MITCH ALBOM: CHICAGO FIRE 芝加哥之火 Suddenly, it's a series as Pistons lay an egg 突然间，当活塞开始搞砸的同时这变成了一个系列战了 May 16, 2007 BY MITCH ALBOM FREE PRESS COLUMNIST It was like watching a small rag fire, hoping it would burn out, and next thing you know, the whole neighborhood was aflame. The Chicago Bulls won the tip, hit the first shot and we could have stopped there. The rest was a clinic. Here was the lesson: 这就像是看着一团小火球，希望它能自己烧完，但接下来你看到的就是整个邻近地区都 着火了。芝加哥公牛得到了第一波进攻权，投进了第一球，而我们是可以从那时开始阻 止的。剩下来的就是会诊了。下面是教训： This is the NBA. You can't come out and expect a crown to be put on your head. The Pistons made shots Tuesday night, but not as many as Chicago. They moved the ball, but not as well as Chicago. They were hungry, but not as hungry as Chicago. They were done with Chicago, but Chicago wasn't done with them. 这里是NBA。你不能期待皇冠会放在你的头上。活塞在星期二晚上投进球，但没有芝加哥 那麽多。他们球有轮转，但没有芝加哥那麽好。他们是渴望的，但没有芝加哥那麽饥渴。 他们觉得他们跟芝加哥已经玩完了，但芝加哥觉得还没完呢。 It is hubris to think you can simply put a team where you want it, and the Pistons -- and plenty of us in the media -- seemed to act as if showing up Tuesday was the only requirement for victory. Well, the Bulls showed up, too. They came into the Palace with nothing to lose, believing they hadn't played their best game yet -- or anything close to it. One of these nights they were going to shoot the lights out -- if they just got enough nights to pick from. 以为你可以对一个球队为所欲为是傲慢的，而活塞和我们大多数媒体的行为似乎就像是 星期二的现身只是为了一场胜利。但，公牛也现身了。他们带着放手一搏的心态来到了 宫殿，相信他们还没拿出最棒的表现，或是还没有接近的表现。在这些晚上的其中一个 晚上他们会把灯关上，如果他们有足够的夜晚了话。 The Pistons gave them an extra night by not putting them away in Chicago on Sunday. You never, ever let a team get off the mat. Not in this league. 活塞星期日没在芝加哥让他们打包而给了他们一个额外的夜晚。你绝不可以让一个球队 获得那样的机会。在这个联盟是不行的。 The Bulls, resurrected, flat-out embarrassed Detroit in its home gym. They could have pulled the Pistons' pants down and not hurt their pride as much. They shot the lights out, then they shot the sockets and the wiring and the fuse box, too. After three quarters, they were still shooting close to 70%. 复活的公牛竭尽全力的在活塞的主场让活塞难堪。他们可以把活塞的裤子拉下而不会太 伤到他们的自尊。他们把灯关上，接着他们把插座，线路和保险丝盒也都拔掉。在三节 的比赛之後，他们仍旧有将近七成的命中率。 "It's tough to shoot 70% in gym with no one guarding you, let alone in a pressure situation," said a glum Flip Saunders after the 108-92 defeat in Game 5. "当没人防守你时要在球场有七成的命中率都不是件容易的事了，更何况是在一个有压力 的情况下，"闷闷不乐的老桑在第五战92-108输球之後说到。 And the pressure has shifted to the Pistons. Chicago now has won as many road games in this series as Detroit has. Ben Gordon (28 points) has awakened from his slumber. Kirk Hinrich has ceased to be intimidated. Tyrus Thomas is aging a year every night. And the Pistons have been exposed as a team that drops like a failed tech stock when Chauncey Billups is on the bench. 现在压力转到了活塞身上。芝加哥现在在这个系列战的客场胜场数和活塞一样了。Ben Gordon(28分)已经从睡眠中觉醒。Kirk Hinrich已经不再害怕了。Tyrus Thomas每一晚 就成熟了一年。而活塞则变成一个当枪蜥在板凳上时就毫无用处的科技股。 Before this second-round series began, everyone expected a tough, hard affair, and no one would have been surprised at a 3-2 Pistons lead. But when it comes after a 3-0 Pistons lead, it's not surprise, it's something else. 在第二轮开始之前，每个人都预期这是个费劲的系列战，活塞取得3-2领先也不会让人感 到惊讶。但当活塞是在3-0领先之後变成3-2，这就不令人惊讶了，这是别的状况。 Concern. 担心 Fantasy vs. Reality 幻想和现实 "Just because you step on the floor, other teams aren't going to roll over," Saunders said. "I think mentally, we were into the game. ... But it's tough when you're always playing catch-up." "只因为你站到场上，别的球队不会因此罢修，"老桑说。"我想心理上我们是参与了比赛 。但当你一直在追分时就不太好受了。" Playing catch-up -- again, the third straight game Detroit has been way down -- was not what we had in mind when the evening began. It began with visions of a celebration: The Pistons win, they end the series, they move to the conference finals, first team into this year's NBA Final Four. 再次变成苦苦追分的比赛，活塞连续第三场，这不是我们期待的比赛。