這篇外電是在東冠和總冠之間的時候讀到的,
當時有想轉過來,不過大概會被酸成「藉口文」,
尤其如果總冠輸了變成2-5的話...
現在贏球了,應該可以有比較理性的討論總冠軍成績到底意義大不大?? o_O
原文:http://goo.gl/f3bp74
LeBron's Finals record a great accomplishment
LeBron的總冠戰績是一項偉大的成就
Does Michael Jordan's legacy need help? Apparently so, if we look
how eager folks are to shred LeBron James for playing on the
losing side in four NBA Finals.
老喬的傳奇成就需要幫忙辯護嗎?很明顯看起來是唷,
如果我們看看那些酸民如何急著想要嘲笑LBJ在總冠低於五成的勝率。
James has been nothing short of incredible in these playoffs,
reaching the NBA Finals yet again after dispatching the Toronto
Raptors.
James在季後賽的表現總是令人難以置信,今年打敗暴龍後又再度
回到總冠
Consider this fact: James just put up a 34.5 player efficiency
rating in the conference finals while no one else surpassed the
26.0 mark over the same period. Not Steph. Not Klay. Not KD. Not
Russ.
靜下心來想一分鐘:LeBron在東冠的PER值高達34.5,
而在分區冠軍賽的四隊裡面沒有任何一個球員的PER甚至能過26。
Curry, KT, KD和神龜都辦不到。
Furthermore, James is dunking twice as often as he did last
postseason. And the Cavs' offense has been virtually unstoppable,
scoring a sizzling 116.2 points per 100 possessions in the
playoffs.
另外,LeBron今年灌籃次數已經是去年季後賽的兩倍了。
而騎士在本季季後賽的進攻端也是無人能擋,平均100次進攻能得
116.2分。
However, over the next couple of weeks, there's a good chance
you'll see some version of the following Finals note plastered in
big-fonted memes:
然而,在未來的兩週,很有可能你會看到一些人開始酸:
James is just 2-4 for his career in the NBA Finals. What a bum!
More like Le-Fraud, am I right?!
LeBron在總冠戰績只有2-4,真是差勁!根本是個假貨吧?
我猜中了你的心思嗎?
Enoooooough. Blaming James for his 2-4 Finals record is relying on
the silliest stat around, and the latest desperate attempt to
protect Jordan's sacred legacy.
真是夠了!嘲笑LeBron在總冠的戰績只有2-4真的是一個
最蠢的立論了,而這也是酸民們最新最潮的酸法來捍衛MJ神聖的
傳奇成就。
Why is 2-4 so misleading?
為啥2-4誤導很大?
Let's count the reasons.
我數著數,至少有下列原因。
1. Six straight Finals is basically unheard of
第一,連續六年進總冠基本上已經接近前無古人。
Seeing James at the Finals has gotten so common that it's hard to
imagine the championship round without him. James has played his
way into the Finals for a sixth straight season, something that
hasn't been done by a player since Bill Russell pulled off the
feat in 1966.
在總冠看到LeBron的身影已經變成一種常態,讓人甚至
難以想像沒有他的總冠是什麼光景。LeBron六連進冠軍賽的成就
基本上是繼1966年的羅素爺之後的第一人。
For James, it's even more remarkable once you consider that
Russell's Boston Celtics needed to win only one series to reach
the Finals from 1961 to 1965; James and others in this modern era
needed to win three just to get there.
對於LBJ而言,這成就事實上更偉大,因為羅素爺前五次
要進總冠基本上只要打一輪,第二輪就是總冠賽了(1961-1965)。
而對身處現代NBA的LeBron而言,進總冠可是要打三輪才進得去的。
Getting to the Finals six straight times is an amazing
accomplishment for James and his teams, even if he didn't win the
title every time. The 2-4 stat is a clever sleight of hand. It
turns a success into a failure, no different than walking up to a
college graduate and tearing up the diploma because it didn't have
summa cum laude written on it.
能連續進冠軍賽六次本身就是一項偉大的成就,即使他
並沒有每次都拿下總冠。2-4的戰績是個很方便的酸點:把一項
成就說成是一種失敗。這就像是在畢業典禮上去撕毀畢業生的
畢業證書,只因為他沒有拿到書卷獎?
By citing James' "losing" record of 2-4, the implication is that
we'd somehow prefer James to lose earlier in the playoffs and
thereby not tarnish his precious Finals record.
事實上,當你嘲笑LeBron在總冠只有2-4的戰績時,
這似乎在說我們好像寧願LeBron在前幾輪就輸掉算了,
所以他的總冠戰績搞不好會漂亮點?
Another common barb thrown at James' record is that he's always
gotten an easy road to the Finals. One pretty big reason for that:
Of the nine 60-win teams from the East since James entered the
league, James has been on three of them. Also, the last two 60-win
East teams James faced in the playoffs? He beat both.
另外一個常見的酸點是說LeBron躲東區,進總冠容易啦。
但是別忘了一個很重要的原因是,在LBJ進入聯盟以來東區的9隻
60w球隊裡面,LeBron自己就佔了3隻。而最近兩隻東區的60w球隊,
LeBron也都打敗了他們
Last season, the Cavs swept the 60-win Hawks and his Heat in 2011
needed just five games to send the 62-win Bulls