[外電] Ricky Rubio on Wolves’ losing streak

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Ricky Rubio on Wolves’ losing streak: ‘I don’t think we’re having fun, and we’re going to change it’ -- By Dan Devine (出處:http://ppt.cc/K8wW) For the Minnesota Timberwolves, what started as a season full of hope for a playoff berth and a leap back into the ranks of legitimate NBA contention has fallen off a cliff. The team has lost 11 of its last 15 games, including five straight after a 90-77 loss to a Chris Paul-less Los Angeles Clippers team on Thursday night, as crushing injuries just keep piling up. 原本抱持著進入季後賽希望的灰狼們,最近15戰11敗,上一場輸給沒有cp3的快艇之後, 已經變成五連敗了,而且還多了一堆傷兵. After missing the first nine games of the season with a broken bone in his right hand, Kevin Love made it through just 18 games before reinjuring the paw, requiring surgery that's likely to keep him out for at least another two months. Brandon Roy's chronically haunted knees have kept him sidelined since early November, and it remains unclear when (or if) he'll return to the floor. Key wing piece Chase Budinger might not be back from left knee surgery until March; veteran Josh Howard was brought into help bridge the gap on the wing, tore his ACL and was promptly waived; rotation guard Malcolm Lee is out for the season after knee and hip surgeries. Love因為右手骨折而錯過了開季前九場比賽,卻又在打了十八場後再傷,至少要兩個月才能回來;Roy的情況仍未定;Budinger因為左膝的手術,可能要到三月才會回來;原本簽來幫忙的J.Howard也傷了ACL又被開除;Malcolm也整季報銷. Things got even worse on Thursday, as starting center Nikola Pekovic left in the third quarter after bruising his thigh and rookie shooting guard Alexey Shved exited in the fourth after badly rolling his left ankle. Neither returned, leaving the Wolves with an even shorter bench and even fewer scoring options; Minnesota managed just 14 points on 5 for 16 shooting in the final frame of Thursday's loss. And all the on-court carnage comes as the Wolves' sideline leader, head coach Rick Adelman, remains away from the team dealing with the awful off-court reality of the hospitalization of his wife, leaving lead assistant Terry Porter to try to adjust to the team's new injury-impacted reality on the fly. 週四對快艇那場更是屋漏偏逢連夜雨.Peko的右大腿嚴重撞傷,在第三節就離場,Shved在第四節扭傷了左腳腳踝,兩個人都出場就沒再回來過.讓灰狼剩下更無援的板凳,更短缺的得分選擇,讓灰狼第四節被屠殺,而且教練矮豆人也因為陪伴妻子而不在場邊,只留下代理教練Terry Porter無助地想辦法解決這個大難題. One of the few healthy(ish) Wolves at the moment, ironically enough, is point guard Ricky Rubio, who made his first start of the season Thursday after coming off the bench for a month following his return from left knee surgery. And while people like me might think the rash of injuries is a pretty reasonable explanation for the team's struggles, the second-year pro from Spain doesn't want to hear that noise, according to Ray Richardson of the Pioneer Press: Well,諷刺的是,幾個少數還沒傷的球員中,包含了才剛在大傷後復出,剛打了本季第一場先發的Rubio.包含原作者在內,大概大部分的人都會覺得Rubio還沒完全適應比賽強度,是最近灰狼挫敗的一個主因,但Rubio自己不那麼想. Rubio made his first start of the season, but the lineup shift had no impact on the team's performance. In fact, the results of Thursday's game left the second-year guard "very frustrated" with his own performance and generated some of his strongest comments since joining the Wolves. Rubio dismissed his season-high 27 minutes, preferring to challenge his healthy teammates and pledge that "we're going to change it." Rubio當了本季第一次先發,但實際上對球隊沒有產生什麼很大的助益,實際上,Rubio賽後表示對自己的表現"相當挫折",並表達了一些強烈的意見,表示"我們必須改變". "The players that are healthy