Dwight Howard steps up, embraces role as vocal leader for Orlando Magic 魔獸開始接受成為魔術的精神領袖的角色 The Orlando Magic might have found the vocal leader they needed. 魔術可能找到了他們所需要的精神領袖。 Dwight Howard not only talks more these days, but his more businesslike approach has given his words greater impact. 這幾天以來魔獸不僅僅只是說的更多，他以實際的行動態度傳達自己的想法。 "Anybody can get up there and talk, but if you don't have the respect of your teammates, it's just words," guard J.J. Redick said Sunday. "I think Dwight, without a doubt, has earned the respect just with the way he's carried himself this preseason and the work he's put in this offseason." JJ:"每個人都能出來發言，但是如果沒得到隊友敬重的話，那就只是在說話罷了。 我認為魔獸在休賽期及季前賽所表現出來的一切已為他贏得了尊重。" Howard's growth as a vocal leader could pay dividends for Orlando. For all of their talent and depth, the Magic in recent years seem to have lacked players who could snap the roster out of a funk with impassioned words. 魔獸領袖能力的成長會是魔術的利多。以他們的天份及深度而言，魔術這幾年缺少 能夠以激勵的言語來使隊員們擺脫不知所措狀態的球員。 The maturation of their all-star center might have changed the overall dynamic. Howard attempted to spur on his teammates on at least three different occasions during and after the Magic's 96-70 loss to the Miami Heat on Friday night. 魔獸的成熟可能帶來有活力的改變。在魔術輸給熱火的那個夜晚，比賽中以及比賽後， 魔獸至少在三個不同場合企圖激勵隊友。 He spoke loudly in a team huddle on the sideline after the Heat opened the third quarter on a 9-0 run. He tried to inspire his teammates in the visitors' locker room shortly after the final buzzer. And during his postgame press availability, he said the Magic "got shell-shocked" when they faced adversity. 他在熱火第三節開啟9比0攻勢後聚集隊友到球場邊並且大聲說話。賽後他在客場休息室 簡短地嘗試激勵他的隊友。賽後訪問時，他說當大家面臨逆境時被震懾住了。 "I've been more vocal this whole season," Howard told reporters after the Magic practiced Sunday. "You guys don't have to see me be vocal. That's not being vocal: just doing it in front of people. It's in the locker room, it's on the bus, on the plane and during film sessions, during practice. That's when it matters, not just when eyes are watching." 在魔術星期日的練習過後，魔獸告訴記者: "這整個賽季我會更多的進行喊話，但如果只在人前這樣做不算發號施令者。不管是在 休息室、飛機上、會議中、練習中，那都是需要這樣做的時候，而不是只是當有人在 看時才去做。" Howard shares Orlando's captain duties with point guard Jameer Nelson. 魔獸與尼神分擔魔術領導的責任。 Nelson helps improve team chemistry each summer when he hosts and organizes a week of workouts and off-court activities in and around Philadelphia. Still, Magic President of Basketball Operations Otis Smith has said he wants Nelson to exercise "fierce leadership" and "not worry about the consequences of leadership." In other words, Smith hopes Nelson will say things that teammates don't want to hear. 每個暑假，尼神在費城主辦安排為期一週的訓練及場外活動以嘗試幫助催化球隊的化學 反應。魔術總經理 Otis Smith 說他要求尼神去行使"強烈的領導"以及"不要擔憂這麼 作的後果是如何"。換句話說，Otis Smith希望尼神能說些隊友不想聽的話。(扮黑臉) Van Gundy was asked during a four-game losing streak last January whether the team had a vocal leader. Van Gundy responded that he wasn't sure whether the team needed a vocal leader, but he also added, "It's never been a real vocal group of people. That's pretty much been me." 大范曾在一月份魔術四連敗之時被問到球隊是否有個發聲的領袖，而大范回答他不確定 球隊是否需要個這樣的人，但他也補充道，"從來沒有形成一個真正的精神領袖。幾乎 就是我了。" (這句不太確定意思) Howard, 24, had been one of the team's biggest jokesters. He hasn't abandoned his sense of humor — his push-ups on the sideline for missed free throws late in the regular-season opener proved that. Still, team executives, coaches and players all agree that Howard has been more serious in recent months. 魔獸這個隊中最大隻的搞笑者，並沒有喪失他的幽默感，從他在比賽中罰球投失後在場 邊作伏地挺身就看得出來。不過球隊管理層、教練團及球員們都同意一件事，那就是 魔獸這最近幾個月變得更加的嚴肅。 That continued Friday. When the team returned to its locker room after the loss, Howard and Quentin Richardson both spoke to their teammates. Howard's message, players and Van Gundy said, was that the Magic have to raise their game against top-notch opponents. 回到那個星期五。當球隊在輸球後回到休息室時，魔獸和阿Q對他們的隊友喊話，球員們 和大范說魔獸所傳遞的訊息就是魔術必須提昇在對抗頂級強隊時的比賽表現。 "If you're playing well, putting forth the effort, focusing and then you have something to say — then I think it's really meaningful," Van Gundy said. "I think Dwight has changed his approach. He's been more serious, which gains him credibility with his teammates, which means they will listen to what he has to say." 大范:"當你打得很好，表現出了成果及專注然後你有話要說 - 那我想這是有意義的。 我認為魔獸改變了他的態度。他更加的認真、嚴肅，這增加了他的隊友對他的 信賴，這意味著他們會願意去聽他所說的話。" 總結:魔獸硬起來了!不再當個大孩子! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --

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