搜狐费根专栏：阿帅来不及扑火 火箭队未来难测

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    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。

费根：阿帅来不及扑火 火箭队未来难测

　　对于大多数的NBA球队来说，即使是那些以在联盟征战多年的老将为班底的球队，在他们在一起打上20场之前，也不知道他们到底是什么样子或者即将变成什么样子。

　　不过，对于现在的火箭队来说，他们已经在一起打了22场比赛了，但是我们还是对他们没有一点的概念。

　　二十场比赛这个时间，是以前活塞队的主教练查克-戴利所留下来的说法，他曾经带领着伊赛亚-托马斯、乔-杜马斯，和比尔-兰比尔、麦克-马洪以及虽然年轻但是已经成熟了的丹尼斯-罗德曼所组成的爆炸性前场，夺下了两个NBA总冠军，可是对于他来说，哪怕刚刚赢得了一个总冠军，球队仍然是需要时间来磨合的。

　　现在的人们喜欢说一个球队这个赛季需要“守住”总冠军，这个说法并不是非常正确的，凯尔特人即使08-09赛季一无所获，但是仍然是上个赛季的总冠军。更确切的说，赢下来一个赛季并不能给这个球队的下个赛季带来什么样的好处，同样的，常规赛的胜利也只是能够给季后赛带来主场优势以及心理优势而已。

　　每个球队在每个赛季之初都需要磨合的。

　　对于现在的火箭队来说，休赛期引进阿泰斯特这样的刺激性事件并不能保证新赛季开始时候的任何事情，这个球队需要从球员大名单开始磨合，虽然这个名单看起来非常的美好。

　　其实这些直到现在都还没有发生，虽然这个球队看起来已经成功的磨合了好多次了，比如他们成功的战胜了黄蜂和太阳，并且在马刺的主场成功的压制住了对手（虽然最后比赛失利了），他们东部的三个连续客场以横扫了对手而结束，他们回到了主场，以自己有效的进攻拿下了快船和勇士，不过，对于火箭队的每一次进步来说，最后都是伤病袭击了他们。

　　在这22场比赛中，巴蒂尔错过了前面的15场，麦迪错过了后面的7场，布伦特-巴里则有8场比赛没有上场，阿泰斯特也有一场比赛休息（而且接下来还有两场），弗朗西斯自从今年的二月份之后就没有为火箭队打过球，多西也休息了一周了。很多时候，火箭队甚至都无法完成五对五的球队训练，因为没有足够的替补队员。

　　在这22场比赛中间，火箭队没有一次是全队所有队员都能够参加的。

　　“我只是为主教练感到有些难过，”巴里说，“我想对于主教练来说，最好的生日礼物是给他足够的人员来挑选球队的阵容，可是这不是我们所能够控制的，从这点上来说，从训练营开始到现在已经进行的22场比赛，我们还没有一场常规赛是全体人员都可以参加的。”

　　“很明显，这是一个很令人失望的事情，不管是对于球队还是球迷来说，都是如此，当然对于教练组来说也不例外。我想球队的教练们一定为了调整阵容做了大量的工作，球员们都有了一定的成长，打球也越来越好，保持着球队的活力，不过我们真的想看到，如果我们每个人都可以站在球场上，团结在一起，我们所能够达到的高度。”

　　对于现在的阿德尔曼来说，现在已经进行的整个赛季就像点燃了一场森林大火，每一次他控制了一处火势，另外一处就又开始燃烧了。

　　每当火箭队想要一场场的磨合阵容，做出正确的决定和坚强的比赛态度的时候，他们都不得不在调整球队阵容上花费大量的时间和精力。每一次人员的改变都带来了调整、问题、改正或者彻底的解决。只有两样是从来不会变的，那就是火箭队接连不断的伤病和持续不断的阵容变化。

　　现在这个情况依然在持续，包麦迪即将回归但是阿泰却又要休息了，阿德尔曼和他的助手们不得不为同一场比赛制定出很多不同的计划，因为只有这样才可以适应那些随时变化的健康和受伤的队员。

　　虽然这些都不能为球队比赛的失败提供足够的借口，可是火箭队，在打过了22场比赛之后，并不能确定的估计以后的任何事情。

　　对于一个自从1996年以来再也没有赢得过任何季后系列比赛的胜利的火箭队来说，没有任何的衡量比季后赛的成绩更加重要的了，常规赛不过是为季后赛的检验所做的准备，或者是对即将来临的季后赛提供一种并不那么可信的参考，而且，对于有很多个强队来竞争很少的季后赛资格的西部来说，进入季后赛其实也不是一个很确定的事情。

