http://tinyurl.com/6pj3k Posted on Mon, Jan. 10, 2005 Warriors' slide reaches five after Raptors rally By Marcus Thompson II CONTRA COSTA TIMES TORONTO - Warriors forward Troy Murphy came upon coach Mike Montgomery's clipboard resting on the scorer's table as he walked toward the bench during a third-quarter timeout. 勇士隊前鋒 Troy Murphy 在第三節一次暫停時，走向板凳區， 剛好看到教練的寫字板躺在記分員的桌上。 Murphy lifted his left fist and pounded it into the clipboard, which broke into three pieces and cut his knuckles. Murphy 舉起他的左拳，往寫字板打下去， 寫字板就碎了成三塊，還割傷了他的指關節。 "That thing just shattered," Murphy said, intimating he barely punched it. "What kind of cheap clipboard is that?" Murphy 暗示說，他只是輕輕的打了一下， "那玩意兒就這樣破碎了，那是什麼爛寫字板啊？" (大哥，明明是你太猛....) The Warriors were much like that clipboard Sunday. Punched by the Toronto Raptors' furious third-quarter rally, the Warriors came apart, falling 109-87 at the Air Canada Centre and extending their losing streak to five games. 勇士隊在星期天的比賽中，就像是那塊寫字板一樣， 被暴龍隊在第三節徹底擊敗，最後以 109-87 輸球， 連敗場次到達了五場。 The Raptors (13-22) ran off 15 straight points, turning a 54-all tie at the 6:21 mark into a 69-54 lead with 2:58 left in the third quarter. The lead grew to 78-61 by the end of the quarter, as Toronto made 16 of 21 shots (76.2 percent) in the period, and got as big as 107-77 late in the fourth quarter. "We just didn't have any answers," Montgomery said. "We're kind of operating on a little bit of a thin ... we're ... what's the word I'm looking?" Montgomery 教練說，"我們沒有辦法做出任何回應。 我們的陣容目前有一點薄弱....我們現在....嗯，我該用什麼字形容呢？" Before finding the right word, Montgomery went on to explain how the Warriors don't have much with which to fight adversity. Their confidence is probably lower than it was during the six-game losing streak to open the season. 在找到適合的字之前，Montgomery 教練接著解釋， 勇士隊是怎麼個沒有辦法跟對手對抗。 他們的信心大概比開季六連敗的時候還要低。 They're on the road. They're playing without guard Jason Richardson, whose return from a sprained left ankle is still uncertain, and forward Eduardo Najera, who will miss at least two more weeks after knee surgery. Also, guard Mickael Pietrus is playing on a tender right ankle. 他們目前是客場比賽。Jason Richardson 無法上場， 而且他扭傷的左腳踝，不知道何時能夠痊癒。 前鋒 Eduardo Najera 動了膝蓋手術，最少兩週不能上場。 另外，後衛 Mickael Pietrus 雖然可以上場，但是他的右腳踝依然疼痛。 Even more, Murphy and point guard Speedy Claxton, the team's top scoring options with Richardson out, have struggled offensively on this road trip. Murphy finished with eight points on 2-for-14 shooting and 13 rebounds Sunday; Claxton had 11 points on 4-for-11 shooting and five assists. The two have combined to average 17.3 points on 27.3 percent shooting (18-for-66) over the last three games. 除此之外，Murphy 跟控球後衛 Speedy Claxton 在 Richardson 受傷之後， 成為了球隊的得分主力，但是他們在這次的客場之旅也進攻表現不佳。 "We have no places to go, no places to turn," Montgomery said. So when Sunday's blow came, in the form of "bad calls" in the third quarter, the Warriors crumbled. Raptors forward Morris Peterson ran over Claxton as he nailed a runner, which started the 15-0 run, but no offensive foul was called. Toronto point guard Rafer Alston, who about a minute earlier scored on a layup to snap a streak of 23 consecutive missed field goal attempts, hit a 20-footer to give the Raptors a 58-54 lead with 5:32 left. On the Warriors' ensuing possession, Murphy was called for an offensive foul though it appeared Toronto center Rafael Araujo flopped -- which led to the clipboard assault. After the timeout, Peterson nailed the free throw for Montgomery's technical foul, Alston hit a 3-pointer, Araujo scored inside and Eric Williams nailed a 3-pointer to force another Warriors timeout. Then Chris Bosh hit a jumper to cap the 15-0 run. "When they're making every shot and you're not making shots, then ain't really much you can do," said swingman Calbert Cheaney, who made his fourth consecutive start in place of Richardson. "The first four or five minutes of the quarter we were going back and forth. Then we started missing shots and they kept making them. That's when you've got to dig even deeper." But it was clear the Warriors had nothing left. The momentum Toronto gained from the two unfortunate calls and its hot shooting was a current too strong to fight. The low confidence from the lack of recent success was a hurdle too high to clear. The gaping holes in the roster from the injuries were a reality too bleak to face. So the Warriors wilted. "I guess the word I'm kind of looking for is," Montgomery said, finally coming up with a fitting adjective, "we're kind of fragile right now." 最後，Montgomery 教練終於找到適當的形容詞了。 "我想，我在找的那個字是，我們現在有點脆弱。" Just like that clipboard. 就跟那個寫字板一樣。 ~~~~ 被電的比賽過程，跟可能的裁判誤判就懶得翻了～ 有興趣的自己看英文，或者去抓比賽看。 -- 我寧可跟筆交朋友也不交筆友.... 我很喜歡上網但是我不上網友.... --

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