队仍然在寻找他们应该怎麽打，季後赛应该要怎麽打。因 此他们拿不下Game 4。想都别想，也不知该怎麽做，更不会是现在。 “We played hard enough, but they played harder,” Pau Gasol said after losing to the Nuggets, 120-101. “We have to learn from this loss and go out and prove ourselves in the next game.” 在以120-101输球後，Gasol说"我们打得够硬了，但他们更硬。我们必须从中学到教训并在 下一场证明自己的实力。" A different loss, but the same lesson. Failing to match the other team’s energy means failing to match the other team’s point total. 不同的失败，但学的是相同的教训。无法跟对手的强硬抗衡表示你的分数也无法超越对方。 Seems pretty simple, right? Must not be, though, given the Lakers’ penchant for repeating the mistake. 这似乎很容易，对吧？虽然这对湖人绝对不是那麽容易的，他们最擅长的就是重复同样的错 误。 This seems especially true when playing a mile above sea level. Whether it was the altitude or just the attitude Monday, the Lakers didn’t play with enough air beneath them. 这样的状况似乎在海平面上方一英哩的地方打球时更能展现出来。不论是海拔的问题或是态 度的问题，湖人对打得没有对手出色。 “Disappointed that we didn’t compete tonight and give ourselves a chance,” said Coach Phil Jackson, and not for the first time this postseason. “If we were tired, it was noticeable because their energy was better. That’s perhaps the only thing I could say, but that’s not a good excuse.” Phil说"对於无法跟对手竞争并给自己一个机会，让我感到很失望，而且这在季後赛已经不 是第一次发生了。我们明显累了，对方的能量比我们多。这或许是我唯一能说的，虽然这不 是一个好藉口。" There were a lot of things not good about this game. Being outrebounded 58-40 was not good. Permitting 20 offensive rebounds was not good. Committing 31 personal fouls was not good. 这场有很多打得不好的地方。篮板以40-58落後对手、让对手抢到20个进攻篮板、自己犯下 31次犯规。 Maybe this is just part of the process, part of a team figuring out how to be a champion. But it’s the frustrating part, to be sure. 或许这只是过程中的一部分，是一个球队迈向冠军过程的一部分。但可以确定的是，这个部 分是令人失望的。 “I think with a young team, when you have a 2-1 series lead, it’s kind of the attitude where you don’t…every play is not as important,” Kobe Bryant said. “When you’re tired you say, ‘OK, I don’t have to get that ball’ or ‘I don ’t have to get on the floor for this loose ball,’ as opposed to taking every possession like it’s the last possession.” Kobe说"我想对於一个年轻的球队，当你处於2-1领先的情况，有些态度会不太正确…每一个 play似乎变得没那麽重要。当你很累的时候，你会想'好吧，这球我没必要去抢'或是'我没 必要扑到地板上去抢那颗球，'但对手此时是把每一球都当作最後一球在打。" That’s the thing about these Lakers, they aren’t good enough to think that way nor nearly good enough to play that way. 这是这支湖人对应该要注意的，他们没有强到可以有这种想法，也没强到可以这样打球。 They didn’t exactly give away this game, but they definitely wasted a chance to beat Denver on a night when Carmelo Anthony was limping, sick and shooting like he would have preferred to be in bed. 事实上他们并没有放弃比赛，但他们绝对浪费了击倒金块的机会，当Carmelo Anthony脚扭 到、生病而且投篮投得想回家睡觉还比较好的时候。 A great team finds a way to win and seize these Western Conference finals, going up three games to one. 一支伟大的球队会找出方法获胜并把握住西区冠军，让自己取得3-1领先。 This Lakers team finds only more non-answers and has to settle for being tied two games apiece going back to Staples Center. 这支湖人队只找到更多解决不了的问题并让自己带着2胜2败回到Staple Center。 This is what the Lakers are right now – good, not great. Still a contender, not yet a champion. 