原文出处： http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/langlois_blog_080402.html -- 译注：抱歉，这篇外电是四月二日的旧闻了，我拖稿拖太久。 不过看在我前前後後翻了超过六个小时的份上还是加减看吧，哈～ -- In an NBA draft that might go down as the deepest of its generation, Rodney Stuckey went 15th. The Pistons were quietly confident at the time that his would turn out to be better than the 15th most productive career from the class of ’07, but then everybody leaves draft night similarly convinced of their smarts and good fortune. 在堪称这个世代最有深度的选秀会上，Rodney Stuckey在第15顺位被挑中。活塞当时 就很沉着，很有自信，相信他职业生涯的表现在'07梯里面不会只有排在第15名，但选秀夜 每个人离开时都一副确信自己做了聪明抉择和拥有绝佳运气的满意模样。 By the time the summer had ended and the Pistons had seen Stuckey perform in various settings – in the Las Vegas Summer League, at their practice facility, at the well-attended summer camp run by Nuggets assistant coach Tim Grgurich stocked with NBA players of all backgrounds – they were more convinced than ever. In fact, based not just on their own analysis but on feedback from NBA peers, the Pistons felt Stuckey likely would have been a top-five pick if they’d redone the draft. 在暑假结束时，活塞已经看过Stuckey在各种不同场合的表现 - 在拉斯维加斯夏季联 盟，在他们练习场，在丹佛助理教练Tim Grgurich举办，有许多不同背景的NBA球员共襄盛 举的夏季篮球营 - 他们比过去更为信服。事实上，不只是他们自己的分析，从其他NBA球 员的反应看来也是如此，活塞认为如果选秀会重新举办，Stuckey应该会在前五顺位就被挑 走。 And then the season started with Stuckey sitting out the first 25 games, nearly one-third of the NBA season, as other rookies began making names for themselves . 但开季Stuckey就因左手伤势而枯坐板凳25场，这几乎是三分之一个NBA球季了，同时 间其他菜鸟早已开始努力地为自己打响名号。 It was always going to be an uphill climb for Stuckey to get his due as a rookie. Players picked one spot outside the lottery don’t usually go to teams that make a habit of playing into June and stringing together 50-win seasons. Guards drafted by teams with multiple-berth All-Star backcourts aren’t likely to put up numbers that merit All-Rookie consideration. 对Stuckey来说，身为一个菜鸟要挣得上场时间本来就不会是个轻松的任务。通常在乐 透区外一个顺位入选的新秀不会加入一支连年达成50胜强队指标并且习惯将球季延长到六 月为止的顶尖球队。被一支拥有全明星後场连线的球队所挑中的後卫似乎不大可能拿出足 以入选新秀前二队的数据。 But the injury ended any chance Stuckey was going to have to be in the discussion, even on the fringes, for Rookie of the Year. Kevin Durant gets all the shots he wants on a Seattle team stripped to the frame for rebuilding. Al Horford walked into a yawning void in the middle for a young Atlanta team otherwise teeming with lottery picks. The Memphis Grizzlies bought out veteran Damon Stoudamire to clear playing time at the point for Mike Conley. Teams spinning their wheels turn to rookies just to see if the future looks less bleak than the present, which explains how Al Thornton with the Clippers, Yi Jianlian with the Bucks and Thaddeus Young with the 76ers all wound up with prominent roles. 但伤势复原後Stuckey的表现让大家不得不在谈论时想到他，甚至在讨论年度最佳新秀 时也会稍微提到他一下。待在主将副将全部砍掉重练的西雅图，Kevin Durant手握无限开 火权。Al Horford加入了阵容塞满乐透区年轻新秀，但内线空虚的亚特兰大。孟斐斯灰熊 则是为了清出控卫的位置给Mike Conley而买断了老将太空飞鼠的合约。另外一些球队将重 心放在菜鸟身上，只是想试试这麽做能否让未来比今天更美好一些，这说明了Al Thornton 之於快艇，易建联之於公鹿，以及Thaddeus Young之於七六人的关系，为什麽他们能以一 介新人之姿在球队中扮演吃重的角色。 Rodney Stuckey was delivered to a perennial title contender to back up Chauncey Billups and Rip Hamilton and asked to be patient. Rodney Stuckey被选进一支连年都是总冠军强力候选人的一级劲旅担任枪蜥和RIP替补 的工作，并且被要求必须保持耐心。 