搜狐费根专栏：麦迪非罪魁祸首火箭迎调整契机-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。

　　休斯顿处于困惑之中。和球迷们一样，火箭队本身也在苦苦的寻找着自己走向光明的出口。遗憾的是，他们始终无法找到自己“堕落”的真正答案。显然，他们目前正处于一个痛苦的考验期。

　　和赛季前的豪气干云不同，现在的火箭队内部气氛有些诡异。连续的挫折让这支球队备受打击，每个人都在绞尽脑汁思考失败的深层次原因，可惜的是结果却越来越糟糕。他们有改变现状的上进欲望，但全然不知道去探寻自身存在的不足和缺陷。如你所见，他们习惯做的，只是不住的埋怨运气不好等外界因素。

　　事实上，正因为他们想的太多，情况才变得更加的复杂和糟糕；反之，如果火箭上下不去想太多的话，那他们也许根本不会遭遇这么多的烦恼。

　　是的，的确有一些客观上的不利因素在阻碍火箭升空，比如球员的伤病等等。从这一点来说，火箭遭遇一些挫折也是可以理解和原谅的。但问题是，他们太过的沉迷于这些负面因素而无法自拔，他们没有足够的思想准备和能力去克服这些不利因素。这才是最为致命的。

　　麦迪成为了近期的热点人物，他的一举一动被无限的放大。特雷西自己也很矛盾，他如果在球场上拼劲全力，那他的伤势很可能加重而影响火箭队的长远计划。而当他有所保留时，令人失望的表现又在很大程度上影响到了全队的士气。火箭存在的真正问题就在这里——火箭球员们往往把麦迪对球队的影响看的太重，以至于一旦麦迪表现不佳队友们便无所适从。

　　所以，当麦迪以及阿泰斯特无法出场打球时，火箭队显得有些乱了阵脚。一个很有意思的数据是，火箭队曾经连续9场更换他们的首发名单，至今为止已经使用过14套不同的首发阵容，这样的变化只能让火箭的球员之间失去默契，对球队的战绩自然会造成一些不良的影响。主帅阿德尔曼也承认，自己在排兵布阵时受到了伤病的干扰。“我们经常不知道谁能上场谁不能出场，球队有些混乱不堪。”阿德尔曼似乎也很无奈。

　　但火箭本身真的就没有问题吗？我们看到的情形是，火箭在进攻时经常受到对手的牵制而无法做出及时的调整。比赛中火箭经常出现的两种情形是，一是在对手的严密防守下球的转移经常被中断从而形成不了有效的整体进攻；二是球队的进攻核心姚明要么被游离于球队的进攻体系之外要么是无休止的得球进攻，而事实上很多时候姚明的得球机会并不是十分的合适。此外，火箭的防守松懈这个问题已经持续好长一段时间了，这一点在火箭的这次客场之旅体现的尤为明显。

　　在缺少阿泰斯特时，火箭的防守问题便更为突出。一个很值得深思的问题时，火箭在前几个赛季并没有阿泰斯特却照样可以献出高质量的防守，但现在却在防守端严重依赖阿泰斯特，这是很不正常的情况。同样，在进攻端依赖麦迪也是个问题。

　　正因为如此，当麦迪在与猛龙的比赛中表现惨淡时，他的那些队友们也跟着集体低迷。赛后，火箭的更衣室出现了不和谐的音符，球员们很隐晦或者很间接的互相指责和不信任，内乱的苗头出现了。

　　后来，阿泰斯特在公开场合多次评价了麦迪，阿尔斯通则在对阵老鹰的比赛中无视球队的战术安排而渴望以一己之力带领球队前进等等，这些都是并不明智的举动。好在阿德尔曼和总经理莫雷还算很清醒，他们一再要求球员们多从自身找原因，不要对队友说三道四和失去信任。显然，这样的思考是正确的。

　　麦迪和阿泰斯特不在的日子，巴蒂尔也在火箭的这个客场之旅中要求请假休息，这对于火箭来说是个莫大的考验。与老鹰的比赛，火箭打的异常艰苦并在最后时刻防守失败痛失好局；与76人的比赛火箭则暴露了在关键时刻缺乏投中关键球的球员的弱点。

　　战胜凯尔特人的比赛，火箭开局并不算好，甚至很多人都产生了火箭很有可能输掉本次客场之旅所有的5场比赛的悲观想法。好在他们用顽强的毅力最终拿下了比赛，避免滑向更深的深渊。通过这场胜利，火箭终于真正认清了自己，意识到了自身的潜在能量，也知道了自己在逆境中该如何努力让自己变的更好。

