[外電] 季後賽之路艱難，但未來值得期待
A crowded path to playoffs for Pistons, but their future is worth the wait
活塞邁向季後賽之路相當擁擠，但他們的未來值得期待
作者: Keith Langlois
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Making the playoffs is the ultimate zero-sum game. For every team outside the
field looking to crash the party, another must be dislodged.
要進入季後賽是個絕對的零和遊戲，就像大風吹一樣，只要有人擠進這個派對，就有人
會被踢出來。
Two things can be true at once. The Pistons can be a better team in 2022-23
than they were a season ago but the playoffs aren’t necessarily any more
accessible. There’s a path to the playoffs for the Pistons in the season
ahead, but it won’t be by default. There are no obvious teams stepping out
of their way to accommodate a great leap forward.
有兩件事情是肯定的，22-23賽季的活塞隊幾乎可以肯定會是比前一季更優秀的球隊，但
並不代表打進季後賽的目標就一定比較容易達成。活塞隊在這一季已經具有展望季後賽
的底氣，但不是必然的。目前看不出有任何一個球隊要自願退出競爭行列，成為幫助別
人進入季後賽的墊腳石。
Look at the teams that made the playoffs in the East last season. Is there
one that doesn’t expect to be at least as well positioned, if not better,
than a season ago? Maybe Charlotte, which went 43-39 to secure the 10th and
final spot in the play-in tournament, depending on what happens as Miles
Bridges’ legal odyssey plays out, though year three of LaMelo Ball and the
return of a healthy Gordon Hayward could make up the gap.
先來看那些去年打進季後賽的東區球隊吧！現在看起來，有哪個球隊連去年的實力都比
不上的樣子嗎?真要說大概是黃蜂隊吧，他們去年43勝39敗的戰績只夠剛好以東區第10的
名次擠進季後賽，現在又有Miles Bridges的官司抓馬。但今年在黃蜂隊待到第三年的球
三更成熟了，加上星海哥如果能夠健康回歸，幾乎可以完全補上這個大洞。
Other than that? Miami, Boston, Milwaukee and Philadelphia fully expect to
open the playoffs on their home courts. Now that Kevin Durant has opted to
remain in Brooklyn to team with Kyrie Irving and Ben Simmons, the Nets have
every capability to oust one of them. Toronto, Chicago, Atlanta and Cleveland
all see themselves as building off of 2022 win totals ranging from 43 to 48.
其他隊呢?熱火、賽爾提克、公鹿和76人不只會進季後賽，大概都能夠排名前四拿到主場
優勢。而KD決定續留跟KI、西門合組三巨頭（巨嬰?)讓籃網完全有實力衝擊前四。暴龍
、公牛、老鷹和騎士也都在2022年取得43至48勝的基礎上繼續進化。
Of the four other conference franchises that didn’t participate in last
spring’s postseason, New York and Washington are fully intent on changing
that narrative. The Knicks traded for Jalen Brunson and seem the
front-runners to add Donovan Mitchell as Utah continues to tear down its
roster. Washington signed Bradley Beal, back from the injured list, to a
massive contract extension with a no-trade clause that signals his team’s
full intent to compete.
在去年四支沒有進到季後賽的東區球隊中，尼克和巫師也都展現積極一搏的態度。尼克
盤來了Brunson而且看來很有機會在爵士大甩賣的情形下拿下Mitchell(譯按:原稿出刊的
時候還沒有完成交易)。巫師用帶有不可交易條款的大約重簽了Beal，顯示他傷癒後的恢
復狀況非常良好。
The Pistons have to leapfrog at least three of those teams to finish in the
play-in tournament. They’d have to better their 23-win total from last
season by 20 if 43 wins is again the magic number.
如果季後賽的魔術數字還是43勝的話，以去年活塞隊僅有23勝的戰績來看，必須在下個
賽季至少多贏20場，才有辦法瘋狂超車前面提到的其中三隊擠進季後賽。
It’s not beyond their reach, for sure. Cleveland went from 22 wins (in a
72-game schedule) to 44 last season when the Cavaliers were in year four of
rebuilding following LeBron James’ second tour of duty. A lot came together
for Cleveland – Jarrett Allen and Darius Garland ascending to All-Star
status, Evan Mobley teaming with Allen to transform its defense, Kevin Love
finishing second in Sixth Man voting – but that can happen for rebuilding
teams that have had three or four or five seasons to restock the pond.
這並不是一個不可能的任務，騎士隊就已經表演給大家看過了，在King詹離隊後進入重
建的第四年，從前年的22勝(雖然那年賽季只有72場比賽)飆到去年的44勝。騎士隊獲得
了很多重要的拼圖─包括Jarrett Allen和Darius Garlan進化到全明星水準、EMo-Allen
組合強化了防守基礎以及Kevin Love展現了最佳第六人第二名的能力。這對於花了3到5
個賽季重新累積天賦和實力的重建隊伍來說完全是可能達成的目標。
The Pistons are in year three of Troy Weaver’s restoration and he’s done
remarkable work, including somehow acquiring three extra first-round picks
that have yielded Isaiah Stewart, Saddiq Bey and Jalen Duren to stack atop
Killian Hayes, Cade Cunningham and Jaden Ivey. He found Isaiah Livers in the
second round, took a low-cost flier on a high-end talent in Marvin Bagley III
and has protected future assets in the process.