我们期待的是庆祝 ：活塞赢球，他们结束系列战，他们晋级到东区冠军战，本季第一支进入NBA前四强的球 队。 But that was fantasy. 但那是幻想 This was reality: Tayshaun Prince, trapped in a Chicago defensive sandwich, having to call time. Chris Webber driving the basket and being stripped by Ben Wallace. Rip Hamilton getting stuffed in the lane. Antonio McDyess throwing an errant pass for Rasheed Wallace. Billups, sitting down with his fourth foul, the Pistons' chances sitting down with him. 现实是：小王子被芝加哥的防守围住，他得叫暂停。C-Webb切到禁区，球被班蛙抄走。 Rip的跑线被塞住。袋鼠把球传给溪蛙时失误。枪蜥带着四犯坐在板凳上，而活塞的机 会也跟着坐在场边的他一起消失。 This was reality: The Bulls stampeding with offense, shooting like some can't-miss joystick button in a video game, Gordon launching from everywhere, hitting five of six three-pointers, barely moving the net as the ball swished through. Hinrich becoming the pest that he is, scoring, dishing, drawing fouls. Luol Deng rising as if launched by pogo stick, tossing off-balance shots through the cylinder. Thomas hitting his first five shots, threatening to rip the rim off on several of them. 现实是：公牛的进攻就像是某人在玩电动时不会失误的控制杆，Gordon从每个地方投进 球，投进了五、六颗三分，而当球进时篮网几乎都不会飘动。Hinrich变成了原本那个难 缠的人物，得分，助攻，赚犯规。Luol Deng则像是藉由pogo stick投球的人物，失去平 衡之下还是可以投进。Thomas前五投都进，有几次几乎就要撕裂篮框。 （http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pogo_stick） Seventy-eight percent? Did the Bulls really shoot 78% in the first quarter? Seventy-two percent? Did they really shoot 72% for the first half? 百分之七十八？公牛真的在第一节命中率有78%吗？百分之七十二？他们上半场命中率真 的有72%吗？ Did they really do that? Did they really blow the Pistons away? 他们真的这样做？他们真的这样打挎活塞？ They did. And, as to paraphrase a Monkees song, it's a little bit them, it's a little bit us. 他们就是这样，就像是一首Monkees的歌词，是他们的关系，也是我们的关系。 "Is it fair to say you guys let up after a 3-0 lead?" someone asked Billups at the postgame news conference. "可以说你们在3-0领先之後有些放松吗？"某人在赛後记者会上问枪蜥。 "Looking at the last two games, it's fair to say that," he admitted. "I can't say we did that intentionally, but it's human nature, when you get that kind of a lead and that kind of a cushion. ... Our team is the kind of team, as you know, that is not that good with cushions. ... "看看最近这两战，要这麽说是对的，"他承认。"我不能说我们是有意这麽做的，但这是 人类的天性，当你取得那样的领先，那样的安逸之後。我们的球队是那种球队，就像你 知道的，我们不是很会面对安逸。" "Hopefully, they don't shoot that good again." "希望他们不会再投得那麽好。" Several history lessons 一些历史教训 Hopefully. But now the series goes to six games, at least. And even when the Pistons win -- and they will win, I refuse to change my prediction on that -- they will be that much more fatigued, have that much less rest time, and be that much more exposed to potential injury. 希望如此。但现在这个系列战至少有六场。即使活塞赢球，他们会赢球的，我拒绝更改我 之前的预测，他们会更疲累，更少休息时间，也会更容易受伤。 We only can hope that, along with all that negative, they will have relearned a lesson they swore they had learned last year versus Cleveland. 我们只希望在那些负面的影响之外，他们可以从去年对骑士的系列战中再次学到教训。 Everybody is good in the playoffs. Everybody has pride. And when you mix those ingredients with some undeserved sense of entitlement, you can lose any night, in any building. 每个人在系列战状况都很好。每个人都有自尊。如果你没有好好处理这些因素的话，你 可以在任何一个球场，任何一晚输球。 "Do you think the Pistons are starting to worry?" someone asked Bulls center Ben Wallace in the locker room. "你认为活塞会开始担心吗？"某人在休息室问了班蛙。 "I know those guys, I've been to war with those guys," he said, "and starting to worry is the last thing you expect from them." "我认识他们，我和那些人一同作战过，"他说。"而你最不会预期的就是他们开始担心了 。" Maybe expectations should change. No team has ever come back from a 3-0 NBA deficit. The Pistons know it. And they better forget it. They've already twice been on the wrong side of the scoreboard. They don't want to be on the wrong side of history. 或许期望应该改变。没有球队在0-3落後之後赢过系列战。活塞知道这点。他们最好忘掉 。他们已经两次站在记分板上错误的那边了。他们不想要变成历史上错误的那一边。 （翻得好烂 请指教！） --

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