McGrady has fans back on his side BY JEROME SOLOMON Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle Dec. 16, 2009, 1:07AM http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/6772535.html 自翻 Many times since his season came to an end last February because of a knee injury, the image of Tracy McGrady drew a strong reaction at Toyota Center. 自从接受了手术开始, 踢妹只要在拖油塔中心出现都会引起一阵骚动. Typically, the crowd booed when McGrady was featured during the team’s pregame highlight video. Tuesday night, however, McGrady’s appearance elicited a much different response from the Rockets faithful. 通常在比赛前的介绍影片里, 若有提到梯妹就会被群众们报以嘘声. 不过这个礼拜二的晚上, 踢妹的出现却给了大家一些信心. After nine months out of uniform, a career-threatening surgery and a number change, McGrady returned to the Rockets’ lineup against the Detroit Pistons and drew a rousing ovation, with a sizable portion of the crowd rising to its feet to welcome him back. What? Guess it’s that heart-growing-fonder-because-of-absence thing. Yes, it’s confusing. Let’s hope there is no more drama. 在经历了手术复健,号码更动的九个月之後, 踢妹在与活塞队的比赛之中回到了球场上, 并受到了热烈欢迎. 啥? 就把它当成一种精神鼓励吧. 有点奇怪, 不过希望就此不要再有什麽意外发生. The Rockets rolled to a 107-96 win over the Pistons, and while McGrady’s appearance brought a level of excitement to the game, his play had little to do with the outcome. But it changes things. 火箭队107:96大胜活塞, 而踢妹的出现更是带给现场观众一阵高潮. 虽然他的表现对比赛胜负影响不大, 但却改变了一些事情. Despite many predictions that he would never play for the Rockets again, Tracy McGrady is back. And he is happy. “Through all the stuff that we’ve been through, you haven’t heard it come out of my mouth that I want to leave,” McGrady said. “This is home for me. My wife and kids love it here; I love it here. This is where I live in the offseason. “I love everything about the organization — the owner, the fans and my teammates. This is it. I feel comfortable here. This is where I want to be.” 反击了那些想要离开火箭的谣言, 踢妹回来了. 而且他很开心. "经过了那些事情,我从头到尾没有说过我要离开."踢妹说. "这就是我的家, 我老婆跟小孩都爱这里, 我也是. 即使非赛季我还是住在这里阿." "我爱这里的一切, 我爱老板, 我爱球迷, 我爱我的队友. 就是这样. 我在这里觉得很苏胡. 这里就是我想要待的地方." The decision to play McGrady for the first time this season was a last-minute one, as the Rockets were shorthanded with Trevor Ariza serving a one-game suspension. For weeks, McGrady has said he is ready to go, but the Rockets have said he wasn’t, which put McGrady in the unusual position of being a player who drew criticism for wanting to play. Ariza不能上场, 在这个人手短缺的球队里, 让踢妹出赛是个临时的决定. 几个礼拜以来, 踢妹都说他准备好了, 但是球队不这样认为. 这也让踢妹饱受批评. Adelman reconsiders Adelman的重新思考 Even as late as Monday’s practice, coach Rick Adelman said he hadn’t even thought about activating McGrady. Twenty-four hours later, Adelman changed his mind. He didn’t even tell McGrady until he arrived at the arena a couple hours before the game. 在礼拜一晚上的练习, Adelman仍然从没想过要让踢妹上场. 而二十四小时之後, 他却改变了心意. 他甚至没有告诉踢妹, 一直到比赛的前一刻. Makes one wonder what miraculous turn of events made the Rockets think McGrady could be available for a few minutes in Tuesday’s contest but couldn’t have been available for a few minutes in any games before then. McGrady played for 7 minutes and 44 seconds in the first quarter. He made one 3-point shot, missed another attempt from the floor and grabbed three rebounds. “The more I thought about it, with the schedule the way it is with all these back-to-back (games), we need bodies,” Adelman said. At times, it has seemed as if the Rockets didn’t want McGrady’s body in the lineup. In a sense, the Rockets and McGrady have been at odds off and on for the better part of a year. The team allowed fans and media to run with the idea that McGrady was healthy last season when it was obvious he wasn’t. It kept repeating the refrain that MRIs McGrady underwent showed no change while leaving out the fact that those MRIs showed damage that might require surgery to repair. 神奇的就是, 上一场比赛他们还不认为踢妹能够上场, 这一场比赛却可以了. 踢妹在第一节打了七分钟又四十四秒. 射进一个三分, miss了一个中距离, 抓了三个篮板. "当我想起我们悲壮的赛程, 我知道我们人手不足."Adelman这样说. 前一阵子, 火箭队似乎不需要踢妹进入轮替. 球队跟踢妹一直有些意见相左. 在上个赛季球队告诉大家踢妹是健康的, 但事实却不然. A year gone bad 痛苦的一年 Fans turned on McGrady, who was in and out of the lineup and unable to be the player he was before the injury. McGrady reacted to his struggles (and the team’s leaving him hanging) by announcing on his Web site that he had elected to have season-ending surgery — before the team had decided that would be the best course of action. 球迷对踢妹有疑问, 因为他的表现起起伏伏, 好像不是那个我们认识的踢妹. 而踢妹更是在自己的网站上说明了一些事情, 包括在通知球队之前就擅自决定结束赛季去 进行手术. “Obviously, it was a bad year,” McGrady said. “It was a year that I probably should have never even played. But I tried it, went through a lot, and it’s over with.” "很明显的, 去年我过的很糟."踢妹说. "去年我大概根本不应该比赛的, 但是我还是做了, 经历了很多, 也就这样地结束." Perhaps. 或许吧. The seemingly shaky relationship grew shakier when McGrady returned to practice this season and started to think he was ready to play. McGrady’s thinking he was ahead of schedule didn’t seem to matter to the Rockets. 当踢妹回到了球队中练习, 踢妹的自我感觉良好却让他跟球队的关系越显峻恶. 火箭并不在乎他的复健良好. One had to wonder whether the Rockets were choosing to sit McGrady because of a sizable insurance policy that saved the team six figures every game he sat. We’re talking about a lot of moolah saved in the 22 games McGrady didn’t play. Makes sense. 有人说火箭队之所以不让踢妹上场, 是因为保险支付的关系. 踢妹只要坐在板凳上, 一场比赛球队就可以拿到六位数的赔偿金. 22场的比赛加起来, 这可是个大数字, 这个推论合理! It also made sense that perhaps the Rockets didn’t want to play McGrady, who is in the last year of his contract, until he could show enough that teams would be interested in trading for him. Slowly working him into shape might show warts that would hurt his trade value. 也有人说这是因为今年是踢妹的合约年, 他必许要打出身价才会有交易的价值. 让他慢慢地打慢慢地热身并不是件好事. Thank-yous all around The situation almost turned ugly when McGrady donned his uniform for a game in Minnesota on Nov. 18, though the team had no thoughts of activating him for the game. But now McGrady is back, and he says he is happy. He had two words for Adelman: “Thank you.” 当踢妹在灰狼的比赛中穿上球衣, 事情好像就越变越糟了. 球队根本没有想过要让他上场 . 不过现在踢妹中回到场上, 而且他说他很开心. 他只想告诉Adelman "阿里阿多" The crowd reaction to his return might have been a thank-you as well. “That felt real good,” McGrady said. “That shows me that they appreciate what I’ve done in my five years here.” 球迷们对於踢妹的回归也是充满了感谢. "这真的很棒."踢妹说."这代表我五年来所做的一切得到了肯定与感激." [email protected] --

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