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5 reasons Michael Jordan’s perfect 6-for-6 Finals record is overrated
五个原因，乔丹的6-6决赛记录其实是过誉的
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NBA Finals: Michael Jordan ‘grossly overrated’, writes FOX Sports US’s
Andrew Lynch, LeBron comparison
乔丹明显过誉了
Michael Jordan's undefeated NBA Finals record is one of the most astonishing
accomplishments in all of professional sports.
乔丹决赛未败的记录在所有职业运动中是很惊人的成就
It's also grossly overrated.
但是它也很明显的过誉了
We lionize Jordan as unquestionably the greatest of all time because he went
6-for-6 for six in championship series, but we forget the context — and we
use that perfect record as the ultimate cudgel in the battle between Jordan
and LeBron James.
因为他决赛6/6的完美记录，我们把乔丹当作史上最伟大的球员，而我们总是把这个
记录当作最终武器来对抗詹姆斯和乔丹间的争斗
No matter how great The King might be, he can never ascend to His Airness'
throne. LeBron lost in the Finals (multiple times!), and Jordan didn't. End
of story — assuming you hate the slightest bit of nuance in your life.
不管大管大帝詹姆斯有多么的伟大，他永远无法登上篮球的王座，因为他在决赛输太
多次了，而乔丹却没有。故事结束
Truly, Jordan was extraordinarily great. Yet as impressive as Jordan's legacy
is, there are five reasons you might be overlooking LeBron to celebrate MJ.
确实，乔丹是杰出的伟大，但同样于他的伟大，你可能也忽略了姆斯的伟大，以下有
五个原因：
原因一： 1990年的防守并没有那么好
As physical as 1990s defenses were, they weren't all that good
People like to pretend Michael Jordan would average 50 points per game in the
modern NBA because of the lack of a hand-checking rule.
人们总是喜欢认为乔丹到现在可以得到50分，因为不能hand-checking
They conveniently ignore that the elimination of hand-checking wasn't the
only defensive rule change in the early 2000s. The NBA also modified the
illegal defense rule, allowing teams to play hybrid man-zone scheme all over
the court.
他们很简单的忽个了hand-checking不是在2000初期改变的防守规则。NBA也修改了
非法防守规则，允许队伍使用大量的区域联防
That change affected post players big and small — from the likes of
Shaquille O'Neal to, yes, His Airness. Defenses could now send a soft
double-team at you before you even caught the ball, instead of having to wait
to help under the old rules.
这个改变影响了低位的大小球员-包括了欧尼尔。防守者可以你在接触球前就开始
包夹。而根据旧规则，你必须要等到对方拿到了球才可以包他
Schemes became more sophisticated, thanks to visionaries such as Tom
Thibodeau and Gregg Popovich. Teams defended areas of the floor, taking away
scoring superstars' comfort zones.
因为Thibodeau和Popo，体制变得更成熟。球队防守着球场上每个区域，拿走对方
得分超级球星的舒适圈
Moreover, teams fouled less often because they were able to prevent stars
from getting to their spots and didn't have to resort to grabbing and
knocking a guy on his butt.
另一方面，球员犯规很少了，因为他们可以阻止对方的球星卡到他要的位置，而且
他们不需要诉诸擒抱或许踢他的屁屁来犯规。
All of this would have affected Jordan. His scoring prowess was built on the
foundation of his legendary ability to draw fouls, in addition to all of his
other greatness, and he was the ultimate one-on-one assassin.
这些都影响了乔丹。他的得分能力是建立在他传奇的买犯能力。而他也是最终的一对一
杀人兵器。
It has become far more difficult to impose your personal will on an opponent
in the modern NBA, and without that dominance, Jordan's Bulls might have come
up short a time or two. Faced with increasingly complex defenses that could
focus their attention on Jordan alone, His Airness would have played a lot
more like LeBron — moving the ball, trusting his teammates, and shooting
more 3s.
