原文出处： http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/langlois_blog_080213.html -- The Atlanta Hawks were the only NBA team with two lottery picks last June. With the Nos. 3 and 11 picks, Atlanta wound up with big man Al Horford and point guard Acie Law. They add to a collection of other recent Atlanta lottery picks, including Marvin Williams, Josh Smith and Shelden Williams. If the Hawks got it right last June, they should be finished with the lottery for a while. 亚特兰大老鹰是唯一一支在去年六月选秀会上拥有两枚乐透选秀权的NBA球队。亚特兰 大用第3和第11顺位分别挑选了大个子Al Horford和控卫Acie Law。他们加入了亚特兰大过 去几年以数枚乐透选秀权挑选的正太军团，包括Marvin Williams、双Josh、Shelden Williams等人。如果老鹰去年做的选择正确，他们应该会暂别乐透选秀权好一阵子。 About a month after the draft, I wrote that the Pistons – who didn’t have any lottery picks – had a young big man and a young point guard they wouldn’t swap for the two newest Hawks. 大概在选秀会後一个月，我写下一篇关於活塞 - 他们去年连一枚乐透选秀权都没有 - 的文章，他们拥有一对绝不会拿去交换那两只新鹰的年轻大个和控卫。 After watching the teams play their fourth and final game of the regular season last night, I’ll stand by that. The Pistons wouldn’t swap Rodney Stuckey and Amir Johnson for Horford and Law. And I say that after watching Horford keep the Hawks close by grabbing 16 rebounds, seven on the offensive end. 在昨晚看过两支球队本季例行赛第四次，同时也是最後一次交手後，我更加确定了当 时自己的观点没错。活塞绝不会拿Rodney Stuckey和Amir Johnson去交换Horford和Law。 而且别忘了我刚亲眼目睹Horford抓下16个篮板，其中甚至还有7个是进攻篮板，帮助老鹰 整场比赛紧咬活塞不放。 That extends Horford’s impressive rookie body of work. He’s a lock to make the All-Rookie team and, if voters are open-minded, has a chance to challenge Kevin Durant for Rookie of the Year, though Durant’s scoring numbers – on a team gutted to hasten his development and lacking other legitimate scoring options – are going to be far gaudier than Horford’s. 那使得大家对Horford这位菜鸟印象更为深刻。他肯定会入选菜鸟全明星队，而且如果 票选委员能够放开心胸，他甚至有机会挑战几乎已经是Kevin Durant囊中物的年度最佳新 人大赏，尽管Durant的得分数据 - 身处一支支离崩析的球队中迫使他快速成长，而且球队 也缺乏其他可靠的出手人选 - 比起Horford要漂亮许多。 Let’s compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges – Horford to Johnson and Law to Stuckey. 我们把他们分为两组 - Horford对Johnson和Law对Stuckey - 分别做个比较。 My guess is that most NBA personnel people would agree that Horford is the safer bet to be a solid pro for the next 12 to 15 years than Johnson, but that most would further agree that Johnson has a higher ceiling. A lower floor, to be sure, but a higher ceiling – meaning that Johnson could be anywhere from a double-double All-Star on the high end to a role player on the low end, while Horford will be no worse than a solid starter for a contending team and perhaps much more. 我猜NBA中大部分的人都会同意，如果要挑选一名在接下来12至15年较有可能成为坚实 可靠职业球员的人，Horford是比Johnson较为保险的人选，但更进一步大部分人也会同意 Johnson有较佳的发展性。起跑时不如人是肯定的，但可能有较佳的发展性 - 意思是说最 好的状况他可能成为一个单场平均双位数的全明星，最差的话可能就只能当一个功能性球 员，而Horford再差至少也能在一支有竞争力的球队中，担任坚实可靠的先发角色，或甚至 有更好的发展。 Or, put another way: Horford will be an invaluable, tireless workhorse; Johnson has a chance to be a blue-ribbon thoroughbred. 或者，换句话说：Horford将会成为一只无价的，不屈不挠的役马；但Johnson有机会 成为一流的神驹。 The Pistons, seeing Johnson’s work ethic and passion for the game, are more certain than most that he’s going to come closer to the high end of estimates as to his future. Horford, at 21 a year older than Johnson and already pretty much grown into this body, is infinitely closer to being a finished product than Johnson, who right now does more than get by on just raw athleticism and energy. There is almost no nuance to Johnson’s game now, yet the numbers he puts up in limited minutes are staggering. Horford’s 16 rebounds came in 36 minutes; Johnson played less than seven minutes and had four rebounds. Horford scored 12 points in his 36 minutes; Johnson scored six in his seven. 活塞在看了Johnson的职业道德以及对於球赛的热情後，认为他较有可能达到大家对於 他未来评估中最好情况的那一端。而比Johnson大一岁，21岁的Horford拥有比起现在主要 仍凭藉生猛体能和活力在打球的Johnson更为成熟的体格，毫无疑问地也更接近完成品。 Johnson现在球技没有什麽细腻之处，不过他在有限的上场时间内拿下的数据却是相当惊人 。Horford用36分钟抓下16个篮板；Johnson上场不到7分钟但却抓下4记篮板。Horford 上场36分钟拿下12分；Johnson则在7分钟内得到6分。 