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Playing without Joel Embiid on the road against an athletic and deep Portland
team, the odds were stacked against them.
And the Sixers just couldn’t keep up with the Blazers in a 129-95 drubbing
at Moda Center on Sunday.
没有 Joel Embiid 坐镇又在客场挑战实力和深度都属联盟前段班的拓荒者仍然有赢球的
机会。
但是稍早的比赛七六人并没有坚持住，被拓荒者以 129-95 击败。
The loss drops the Sixers to 23-14 heading into 2019.
Here are observations from perhaps the worst loss of the season.
七六人的战绩以 23 胜 14 败进入 2019 年。
我们可以从这场可能是本季最惨的一场败仗观察一些事。
‧ C.J. McCollum, not Damian Lillard, became the latest guard to scorch the
Sixers.
It wasn’t the pick-and-roll that doomed the Sixers for once. The Lehigh
product was able to pick on weaker perimeter defenders and score in
isolation. He came into the game shooting a career-low 32 percent from three,
but got going from there Sunday night (4 of 7).
He scored 26 first-half points and finished with 35 points in just 27 minutes.
不需要当家球星 Damian Lillard，C.J. McCollum 就足以成为击败七六人的关键稻草。
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这已经不是第一次七六人被挡拆耍的团团转了，这名理海大学出产的球员（C.J.
McCollum）擅长借由拉开空间单打来挑战外围防守能力较弱的对手，虽然本季的三分命中
率来到生涯新低（32%），稍早的比赛三分球有 7 投 4 中的出手表现。
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上半场就已经得到 26 分，整场比赛上场 27 分钟得到 35 分。
‧ Early on, it looked like Ben Simmons would have an impactful night. He was
asserting himself offensively and was using his size advantage over the
Blazers’ guards.
He also showed off his defensive versatility during one sequence in the first
quarter. On one defensive possession, he got stuck on the massive Jusuf
Nurkic. Simmons was able to stand his ground and force a missed shot. On the
next possession, he was on the high-scoring Lillard and forced a turnover.
His ability to switch one through five is arguably his most underrated trait.
比赛前期来看 Ben Simmons 似乎会有一个充满影响力的比赛，他提升自己在进攻端的表
现并且不断利用身材上的优势去挑战拓荒者的后卫群。
第一节里在防守端也有不错的表现，在其中一波的防守回合中成功的防守守下了 Jusuf
Nurkic 的进攻，Simmons 有那个能力站在原地就能影响对手的出手。在下一波进攻中又
成功压迫 Lillard 造成对方失误。他能从一号守到五号的能力是最常被低估的。
In what has become a nightly occurrence, Simmons did attempt two jumpers. The
first one wasn’t a bad miss. He recognized that Portland was clogging the
paint so he pulled up and just missed. The second J wasn’t taken in a bad
opportunity — with Nurkic defending him and sagging way off — but the shot
itself wasn’t pretty. His struggles from the line also continued (5 of 10).
But hey, give the kid credit. He’s recognizing that it’s something that
will benefit his game and that of his teammates. If the attempts keep coming,
you just have to hope the makes are coming behind them.
这场比赛 Simmons 尝试了两次外围的跳投，第一次跳投虽然没进但是并不是一次糟糕的
出手，当他意识到拓荒者的防守球员故意沉退到油漆区时他尝试了第一次的跳投，第二个
跳投机会并不差 - Nurkic 在防守时选择沉退，然而 Simmons 对于这次的出手处理并不
是很好，这场比赛的命中率也不及格（10 投 5 中）。
大家还是要多给点鼓励，当他开始尝试跳投的时候对他或是对有来说都是有好处的，继续
保持下去球队会越来越好。
‧ This was not a banner night for Jimmy Butler offensively. Without Embiid,
the Sixers’ hopes of winning hinged largely on Butler having a big scoring
night. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.
He started the game hitting just 1 of his first 8. He finished 2 for 12 for
just five points. It seemed like he was really forcing the issue, sensing he
had to shoulder a heavier load, and didn’t allow the game to come to him.
Too often it seemed like the other four Sixers were sitting around and
waiting for Butler to do something.
今天对 Jimmy Butler 来说就没那么好过了，Joel Embiid 缺阵的比赛能否赢球的关键就
在于 Jimmy Butler 要有惊人的得分表现，很可惜的这在今天并没有发生。
比赛的前 8 次出手只命中 1 球，整场比赛以 12 投 2 中仅仅得到 5 分而已。看起来他
必须得正视这个落在他肩膀上的责任，在比赛中常看到七六人队其他四个球员站在场上只
是一味的等待他做些什么。
‧ Speaking of Embiid, the Sixers could’ve really used him Sunday night. Not
just for his offense, either. The team struggled to find answers for Nurkic
at the five. Amir Johnson got the starting nod but didn’t get back in until
the game was out of hand.
Nurkic finished with 14 points on 7 of 11 in just 21 minutes. The Blazers as
a team outscored the Sixers 62-30 in the paint.
说到 Embiid 的影响力，这场比赛很明显七六人不能没有 Embiid，这不单单是指进攻上
的影响，球队今天在五号位对于 Nurkic 一点办法都没有，Amir Johnson 先发上场之后
，一直等到比赛进入垃圾时间才回到场上。
Nurkic 出赛 21 分中以 11 投 7 中得到 14 分，两队长油漆区内的得分有 62-30 这么
大的差距。
‧ This is the point of the story where we talk about the bench. You’re
tired of reading about it and we’re tired of writing about it, but it’s
something that needs to be addressed.
T.J. McConnell gave the team a nice spark offensively (14 points), but his
size on defense has become a weak spot against teams with bigger guards.
Former Sixer Evan Turner posted McConnell up on three occasions for easy
buckets in the first half.
The rest of the unit provided little to nothing. With the starters struggling
and against a deep team like the Blazers, the reserves were exposed in a big
way.
关键的问题就是板凳深度了，你知我知独眼龙也知，但是一定要有人解决这个问题才是重
点。
T.J. McConnell 在进攻上有很好的表现（14分），但是防守上的劣势一直成为对方攻击
的破口，光是上半场前七六人球员 Evan Turner 就有三次轻松得分的机会。
比赛剩下的部份就没什么特别好谈的，七六人的先发努力对抗像拓荒者这样深度很完整并
且在比赛中彻底展现优势的球队。