Cheeks upbeat despite losses 尽管连败不止，Cheeks对七六人仍持乐观态度。 http://tinyurl.com/ww5a9 By STEVE KING [email protected] Posted on Fri, Dec. 08, 2006 D-E-F-E-N-S-E. 防守，防守，再防守。 That was the message 76ers head coach Maurice Cheeks preached and ranted about through the offseason and preseason. He was certain that was all the Sixers needed to improve from its previous lackluster season. 自去年暑假一直到热身赛，七六人总教练Maurice Cheeks不厌其烦地强调与灌输 防守的重要性。他坚信，唯有加强防守，才能让七六人从上季黯淡的战绩中脱胎 换骨。 But now that the Sixers have dropped five straight and, at 5-12, are only a half game away from having the worst record in the NBA, it seems Cheeks has been forced to simplify his message to a more comprehensible version of, "We just have to play better." 然而现在七六人战绩5胜12败，并且已经五连败，距垫底的位置仅仅半场之差。 看来Cheeks必须面对一项事实，他需要让他简单明了的理念—「我们必须打得更好」 转化为更容易让人理解的讯息。 How hard can that be, right? 看来这非常困难。 Well, again, we are talking about a team that has won only twice since starting the season with a three-game winning streak. A team that has dropped 12 of its last 14 games, including nine of 11 overall on the road. And a team that given enough time - and losses, for that matter - could be on the verge of self destruction at any moment. 再次，我们谈的球队自从开季三连胜之後只赢了二场比赛，最近14场比赛输了12场； 包括九场客场比赛。对於这支球队，我们已经给他们足够的时间，然而胜少败多的 战绩证明，他们处於随时都会瓦解的危险边缘。 "We just have to keep pushing and keep fighting. It's a long year," Cheeks said following practice yesterday at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. "No one is going to feel sorry for us. We have to make our breaks and continue to work. We need to get one win and turn this thing around. If we can just get that, a lot of positive things can come out of that." 昨天在费城医学大学练完球之後，Cheeks表示：「我们必须持续努力、持续奋战， 没有人会为我们感到可惜。我们必须打出连胜的战绩并不断努力；我们必须拿下 一场胜利，进而扭转整个局势。如果我们可以做到，那麽很多正面的效应自然就 会发生。」 Now there's a step in an optimistic direction. 为了保持乐观的态度，他们有一个思考的方向。 Even after being embarrassed, 121-94, by a Chicago Bulls team that scored a season high Wednesday night, the Sixers still are only two games behind in the Atlantic Division. 即使星期三对上公牛的比赛，七六人难堪地以121比94输球，但他们在欢乐大西洋组， 也只落後龙头二场胜差。 That's not saying much, given that the New Jersey Nets lead the division at 7-12, but it might be a comforting tidbit for Sixers fans patiently waiting for a turnaround. 即使这样的说法没有什麽说服力，因为龙头纽泽西篮网战绩只有7胜12败，不过 对於苦等局势逆转的七六人球迷来说，这也许是个可以咽的下的想法，并且感到 些许的安慰。 Cheeks said he looks at it not as a false sense of security, but more as reality. Cheeks认为：「与其说这是一个缺乏危机感的想法，倒不如承认它的确是个事实。」 "It is what it is," Cheeks said. "It's not something that we look up and see that it's going to change, as far as the records go right now. We're a half game back from the worst record in the league, but two games out of first place. Now you can either look at it as the cup is half empty or the cup is half full. I'm looking at it as if it's half full and we're two games out of first place." Cheeks说：「事实上就是如此。目前的战绩我们已经无法改变，我们现在距离最差 的战绩只有半场，而落後欢乐大西洋宝座差二场；你可以把他看作是杯子里只有 半杯水，你也可以说只差半杯水就满了，而我会选择後者。我们只落後龙头二场 胜差。」 Obviously for Cheeks and the Sixers, there are more immediate issues to be addressed besides the standings, such as the continuing lack of defensive effort and poor rebounding. 显而易见地，对Cheeks和七六人来说，目前的战绩呈现许多必须立即改善的 问题，像是如何提高防守的强度与抢回篮板优势。 The Sixers are allowing 101.6 points per game, and are ranked in the bottom five in the NBA in rebounding, grabbing 38.6 boards per outing, compared with their opponents' 43.4. 七六人每场失101.6分，而平均抓下38.6个篮板更是屈居全联盟倒数五名，对手 每场球则是可以抓下43.4个。 After Wednesday night's game, Allen Iverson voiced his opinion of the Sixers' recent play and the direction the season could be heading, saying there "needs to be a change." 星期三的比赛过後，Allen Iverson提到七六人现今的打法以及方向， 他说：「我们必须要做些改变。」 "We've just got to find a way we're going to play every single night," he said. "We play different ways every night. I just feel like we need a style of play." 「我们必须找出固定打法，并且在每一场比赛中发挥。现在我们每场比赛的打法 都不一样，我觉得七六人必须要有固定的比赛模式。」 He continued: "We've lost 12 of 14 games. Something obviously has to be done. There needs to be a change somehow. Something needs to be scrambled up. We need to figure out how to play a different way. The way we're playing right now isn't getting it done." 他接着说：「14场比赛我们已经输了12场，明显地，我们缺乏一些赢球因子。 我们一定要做些改变、提升球队某方面的能力，我们必须展现不同的打法， 因为现在打球的方式并不能赢球。」 Asked about Iverson's comments, Cheeks agreed to some extent. 在某些方面，Cheeks同意Iverson的看法。 "We need to find one particular way of playing hard," Cheeks said. "We need to find that one constant, and that's playing hard." Cheeks说：「我们必须努力打球，从中找出一些特定的模式，我们需要找到固定 的方法，这才是认真打球的态度。」 While Cheeks insists on turning this season around, he says he doesn't plan on making any significant changes to do so. He told reporters he believes he can work with what he has. 同时，坚信可以扭转本季局势的Cheeks也表示他不打算作出任何重大的改变，并 告诉记者他相信自己可以发挥七六人现有阵容的能力。 "Things happen all the time. Sometimes they're for the good, sometimes they're for the bad, but what we have is what we have here, and we just have to work a little bit harder and get some better results," Cheeks said. Cheeks说：「球场上瞬息万变；有时候会是好事，有时候是坏事，但是我们拥有 的阵容不会改变，所以我们必须更加努力，然後得到更好的成绩。」 Cheeks also was asked whether he knew why Iverson, who had 25 points against the Bulls and is the league's second-leading scorer with 31.2 points a game, was frustrated or unclear about the current system. 日前对上公牛队拿下25分的Iverson平均每场球可攻下31.2分，名列NBA第二位。 他对於七六人现今攻防体系感到不够明确与挫折。Cheeks被问到他是否知道 为什麽Iverson会有这样的感觉。 "You have to ask him," Cheeks said. Cheeks回答：「那你就要问他本人了。」 Not long ago, the Sixers were riding a three-game winning streak and stirring up conversation about being a better than expectations. Boy, did that conversation come to a screeching halt. 不久之前，七六人开季写下三连胜佳绩让大家兴奋不已，打出比季前预测更好 成绩的言论也随之而起。然而这些表现都只是昙花一现而已。 Ironically, the Sixers' last win came on Nov. 24 against the Bulls, who lost their sixth straight that night. 说来讽刺，七六人上次取得胜利是在11月24号对芝加哥公牛之役，并让他们吞下 六连败。 Funny how the tables turn. Since then, the Bulls have won six straight. 风水轮流转，自此战之後，公牛则是拿下六连胜。 Now, the Sixers hope to reverse those tables and find a way to end their losing streak tonight against the 8-10 Washington Wizards at the Wachovia Center. 而现在，七六人则是希望可以在Wachovia Center找到方法打败华盛顿巫师， 并结束他们的连败。 "When you're going through a tailspin, you find positive things to work with, and that's what we are doing," Cheeks said. "The blame can't be put on one person or two people. It's everybody, from the coaches to the players. We all have to do a better job collectively to turn this thing around." Cheeks说：「即使历经乱流，你还是可以找到一些正面的赢球方法。发挥这些优点 就是我们现在要做的。你不能将责任推给某个人或是某些人，每个人都有责任， 从教练到球员。我们必须共同努力，然後才能扭转劣势。」 Six shots Chris Webber and Allen Iverson both sat out of practice. The Sixers said Webber has a bruise in his right foot. Webber, who complained of soreness at the bottom of his foot during the Bulls game, had X-rays afterward, which were negative. Iverson, who sat out after the third quarter with back spasms, was at the practice facility, but did not take part in any action... Kyle Korver, who returned to the lineup Wednesday for the first time since missing two games with a sprained left ankle, went through the entire practice. He had 13 points in 25 minutes off the bench against Chicago. Chris Webber和Allen Iverson昨天都没有参加球队练习。七六人表示Webber的右脚 有瘀青的现象，他在对公牛之战中就表示他脚底感到酸痛，後来经X光检查结果显示 为阴性。Iverson在第三节之後就因为背部痉挛作壁上观。他只简单参加球队练习， 并没有加入任何球队演练。因为脚踝扭伤缺席二场比赛，直到礼拜三才归队的 Kyle Korver则是全程参与了球队练习。他上一场比赛在芝加哥以替补身分出场， 打了25分钟拿下13分。 --

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