Mavericks-Heat Preview Brian Cardinal took one look at Dirk Nowitzki's injured finger, turned to the Dallas Mavericks' trainer and recommended his treatment plan. Brian Cardinal瞧了瞧Dirk Nowitzki受伤的手指，向小牛的训练员 说了他推荐的疗法。 "Cut it at the knuckle," Cardinal said, making a scissors motion with his right hand. "Like Ronnie Lott." Cardinal说："从关节的地方剪掉吧，像Ronnie Lott一样。"并且用 右手做出剪刀的手势。(注：Ronnie Lott为前NFL球员，因为受伤所 以左手小指截肢。) Good thing "Dr." Cardinal is a backup forward whose specialty is comic relief. 好消息是卡迪纳"医生"只是个很会搞笑的替补前锋。 Nowitzki's injury was more source of fun than concern Wednesday, starting from the moment he woke up. He expected the torn tendon at the tip of his left middle finger to be sore and throbbing and it wasn't either. 从Dirk起床的时候开始，大家对他的伤势就是玩笑多於关心。他预期 起床的时候左手中指顶端肌腱撕裂处会酸而且抽痛，但这没有发生。 So only the devilish teasers were even considering a Lott-like amputation of his fingertip. 只是有一些北七的玩笑，甚至说让他像Lott一样截肢就好。 Nowitzki took the practice court wearing a splint to keep the finger straight and figures it'll be mostly a nuisance for the next month or two. He and shooting coach Holger Geschwindner were planning their own workout later Wednesday to see which moves Nowitzki can and can't make and to come up with ways to compensate, starting with Game 2 of the NBA finals against the Miami Heat on Thursday night. Dirk在厂上练习的时候手指上戴着夹板来固定，这会在接下来的一、 两个月困扰着他。他与他的投篮教练Holger Geschwindner在今天练习 的时候商讨他有哪些动作可以做，哪些动作不能做，然後该怎样来弥 补。明天就是NBA总冠军战对上迈阿密热火的第二战了。 "Hey, (Rajon) Rondo played with one arm, so he might be able to play with nine fingers," Geschwindner said, smiling. Geschwindner笑着说："嘿，Rajon Rondo只剩一只手臂也能打球了， Dirk还有九只手指应该也能打啦。" Nowitzki already is experimenting with different bandages. Trainer Casey Smith said, "We're going to make it as small as we can," and indeed Nowitzki's wrap at the start of practice was smaller than what he had at a news conference a few minutes before. He was down to a hard splint under the knuckle at the tip of his left middle finger, held on by strips of white tape. The bandage looped around the knuckle and tip, leaving the nail and top exposed. Dirk已经尝试过各种不同的绷带，训练员Casey Smith说："我们试着 让它越小越好。"事实上Dirk在练球的时候他的包紮就已经比在几分钟 前的记者会时小了许多。他的左手中指关节处最後以硬的夹板固定，并 且用白色的胶带固定住。不过绷带在关节与顶端松开了，露出了他的指 甲与指尖。 Nowitzki was hurt trying to strip the ball from Chris Bosh with a little under 4 minutes left in the opener. He knew something serious was wrong because he couldn't straighten the tip. The injury is known as a "mallet finger" and generally takes six to eight weeks to heal. Dirk在第一战倒数4分钟时在想要把球从Chris Bosh手中拨掉时受伤， 他知道严重的事发生了，因为他没办法把手指顶端伸直。这种伤势一般 称做"吃萝卜乾"，大概需要六至八周才能复原。 With only quick, courtside treatment, Nowitzki managed to his 1 of 2 shots and all four free throws after the incident. He was 6 of 16 while healthy. 在场边短暂的治疗之後，Dirk接下来投2中1，4罚全进，在健康的时候 他投16中6。 Because the problem is on Nowitzki's non-shooting hand, most of what he does will not be affected. 因为他的伤是在非惯用手，所以大部分的投篮是不会有影响的。 But some of his game will be. 但是比赛内容就不一样了。 He likes to drive to his left, dribbling hard to get to his favorite shooting spots or taking it all the way to the rim. It also could affect him on defense; don't expect him to swipe down on the ball with the ferocity he did on the play when he was injured. 他喜欢从左边切入，硬是运球切入找到喜欢的投射点，或是直接杀到 篮下。他在防守的时候也会被影响，不要期待他还会像让他受伤的那个 play一样凶狠用力的去巴球。 "I think once the game starts, the adrenaline starts flowing, I don't think it will really slow me down much," Nowitzki said. "I'm not really worried about it." Dirk说："我认为比赛开始的时候，我的肾上腺素就会开始分泌， 我不觉得这会减缓我，我不是很担心。" Maybe he should be. 或许他需要担心。 Because Miami knows where he's hurting, and everyone knows how much Nowitzki means to Dallas, it only makes sense that guys are going to swipe at his hands more than ever, knowing that even if they don't snatch the ball, they might rattle the splint. 因为热火球员知道他哪里受伤了，大家也知道Dirk对小牛有多重要。 很合理的，大家会更常往他的手附近下手。他们知道尽管没办法抢到 球，也有可能会使夹板松脱。 "Somebody's going to swat down on it, whether they want to or not," Bosh said. "It's painful. As ballplayers, we all go through it." Bosh说："有人必须要去拍打他，不管他们想不想。这很痛，我们身 为球员都经历过。" Teammate Jason Terry said some shooters actually benefit from hand injuries because "it helps you lock in even more." He echoed the words of all his teammates when he emphasized how certain he was Nowitzki would still carry Dallas' offense. Dirk的队友Jason Terry说有些射手甚至会从这样的伤势中得利，因为 这可以让你更专注。