And that’s what he did. It was fairly remarkable, really, how even-keeled Stuckey remained while waiting for the bones to knit along the multiple fractures in his left hand after the freak injury in the final preseason game. Every time the X-rays showed they weren’t quite calcified, even as those around him gritted their teeth and cursed their fate, Stuckey just shrugged his shoulders and did whatever Arnie Kander asked him to do on the sidelines – squeeze a tennis ball, toss a football, ride the bike. 而那正是他所做的。这相当令人印象深刻，真的，在最後一场季前赛受了诡异的伤之 後，他在等待左手多重骨折复原的期间心态一直调整得很好。每一次X光检测结果显示骨头 还没完全密合，甚至连他身边的人都咬牙切齿，咒骂他们的不幸时，Stuckey只是耸耸肩， 继续在场边做着Arnie Kander要求他做的那几个复健动作 - 挤压网球、丢橄榄球、骑脚踏 车。 “Why should I be frustrated?” he constantly told reporters. “I’m a rookie. I’m going to have a long career. Nobody is going to remember I missed six weeks. This team is doing just fine without me.” "为什麽我要感到灰心？"他一直这样告诉记者。"我是一个菜鸟。我会有很长的职业生 涯。没有人会记得我有六个礼拜因伤缺阵。就算没有我，这支球队还是打得一样出色啊。" What the Pistons saw the night he broke his hand, in the final preseason game, is what they envisioned when the drafted Stuckey. He had 10 points in the blink of an eye, before getting his hand caught in an opponent’s jersey, with four rebounds and no turnovers. Both Flip Saunders and Joe Dumars said it was as if a light bulb had gone on for him that night. 活塞在Stuckey左手骨折那晚，在最後那场季前赛所看到的，正是他们在挑选Stuckey 时所想像的。在手卷进对手球衣内因而导致骨折前，一转眼间他就得了10分、抓下4个篮板 ，重点是0失误。老桑和老乔都说那晚Stuckey就像一颗亮眼的灯泡。 Flash bulbs have gone off intermittently since Stuckey returned on Dec. 21 – Merry Christmas! – and with greater frequency over the past month. There was a five-game stretch in February where he averaged 11 points a game, a 13-point game at Madison Square Garden the night Hamilton got tossed, 13 more when he carried the team for a six-minute stretch late against Phoenix a few weeks ago. 自从12月21日 - 圣诞快乐！ - 伤癒归队後这亮眼的灯泡开始变得忽明忽灭 - 不过过 去这个月发亮的频率明显变高了。二月份有连续五场比赛他平均得到11分，3月7日晚上在 麦迪逊花园广场那场RIP连吞二T被请出场的比赛他拿下13分，另外几个礼拜前他在面对凤 凰城的比赛中最後六分钟都被留在场上，又一次拿下13分并顺利带领活塞获胜。 Overlooked in all of this is that Stuckey has been more than a solid defender. Even when he struggled to adjust to NBA shot-blockers or couldn’t knock down the 18-footers all guards need to make to be full-time players, he defended his position better than anyone expects of a rookie. 回顾这一切，感觉Stuckey不只是一个硬朗的防守者。虽然他在面对NBA层级的封阻者 时还不是很适应，也没办法稳稳投进所有後卫成为主力球员必备的18尺跳投，他的表现还 是比任何人对於菜鸟的期待还要更好，同时藉此为自己在活塞阵中挣得一席之地。 And then came Tuesday night in Minnesota, when Saunders and Dumars decided to sit Billups, Hamilton and Rasheed Wallace against a young team that had gone 7-8 in March and was sitting on a four-game home winning streak. Struggling to find an identity in the first half with a strange lineup, the Pistons spotted Minnesota a 21-point lead. In the second half, Stuckey scored 20 points, including every big one down the stretch, carrying the Pistons to a win that you’d be tempted to call inconsequential but for the details. 时间来到星期二晚上，在明尼苏达对上三月战绩7胜8败而且主场累积4连胜的年轻灰狼 赛前，老桑和老乔决定让枪蜥、RIP和溪蛙休兵一场。启用陌生的先发阵容，活塞在上半场 几乎没办法让情势稳定下来，一度落後灰狼多达21分。不过下半场Stuckey狂下20分，包括 最後关头的每一次关键得分，帮助活塞逆转拿下一场不合逻辑的胜利，不过你看细节。 