[外電] Lakers still feeling burned by Suns

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http://0rz.tw/gBIXM Lakers still feeling burned by Suns 靖康恥，猶未雪。 It might have been the least memorable Lakers playoff series in decades, a meek five-game loss to the Phoenix Suns, but the off-season it spawned was anything but forgettable. Kobe Bryant stewed and steamed after the Lakers were eliminated in the first round in 2007, sitting at a podium within a few minutes of their ouster and putting owner Jerry Buss and the front office on notice. "Do something, and do it now," he decreed. "Three years," he said, and the Lakers were still "at ground zero." 07年的失利可說是湖人近十年季後賽最難以磨滅的落敗，更讓Kobe向高層喊話：「Do something, and do it now！」 Indeed, it was the third season after the Lakers dealt Shaquille O'Neal, and Bryant had endured all the mediocrity he could handle. He demanded to be traded a few weeks later, a request that led to an unsettling off-season as the franchise lurched and rolled under the weight of its angry superstar. Only when Pau Gasol arrived with a midseason trade the following season did Bryant settle down, the Lakers now on their way to a third consecutive trip to the NBA Finals if they could get past their old friends, the Suns. 歐肥離去後，三年毫無長進的平庸陣容，讓Kobe憤怒不已，直到姊姊的到來，才平息他的怒火。目前湖人正朝著連續三年打入總冠軍賽的目標前進，前提是，先倒打我們的老朋友--太陽隊。 Not that Bryant now seems in the mood to revisit old times. "Not too many people were here when that happened," he said. Only five Lakers remain from their inglorious 2007 ejection and also a wildly entertaining first-round series in 2006 that went seven games but ended with the same result — a loss to the Suns. Bryant, Andrew Bynum, Lamar Odom, Sasha Vujacic and Luke Walton experienced both playoff defeats, Bynum so young at the time that he recently referred to the quiet 2007 exit as his "sophomore year." School was definitely in session that season. Kobe：「目前隊上經歷過那系列季後賽的人並不多。」事實上只有5人還在隊上，他們大多數也經歷過06年7戰敗給太陽的系列賽，分別是Kobe、老二、莎莎和路克。霸男當時還很稚嫩，所以最近還把07年視為他的sophomore year。 The Lakers' 26-13 start blew past dim pre-season prognostications, but awkward, prickly events began to appear as if the basketball deities had given the Lakers too much too quickly. Vladimir Radmanovic lied to Lakers officials about the circumstances of a shoulder injury, confessing a few days later he had been injured while snowboarding during the All-Star break. Kwame Brown became a national punch line after police said he threw a cake at a bystander outside a Hermosa Beach nightclub. Brian Cook indignantly tossed his warm-up sweats in Coach Phil Jackson's lap while checking into a game. 當年開季打出26勝13負的湖人，讓季前看衰湖人的專家們摔壞不少眼鏡。但接著就開始鳥事不斷：先是狼人玩滑雪板受傷還欺騙球隊，接著奶油布朗在夜總會不再奶油手而是用奶油蛋糕砸路人，再來廚師憤怒的在賽前用熱身衣扔禪師... Somehow, it wasn't surprising that Jackson suffered the first seven-game losing streak of his NBA coaching career. His election to the Basketball Hall of Fame that April was tempered when point guard Smush Parker publicly criticized Jackson's substituting strategy by saying he "gave up trying to read that man a long time ago." The Lakers were divided by the end of the 2007 season, somehow winning Game 3 at home against Phoenix before bowing out with two more losses. 禪師就這麼吞下執教生涯第一次在七戰後落敗的紀錄，卻一點也不讓人意外。這年禪師被名人堂提名，旋轉門卻出來對禪師的換人策略嗆聲：「我已經放棄去理解這傢伙！」 "That one was tough," Walton said. "That was when Smush had been starting all year and he started acting up and they ended up benching him a couple days before the playoffs started. I was struggling that whole time with my ankle, couldn't get that thing healthy." Then he paused. "To be honest, I don't remember that series nearly as well as the one where we were up, 3-1," he said. Oh, that one. The Lakers energized their fans in 2006 by winning a remarkable Game 4 against heavily favored Phoenix, but they ultimately became only the eighth team to lose a series after taking a 3-1 lead, getting trounced in Game 7, 121-90. 路克：「那是段難熬的時光，當時先發一整季的旋轉門在季末幾場比賽被放到板凳上，我則與我受傷的膝蓋奮戰。說真的，我不記得那個系列賽和我們以3比1領先的季後賽是不是同一個。(創傷後失憶症候群?)」當時3：1領先的湖人讓全球湖迷狂喜，但最後他們卻成了史上八支3：1領先被逆轉的球隊之一。 "That series still hurts every time I think about it or talk about it," Walton said, dejectedly. "We had done a great job of game planning and preparing and working against their fastbreak and playing at a high level to get that 3-1 lead. "That Game 4 at home when I tied up Steve Nash at half court and Kobe hit a fadeaway to win it, that game was incredible, the amount of energy and effort. "Game 6, we had them, going back and forth, a great game, and we were one offensive rebound away from moving on, but they got it and hit a three. We were a relatively new and young team, but we weren't ready for that Game 7." 路克：「每當我想到或是談到這場系列賽，心裡仍是隱隱作痛。我們做足準備和奮鬥去對抗他們的快攻才取得3：1領先，第四戰當我在半場緊盯Nash時，Kobe致勝的後仰跳投簡直如同神蹟。第六戰時，我們迫使他們不斷來回跑動，打出一場好比賽，我們還差一個防守籃板就可以朝下一輪挺進，但是太陽拿到籃板且投進了一個三分球...當時我們還太嫩，嫩到沒有做好第七戰的準備。」 Bynum played only two minutes that entire series, but the losses still stuck with him. "That first year was ridiculous," he said. "We were up 3-1 and lost three in a row. Everybody remembers that. It's definitely payback time." 霸男當時整個系列賽不過上場兩分鐘而已，但是那次的失利仍令他震驚：「那年簡直太荒謬了，我們取得3：1領先後卻3連敗，沒有人忘得了那年，現在是血債血償的時候了」 Said Walton: "There's a little talk around the locker room from the guys that were on that team. Everyone that was on our team back then definitely remembers that feeling still down in their gut." 路克：「經歷過那場系列賽的隊友們在休息室有稍微聊到過這段往事，仍然是歷歷在目，仍然感到揪心。」 Time has passed. The Lakers were the seventh-seeded team in the Western Conference both times they lost to the Suns, but they're top-seeded this time. Now they're the favored ones. "We definitely feel it's our series to win or lose," Walton said. "Obviously, they're playing as well as any team in the league. To sweep San Antonio is near impossible, and they did it, so they're coming in with a ton of confidence. It's going to be a fun, energetic series — good for the NBA, good for the fans — but we feel very confident we can win that series." 時光荏苒，當時連續兩年面對太陽，湖人均是第七種子。這回，握有主場優勢的是湖人。路克：「很顯然他們可以和聯盟中任何一支球隊抗衡，橫掃馬刺簡直是難以想像的事，但是他們做到了；想必這讓他們自信滿滿，這會是個充滿樂趣與能量的系列賽，對NBA與球迷們都是，但我們有絕對的自信拿下這個系列賽！」 -- 上班時間，快速翻譯XD -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 218.169.98.125

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