Houston Rockets – Jeremy Lin Needs a Change, James Harden Needs to Change
休士頓火箭 - Lin需要一個轉機，Harden需要改變
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.
太早結束的本賽季，對休士頓火箭來說，他們所擁有的總教練McHale真的不知道如
何讓Harden,Lin跟Howard等等的球員運作在一起。
偏好的僅僅只是即興發揮，讓他的明星自己毀滅這整個系列賽，而不是嘗試教導這
支球隊一些實際的進攻和防守來讓他們克服難關。
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將會留下來，因為這不是他的球隊。在今日的NBA，很少有總教練對球隊的發
展有發言權。
這是Morey的小孩，不試圖的去了解在球場上所看到的，而僅是鍾情於的數字分析，
而這才是一部分問題之所在。
這些數字建議讓Beverley先發？好阿。
那些數字說Harden應該成為一個控衛，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帶進這個隊不會自動使他們的防守變好。
不是當Harden跟Parsons在大半個賽季中整場的夢遊。
不是當有太多的強調說Beverley是隻防守大鎖，而一次又一次中，我們看到他是一
個被高估的防守球員，光靠拼命防守是不夠的。
不是當Lin，這個球隊中最好的控衛，是被用來作為一個奇怪的定點射手的角色，並
懲罰他所做的每一個錯誤，當別人老是拿著免死金牌。
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.
火箭會嘗試在季後把$8.3M的林交易掉。
Asik？除非他真的堅持，要不然火箭隊看到了一些所喜歡的Howard跟Asik可能的組
合，雖然總體目標是有四大金剛(像是某些時候Jones的表現)。
火箭隊在季候賽期間似乎放棄了太多球員，像是已是自由球員Hamilton和Casspi。
缺席了整個賽季的Smith也成了自由球員，還有擁有球員選項的Garcia。
所有其他人都留下來。
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.
那麼，怎樣樣這支球隊才能變得更好？
對於這一票人有那麼一些可能性，但可能不是在這個總教練之下，也不是在Harden
感覺他老是個獨槍俠的情況下。
而這可能是在嘗試著加入別隊的Lin的最佳利益，因為他是不會變成先發控衛，除非
McHale和Morey突然明瞭他們過往已經做錯了這麼久。
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並不是如同超級巨星般的Durant。
在我看來他比Westbrook是更有天份的得分手，但更自我，一個更糟糕的防守者。這
正不是一個冠軍候補隊的第一號球員的材料。
某方來說勸服他，讓這隻球隊稍微將Howard推往低位或是得分手的擋拆，同時讓Lin
成為實際的控球後衛，有大量的上場時間和他們一開始所規劃的一個先發的角色。
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，更有可能的是什麼？林被交易，而火箭隊追求三王的願景，而這將什麼都改變
不了。
更多的Harden英雄球，讓Howard更挫折，而這個球隊將是一支有不同的階級和不開
心的球員。火箭隊會有另一個替補後衛的需求，也許一個較傳統的長人來作為一個
替補。
但他們的核心問題在整個賽季中，一直是很明顯的。如果他們真正好好的解決這些
問題，這將會是令人驚訝的事。