http://0rz.net/0c1rd Saunders scrambles to recover team's mojo, avoid elimination 桑德斯急欲找回球队的魔力，避免淘汰。 May 31, 2006 BY JON PAUL MOROSI FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER The crowds will come to the Palace once more tonight, for Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals. They will inch along Lapeer Road, park in the vast lot, hand over a pricey ticket and yell for three hours. Flip Saunders, the first-year Pistons coach, expects them to be "boisterous." 群众在今晚东区决赛第五场比赛会再次到皇宫(活塞主场)去。他们会延着Lapeer Road前进 ，车停在大停车场，递出昂贵的票进场然後喊叫三个小时。第一年活塞教练的桑德斯期待 他们会很「喧闹」。 Yet, by night's end, they might see an abrupt end to a season that, weeks ago, seemed destined for June glory. 然而今晚结束後他们可能要看到几周之前还似乎一定会夺冠的本季提前终止。 The Pistons, who had the best regular-season record in franchise history, are one loss from an untimely demise, down 3-1 against the carefree Miami Heat. In order to win, they must make measurable improvements from their play in Miami, where they lost one game by 15 points and another by 11. 本季拿下队史最佳季赛战绩的活塞落後给轻松的热火1-3，只差一败就要被出局。为了赢， 他们必须比在迈阿密那两场比赛，一场输15分一场输11分，作出相当大的改进。 "We're just not functioning really good," Saunders said in a teleconference Tuesday afternoon. "We haven't since the third game in Cleveland. 「我们只是没有发挥正常，」桑德斯在周二下午的电视记者会说。「自从对骑士的第三战 就是如此。」 "Our mojo has disappeared a little. We're not playing how we play." 「我们的幸运魔法有些不见了。我们并不像平常的我们那样打球。」 The Pistons arrived home from Miami around 3:45 a.m. Tuesday and did not hold a formal practice. Saunders, however, said videotapes were being prepared for possible viewing Tuesday night. Saunders joked he might rent "Space Jam" -- the Bugs Bunny/Michael Jordan flick -- as a way to help his team regain the lost " mojo." 活塞在周二早上3点45从迈阿密回到家，没有进行正式练球。然而桑德斯说周二晚间可能 准备录影带给球员们看。他还开玩笑说可能租兔子邦尼与麦可乔丹合演的怪物奇兵--也许 可以帮助球队重拾信心。 Some of the team's issues are internal: players sniping at Saunders, Ben Wallace's ineffectiveness, Rasheed Wallace's reduced mobility and foul trouble. Others have more to do with the Heat's resurgence under coach Pat Riley. 球队的问题有些是内部的：球员指责桑德斯和大班没用，溪蛙动作变慢和犯规过多。其他 则是跟热火莱里教练督导下热火的窜起有关。 Dwyane Wade is shooting almost 70% in the series. The Pistons slowed him with a zone on Monday -- but not for long. And Saunders said Shaquille O'Neal is "the best I've seen him in two or three years." 韦得在本系列赛命中率几乎七成。活塞在周一以区域防守减缓他--但是并没有够久。桑德 斯也说大欧是这两三年来「我看他状态最好的」。 O'Neal has limited Ben Wallace's effectiveness on both ends of the floor. Miami has outscored Detroit in the paint in each game this series -- and by an average margin of 13.5 points -- is an indictment on a defense Wallace has long symbolized. 欧尼尔在球场两边都将大班克制住。迈阿密在每场比赛的禁区得分都高於活塞--平均相差 13.5分--那对强调防守的大班来说是个明显的控诉。 Saunders was asked on Tuesday if Wallace needs greater offensive involvement -- he was 2-for-5 from the field in Games 3 and 4 combined -- to regain his defensive form. 桑德斯在周二被问到大班是否需要更多持球出手机会--第三四场非自由球共投5中2--以 正常发挥防守功能。 "Everyone's talked a lot about that," Saunders said. "Ben's had opportunities. And he passed up opportunities. You can't just look at field-goal attempts. If he has 10 free-throw attempts (as he did in Game 3), that's five field-goal attempts. 「每个人都说到了这点，」桑德斯说。「班有过机会。他把球传出去(把机会流失)。你不 能只看非自由球。如果他有10次罚球(就像第三场)，就等同5次出手可以得到的分数。」 "It's been a big struggle with Shaquille. If you give the ball to Ben within five feet of the bucket, they're going to foul him. They're not going to give him lay-ups." 「与侠客的对抗很辛苦。如果把球传给离篮不到5尺的大班，他们就会对他犯规。不让他 上篮。」 Wallace was among the Pistons who criticized Saunders over the weekend. He said there has been a "night and day" difference between the team's defensive approach in practice last year and offensive emphasis now. Saunders publicly disagreed with that statement before Monday's game. 大班在周末加入批评桑德斯的其他球员。他说今年强调进攻和去年强调防守天差地远。 老桑在周一那场比赛前公开不同意这个叙述。 After the criticisms, Saunders said Tuesday that some of his players -- he would not name them -- approached him to say that what others had done was not right. 在那些批评後，桑德斯周二说某些队员--不愿指出谁--跟他说某人的行为是不对的。 "Deep down, the players know, just like the coaches," Saunders said. "Everyone knows what's going on. 「球员在内心里和教练都一样知道，」老桑说。「每个人都知道现在是什麽情形。」 "We had been phenomenal until the Cleveland series. We went seven-and-a-half months with no bumps. Now we're a little frustrated." 「我们一直到与骑士的系列赛都表现很好。我们走过了7个半月没有阻碍。现在有点挫折。 」 And now, Detroit must do something that would be nearly unprecedented, for Saunders and for the franchise. As an NBA coach, Saunders has won only one of the nine series in which he has trailed, 0-1, as he did to start this series. The Pistons, meantime, have won only once when trailing 3-1, against the Orlando Magic in 2003. 现在活塞必须为老桑与这个队作一些不同的。作为一名NBA教练，桑德斯在0比1落後开始的 系列赛，9次中有1次最後获胜。活塞在1比3落後下只有在2003年对奥兰多魔术最後出线。 Riley, meanwhile, has never lost a series to the Pistons in which his team won at least one game. His only postseason series loss to Detroit came in a sweep of the 1989 NBA Finals. And with one victory -- in any of the next three games -- Riley will ensure the Pistons do not make a third consecutive appearance there. 莱里在与活塞赢一场比赛中从未失去系列赛。他唯一输给活塞的系列赛在1989的总冠军战 ，那一年被横扫。只要有拿到一胜--他会确保在接下来可能的三场比赛不会让活塞连续第 三年闯入总冠军战。 The odds are long. And time is short. 差距很大。时间却很短。 "Three-one," forward Antonio McDyess said. "That tells it all." 「3比1，」前锋McDyess说。「那说明了一切。」 --

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