抱歉 我今天真的很忙 这次真的只有外电整理和中文摘要 大家就练练英文阅读吧 如果有好心人士要翻请推文 感谢啦 http://0rz.tw/dd2iG CHICAGO -- The Pistons endured a harrowing 90-minute plane ride from Oklahoma City to Chicago Thursday night. Storm conditions caused the plane to fly through turbulent air, with violent dips in altitude, for most of the trip. "It was the worst flight of my life," coach Flip Saunders said. Had the players and coaches not been wearing seat belts, the dips would have tossed them up out of their seats. Of course, not everybody hated the ride. "Rasheed," said Saunders, shaking his head. Wallace was throwing up his hands as if he was on an amusement park ride, hollering, "Do it again, do it again." 大意：活塞飞机遇到严重乱流，老桑觉得那是他生命中遇到过最糟的航程， 但溪蛙像是来到了游乐园，举起他的双手大叫：再一次，再一次。 还好飞机上都是活塞自己人 不然其他乘客一定把他当疯子吧 XD http://0rz.tw/e92fO Ben Wallace didn't exactly win the headband battle with Bulls coach Scott Skiles. But Wallace has won one debate with his coach. Skiles' defensive system is predicated on players playing in front of their man, trying to deny the ball and make entry passes more difficult. Wallace, however, has won four defensive player of the year awards playing man-to-man. After a month or so, Skiles relented and is allowing Wallace to play behind his man, which frees him to help on the weak side. "I like what Scott brings, his approach to the game," Wallace said. "He's given me a lot of freedom to be me on the defensive end and the opportunity to go and play on the offensive end. He wants everybody to front, but he told me to pick my spots and use my instincts. You can't help but want to go out and play hard for a guy that gives you that kind of freedom." Assistant Pete Myers said Wallace and the Bulls still are learning how to play with each other. "We are a smaller team than he had in Detroit," said Myers, who has seen opponents shoot a higher percentage against the Bulls this season (45.4). "He had Rasheed (Wallace), who is almost 7-foot. He had Tayshaun Prince, who is long. The biggest guy next to him here is 6-7." Myers also said Ben Wallace hasn't yet adjusted, physically, to the Bulls' faster style. "You look at Ben and you see this phenomenal body," Myers said. "He looks in shape. He looks intimidating. But you still have to be in basketball shape. You can lift and tone and do all of that, but as you get older, you don't have the same endurance you had when you were younger. You think you are putting out the same at 32 as you did when you were 25, but you are not. "He has to get himself in better shape, cardio-wise. And he's doing that. He's making progress." Slam dunks Chauncey Billups had one of his most productive workouts since straining his right calf, but he's still not ready to play. Lindsey Hunter (right Achilles' tendon) is out. 大意： 公牛教头Skiles对球员的防守要求是站前防守，但他允许班蛙可以站在对手 的後方，方便班蛙去协助弱边的防守。班蛙对此表示，他愿意为这种给他这 样自由的教练努力打球。 公牛助理教练Pete Myers表示，班蛙还需要有更好的体能来适应公牛更快的 风格。 枪蜥还没准备好能上场，猎人一定不会上场。 http://0rz.tw/4e2jV It's Tuesday, about 90 minutes before tip-off. Ben Wallace is sitting by himself in front of his corner locker wistfully watching the replay of the Pistons-Suns game from Sunday. Then, into the room walks a reporter from Detroit and, for an instant, Wallace looks disoriented. "I am sitting here watching my old team and talking to you," Wallace said, shaking his head. "It's crazy. I mean, it's so funny. It's like I am watching my team but it's not really my team anymore." Flash ahead to today and try to get a read on all that might be roiling in Wallace's heart, stomach and soul as he takes the court for the first time against his former teammates -- guys he sweat and fought with, won and lost with, for six seasons -- wearing the white and red of the rival Bulls. "Man," he said. Wallace can't immediately wrap his mind around it, though he reconciled with its eventuality the day he signed the four-year, $60 million contract with the Bulls in July. His thoughts race, his words tumble out more slowly, but it doesn't take long before he feels the gravity of it all. "It's tough not to think about it," he said. "For me it's going to be exciting to have the opportunity to play against those guys, to be on the same floor with those guys again. It's going to be exciting." He is asked what, for him, would be the perfect outcome? "Just a good game and everybody stays healthy and able to bring to the table what they always bring," he said. Then he paused for a second. "You know, there's been a lot of talk about how I abandoned that team and how I let those guys down," he said. "I just want to go out there and let people see how we really feel about each other." The truth is -- regardless of how he might feel about coach Flip Saunders or how he felt about the way last season ended -- Wallace is going to feel like he's playing a game against his brothers. He wants to beat them badly, but he still loves them dearly. "People don't understand what we had in Detroit," Wallace said. "We won a championship together. We all grew up together. We just didn't step on that floor as a