[外電] Two years in, Gasol is clearly no Odom

[sagesrock (好像在讀碩二 ^^Y)]

WASHINGTON – When they introduce the Wizards’ starting lineup here, they
turn up the volume and call this “the most powerful city in the world!”
(It’s not the most powerful team in the world, so you do what you can to
stoke the crowd.)

華盛頓 - 當他們介紹巫師的先發出場的時候，他們大聲地說：「這是全世界最有力量
的城市！」
（但不是全世界最有力量的球隊，所以你可以為所欲為地激怒觀眾。）


The Lakers created some great new Washington memories with their visit to
the White House on Monday – and Kobe Bryant’s additional 20-minute private
meeting with his family and President Barack Obama in the Oval Office on
Tuesday morning. Bryant especially enjoyed how much his daughters got to
chat with the president and said they batted around the idea of some pickup
ball this summer on the White House basketball court.

禮拜一拜訪白宮之行，讓湖人隊在華盛頓留下了一些全新的美好回憶，特別是布萊恩全
家和歐巴馬於禮拜二早上在他辦公室的私人聚會。布萊恩尤其喜歡他的女兒可以跟總統
聊天，以及他們約定在夏天的時候在白宮的籃球場尬球的嗆聲。


“That’d be great,” Bryant said.
But everywhere you go in life, there is context. There’s compare and
contrast to what happened before, and the Lakers have some interesting
history here in Washington.

「那一定超棒！」布萊恩說。
跟生命的所有事情一樣，任何事情都有個有來龍去脈。在這之前，其實是有些恩恩怨怨
的，湖人隊在華盛頓總有些有趣的歷史。


Most notably, as Phil Jackson mentioned Tuesday night after an impressive
victory over the Wizards, the Lakers first met Pau Gasol here two years ago.
“We really didn’t know what to expect,” Jackson said.
The Lakers were here on a trip when Gasol joined the team after the Feb. 1
trade with Memphis. He arrived into Washington late at night and met with a
group of us reporters in a suite at the Lakers’ team hotel.

最值得記一筆的，就是菲爾老頭說起兩年前某個禮拜二湖人隊大勝巫師隊之後，他們
初會砲哥的那個晚上。>////<

「我們不知道我們會見到甚麼樣的人。」老頭說。

砲哥從灰熊被交易加入湖人的二月一號當天，湖人正在打客場。他在很晚的時候抵達華
盛頓，跟一群記者在湖人隊進住的旅館見面。


Some first impressions of Gasol that first night in the hotel suite still
hold: He was clearly nice in the considerate, polite way that few look-at-me
NBA players understand. Gasol comes across as a regular guy who is eager to
please, and even in his second language of English, his intelligence comes
across just as much.

Bryant referred to him the other night as “so intelligent” – and then
followed up with “very intelligent” and “highly intelligent.” Jackson
mentions that the key thing is that Gasol was “a very willing student”
upon joining the team.

這是一些對於砲哥的初次印象：不同於一般NBA球員的作秀，他的親和力是來自體貼跟
禮貌。砲哥給人的感覺是一個努力取悅別人的一般人，而且雖然英語是他的第二語言，
他還是表現出不輸講母語一樣的機智。

老大後來說他「相當聰明」--後來變成「非常聰明」，又後來變成「超級聰明」。老頭
說最重要的是，在融入團隊這方面，砲哥是「一個非常肯學習的學生」。


But what was most memorable about talking to Gasol that first night was his
earnestness about just how sick he was of being a loser in Memphis.

“You get into a mindset that is not really positive,” Gasol said that
night. “You kind of sink.”

但是最令人印象深刻的，是他認真述說他對於在孟斐斯老是輸球的厭惡感。

「你會陷入一種很負面的思維，」砲哥說：「那簡直是沈淪。」


And right after his session that night with us, Gasol went to have a much
more important sit-down with Bryant – when that particular topic of needing
to win was further emphasized. It has turned out that Gasol’s drive to win
has been greater than could be understood two years ago.

“Pau is underrated,” Lamar Odom said Tuesday, “for his aggressiveness and
his will to win – his ability to do anything to make the team better.”

在那一夜之後，砲哥跟老大做了一次更重要的談話--特別著重在想贏的話題。結果顯示
，砲哥想贏的心情比兩年前我們所瞭解的還要強烈多了。

「砲哥是被低估的，」老二說：「他的侵略性、想贏的決心，以及為了讓球隊更好而擺
上一切的能力。」


Let’s go back further to another day in Washington.

Four years ago, the Lakers blew a 16-point lead and lost by three points to
the Wizards. It was Bryant’s second season with Odom, the supposed second
star. Odom lined up on the wrong side of the court for the final play –
going right instead of left in the most shocking development of Odom’s all
-lefty career – costing the Lakers and Bryant a shot at a tying 3-pointer.

讓我們回到更之前在華盛頓的另一天。

四年前，湖人搞砸了16分的領先，三分敗給巫師。這是老大第二年和理應是二當家的歐
頓合作。老二在最後一輪攻勢跑錯邊，他一輩子都是左撇子，但他居然跑到右邊去--搞
砸了湖人和老大最後用三分球來打平的機會。


Bryant was enraged. He berated Odom the entire time they walked off the
court, all the way to the locker room – and later Odom rushed out of there.

Bryant had sprained his right thumb that night and still scored 31 points.
Odom, though, missed a tying 3-point shot with 41 seconds left off Bryant’s
pass and then undermined that last play, which wound up in a Bryant
turnover.

