A crowded path to playoffs for Pistons, but their future is worth the wait 活塞迈向季後赛之路相当拥挤，但他们的未来值得期待 作者: Keith Langlois https://reurl.cc/W1YGp7 Making the playoffs is the ultimate zero-sum game. For every team outside the field looking to crash the party, another must be dislodged. 要进入季後赛是个绝对的零和游戏，就像大风吹一样，只要有人挤进这个派对，就有人 会被踢出来。 Two things can be true at once. The Pistons can be a better team in 2022-23 than they were a season ago but the playoffs aren’t necessarily any more accessible. There’s a path to the playoffs for the Pistons in the season ahead, but it won’t be by default. There are no obvious teams stepping out of their way to accommodate a great leap forward. 有两件事情是肯定的，22-23赛季的活塞队几乎可以肯定会是比前一季更优秀的球队，但 并不代表打进季後赛的目标就一定比较容易达成。活塞队在这一季已经具有展望季後赛 的底气，但不是必然的。目前看不出有任何一个球队要自愿退出竞争行列，成为帮助别 人进入季後赛的垫脚石。 Look at the teams that made the playoffs in the East last season. Is there one that doesn’t expect to be at least as well positioned, if not better, than a season ago? Maybe Charlotte, which went 43-39 to secure the 10th and final spot in the play-in tournament, depending on what happens as Miles Bridges’ legal odyssey plays out, though year three of LaMelo Ball and the return of a healthy Gordon Hayward could make up the gap. 先来看那些去年打进季後赛的东区球队吧！现在看起来，有哪个球队连去年的实力都比 不上的样子吗?真要说大概是黄蜂队吧，他们去年43胜39败的战绩只够刚好以东区第10的 名次挤进季後赛，现在又有Miles Bridges的官司抓马。但今年在黄蜂队待到第三年的球 三更成熟了，加上星海哥如果能够健康回归，几乎可以完全补上这个大洞。 Other than that? Miami, Boston, Milwaukee and Philadelphia fully expect to open the playoffs on their home courts. Now that Kevin Durant has opted to remain in Brooklyn to team with Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons, the Nets have every capability to oust one of them. Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta and Cleveland all see themselves as building off of 2022 win totals ranging from 43 to 48. 其他队呢?热火、赛尔提克、公鹿和76人不只会进季後赛，大概都能够排名前四拿到主场 优势。而KD决定续留跟KI、西门合组三巨头（巨婴?)让篮网完全有实力冲击前四。暴龙 、公牛、老鹰和骑士也都在2022年取得43至48胜的基础上继续进化。 Of the four other conference franchises that didn’t participate in last spring’s postseason, New York and Washington are fully intent on changing that narrative. The Knicks traded for Jalen Brunson and seem the front-runners to add Donovan Mitchell as Utah continues to tear down its roster. Washington signed Bradley Beal, back from the injured list, to a massive contract extension with a no-trade clause that signals his team’s full intent to compete. 在去年四支没有进到季後赛的东区球队中，尼克和巫师也都展现积极一搏的态度。尼克 盘来了Brunson而且看来很有机会在爵士大甩卖的情形下拿下Mitchell(译按:原稿出刊的 时候还没有完成交易)。巫师用带有不可交易条款的大约重签了Beal，显示他伤癒後的恢 复状况非常良好。 The Pistons have to leapfrog at least three of those teams to finish in the play-in tournament. They’d have to better their 23-win total from last season by 20 if 43 wins is again the magic number. 如果季後赛的魔术数字还是43胜的话，以去年活塞队仅有23胜的战绩来看，必须在下个 赛季至少多赢20场，才有办法疯狂超车前面提到的其中三队挤进季後赛。 It’s not beyond their reach, for sure. Cleveland went from 22 wins (in a 72-game schedule) to 44 last season when the Cavaliers were in year four of rebuilding following LeBron James’ second tour of duty. A lot came together for Cleveland – Jarrett Allen and Darius Garland ascending to All-Star status, Evan Mobley teaming with Allen to transform its defense, Kevin Love finishing second in Sixth Man voting – but that can happen for rebuilding teams that have had three or four or five seasons to restock the pond. 这并不是一个不可能的任务，骑士队就已经表演给大家看过了，在King詹离队後进入重 建的第四年，从前年的22胜(虽然那年赛季只有72场比赛)飙到去年的44胜。骑士队获得 了很多重要的拼图─包括Jarrett Allen和Darius Garlan进化到全明星水准、EMo-Allen 组合强化了防守基础以及Kevin Love展现了最佳第六人第二名的能力。这对於花了3到5 个赛季重新累积天赋和实力的重建队伍来说完全是可能达成的目标。 