原文出处： http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/langlois_blog_070327.html -- Sure, it was a lucky shot. A one-in-a-million shot, as Flip Saunders said. The kind of shot fathers and mothers will tell sons and daughters about when they take them to their first Pistons game 30 years from now. The kind of shot the coach on the wrong side takes to his grave. 当然，那是幸运的一球。就像老桑所说的，百不得其一的一球。那种球是30年後当父 母亲们带着他们的小孩第一次到场观看活塞球赛时还会津津乐道的，也是敌队教练一直到 过世为止都还无法忘怀的。 But if you write off the missile Rasheed Wallace launched from the other side of half-court – it only seemed like the other side of the world – to send Monday night’s ridiculously entertaining game with Denver into overtime completely to luck, you’re not seeing the larger picture. 不过如果你把星期一晚上活塞能将与丹佛金块的比赛逼进延长赛都功劳都算在溪蛙由 另一端半场所投进那颗 - 就像是从地球另一头发射的 - 底特律洲际飞弹，那你可能没看 清楚整件事情的绝大部分。 Which is this: They had to believe in the possibility of an impossible situation in order to enable it. 那就是：为了达成目标，他们必须去相信在不可能的情况下的任何一丝丝可能性。 It would have been easy for the Pistons to make a half-hearted effort to contest Denver’s inbounds pass and let the game play out the way the thousands who’d already vacated their seats at The Palace expected it to play out. It would have been understandable if the Pistons had decided to figuratively beat the traffic, too, down two starters due to illness and with a stand-in playing heavy minutes after submerging himself in freezing water to knock a few points off his 103-degree fever. 对活塞来说，不全力以赴去干扰金块的场边发球，让球赛结果演变成宫殿里已经离开 座位的那数千名球迷所想像的那样是容易许多。如果活塞在两名先发球员因伤缺阵，还有 一位替补球员为了让103度(摄氏39.4度)的体温降下来而将自己泡在水里後还上场45分钟的 情况下决定只是虚张声势一下，而不尽力去封阻也是可以理解的。 But Flip Saunders looked at his team – and, more and more, you sense that Saunders feels it’s his team now, unlike a year ago, when he struggled with how much of himself to impose on a tight-knit bunch that had known success doing it another way – and gave them the “strange things happen … you never know” speech. And they bought it. 但老桑看着他的球队 - 而且，越来越让你感觉老桑认为这的确是他的球队，而不像一 年前他挣扎着要让自己融入一支已经组织严密且以另一种模式成功广为人知的那样 - 并告 诉他们"不可思议的事情就是会发生...你永远不会知道"的言论。而他们听进去了。 So Tayshaun Prince, on whom the brunt of the increased workload for those still upright has increased to cover for those injured or ill or suspended, willed himself to one more quick burst of energy despite having already played 40 exhausting minutes. He got his hand on the careless pass Marcus Camby attempted to Carmelo Anthony. 所以小王子在因为队友生病或遭禁赛而必须担负更多责任的情况下，尽管已经拼尽全 力打了40分钟还是愿意再迸发出仅存的一点力气，把他的手放在马马虎虎准备将球发给甜 瓜的M.Camby面前挥舞。 Not that it should have mattered. The ball could have just as easily wound up in friendly Denver hands and that would have been that. And even if it managed to find its way to a Piston, what were the odds of anything productive happening? The ball was inbounded with 1.5 seconds to play – 75 feet from the basket that mattered. The clock starts ticking as soon as it’s touched. It had to get from Prince’s deflection to a teammate and back out of his hands in less time than it takes to read this sentence. 并不是说这一定会有用。球可以轻易地被传到金块的球员手上而比赛也将大势底定。 而且就算球真的落到活塞球员手中，出现任何有价值的事情的机率又有多少？球传进场内 时比赛时间只剩下1.5秒 - 距离那个能起到作用的篮框有75尺远。只要有人碰到球比赛时 间就会马上继续算下去。球被小王子拨掉，而溪蛙立即将球捡起再投出去的时间比你读完 这个句子所需的时间还短。 