[外電] Celtics-Knicks Preview
http://www.nba.com/playoffs/2011/eastseries3/
By BRIAN MAHONEY
Spike Lee and the celebrities will pack the place. ESPN will be there to
televise it.
Spike Lee以及其他名人將會擠滿球場。ESPN會在那裡負責轉播工作。
After seven long years, Madison Square Garden is finally open again for
postseason basketball business.
七年過去了，麥迪遜廣場花園終於又再度為季後賽而運作了。
And what a perfect time and place it would be for Carmelo Anthony and Amare
Stoudemire to deliver in tandem after both have been dominant individually so
far in the playoffs.
這將是多完美的時間地點，讓目前前兩戰分別主宰過戰場的甜瓜和阿罵，
能合為一輛雙人戰車。
Or maybe it's the ideal setting for the Boston Celtics to torment the Knicks
again.
或者對賽隊來說這又是一次能折磨尼克的理想場合。
The Celtics bring a 2-0 lead into Game 3 of the Eastern Conference
first-round series on Friday, with the Knicks knowing they were close to
winning both games but also getting close to going home for the summer.
賽隊以２-０的姿態來到第三戰，尼克知道前兩場都很接近勝利，但卻也
明白離放暑假也不算遠。
"We're definitely not thinking about that," Anthony said Thursday after
practice. "Game 3 tomorrow here on our home court, it's a must-win for us.
... This is the hardest game by far that we've played this season."
甜瓜在練球後說：「我們絕對不想那些事情。明天主場的第三戰，對我們
來說是非勝不可的，這是本季我們所面臨過的最艱難的比賽」。
The Knicks aren't sure who will be there to help Anthony. Stoudemire missed
practice Thursday but is expected to play after he was sidelined the second
half of the Celtics' 96-93 victory in Game 2 on Tuesday with back spasms.
尼克不確定誰能上場幫助甜瓜。阿罵缺席了練球，但預料將能在第二戰下
半場因背部痙攣下場後再度出戰。
Chauncey Billups hopes to join him, but he is questionable after straining
his left knee on a drive to the basket late in the opener and sitting out
Game 2.
槍西希望他能加入出戰的行列，但他在開幕戰一次切入時扭傷了左腳踝，
狀況不明。
The Knicks sent much of their core to Denver in the February deal that
brought Anthony and Billups from the Nuggets, believing together with
Stoudemire that duo would make the Knicks a solid first-round threat.
尼克在二月時送出了大部分的核心球員換來了甜瓜和槍西，相信ＡＡ雙核
心能讓尼克成為第一輪強大的威脅。
Instead, injuries forced them to play much of Game 2 with backups surrounding
Anthony, who nearly carried them with 42 points and 17 rebounds.
卻相反的是，傷病迫使尼克在第二戰放上一堆替補輔佐攻下42分17籃板的
甜瓜。
"It's disappointing that it's not there, but at the same time, the way we
played the second half in the second game without the two, we're confident we
can still get the job done," Knicks coach Mike D'Antoni said.
尼克教練冷笑話說：「沮喪，但是我們第二戰下半場所打的方式，我們有
自信仍然能把工作幹好」。
They key for the Knicks is what Anthony and Stoudemire can do together.
尼克的關鍵在於甜瓜跟阿罵合在一起會變成什麼。
Stoudemire was a force in Game 1, finishing with 28 points and 11 rebounds.
But Anthony picked up two fouls in the opening two minutes, sat the rest of
the first quarter and never got on track, limited to 15 points and finishing
a 1-for-11 second half by missing a long 3-pointer that ended an 87-85 loss.
阿罵第一戰很威，攻下28分11籃板。但甜瓜第一節快速領到兩犯，在剩下
的第一節都只能坐板凳，並再也沒回到節奏中。僅得15分並以沒進最後一
球三分長射結束下半場投１１中１的成績。
Anthony followed with his spectacular Game 2, but Stoudemire watched most of
it after hurting his back during warmups. Anthony is unlikely to match his
numbers if Stoudemire plays, but the Knicks realize their best chance to beat
a deeper Boston team is by having their two superstars play well at the same
time.