have to step up and do a better job," Rubio said. "We can't say we're playing bad because of the injuries. I don't think that's the way. In a way, be a man. Everybody has to step up and know his new role. We are here to win games and have fun, but I don't think we're having fun, and we're going to change it." "還健康的隊員們都應該站出來,打得更努力,我們不能把責任全部歸咎於那些傷病,那不是處理問題的方法,每個人都應該盡全力,了解自己的定位,我們是來贏球的,是來享受比賽的,但最近我們除了失敗之外什麼都沒享受到,我們必須有所改變." Rubio說. The charge to accept responsibility for keeping the Wolves' sinking ship afloat — that 11-of-15 slide has dropped Minny to 10th in the Western Conference standings at 16-20 — is the kind of leadership you'd figure the team's front office loves to see from the point guard they tabbed with the No. 5 pick in the 2009 NBA draft, and could be the sort of let's-get-focused jolt that galvanizes a reeling, flagging short-handed team. Especially if, y'know, Rubio practices what he preaches and steps up his own offensive game. 願意扛起灰狼最近一片愁雲慘澹的責任,這樣的領袖能力當然是灰狼高層想從Rubio身上看到的,而且也勢必會讓現在步履闌珊的狼們有些激勵,當然,如果Rubio能自己也站出來, ,讓他自己的進攻更穩定的話,這些話會更有說服力. With Love and Roy gone for a while, and Pekovic and Shved possibly sidelined for the short term, someone's going to need to be able to score for the Timberwolves, and I'm not sure how much help Rubio's going to be there. Since making his season debut against the Dallas Mavericks on Dec. 15, Rubio has attempted 45 field goals in 229 minutes; he has made just 10 of them, good for a 22.2 percent mark from the floor, and has missed all nine of his 3-point attempts. His jumper was a weak point during his injury-shortened rookie season, too, as he hit just under 36 percent from the field and 34 percent from deep, but it's significantly worse now, whether due to injury-spurred rust, wonky mechanics, a lack of confidence or a lack of leg strength in the early going. 當Love,Roy,Shved,Peko都不在了,一定要有人挺身而出扛起得分的重擔,但作者也不確定這其中Rubio能幫到多少忙.自從12/15對小牛一戰復出後,Rubio上場的229分鐘裡面投了 45球--但只進了10球,命中率22.2%,其實9球三分全部沒進.他的跳投從去年新秀球季就很糟了,去年的FG%是35.7%,而3PT%是34%,但今年,不論是因為傷後還沒完全適應,或者投籃技術太不穩定,或者自信缺乏,或者腿力不夠....他真的投得很糟. Rubio also hasn't yet shown himself to be especially adept at getting into the paint for his own shot. He tied for 30th among NBA point guards in at-rim attempts per game last season and converted them at a well-below-average clip, according to Hoopdata's shot location statistics, and in his limited minutes this season, he's taken a lower percentage of his attempts from the paint than he did last year (down from nearly 40 percent to below 36 percent this year, according to NBA.com's stat tool) and hasn't been very successful at connecting, going just 3 for 16 in the paint through 11 games. 他也還沒有習慣進禁區自己得分的跡象,去年在籃框附近的出手次數並列聯盟控衛裡的第三十名,而且命中率也遠低於平均(http://ppt.cc/f72f),而今年他在禁區出手的比例比去年更下降(根據nba.com),而且也才16投3中.. Also, stuff like this is happening: 同時,還有這種球... http://ppt.cc/z10x (譯按:完了,一定會進本週shaqtin' a fool了..) ... which isn't great. If you can't score from inside and you can't score from outside, then it's hard to see you doing much scoring at all; until we see some more consistent snap on those jumpers and a bit more aggression on half-court attacks from Rubio, it's difficult to envision him leading a Minnesota scoring charge. 