[外電] Hawes on road toward more recognition

[eliczone (C'est la vie)]

        http://www.sacbee.com/kings/story/1738857.html

In the history of the NBA, Shaquille O'Neal is in a class all his own for a
number of reasons.
俠客大魔王。

But his addiction to playing the lovable antagonist is high on the list of
abilities, that penchant for being sarcastically hilarious and simultaneously
cool and condescending.

He engaged two generations of Kings big men in his typical fare Sunday night
at Arco Arena, the first coming before tipoff when his old flopping nemesis,
Vlade Divac, paid a visit inside the Suns' locker room. Divac, who is in town
for Tuesday's retirement of his jersey, was greeted not with a warm welcome
but an instant heckle of "Why the (heck) are they retiring your jersey?"
他在Arco要遭遇到兩代國王白中鋒，先發是Divac，他直接去太陽休息室挑戰，直接遭受
嘴炮連擊「為什麼他們要退休你的球衣？？」

Divac laughed, of course, if only because their days of combating each other
are long gone.
老迪笑了，科科。

Spencer Hawes is just starting to enjoy these back-and-forths with O'Neal,
even if it's a one-sided rivalry between an unproven 20-year-old and a
37-year-old future Hall of Famer. So when word spread of O'Neal's pregame
declaration that he was going to "handle" Hawes, it was bulletin-board
material in the mind of the easily motivated second-year player.
後來Hawes接手，20歲 vs. 37歲。所以大歐不改本性，說會玩弄Hawes於他股掌之間。

It wasn't the first time, either, as O'Neal first spoke of Hawes by admitting
earlier this season that he had not heard of the Kings' center.
這不是他第一次嘴炮，之前還承認說「Who are you Spencer Hawes?」

But neither O'Neal nor his teammates were laughing after their 126-118
collapse, one that might have pushed the Suns' out of the playoffs for the
first time in five seasons and marked the latest progression in Hawes'
pivotal campaign.
但是大歐和他的隊友再也笑不出來了，因為輸球了。這很有可能讓他們這五年來第一次無
法進入季後賽。

If there had been one consistent trend to Hawes' season, it was the way in
which his purple jersey represented his shrinking-violet play against some of
the league's most beastly big men. This time, though, he had 20 points
(10-of-16 shooting), 10 rebounds and two blocks in poised fashion against the
Suns.
Hawes本季對到兇猛大個大多數都會縮起來，這一次，可就不一樣了。

With 2:52 left to play, the Suns cut a Kings lead that once was as big as 14
points to four with a classic backboard-shaking dunk. Hawes answered on the
other end, burying an 18-footer from the left baseline, then teaming with
rookie forward Jason Thompson to block O'Neal's dunk on his attempt at
retribution.
比賽剩2分52秒時，國王領先從14分被追到只剩4分。Hawes馬上挺身而出，18呎底線跳投
命中!!!!!!!!然後好兄弟小湯又馬上賞了大歐一鍋。

O'Neal retrieved his miss and was fouled on his putback attempt, hitting one
of two free throws to make it 120-115. After a Rashad McCants 20-footer
helped counter a Steve Nash three-pointer, it wasn't until Hawes pulled down
an offensive rebound with 37 seconds left and the Kings up seven points that
the Suns had finally set.

"Going up against a guy like that is still a little crazy for me," Hawes
said. "I saw (O'Neal's movie) 'Kazaam' in theaters when I was kid. That's how
much I looked up to that guy. But playing like that against him shows people
that you're ready. He's one of the greatest of all time."
「對付這種傢伙還是滿瘋狂的，我看著他的電影長大的。這就是我所知道的。他是最偉大
的球員之一」

O'Neal – who was effective in his own right with 24 points, nine rebounds
but hit just 6 of 15 free throws – was far more concerned with his own
team's young big man afterward than he was of Hawes. He ridiculed rookie
Robin Lopez for being a "tree in the wind" defensively in his three minutes
of play, and was hesitant to dole out compliments for Hawes.

"Being the Shogun of big men, I don't have time to comment on every upcoming
big man," he said. "(Hawes) still has to go through a lot of other people
before he gets to my rank. He's a respectable big man, he plays hard, but
it's nothing I haven't seen before."
「做為幕府大將軍，我沒有時間去理會那些小嘍嘍，他要到我這種等級還有很多路要走，
他是個可以尊敬的大個子，很拚，但在我見證之前還是什麼都不是」

This was certainly a different Kings team than the one the Suns saw before.
On Feb. 2, the Suns led by as many as 50 points in a 129-81 win at US Airways
Center that set a home record for margin of victory for Phoenix and was the
Kings' fourth-worst loss of all-time. Without forward Amare Stoudemire
(season-ending eye injury) and point guard Leandro Barbosa (left leg bone
bruise) this time around, Phoenix fell to 3 1/2 games out of playoff position
with eight to play.


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推 Tmix:推一下翻譯～～
推 AsukaLee:不過禁區雙寶今天表現真的很棒!! 面對大歐完全不遜色
推 cwebb4:box裡面大歐ba是0耶＠＠
推 tyrone208:Hawes加油 期待你變成更猛的大米
推 michaelch:大米年輕時也幹過苦力的~Hawes不要只學他的老人球啊
→ michaelch:而且大米極盛期的高位投籃比老狄還準!
推 zzahoward:可是大米防守很QQQQ....
→ GodEyes:那是受傷後～如果看過溜馬時代的大米或03年守KG的大米 你
→ GodEyes:就不會覺得他軟了
推 michaelch:幹...03年的KG也是在拼豪洨的...守得很辛苦