翻译自 老费的blog： http://blogs.chron.com/nba/2008/05/rockets_one_and_done_again_who.html Rockets one and done again: Who they are and where they're going As I ran from the Rockets locker room to the interview room, rushing to get there before Tracy McGrady spoke and the night's last newspaper deadline passed, Rockets CEO Tad Brown and I had to stop for just a moment. 当我昨天为了赶上T-mac的赛後发言从火箭更衣室冲去记者会现场时，正巧碰上火箭的 CEO - Tad Brown，而我只能短短的和他交谈一会儿。 We said a few words, not having time for more, then told each other the same thing: "I hate when it ends." I miss it already. 因为时间急迫我们没办法聊太多，我们不约而同的说了同一件事： 「我讨厌结束...」 我现在就开始怀念比赛了。 But this team, this season, seems different than many of the 10 before it that also ended with the Rockets unable to get past the first round. Maybe that's why it will be an even longer wait for another to begin. 但这只球队，这个球季，有别於以往同样死在第一轮的情况。也许这就是为什麽我迫不及 待地想要看下个球季的表现。 The Rockets changed this season. 火箭今年变了。 They were not the same team that was eliminated by the Jazz in the first round last year, or by the Mavericks two years earlier, collapsing in different ways in both series. 他们不再是那支去年第一轮被爵士淘汰的火箭，也不再是当年第七战惨败给小牛的球队。 They are not complete, even with Yao Ming back and even if he returns to the uninterrupted good health of his first three NBA seasons. There is work to be done, and we'll get into that, a lot of that in the next few days. For a start, though, (and this is just the jumping off point of these considerations) they need a scorer off the bench, someone with some size and offensive skills, the sort of thing they once hoped to get from Bonzi Wells, but with a better shot and greater commitment. 当然，火箭仍然不够完整，即使姚明能健康的归队，即使姚明能回到他NBA生涯前三年 毫无缺赛的状况。火箭仍然有很多地方需要补强，首先，他们板凳也需要一个能跳出来 砍分又有足够高度和进攻技巧的球员，他们今年曾寄望Bonzi Wells能提供这些。 But first, the Rockets must decide what they've got. And for whatever they lack, they added something they had to have. 即便如此，火箭仍应该好好想想他们今年的收获。他们今年已经让球队获得许多以前所 欠缺的东西。 They are tough. They fight. They fight hard and long. 火箭变的更强硬，他们在场上奋战，充满了韧性。 This is a team that broke down physically against Dallas and mentally and emotionally last season against the Jazz. When the Jazz hit them with runs in Utah last season, the Rockets did not respond the way this team did. 当年因为身体素质远远不如小牛而落败，去年则是输在心态。当爵士去年在猷他痛击火箭 时，他们没办法在主场做出相同的回应。 All that could be fragile. The fortitude Tracy McGrady demonstrated might not be as strong in different circumstances, but it seems wrong to hit him with the 0-for-7 thing today. 一切都有可能变的脆弱。T-mac也许没办法在任何情况下都一样坚强，但拿季後赛第一轮 七次被淘汰来苛责他，这是不对的！ For whatever he did or could not do — and heading toward the 30-something part of his career he does need to regain his shot — he did all he could, which was what this team became about. 一切能做的他都做了，这正是目前的火箭全队所抱持的态度。 This time when the season ended, there was reason for hope. 这次虽然结束了，但火箭还是充满希望。 You can add pieces, and the Rockets absolutely must. You can make trades and sign free agents. If you don't have heart, you have nothing. 很明显地，火箭仍然需要补充燃料。可以透过交易或是签下自由球员。但如果球队没有 那颗强韧的心，那什麽洨都不是。 "I thought we never had a bunch of guys who played harder, even the championship teams," Rockets owner Leslie Alexander said. "They never played harder than these guys." 「我想我们以前从来没有拥有一批打的如此有韧性的球员，即使是二连霸那时候的阵容，」 火箭老板 Leslie Alexander说。 「即使是当年总冠军的阵容，也没有今年大众脸军团打的如此拼命。」 （Drexler：干!） They built something this season. 他们今年建立了些什麽。 By the third quarter, the guy sitting next to me on Friday, a long time NBA executive who was just there to watch, turned and said, "They're going to be really good. 昨天第三节时，一个坐在我旁边看球的NBA资深主管，转过来对我说：「火箭真的将会 变成一只很棒的球队。」 "They play hard, really hard. They play for each other. It looks like they care about each other. And Rick's got them." 「他们打得如此卖力，真的非常拼命。他们为了彼此在场上奋战，看的出来他们非常在乎 彼此，而Rick深得球员的心。」 They do believe in their coach, Rick Adelman. 他们都非常信任他们的教练 Rick Adelman。 There is something here. They did win 22 in a row, the first 12 with Yao, and had won 16 consecutive games that Yao played. The last loss before the streak was with Yao out with a respiratory infection, and in what now seems an omen, it came to the Jazz. They did win 55 games in a season that McGrady missed 16 and Yao missed 37. They did finally have some rookies with potential to grow into valuable pieces. 看看这个球季，火箭创下NBA史上第二长的22连胜，起初的12连胜姚明还在球队，姚明 出赛的场次还曾创下16连胜。他们在22连胜之前输的最後一场比赛是姚明因上呼吸道感染 而缺赛，现在看起来就像是季後赛失利的预兆，那场比赛就是输给爵士。火箭今年例行赛 拿下55胜，这还是在T-mac缺赛16场、姚明缺赛37场的情况之下。这只球队也找到几名 很有潜力的菜鸟，他们将会逐渐成长，成为球队不可或缺的一部份。 They have to get more help. Adding Yao is not enough. And if McGrady and Yao can never be healthy, forget it. 火箭还需要更多的支援，光是姚明归队是不够的。如果T-mac和姚明永远都没办法保持健 康，那什麽鸟都不用讲了。 But the feeling is that there is something here. It's worth building again on that Yao/McGrady foundation. 再次以姚明和T-mac为基础来打造完整的阵容是值得的。 It seems different, better now than it did a year ago. There's a lot of work to be done, but there really might be something to build upon. 尽管都是第一轮被淘汰，但今年看起来真的很不一样。火箭还有很多功课得作，但 有些东西得先去完成。 Still, it would have be nice to see this last longer. 看到火箭持续保持这样的韧性是很棒的。 -- █ █ ███ █ █ █ ████ ████ ████ ████ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ████ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █████ █ █████ █ █ █ Ｘ Japan THE LAST LIVE ▉▊▋▌▍▎▏ http://barkleyc.blogspot.com/ --

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