http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6320246.html There is something about these Rockets that is starting to feel special. 这支火箭队越来越特别了 Can you feel it? 你感觉到了吗? Oh, they have issues on the floor. Issues that, by all reason, should lead to another early exit from the playoffs. 欧，他们在场上是有些问题，而且这些问题还有可能让他们在季後赛提早放暑假。 But this team doesn’t seem to lean toward reason. They don’t accept limitations and feel free defying logic. 不过这支队伍才不管这些勒，他们不受局限，而且违反逻辑。 You hate to wonder what will happen next to these Rockets, but they have dealt well with everything that has happened to them this season. They don’t just make do, they make do without. 你不会喜欢去猜说接下来会发生什麽事在他们身上，不过这季发生在他们身上的事， 他们都解决了。不管什麽状况，他们都熬过来了。 They entered Wednesday night’s game against the Detroit Pistons missing ano-ther key piece of the rotation. Carl Landry will miss up to three weeks because of a gunshot wound suffered in a senseless act of violence early Tuesday morning. 在今天对活塞的比赛，轮替中重要的一员--兰兰没办法上场。因为受到枪伤，所以他要 缺席一到三周。 Without Landry in the lineup, Shane Battier went rolling through the lane and dunked lefthanded. Battier hadn’t touched the rim in six months. He did on this night, perhaps subconsciously doing what Landry does. 兰兰没有上场，反而是battier空切到篮下来个左手灌篮。他这六个月内都没有碰到 篮框，不过今晚碰到了，大概是潜意识的做了兰兰会做的事吧。 It’s called taking up slack. 这就叫做随机应变。 The Rockets eventually beat the Pistons 106-101 in double overtime. It’s a game they should have won, but this team doesn’t always do what most think it should do. There have been wins it shouldn’t have picked up and losses it shouldn’t have suffered. 火箭最後终於在2OT以 106-101击败活塞。这本来就是一场该赢的比赛，不过他们总是 做一些不如预期的事。赢了不会赢的比赛，或是输了不该输的比赛。 In the Rockets’ previous game at New Orleans, Yao Ming was out with flu-like symptoms. So Dikembe Mutombo played 24 minutes (more than he had totaled this season), Landry was a loose-ball hound, and Von Wafer had the nerve to pass the ball a few times (five assists). 前一场对黄蜂，姚明因为流感而没有上场。老木代替他打了24分钟(比他之前所有的上场 时间都要多)。兰兰跟Wafer也都表现的很好。 Almost every player on the roster has stepped up on some night to deliver. 几乎在轮替名单的每个人，都会在不同的比赛中跳出来。 Team has matured That’s what makes these Rockets such an interesting bunch. Most nights they have not let adversity beat them. 这也是火箭这群人有趣的地方，大部分的比赛他们都没有被困境打败。 “My fourth season (2005-06), we had the same kinds of things — injuries, people in and out —and we were totally losing that season, below .500 and way behind in the playoff race,” Yao said. “This year we’ve had guys in and out from the beginning of the season. From practice, day one, all the way until now, people have come and gone. We’re still doing well.” 姚明说："我的第四年(2005-06)，同样的事情一直发生--受伤。大家打打停停，那季 我们的胜率没有过五成，也进不了季後赛。今年赛季初，我们又是一堆人打打停停， 到现在还是如此。不过我们还是表现的不错。 One and a half games out of the No. 2 seed in the West well, that is. 在西区火箭只差第二名1.5场胜差。 Yao said there is a “no excuses allowed” attitude that makes this team continue to get it done regardless of who is in or out of the lineup. 姚明说："能让这支伤兵队维持的原因，就是不管做什麽都不允许有藉口的态度" “The best example is Von Wafer,” Yao said. “In the beginning of the season he was nobody, sitting waaaay behind the bench. Now he’s getting very consistent minutes, very consistent shots, scoring, and that’s how he prepared for the season. That’s how he’s giving it to us.” "最好的例子就是Wafer了，在赛季初，他只是个守开特力的主力，但是现在他得到了 稳定的上场时间，贡献稳定的投射、得分，这就是他为这赛季做的准备，也是他 带给我们的贡献。" Entering Wednesday’s game, the Rockets had lost 153 man-games to injury or illness. In 2005-06, the team posted 274 lost man-games, forcing them to suit up 22 players during the season. 这季目前为止，大家缺席的场次总共有153场，05-06年，大家加起来的缺席场次甚至 高达274场，迫使他们那季总共用了22个人。 (这段不是很确定...所以乱翻的....) That team fell apart. This one continues to come together. 先前那支队伍简直分崩离析，不过今年的可不一样了。 “Why is it so different for the two teams? One difference is we have grown,” Yao said. “We’re not 24, 25 years old anymore. We know that time is running out for our career for a lot of guys on the team. We have to fight and do our best now. That we believe.” 姚明说:"这两支队伍不同在哪? 不同在我们长大了。我们不再是24, 25岁了，现在的我们 知道队上很多的老将都快退休了，所以我们得战斗而且尽我们所能的去做到最好。 You can’t find a much more stable locker room than the Rockets now have. While the effect of that is impossible to measure, we know it makes a difference. Panic has never set in because the team’s veterans won’t allow it to. 现在的火箭队休息室比以往都要来的和谐，而这所带来的影响是无法衡量的。 恐慌不会再入侵他们的休息室了，因为老将们是不会允许的! Yao is quite the leader and not as quiet as you think. Mutombo is a vocal veteran who polices things from his corner office. Battier, Chuck Hayes and Brent Barry are the epitome of professionalism. 姚明是现在的老大，而且他也没有我们想像的那麽安静。老木则是用他的声音在维持着 秩序。八爷和海爷还有Barry则是专业的象徵。 A lesson in chemistry The young players — Aaron Brooks and Wafer — listen and learn and speak when spoken to. 年轻的球员--小AB和Wafer，则是边听边学，且在被提及的时候出来发言。 New faces like Kyle Lowry and James White came into a peaceful scene, and both have mentioned the quality of the atmosphere they have seen at Toyota Center. 新成员可爱的罗莉以及白先生，则是都有提起Toyota center的良好气氛。 Don’t mistake that calm for a lack of fire. It seems Ron Artest could convince his teammates to jump off a bridge with him, and that’s a good thing because Artest is nothing if not confident he can lead a team to victory every night. 不要误会这个平静是缺乏战斗力。阿泰可是会说服他的队友跟他一起拼命，而对於 他有自信能带领球队赢球就是阿泰最大的优点! Yep, there just seems to be something about these Rockets. 没错，现在的火箭队看起来是有些什麽。 “This is about something united,” Yao said. 姚明说:"我们有的是团结。" --

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