[外電] 外電整理

看板Pistons (底特律活塞)作者pennymarcus (De-troit Basketball)時間18年前 (2007/01/06 22:13)推噓5(5推 0噓 1→)

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抱歉我今天真的很忙這次真的只有外電整理和中文摘要大家就練練英文閱讀吧如果有好心人士要翻請推文感謝啦 http://0rz.tw/dd2iG CHICAGO -- The Pistons endured a harrowing 90-minute plane ride from Oklahoma City to Chicago Thursday night. Storm conditions caused the plane to fly through turbulent air, with violent dips in altitude, for most of the trip. "It was the worst flight of my life," coach Flip Saunders said. Had the players and coaches not been wearing seat belts, the dips would have tossed them up out of their seats. Of course, not everybody hated the ride. "Rasheed," said Saunders, shaking his head. Wallace was throwing up his hands as if he was on an amusement park ride, hollering, "Do it again, do it again." 大意：活塞飛機遇到嚴重亂流，老桑覺得那是他生命中遇到過最糟的航程，但溪蛙像是來到了遊樂園，舉起他的雙手大叫：再一次，再一次。還好飛機上都是活塞自己人不然其他乘客一定把他當瘋子吧 XD http://0rz.tw/e92fO Ben Wallace didn't exactly win the headband battle with Bulls coach Scott Skiles. But Wallace has won one debate with his coach. Skiles' defensive system is predicated on players playing in front of their man, trying to deny the ball and make entry passes more difficult. Wallace, however, has won four defensive player of the year awards playing man-to-man. After a month or so, Skiles relented and is allowing Wallace to play behind his man, which frees him to help on the weak side. "I like what Scott brings, his approach to the game," Wallace said. "He's given me a lot of freedom to be me on the defensive end and the opportunity to go and play on the offensive end. He wants everybody to front, but he told me to pick my spots and use my instincts. You can't help but want to go out and play hard for a guy that gives you that kind of freedom." Assistant Pete Myers said Wallace and the Bulls still are learning how to play with each other. "We are a smaller team than he had in Detroit," said Myers, who has seen opponents shoot a higher percentage against the Bulls this season (45.4). "He had Rasheed (Wallace), who is almost 7-foot. He had Tayshaun Prince, who is long. The biggest guy next to him here is 6-7." Myers also said Ben Wallace hasn't yet adjusted, physically, to the Bulls' faster style. "You look at Ben and you see this phenomenal body," Myers said. "He looks in shape. He looks intimidating. But you still have to be in basketball shape. You can lift and tone and do all of that, but as you get older, you don't have the same endurance you had when you were younger. You think you are putting out the same at 32 as you did when you were 25, but you are not. "He has to get himself in better shape, cardio-wise. And he's doing that. He's making progress." Slam dunks Chauncey Billups had one of his most productive workouts since straining his right calf, but he's still not ready to play. Lindsey Hunter (right Achilles' tendon) is out. 大意：公牛教頭Skiles對球員的防守要求是站前防守，但他允許班蛙可以站在對手的後方，方便班蛙去協助弱邊的防守。班蛙對此表示，他願意為這種給他這樣自由的教練努力打球。公牛助理教練Pete Myers表示，班蛙還需要有更好的體能來適應公牛更快的風格。槍蜥還沒準備好能上場，獵人一定不會上場。 http://0rz.tw/4e2jV It's Tuesday, about 90 minutes before tip-off. Ben Wallace is sitting by himself in front of his corner locker wistfully watching the replay of the Pistons-Suns game from Sunday. Then, into the room walks a reporter from Detroit and, for an instant, Wallace looks disoriented. "I am sitting here watching my old team and talking to you," Wallace said, shaking his head. "It's crazy. I mean, it's so funny. It's like I am watching my team but it's not really my team anymore." Flash ahead to today and try to get a read on all that might be roiling in Wallace's heart, stomach and soul as he takes the court for the first time against his former teammates -- guys he sweat and fought with, won and lost with, for six seasons -- wearing the white and red of the rival Bulls. "Man," he said. Wallace can't immediately wrap his mind around it, though he reconciled with its eventuality the day he signed the four-year, $60 million contract with the Bulls in July. His thoughts race, his words tumble out more slowly, but it doesn't take long before he feels the gravity of it all. "It's tough not to think about it," he said. "For me it's going to be exciting to have the opportunity to play against those guys, to be on the same floor with those guys again. It's going to be exciting." He is asked what, for him, would be the perfect outcome? "Just a good game and everybody stays healthy and able to bring to the table what they always bring," he said. Then he paused for a second. "You know, there's been a lot of talk about how I abandoned that team and how I let those guys down," he said. "I just want to go out there and let people see how we really feel about each other." The truth is -- regardless of how he might feel about coach Flip Saunders or how he felt about the way last season ended -- Wallace is going to feel like he's playing a game against his brothers. He wants to beat them badly, but he still loves them dearly. "People don't understand what we had in Detroit," Wallace said. "We won a