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作者:Tomer Azarly
Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Russell Westbrook and the Los Angeles Clippers
entered this season with a renewed focus and urgency that had folks thinking,
“Hey, maybe this is the year.” With one trade for James Harden, however,
the team appears to have abandoned that urgency, falling back into last
year's mindset of, “We've got time,” while completely throwing everyone's
roles in a blender.
Kawhi Leonard、Paul George、Russell Westbrook和快艇今年以全新的專注與緊迫感讓大
家產生了"也許今年就是那一年"的想法。但在James Harden交易案過後，球隊似乎放棄了
這個緊迫感並退回到去年的"我們還有時間"的心態並把所有人的角色完全顛覆。
(註:去年Lawrence Frank與球迷強調他們會開始注重例行賽...之類的BS)
Training camp began with the Clippers placing major emphasis on defense and
playing an up-tempo style of basketball. Practices were full of running to
the point that players playfully vented about them during press conferences.
“We're running a lot,” and, “have you ever seen a team run this much in
camp?” were funny quotes thrown around by some of the older guys on the team.
Through the first seven games of the season — parts of four preseason and
three regular-season games — the Clippers looked like a team building up to
something. Kawhi Leonard and Paul George were in a great rhythm together,
picking their spots throughout games while point guard Russell Westbrook
played some of the best and most controlled basketball in his career.
快艇在他們的訓練營將重點都放在防守及打快速度的籃球。練球充滿了跑步且球員們也時
常在記者會上開玩笑。"我們跑很多步"及"你有看過哪隻球隊在訓練營跑這麼多嗎?"都是當
時幾名老將時常說的玩笑話。
在開季的前7場