[外電] Timberwolves have a chance to close out Lakers

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https://tinyurl.com/49b6m2xa LOS ANGELES – Two days after the NBA regular season ended, Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards gathered the team together before their first practice in preparation for their series against the Lakers. He had a message for them, according to point guard Mike Conley. 在例行賽結束後兩天，灰狼隊後衛 Anthony Edwards 在團隊備戰對陣湖人隊系列賽的首次練球前召集了全隊。根據控球後衛 Mike Conley 的說法，他向隊友們傳達了一個訊息。 “Just saying how, ‘This ain’t gonna be good enough, what we were doing at that time. Our ability to turn a switch on and off is not going to be there, so we have to be locked in and ready to go, and it starts in that practice,’” Conley said Edwards told the team. “To have that awareness to say those things at his age is very important, and it gave us a good springboard into the postseason.” 「他只是說，『我們還不夠好。那種想專注就專注、想放鬆就放鬆的能力不再適用，所以我們必須全神貫注，準備就緒，而這一切都從這次訓練開始，』」Conley 提到 AE 告訴球隊。「以他這個年紀能有這種意識並說出這些話非常重要，這給了我們進入季後賽一個良好的助力。」 The Wolves have kept that message in mind since that day, and now they are one win away from knocking out LeBron James, Luka Doncic and the Lakers in Game 5 in Los Angeles on Wednesday. 從那天起，球隊就一直牢記著這個訊息，現在他們距離淘汰 LeBron James、 Luka Doncic 和湖人隊只差一場勝利。 By their own admission, the Wolves are a team that thrives when their backs are against a wall and people doubt them, so how do they keep that mindset when they are up 3-1 in the best-of-seven series and heavily favored to advance? 灰狼隊自己也承認，他們是一支被逼到牆角、受人們質疑時反而能表現出色的球隊，那麼當他們在七戰四勝制的系列賽中以 3-1 領先，並被廣泛看好晉級時，他們如何保持這種心態應戰呢？ “We don’t have any choice,” forward Julius Randle said. “We haven’t done anything. We’ve won three games, which is great, but we got one more to finish the job for this series and got to keep moving on. We played good basketball up until this point, but we’re not done.” 「我們別無選擇。」前鋒 Julius Randle 說。「我們還沒有完成任何事情。贏了三場比賽，這很棒，但還需要再一勝才能完結這個系列賽，我們不能停下腳步。到目前為止，我們打出了不錯的籃球，但還沒有結束。」 Coach Chris Finch said the Wolves focused in Tuesday’s practice on some things that got a little “loose” in their game plan execution in Game 4. It’s good for the Wolves that they have some things to work on instead of thinking they played a perfect game. They have also tried to keep in mind what the general consensus was coming into the series as motivation up 3-1. 教練 Chris Finch 表示，灰狼隊在週二的訓練著重在第四戰戰術執行方面有些「鬆散」的地方。對球隊來說，有需要改進的地方是好事，而不是認為他們打了一場完美的比賽。他們也試著牢記系列賽開始前人們普遍的看法，以此作為他們在 3-1 領先下的動力。 As Edwards said after Game 4: “I told them it’s going to be the toughest game that we’ve played all season, all series, because everyone is going to be against us. It’s going to be 300,000 people and then the Timberwolves, players and then the coaches and then the organization that travels. … Back against the wall in enemy territory. These are the moments that we should live for — going on the road and trying to close a team out.” 正如 Edwards 在第四戰賽後所說：「我告訴他們，這將是我們整個賽季、整個系列賽中最艱難的一場比賽，因為所有人都與我們為敵。屆時將有 30 萬人，然後才是灰狼隊、球員、教練，以及隨隊出征的整個組織……在客場背水一戰。