在现代的NBA，施加你个人的意志到对手上变的超级困难，没有这方面的统治力，乔丹的
公牛可能就会失手一到二次冠军。当面对大量只针对乔丹的防守，他的篮球会变的非常
像是詹姆斯：不断地转移球、信任他的队友以及射更多的三分
And when you have to rely on others to the extent LeBron has in his career,
instead of just to win championships with series-clinching shots, you're
going to have failures.
而当你必须要像詹姆斯那样依赖你的队友，你无法仅靠关键投篮拿到冠军，相反的，
你会失败。
原因二：NBA帮助了乔丹三次
The NBA made things easier for Jordan on three separate occasions
But we can go back further than contemporary rule changes, as there were two
seismic shifts during Jordan's time in the NBA that enabled his dominance.
除了规则改变，在乔丹时代还有两个重大的变动助长了他的统治力
First, Jordan was the beneficiary of expansion — twice. In 1988 and 1989,
the NBA added four teams (the Heat, Hornets, Timberwolves, and Magic),
diluting the talent pool across the Association. Coupled with the decline of
the Lakers and Celtics in the early '90s, Jordan marched through a league
still on the rebound.
第一，乔丹是球队扩增的受益者。在1988和1989年，NBA增加了四只队伍，把NBA的好球员
给稀释了。再加上湖人以及赛尔迪克的衰退，乔丹得以在还在恢复中的联盟中胜出。
Then, in 1995, the Grizzlies and Raptors came into the NBA — once again just
in time for a Bulls threepeat. Never forget, though, that the 72-10 Chicago
squad lost to the expansion Raptors in that 1995-96 season, because anything
can happen on a given night.
在乔丹复出那年，NBA又刚好增加了两只球队。虽然72胜的公牛曾输给新加入的暴龙，
毕竟任何事都是有可能的
And right at that moment, the NBA also shortened the 3-point line to try to
drive up scoring, from 22 feet in the corners and 23-9 above the break to 22
feet all the way around.
刚好这个时候NBA缩减了三分线
How convenient for Jodan, a career 32.7 percent shooter from behind the arc
who shot 50.0 percent, 42.7 percent, and 37.4 percent in three years with the
shorter line — all as he played alongside the most accurate 3-point shooter
in NBA history, Steve Kerr, who also had career years with the Bulls.
对一个生涯32.7%的射手，这一切真是太舒适了，他在缩短的三年了射出了 50%、42.7%
以及37.4%的命中率。这刚好都跟他跟史上最准的三分射手Steve Kerr重叠，Kerr的巅峰
期刚好在公牛王朝以及三分线缩短时期一样。
Then again, it's not like Kerr's 3-point shooting helped Jordan win any
championships, right?
Kerr的三分难道没有帮乔丹拿到任何冠军吗？
原因三：乔包从来没有遇到真正的逆境
Jordan never faced a truly worthy adversary
LeBron James has faced the greatest players of his generation in the NBA
Finals (other than Kobe Bryant, sadly).
除了Kobe以及，姆斯遇到当代最强的NBA球员
He had to beat Tim Duncan, and lost to the Big Fundamental twice. He's been
defended by perennial Defensive Player of the Year candidates such as
Draymond Green, Kawhi Leonard and Andre Iguodala. He took down an Oklahoma
City Thunder team with Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, and James Harden.
他必须要击败邓肯，并输给了这个基石两次。他总是被年度最佳防守球员候选人防守，
比如说嘴绿、可爱和小AI。他打败了拥有三名Mvp等级球员的雷霆队
And, of course, he conquered the greatest regular-season team in NBA history,
then prepared to beat them again after they restocked by adding KD.
当然，他打败了史上最强的例行赛球队，并准备在他们加入了腿杜后再次击败他们
Who's the greatest superstar Jordan had to vanquish for a championship?
所以谁是乔丹为了拿冠军所击败的最伟大球员？
Magic Johnson? That Lakers team was falling apart, and less than five months
after the 1991 Finals, Johnson announced he was HIV positive and retired from
the game.
魔术？那只湖人正在崩解，决赛后5个月，魔术就因为爱滋病而退休
Clyde Drexler? Overlooked, yet not on the level of LeBron's opponents.
