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Top 50: Jameer Nelson, no. 48 The definitive ranking of the NBA’s best players. 原文:http://tinyurl.com/ndcd7j by Tzvi Twersky Growing up a few miles from Hawk Hill, I never really had a chance. Saint Joseph’s University (PA) and I were too close not to be close. Truth is, my connection to SJU goes further and deeper. In their day, the Hawks were a major team, one that attracted top-level talent. In 1971 that talent went by the name of Mike Bantom. Bantom was nice on the court, so nice he represented the USA in the Olympics and was the 8th overall pick in 1973. That’s how he came to be written about for a major publication by a close relative of mine. Add that SJU connect to the fact that I grew up ballin’ on the same team as another ex-Hawks’ son, and, again, I had no chance. And that ’s how I first came across Jameer Nelson. 前面大致上是在跟Saint Joseph’s Universit裝熟，然後說直到遇到了Jameer Nelson。 When Meer was young and still in high school, local cats used to whisper about the prodigy. Based on the trickle of talk that fell my way, I was picturing this 6-2 pg created by God strictly to dribble the rock and crack unworthy defenders. So when I saw him on local TV during his senior year at Chester, I was surprised as hell—dude was 5-11 and chubby. That couldn’t be the Meer I was hearing all the talk about. Hell no! A little less than two hours and four quarters later, I was a believer: Jameer may have had a body like Beanie Sigel (OK, it wasn’t that bad) but he had the heart of Hercules. 當Nelson還在高中時，當地人總是在談論著這個天才。在這些談話的點滴當中，我想像著他是個有著神奇運球，並且能無視防守而狂電對手的6呎2吋控衛。所以當我看到在當地電視台當中看見高中生的它，我非常的驚訝；5呎11吋而且又胖又矮，那不可能是我聽過的那位天才球員吧。但是不到兩小時比賽結束後，我相信了。Jameer Nelson雖然只有像是 Beanie Sigel那樣不起眼的身材，但是他有一顆海克力士般的獅子心。 After that game, I didn’t see or hear about Nelson for a good couple of summer months. Just when he was slipping out of my consciousness, word came down before the start of the ‘01 college season that he had signed with the Hawks and would be suiting up as a frosh that campaign. That’s when Jameer earned the right to have his picture cut out of the Philadelphia Inquirer and put up on my door, next to those of Allen Iverson, Freeway and the 1980 Phillies team. 在那場比賽後，我整個夏天都沒在聽見Nelson的消息，直到他加入了Saint Joseph’s 大學老鷹隊，我才重新注意到它，並將他在費城詢問報的照片剪下壓在我的桌上；上一個值得我這樣做的人，名叫Allen Iverson。 I remember a few things from Nelson’s first season on Hawk Hill. For one, I remember him standing out as the best pg in the A-10…recall, I’m talking about freshman year. That Hawks squad captured the city’s full attention, as one-year wonder Marvin O’Connor put on two of the most incredible displays of bball I’ve ever witnessed. The first was a regular season game against La Salle, where I tuned in to the game on a whim, and got to see Marvin drop 18 points in the last 60 seconds of the contest. He drained a few threes, stole an inbounds pass and rocked the rim a time or two. Game is still seared vividly in my mind. The other memory from that season is the Hawks second round Tourney game against Stanford. Down big at the half, O’Connor dropped a whopping 37 points on the night (a Saturday night I believe?), leading a stunning comeback that fell just short. Jameer also killed in that game, running the point like a true vet. Maybe you had to see it to appreciate— kind of like Nelson’s game. 我仍記得Nelson在大一時，是A-10聯盟的最佳控衛。當時老鷹受到了全城的注目，然後 Marvin O’Connor這傢伙在兩場比賽中表現的很屌；而Nelson也表現的像是真正老練的控衛般指揮全隊，如果你看到也會讚賞，Nelson風格的比賽。 The next year, Meer’s second and O’Connor’s last, the Hawks were supposed to do big things. But they flamed out, as M.O. suffered some leg injuries. Nelson, the reigning SI Freshmen of the Year kept bringing it, though, but it wasn’t enough without his running mate. With O’Connor due to receive his diploma, nobody was expecting much from Phil Martelli’s Hawks in the upcoming season. 隔年，Nelson大二，O’Connor’s大四，老鷹隊被期望能做一番大事，但他們遭遇了麻煩，O’Connor受傷了，儘管Nelson仍帶領全隊繼續前進，但沒有了O’Connor的幫忙顯然還是不夠的。隨著O’Connor畢業，再也沒有人對這支球隊抱有期待。 As a matter of full disclosure, it was around this time that I started rocking Jameer’s No. 14, taking the digits as my own. I didn’t just cop his number, though; I tried to emulate his whole game. From the nifty fullcourt bounce passes to the pull-up 18-footer, Chester’s finest influenced not only my game, but that of every kid at my gym. Now plenty of us still wanted to be Kobe, another local hero, but being Jameer was just more realistic. He wasn’ t too tall; he wasn’t super speedy; and he didn’t do anything we couldn’t work on at the Y. 