搜狐特约专家费根：战绩很幸运火箭需要变更好-搜狐体育

搜狐体育讯导读：乔纳森-费根，是休斯顿惟一一家日报《休斯顿纪事报》的首席篮球记者，也是整个赛季跑满全部比赛的惟一一位记者。在国内许多做NBA的媒体中，费根的名字恐怕是最耳熟能详的了，因为他的稿件的翻译版本充斥在各大网站和报纸上，是绝对的火箭专家。近日乔纳森-费根已经签约搜狐体育，搜狐也是目前国内惟一一家获权使用费根专栏文章的媒体。在以后的日子里费根将通过搜狐专栏与广大中国网友一起进行交流。

　　现在，火箭队的全体人员最需要做的事情就是团结在一起，争取另外一个22连胜。

　　这件事情并不是从来没有发生过。上一次，他们也是在一月底，也是在主场战胜了犹他爵士队以后，就立即开始了自己的连胜步伐。

　　现在火箭队的赛程已经度过了一半还要多几场比赛，所以，虽然机会不是特别的良好，但是我们还是可以展望一下火箭队的这个赛季的。

　　本赛季火箭队的赛程和上个赛季非常的类似，那就是在前半个赛季有非常多的客场比赛，对手也有很多的季后赛球队，但同样的，二月份的比赛都会相对比较轻松。不过，与上个赛季相比，火箭队今年这个时刻的战绩却要好上很多。

　　他们的两个主要球员阿泰斯特和麦迪都在一瘸一拐的遭受着伤病的困扰，他们上半个赛季的一半时间都没有看到巴蒂尔上场，他们正在遭受着此前从来没有经历过的更衣室危机--队友们公开说希望麦迪能够贡献更多。

　　不过，火箭队又一次的在主场战胜了爵士队，他们在赛季的前42场比赛中赢下了26场，这其中包括凯尔特人、魔术、小牛、马刺、爵士和掘金这些联盟强队。他们在“咬牙战”的能力也有了很大的提升，最终结果在5分之内的比赛，他们输掉了开始的五场，而在接下来的五场内拿下了4场，包括最近的115-113拿下了掘金队，他们让沃弗获得了职业生涯中最大的一次成功，而且现在他们所遭受的伤病，都不是特别的严重，麦迪和阿泰斯特不久之后就会回归了。

　　“我认为我们在赛季度过半程之后取得25场比赛的胜利，这个结果还是不错的” 阿德尔曼主教练说，“我很希望那次22连胜的经历能够给我们带来一些实实在在的帮助，现在我们正在向着另外一个50胜前进，我们也遭受着疾病的冲击，不过我觉得这一切都还不错。当然，在下半个赛季，我们需要做的更好。”

　　“现在有九支球队在争夺西部季后赛的资格，这中间的一个肯定最后会出局，现在我们所处的位置还不错，不过下半个赛季我们需要做的更好，我不知道我们是否可以重新回到去年22连胜时候的模式，不过我们需要坚持我们的打法，我们需要去赢得比赛。”

　　带着这个观点，对于上半个赛季的所发生的事情来说，都是既可以令人满意，同时也令人不满意的。

　　不管怎么说，火箭队赢得了一个不错的成绩，他们在前面41场比赛拿下了25场，这样的成绩，在上个世纪九十年代中期火箭夺得两个总冠军以后，只出现过两次，一年之前，他们半程的成绩只有22胜19负.