Now, there’s something to be said for being good enough to command 36 minutes and reasons Johnson was limited to seven. A big one is that Johnson is playing behind Rasheed Wallace, Antonio McDyess and Jason Maxiell. Horford, for all his headiness and fearlessness, would be coming off the bench in Detroit, too. It’s also very likely that at some point the graph line on an extrapolation of Johnson’s production in limited minute would turn. Horford能够分到36分钟而Johnson却只得到7分钟，其中一定有值得好好讲的地方。 Johnson前面挡着溪蛙、袋鼠和J-Max。就算Horford再强硬再无惧，他在底特律一样只能从 板凳出发。用最基本的外插法可以预测，很有可能他的统计数据和Johnson目前的产能会相 差无几。 But nobody knows exactly where it would turn. And that’s the point: Horford is more of a known commodity, but Johnson’s potential is immensely intriguing. 但没有人知道确切情形会是怎样。而事实是这样：Horford是较为人熟知的篮球新星， 但Johnson的潜力却给人无限美好的遐想。 Oranges to oranges is an easier comparison: Stuckey, at 21 a year younger than Law, looks like a slam dunk over the Atlanta rookie. 控卫组的比较就简单多了：21岁的Stuckey比Law年轻一岁，但看起来远比亚特兰大那 个菜鸟优秀。 Even though the Hawks have a glaring deficiency at point guard, Law hasn’t been able to muscle aside journeymen Anthony Johnson and Tyronn Lue. Against the Pistons, he played seven minutes and his team lost six points to the Pistons; Law missed both his shots and the Pistons targeted him defensively. 尽管老鹰在控卫这个位置相当欠缺，Law仍无法把浪迹天涯Anthony Johnson和Tyronn Lue挤下。在对上活塞一役，他上场7分钟而他的球队以4分败给活塞；Law两投尽墨而且还 被活塞当作打点的对象。 I’ve talked to a few NBA scouts who genuinely like Law. They think he’ll play in the NBA a long time. He’s as earnest as they come and he did tremendous things at Texas A&M in four years there, a college version of Chauncey Billups for the way he embraced pressure-filled moments. But I haven’t talked to anyone who doesn’t believe Law’s future is fairly limited – he’s not an explosive enough athlete and, if he doesn’t have any obvious weakness, neither does he have any overwhelming strength. 我已经和几位相当喜爱Law的NBA球探聊过。他们认为他将可以在NBA打上很长一段时间 。他比谁都认真，在德州农工大学四年间表现可圈可点，被视为大学版的枪蜥，同样热爱 关键时刻的挑战。但我还不曾听过有人不相信Law未来的发展性相当有限 - 他没有爆炸性 的体能而且，如果说他没有什麽明显的缺点，但也没有任何过人的强项。 Stuckey, on the other hand, has an enormous physical advantage over 95 percent of point guards he encounters. Those he doesn’t tower over at 6-foot-5 he overpowers with unusual upper-body strength. Backup point guards who’ve tried to guard him in the past few weeks, as he’s begun to find his way, have bounced off him like pinballs. 相反地，Stuckey比起他遭遇的控卫中95%的人拥有更强大的体能优势。面对那些人， 他的优势不在於6尺5寸的身高而在於他不同於寻常人的身体强度。过去几周曾经尝试要防 守他的替补控卫们，在他开始找到属於自己的路时，纷纷如同弹珠般被弹开了。 There’s also this: As far ahead of Law as Stuckey appears to be now, where might he be had he had four years of high Division I experience behind him, as Law does, instead of two years at low-major Eastern Washington? Where might he be without sitting out almost two months with a broken left hand? 还有一点就是：现在Stuckey表现得已经优於Law，如果他和Law一样，曾经历四年第一 级分区的历练，而不只有两年在次一级联盟东华盛顿大学的经验，他会有多突出的表现？ 又，如果他左手没有受伤，不需要在场边枯坐两个月，他会有多惊人的演出？ And while Law could only wrest seven minutes away from the likes of Lue and Johnson last night, Stuckey allowed Billups – three-time All-Star – 19 minutes of rest, or just enough to come back in the final six minutes with guns loaded, scoring 12 points to lead the Pistons to their ninth straight win. Watching it, it was hard to resist the notion that had Atlanta used the No. 11 pick on Stuckey instead of Law, it was a game Atlanta wins. 而昨晚Law只能自Lue和Johnson这样的球员手上要到7分钟的时间，但Stuckey却让曾三 度入选全明星赛的枪蜥休息19分钟之久，让他能在充分休息後於比赛最後6分钟回到场上， 攻下关键12分，带领活塞拿下连续第9场胜利。看了之後，很难再坚持当初亚特兰大在选秀 会上第11顺位跳过Stuckey而挑选Law是个正确的决定了。 After the win over Charlotte on Sunday night, Jarvis Hayes was talking about the chemistry Stuckey and Johnson seem to have developed despite playing together for limited minutes in just the past few weeks, since Johnson gained a foothold in the rotation. 在星期天对上夏落特山猫的比赛获胜後，Jarvis Hayes说到Stuckey和Johnson之间， 在Johnson挣得固定上场机会後，过去几周虽然一起上场的时间有限，但还是培养了绝佳的 默契。 “It gives us a great spark,” Hayes grinned. “That’s a combo you’ll hear about for a long time – Stuckey to Amir.” "这给我们带来很大的鼓舞，"Hayes边笑边说。"你在未来很长一段时间之内都会听到 这对双人组的大名 - Stuckey&Amir。" In Atlanta, they’ll hear it a little bit louder than elsewhere. 特别是在亚特兰大，他们听到的会比其他任何一个地方还多一些吧。 --

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