我開始穿著Nelson的14號，並效訪他的比賽風格，比如花俏的18呎地板傳球給隊友， Nelson帶來的影響並不僅止於我，而是體育館裡的每個孩子。現在仍然有很多人想成為 Kobe，想成為當地的英雄，但是成為Nelson似乎是比較現實的。因為他不高、他也沒有超級的快；他也沒有任何我們凡人不可能做到的事。 Fast-forward to senior year. With Delonte West on the wing and host of hard workers wearing Hawks colors, a beautiful thing happened: the Hawks didn’t lose a regular season game. Headed into the A-10 Tourney, everything looked perfect. The Hawks were the No. 1 team in the Nation, and Jameer was the catalyst. The team was special that year, and I realized that early on, as I started to listen to games over the crackling radio by my bed. When I should’ ve been doing work, I was wrapped up in the never dying Hawks. Be it the Holy War (games against Villanova) or just a game against Xavier (one in which Delonte had a perfect game from the field, 12-12, and the FT line, 6-6), I was in a trance. 很快的來到第二年，隨著Delonte West的加入側翼組，美妙的事發生了，老鷹沒有輸掉任何一場例行賽。朝著A-10邁進，看起來一切都棒極了。老鷹這時是全國第一的隊伍， Nelson就是促成這一切的最大功臣。這出色的戰績，就像是美夢一般。 The Hawks didn’t complete the dream the way they would’ve liked, losing to Xavier in the A-10 tourney, and Oklahoma State in the Elite Eight (Nelson missed a final shot that could’ve won the game). But Jameer had as close to a perfect year as a short, chubby college senior could possibly have, pulling home the Wooden Award and the Bob Cousy Award, in addition to landing on an SI cover. 但是老鷹最後還是沒有圓滿完成這個美夢，在A-10錦標賽上輸給了Xavier大學，並在 Elite Eight輸給Oklahoma州大(那場Nelson錯失了最後一擊)。但以一個又矮又胖的大二生能做到的來說，Nelson已經幾近完美了︰贏得Wooden獎及Bob Cousy獎並登上SI的封面。 With “All Eyes On Me” tatted in bold print across his shoulder blades, Jameer and his family (his son was mad cute) waited on Draft night to find out where he would go. Somehow, it probably had something to do with his aforementioned physical attributes, Meer found himself still waiting to hear his name deep into the first round. Finally, with the 20th pick, the Denver Nuggets drafted him…and then promptly swapped his rights to Orlando. 在眾人注目的壓力下，Nelson跟他的家人(他兒子很可愛呦)等待著選秀之夜決定他將落腳在哪支球隊。 Meer always had these sad eyes. Eyes that always look like they’re searching, be it for the man cutting to the hoop or something more profound. That June night, Nelson’s eyes told me all I needed to know: he’d be searching for revenge when the time came. 自那以後，Nelson的臉上總是帶著一雙悲傷的眼睛，看起來就像是在尋找什麼，像是在尋找一個深刻遙遠的目標，在那個六月的夜晚，Nelson的眼睛告訴我︰當時機來到，他將會回來雪恥。 The rest is history. It took him a few years to get comfortable and find his place in the L, but Jameer finally found it all clicking last year, making the All Star team before getting sidelined with a shoulder injury. Before getting hurt, Meer was shooting at a nice clip (over 50%), guiding the offense smoothly and, maybe most importantly, was Dwight Howard’s best friend and team leader. 剩下的就是講歷史了，他花了幾年的時間重新站了起來並找到一個適合他的球隊還入選了明星賽，肩膀沒有受傷的話；在他受傷前，他的投籃非常準，並引領著流暢的進攻，更重要的是他是魔獸最好的朋友跟隊伍領導者。 In the 42 games Nelson did play last year, he averaged close to 17 ppg, 5.5 apg, 3.5 rpg, 1 spg and only 2 turnovers per. Jameer truly was in the midst of putting it all together. He wasn’t just an All-Star and the Magics second-best player through January, he was their very pulse and breath. 在這各有42場沒打的球季，Nelson留下了17分5.5助攻3.5籃板1抄截，還有僅僅兩失誤的好表現，他像是讓魔術凝聚在一起真正的核心，他不只是入選明星賽、一月魔術表現第二好的球員、他還是球隊的脈博與呼吸。 All most people remember now is the shot that Derek Fisher hit over him in the Finals. I remember everything leading up to that: From the undersized kid playing on for Chester to the little PG dominating at SJU, from hosting all of his teammates for a week of bonding before every season to losing his father in a sad accident on the Delaware River, from seeing little action early in Orlando to making the All-Star game, from being shut down for the year to showing grit and guile by making it back for the Finals, I remember every step along the journey. One that continues this year with Nelson as a top NBA player on a Title contender. 在所有人只記得Derek Fisher在他頭上投進致命跳投時，我知道一切發生的經過︰從一個 Chester高中裡的矮小孩子到支配著SJU大學的控衛；從他在每個季賽前召集隊友一起做集訓，而讓他父親發生意外時沒有辦法陪伴在身邊，從早先的一切在奧蘭多他做的讓他能夠入選明星賽的小事，從被封印了半年後仍然帶著智慧與勇氣回到總冠軍戰，我知道在這之前Nelson走過的每一步。這就是Nelson能繼續作為一個頂尖NBA球員的競爭力。 All eyes will be on Jameer this season. But then, check his ink. They always have been. 這個賽季Nelson將受到眾人矚目。檢查一下你們的墨水是否夠用吧，Nelson的表現將值得你們大書特書。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 140.116.103.36 ※ 編輯: badprince 來自: 140.116.103.36 (09/28 19:19)