Young rewards Vogel’s faith http://blogs.pacers.com/2013/05/19/young-rewards-vogels-faith/ Game 1 in Madison Square Garden was a disaster for Sam Young, whose stat line looked like something out of a Jayvee game: no points, three turnovers, a foul and two rebounds in 5 minutes, 47 seconds. 对Young来说，在麦迪逊花园的第一场比赛简直是个灾难。他的数据就像是个大学球 员一样——在5分47秒的上场时间中没有得分、3失误、1犯规和2颗篮板球。 Pacers fans nearly set Twitter on fire after that game, calling for him to be benched for the remainder of the Pacers’ playoff series with New York. Or, perhaps, thrown in jail. 溜马球迷在比赛後简直要把推特灌爆了，怒吼着接下来整个系列赛都要把他冰在板凳 上，或者是直接把他关禁闭。 Pacers coach Frank Vogel wasn’t swayed. He declared the next day that he would stick with Young, and he did. And he was rewarded. Young had two games that caused no further harm and three that were definitely positive over the final five games of the series, particularly in Saturday’s 106-99 close-out of the Knicks at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. 不过溜马教练Vogel并没有被影响，表示下场比赛他仍然会让Young上阵，并且的确这 麽做。而他的行动也获得了回报。Young接下来的五场比赛中有两场没有带来负面效益， 甚至有三场比赛有了不少贡献，特别是礼拜六以106-99在BLF球场淘汰尼克的比赛。 Playing 9 minutes and 21 seconds off the bench,Young tossed five points, five rebounds, a blocked shot and sturdy defense onto the Pacers’ pile. It amounted to a statement for a coach’s faith in a player, and a player’s dedication to the cause. 从板凳出发上了9分21秒，Young拿下了5分5篮板1火锅，并且在防守端尽心尽力。这 应该归因於教练对於球员的信任，而球员的知恩图报造就了这个成果。 “Even when I’ve played bad, he’s always stayed positive,” Young said of Vogel in the postgame locker room. “That’s just the kind of coach he is. He keeps a positive mindset, he keeps a positive outlook on the future.” 「尽管我打得很差劲，他仍然很乐观，」当Young赛後在更衣室提到Vogel时这样表示 。「这就是他的执教风格。他总是很乐观并且对未来充满期待。」 Young’s teammates, of course, had his back, too. But only in a locker room trash talking kind of way. The Pacers won Game 1, so it was easy to make fun of the guy who had looked like he had played blindfolded. Young的队友们当然也很挺他，不过比较像是在赛後休息室嘴炮。溜马赢得了第一场 比赛，所以去对打得没头没脑的球员开点玩笑是无伤大雅的。 “We were joking on him, man,” David West said, smiling at the memory. “We called him ‘Tragic.’ He had the worst five minutes you can have. But he bounced back.” 「我们都在取笑他，」David West微笑着回忆。「我们说他是个『杯具』。他打了人 生中最糟糕的五分钟，但是他成功止跌回升。」 And that’s the heart of this story. Young bounced back from “one of the worst games I’ve ever played,” because he went to work. He ran two miles on a treadmill in the team’s Manhattan hotel that night. He ran two miles both morning and night on most days after that, usually on a treadmill, but sometimes on the streets of Indianapolis. He also arrived early for practice and put up extra shots, and sometimes ran sprints as well. 而这就是整个故事的核心。Young之所以成功从「人生中最杯具的比赛」中止跌反弹 全都是由於他奋发图强。他当天晚上在曼哈顿饭店的跑步机上跑了两英哩。之後几乎每天 早晚都会再额外跑两英哩，有时是在跑步机上，有时是在印城的街道上。他也提早到场练 习并且加强投篮，有的时候也会练习冲刺。 “I wanted to let (Vogel) know through my actions I would never, ever have another performance like that,” Young said. 「我想要让Vogel教练知道我再也不会出现那样的表现，」Young表示。 It wasn’t all for show, though. The extra running helped his stamina, and the extra shooting helped his confidence. Over the final five games of the series, he totaled 12 points on 4-of-9 shooting, with nine rebounds and one turnover. He made his greatest impact in the second quarter on Saturday, when he grabbed a weakside rebound of George Hill’s missed three-pointer and scored on a reverse layup, and followed by blocking Carmelo Anthony’s three-pointer from behind. 这当然不是练好玩的。额外的跑步增强了他的耐力，而投篮练习则是增强了他的信心 。在系列赛的最後五场比赛，他9投4中拿下了12分，抓下了9篮板并仅出现一次失误。他 在礼拜六的比赛中的第二节有了最具影响力的一次表现，他抓下了Hill三分未进的进攻篮 板并且反手上篮得分，之後又从後面赏了Anthony三分出手一大锅。 “My wind felt better,” he said. “I was going for loose balls that I wasn’ t going for before. You just feel it within the game. You’re more detailed about different things if you’re not focused on your wind.” 「我觉得我的手风好多了，」他表示。「我开始去追逐一些以往我不会那麽卖力的球 。我在比赛中产生这样的感觉。如果你并没有完全投入其中你可能会为其他的事情而分心 。」 Young played in just two of the six games of the Pacers’ first-round series with Atlanta, for a total of 10 minutes. So, when Vogel called upon him early in Game 1 of the next round against New York, it came as a bit of a shock. Young在第一轮对上老鹰的六场比赛中只上了两场，出赛10分钟。因此当对上尼克的 第一场比赛中他被指派上阵时，他感到有些错愕。 “I felt I was sluggish; I felt I didn’t have my legs under me,” he said. “ But you’re a professional and there’s no excuse.” 「我感到手脚有些不听使唤，我感受不到我的两条腿，」他说。「但是身为一个职业 选手你不能够有任何藉口。」 The Twitter reaction was one thing, but the response from family and friends was much worse. 撇开Twitter的风暴，他亲友的反应远比这个还糟。 “When people that I love and care about are coming at me, it means more to me. They were saying, ‘You played bad. You need to get it together.’ They were affected by it.” 「当我挚爱并且关心的人评论我时对我来说意义非凡。他们告诉我『你打的烂透了， 你需要有更好的表现。』他们也被我的比赛给影响了。」 Young could have a bigger role in Vogel’s rotation for the series with Miami. He was signed in the off-season for this series, really, as someone who can help defend LeBron James. Not to stop James, nor to contain James, just to make it as difficult as possible for James when Paul George isn’t defending him. Young可能会在接下来面对热火的系列赛中，在轮替阵容中扮演更重要的角色。他季 前被签下来有一部分就是球队希望能有帮忙防守James的人。并不是要挡下他或者是掌控 他，只是要让George没在防守James时尽量造成他的麻烦。 Chances are, he’ll be ready from the beginning this time. 现在机会就在眼前，这次他已经准备好了。 --

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