The Pistons are in year three of Troy Weaver’s restoration and he’s done remarkable work, including somehow acquiring three extra first-round picks that have yielded Isaiah Stewart, Saddiq Bey and Jalen Duren to stack atop Killian Hayes, Cade Cunningham and Jaden Ivey. He found Isaiah Livers in the second round, took a low-cost flier on a high-end talent in Marvin Bagley III and has protected future assets in the process. 今年也是Troy Weaver接手活塞队总管的第三年，而他也缴出了亮眼的表现，包括用三支 额外弄来的首轮签，选进了Stewart、Bey和Duren，加上Hayes、CC和Ivey。他也从二轮 选秀淘来了Livers，并且开出了MB3这个福袋，同时也没有挥霍掉球队的未来资产。 It’s conceivable enough of those young players surge in the season ahead to allow the Pistons to warp time as Cleveland did a year ago. 可以想像接下来的赛季，前面提到的这些年轻球员将会有所突破，带领活塞队像去年的 骑士队那样弯道超车。 It starts with Cunningham. The enormity of the challenge he faced as a rookie can’t be overstated – the ankle injury to wipe out his first month, assuming primary playmaking duties before he’d taken a lap around the league, losing Jerami Grant to injury to focus even more defensive attention on him – and he did nothing but get better month over month. By season’s end, Cunningham had left no doubt he was a transcendent talent. 从CC开始说起吧，他去年在菜鸟年所面对的巨大挑战是绝对真实的─第一个月先因为脚 踝受伤缺阵，缺少热身和适应的状况下马上接手球队主要的进攻和得分任务，又在Grant 受伤後接受更多敌对防守球员的注意和照顾─而他展现出来的是每个月每个月不断的进 步，直到赛季末时CC展现的他无庸置疑的强大天赋。 “When you’ve got a 6-7 point guard, that’s a good start,” no less an observer than Durant said of a bright Pistons future late last season, after Cunningham dropped 34 points on the Nets despite hobbling to the bench with a hip injury in the first half. “Somebody who can wreck a whole defensive game plan with his size, his talent, his skill. So that’s a great start. Then you go down the line and see Saddiq Bey, Marvin Bagley, Jerami Grant and Isaiah Stewart … I mean, they have length and toughness down the line and a coaching staff that’s going to get the best out of their players.” "当你有个6尺7的控卫，这就是个好的开始"去年不只在场边观察也和年轻的活塞队实际 交手後的KD，在CC有伤势疑虑之下仍与篮网一战豪取34分之後给出了这样的评论，"球队 中有一个可以这样用身材、天赋和能力撕裂对手防守布阵的球员，对球队来说绝对是好 的起点。接下来你可以看到阵容中有Bey、MB3、Grant和Stewart...我是说，这是一个具 有强度和韧性的阵容，而且他们有一群好教练来激发出他们的全部天赋。" Subtract Grant from Durant’s list and add Ivey and Duren. It’s hard to argue that for the purposes of 2022-23 success, the Pistons wouldn’t have been better served by hanging on to Grant and his 20-point anchor and reliably stout defense than adding the draft pick that led to Duren. But it’ s equally hard to deny that for the purposes of the type of sustained success Weaver strives to achieve, the future wasn’t better supported by adding the two players, Ivey and Duren, that Weaver said were at the very top of his seven-player list of targeted draft prospects. 让我们把Grant从KD提到的名单中移除，重新加上Ivey和Duren。如果从达成22-23赛季的 目标来看，我们很难说活塞放掉了Grant的场均20分和坚实防守，换来年轻的Duren是个 加分；但也很难反对为了达到持续性的成功，活塞队选入Ivey和Duren的决策，两人都是 Weaver选秀7人名单中排名非常前面的天赋小将。 Here’s how Durant concluded his unprompted endorsement of Weaver’s blueprint: “I could see this team being something of a force to be reckoned with in the future.” Durant发自内心总结他对於Weaver建队蓝图的赞赏：我可以看到这个球队在未来会成为 其他对手仔细打量评估的强韧队伍。 Maybe that future arrives in 2022-23, maybe it takes a bit longer. Duren is 18, Ivey 19, Stewart, Cunningham and Hayes 21. That’s a young team if it’s suiting up in Ann Arbor or East Lansing, never mind amid the cauldron of the NBA. The important thing about the Pistons future is that it arrives with a strong wind at its back, whenever that comes. 也许这个未来就是22-23赛季，也许这个未来还需要一点时间才会到，Duren只有18岁， Ivey 19岁，Stewart、CC和Hayes是21岁。这样一个年轻的阵容，就算不是在NBA，出现 在Ann Arbor或East Lansing(译按:密西根大学和密西根州大的所在地)都不会显得突兀 。重点是不管活塞队的未来何时到来，都会有一股强劲的风托着全队乘风而上。 ------ 用网页版贴的，没办法上色，大家加减看。 虽然最近很忙，但看到活塞官网记者发了季前展望的系列文，除了这篇是全队之外，後 面是针对每个球员的赛季展望，所以想说还是可以来分享一下，拚拚看在赛季开始前完 成~~ 我觉得Stew很棒啦~~很让人喜欢的球员捏，而且新赛季看起来很有机会让他拉到外线进 攻，不要说他坏话啦XDDD --

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