他附和了所有小牛的队友的发言，因为他要强调 Dirk是小牛进攻的支柱。 "I think Dirk can shoot the ball with his eyes closed, with no hands, if he had to, especially in a game of this magnitude," Terry said. Terry说："我认为Dirk就算眼睛闭着也能投球，如果他想的话没有手 也能，尤其是在这样的比赛张力下。" With the Mavs joking about an injury to their best player, it's clear they aren't too uptight about losing the opener of the NBA finals, ending a five-game road winning streak or being down in a series for the first time this postseason. 小牛不断开队上最佳球员的玩笑，很明显他们对於输掉第一战不是太 不安。他们同时也中断了客场的五连胜，也是在今年季後赛第一次处 於落後。 Besides, the Mavs made so many mistakes in Game 1 they figured they deserved to lose. 除此之外，小牛在第一战实在犯下太多错误了，输球并不意外。 Their biggest concern was getting outrebounded by 10. Coach Rick Carlisle called it losing at the line of scrimmage, saying, "The guys that hit first and hit most aggressively and with the most force are going to have the most success. And they did it better than we did last night." 他们最关心的就是被多抢了10个篮板。小牛主帅Rick Carlisle认为 小牛输在争抢球的环节，他说："做出有侵略性且最有力攻击的球员 才能得到成功，他们昨天做的比我们好。" The Heat were especially good at chasing their own missed shots. They got 16 of them, leading to 13 more shots than Dallas. 热火在追逐自己没进的球这点表现的特别好，抓下了16个进攻篮板， 让他们比小牛多了13次出手次数。 Miami got comfortable behind the arc, hitting 11 3-pointers, three more than any Mavs foe this postseason. Some of their attempts were so uncontested "they had time to set their feet, check the temperature in the gym and then let it fly," center Brendan Haywood said. 热火也在外线投的很舒服，他们砍进了11颗三分，比小牛这个季後赛 的单场被投进最多的次数还多3颗，有些出手还几乎没有人守。中锋 Brendan Haywood说："他们有时间调整好脚步，甚至量一下球场的温 度才出手。" Dallas, meanwhile, made a playoff-low 37.3 percent of its shots and got a measly 17 points from the bench. Terry scored 12, but all in the first half as he was smothered by LeBron James; it was a surprise move by Miami because the Mavs were expecting him to be the secret weapon against Nowitzki. 同时，小牛37.3%的命中率是今年季後赛的新低，板凳贡献的17分少 的可怜。Terry得到12分，却都是在上半场得的，他被LeBron James 给守死。这是热火的惊人之举，因为他被预期是来对付Dirk的秘密武 器。 Despite it all, the Mavs led after the first and second quarters and were up by eight points in the third quarter. They weren't really out of it until the final five minutes, when Dwyane Wade, James and Bosh put on the kind of show their fans wanted to see. 尽管如此，小牛在第一节和第二节结束时都保持领先，第三节一开始 还领先八分。他们直到最後五分钟才无力回天，Dwyane Wade、James 和Bosh用各种方式让全场球员气氛超嗨。 Each superstar made plays that sent the white-clad fans to their feet, hollering and celebrating as if it was 2006 all over again - only better, because if Miami can win it all in the first season of their trio of collaborators, imagine how much better the Heat could be once the guys get more experience playing together. 这几位超级球星都做出了让全场穿着白色衣服的观众兴奋不已的 play，群众叫喊着并且庆祝着，彷佛又回到了2006年。不过这次 更棒了，因为如果热火能在三巨头聚首的第一年就拿到冠军，想 像一下接下来这些球员在彼此磨合的更有经验之後，能位热火带 来几座冠军。 People around the country are certainly interested, too. 全国的人民显然也很在意。 Game 1 drew the highest overnight figures for an NBA finals opener since the 2004 series between the Pistons and Lakers. It was up 15 percent from the start of the 2006 series between these same teams. 第一战平了自从2004年之後NBA总决赛活塞对上湖人之後，晚场开幕战 的最高收视率。这比2006年同样这两队交手时还多了15%。 While everyone saw James win a finals game for the first time in his career, and Wade dominate the second half much like he did during his MVP romp in '06, the Heat came away seeing plenty of room for improvement. 当大家都在见证James赢得生涯在总决赛的第一胜，以及Wade在下半场 如同2006年总决赛MVP的宰制力时，热火还看到了很多进步的空间。 They made only 38.8 percent of their shots and didn't get rolling until the middle of the third quarter. They were slowed by Dallas' defense switching from man-to-man to zones. 他们的命中率只有38.8%，进攻在第三节中段以前也不顺，他们受限於 小牛从人盯人转换成区域防守的阵势。 "I think once we understood they were going to do that, we just said, let's just run our offense," Wade said. Wade说："我想当我们知道他们要这样做时，就像我们说的一样，我们 只要做好自己的进攻。" The Heat felt better Wednesday about their injury concern, too. Mike Miller practiced after leaving the arena the night before with his left arm in a sling. 热火今天对於队上的伤势也比较松了口气，Mike Miller回到练习场上， 前一场他因为左手手臂受伤所以吊着吊带离开。 大家虽然嘻皮笑脸的 但是场上看起来明明就很紧张... 板凳拜托一定要加油了 还有大家都知道的篮板 请一定要拼了命去卡位啊 明天要扳平!!!! Let's Go Mavs!! --

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