　　不过，火箭队依然没有在前半个赛季磨合好，甚至在整个赛季结束的时候也不一定能够磨合好，这个球队希望的是在季后赛上走的更远，而不是11个赛季都无法突破季后赛第一轮。火箭队并不像那些从来没有在季后赛成功过的球队一样，他们被很多人认为已经足够好，对他们的期望也被提升的很高，如果在季后赛继续出局的话，由于过高的希望，人们会把对火箭队的失望提高到一个新的层次上。

　　在麦迪被贴上了季后赛一轮游的标签的同时，姚明、巴蒂尔以及火箭队其他的年轻球员--包括布鲁克斯、兰德里、斯科拉、海德、沃弗--也从来没有达到过那个地方（季后赛第二轮）。他们之所以还没有被贴上这个标签，仅仅是因为他们的NBA职业生涯还不够长，而现在他们在一个球队，是否会被定义为和麦迪一样的“季后赛一轮游球员”，就要看接下来发生的事情了。

　　无论如何，从比赛结果上说，他们都没有做到突破季后赛第一轮这个任务。季后赛一向被称为另外一个赛季，从很多方面来说，这个说法是很正确的，而火箭队最近十年来一直在这样的“赛季”中遭受失败的伤痛，在每个季后赛，他们都显得根本没有任何的磨合。是的，这样一直的失败可以让他们的动力更足，但是很可惜，这些动力只在他们打常规赛的时候可以看到，在季后赛的时候却都消失不见了。

　　火箭最近五场比赛在主场取得了4胜1负的战绩，把最终打入季后赛的机会又提升了一些，不过他们还没有优秀到足以确保西部季后赛的位置，除了湖人之外，西部的其他球队都被挤出季后赛的资格，都很正常。

　　除了这些对于取得季后赛资格有很大帮助的成绩，同时主场也是一个提高自己的机会，因为他们可以用自己健康的10个球员组成一个稳定的阵容，并且进行系统性的训练，然后再一起上场比赛。

　　上半个赛季的火箭队为那些无法上场的球员花费了太多的时间，最近的这几个主场比赛避免了这样的不确定性，他们就把目光集中到了那些可以上场的球员上，然后他们建立了一个新的阵容，等待麦迪和阿泰斯特的加入，而这个新的阵容比他们因为受伤所留下的那个烂摊子要更加的出色。

　　当这个主场的系列比赛开始的时候，肖恩-巴蒂尔说：“我们接下来几天的挑战是建立一个更高水平的队伍，当麦迪和阿泰斯特回来的时候，就需要努力达到这个队伍的所在的档次了，这是一个挑战，一个很有意思的挑战。当他们两个在的时候比赛会比较容易，但是我们现在需要走出去，重新建立一套新的阵容体系。”

　　那么，接下来的一个挑战就是，在不让麦迪和阿泰斯特损失那些既得利益的同时，把他们增加到这个球队上去，这个可能会在他们接下来的几个客场旅程中开始，不过和上个赛季一样，火箭队需要先通过这个残酷的客场之旅的考验，因为他们还需要有一些时间在比赛的间歇进行训练，而这些比赛和训练都是同一批队员，（所以会很累很残酷）。这是一个机会，让他们去做最近一段时间所做的事情--赢球并且进步。

　　与上个赛季不同的是，这个赛季对阵爵士，姚明参加了比赛，球队也取得了胜利，或许这次，他们的连胜纪录可以达到23场了，当然，前提是接下来的22场连胜要存在。

　　“过去的这些时间，我们非常幸运的达到了现在的这个程度，”阿德尔曼说，“我们需要努力变得更好，我们必须变得更好，我们必须赢下一些比赛。”

　　“这些队员们都能够很快的回到球场上，并且保持不错的状态，我们达到现在的位置很幸运，我们需要在剩下的时间内继续前进，我们需要让自己变得更好”

　　（搜狐体育少东译）

　　By Jonathan Feigen

　　Now all the Rockets have to do is put together another 22-game winning streak.

　　Hey, it’s not like it never happened before. And last time it began immediately following a late-January home game against the Utah Jazz.

　　So the chances are not great, but there could be another way to look at the Rockets’ season a few games past the mid-point.

　　In a season with a schedule strikingly similar to the one before – loaded with tough road trips and playoff teams in the first half, but with a relatively light February – the Rockets are well ahead of last season’s pace.