　　庆幸的是，火箭在这个时候明白这个道理并不算晚。当然用一场比赛就断定火箭开始走上正轨显得有些为时过早，但毫无疑问火箭总算给了我们再次期待的理由。打完下一场与雷霆的比赛，火箭将迎来一个较好的赛程。他们将连续打5个主场，第一个对手是实力相对较弱的纽约尼克斯。而且，他们的5个主场赛程并不密集，这有助于他们好好的调整和总结，并对自己的阵容做出更合理的安排。他们还可以在更衣室里好好的交流，让球员彼此之间更加信任。

　　阿泰斯特一再的鼓舞队友应对每一场比赛都全力以赴，用尽全力去回报球迷们的支持。客观的说，火箭如今的状况并不全是坏事，如果他们能在接下来的常规赛中更好的认清自己并更好的提升自己的战力的话，那他们此前和现在所经历的痛苦和挫折无疑都是值得的。（搜狐体育清河村）

以下是费根专供搜狐的原文：

　　By Jonathan Feigen

　　The Rockets cared. Even when they played as if they didn't, they cared. They turned that into their problems. It might not be their salvation.

　　The Rockets had been rocked, then reacted badly.

　　They pouted and pointed fingers. They looked around for answers,failing to look at themselves. They cursed their misfortune.

　　If they didn't care, they could have taken the losses and moved on. Instead, they made things worse.

　　Their problems were real; their frustrations as understandable as they became debilitating. They just didn't know how to handle them.

　　With Tracy McGrady gimpy when he plays at all, his frustration and disappointment became theirs. With he and Ron Artest sitting out as often they played, the Rockets changed lineups in nine consecutive games and have tried 14 different starting lineups already this season with every change dictated by injuries.

　　"It's starting to wear on the guys," Rockets coach Rick Adelman said. "We never know who will play and who won't play. I think that's been unsettling."

　　There were problems that needed to be addressed. The offense had become out of whack, with the ball movement so often ceasing under pressure and Yao Ming often either left out of the offense or so much its focus that it bogged down. The defense had been slipping for weeks,predictably crashing on the road trip. And yet, there was no time for practices to make corrections. The practice in Philadelphia was the Rockets' first since Dec. 18 and like that one, Artest was unable to participate.

　　So when things began to come apart, particularly in the loss in Toronto when McGrady accepted defeat and his teammates followed him to the season's most dismal effort, they began passing blame in veiled and sometimes open criticism of one another.

　　"It's going to come down to Mac getting healthy and then Mac's got to kind of be more of a dog," Artest said in Toronto. In Boston, he said, "Sometimes Tracy thinks his talent is going to take him. He can just cruise his way."

　　In Atlanta, Rafer Alston seemed to be addressing Artest's tendency to ignore the game plan to try to take on teams by himself.

　　"At times out there, guys take it upon themselves," Alston said.

　　"You get down and try to come from behind, guys try to get more aggressive and try to take on more of a scoring load, rather than stay within the scheme of the offense."

　　For awhile, the Rockets hoped that the influence of teammates could get McGrady to push harder through his physical issues and frustrations and Artest to stick with the game plans to trust and use his teammates. With the finger-pointing becoming too frequent, however,

　　Adelman and general manager Daryl Morey demanded that players look only at themselves and strive to correct their own issues.

　　Without Artest and McGrady, and with Shane Battier in Houston for the road trip to rest and rehabilitate his sore left foot, the Rockets played hard in Atlanta but did not defend in a last-second loss. They began the loss in Philadelphia playing hard, but soon grew frustrated

　　with their defensive struggles and returned to their inability to play through tough times.

　　By the time they reached Boston, they had lost 6 of 8 shots and had a season-long five-game road losing streak with three-consecutive losses to begin the trip since their unsatisfying New Year's Eve win against the Bucks.

　　They beat the Celtics with the sort of fortitude that they had lacked and hoped that this time they had learned a lesson about themselves and what they must do.

　　They knew it was too soon to declare themselves healed. No one game does that. They did, however, see a way out of their slump. After playing the last-place Thunder and returning home to play the Knicks in the second half of another back-to-back, the Rockets have a good, long homestand of practices and days off. They do play the Lakers next week,but they will finally get a chance to work on making repairs, rather than relying on locker room chats and good intentions.

　　"I think it's coming along," Artest said hopefully before the trip began. "For some reason, we're not able to put a good game together. I think right now, we look better on paper than what it really is. You see the Big Three people talk about, it's not turning into wins that people

　　would think it would. We have to get more out of ourselves. Sometimes we play like our life is not on the line. Once we put our life on the line every game, we'll be OK."

　　Things got worse, much worse, before they got better. But if the Rockets have finally discovered what they will need, the pain might be worth it.