http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6421085.html Hayes at center of team defense Deceptively small, forward is force in disguise By JONATHAN FEIGEN Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle May 13, 2009, 2:08AM LOS ANGELES — Undersized and overachieving, unknown yet unrelenting, he is the epitome of the new Rockets. undersize但是却表现的比预期的好，默默无闻但是从不退缩，他就是新的火箭队象徵。 Chuck Hayes is a foot shorter than the center he replaced and 6 inches shorter than the centers he defends. He appears to be too thick to be quick, too short to come up large. 海爷比他代替上场的人要矮上一尺，也比他要防守的人矮6寸。他似乎因为厚重的身材 而不够快，也因为太矮而不够巨大。 Yet, as with the Rockets themselves, shorthanded yet surviving in their Western Conference semifinal series against the Los Angeles Lakers, looks deceive and assumptions have been wrong. 然而，人手短缺的火箭仍然在第二轮对湖人活了下来，出乎了大家的预料之外。 Hayes, however, does not mind. If anything, he said the misconceptions help. When stepping in for Yao Ming and matching up with two-time All-Star Pau Gasol, Hayes is easy to overlook. But he said he can use that to his advantage. 海爷一点也不在意。真要说的话，他说大家的迷思帮了不少忙。当他代替姚明上场 来防守两次全明星的Gasol，他很容易被忽略。但是他可以利用这点来当作他的优势。 “All the time, they feel like it’s an easy bucket,” Hayes said before the Lakers’ 118-78 win in Game 5 on Tuesday night. “They underestimate me. It’ s up to me to prove they have their work cut out for them.” 在湖人第五战大胜火箭之前，海爷说："一直以来，他们都认为可以轻轻松松。他们低估 我了。是由我来决定证明给他们看他们没办法轻易过关。" The doubts can be obvious. When Hayes is on the floor, the Rockets often switch on screens, leaving him to defend point guards from Steve Nash to Chris Paul. Most will take a look at his thick legs and immediately call for teammates to clear out so they can operate one-on-one, only to have Hayes usually and inexplicably cut them off. 这个怀疑很明显。当海爷在场上时，他常常会在挡切後错位，而导致他要守到像是 Nash 或是 Paul这样的後卫。大部分人都会看看他那粗壮的腿，然後叫队友清开让 他们可以一对一，但是很不幸的，海爷就是可以挡下他们。 The Lakers’ strategy has seemed to be to go to Gasol, a wise course against any defender. Hayes, however, has gotten that treatment since he began to get playing time in the second half of the 2005-06 season, when he beat out Stromile Swift and proved to be a difference-maker as a defender. 湖人的策略似乎就是要打Gasol这个点，对任何防守者来说，他聪明且灵活。但是海爷 早在05-06年下半季有机会上场时，早面对过这种对手了。而当他取代Swift时，他也证明 他是一个不一样的防守者。 Role is defined He started through much of the next two seasons before he was supplanted in the Rockets’ rotation by Luis Scola and Carl Landry. But he has continued to hold on to a role as a defensive stopper, stepping in when high-scoring forwards get on a roll. 在被Scola还有Landry取代前，海爷担任了之後两季的先发。但是他仍然紧握着防守球员 的角色，当对方的前锋一直得分时，他就准备上场了。 He drew a charge to clinch Game 4 of the Portland series and set the tone early in Sunday’s Game 4 against the Lakers. The Rockets won the game to tie the series 2-2. 在对阿拓的第四战，关键时刻他做了一个重要的进攻犯规。他也在对湖人的第四战， 在一开赛就将火箭稳定下来，也让他们跟湖人打成2-2。 “He’s got very quick feet, he’s smart and he’s stronger than hell,” Rockets coach Rick Adelman said. “You don’t back him down. He’s got strong legs and he doesn’t give an inch. I had Buck Williams, the same way. You don’t push him around. He didn’t look that strong. Chuck doesn’t, either. But he is. He has a very low base. 