　　They have had Ron Artest limping and Tracy McGrady gimpy. They have been without Shane Battier for half the first half. They have had the sort of locker room drama – with teammates openly calling for more from McGrady – that they never had before.

　　Yet, by the time the Rockets reached that home game against the Jazz, they had won 26 of 42 games with wins against the Celtics, Magic, Mavericks, Spurs, Jazz and Nuggets. After losing each of their first five games decided by five points or fewer, they have won four of the next five, including their recent 115-113 win against the Nuggets. They have found a stunning success story in Von Wafer. And for all their injuries, none are serious. McGrady and Artest could be back within a few games.

　　”I think winning 25 games halfway through with everything we’ve gone through is OK,” Adelman said. “I’m kind of hoping that 22-game win streak kicks in and that will really help us. To be on pace for 50 wins with the schedule we’ve had and the injuries we’ve had, I feel better about that. But I know we’ve got to do better in the second half.

　　”There’s nine teams bunched for a playoff run and someone’s going to get left out. So it’s good that you’re at this point now, but you’ve got to do better in the second half. I don’t know that we’re going to get back to that (22-game win streak) form. But we’ve gotten to be consistent in how we play. We’ve got to win games.”

　　With that in mind, for everything the first half of the season was, it was both satisfactory and unsatisfying at the same time.

　　The Rockets won at a good rate considering everything. They had 25 wins in the first 41 games just twice before since the championship seasons. A year ago, they were 22-19 at mid-season.

　　The Rockets, however, were not built for the first half of a season or even the second half. This is a team expected to end the long post-season drought, not at 11 seasons without a move to the playoffs’ second round. The Rockets are not like other teams without playoff success. They have been considered good enough to win and to raise expectations, making the disappointment of each post-season failure more disappointing.

　　While Tracy McGrady has been labeled for his failure to ever advance in the playoffs, Yao Ming, Shane Battier and the Rockets younger players, Aaron Brooks, Carl Landry, Luis Scola, Luther Head, Von Wafer have never gone anywhere, either. While they cannot be labeled, having barely begun their NBA careers, together they make up a team to be measured and defined by what happens later.

　　That is not, however, an argument that these games do no matter. The playoffs have been called a second season, and in some ways they are, as the Rockets have painfully been reminded each season for a decade. But teams are not built in the playoffs. Momentum can grow, but teams almost always become in the regular season the teams they are shown to be in the playoffs.

　　The Rockets 4-1 homestand improved their chances to reach the post-season. A team far too good to be excluded from the Western Conference playoffs will be. No team beyond the Lakers should assume they have post-season reservations.

　　Beyond that, however, the homestand was a chance to improve. It was a chance to go into practices and games with the same group of 10 healthy players, and then to go back to work again.

　　The Rockets had spent much of the first half of the season lamenting who was not playing. With a homestand devoid of such uncertainty, the focus moved to who way playing, and then building a better team for McGrady and Artest to join than the one they left.

　　“Our challenge in the next few days,” Shane Battier said when the homestand began, “is to play at a high level so that when they return, it’s on them to reach our level. That’s our challenge. It’s a fun challenge. It’s easier to play with those guys. But we have to go out, establish a flow and play at a high level.”

　　The next challenge is to add McGrady and Artest without sacrificing what they have gained. That could begin on the next road trip, but as with last season, now that the Rockets have gotten through the brutal-travel part of the schedule, they have time to get some practices in between games, and presumably to do both with the same players day after day. There is a chance to do what they did the past few weeks, to win and improve.

　　The difference this season from last is that when they played the Jazz, Yao played and the Rockets won. Perhaps this time, then, the winning streak can reach 23.

　　Still, 22 will do.

　　“We’re fortunate to be where we are with everything that’s gone on,” Adelman said. “We have to try to get better. We have to get better and we have to win some game.

　　“The guys have always come through and have been pretty resilient. We’re probably fortunate to be where we are. We have to go into this last half of the year and we have to be better.”