这就是湖人的现况-还不错但不到伟大。仍然是个有潜力的竞争者但还不像个冠军。 “It’s not like we can turn it on, turn it off,” Bryant said, putting into words what his teammates had just put into action. “They whooped us, period. They whooped us on the glass. They whooped us to loose balls. They played harder and better, period.” 关於队友的表现，Kobe说"我们无法自在的打开开关、关上开关。对方整场压着我们打。在 篮下压着我们打。让我们搞丢球权。他们打得比我们更硬更好。" At halftime, Anthony was 1 of 11 and Chauncey Billups had two field goals and one assist and the Lakers still trailed comfortably, 52-45. 在半场的时候，Anthony只投11中1，Chauncey Billups只有两个field goal和一个助攻，但 湖人仍然自在的以45-52落後。 Or maybe that should be uncomfortably. Just a day earlier, Bryant had talked about the importance of taking advantage of the Nuggets when Anthony struggles with his shot. Short of being removed from Pepsi Center in a body bag, Anthony (stomach virus and sore ankle) isn’t going to struggle worse than he did Monday. And the Lakers failed to grab the opportunity. 或者他们不该那麽自在。就在前一天，Kobe告诉队友在Anthony命中率不稳的状态下拿下这 场球的重要性。得到肠胃炎又扭到脚的Anthony，本场打得没有比前一场好多少。但湖人没 有抓住这个机会。 No, this wasn’t exactly a repeat of Houston and that Game 4. This time the Lakers showed up in more than name only and played with noticeable – even if still not enough – passion. 不，这绝对不是对火箭的第四战的重演。这次湖人明显有展现出热情，虽然仍然不够。 Three minutes into the second half they had a chance to tie the score and an open shot to do it. But Derek Fisher’s three-pointer rimmed out, the Nuggets scored on their next possession and the moment and night had passed. 在上半场要结束前的三分钟，他们有机会靠着一个外线空档把比数追平。但Derek Fisher的 三分球进了一半又弹出来，而下一波金块又把握住进攻，而这场比赛也差不多这样过去了。 Along with more lacking passion, most of the Lakers played with a severe lack of production. 除了缺乏热情之外，湖人队大部分的球员都打得没有什麽贡献。 Lamar Odom made one basket in nearly 30 minutes. Trevor Ariza scored three points in more than 25 minutes. The bench went 7 of 27 from the field. Lamar Odom打了将近30分钟只投进一球。Trevor Ariza打超过25分钟只得3分。板凳的命中 率则是27投7中。 After the Lakers’ best two players – Bryant and Gasol – it apparently was a battle to see who could be their worst player. Only Andrew Bynum (14 points on 6 of 7 shooting) was also solid among the main participants. 除了湖人最好的两位球员-Kobe和Gasol外，其他人显然是在竞争谁是本日最差球员的宝座。 只有Andrew Bynum(投7中6拿下14分)有参与到整个攻防。 "It was a three-man show," Denver Coach George Karl said, “and that wasn’t enough tonight, fortunately." George Karl说"那是场三人秀，幸好这是不够的。" It wasn’t enough and wasn’t always pretty. 这是不够的而且也打得不好看。 The Pepsi Center fans spent much of the second half belittling Bryant with vulgar chants. 百事中心的球迷在下半场用尽吃奶的力气用低俗的话语给Kobe喝倒采。 The Nuggets’ Dahntay Jones intentionally tripped Bryant on a play Jackson characterized as “unacceptable” and “unsportsmanlike basketball.” Phil批评金块的Dahntay Jones在场上蓄意绊倒Kobe的那个play是"不被接受的"和"没有运动 精神的" At one point, Denver actually ran a play that resulted in a successful lob to a man named Linas. 在那个时刻，金块成功的执行战术，把球高吊给Kleiza。 So this series will be extended and so will be the Lakers 因此这个系列赛将要延续下去，而湖人队也一样。 --

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