great team. We all grew. We all took our lumps, getting swept out of the playoffs and stuff like that. We all carried that onto the floor with us every night and it allowed us to get better as players. "It was a lot of fun there, man. Something you are going to remember for the rest of your life." Don't misunderstand. Wallace does not regret his decision to leave. Even though things got off to a rocky start in Chicago, he wouldn't change anything. He felt he no longer fit with the Pistons, not the way they were changing under Saunders. "Ben is a competitor," Saunders said. "He wants to be involved and he wants to do things. That's how he is. But the one thing that every coach who's ever coached him says, it's not like he doesn't give an effort for you. No matter what, if he didn't like something, he still went out and played and gave 100 percent. "From my standpoint, he gave everything he had every night, whatever I asked of him. He might not have liked what I asked him to do at times, but he still did it." Tonight's game isn't about that for Wallace. It's about seeing his teammates again. "If I could take these guys with me wherever I go, wherever I decide to play basketball, I would do it," he said. "But at the end of the day, everybody understood it was business." （班蛙说如果可以 他会带着活塞一起去他决定要打球的地方 XD） Taking his licks Slowly but surely, Wallace is finding a comfort level in Chicago. But it has been a painstaking process. "I had to get to know everybody and allow everybody to get to know me," he said. "There was a time we'd be in the locker room and I'd be sitting here and everybody would just be looking around, being real quiet, not saying a whole lot to me. It's like they didn't know what I was about, or if I would just flip out or something. It just took time for them to get to know I was a real person." Oddly enough, it took Wallace to flip out for his teammates to loosen up around him. "Yeah, I decided to throw a headband on and let them know I was a real person," Wallace said. Wallace's decision to defy the organization's rule against wearing headbands earned him a fine and a benching -- and created a firestorm of negative press across the country -- but it also broke the ice with his teammates. The Bulls won 16 of their next 20 games and things, at least internally, have calmed down. "It was shaky at first," said Bulls assistant Pete Myers, whom Wallace has adopted as his "personal" assistant, the one who works most with him after practice. "But the thing with guys who are highly competitive like Ben, they always find a way. He still has a couple more gears left in him, I believe. He's still just feeling his way." Wallace isn't exactly the toast of the Windy City yet. He has been bashed by the local columnists. The talk-radio shows refer to him as the Big Phony. He had missed 11 straight free throws entering play Friday, and the fans were on him. The Bulls' defensive numbers have sagged noticeably and, naturally, Wallace, his own numbers down (6.8 points, 9.9 rebounds and 1.97 blocks), has taken the blame for it. "If you are going to judge him on stats, you are probably not a very smart basketball person," said Alvin Gentry, a Suns assistant and former Pistons coach. "He's not a guy you judge on stats. You judge him on the intangible things he brings and the impact he has on the game. If you are a basketball purist, you really appreciate him." Here's how much the Suns appreciated Wallace last Tuesday. After destroying the Pistons with a high pick-and-roll with Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire, the Suns didn't run the play at all in the first quarter. It wasn't until Wallace was out that they went back to it. Why? They didn't want to involve Wallace on the play. "Yeah, you game plan for him," Gentry said. "You have to. Obviously, when you are playing against the defensive player of the year, you have to take under consideration what you have to do against him to be effective." But here's the no-win situation Wallace is faced with. Even though he altered the Suns' attack early, even though he got 14 rebounds and two steals, and even though the Suns were limited to 97 points -- 14 fewer than their average -- Wallace was singled out for criticism after the 97-96 loss. Stoudemire got 24 points and 18 rebounds, and scored a key putback late, though he appeared to climb Wallace's back to do it. "Amare manhandled us," Bulls coach Scott Skiles said. "We had no answer for him." Until he brings the title to Chicago, Wallace is going to be cast in a harsher light than his teammates. That's one of the hidden costs of that $60 million contract. "I ain't worried about that," Wallace said. "I can't control that. I just worry about the things I can control." Ready to RIP The Pistons, who practiced Friday in Chicago, were eager to see Wallace. "I can't wait," Richard Hamilton said. "We've done so many special things together, he's like a brother to us. To see him in that red uniform is going to be crazy." Antonio McDyess, who