[花邊] Poole：今年勇士會把奪冠視為頭號目標

Poole：今年勇士會把奪冠視為頭號目標

Jordan Poole was asked what his expectations are for himself this season:

“I think everybody in the locker room wants to win a championship first and
foremost.”

被問到自己對新賽季的期望，Poole表示：“我想今年球隊每個人都會把爭奪總冠軍視為
頭號目標。

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以下是記者對勇士的看法 有興趣再看看

We know the extenuating circumstances surrounding why a dynastic team that r
eached five straight NBA Finals and won three of them fell into the lottery.
Kevin Durant left in free agency.Klay Thompson tore his left ACL, and then h
is right Achilles' tendon, respectively costing him the entirety of the 2019
-20 and 2020-21 campaigns.Draymond Green aged north of 30 years old. Their d
epth either retired or was extricated.

我們都明白，當一支連續五年進入總決賽，並且三次贏得總冠軍的隊伍，最終跌落到樂
透區內。 在他們身上究竟發生了什麼Kevin Durant離隊，Klay Thompson兩度重傷，多
位核心年滿30歲，其他重要輪換，離的離退的退。

When healthy,Stephen Curry remains a paradigm-shifting superstar. He led the
league in scoring last season on absurd efficiency, carrying an inexperienc
ed roster to the play-in tournament, where even his 76 points over two games
were not enough to secure a Western Conference playoff seed. The onus on Cu
rry is astronomical, and he is capable of keeping Golden State competitive i
n any game by himself.

如果Curry能夠保持健康，他依然是一位無與倫比的超級球星，上個賽季，Curry能夠以
非凡的效率領先聯盟得分榜，帶領一支經驗不足的球隊殺入到附加賽的比賽之中。 不過，兩場比賽合計76分的表現並不足以幫助那支勇士進入季後賽。 Curry有能力能夠幫助
勇士保持競爭力。

Curry, Thompson and Green formed the core of a team that rolled to the 2015
title and won a record 73 regular-season games before blowing a 3-1 lead to
LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2016 Finals. That loss preci
pitated Durant's arrival and a talent pool that was too big to fail for two
straight years. To believe the Warriors are still contenders is to ignore th
at the legs they stood on six years ago are weaker.

Curry、KT和Green是勇士2015的基石，奪得新時代勇士的首個總冠軍之後，他們又在隨
後的一個賽季裡打出了73勝的創紀錄賽季，但是遺憾在總決賽中被騎士1-3完成翻盤。
這次的失敗讓勇士完成了從頂尖強隊到不可擊敗的又一次邁進，隨著KD的到來，勇士的
陣容到達巔峰。 不過和六年前相比，勇士的大腿們卻不再如以往那般強壯。

Thompson has not played since Game 6 of the 2019 Finals. He suffered two of
the most serious injuries an athlete can face, including one that has preven
ted most everyone not named Durant from fully recovering. At the same time,
he has eclipsed his 30th birthday. Nobody believes those injuries will keep
Thompson from restoring his status as one of the greatest shooters ever to l
ive, but there should be serious skepticism about his ability to explode on
both ends and regain his stature as the team's best perimeter defender.

自2019年總決賽G6之後，KT已有兩年沒有打過正式比賽，他連續遭遇了NBA球員可以想像的最殘酷的兩種傷病。 在這兩年間，KT也靜悄悄地度過了自己30歲的生日。 KD傷後的
狀態，讓大家對於KT復出後的狀態都持有樂觀的希望。 但不可否認的是，跟腱和十字韌帶的撕裂，運動能力的退化一定是不可逆的，KT在復出之後還能否成為球隊防守端最可
靠的2/3號位的依賴，要被打上一個大大的問號。

Two transcendent shooters can lay the foundation of a serious contender, esp
ecially when they are joined by an All-Defensive triple-double threat whose
versatility unlocks the Death Lineup du jour. Except, Green is no longer tha
t guy. Last season marked his slowest average speed since the league started
tracking that data in 2013. None of this is to say Green is not a useful pl
ayer. He finished third in Defensive Player of the Year voting for the leagu
e's third-ranked unit last season.

勇士用以往的成功告訴我們，兩位歷史級別的射手就能夠幫助一支球隊擁有爭冠的基石
。 而如果你的陣容裡還有一位擁有DPOY水準的防守能力，且巔峰時期兼備投射和進攻創造力的小球陣容五號位標杆時，那麼球隊足以在NBA裡打造王朝。 不過到新賽季，Gree
n已非巔峰，上個賽季，Green在球場上的平均移動速度創造了2013年以來的最低。這並
不是說Green已經是一位負作用的球員，上個賽季，他在最佳防守球員的投票中排名第三。

The rest is relying on potential. Jordan Poole and Juan Toscano-Anderson hav
e both shown promise in two years in their system. The lot of them have zero
playoff experience. The Warriors of old were relentless. They hit you in th
e mouth with Green and Bogut protecting the rim, Curry and Thompson barragin
g from deep. A bench full of starting-caliber players kept the party going,
and the Death Lineup finished you off for good.

接下來，勇士能夠依靠的就只有潛力和天賦了。 Poole和Anderson在過去一個賽季也取
得了進步。 但他們的季後賽是零經驗。過去的勇士隊內線擁有Green以及Bogut護框，側翼擁有Curry和KT兩位頂級射手，還有一個滿是先發陣容的板凳的深度，這造就了死亡五小攻防全能。

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