標題: [問題研討]Searching for answers in L.A. [列印本頁] 作者: lordlord 時間: 2011-5-19 11:53:49 標題: [問題研討]Searching for answers in L.A.
Looking back at Lakers' 2010-11 and trying to find how and
why things went so wrong.
回頭看看湖人今年到底哪裡有問題，導致如此山窮水盡之勢。
The story of how the Lakers lost their way, lost their chance at a place in
history, is ultimately a story of how two of the great winners in the NBA
lost their ability to control the team.
It's why Phil Jackson was swept out of the playoffs for the first time
instead of adding to his collection of 11 coaching championship rings. It's
why Kobe Bryant, the Most Valuable Player of the past two NBA Finals,
couldn't lead his team back to the championship round. It's why the unusually
early playoff exit and start of retirement couldn't come fast enough for
Jackson, who admitted it felt "really good to be ending this season, to be
honest with you."
"This team just had an ability to get in a funk and not be able to heal and
surge, to find that common thread to come back and turn things around,"
Jackson said Wednesday in his final address to the media as coach of the
Lakers. "And I never really had a team like that, that couldn't make
adjustments and learn from mistakes."
"這支球隊充滿各種不振之原因，但卻無力去這期間克服，重振旗鼓，
去找到方法來扭轉頹勢。"
"而事實上我從不曾執教過這樣一支隊伍，無法自我調整並從錯誤中汲取教訓。"
For a variety of reasons, Jackson no longer elicited championship-caliber
performances from his players. He always has taken a big-picture approach to
defending championships, choosing to de-emphasize the regular season while
maintaining the playoffs as the primary focus. He doesn't mind slipups, but
these Lakers went through extended skids. On the eve of the playoffs, Jackson
conceded that his "lame duck" status could make it harder for his players to
respond to him. Something had to explain the way they didn't reflect his
trademark poise ... why he even lost it himself in a desperate attempt to
salvage Game 3 against Dallas.
Now that it was over, after a humiliating 4-0 series loss to the Mavericks in
the second round, the Lakers could afford to be more candid when assessing
the fatigue that set in from playing 67 postseason games while making three
consecutive trips to the NBA Finals, in addition to summer stints of
international ball for Bryant, Pau Gasol and Lamar Odom. It sapped the team
of its stamina. That was one common theme to emerge from two days of media
availability for Jackson, general manager Mitch Kupchak and the players after
their exit interviews.
現在，這一切都已宣告結束，在季後賽的第二輪被小牛隊以毀滅性的4-0橫掃出局；
公正地說，考慮到他們已連續三年打到總冠軍賽，總共打了67場季後賽的事實，
這樣的結局並非完全不可接受，尤其Kobe、Gasol、Odom還在暑假裡參加了國際賽事，
這確實耗盡了球員們的體能和精力，在這兩天的發佈會中，
這也是 Phil、總管Mitch和球員們異口同聲提到的重點。
To a man, the players insisted they could get back to the Finals next year
with the roster intact, while Jackson said they need an infusion of speed and
Kupchak kept his options open. Players also spoke in favor of assistant Brian
Shaw's succeeding Jackson as coach, although that's something that could be
beyond the powers of anyone who came inside the stuffy, crowded room in the
Lakers' practice facility and spoke into the microphones and recorders.
Executive vice president Jim Buss, the son of team owner Jerry Buss, will be
the point man on the coaching search, and with Jackson revealing he hasn't
spoken to Buss all season, the coach apparently won't have any influence on
the matter. Kupchak will, but it's worth noting that the last time the Lakers
hired a coach other than Jackson, Rudy Tomjanovich in 2004, it was Jim Buss'
call.
Jerry Buss always prefers up-tempo teams, and Jackson said that next season's
team needs to be faster to get easy baskets, but the roster as constituted
isn't set for that. None of the top three players -- Bryant, Gasol and Andrew
Bynum -- would benefit from running.
Jerry Buss一直很愛速度快的球隊，
而禪師也說下季球隊需要提升速度來得到輕鬆得分的機會，
但現有的陣容顯然無法滿足那樣的要求，球隊的前3號球員 -
Kobe、Gasol以及Bynum - 沒有一位能在此向度上面有所幫助。
The Lakers are in no rush to hire a coach, not when it could be many months
before there are actually games to play because of the pending lockout. After
Jerry Buss shelled out more than $90 million for a team that played only five
of those lucrative home playoff games, don't expect extra expenditures. As
reserve player Luke Walton said as he struggled to carry some belongings to
his car without so much as a bag or box, "Cutbacks, man."