http://0rz.net/6b1rF AUBURN HILLS -- Don't quit on the Pistons. If they are going to go down to the Heat in the Eastern Conference finals tonight, you should go down with them. 奥本山--不要放弃活塞。如果他们要与热火在今晚浴血苦战，你应该与他们一起。 This team has fought too hard the past three years for its fans and city to run and hide as soon as the going gets tough. 这支队伍过去三年为球迷和底特律如此奋战，当挑战来临，不会逃避。 Two years ago, many believed they wouldn't be able to beat the mighty Los Angeles Lakers -- with Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson -- in the NBA Finals. 两年前很多人不相信他们在冠军战能击败有侠客、抠比和教练杰克森的强大的湖人。 Granted, it seems like a zillion years since that team defied the odds and did what nobody thought was possible. 不得不承认，那支无所畏惧达成不可能任务的队伍似乎看来是很久以前了。 The current version just seems off, maybe even tired, if not out of gas. 现在的这一队看来像心不在焉，也许很疲劳，如果不是完全没战力。 But when you talk to the Pistons and interact with them in the locker room, you don't get the sense they aren't willing to fight, even though they trail 3-1 in the series. Often, you can tell if a team is done just by body language alone. 但是当你到更衣室与活塞队员交谈，你并不认为他们已经不想战斗，即使现在3比1落後。 通常从球队的肢体语言就可以看出还有没有希望。 It's not the case. 这个队并不是这样。 "We've put ourselves in this situation so many times, being down, going up in the series and then the other team coming back and taking advantage in the series, obviously it's catching up with us," Tayshaun Prince said. "But like I said, it's not over." 「我们已经很多次碰到这种情形，在系列赛中拉锯，然後别的队来了可能又是同样戏码。 很明显现在对手将我们逼到这种情形，」小王子说。「但如我说的比赛还没结束。」 Mission impossible? Nah 不可能达成的任务？不是的。 At this point, it seems improbable the Pistons will come back, but it's not impossible. 目前活塞要反败为胜机率很小，但并非不可能。 That's what you have to hold on to. We've seen comebacks in sports over the last couple years no one thought possible. 你必须坚定信念。过去几年我们在运动赛事已经看过一些浴火重生达成反败为胜的例子。 The Red Sox rallied from a 3-0 deficit to win four straight from the Yankees two years ago. That was a first for baseball. 红袜在两年前从0比3落後连胜四场击败洋基。那是棒球的第一次。 During these playoffs, the Suns trailed the Lakers, 3-1, and won three straight to advance. 在季後赛，太阳从1比3落後湖人连胜3场晋级。 So it can happen. 所以是有可能。 But the Pistons are going to have to play better in a hurry. 但是活塞要赶快打好一点。 "We've got to look at this as a one-game series the rest of the way," Chauncey Billups said. "We've got to play one game and then think about the next one. 「我们得将剩下的比赛当成单场系列赛，」毕勒普斯说。「必须一场一场来。」 "If we don't focus in on that one game, then the season will be over." 「如果不专心在一场上，本季就结束。」 You still get the sense the Pistons can come back and win, just because they have so many times. Plus, basketball is a funny game. If they just started knocking down some shots, things can change in a hurry. 你依然感觉活塞可以追上获胜，因为过去有很多次了。再说，篮球很有趣，如果开始 进了几颗球，局势很快会改变。 Don't blame the defense 不要苛责防守 The problem is not the defense. The Pistons have allowed fewer points in the first four games against the Heat than they did in last year's series that was tied after four games. 问题不在防守。比起去年在四场後打平，活塞在前面四场比赛让热火得到更少分数。 If the Pistons win tonight, the pressure would shift back to the Heat to close the series at home in Game 6 on Friday. 如果活塞今晚赢，压力就会转到热火那里，他们会想将系列赛在周五第六战结束在主场。 The Pistons could take chances and play desperate. Often, the toughest teams to defeat are the ones with nothing to lose. Plus, the Pistons won Game 7 in Miami last season in the conference finals. 活塞可以放手一搏。通常没有筹码可输的队伍是最顽强的队伍。此外，活塞上季在分区决 赛在迈阿密赢得第七战。 "One play can change a game, one game can change a series," coach Flip Saunders said. "Basically what we've got to do is come up with that play at home and try to change the series." 「一球可以改变一场比赛，一场比赛可以改变一个系列赛，」教练桑德斯说。「简单说我 们需要在自家将那一球作出来然後想办法扭转局势。」 The Pistons have never quit on you. 活塞从未放弃你。 That's why you shouldn't give up on them in their darkest moment, facing their biggest challenge. 所以你不应该在此时他们背水一战时放弃他们。 --

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