Monson: As the Jazz enter the season’s second half, are you optimistic or pessimistic, hopeful or hopeless? 随着爵士进入下半季，你是乐观还是悲观，充满希望还是绝望？ https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2019/01/08/monson-jazz-enter-seasons/ There are three rather distinct, divergent ways to process and view what the Jazz have achieved to the halfway point of their season, 41 games in, and to figure what it means for the second half. Try to determine which group you most snugly fit into: 有三种截然不同的，不一样的方式来分析与观察爵士队在本赛季进行到一半时所取得的成 绩，在这41场比赛中，以及对下半季带来怎样的意义。 试着看看你比较适合哪一群吧： 1. Extreme optimists. The Jazz are just getting started, just getting ready to rumble, and start and rumble and finish they will. Even though the Jazz have, at times, shot the ball as though it were a bag of sand, that ball will yet often spin softly through forgiving rims. Fifty wins are attainable, no matter that they would require the Jazz to finish 30-11 through the back half. 1.极端乐观主义者。 爵士只是刚刚起步，只是准备热好机开始要上路，他们将会开始 完成工作。虽然爵士队有时会把球打得好像是一盘散沙，但是球通常还是会轻柔地穿过宽 松的篮框。尽管爵士队在下半季仍需要达成完成30-11的战果，五十胜还是可以达成的。 2. Guarded optimists. See the Jazz’s strengths and weaknesses for what they are, acknowledge them and realistically compare them to those of other top teams in the West. Take hope in the idea that the Jazz can indeed play better and worry also that the ascension nearly everybody projected for them is complicated, but ultimately doable, in some more modest measure. 2.谨慎乐观主义者。 检视爵士队的优势和劣势，了解这支球队，并将他们与西区其他 顶级球队的实力进行比较。对於爵士队确实能够发挥得更好的想法充满希望，但每个人 几乎都仍为他们所预期的提升带着复杂的担忧，但最终还是认为更适度的改善是可能的。 3. Abject pessimists. Note the clouds rather then the sunshine, seriously doubt the Jazz have the offensive weapons necessary to be playing at all past the second week of April, suspecting instead that they’ll be floating on rafts in pools outside their Caribbean villas by then. 3.悲观主义者。 留意的是云层而不是阳光，严重怀疑爵士队在4月的第二个星期过後就 可以拥有必要的进攻武器，并且怀疑他们那时会在加勒比别墅外的游泳池中的木筏上载浮 载沉。 Those in Group 1 think the Jazz’s 20-21 record is nothing more than a setup for all the good stuff that is about to commence. They buy into the fact that the schedule, more than anything else, is what has hampered a familiar bunch from taking advantage of that familiarity. 在第一组中的人认为爵士队的20-21战绩，只不过是即将开始的所有优秀赛事的前置作业 。他们认为，比起其他因素是赛程妨碍熟悉的我爵利用主场熟悉度的重要因素。 The Jazz have played more road games (25) than any other team by a relatively sizable margin and people who study such things say their schedule strength has been the toughest in the NBA. They may even suspect that somebody in the league office is out to get them. 爵士队以比其他任何一支球队相对较大的优势，打了更多的客场比赛（25） ，同时研究 这些事情的人说，他们的赛程强度一直是NBA最艰难的。他们甚至怀疑这可能联盟办公室 的某个人想要搞他们。 But they also lean on the remarkable turnaround the Jazz pulled off last season (29-6), after a difficult early span, burning and blowing down the backstretch, straight into a first-round playoff series victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder. These people do not believe that bit of mastery was singular. 但是他们也依据上个赛季爵士队在经过一段艰难的早期阶段後，所取得的显着变化（29 胜6负 ） ，燃烧并击退困境，直接进入季後赛并战胜俄克拉荷马雷霆队。 这些人不相信这些只是单一事件。 