Bryant’s fury so rattled Odom that night that Odom denied there was even an
argument, nervously repeating as he rushed from the locker room: “I didn’t
hear anything.”

老大怒極。他在走下球場的一路上糾纏著老二幹譙，回到休息室繼續幹譙。後來就看到
老二從休息室哭哭逃走。

那場球老大的右拇指扭到了，但還是幹了31分。老二呢，在比賽還剩四十一秒的時候，
他搞砸了那個三分反攻的機會，還害老大失誤。

老大那晚的怒火讓老二嚇壞了，他根本沒有還嘴，而且衝出休息室時嘴巴不停害怕地說
：「我甚麼都沒聽到！我甚麼都沒聽到！」


Moved into a bench role by Jackson last season, Odom has never measured up
to all that Bryant wanted for him and from him. Odom hasn’t really changed.
Just last game in Toronto, Odom took the court after a timeout and went to
the sideline when the ball was to be inbounded from the baseline.

Yet it has worked out just fine – because of Gasol, whose 26 points Tuesday
night mirrored Bryant’s 26, with Odom contributing, too.

一直到上個球季老二被移到板凳上，老二都從來沒有達到老大對他、和他自己所應該的
那種水準。老二還是一樣恍神。就在上一場對多倫多的球賽，老二在一次暫停之後，還
是跑到邊線發球，而那次其實應該要從底線發球。

不過他還是幹得不錯，因為有砲哥的26分的幫忙，同時老大也得了26分。當然老二也有
貢獻。


“A-plus,” Odom said when asked about Gasol. “Plus-plus-plus.”

Odom is satisfied with Gasol having gotten the Lakers to be defending
champions.

「A＋，」當別人問老二關於砲哥時他說。「A＋＋＋」

老二對於砲哥讓湖人成為衛冕冠軍隊，感到非常滿足。


Bryant still is not.

“I just think he can get better,” Bryant said of Gasol, whom Bryant gave a
brief talking-to Tuesday night in the fourth quarter upon sensing a late-
game letdown. “I get on him a lot because he’s a great player already, but
I don’t want him to be comfortable just being a great player.

“I want to see him take another step.”

After that on-court talking-to from Bryant, Gasol definitively nodded.
Unlike Odom, Gasol does want more … so both he and Bryant might just get
it.

老大可還不這麼認為。

「我認為他可以變得更好，」老大說。砲哥在禮拜二晚上的第四節末端鬆懈了，老大
發覺了就小小地唸他一頓。「我會一直唸他，是因為他已經是一個一流的球員，但我
不想要他滿足於只是一流。」

「我要看他進入另一個境界。」

在場上被老大唸的時候，砲哥不斷地點頭。

不像老二，砲哥不滿足，他想要更多......所以他跟老大兩人一定有情人終成眷屬。

（其實是終究會達到他們想要的一切啦。）







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推 doodoohow:"few"是很少 那一段是說他「不同於其他人，十分有禮貌」
→ doodoohow:"easy to please"是「易於取悅」
多謝！！
推 picaro:樓上是說禪師遇到砲哥那段嗎? 原文不是eager to please嗎?
推 doodoohow:靠盃我看錯了 那就是努力的想要取悅別人
收到收到！
推 asdfe88466:翻的好像砲哥和老大有一腿-/////-
→ asdfe88466:砲哥:讓我用我的表現取悅你吧  老大:阿阿阿阿(喘)
推 picaro:樓上把整篇的重點都講完了(無誤
推 v00001:腐
推 goldenlen:嘎獸:沒看到我的鬍子嗎
推 loquito:腐人隊(誤)
推 doodoohow:Los Angeles LaQueers...
推 QuentinHu:第一段超好笑耶　我覺得...
推 newsno1:外電推  odom被念那邊覺得好好笑也好可憐XDD
推 acbdefg77:「我甚麼都沒聽到！我甚麼都沒聽到！」XDD
推 FrienDx:老二好可憐，他的能力也絕對不只如此，都加油吧
→ clark86913:Odom那段怎麼有S樂團被千秋幹譙到崩潰的感覺 XDDD
推 anhsuan:感謝翻譯~
推 Kreen:推～
推 a896975:我什麼都沒聽到~
推 rexagi1988:Odom:Nooooooooooooooo(抱頭)
→ rexagi1988:他們要一起達到高~~~~超的極限XD 可是這篇有點表老二感
→ rexagi1988:覺:(  老二也要認真阿  都加油!!!!!!!!!
※ 編輯: sagesrock       來自: 218.167.48.221       (01/27 22:53)
推 behero:可以想像Kobe一直臭幹角老二的畫面
推 Fogi:kobe應該不敢像罵odom一樣罵gasol 感覺gasol禁不太起罵
推 rambo800727:老二耶穌:我要成為超一流忍者!!
→ rambo800727:老二被嗆的好慘
推 hikaruton:推clark86913大的交響情人夢 XDDDD
推 dpogcnn:又一股濃濃的腐味出現了....
推 nba81kobe:這就是所謂態度 不輕易滿足現狀
推 Mydick:建議sensing a late game letdown翻出全意
→ Mydick:"KB24發覺Pau在比賽末段有所鬆懈"倒不是說他搞砸了甚麼
done。謝謝。
※ 編輯: sagesrock       來自: 218.167.48.193       (01/28 14:29)