　　这些现在都没有发生，球队并没有像我们想象的那样变得更加的健康，也没有像我们想象的那样赢得更多的胜利。

　　巴里说：“我们必须聚在一起打上一些有特殊意义的时间，在比赛的最后关键时刻都在球场上，理解球将往哪儿去，以及我们接下来该怎么做，这是过了两三个月之后我们必须要做的事情。”

　　可是在接下来的两三场比赛中间，火箭队的首发阵容还是无法凑齐，他们什么都没有办法做。

　　如果他们在上面的这二十场比赛中间，能够完整的聚到一起，做到了一些磨合的话，我们或许可以对接下来的事情做出一个很好的判断了。

　　（搜狐体育 少东）

　　以下是费根专供搜狐的原文

　　By Jonathan Feigen

　　The common logic is that NBA teams, even teams filled with proven veterans, really don’t know what they are or what they could be until 20 games have been played.

　　The Rockets have played 22. They still have no idea.

　　The idea that it would take 20 games is most often attributed for long-time Pistons coach Chuck Daly, who had a championship team at the time. By then Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars, and the bruising frontcourt of Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn and even a young and still relatively sane Dennis Rodman would seem as predictable as a team could be. But Daly’s notion was that every team starts over each season, even one that had just won the championship.

　　People tend to refer to championship teams as "defending" their title, but that not really true. The Celtics will still be the 2007-08 champions even if they don’t win the 2008-09 championship. More to the point, winning one season does not bring any official advantages the next the way regular-season success determines homecourt advantages and even match ups in the post-season.

　　Each team must be built each season.

　　For the Rockets then, a particularly encouraging off-season certainly does not assure anything in the season to come. A team must be built from a roster of players, even if it is a good looking roster.

　　That has not happened. There has been the start of successful team building many times. There was the stretch of games in which the Rockets beat the Suns and Hornets, and took a commanding lead in San Antonio (even if that game ending with a crash.) There was a three-game sweep of an Eastern road trip. There was a nice home stand in which the offense clicked and the Rockets whipped the Clippers and Warriors.

　　Yet for every step forward, injuries have knocked the Rockets back.

　　In 22 games, Shane Battier missed the first 15, Tracy McGrady has missed the past seven. Brent Barry has been out for eight games, Ron Artest one (with two more at least scheduled this weekend.) Steve Francis has not played since last February. Joey Dorsey has been out for a week. Practices sometimes do not have enough players to go five-on-five, much less substitute.

　　In 22 games, the Rockets have had their planned rotation together for zero.

　　"I just feel bad for coach," Barry said. "I think the best Christmas present for coach (Rick) Adelman would be to give him his lineup. It’s not something we can wrap up and put in a package. To this point, through training camp and the first 22 games of the season, we still have not have a full complement of players for one regular-season game.

　　"Obviously, for the team it’s disappointing. For our fans it’s disappointing. It really falls on the coaching staff. I think coach has done a tremendous job adjusting the lineup. Guys have stepped up and played well and are keeping things afloat. But we’d really like to see everybody in uniform and on the court and see what we’ve got."

　　For Rick Adelman, the entire season has been like putting out a forest fire. Every time he gets one blaze under control, another sparks.

　　When the Rockets should be building from game to game, making corrections and using strengths, they have instead spent much of the season starting over. Every change has led to adjustments, problems, corrections and even solutions, only to have the next wave of injuries and lineup changes start the whole process over.

　　There have been times – including now with McGrady close to returning but Artest out – in which Adelman and his assistant coaches have had to put together radically different game plans for the same games, to be used based on that night’s collection of healthy players.

　　None of this is to offer excuses for losses or to diminish wins. The Rockets, however, have played 22 games and have not firmly established anything.

　　A team that more than most is certain to be measured by its post-season, having not won a playoff series since 1996, the regular-season is to build a team ready for the tests to come and perhaps offer glimpses of what is to come. (It is also to get into the playoffs, which for all but very few Western Conference teams cannot be considered a certainty with too many playoff-caliber teams contending for too few spots.)

　　That has not happened, yet. So far the season has been about getting by, getting healthy and getting as many wins as possible

　　"We have to have some time together playing together for significant minutes, being in games that are close games, understanding where the ball is going to do and what we’re going to do," Barry said. "That’s what you have to do over two or three months."

　　The Rockets have not yet done that for two or three games without starting over.

　　If they do ever get those 20 games together, however, we might have a pretty good idea of what to expect.