Knicks have championship formula They're good enough and deep enough -- and they showed it against the Spurs By Ian O'Connor | ESPNNewYork.com Updated: January 4, 2013, 2:05 AM ET 原文：http://tinyurl.com/a5zlfc2 Jason Kidd stopped on his way out of Madison Square Garden to measure the championship worth of the New York Knicks, a franchise that last won it all seven weeks after the prehistoric point guard was born. It was the right night to do it, too, the night the Knicks again beat a San Antonio Spurs team that knows nothing about biblical NBA droughts. Only the 39-year-old Kidd wasn't asked about the Spurs' four titles over the past 14 years, four more than the Knicks have won since 1973. He was asked about the ring his Dallas Mavericks won two years back, and whether his current team could replicate the feat. 馬刺在過去的14個賽季裡奪得了4個總冠軍，尼克自從1973年以來沒有拿過一個總冠軍 ，但今天馬刺大比分輸給了尼克。 賽後有記者問基德兩個賽季前他在小牛奪冠的經歷 ，是否現在這支尼克也有可能重覆當年小牛的成功？ "This team might be deeper than that one," Kidd told ESPNNewYork.com. “這支球隊也許比當年那支小牛來得更有深度，”基德說道。 Deeper than the Dallas team of Kidd, Tyson Chandler and Dirk Nowitzki that beat the Miami Heat in six. Kidd used his beautiful basketball mind to break down the matchups, starting with Nowitzki and Carmelo Anthony. "I mean, it's very similar," he said. "Melo and Dirk are your high-level players. You have J.R. [Smith] and Jason Terry. J.J. [Barea] is kind of like Pablo [Prigioni]. [Steve] Novak's like Peja [Stojakovic], a guy who can stretch the defense and knock down 3's. Tyson is Tyson." “我的意思是，這兩支球隊很類似，”基德繼續說道，“ 安東尼和諾維茨基是隊里裡 高水平的球員，然後你有 JR，小牛有特里，巴里亞有點類似老PP，諾瓦克就像佩賈， 一個能夠在場上拉開防守空間然後投進三分球的傢伙。 還有錢德勒，錢德勒就是他本 人。” And Kidd is Kidd, only two years smarter. 還有基德，比兩年前更加老練。 "Both teams can score and defend," he said. "Dirk defended, and that's what helped us win a championship, and that's what Melo's doing now. He's defending." “這兩支球隊都能得分也都會防守，”基德表示，“諾維茨基的防守幫助我們最終奪得 了總冠軍，這也是現在安東尼在做的事情，他現在就在貢獻著防守。 ” Kidd was asked if his Knicks could beat Miami and ultimately win the tournament like his Mavericks did. 有記者問基德，那麼尼克是否也能像當年的小牛一樣，最終打敗了熱火，在總決賽中成 功奪冠？ "I hope so. That's the goal. That's what we're playing for," he said. "There's been a couple of stretches here that you can see as a very close reminder [of Dallas]. We had injuries that season, too, and nobody was thinking about a championship. We were just trying to figure out how to win a game without Dirk. “我希望如此，”基德回答道，“這是我們的目標，這就是我們打球的目的所在。我們 這支球隊有幾個方面確實讓人會想到那支小牛，那個賽季我們同樣經歷了傷病，沒有任 何一個球員腦子裡想著能得到總冠軍。我們只是力求找到怎麼樣能在沒有諾維茨基的情 況下贏得比賽的勝利。” "We've faced the same problem here with Melo out. But with our depth and the guys we have who know how to play, we feel it's very similar. We'll see at the end." “在安東尼休戰的時候我們也面臨同樣的問題，但考慮到我們擁有的深度，我們擁有的 球員都知道怎麼打球，我們感覺兩支球隊真的很像，等一切到了最後時我們再來見分曉 。” In the end Thursday night, the Knicks made a tough, old military man named Gregg Popovich cry uncle. The Spurs coach benched his dynasty makers in the fourth quarter when he realized the Tim Duncans and Manu Ginobilis and Tony Parkers "were a little low on fuel." Together they watched as the Knicks, in Popovich's words, "kicked our butt" and finished off their 100-83 victory and first two-game sweep of the Spurs since 2003. Enduring his fourth game in five nights, Popovich's substitutions won't earn him the $250,000 fine he absorbed after sending home his stars rather than put them through another four-in-five experience in Miami on national TV. But this surrender of a seven-game winning streak did speak to his newfound respect for the Knicks, who had come across as emotionally fragile and physically weak during so much of San Antonio's dominant run. Do you really think Pop would've been so quick to call it a night had the Knicks of Mike D'Antoni, Isiah Thomas, Larry Brown, Lenny Wilkens, or Don Chaney been on the other side? 作為對手，波波維奇稱讚了尼克在武僧手下提升了防守的質量。 "They're obviously a totally different group," Popovich said before he watched Mike Woodson's Knicks pound the Spurs on the boards (48-35) and give his selfless-to-a-fault team a lesson in sharing the ball (26 assists for the home team, 14 for the losers). "And by that I mean no matter what players have been added and changed or whatever, the mentality, the purposefulness with which they play, the attention to more defensive detail that I know Mike will demand day after day -- [the Knicks players] won't win that battle. They may try, but with Mike Woodson, he's going to demand it over and over again until people understand the value." “他們顯然是一支完全不同的球隊了，”波波維奇說道，“無論他們做了哪些人員上的 變化，精神上的東西很明顯，他們打球的目的性、對防守細節更加關注的特質，我知道 這些是武僧每天都會對他們強調的。” Woodson's commitment to defense, Popovich continued, "helped them become who they are. Offensively, they've got a lot of talent, but the defense is what makes you go some distance in the playoffs." 波波維奇繼續說道武僧的防守：“這能幫助他們成為他們想要的。在進攻端他們已經擁 有很多人才，但唯有防守才是在季後賽能走得更遠的關鍵。” Popovich might not have tweaked D'Antoni as conspicuously as Amar'e Stoudemire did in declaring he'd "never been taught defense in my whole career," but Pop came close enough. Not that Woodson cared. He only knew he'd seen what he called "some major slippage" in his team's play, some D'Antoni-styled slippage on the more violent side of the ball, and so he showed his players some tape Thursday morning to remind them of how they opened the season. The Knicks responded by blowing out an opponent Woodson called "the best team in basketball," and by extending their record to 10-0 when holding opponents to less than 90 points, 17-2 when holding them to less than 100. 武僧賽前把馬刺形容為現在全聯盟最強的球隊，但就是如此，尼克卻把他們打得落花流 水。本賽季當尼克把對手的得分限制在90分以下時，他們的戰績現在提升到了10勝 0負 。當尼克限制對手的得分不到100分時，他們的戰績是17勝2負。 "The Knicks have obviously changed a bit," Duncan said. "They're more defensive-minded." “尼克明顯有了很大的變化，”鄧肯說道，“他們在防守態度上更加強化了。” From Popovich on down to the core players who built his team into a monument to smart, do-whatever-it-takes basketball, the Spurs talked about the Knicks as if they were talking about themselves. Before the game, Popovich compared Kidd's dedication to Duncan's, and spoke of how the point guard infused the Knicks with "a real sense of what responsibility and professionalism is." After the game, Popovich referred to Kidd's relentless teammate in Dallas, Chandler, as "a monster who creates so many problems out on the floor and at the rim." 賽前波波維奇形容基德有著和鄧肯一樣的奉獻精神，稱讚基德向尼克灌輸了“一種真正 的責任感和職業精神。”賽後，波波維奇又大讚了基德在小牛時的老隊友錢德勒，稱他 是一個“在場上和籃筐附近製造出如此多麻煩的怪獸。” On his way out of the winners' locker room, Chandler notarized Kidd's comparison to their championship Mavericks team. "Especially with our depth," he said. "And with the talent and veterans we have on this team. 錢德勒也談到了基德把現在的尼克拿來和兩年前的小牛作對比的話題。“特別是我們的 深度，”錢德勒說道，“還有我們的天賦，還有我們隊裡擁有的這些老將。” No, these Knicks are not without their problems. Raymond Felton's injury has forced Kidd to cover the younger jets at the point, which is akin to asking an aging safety to play cornerback against a receiver who runs a 4.3 40. And if Stoudemire looked better off the bench in Game 2 than he did in Game 1, his reintegration into Melo's lineup remains an unsteady work in progress. But after Iman Shumpert's return gives them the necessary athletic bounce, the Knicks will be a staggeringly deep and diversified team with enough pieces to win it all. Of course, that doesn't mean they will win it all. 當然，尼克也有他們的問題，但是當香波傷愈回歸，尼克的深度又將得到提升，他們將 成為一支多樣化的球隊，他們將擁有足夠多的武器去一贏到底。 It only means that should be their goal, not a respectable best-of-seven loss to LeBron James in the conference finals. "The whole team," Popovich said of the Knicks, "Mike's got them being active, covering for each other, trusting each other." “尼克整個球隊，武僧讓他們充滿了活力，他們互相掩護，彼此信任，”波波維奇說道。 The Knicks have size, a title-hungry superstar, lethal 3-point shooters, an absurdly high IQ at the point (Prigioni is a poor man's Kidd), an explosive bench player in the backcourt (Smith), a potentially explosive bench player in the frontcourt (Stoudemire), and a coach who's connecting on a human level with his players. "We're pretty good," Chandler said. “我們真的很棒，”錢德勒說道。 They're better than pretty good. The Knicks have soundly beaten Miami with Melo and without him, and they've beaten San Antonio with Melo as a decoy on the road and with Melo as the leading man at home. All in all, Kidd said, this team might just be deeper than his Dallas team that beat LeBron. That doesn't guarantee the Knicks a ticker-tape parade. 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