[外電] Gasol Steps Back Into A Pressure Point

看板Lakers (洛杉磯湖人)作者OdomLamar (LamarOdom)時間18年前 (2008/02/04 22:44)推噓18(18推 0噓 11→)

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來源：http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/dailydime?page=dime-080204 附照片，請看看Gasol那滿足，老大那開心的聆聽教練的指示。XD 原作：Chris Sheridan WASHINGTON -- When Pau Gasol got around to speaking English from the interview podium here Sunday, the topic eventually turned to the pressure he's going to be under in Los Angeles. 當Gasol在被英文訪談的週日後，最優先被注意的就轉向他未來將在洛杉磯所承擔的壓力。 The expectations that have been thrust upon him, it was pointed out, are 100 times greater than anything he ever went through in Memphis, and the scrutiny he'll be under will finally rival what he endures back home in Spain. 那些他所經歷過被期望的心理，在這邊將百倍於他在曼菲斯所承受的，並且檢視他未來表現的壓力，將可比得上他在西班牙國家隊所經歷的程度。 "I think it's a great type of pressure -- the pressure to win and being one of the favorites is what you want, and it's something I've been missing since I've been in the NBA. I love that I have that with my national team every summer, I had that before I was in the NBA, with Barcelona [of the Spanish League], and that is what I'll have from now on." "我認為這是一種正面的壓力--要獲勝的壓力，成為獲勝者之一也是我要的，並且這也是我進入NBA以來一直沒有經歷的。我喜歡類似我每次夏天在國家隊的感覺，我在進NBA之前就有這種經驗，在Barcelona也是，而現在我將從此刻開始要面對這種壓力了。" So, he loves pressure, eh? So,所以他喜歡壓力呴......? Wasn't there any pressure in any of those 12 playoff games he played for Memphis (Gasol was 0-12 in the postseason with the Grizzlies)? 他在過去他經歷的12場季後賽中沒有感受到任何壓力嗎？(他在灰熊時期季後賽是0-12) And what about the pressure cooker that was Madrid back in mid-September, a night when a sizeable portion of the city was barricaded off in preparation for a huge midnight parade and party following the final game of EuroBasket 2007? 讓我們回到去年九月中來自馬德里的壓力，那一晚這大半個城市被圍起來，就為了準備 EuroBasket 2007總冠軍戰這個盛大的饗宴。 So, what happened? Only one of the most unlikely upsets in recent international basketball history, made possible by Gasol's late misses. 然後如何呢？在國際籃球史上最大的翻盤在Gasol比賽後段投籃miss後發生了。 It didn't make a lot of waves back here in the States, but Spain, playing on its home soil against Russia, a huge underdog, lost by one point when Gasol's turnaround 20-footer rimmed out at the buzzer to cap a dreadful fourth quarter in which he also missed five of eight free throws. Prior to his final miss, Gasol had the ball stripped from him with 25 seconds left by Russia's J.R. Holden (almost a carbon copy of Michael Jordan sneaking up behind Karl Malone and swiping the ball away right before making his championship-winning jumper over Bryon Russell in the '98 NBA finals), who scored off the turnover for the winning points. 在這個洲並沒有掀起多大的波瀾，但在西班牙卻相反。他們在主場迎戰實力差異極大的俄羅斯隊，結果他們第四節打得爛透了，Gasol八次罰球中miss掉五球，然後在Gasol最後20 呎的翻身跳投奪框而出後，西班牙以一分之差敗下陣來。而在他最後投籃沒進之前， Gasol在比賽終了25秒時，球被俄羅斯的J.R. Holden給盜走(情節就如同98年NBA總冠軍賽 Jordan從Malone身上把球抄走，然後在Bryon Russell投進了致勝跳投的翻版一樣)，這位仁兄最後靠著這個失誤得分拿到了比賽的勝利。 When the folks en Espana looked for someone to blame that night, most of them placed it squarely on the shoulders of Gasol, wryly noting that it was a good thing Gasol's foot was in a cast a year earlier (he had broken his foot against Argentina in the semifinals) when Spain defeated Greece in the gold medal game at the World Championship in Japan. 