has played in his share of reunion games, knows Wallace's heart will be skipping a few beats. "You can say all you want to about, 'Nah, I'm not thinking about that.' That's a lie," McDyess said. "You are thinking about it and you will be thinking about it for two or three years. Believe me. You always want to play real well against your old team." Wallace said one of the things he missed most about his former teammates was the non-stop hooting and ribbing. "All the time we were there, even the times we were struggling, nobody was ever really down," Wallace said. "You came into that locker room and guys still talked to you. I mean, you have a bad game and the first thing out of somebody's mouth was, 'Dang, man, you was really on one tonight.'?" Wallace smiles at the memory. "Oh, don't worry," Chauncey Billups said. "He's going to get an earful." Billups, out because of a strained right calf, will have to do his jawing from the sidelines. "It's going to be a weird feeling," Billups said. "It's like playing against your brother and your family. But the thing is, we are only playing against one guy, he's playing against a whole team of his brothers. I know it's going to be emotional and I know he's going to be ready to play. I know that for sure." 大意： 班蛙仍关心着活塞 在星期二开赛前大概90分钟，他坐在休息室看着星期日 活塞和太阳之战的重播。班蛙认为和活塞之战就像和兄弟在比赛。 老桑提到，班蛙虽然有时候或许不同意老桑要他做的事，但他仍会照着做， 贡献百分百的努力。 太阳助理教练提到班蛙对比赛的影响力。 班蛙谈到了他在公牛休息室的适应。也回忆起活塞欢乐不停歇的休息室。 RIP和枪蜥都聊到了与班蛙团员的心情。 http://0rz.tw/2a2kO "It's going to be a funny, fun, emotional game," Rasheed Wallace said. That probably covers all the major bases. As the Pistons prepared to meet Ben Wallace and his new team, the Chicago Bulls, tonight, they couldn't help but smile when talking about their former teammate. Big smiles, because no matter the other emotions, more than anything, they think tonight will be fun. Rasheed Wallace looks forward to seeing Ben's wife and children. Richard Hamilton can't wait to try some trash talk against him in a real game. Chauncey Billups is excited to do the same, even though he'll do it while sitting on the bench resting his right calf strain. Seeing Ben Wallace in a red Bulls jersey, competing against his Pistons, is something he probably never thought he'd witness. "The way he played, the energy he brings, his presence in the locker room," Antonio McDyess said. "Pretty much everything. Ben is the kind of guy that doesn't say much, but the way he carries himself, his presence -- we followed that. So his absence from this team, we kind of miss that." Even Flip Saunders must miss Wallace in some ways. Wallace has spoken out about the Pistons coach, telling ESPN.com that his leaving had a lot to do Saunders. But if there's bad blood between the two, Saunders won't let on to it. Not the day before his team must face Wallace for the first time, anyway. "That'll never go away," Ben Wallace told reporters in Chicago this week. "Even when the ball stops bouncing for us, we're still going to talk to each other, we're still going to remain friends and talk about old times or whatever. That bond we have will never go away." Even though Wallace is swatting shots and grabbing rebounds in Chicago, he talks to his ex-teammates all the time. "It's still football season," Rasheed Wallace said when asked whether he and Ben talk often. "He's had some texts and calls from me, and I call him about those Cowgirls. He talks about my Chiefs. We're still homies. He's still close with everybody in this locker room." Tonight, that changes. For a few hours, anyway. "You played with him for so long, you want him to play well," Hamilton said. "But when we play him, there ain't none of that. It's mano vs. mano. You forget all that; all that stuff is done." 大意： 队友谈班蛙。Dice提到班蛙话不多，总是用身教带领大家。溪蛙则被问到他 和班蛙聊天的话题，他回答到，他们最常在谈足球。 http://0rz.tw/a82j4 "When you play with somebody as long as we all were together, and you go through all the stuff that we went through and you win championships, you become like family," said Pistons guard Lindsey Hunter. "And you always want your family to be happy." Even if it means joining up with an arch-rival? "Hey," Hunter said, "family is family." Detroit center Nazr Mohammed, who replaced Wallace in the Pistons' starting lineup, said there's usually added motivation for players when they first face their former team. "The first time, yeah, you get up for that game a little bit more than maybe some others," said Mohammed, who played for four teams (Philadelphia, Atlanta, New York and San Antonio) prior to signing with the Pistons in August. "But after that first game or two against them, it really does become just another game; for me, at least." "Ben did a lot for this team when he was here," Hunter said. "But he's moved on, and we have to do the same. We still got love for him. The only thing that's really changed is he's playing against us now, and not with us." 大意：猎人提到，即使成为劲敌，和班蛙仍旧像家人一样。回教人则用亲 身经验表示，遇到老东家的第一，第二场比赛感觉会不太一样，但接下来 的比赛就没差了。 --

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