[閒聊] 關於金州勇士隊
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/
2004/01/09/SPGRT46SEC1.DTL
Ray Ratto 是 San Francisco Chronicle 報紙的專欄作家，
也替 ESPN.com 寫文章。
蠻賤的，但是寫的很中肯。
如果要支持勇士隊，就是要接受這些事實～
So, you guys ready? ^_^
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前兩段是說：
To better understand the current friction between
Warriors head coach Eric Musselman and point guard
Nick Van Exel, you must first come to grips with
one central and unshakable truth:
要深入了解近來教練 Eric Musselman
與控球後衛 Nick Van Exel 之間的不愉快，
你必須要先了解一個最中心，不可動搖的真理：
It's the Warriors, for God's sake!
This is who they are! This is what they do!
What kind of glue addiction would make you think
it could be any other way?
拜託～這是勇士隊，我的老天爺啊～
這就是真正的勇士隊啊！這就是勇士隊會做的事情啊！
哪一種(強力膠)毒癮，會讓你以為勇士隊不會這樣？
另外一段：
The team isn't athletic enough, in a conference
loaded with athletic teams. It doesn't have enough scorers.
It doesn't have go-to guys, at least not ones in which
the coach is willing to invest his trust.
這隻球隊運動力不足，而整個西區充滿了運動力極佳的隊伍。
(包括目前戰績還落後我們的太陽隊。猜猜看他們會不會"跳"過我們？)
這隻球隊的得分點不夠。
這隻球隊沒有"那個人"，最少沒有一個足以讓教練信任的那個人。
還有：
Now we'd be more willing to spin the old alibi wheel with a cheery,
"Hey, stuff happens," and "Everyone goes through a tough patch,"
and "It's hard to win on the road,"
but we've seen too much, too often.
Fool us eight times, shame on you, and all that.
現在讓我們來轉動那古老的"藉口輪盤"吧！
上面振奮人心的選擇有："嘿！不好的事情總是會發生的嘛！"
"每個人都要經歷一陣辛苦的日子的。"
"客場比較難以取勝嘛～"
但是我們勇士隊球迷！已經見識太多，太常看到這種情況了～
你要是被騙八次，那就太可恥了吧？
This is, after all, the team's 18th losing streak of
seven or more games since 1995, their seventh verifiable
"The coach doesn't understand me'' issue, and, finally,
it comes after the start of the new year,
when the Warriors traditionally let gravity take its course
and begin filling their individual golf schedules.
畢竟這是自從1995年以來，勇士隊第十八次最少七連敗的連敗紀錄，
第七次發生可以確認的"教練不了解我"的問題。
這些都發生在新年之後，也就是勇士隊依照每年的傳統，
戰績開始往谷底落下，然後大家開始安排高爾夫球課程的時候。
Van Exel's ongoing complaint, that he doesn't know whether
Musselman wants him to assert himself offensively,
is actually a complaint that he already has the answer to,
and he doesn't like it.
Van Exel 最近不斷抱怨的問題，
說他不知道教練要不要他在進攻上更為投入，
其實他早就已經有答案了，只是他不喜歡那個答案而已。
Now, before this sounds like we're laying the Warriors'
latest fall from mediocrity at Van Exel's feet,
or even at his apparently fractious relationship with Musselman,
let's stop here and remind you all of the conventional wisdom
attached to the Warriors before the season began.
但是，在這聽起來像是把勇士隊戰績低迷的問題，矛頭指向 Van Exel，
或者指向他與教練 Eric Musselman 的關係之前，
先暫停一下，提醒各位，大多數人在球季開始前對於勇士隊本季的展望，如下。
Not good. Likely to be bad. Maybe even really bad.
Best possible scenario -- 10th,
and out of the playoffs for the 10th consecutive year.
不好。可能會是差勁。搞不好是非常爛。
最好的名次是西區第十名，然後連續第十年打不進季後賽。
Well, they've achieved not good, and they are bordering on bad.
As Memphis, Houston, Seattle and Denver have improved
and Utah has failed to decompose after the losses of
Karl Malone and John Stockton,
the Warriors now are in slightly worse shape relative
to the conference than they were at the end of last year,
when they acted like going 38-44 was actually 58-24.
"不好"的境界我們已經達到了，然後現在在"差勁"的邊界。
灰熊，火箭，超音速，金塊都進步了，
而爵士也沒有在兩老離隊之後爆掉～
現在勇士隊在西區，看起來實在不太妙。
And hey, after going 21-61, 17-65 and 19-63
the three years before that, you could hardly blame them.
Face up in a puddle is still way better than face down.
不過呢，嘿，自從1999-2000起的三個球季，
勇士隊的戰績分別是19勝63敗，17勝65敗，21勝61敗，
所以，也別太責備他們了～
在一灘死水裡面癱著，臉朝上總比臉朝下來的好些～
(BYANG: 臉朝上要叫救護車，臉朝下...恐怕就要叫警察了～)
But whatever you want to say about pure hope and blind faith
and tireless devotion, it cannot overcome the simple fact that
the Warriors' roster has less talent on it now than it did last year.
And less talent is never good.
不管要說什麼單純的希望，盲目的信仰，還是不嫌累的付出，
都沒有辦法克服這個簡單的事實：
勇士隊的球員天份比去年更差，而天份更差絕對不是一件好事。
最後幾段：
Now it could get better with the Warriors,
as it did at least for a while last year.
It could also get worse, as it usually does.
After all, their last eight Januaries have produced
a winning percentage of .280, while their last nine Februaries
a .250 percentage. The next two weeks will tell us
whether the Warriors are just hitting their traditional wall,
or have actually lost the will to hang with the playoff contenders.
現在呢，球隊可能會變得更好，如同去年球隊在一小段時間內打出來的成果﹔
也有可能變得更糟，如同，嗯，勇士隊一向發生的情況～
畢竟勇士隊過去八年的一月份戰績，勝率是.280
而過去九年的二月份戰績，勝率是.250(也就是說打四場才贏一場....)
接下來的兩個禮拜，將會告訴我們，勇士隊只是撞到那道傳統的牆，
還是喪失了跟西區季後賽隊伍一決長短的意願。
But the important thing to see is that whatever it is,
it isn't the light at the tunnel ... not yet, anyway.
最重要的是，不管你看到了什麼，
那都不是漫長陰暗隧道盡頭處的光芒～
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不是我在說，這真是一隻充滿了挫折的球隊。
球迷們年年抱持一點點的希望，年年失望～
然後隔年的希望就越來越小....
要觀察這隻球隊，不能夠以戰績作為任何指標，
因為最後他們總是可以輸的一褲子～
也不能拿球員發展來參考什麼，
因為球員打個幾年，打出身價來了，很快就會以更高的薪水去幫別隊效力～
真的要支持某個特定球員的話，勇士隊並不會讓球迷開心，
因為我們拼命輸球，球隊的問題也一大堆～
就算你辛苦的把這隻球隊上上下下的問題全部列出來了，
勇士隊總是可以跑出新的問題來讓你措手不及！
有些GM的表現就算差強人意，總也是起起伏伏，有好有壞，
但是勇士隊的GM表現非常的一致。
個人強力推薦網站：http://www.staygilbert.com/ray/Bad.htm
以上與各位關心勇士隊的球迷朋友們分享。
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