Drexler? 被低估的选手，但绝对不到姆斯对手的程度
Charles Barkley? John Stockton? Karl Malone? Count the rings — and they had
chances, too, when Jordan was retired or losing in the Eastern Conference
finals.
巴克利？大史？马龙？他们有几戒？而且他们明明有好几次机会，乔丹退休期间他们有
拿到冠军吗？
He ducked Hakeem Olajuwon, was in the same conference as Shaquille O'Neal (by
the way, going 1-1 against Shaq's Magic in the postseason before Orlando
lowballed the Diesel and broke apart Chicago's biggest threat), and scored
against guys like Jeff Hornacek and Dan Majerle in the NBA Finals.
他躲过了欧拉朱万而跟魔术队同区。在决赛，则是和Hornacek以及Majerle对抗
Jordan rose to every challenge, but the challengers never rose to him.
乔丹挡在所有的挑战前，却没有任何挑战者挡在他前面。
原因四：公牛决赛的记录并不全归功于乔丹
The Bulls' Finals record doesn't belong to just Michael Jordan
LeBron has had more superstar help in his career, of course, but there are
two key franchise factors in Jordan's favor.
姆斯当然有更多的大腿在帮他，但有两项特权是站在乔丹这边
Phil Jackson is the obvious one, as The King has mostly had to deal with
average-at-best coaches during his time in the NBA (Erik Spoelstra being the
exception, although there are varied opinions on just how good of a coach
Spoelstra was during LeBron's Miami tenure).
相对于大帝生涯的教头都很平庸，乔丹有杰克森(当然，Spoelstra算是例外）
Jordan, meanwhile, had the Zen Master to lead the Bulls, allowing His Airness
to concentrate on being a score-first, ultra-competitive maniac who fought
teammates and intimidated opponents.
乔丹另外一方面还有Master来领导公牛，所以他只需要专注在得分
He also had Scottie Pippen.
他还有皮朋
While Dwyane Wade is a better overall player than Pippen, Pippen's game
perfectly complemented Jordan's. His defense gave MJ a respite when he needed
it, and his playmaking kept the Triangle Offense flowing when Jordan
preferred to dominate the ball.
虽然Wade是比Pippen全面的球员，皮朋和乔丹完全的互补。他的防守让乔丹有空可以松
一回气，他的控场让三角进攻运行
Really, it's unfair to harp on Jordan's perfect Finals record. The Chicago
Bulls deserve credit as a franchise for what they accomplished; giving all
the glory to the GOAT doesn't do that team justice.
当然，抱怨乔丹完美的决赛记录是不公平的。公牛值得拿到这样的特权。把所有的
荣耀全给乔丹则是对整队都不公平
原因五： 在两次三年霸间他休息了18个月
He took 18 months off between threepeats
I understand that riding on buses with the Birmingham Barons isn't exactly a
resort vacation, especially when you're processing the tragic death of your
father, but it is a lot easier on the body than having guys like Charles
Oakley sending you crashing to the hardwood a half-dozen times per game, 82
times a year.
我知道小联盟的赛程不像是在度假，尤其是当你在为你父亲的死而难过时。但对于身体
来说，这原比在场上被巴克利的大屁股撞还来的好过。
Regardless of whether you think Hakeem's Rockets would have beaten the Bulls
in the '94 or '95 Finals if Jordan didn't retire the first time (and I think
they probably would have gone 1-1), he certainly saved himself a lot of wear
and tear in those two years.
不管你认为公牛会不会被欧天王的火箭给击败，这两年他完全避免了任何的折损
He got to recharge, both physically and mentally, while his biggest
adversaries grew older and wearier. If he had to face the fatigue of eight
straight Finals appearances between 1991 and 1998, however, there's no way he
ends up with a perfect championship record.
他可以在心理上和身体上充电，而他的对手们都变得更弱更老。如果他必须要连续打冠军
赛8年，他绝对没有办法连拿8冠。
He might have more rings, but he's not 8-for-8 — and that's the difference
between being the modern-day Bill Russell and the undisputed Greatest of All
Time.
他或许可以拿到更多的戒指，但绝对不是8/8。这就是跟成为现代罗素或是毫无争议的
伟大不同。