He hit deep jumpers, including one from the 3-point line with the shot clock about to expire. He got to the basket and scored with both hands at various times. He was devastating getting inside the defense and pulling up for mid-range jumpers, knocking down one big one late and baiting Randy Foye into a costly foul moments later. 他投进远距跳投，包括一记24秒进攻时间快要终了前的三分远射。好几次，他单枪匹 马杀进禁区，用双手稳稳地将球送进篮框。他撕裂了灰狼的防守阵线，急停投进好几颗中 距离。在比赛末段投进一颗关键投篮，後来又引诱Randy Foye奉送了好几次代价昂贵的犯 规。 And he got to the free-throw line 13 times. Thirteen times. Before Tuesday, only 18 times all season had a Piston attempted 10 or more foul shots. Billups, who frequently winds up shooting multiple free throws in the closing seconds of games in which the opponent fouls to get the ball back, has done it 13 times. Rasheed Wallace and Antonio McDyess have done it twice apiece and Jason Maxiell once. Neither Rip Hamilton nor Tayshaun Prince has done it even once. Billups has attempted as many as 13 only five times. 而且他上到罚球线13次。13次耶。在星期二之前，整个球季活塞球员单场罚球数破双 位数的情形也不过出现18次而已。最常在比分接近的最後关头负责罚球稳定局面的枪蜥本 季罚球数破双位数的比赛有13场。溪蛙和袋鼠各有两次而J-Max则有过一次。RIP和小王子 连一次也没有过。枪蜥单场罚球数大於或等於13的比赛只有五场。 The difference, of course, is that Stuckey was given more playing time. He’s a rookie and he was due for his ups and downs. He wouldn’t be scoring 27 every night even if they gave him the 33 minutes he got against Minnesota. But if Stuckey were starting alongside Hamilton and playing those 33 minutes consistently, I’d say the baseline for him would be 12 points and six assists – which would have his name squarely in the mix for All-Rookie selection and maybe more. 当然啦，不一样的是这场比赛Stuckey的上场时间比以往都还多。他是一个菜鸟，所以 偶而表现不稳也是正常的。就算每次对上明尼苏达都给他33分钟的上场时间他也不见得每 次都能拿下27分。但如果每晚都让Stuckey和RIP一起先发并给他33分钟的上场时间，我可 以大胆预测，他至少能拿出平均12分、6助攻的成绩单 - 如此一来，在评选新秀前二队时 ，评委一定会毫不犹豫填上他的名字，甚至在票选年度最佳新秀时也不会忘记除了Durant 还有这号人物存在。 Saunders started off cautiously after Tuesday’s win when asked about Stuckey – “He still had some screwups tonight,” Saunders said, and he did. He was as responsible as anyone for allowing Minnesota a few uncontested transition layups early. He didn’t collect his two rebounds until the final minute, and even if point guards aren’t expected to put up gaudy rebounding numbers, Stuckey’s size, strength and nose for the ball indicate he could be a real weapon as a rebounder. The three assists won’t cut it most nights. 星期二赛後被问及Stuckey的表现时老桑谨慎地开口了，"他今晚的表现还是有一些需 要改进的地方，例如攻守转换之间明尼苏达有好几次在无人防守下轻松上篮得分，他和其 他人一样脱不了关系。一直到最後一分钟，他才抓下整个比赛那唯二两个篮板，而且，就 算说控卫原本就不被期待拿出漂亮的篮板数据，但以Stuckey的体型、身体强度以及对於篮 球的敏锐度，在在都显示了他应该会是一个出色篮板手。三次助攻在大多数比赛中也都不 能算是及格的成绩。 But in the big picture, what will be remembered about this game is the way Stuckey seized the moment and made every big play. It might have come against a lottery team, but it’s a big step in the evolutionary process. 不过把时间拉长一点来看，关於这场比赛，未来会被人们记在心里的只有Stuckey把握 机会投进每一记关键投篮的优异表现。这情形或许是出现在面对一支乐透区球队的比赛中 ，但怎麽说这都会是他进化过程中的一大步。 