They believe pretty much these same players, with the addition of Kyle Korver, can do it — or something similar to it — again. The Jazz may be under .500, but starting on Wednesday, they play eight of their next nine games at home, against beatable teams such as the Magic, the Lakers (possibly without LeBron), the Bulls, the Pistons, the Cavs, the Blazers and the Timberwolves. Mixed in is a road game against the Clippers and an important home game against the the Nuggets. 他们相信这些相同的球员，加上KK帅，可以再次做到-或达成类似的成果。爵士队的胜率 可能会低於50％，但从周三开始，他们在接下来的9场比赛中将会在主场出赛8场，对抗魔 术队、湖人队（LBJ可能缺席）、公牛队、活塞队、骑士队、拓荒者队与灰狼队。其中夹 杂着一场客场对上快艇队的比赛，还有主场对上鸡块队的重要比赛。 After a couple of roadies against the T-wolves and the Blazers, the Jazz return to Vivint Arena for a four-game homestand, including games against the Hawks and the Suns. There’s also the Rockets and the Spurs, possible accelerators all. 在客场几次对阵灰狼与拓荒者队之後，我爵将回到Vivint聪明宅主场进行四场比赛，包括 对阵老鹰队与太阳队的比赛。还有火箭队与马刺队也是有添胜的胜机。 Optimists being what they are, they figure the Jazz are perfectly capable of winning at least 12 of those 15 games, and if they do that, they then would sit at 32-24, well on their way to leaving a sub-.500 record eight freeway exits behind them. 乐观主义者就是这样，他们认为爵士队完全有能力赢得这15场比赛中的至少12场，如果他 们做到惹，那麽他们就会处在32-24的战果，远远抛开低於五成的记录八场。 And with that kind of accomplishment in pocket, that boost of momentum with them, they can rediscover the massive defensive prowess that absolutely defined them last season, along with enough offense to actualize so much promise, finishing what’s left of the regular season Hercules strong, passing all the jammed-up lesser teams in the Western Conference standings. Even from where they are now, the Jazz stand a mere 7.5 games out of first place in the West. 而凭藉已经落袋中的那种战果，以及他们所带来的动力，我爵可以重新展现并重新定义上 赛季的巨大防守实力，并实现足够进攻已达成如此多的期待，而像海克力士一般强势完成 例行赛，并在西部联盟排行榜上超越陷入泥淖的队伍。 即使从现在的位置来看，我爵离西区首强也仅仅是7.5场胜差。 Group 2’s can sip some of the nectar the first group is drinking, but they can’t guzzle it. They believe the early schedule has been unbalanced and maybe unfair, and that there will be an opportunity for fairness through the month of January, that the Jazz can move on up. But they also see that playing in the friendly confines hasn’t always been all that friendly. In some cases, it’s been angry. 第2组可能会采纳第一组所饮用的一些糖蜜，但是却并不会完全接受。他们认为初期的赛 程尽管并不平衡，也可能并不公平，并且可能会在1月份有机会得到平反，而爵士队将可 以继续上升。但是他们也看到在比较好的环境中进行比赛并不总是得到好的结果。在某些 情况下，这很令人生气。 The Jazz are 8-8 in games at Vivint Arena, just a notch better than their 12-13 record away from home. These folks in the second group want to believe the shooting inconsistencies that have too often doomed the Jazz, matched with sloppy play, will not simply evaporate with the energy of the crowd. They believe it can, it might, but there’s no guarantee. The numbers reflect those chunks of concern. 爵士队在Vivint聪明宅主场的比赛中 只拿下 8胜8 负，比他们在客场的12-13的战绩还要 好一点。 第二组中的这些人认为，爵士的投篮经常起伏太大，配上脱泥带水税的比赛内 容，不会轻易地随着人群带来的能量而消失。他们相信可以，但是却无法保证。 这些数值反映了那些令人关注的问题。 The Jazz currently have a 108.5 offensive rating, which places them 20th out of 30 teams. That can and must improve, even if the Jazz continue their upward trend on the defensive end, where they presently rank fifth, at 106.5. The Jazz sit at ninth in the league in number of 3-point shots attempted, but only 21st in deep-ball percentage. The more positive news for them is that they rank 12th in effective field goal percentage (52.9) while their opponents ’ eFG is 51.9. 