championship together. We all grew up together. We just didn't step on that floor as a great team. We all grew. We all took our lumps, getting swept out of the playoffs and stuff like that. We all carried that onto the floor with us every night and it allowed us to get better as players. "It was a lot of fun there, man. Something you are going to remember for the rest of your life." Don't misunderstand. Wallace does not regret his decision to leave. Even though things got off to a rocky start in Chicago, he wouldn't change anything. He felt he no longer fit with the Pistons, not the way they were changing under Saunders. "Ben is a competitor," Saunders said. "He wants to be involved and he wants to do things. That's how he is. But the one thing that every coach who's ever coached him says, it's not like he doesn't give an effort for you. No matter what, if he didn't like something, he still went out and played and gave 100 percent. "From my standpoint, he gave everything he had every night, whatever I asked of him. He might not have liked what I asked him to do at times, but he still did it." Tonight's game isn't about that for Wallace. It's about seeing his teammates again. "If I could take these guys with me wherever I go, wherever I decide to play basketball, I would do it," he said. "But at the end of the day, everybody understood it was business." （班蛙說如果可以他會帶著活塞一起去他決定要打球的地方 XD） Taking his licks Slowly but surely, Wallace is finding a comfort level in Chicago. But it has been a painstaking process. "I had to get to know everybody and allow everybody to get to know me," he said. "There was a time we'd be in the locker room and I'd be sitting here and everybody would just be looking around, being real quiet, not saying a whole lot to me. It's like they didn't know what I was about, or if I would just flip out or something. It just took time for them to get to know I was a real person." Oddly enough, it took Wallace to flip out for his teammates to loosen up around him. "Yeah, I decided to throw a headband on and let them know I was a real person," Wallace said. Wallace's decision to defy the organization's rule against wearing headbands earned him a fine and a benching -- and created a firestorm of negative press across the country -- but it also broke the ice with his teammates. The Bulls won 16 of their next 20 games and things, at least internally, have calmed down. "It was shaky at first," said Bulls assistant Pete Myers, whom Wallace has adopted as his "personal" assistant, the one who works most with him after practice. "But the thing with guys who are highly competitive like Ben, they always find a way. He still has a couple more gears left in him, I believe. He's still just feeling his way." Wallace isn't exactly the toast of the Windy City yet. He has been bashed by the local columnists. The talk-radio shows refer to him as the Big Phony. He had missed 11 straight free throws entering play Friday, and the fans were on him. The Bulls' defensive numbers have sagged noticeably and, naturally, Wallace, his own numbers down (6.8 points, 9.9 rebounds and 1.97 blocks), has taken the blame for it. "If you are going to judge him on stats, you are probably not a very smart basketball person," said Alvin Gentry, a Suns assistant and former Pistons coach. "He's not a guy you judge on stats. You judge him on the intangible things he brings and the impact he has on the game. If you are a basketball purist, you really appreciate him." Here's how much the Suns appreciated Wallace last Tuesday. After destroying the Pistons with a high pick-and-roll with Steve Nash and Amare Stoudemire, the Suns didn't run the play at all in the first quarter. It wasn't until Wallace was out that they went back to it. Why? They didn't want to involve Wallace on the play. "Yeah, you game plan for him," Gentry said. "You have to. Obviously, when you are playing against the defensive player of the year, you have to take under consideration what you have to do against him to be effective." But here's the no-win situation Wallace is faced with. Even though he altered the Suns' attack early, even though he got 14 rebounds and two steals, and even though the Suns were limited to 97 points -- 14 fewer than their average -- Wallace was singled out for criticism after the 97-96 loss. Stoudemire got 24 points and 18 rebounds, and scored a key putback late, though he appeared to climb Wallace's back to do it. "Amare manhandled us," Bulls coach Scott Skiles said. "We had no answer for him." Until he brings the title to Chicago, Wallace is going to be cast in a harsher light than his teammates. That's one of the hidden costs of that $60 million contract. "I ain't worried about that," Wallace said. "I can't control that. I just worry about the things I can control." Ready to RIP The Pistons, who practiced Friday in Chicago, were eager to see Wallace. "I can't wait," Richard Hamilton said. "We've done so many special things together, he's like a brother to us. To see him in that red uniform is going to be crazy." Antonio