今年也是Troy Weaver接手活塞隊總管的第三年，而他也繳出了亮眼的表現，包括用三支
額外弄來的首輪籤，選進了Stewart、Bey和Duren，加上Hayes、CC和Ivey。他也從二輪
選秀淘來了Livers，並且開出了MB3這個福袋，同時也沒有揮霍掉球隊的未來資產。
It’s conceivable enough of those young players surge in the season ahead to
allow the Pistons to warp time as Cleveland did a year ago.
可以想像接下來的賽季，前面提到的這些年輕球員將會有所突破，帶領活塞隊像去年的
騎士隊那樣彎道超車。
It starts with Cunningham. The enormity of the challenge he faced as a rookie
can’t be overstated – the ankle injury to wipe out his first month,
assuming primary playmaking duties before he’d taken a lap around the
league, losing Jerami Grant to injury to focus even more defensive attention
on him – and he did nothing but get better month over month. By season’s
end, Cunningham had left no doubt he was a transcendent talent.
從CC開始說起吧，他去年在菜鳥年所面對的巨大挑戰是絕對真實的─第一個月先因為腳
踝受傷缺陣，缺少熱身和適應的狀況下馬上接手球隊主要的進攻和得分任務，又在Grant
受傷後接受更多敵對防守球員的注意和照顧─而他展現出來的是每個月每個月不斷的進
步，直到賽季末時CC展現的他無庸置疑的強大天賦。
“When you’ve got a 6-7 point guard, that’s a good start,” no less an
observer than Durant said of a bright Pistons future late last season, after
Cunningham dropped 34 points on the Nets despite hobbling to the bench with a
hip injury in the first half. “Somebody who can wreck a whole defensive game
plan with his size, his talent, his skill. So that’s a great start. Then you
go down the line and see Saddiq Bey, Marvin Bagley, Jerami Grant and Isaiah
Stewart … I mean, they have length and toughness down the line and a
coaching staff that’s going to get the best out of their players.”
"當你有個6呎7的控衛，這就是個好的開始"去年不只在場邊觀察也和年輕的活塞隊實際
交手後的KD，在CC有傷勢疑慮之下仍與籃網一戰豪取34分之後給出了這樣的評論，"球隊
中有一個可以這樣用身材、天賦和能力撕裂對手防守佈陣的球員，對球隊來說絕對是好
的起點。接下來你可以看到陣容中有Bey、MB3、Grant和Stewart...我是說，這是一個具
有強度和韌性的陣容，而且他們有一群好教練來激發出他們的全部天賦。"
Subtract Grant from Durant’s list and add Ivey and Duren. It’s hard to
argue that for the purposes of 2022-23 success, the Pistons wouldn’t have
been better served by hanging on to Grant and his 20-point anchor and
reliably stout defense than adding the draft pick that led to Duren. But it’
s equally hard to deny that for the purposes of the type of sustained success
Weaver strives to achieve, the future wasn’t better supported by adding the
two players, Ivey and Duren, that Weaver said were at the very top of his
seven-player list of targeted draft prospects.
讓我們把Grant從KD提到的名單中移除，重新加上Ivey和Duren。如果從達成22-23賽季的
目標來看，我們很難說活塞放掉了Grant的場均20分和堅實防守，換來年輕的Duren是個
加分；但也很難反對為了達到持續性的成功，活塞隊選入Ivey和Duren的決策，兩人都是
Weaver選秀7人名單中排名非常前面的天賦小將。
Here’s how Durant concluded his unprompted endorsement of Weaver’s
blueprint: “I could see this team being something of a force to be reckoned
with in the future.”
Durant發自內心總結他對於Weaver建隊藍圖的讚賞：我可以看到這個球隊在未來會成為
其他對手仔細打量評估的強韌隊伍。
Maybe that future arrives in 2022-23, maybe it takes a bit longer. Duren is
18, Ivey 19, Stewart, Cunningham and Hayes 21. That’s a young team if it’s
suiting up in Ann Arbor or East Lansing, never mind amid the cauldron of the
NBA. The important thing about the Pistons future is that it arrives with a
strong wind at its back, whenever that comes.
也許這個未來就是22-23賽季，也許這個未來還需要一點時間才會到，Duren只有18歲，
Ivey 19歲，Stewart、CC和Hayes是21歲。這樣一個年輕的陣容，就算不是在NBA，出現
在Ann Arbor或East Lansing(譯按:密西根大學和密西根州大的所在地)都不會顯得突兀
。重點是不管活塞隊的未來何時到來，都會有一股強勁的風托著全隊乘風而上。
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用網頁版貼的，沒辦法上色，大家加減看。
雖然最近很忙，但看到活塞官網記者發了季前展望的系列文，除了這篇是全隊之外，後
面是針對每個球員的賽季展望，所以想說還是可以來分享一下，拚拚看在賽季開始前完
成~~
我覺得Stew很棒啦~~很讓人喜歡的球員捏，而且新賽季看起來很有機會讓他拉到外線進
攻，不要說他壞話啦XDDD
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