老A说:"他脚步移动的很快、聪明而且很强壮。你没办法让他後退，他的腿很有力而且 他动都不动，你根本没办法把他撞开。他看起来没那麽强壮，但是他下盘很稳。" “When guys try to back down, it’s a lot different when Yao is standing 7-6 and stands so high. Chuck is down there lower than them. He sees the plays coming. That makes all the difference.” "当别人试着把他撞开，那跟姚明那麽高站在那里是不一样的。他很稳的在那里而且又比 别人矮，他可以很清楚的看到要过来的人。这就是不一样的地方。" Sneaky player It helps that opponents often don’t see Hayes coming, whether he is sliding over to draw a charge or taking on the toughest front-court assignments. As a player who rarely scores — he entered Game 5 averaging just four-tenths of a point — he is relatively unknown, even to other players. 海爷常常让对手看不到他过来了，不管是要做对方进攻犯规或是要顶强悍的禁区。 做为一个不常得分的球员，他打了五场比赛，只出手10次投进4球，平均只得一分。 连对其他球员来说，他都很默默无闻。 “He guarded me,” Rockets guard Ron Artest said of his first encounter with Hayes in a game in which Artest scored 30 points to force Hayes to take a turn against him. “I was like ‘Wow, this guy can move his feet.’ When I first saw him, I was like ‘What kind of player is this guy? He’s short. Is he a small forward? Is he a center?’ I asked my teammates in Sacramento, who is this guy, Chuck? Can he play? What does he do?’ They were like, ‘He just plays.’ When I played against him, I was like, ‘Wow, he’s a solid player.’ 阿泰说："之前有一场比赛我得了30分，让他们不得不派海爷来守我。那时我心想， 哇! 他脚步移动的真快。我第一次看到他的时候，我还心想，他是怎样的球员呢? 他这麽矮，是小前锋吗?还是中锋? 我问了我在国王的队友，这到底是谁? 他能打吗? 他要做什麽? 他们就只是随便的回答说：他就是上场打球。而当我对到他的时候， 我才想说，哇! 他真是个强悍的球员。" “He’s been guarding Yao in practice. When Dikembe (Mutombo) wasn’t here, Chuck had to guard Yao. Yao scored on Chuck, but it was still a challenge. If you can guard Yao, you should be able to have some success against other centers.” "在练习的时候，当老木不在，海爷就要负责防守姚明。姚明在海爷头上得分，但这仍然 不容易。假如你能守住姚明，那代表你也能成功的守住一些其他的中锋。" And this is not where Hayes is the most surprising. 这还不是海爷让人感到最惊奇的地方。 At the end of every practice, the Rockets engage in a halfcourt shooting contest. During games, Hayes rarely shoots from beyond the shadow of the basket. Free throws are an adventure. From halfcourt and beyond, however, he is a force. 每次练习结束，火箭就会有中场投篮比赛。在比赛时，海爷很少在篮下以外的地方出手。 罚球就更不用说了。但是在中场或是更远的地方，他可是满强的。 “Aaron (Brooks) wins the most often,” Hayes said. “At the beginning of the season, though, I was hot. Trust me, I’m a close second. And if we go to the free-throw line on the other end, that’s me.” 海爷说:"通常都是一哥会赢。在赛季一开始，相信我，我手感超棒。我可是以些微之差 成为第二名，而且要是要去後场的罚球线，那个人就是我。" If that is expected, it also is typical of a player and team of unknown, overlooked players trying to overachieve. As usual with the Rockets, so much of what they do and who they are starts with the guy in the middle. 假如要期待的话，这就是一个典型的默默无名且被忽视的球员，努力的表现比大家预期 中的要好。他也像往常火箭队的大家一样，大部分做的事还有发动攻势都是从中间的这个 人开始。 “We got a bunch of underdogs here,” Hayes said, “a bunch of scrappy guys. 海爷说："我们可是有一批被低估的家伙，一批斗牛犬!" -- 欧耶~~翻完了~~~ --

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