Stuckey was going against a second-year point guard, Foye, who played four years at the highest level of college basketball, at Villanova in the Big East. Foye was one of the few names in predraft analyses to whom Stuckey evoked comparisons – a combo guard with size, strength and the ability to get to the basket. (Foye, by the way, is listed at 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds; Stuckey at 6-foot-5 and 207. But Stuckey sure looked bigger than Foye, didn’t he?) And Foye made a great play in the final few minutes, catching Amir Johnson in a switch and driving to score over him and the help-side defense of Jason Maxiell . But Foye couldn’t handle Stuckey, and the clear win for the Pistons in that matchup is greatly encouraging for what it says about the future. Stuckey面对的是一个二年级控卫，大东联盟维拉诺瓦大学出身的Foye，他在最高层级 的大学篮坛可是打了整整四年。Foye也是选秀会前Stuckey少数几个NBA对照模组之一 - 有 体型、身体强度以及优异切入能力的双能卫。(尽管Foye表列身高6尺4、体重210磅； Stuckey则是6尺5、207磅。但很明显Stuckey看起来硬是比Foye大上一号，不是吗？)Foye 在最後几分钟有一次漂亮单打成功，他抓住换防後Amir Johnson对上他的机会，摆脱他後 又躲过J-Max从弱边而来的补防顺利上篮得分。但同时Foye也无法压制Stuckey，而且那明 显的优势给了活塞很大的鼓舞，因为那说明了未来谁会有较佳的表现。 It’s also greatly encouraging for what it says about the present. Really, don’t get sucked into the jaded perception that these final two weeks and eight games of the regular season mean nothing. They mean a great deal where the development of Rodney Stuckey, Arron Afflalo and Amir Johnson, at minimum, are concerned – and the development of those three represents a critical element of the bench that’s being counted on to be the difference-maker over last year relative to the team’s playoff performance. 不过关於现在也是很大的鼓舞。真的，不要认为误信了例行赛最後两周的八场比赛毫 无意义的狗屁说法。那跟Rodney Stuckey、Arron Afflalo以及Amir Johnson能有多好的发 展有很大的关系，至少，他们三个人的发展被认为是影响板凳战力的主要因素，而且也是 这支球队能否写出和去年球季不一样的季後赛剧本的关键人物。 That’s the ultimate benefit of having their playoff seeding essentially decided a month before the season ended. Oh, sure, it’s nice to be able to sit three starters, as the Pistons did at Minnesota, and parcel out minutes to the starters with caution over these next two weeks – just enough to keep them sharp, not so many to sap their energy. But granting more playing time and license – the license to decide games, essentially – to the players they’ll be asking to make game-changing plays under the withering scrutiny of the postseason is the real payoff for taking care of business all season. 那是在例行赛季结束前一个月就确定季後赛种子席位的最大好处。噢，确实，能让三 名先发球员坐场休息很棒，就像活塞在明尼苏达所做的那样，并且在未来两周可以把身体 已经出现警讯的先发球员的上场时间给分配掉 - 只要让他们有足够时间热机，没必要浪费 宝贵的体力。但给予更多的上场时间还有许可 - 决定比赛胜负的许可，基本上 - 後这些 球员将被要求能在季後赛场场关键的高强度比赛中拿出足以改变情势的表现，因为那(季後 赛表现、总冠军...等)才是大家努力了整个球季後所真正在乎和关心的。 After his initial chiding of Stuckey, even Saunders couldn’t help himself: “ The biggest thing he did was he wasn’t afraid to make plays down the stretch, and I’ve always said that he’s one of those guys that the bigger the game, the bigger the situation, the more responsibility he has and wants.” 在一开始责怪Stuckey後，就连老桑也忍不住称赞他："最重要的就是他在关键时刻不 畏出手的成熟心态，而我认为他是那种比赛越重要、情况越险恶，他越会觉得自己责任重 大并且乐於将成败一肩扛的关键先生。" Having shown the chutzpah to handle that responsibility on the road in an otherwise inconsequential regular-season game was a necessary step in the NBA education of Rodney Stuckey before tackling postgraduate school – and the spring term starts in two weeks. It’s why Tuesday’s game wasn’t inconsequential at all. 虽然只是一场无关紧要的例行赛事，不过在客场显现舍我其谁的王者风范是Rodney Stuckey在向研究所(季後赛)叩关前於NBA大学(例行赛)中的必要学习过程 - 更高阶的春季 课程在两周後就要开课了。这也就是为什麽我说星期二的比赛并非完全无关紧要的原因。 --

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