接著換甜瓜在第二戰很威，但阿罵只能因在熱身時傷了背部而看著這一切
發生。如果阿罵有上場，甜瓜不太可能能拿下這等成績，但尼克理解到，
要擊敗實力堅強的賽隊的最好機會，是ＡＡ核心同時發揮良好。
"Obviously some of his production will go down only because some of it's
going to Amare. But they should be able to coexist and be good," D'Antoni
said.
冷笑話說：「他的數據顯然會降低因為分到阿罵那邊去，但兩位仁兄應該
要能共存共榮」。
The game Friday is the first at Madison Square Garden in the postseason since
April 25, 2004, and comes 10 years to the day since the Knicks' last playoff
victory there, a 92-85 win over Toronto in the opener of a first-round loss.
The reputation of the "world's most famous arena" has survived even while the
Knicks' has been badly weakened in the last decade.
第三戰將是尼克主場七年來首次又打季後賽，而上一次在主場季後賽贏球
是十年前了，以92-82在第一輪被淘汰的系列戰的第一場戰勝暴龍。這世界
上最有名的球場，即使在過去十年的慘澹中，依舊存活了下來。
"In a day and age where so many different cities have remodeled, renovated or
built new structures, Madison Square Garden is probably one of the most
unique because it still stands and it's still relevant," said Celtics guard
Ray Allen, who hit a famed jumper there for Connecticut to win the 1996 Big
East tournament.
在這裡替UConn投進著名的一球贏得1996Big East錦標賽的Ray Allen說：
「在這麼長的時間中，很多城市都重塑、改修或建造了新的建築，麥迪遜
花園廣場應該是最獨特的，因為它仍站在這並依舊重要」。
More recently, it's been a good place for his Boston teammates to show off.
時間再帶近一點，這裡是Allen的賽隊隊友炫耀的好所在。
Paul Pierce knocked down the tiebreaking shot with 0.4 seconds left in the
Celtics' 118-116 victory back in December, two months after hitting a
tiebreaking shot here in a preseason game with 8 seconds to go. Kevin Garnett
beat the overtime buzzer with a jumper to give Boston a 107-105 victory on
Nov. 22, 2009.
Pierce在12月時投進0.4秒的絕殺球。在這兩個月前熱身賽時他也在這裡
剩8秒時投進致勝球。Garnett2009年11月22日也在這裡延長賽中投進絕殺。
The stakes are much higher now, and the Celtics' execution has been equally
as sharp, with decisive baskets by Allen and Garnett in the closing seconds
of the first two games after the Knicks had outplayed the defending East
champs for large parts of both.
現在季後賽的激烈程度是高的多了，而賽隊的執行力卻還是依舊銳利，儘
管尼克前兩戰中領先了大多數時刻，Allen和Garnett在前兩戰中結束時刻
時各自關鍵的進球。
So the Knicks are getting tired of watching the Celtics torture them with
their late-game execution.
所以尼克對於看著賽隊用比賽末段的執行力來折磨他們厭倦了。
"I think it was more like a mental exhaustion, just knowing how hard we
played, how close we were in both of those games for us to not win any of
those games," Anthony said.
甜瓜說：「我認為想到我們打得多艱辛，以及這兩戰勝利都是多麼的接近
卻都沒能拿下，比較像是精神上的枯竭」。
New York hosts Game 4 on Sunday, when it will either try to tie the series or
save its season. The Knicks believe they will get at least one of them,
sounding far more satisfied than Celtics coach Doc Rivers, who said his team
needs to play better.
尼克會在星期天(美)舉行第四戰，到時要不就是試著扳平比數，要不就是
試著留住最後的一絲生機。尼克相信他們至少能在主場兩戰中拿下一勝，
聽起來比賽隊教練Rivers有自信得多，他說賽隊要打得更好才行。
"Our confidence is they didn't play well because we didn't let them play
well," D'Antoni said.
冷笑話說：「我們的自信是，他們打得不好是因為我們讓他們打得不好」。
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本周都在期中考，實在抽不出時間來關注比賽，
終於到周末，希望能看到一場精采的不只是好球，
要精采的勝利啊！
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