[外電] Lakers earn lousy progress report as

看板Lakers (洛杉磯湖人)作者poyenlee (lee)時間13年前 (2012/12/03 21:24)推噓20(20推 0噓 36→)

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Lakers earn lousy progress report as they stumble against Orlando 來源：http://goo.gl/0AKpq By Ben Bolch The Lakers bid farewell to .500 on Sunday in a season that has far greater aspirations. Wait, you mean they fell below the break-even mark? Yep. You can't presume anything around here. With little nuisances such as a disappearing offense and an all-too-visible lack of energy supposedly behind them, the Lakers should have returned to their regularly scheduled dominance against the sorry Orlando Magic. Instead, it was the Lakers who sent their regrets during another shake-your-head defeat at Staples Center. Kobe Bryant couldn't defend, Dwight Howard couldn't make enough free throws and Pau Gasol couldn't do much of anything after being benched in the final six minutes of a 113-103 setback. "There's no excuses to be made," said Bryant, who scored 34 points but seemingly gave up as many on the perimeter to his counterparts. "There's no whining or putting your head down. We have the talent to make adjustments and you have to make them." They better start soon. It was the fifth bad loss of the season and the third since Coach Mike D'Antoni took over, also counting defeats against Sacramento and Indiana. This is progress? At this rate, bring back Bernie Bickerstaff or maybe hire the coach of an AAU outfit such as the New England Playaz and let him roll out the ball. This team has way too much talent for listless showings such as this. Of course, the issue has never been the names on the backs of the jerseys. It's been about what's underneath the front. "It's a Catch-22," D'Antoni said. "They just think they can just kind of do it on their own sometimes. Oh, we're OK, we're only down by one. We're fine. We're fine. We're fine. No, you're not fine. "It's a little bit of an overconfidence thing that we have to hope by our record that we shouldn't be there. But we're going to keep working, we're going to try to solve some problems." Bryant showed his displeasure after practice Thursday when he called out his teammates and rearranged some items on a courtside table. A more explosive display might be in order after the Lakers (8-9) made the previously five-win Magic look like playoff contenders. "I will kick everyone's [rear] in this locker room if I have to," Bryant said. "That's just the attitude you have to have." This wasn't so much about Gasol being sat in favor of Antawn Jamison over the final minutes or Howard making only nine of 21 free throws, including seven of 14 in the fourth quarter, after the Magic went to a hack-a-Howard strategy. It was more about giving up freebies on the other end. Arron Afflalo repeatedly made open jumpers on the way to 30 points and former USC star Nikola Vucevic made way too many easy forays into the lane for dunks. The Magic scored 40 points in the fourth quarter and shot 50% for the game. The Lakers have been lunging forward only to stutter-step backward now for far too long. They appeared to be on their way recently with a 26-point victory over Dallas on the road. Then they returned home and scored 77 points in a loss to Indiana. They nearly matched that output in just the first half in the next game against Denver, only to revert to their lackluster ways against the Magic. "Whatever it is, we have to find a way to be consistent," said Jamison, who had a relatively quiet 10 points one game after splurging for 33. "One night the offense is great, the next night it's horrible. One night the defense is unbelievable. The next night it's, what's going on? "You keep telling yourself, we have to be patient, we have to be patient and eventually it will come. But we're in December right now and these problems should not be taking place." If they keep popping up much longer, there won't be basketball in May or June for a team whose worries have shifted from reaching the NBA Finals to getting back to .500. 簡單翻：湖人勝率在今天跌破五成了.......... 對上不怎樣的魔術，湖人應該展現實力才對，但不幸的是，湖人在釘書機中心又來了一場令人搖頭的比賽。老大沒在防守，湖獸的罰球嚇死人，姐姐整場在被板凳之後也不能做甚麼，所以以113-103輸掉了比賽。老大說：「沒有藉口，也不必要喪氣，我們有那個天賦去調整，而且我們必須去調整。」老大今天得了34分，但幾乎完全放棄防守跟他對位的人。湖人最好趕快開始調整，這已經是這季第五場超爛的比賽了，是在冷笑話來之後的第三場。這就是所謂的進步與調整？照這個勝率，不如叫比克回來，或是去美國業餘運動協會找教練就好了！這隻湖人隊，有太多太多的能力，去做出更好的表現，而不是像現在這樣無精打采的比賽。冷笑話說：「這是一個 Catch-22 的情況(註)，球員們只是想說他們有時候應該可以吧！我們沒問題的啦！你們的記者跟球迷的問題還比較多！對於我們所希望的紀錄以及我們現在的位置，我想我們是有點太過於自信了。」老大在星期四的練球時發飆了，他對著他的隊友大吼，也做了一些訓練上的改變。一些更嚴厲的舉動可能會再發生，尤其當輸了這場比賽之後。老大：「如果有必要，我會踢每個人的屁股，這是關於那必須要有的態度。」這其實跟板凳姊姊還有湖獸投不進罰球沒有太大關係，湖人的防守太爛了，讓對手太輕易的得分了。 afflalo 一直投進空檔跳投，vucevic 也有太多空手切入灌籃的機會，魔術在第四節竟然得了40分....................................... 而且是以五成的命中率得到的..................................... 湖人這季攻防狀態的擺盪低潮太久了，對小牛贏了 26 分，然後來一場超爛的 77 分對溜馬，接著幾乎半場就得了 77 分的那場對金塊的比賽，贏了金塊，在今天又被打回原形然後輸給了魔術。 AJ：「我們必須去試著維持，我試著告訴自己要有耐心，最後終究會磨合完成，得到好的結果的。但現在 12 月了，這些問題不應該發生了。」如果湖人再繼續這樣，那五六月的時候，這支「從追求總冠軍到追求勝率破五成」的球隊就不會有球打了。註： Catch-22 是一本書，由美國作家約瑟夫·海勒（Joseph Heller）的代表作。作品是一部長篇小說，寫於1961年。 Catch-22 翻譯成第22條軍規，內容如下： -瘋子可以免于飛行，但同時又規定必須由本人提出申請，而如果本人一旦提出申請，便證明你並未變瘋，因為「對自身安全表示關注，乃是頭腦理性活動的結果」。冷笑話用這本小說來描述湖人現在的狀況，一直說自己還好還好，卻打得很爛........................... -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.116.50.139 ※ 編輯: poyenlee 來自: 140.116.50.139 (12/03 21:26)

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