让我们下定交易的决心 ， 描述： Blogging pro basketball with Jonathan Feigen

sylk

Trade everyone.

No. Not quite.

Trade anyone?

Close.

交易所有人？不对。谁都可以交易？差不多就是这意思。

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Rockets owner Leslie Alexander said months ago that he wanted to see his team play just 10 games together.

Sorry. It's too late. They've played just six together. That will have to be enough.

The trade deadline is in 10 days and Daryl Morey is on the clock.

亚历山大曾说他想看看这支队伍阵容齐整的打十场比赛再说。

不好意思，已经太晚了。现在才一起打了6场，我们就已经看得足够了。

10天之后是交易截止，莫雷的钟，滴答滴答。

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There have been too many signs that this team just does not care enough. For whatever reasons - and that silly, little locker room tension would qualify as a pathetic excuse/explanation - the Rockets cannot maintain intensity and focus, effort and energy game after game.

太多的迹象已经表明，火箭队没有赢取比赛的心。不要再拿愚蠢的更衣室矛盾来当借口，这支火箭队输球的原因是没有能量、注意力和韧性。

If they can't do it for more than a few days at a time in February, does anyone think they can do it week after week against a Western Conference playoff opponent in April or May?

火箭队甚至不能在几天之内连续打出好的表现，大家相信这样的火箭能在对阵季后赛对手时连续几周打出高水平比赛？

This is who they are. It does not matter now who they thought they'd be. They cannot depend on who they might still believe they can become. They are a team on the fringe of the playoff pack, very capable of losing to anyone, especially on the road.

"Now is not early in the season," Yao Ming said. "It's not 20 games into the season. Now it's 50 games into the season. We're still stuck in here and talk about we still have time to fix it, from first game of the season and 10 games in the season and 50 games into the season. We still talk about we need to fix it."

This is not a call to panic. You don't make trades to get rid of people. You don't make trades just to shake things up. You do that and you end up with someone not good enough and you usually end up stuck with him much longer than the guy you got rid of.

In other words, you don't trade Tracy McGrady for anyone that makes the money match just because you're mad at him. (OK, you do that in the fantasy trade-blog world, but in the real world, you calm down and only trade for players you actually want.) You do, however, evaluate him based on what you see today, not what used to be.

As Morey heads to Phoenix for the All-Star break/swap meet, he needs to go with a sense that the chances of this all magically falling into place and igniting into some sort of late-season fire have been reduced to far, far longer than longshot.

Yao remains untouchable. After that, Monday might be the last bit of evidence needed for Morey to most value those who most reliably play with heart and determination.

Perhaps that's what the Rockets need most and the quality Morey can find out there. It's time, past time, to forget about the preseason expectations and prognostications and judge this team solely by what shows up on the floor.

The Amar'e Stoudemire fantasies are nice, but since that sort of thing is not going to happen (the team that offers the best young player gets him, and Aaron Brooks or Carl Landry probably don't qualify) the Rockets might have to seek small, but important improvements.

Whatever they do or don't do, they have to progress now with the understanding that they cannot wait and hope any longer, assuming change will come.

It might, but that cannot be the assumption.

"There's no sense or urgency," Rafer Alston said. "And I don't think guys are paying attention to the league, to the standings. We're not that far from the top; we're not that far from 10th. We're back to taking baby steps. We have to start with guarding a man. We have to start with focus. And then you can talk about achieving, what kind of playoff we want to have this year."

Rockets coach Rick Adelman is right when he says all he and his players can do is keeping working. That's their job. Morey's is to keep working the phones, and to make those calls with a different evaluation of his team.

Every game offers evidence. The evidence has grown to overwhelming.

Morey has gone from planning only slight tinkering to hoping to be "opportunistic." The idea now has to become to be aggressive. He does not have to trade everyone. There are a lot of guys he probably can't trade, at least not in any deal he would or should consider. But if it is possible to forget the Rockets' latest flop, he should be sure to consider it with every phone call.

sylk

翻译如下：《休斯敦纪事报》专栏作家费根撰文表示，交易截止期将至，火箭需要做出交易了，已经即便是阵容齐全的他们，也无法让人满意——

每个人都可交易？不，不完全正确。交易掉某些人？快了。亚历山大几个月前表示他想看看他的球队以整齐的阵容打上10场比赛，对不起，太晚了，他们已经一起打了6场，够了。交易截止期还有10天，莫雷的时间不多了。

火箭无法一场接一场地保持强度、集中精力，付出努力以及拿出能量。如果他们到了二月份都还做不到，那么在四五月份面对季后赛的对手，谁又会认为他们可以做到呢？

这就是他们。现在他们认为他们是谁并不重要。他们无法再去说他们仍然相信他们能成为什么样子。他们只是一支徘徊在季后赛边缘的队伍，可能输给任何一个对手，尤其在客场。

“现在已经不是赛季初了，”姚明说，“不再是赛季只进行了20场比赛，已经打了50长了，我们仍在谈论我们仍然有时间去弥补，从第1场比赛到第50场，我们仍然在说我们需要修补。”

这并不是吓唬人。你不会为了踢走某人而做出交易，你不会只为了改变阵容而交易。换句话说，你不会只因为你对麦蒂不满就只考虑薪金匹配把他随便换掉，但你确实得按照今天你看到的他去评估他的价值，而不是以前的他。

姚明仍然是不动产。然后，今天也许是莫雷需要的最后一点证据，去评估谁最可靠，谁最有决心。但莫雷不会抱有做一笔惊人的交易、点燃火箭季末火焰的想法。小斯听起来不错，但那不会发生（太阳要的是最棒的年轻球员，兰德里或布鲁克斯还不够）。火箭也许不得不去寻求那种微小、但重要的改进。

不管他们做了什么或没做什么，现在起他们必须前进，必须明白他们不能再等着希望出现了。“没有紧迫性，”阿尔斯通说，“我不认为大家把注意到了联盟和排名。我们离第一没那么远，但我们离第10也不远。我们必须开始防守，我们必须开始集中精力，然后你才能去谈成就，谈我们今年想要一个怎样的季后赛。”

阿德尔曼说他和他的球员所能做的就是保持努力，这是对的，这是他们的工作。而莫雷在电话前也一直在努力。之前莫雷的计划是做点小修小补，但这个计划现在不适用了。他不必把每个人都交易了，许多人他可能无法交易，至少他们不会出现在他会或者应该考虑的交易名单中。但如果可能让他忘掉火箭今天的溃败，他应该会考虑每一个电话的提议。

wbbob

话虽这么说，其实有几个人，是走不了的~另外，谢谢楼主的分享，辛苦了