Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Needs a Change, James Harden Needs to Change
休士顿火箭 - Lin需要一个转机，Harden需要改变
Posted on 4 May, 2014, by Greg in Basketball; http://0rz.tw/WUahE
The season is over way too early for the Houston Rockets who have
themselves a head coach in Kevin McHale who really doesn’t know how to
make all the moving parts of James Harden, Jeremy Lin and Dwight Howard
work together, preferring to simply wing it and let his star decimate an
entire series on his own than try and teach this team some actual
offense and defense that would have gotten them through.
太早结束的本赛季，对休士顿火箭来说，他们所拥有的总教练McHale真的不知道如
何让Harden,Lin跟Howard等等的球员运作在一起。
偏好的仅仅只是即兴发挥，让他的明星自己毁灭这整个系列赛，而不是尝试教导这
支球队一些实际的进攻和防守来让他们克服难关。
Kevin McHale is going to stay because this isn’t his team. In the NBA
today, few head coaches actually have a say in how a team will look. This
is Daryl Morey’s baby, and his infatuation with analytics instead of
trying to learn from what he sees on the court is part of the problem.
The numbers suggest making Patrick Beverley a starter? Go ahead. The
numbers say James Harden should be a point guard and do whatever he
wants? Go ahead.
McHale将会留下来，因为这不是他的球队。在今日的NBA，很少有总教练对球队的发
展有发言权。
这是Morey的小孩，不试图的去了解在球场上所看到的，而仅是钟情于的数字分析，
而这才是一部分问题之所在。
这些数字建议让Beverley先发？好阿。
那些数字说Harden应该成为一个控卫，做任何他想做的？行阿。
Bringing Dwight Howard to the team doesn’t automatically make it better
defensively. Not when James Harden and Chandler Parsons have been
sleepwalking on that side of the ball for most of the season. Not when
there’s too much emphasis on Patrick Beverley being a stopper, while time
and time again we see he’s overrated as a defender when there’s more than
effort needed. Not when Jeremy Lin, the best point guard on the team, is
used in a weird spot up shooter role, and punished for every mistake he
makes while the others get a free pass.
把Howard带进这个队不会自动使他们的防守变好。
不是当Harden跟Parsons在大半个赛季中整场的梦游。
不是当有太多的强调说Beverley是只防守大锁，而一次又一次中，我们看到他是一
个被高估的防守球员，光靠拼命防守是不够的。
不是当Lin，这个球队中最好的控卫，是被用来作为一个奇怪的定点射手的角色，并
惩罚他所做的每一个错误，当别人老是拿着免死金牌。
The Rockets will try and move Lin with his $8.3 million deal this
offseason. Omer Asik? Unless he really insists, the Rockets saw some
things they like in the possible combination between him and Dwight
Howard, although the overall goal is having a stretch four, something
Terrence Jones gave them at times. The Rockets seemed to give up on too
many players as the playoff moved forward, like Jordan Hamilton (a free
agent) and Omri Casspi. Greg Smith, who missed the entire season, is also
hitting free agency, Francisco Garcia has a player option. Everyone else
stays.
火箭会尝试在季后把$8.3M的林交易掉。
Asik？除非他真的坚持，要不然火箭队看到了一些所喜欢的Howard跟Asik可能的组
合，虽然总体目标是有四大金刚(像是某些时候Jones的表现)。
火箭队在季候赛期间似乎放弃了太多球员，像是已是自由球员Hamilton和Casspi。
缺席了整个赛季的Smith也成了自由球员，还有拥有球员选项的Garcia。
所有其他人都留下来。
So how can this team become better? There’s potential to do something
with this group, but possibly not under this head coach, and not while
James Harden feels like he is often alone on this offense. It might be in
Jeremy Lin’s best interest to try and play somewhere else, because he
isn’t going to be come a starting point guard unless McHale and Morey
suddenly realize what they’ve been doing wrong all this time.
那么，怎样样这支球队才能变得更好？
对于这一票人有那么一些可能性，但可能不是在这个总教练之下，也不是在Harden
感觉他老是个独枪侠的情况下。
而这可能是在尝试着加入别队的Lin的最佳利益，因为他是不会变成先发控卫，除非
McHale和Morey突然明了他们过往已经做错了这么久。
Harden isn’t the superstar Kevin Durant is. In my opinion he’s more
talented of a scorer than Russell Westbrook but with an even bigger ego,
and a much worse defender. That isn’t exactly material for a number one
player on a championship contender. Somehow taming him, pushing the team
a bit more towards Howard in the post or as a pick & roll scorer while
making Jeremy Lin an actual point guard with substantial minutes and a
starting role should be what they drift towards.
Harden并不是如同超级巨星般的Durant。
在我看来他比Westbrook是更有天份的得分手，但更自我，一个更糟糕的防守者。这
正不是一个冠军候补队的第一号球员的材料。
某方来说劝服他，让这只球队稍微将Howard推往低位或是得分手的挡拆，同时让Lin
成为实际的控球后卫，有大量的上场时间和他们一开始所规划的一个先发的角色。
More likely? Lin gets traded, while the Rockets pursue their 3-stars
vision, which will change nothing. More hero-ball from Harden, more
frustrations for Howard, while this team will remain one with different
classes and unhappy players for it. The Rockets have needs like another
backup guard and maybe a more traditional big man to serve as a backup
as well. But their core problems have been easy to spot all season long.
It’ll be surprising if they actually take care of them though.
但，更有可能的是什么？林被交易，而火箭队追求三王的愿景，而这将什么都改变
不了。
更多的Harden英雄球，让Howard更挫折，而这个球队将是一支有不同的阶级和不开
心的球员。火箭队会有另一个替补后卫的需求，也许一个较传统的长人来作为一个
替补。
但他们的核心问题在整个赛季中，一直是很明显的。如果他们真正好好的解决这些
问题，这将会是令人惊讶的事。