這才是我們應該為之奮鬥的時刻：前往客場並試圖淘汰一支球隊。」 The Wolves have that experience of closing teams out on the road. Both series-clinching games they won a season ago came on the road — Game 4 in Phoenix and Game 7 in Denver. Perhaps they can draw on that series against the Suns for Wednesday. Few were picking them to advance, and even when the Wolves took a big lead in that series, they didn’t let Phoenix back into it. So even up 3-1 against the Lakers, their backs haven’t come off that wall in their eyes. Especially not with James and Doncic on the other side. 灰狼隊有在客場淘汰對手的經驗。他們上賽季贏下的兩場系列賽關門戰都是在客場：在鳳凰城的第四戰和在丹佛的第七戰。或許他們可以從對陣太陽隊的系列賽中汲取經驗來應對週三的比賽，當時很少有人看好他們晉級，即使在那個系列賽中取得了極大領先優勢，也沒有讓太陽隊反撲成功。因此，即使以 3-1 領先湖人隊，在他們眼中，球隊仍然是背水一戰。尤其是在對手陣中有 James 和 Doncic 的情況下。 “Our motivation has been through people doubting us outside of our team,” Conley said. “Like Ant said, we weren’t picked to win this thing, we weren’t picked to do anything in the postseason. We line up there tomorrow, that’s what we think about. We think about that as soon as we set foot on the court and go out there and play as hard as we can.” 「我們的動力來自於外界對我們的質疑。」Conley 說。「就像 Ant 說的，我們不被看好能贏下這個系列賽，我們在季後賽中也不被看好能有所作為。我們明天上場，腦子裡就是這些不看好我們的言論。踏上球場的那一刻，我們就會想起那些言論，然後全力以赴地比賽。」 Finch on officiating Finch 談論執法尺度 Finch was asked at Tuesday’s practice if he expected the whistles to be any tighter in light of the NBA saying officials erred in not calling a foul on Jaden McDaniels for tripping Doncic in the final minute of Game 4. Finch 在週二的訓練中被問及，鑑於聯盟承認裁判在第四戰最後一分鐘沒有判罰 Jaden McDaniels 絆倒 Doncic 是錯誤的，他是否預計裁判的吹判尺度會更嚴厲。 The Wolves coach, speaking about the variance of playoff officiating at large, reminded people the Lakers weren’t called for a foul in nearly 20 minutes in Game 1, and that the Wolves haven’t let the whistles affect them too much in this series. 灰狼隊教練談到季後賽執法尺度的差異時，提醒人們湖人隊在第一戰有將近 20 分鐘沒有被吹判犯規，並且灰狼隊在這個系列賽並沒有讓哨音對他們的表現產生過大的影響。 “I don’t feel the need to have any hand-wringing about missed calls right now,” Finch said. “We’ve not made this series about any calls, any whistles or any things that have gone against us or for us — even when they started Game 1 and they didn’t call a foul on the Lakers for 20 minutes, which is unheard of. 「我現在覺得沒有必要為漏判而煩惱。」Finch 說。「我們並沒有把這個系列賽的重點放在任何判罰、任何哨音，或者任何對我們有利或不利的事情上；即使在第一戰開打時，他們在 20 分鐘內都沒有吹判湖人隊犯規，這簡直是前所未見。」 “We’re not worried about it. We’re just gonna play. Sometimes it’s going to go for you, sometimes it’s going to go against you, but if you’ve watched the playoffs, you can call a foul literally every possession and then some they call and some they don’t. We have to develop a tough mindset, play through it all and keep focusing on things that we know can help bring us success.” 「我們並不擔心。我們就專心比賽。有時判罰對你有利，有時對你不利，但如果你看過季後賽，你會發現幾乎每個回合都有判罰空間，而有些抓了，有些沒抓。我們必須有強韌的心態，克服一切困難，並繼續專注於能幫助我們成功的因素。」 --- 明天開局就要跑起來，不留機會。 -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc), 來自: 111.252.0.231 (臺灣) ※ 文章網址: https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/Timberwolves/M.1746020441.A.9C9.html ※ 編輯: jinshenn (111.252.0.231 臺灣), 04/30/2025 21:42:05