Oh. And then it had to find a target hard to hit from one-third the distance and damn near impossible to find from half as far. 喔，而且从球场三分之一的距离远要找到目标已经很难了，更何况是要从半场远的距 离投进，这几乎是不可能的事。 Slim and none, as Chuck Daly used to say, and slim just left town. 就像C.Daly过去常说的，机会微乎其微，而且根本就是不可能。 Except Rasheed Wallace, who puts a charge into pretty much every Pistons practice by attempting outrageous shots from distance and challenging teammates to match him, believed in the possibility of an impossible situation made only slightly less unthinkable by Tayshaun Prince’s hustle. So he snatched up the loose ball, turned and gave it his best college try. 但除了溪蛙，这个每次活塞练习时都试图从远距离投进令人吃惊的球并要队友和他比 赛的家伙，相信小王子的拼劲让不可能的情况出现了一丝可能性，所以他抓起了被小王子 拨掉的球，转身并用尽了最大的努力投出那一球。 It looked dead on as it traced that perfect arc, a comet’s tail ablaze in the charred night sky, but those last-ditch heaves often look dead on only to wind up 3 feet long or 5 feet short. Or maybe they rattle inside the rim but inevitably pop out from the violence of a collision that began 60-some feet away. 当球像一颗彗星的尾巴划过漆黑夜空，留下完美的轨迹後，看起来比赛就要结束了， 因为那些最後的孤注一掷通常不是短了5尺就是远了3尺。或可能他们会碰到篮框但却无可 避免地又弹了出来，因为球是从60几尺远的地方非常用力投出的。 Except this one didn’t. 不过这颗球不是这样。 “Strange things happen,” Saunders told his team in their timeout huddle with 1.5 seconds to go, and “something strange really happened,” he told reporters afterward. One in a million, he said. 不可思议的事情发生了，"当比赛时间剩下1.5秒他们喊出暂停时，老桑告诉他的球队 ，而"不可思议的事情真的发生了，"赛後他告诉记者们。百不得其一的一球，他说。 One in a million, indeed. 百不得其一的一球，真的。 Baseball managers are fond of saying that momentum is only as good as tomorrow’s starting pitcher, and basketball coaches are no less cynical or hopelessly pessimistic when it comes to such things. But Saunders accepted that this win – given the circumstances of fatigue and the ravages of illness – might just have some legs. Maybe not in their next game, or maybe not next week . But maybe the next time they face an impossible situation. Maybe the next time they’re down eight with three minutes left in a road playoff game, they’ll look at each other and remember what they pulled from a hopeless situation on a night they went to work with a skeleton crew. 当比赛演变成这样，棒球经理喜欢说气势端看明天的先发投手，而篮球教练也没好到 哪去，一样地悲观或绝望。但老桑接受了这场胜利 - 尽管大家已经累得人仰马翻而且饱受 伤兵问题困扰 - 在可用之兵不多的情况下。或许不是在他们的下一场比赛，或许也不是在 下个礼拜。但或许是在下一次他们面对不可能的情况下。或许下一次当他们在季後赛的客 场比赛剩下三分钟仍以八分落後时，他们会看着彼此，记起他们在一个人手不足的夜晚如 何力挽狂澜并赢得最终的胜利。 “Especially this late in the season,” Saunders said of the night’s lasting effect. “We’ve had situations where we’ve never given up. A couple of games ago we had a chance to win at the buzzer when we were down five with 35 seconds to go. That’s the sign of a veteran team – keep on playing, knowing good things can happen.” "尤其是在球季的末段，"老桑说到这晚会遗留下来的影响。"我们已经有过许多绝不放 弃的经验。以前有几场比赛当比赛时间剩下35秒时我们还以五分落後，但却拥有最後一击 取胜的机会。那是经验丰富的球队的表徵 - 继续努力，知道好事有可能会发生。" Rasheed Wallace’s reminder, made possible because the Pistons refused to believe in impossibility, was for everybody else. The Pistons already acknowledged the reality of miracles for those with the mettle to pursue them. 溪蛙让不可能变成可能的神来一投是要献给其他的每一个人，因为活塞相信没有不可 能，他们已经知道奇蹟是为了那些有勇气去追寻且相信奇蹟的人而存在。 --

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