如果你禁區內進不了球,禁區外也進不了球,那你要得分也很難了,除非Rubio找到跳投的準心以及在半場進攻時更加的積極,不然我們實在很難展望看到他在得分上有什麼貢獻. That said, of course, scoring isn't what Rubio was brought to Minnesota to do; as my colleague Eric Freeman has written, it's his court vision and ability to facilitate for others that makes the 22-year-old Spaniard such a truly special talent. It's possible that, with a return to starter's minutes alongside Luke Ridnour in a two-point-guard backcourt, Rubio could help turn around a Wolves offense that's been the league's fourth-worst over the past 15 games, picking out Andrei Kirilenko and Dante Cunningham on smart cuts in the half-court, serving up points on a silver platter to the likes of Greg Stiemsma and Lou Amundson, and maybe — just maybe — helping the gradual and ongoing unlocking of Derrick Williams. 當然,有人說,得分不是Rubio被看上的能力.他的視野與推動隊員進攻的能力才是他的天賦所在.現在Rubio回到了先發,將有更多上場時間,他有機會讓球隊的進攻活起來,改善那慘不忍睹的進攻(近15場內是聯盟的第四糟),讓AK跟DC的空切得以發揮,也讓Stiemsma與 Amundson參與進攻,and,或許,可以讓最近手感不錯的DW更加火熱. Maybe Pekovic's thigh injury isn't as bad it looked to Jerry Zgoda last night and some combination of Pekovic, Rubio and Ridnour can terrorize opponents with high pick-and-rolls; maybe Shved's ankle winds up being OK and we get more chances to see the Rubio/Shved backcourt, which has gotten just 83 total minutes of burn this season and been pretty terrible (the Wolves are scoring and defending at sub-Bobcats levels when the tandem shares the floor, according to lineup data in NBA.com's stat tool) but feels like it has worlds of potential. Maybe, despite the lack of an apparent top scoring threat, a total lack of 3-point shooting and the continued absence of exactly the kind of offensive guru who could make a decent soup out of these seemingly mismatched ingredients, Rubio's sheer passing genius could help change things and make them fun again. 或許Peko的傷不如看起來那麼嚴重,我們可以期待Rubio跟Ridnour跟他好好搭配;或許 Shved的傷也不是那麼嚴重,我們就有機會看到更多Rubio跟他的組合(雖然日前他們同時在場上的83分鐘,不論進攻或防守都是比山貓還爛的等級..),這組合確實充滿了潛力.雖然現在極度缺乏得分主力,也沒有三分威脅,也沒有矮豆人的精神陪伴與指導,但只要Rubio在, 就讓我們有所期待阿!! Then again, none of that would change the fact that they've gone from a top-six defense in points allowed per 100 possessions over the season's first month and a half to a bottom-six D over the last month, totally erasing the primary reason the Wolves were in the playoff race in the early stages of the season. I wouldn't worry about it, though, Minnesotans. Mickael Gelabale's on the way, so that's probably going to solve everything. 但,還是沒什麼能改變球隊從第一個月時聯盟第六的防守,掉到現在慘不忍睹,讓灰狼看起來已經脫離季後賽勁旅的事實.但我不太擔心就是了,Gelabale快來了,他有可能改變一切呀. -------------------------- Pekovic out with badly bruised leg (出處:http://ppt.cc/8HCC) MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota Timberwolves center Nikola Pekovic will miss the next seven to 10 days because of badly bruised right quadriceps. Peko要休息7到10天. Pekovic was injured in the third quarter against the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday night after a collision with Blake Griffin. Pekovic did not practice on Friday and Timberwolves president David Kahn says he will miss at least a week. 跟Griffin撞到後,Peko傷了.他昨天沒練習,Kahn說他至少要休息一週. Pekovic leads the team in scoring and rebounding and is the latest significant injury to a team beset by them all season long. Shooting guard Alexey Shved sprained his left ankle in the fourth quarter as well and is questionable for the game on Saturday night against Houston. Peko得分跟籃板都是隊上最高,但傷了. Shvey也傷了,禮拜六對火箭的比賽仍不確定會不會上場. ---- 唉...最近的球隊真的是一灘死水,對快艇又一次傷了兩個人好灰心..不上又不下,只希望rubio能儘快盡力帶起球隊呀QQ -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 114.34.220.251

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