而當西班牙正在找當晚比賽的戰犯時，他們大部分都直接了當的認為Gasol必須一肩扛起，並痛苦的認為一年前在日本世界籃球錦標賽中，他們擊敗希臘獲得金牌的戰役中，Gasol腳部的受傷反而是一件好事(他在四強戰對阿根廷的比賽中折斷了腳)。 More than a dozen members of the Spanish media were credentialed Sunday at the MCI Center as the Lakers rode Kobe Bryant's 18-point first quarter to an easy 103-91 victory over the Wizards. Gasol is expected to make his Lakers debut Tuesday night at New Jersey. 超過一打的西班牙媒體週日都在MCI中心見證從Kobe第一節18呎的跳投到後來輕鬆以103-91 打敗巫師的勝利。Gasol將預期在週二對抗籃網的比賽獻出他在湖人的處女戰。 Prior to the game, Gasol had left Wizards and Lakers officials red-faced by responding en espanol to the first seven questions he was asked -- all of them being posed in Spanish, too, with no English translation provided, the rest of the room, heavy on monolinguals, appearing half-dumbfounded and half-bemused. 比賽之前，Gasol離開比賽的場館，臉紅以西班牙文接受七個問題的提問--大部分都是以西班牙文回答，並且沒有英文的翻譯提供，而在這房間的其他地方，全都是只會將一種語言的人，他們都感到半驚慌半茫然的樣子。 In a way, it seemed as though the writers from Spain were jumping all over Gasol before the English speakers could get in a word, and therein is a parallel to be drawn. There's a lot of savior talk being thrown Gasol's way, but folks in Los Angeles might be well served to keep an ear open to what the people in Memphis and Madrid are saying, too. (Grizzlies owner Michael Heisley said one of the reasons he decided to trade Gasol, who was being booed in Memphis, was because a local fan had told him he'd never buy another Grizzlies ticket as long as Gasol was the face of the franchise). 某種程度上，這似乎是來自西班牙的記者都急著在英文記者寫字之前可以訪問Gasol，這被認為是一種平衡。現在有一堆來自於Gasol有關於救星的言論在傳，但在洛杉磯的人們應該張大耳朵，並且也該聽聽來自於曼菲斯還有馬德里那邊的人的談話。(灰熊老闆Michael Heisley說他想要交易Gasol的其中一個原因，一方面他在曼菲斯被boo，另一主因是一個當地的球迷告訴他，如果Gasol還是灰熊的看板人物的話，那他就不會再買任何一張票去看球賽。) "He seemed to perform when the game was on the line whenever we played against them. The big matchups, [Kevin] Garnett and [Tim] Duncan and those guys, he goes right at them and he's had a lot of success against them. So I don't worry about that too much," said Kobe Bryant after Gasol's comment about loving pressure was relayed to him afterward. Kobe在Gasol有關於喜歡壓力的言論後說，"他似乎喜歡在比賽緊張時刻力求表現，無論對手是誰。在一些大比賽的對抗中，例如對抗Garnett與Duncan這種人物，他都能正面迎戰，並且從他們身上取得勝利。所以我對此並不會太過擔心。" Gasol and Bryant will have 36 regular-season games to acclimate themselves to each other before the playoffs arrive. Gasol和Kobe在季後賽來臨前還有36場例行賽可以去適應對方的打法。 That's when we'll see how Gasol handles the pressure, and if he really, seriously, genuinely loves it, he'll truly love L.A. 我們就可以從中觀察Gasol如何去處理壓力，如果他真的、相當的、真誠的喜歡的話，那他將會真的愛上L.A.。 If, however, he folds under it, the scrutiny he gets in Spain and he got in Memphis will be nada compared to what he'll get in Lakerland. 但如果，他在這壓力下退縮了，那麼他在西班牙國家隊和曼菲斯所受到的檢視將會被拿來和湖人這邊做比較。 After all, Gasol is ultimately going to be a key hombre in determining whether Bryant wants to remain a Laker for life. 說到底，Gasol最終將成為Kobe是否會繼續在他職業生涯待在湖人的關鍵西班牙戰士。 And that, mis amigos, is pressure. 還有，壞朋友也會是壓力。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 123.50.41.29

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