McDyess, who has played in his share of reunion games, knows Wallace's heart will be skipping a few beats. "You can say all you want to about, 'Nah, I'm not thinking about that.' That's a lie," McDyess said. "You are thinking about it and you will be thinking about it for two or three years. Believe me. You always want to play real well against your old team." Wallace said one of the things he missed most about his former teammates was the non-stop hooting and ribbing. "All the time we were there, even the times we were struggling, nobody was ever really down," Wallace said. "You came into that locker room and guys still talked to you. I mean, you have a bad game and the first thing out of somebody's mouth was, 'Dang, man, you was really on one tonight.'?" Wallace smiles at the memory. "Oh, don't worry," Chauncey Billups said. "He's going to get an earful." Billups, out because of a strained right calf, will have to do his jawing from the sidelines. "It's going to be a weird feeling," Billups said. "It's like playing against your brother and your family. But the thing is, we are only playing against one guy, he's playing against a whole team of his brothers. I know it's going to be emotional and I know he's going to be ready to play. I know that for sure." 大意：班蛙仍關心著活塞在星期二開賽前大概90分鐘，他坐在休息室看著星期日活塞和太陽之戰的重播。班蛙認為和活塞之戰就像和兄弟在比賽。老桑提到，班蛙雖然有時候或許不同意老桑要他做的事，但他仍會照著做，貢獻百分百的努力。太陽助理教練提到班蛙對比賽的影響力。班蛙談到了他在公牛休息室的適應。也回憶起活塞歡樂不停歇的休息室。 RIP和槍蜥都聊到了與班蛙團員的心情。 http://0rz.tw/2a2kO "It's going to be a funny, fun, emotional game," Rasheed Wallace said. That probably covers all the major bases. As the Pistons prepared to meet Ben Wallace and his new team, the Chicago Bulls, tonight, they couldn't help but smile when talking about their former teammate. Big smiles, because no matter the other emotions, more than anything, they think tonight will be fun. Rasheed Wallace looks forward to seeing Ben's wife and children. Richard Hamilton can't wait to try some trash talk against him in a real game. Chauncey Billups is excited to do the same, even though he'll do it while sitting on the bench resting his right calf strain. Seeing Ben Wallace in a red Bulls jersey, competing against his Pistons, is something he probably never thought he'd witness. "The way he played, the energy he brings, his presence in the locker room," Antonio McDyess said. "Pretty much everything. Ben is the kind of guy that doesn't say much, but the way he carries himself, his presence -- we followed that. So his absence from this team, we kind of miss that." Even Flip Saunders must miss Wallace in some ways. Wallace has spoken out about the Pistons coach, telling ESPN.com that his leaving had a lot to do Saunders. But if there's bad blood between the two, Saunders won't let on to it. Not the day before his team must face Wallace for the first time, anyway. "That'll never go away," Ben Wallace told reporters in Chicago this week. "Even when the ball stops bouncing for us, we're still going to talk to each other, we're still going to remain friends and talk about old times or whatever. That bond we have will never go away." Even though Wallace is swatting shots and grabbing rebounds in Chicago, he talks to his ex-teammates all the time. "It's still football season," Rasheed Wallace said when asked whether he and Ben talk often. "He's had some texts and calls from me, and I call him about those Cowgirls. He talks about my Chiefs. We're still homies. He's still close with everybody in this locker room." Tonight, that changes. For a few hours, anyway. "You played with him for so long, you want him to play well," Hamilton said. "But when we play him, there ain't none of that. It's mano vs. mano. You forget all that; all that stuff is done." 大意：隊友談班蛙。Dice提到班蛙話不多，總是用身教帶領大家。溪蛙則被問到他和班蛙聊天的話題，他回答到，他們最常在談足球。 http://0rz.tw/a82j4 "When you play with somebody as long as we all were together, and you go through all the stuff that we went through and you win championships, you become like family," said Pistons guard Lindsey Hunter. "And you always want your family to be happy." Even if it means joining up with an arch-rival? "Hey," Hunter said, "family is family." Detroit center Nazr Mohammed, who replaced Wallace in the Pistons' starting lineup, said there's usually added motivation for players when they first face their former team. "The first time, yeah, you get up for that game a little bit more than maybe some others," said Mohammed, who played for four teams (Philadelphia, Atlanta, New York and San Antonio) prior to signing with the Pistons in August. "But after that first game or two against them, it really does become just another game; for me, at least." "Ben did a lot for this team when he was here," Hunter said. "But he's moved on, and we have to do the same. We still got love for him. The only thing that's really changed is he's playing against us now, and not with us." 大意：獵人提到，即使成為勁敵，和班蛙仍舊像家人一樣。回教人則用親身經驗表示，遇到老東家的第一，第二場比賽感覺會不太一樣，但接下來的比賽就沒差了。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 61.229.125.212 ※ 編輯: pennymarcus 來自: 61.229.125.212 (01/06 23:40)