[情報] 明天可能四位菜鳥先發

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The Trail Blazers on Wednesday will simultaneously try avoid their longest
losing streak in seven years and spoil the Los Angeles Lakers’ playoff
aspirations.

And they very well might attempt both while making franchise history.

As his starting lineup continues to be ravaged by injuries, coach Terry
Stotts is contemplating starting four rookies when the Lakers visit the Rose
Garden Wednesday night. If it happens, it would be the first time in
franchise history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

How did it get to this point?

Starting shooting guard Wesley Matthews sprained his right ankle Sunday night
in a loss to the Dallas Mavericks and already has been ruled out against the
Lakers. Starting small forward Nicolas Batum was able to shoot Tuesday, but
continues to deal with the effects of a superior labral tear in his right
shoulder and is listed as doubtful. Meanwhile, starting center JJ Hickson
skipped Tuesday’s practice with lower back pain and is considered
questionable.


Trail Blazers rookie Will Barton to make his first start of the season
Trail Blazers rookie Will Barton talks about making his first start of the
season when the Blazers face the Lakers Wednesday.
And while the availability of the trio looks grim, their replacements look
young. Stotts on Tuesday said he was leaning toward starting rookie Will
Barton in place of Matthews at shooting guard. Rookie Victor Claver has
started the last three games for Batum and rookie center Meyers Leonard has
started in place of Hickson or LaMarcus Aldridge six times this season. Add
them to rookie point guard Damian Lillard and the four-rookie starting lineup
is complete.

It could not come at a worse time for the Blazers (33-44), who have lost a
season-high eight consecutive games and are trying to avoid a complete
free-fall at the end of a promising season. The franchise has not endured a
nine-game losing streak since the 2005-06 season, when they lost 19 of the
last 20 games, including 11 in a row from March 14 to April 2

The losing streak, the young starting lineup and the chance to play spoiler
to a Lakers team that is frantically trying to capture the eighth seed in the
Western Conference playoff hunt should create an extra dose of motivation for
a reeling Blazers team.

Actually, Stotts said, the Lakers alone provide enough motivation.

“Everybody gets up for playing the Lakers,” he said. “We realize the
implications for them, what the game means for them. But when you’re going
up against Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, if Steve Nash plays — these guys grew
up watching them. So I think there’s certainly a lot of motivation playing
them.”

Matthews undergoes MRI, results negative

Matthews limped around the practice facility wearing a walking boot on his
right foot Tuesday afternoon and it is unclear how long he’ll have to deal
with the cumbersome protection.

He underwent two magnetic resonance imaging tests on his sprained right ankle
and neither revealed significant damage, including any ligament tears.
Matthews said there was some soft tissue damage, however, and he planned to
undergo two more MRI tests as a precaution.

When asked if he thought he would play again this season, Matthews seemed
prepared for the worst.

“I don’t know,” he said. “(I’ll) listen to my body and see how it goes.”

Batum shoots for first time in eight days

Batum did not fully return to practice Tuesday, but did participate in some
post-practice shooting. He went through a series of shooting drills for about
30 minutes alongside injured teammate Elliot Williams, testing his ailing
right shoulder for the first time since April 1.

“It’s still sore, a little bit sore,” Batum said afterward. “Shooting at
the end, I feel like my shoulder was burning.”

Batum labeled himself a game-time decision. But the team is taking extra
caution because the injury is in the same right shoulder that Batum had
surgery on in 2009.

--Joe Freeman

簡譯：

馬修在對小牛那場腳踝扭傷，照MRI還好是陰性但明天對湖人應該是不會上場
而JJ昨天練習時，腰背部有點痛，缺席了練習，所以明天應該也不會上場

而82昨天有跟E-WILL短暫練習30分鐘，這是82自4/1號來的第一次練習
不過他說肩膀還是有點疼痛，所以明天也是預計不會上場

所以Stotts明天預計會安排Barton、Leonard、Claver先發，搭配AGG跟Lillard

明天如果在輸球，就是我們這七年來最長的連敗了


心得：

先發們辛苦了，有傷就好好休息吧，事實上這季以我們替補這麼薄弱的陣容
幾位先發們難免有小傷，但都沒大傷，對照其他球隊來說隊醫是不是漂白了XD

這幾場就歡樂的看小將的的發展了，不過先發少了82跟馬修這2位外圍火力的球員
也許Stotts考量到須彌補缺乏的外線火力，我想Babbitt應該會有蠻多的上場時間
因而擠壓到Freeland的上場機會吧...

Freeland你要多加油阿...

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