Dwight Howard steps up, embraces role as vocal leader for Orlando Magic 魔兽开始接受成为魔术的精神领袖的角色 The Orlando Magic might have found the vocal leader they needed. 魔术可能找到了他们所需要的精神领袖。 Dwight Howard not only talks more these days, but his more businesslike approach has given his words greater impact. 这几天以来魔兽不仅仅只是说的更多，他以实际的行动态度传达自己的想法。 "Anybody can get up there and talk, but if you don't have the respect of your teammates, it's just words," guard J.J. Redick said Sunday. "I think Dwight, without a doubt, has earned the respect just with the way he's carried himself this preseason and the work he's put in this offseason." JJ:"每个人都能出来发言，但是如果没得到队友敬重的话，那就只是在说话罢了。 我认为魔兽在休赛期及季前赛所表现出来的一切已为他赢得了尊重。" Howard's growth as a vocal leader could pay dividends for Orlando. For all of their talent and depth, the Magic in recent years seem to have lacked players who could snap the roster out of a funk with impassioned words. 魔兽领袖能力的成长会是魔术的利多。以他们的天份及深度而言，魔术这几年缺少 能够以激励的言语来使队员们摆脱不知所措状态的球员。 The maturation of their all-star center might have changed the overall dynamic. Howard attempted to spur on his teammates on at least three different occasions during and after the Magic's 96-70 loss to the Miami Heat on Friday night. 魔兽的成熟可能带来有活力的改变。在魔术输给热火的那个夜晚，比赛中以及比赛後， 魔兽至少在三个不同场合企图激励队友。 He spoke loudly in a team huddle on the sideline after the Heat opened the third quarter on a 9-0 run. He tried to inspire his teammates in the visitors' locker room shortly after the final buzzer. And during his postgame press availability, he said the Magic "got shell-shocked" when they faced adversity. 他在热火第三节开启9比0攻势後聚集队友到球场边并且大声说话。赛後他在客场休息室 简短地尝试激励他的队友。赛後访问时，他说当大家面临逆境时被震慑住了。 "I've been more vocal this whole season," Howard told reporters after the Magic practiced Sunday. "You guys don't have to see me be vocal. That's not being vocal: just doing it in front of people. It's in the locker room, it's on the bus, on the plane and during film sessions, during practice. That's when it matters, not just when eyes are watching." 在魔术星期日的练习过後，魔兽告诉记者: "这整个赛季我会更多的进行喊话，但如果只在人前这样做不算发号施令者。不管是在 休息室、飞机上、会议中、练习中，那都是需要这样做的时候，而不是只是当有人在 看时才去做。" Howard shares Orlando's captain duties with point guard Jameer Nelson. 魔兽与尼神分担魔术领导的责任。 Nelson helps improve team chemistry each summer when he hosts and organizes a week of workouts and off-court activities in and around Philadelphia. Still, Magic President of Basketball Operations Otis Smith has said he wants Nelson to exercise "fierce leadership" and "not worry about the consequences of leadership." In other words, Smith hopes Nelson will say things that teammates don't want to hear. 每个暑假，尼神在费城主办安排为期一周的训练及场外活动以尝试帮助催化球队的化学 反应。魔术总经理 Otis Smith 说他要求尼神去行使"强烈的领导"以及"不要担忧这麽 作的後果是如何"。换句话说，Otis Smith希望尼神能说些队友不想听的话。(扮黑脸) Van Gundy was asked during a four-game losing streak last January whether the team had a vocal leader. Van Gundy responded that he wasn't sure whether the team needed a vocal leader, but he also added, "It's never been a real vocal group of people. That's pretty much been me." 大范曾在一月份魔术四连败之时被问到球队是否有个发声的领袖，而大范回答他不确定 球队是否需要个这样的人，但他也补充道，"从来没有形成一个真正的精神领袖。几乎 就是我了。" (这句不太确定意思) Howard, 24, had been one of the team's biggest jokesters. He hasn't abandoned his sense of humor — his push-ups on the sideline for missed free throws late in the regular-season opener proved that. Still, team executives, coaches and players all agree that Howard has been more serious in recent months. 魔兽这个队中最大只的搞笑者，并没有丧失他的幽默感，从他在比赛中罚球投失後在场 边作伏地挺身就看得出来。不过球队管理层、教练团及球员们都同意一件事，那就是 魔兽这最近几个月变得更加的严肃。 That continued Friday. When the team returned to its locker room after the loss, Howard and Quentin Richardson both spoke to their teammates. Howard's message, players and Van Gundy said, was that the Magic have to raise their game against top-notch opponents. 回到那个星期五。当球队在输球後回到休息室时，魔兽和阿Q对他们的队友喊话，球员们 和大范说魔兽所传递的讯息就是魔术必须提昇在对抗顶级强队时的比赛表现。 "If you're playing well, putting forth the effort, focusing and then you have something to say — then I think it's really meaningful," Van Gundy said. "I think Dwight has changed his approach. He's been more serious, which gains him credibility with his teammates, which means they will listen to what he has to say." 大范:"当你打得很好，表现出了成果及专注然後你有话要说 - 那我想这是有意义的。 我认为魔兽改变了他的态度。他更加的认真、严肃，这增加了他的队友对他的 信赖，这意味着他们会愿意去听他所说的话。" 总结:魔兽硬起来了!不再当个大孩子! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --

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