爵士目前的进攻效率为108.5，在30支球队中排名第20。这可以且必须改善，即便爵士队 目前在防守端上持续上升，他们目前排名第五，为106.5。 爵士队的三分球命中数排名联盟第九，但在深远球(三分球)命中率方面却仅排名第21。对 他们来说更正面的消息是，他们的有效投篮命中率（52.9）排名第12，而对手的eFG则是 51.9。 Turnovers have been a problem, the Jazz ranking 27th in turnover percentage. They must quit slinging the ball around as though it were a half-filled can of gas with a lit rag in its spout. That’s part of the reason Quin Snyder has been persistent in his use of the word “focus” over the first 41. When he says he wants his team to play with “force,” he’s not talking about forcing bad passes and bad shots. This second group believes the issues are solvable, once the Jazz get on a confident, decisive roll. 失误一直是个问题，爵士队的失误率排名第27位。他们必须停止将球扔到外围，好像它是 一个壶嘴塞有点燃的抹布的半满罐装瓦斯。 这就是为什麽Quin Snyder坚持使用「专注」 这个词的原因之一。当他说他希望自己的球队能够用「力量」打球时，他并不是在谈论强 迫糟糕的传球和糟糕的投篮。 第二组认为，只要爵士队获得自信，果断的轮转，问题就可以得到解决。 Group 3 does not believe the issues are solvable. It more precisely aligns with the Belichickian idea that you are what your record says you are. And if that is true, the Jazz will not make the playoffs. 第3组并不相信这些问题是可以解决的。 更准确地说，这与Belichickian概念是一致的， 也就是你就是记录所说的那样。如果这是真的，我爵将无法进入季後赛。 These people wonder what Jazz management was thinking when it stood pat during the offseason, making no meaningful personnel upgrades as other teams in the West improved. They see Donovan Mitchell as a young player who has ability, but who takes unwise shots, who shoots 40 percent overall, 30 percent from beyond the arc. And they think he doesn’t have enough help at the offensive end to sustain legitimate contention. 这些人想知道爵士队管理阶层在休赛期时的想法是什麽，他们没有像西部其他球队那样进 行有意义的人员升级。他们认为米邱是一个有能力的年轻球员，但是他的投篮不够聪明， 投篮命中率为40％，三分命中率为30％。他们也认为他在进攻端并没有得到足够的帮助来 维持合法的竞争力。 As for that Jazz attack, they wonder what the usefulness is of an offense that moves the ball, that creates open shots for players who can’t consistently hit them. There’s Mitchell — every defense in the league knows there’s Mitchell — and then there’s … who else? Joe Ingles? Ricky Rubio? Jae Crowder? Dante Exum? Those are the guys with whom you want to win the West? Maybe if you trade Derrick Favors and assorted spare parts, with picks, you can haul in Damian Lillard? Yeah, and these folks have a multi-million-dollar app they want to sell you. 至於那次爵士队的进攻，他们想知道那些在进攻中无效的转移球，替不能稳定投中的球员 创造空档投篮是为了什麽。有了米邱-联盟中的每个防守者都了解米邱- 然後还有...... 还有谁？ 阿伯？ 小比？ J尻？ 丹丹？ 这些是你想要赢下西部冠军的人马？ 也许如果 你交易狒狒和包含选秀签的各种配菜，你可以换来Damian Lillard？ 是的，这些人带着 价值数百万美元的APP，他们想卖给你。 On defense, they think highly of Rudy Gobert, but then … he can’t guard everybody. This grumpy group doesn’t know much, but it is convinced of the following: The Jazz need more offensive firepower and on account of the fact that they lack it, Vivint Arena will be dark for basketball come the middle of April, open only for concerts, conventions and tractor pulls. Well. Which group is yours? 在防守方面，他们给予狗贝高度评价，然後......他无法防守所有人。 这个脾气暴躁的团队或许不太了解，但它确信如下：爵士需要更多的进攻火力，并且因为 他们缺乏这些，对於篮球来说Vivint聪明宅主场在4月中旬会是黑暗的，仅会用於音乐会 、会议和拖拉机展售会。 好的。 你属於哪一组？ --

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