Buck Harvey: Smart at the end, Spurs' next step is to try for earlier http://0rz.tw/213Bd Web Posted: 02/09/2008 12:31 AM CST San Antonio Express-News NEW YORK — They say Gregg Popovich remained calm at halftime. And after the game, after the Spurs had avoided a loss that would have caused them to pull out their Rodeo Road Trip beards, Manu Ginobili did not. 纽约－他们说Gregg Popovich在半场的时候心情是很平静的，但是在这场差一点就输掉面 子的比赛後，Manu Ginobili无法保持同样的心情。 With the locker room still closed to outsiders, Ginobili was angry with himself. He was angry because of his half-dozen turnovers, and he was angry because his team needed to make a play at the end of regulation. 在球员休息室里，Ginobili对自己的表现非常不满意。他对自己的那些失误感到羞愧，也 对马刺必须在终场结束前试图得分感到不爽。 No wonder, while everyone else marveled about how smart the Spurs were on that last play, Ginobili acted as if the Spurs should have been smarter. 当大家都在对马刺最後的那记追平分球感到惊奇时，Ginobili却认为马刺应该表现的更好 才对。 "Was it about experience?" Ginobili said, repeating what a reporter had said. "Or luck?" 「那球会进是因为经验吗?」Ginobili重复一位记者的话，「还是只是运气罢了?」 The Spurs head to Boston today not caring about the answer. They are relieved. They have lost three times this season to teams with losing records, including a recent one in Seattle, and a fourth wouldn't have played well in the revamped Western Conference. 即将对上赛尔提克的马刺并不在乎真正的答案，他们总算松了一口气。他们在这个赛季中 已经输给了三支弱队，包括最近在西雅图的那一场比赛，而第四场将会在最近的西区中产 生一些影响。 Losing games to teams such as the Knicks is the difference between being a second seed or a seventh. So when the Spurs came out flat, falling behind by as many as 18 points, how smart were they? Do they need to be reminded of the standings every day? 输给像尼克这种队伍就像是第二种子跟第七种子之间的差别。所以当马刺落後这种队伍18 分的时候，他们的表现又是如何呢?难道他们需要个人每天提醒他们现在西区的战绩表吗? Someone asked Popovich afterward what he had said to the Spurs at halftime to inspire them, and Popovich offered some sarcasm. "I asked them to play better," he said, and then he rolled his eyes. 有人在赛後问Popovich他到底在中场休息时说了些什麽来让马刺重拾信心?而Popovich带有 讽刺的回答：「我叫他们表现好一点。」然後他转动他的眼睛。 Curiously, those in his locker room say that was precisely the tone. Popovich told the Spurs to stick with the plan and to, well, play better. 令人感到好奇的，球员们的回答跟Popovich的回答完全吻合。Popovich叫他们继续照着战 术打，并且表现好一点。 What followed realigned the order of things, as well as the direction of Robert Horry's shooting stroke. When his 3-pointer swished at the end of the third quarter and he opened with yet another to start the fourth, the game was tied. 接下来的事情恢复了正常，包括传奇的三分球。当他以三分球结束第三节，并且以另一颗 三分展开第四节时，两队终於平手了。 Ginobili, essentially playing point guard, made both passes to Horry on his way to nine assists. But when he committed another turnover and Popovich subbed him out, he went to the bench yelling at himself. 在这场中打控卫的Ginobili所获得的9个助攻中，有两个是给传奇的。但是在他又再次失误 时，Popovich把他换了下来，而他对自己的表现非常不满。 It summed up a night of frustration for him. And when Jamal Crawford, the Knicks guard, began throwing in threes, there was more. The Spurs fell behind by nine points with less than five minutes left. 这场比赛对他而言就是挫折的代名词。当尼克的後卫Jamal Crawford展开三分雨时，事情 比想像中的更糟，马刺在比赛剩不到5分钟的时後，落後了9分。 That's when Popovich made the switch of the evening. He played a lineup without either Jacque Vaughn or Damon Stoudamire, choosing to go bigger, and that meant one thing. Bruce Bowen would bead in on Crawford. 这时候Popovich完成了一个经典的调度，他放弃了打小球的阵容，把Jacque Vaughn跟 Damon Stoudamire都换下去，让Bruce Bowen去守Crawford。 From there the Knicks' offense melted. Still, the Spurs trailed by three points in the final seconds, and, after a timeout, Popovich called a familiar play. He sent Ginobili driving to the baseline where he would look for a shooter in the corner, this time Michael Finley. 接下来的事情大家都很清楚，尼克的攻势被瓦解了，但是在最後几秒时，马刺还是落後三 分，然後在暂停过後，Popovich使用了一个常见的战术，他让Ginobili传球给在底线的射 手，而这次在底线的人是Michael Finley。 The Knicks could have fouled Ginobili along the way, and they didn't. They also could have stayed with Finley in the corner, and they didn't. 尼克当时可以对Ginobili犯规，但他们没有。 尼克可以紧守住在底线的Finley，但他们没有。 Renaldo Balkman, an athletic defender, instead left Finley. And when he did, Tim Duncan was there with a backpick and a clever push away from Finley. Renaldo Balkman让Finley留在角落，而当他这麽做时，Finley命中了底线的三分球。 "They knew how to win the basketball game," Isiah Thomas said. "I said to the team, the thing I admire about San Antonio is that they play every second, they play every play. They play it all the way to the end. They don't hang their heads." 「他们知道要如何去赢得一场球赛，」笑笑汤说，「我对尼克的球员说，我最佩服马刺的 一点，就是他们永远都认真地去运用每一秒，认真地去运用每一个球权，他们从头到尾都 是这样的，他们从来不会放弃。」 All of it is true. Their core has been together so long that end-of-game moments don't bother them. When Ginobili drove, and Duncan set the pick, and Finley stepped up — it took intelligence and composure. 这些全部都是真的，马刺的核心球员已经在一起打球非常久了，一个终场三分对他们来说 并不会让他们困扰。Ginobili运球，Duncan传球，Finley投球－这需要智慧和镇定。 Ginobili recognized all of it. "But (Finley) is what, about a 45-percent shooter from 3-point range?" he asked. 而Ginobili承认他们两者兼备。「但是Finley的三分球命中率不是，我想想，百分之45吗 ?」他问。 This season Finley is closer to 38, but this further makes Ginobili's point. "That means the chances of missing are higher," he said. "And we put ourselves in that position." 这一季Finley的命中率比较接近38%，但是这更证实了Ginobili的论点。「这表示投失的机 率比较高，」他说道，「但是我们还是这麽做了。」 Ginobili was calm now, too. But he didn't want to talk about this being a great win, just as he isn't as impressed with a four-game winning streak when the Spurs haven't played well in all four. Ginobili现在也平静下来了，但是他并不认为这场是一场极佳的胜利，就像他觉得现在的 四连胜并不算什麽，因为马刺并不是四场都表现很好。 Smart? 聪明? Smart wouldn't have required the last play of regulation. 如果他们聪明的话他们就不需要那个追平一击了。 --

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