The Rockets are the youngest team in the NBA. They’re also the least experienced.
Let’s play with numbers to put this in perspective.

火箭是整個聯盟最年輕，也是最缺乏經驗的球隊。讓我們透過數字來瞧個究竟。

It’s a widely known fact around Rockets fan circles that the Houston Rockets are
the youngest team in the NBA. This is viewed as a positive, a sign of good things
to come. That is quite possibly true.

But saying the Rockets are a young team doesn’t go nearly far enough. The Oklahoma City Thunder are a young team as well. They went to the NBA finals despite their
youth. Don’t expect the Rockets to make a similar trip right away , because young
doesn’t capture the breathtaking inexperience of the Rockets 15 man roster. Perhaps these wee factoids will illuminate and entertain. Examples chosen purely at random, or from spite.

休士頓火箭隊在整個NBA是最年輕的隊伍，這是火箭球迷大家都知道的事實。大家認為這是好現象，表示好事即將發生。這樣的期待很可能成真。

不外說火箭是一支年輕的隊伍，這樣的說法還不敷到位。人家雷霆也很年輕，照樣挺進了大決賽。大家不要指望火箭能立刻複製雷霆的模板，因為單單說他們年輕，不足以讓人驚訝火箭15位球員到底有多菜鳥。

以下這些芝麻綠豆的數據也許能夠反映出事實，然後順便娛樂一下各位。至於例子挑選的準則，若不是出於隨機，便是惡意。

·The entire 15 man Rockets roster has participated in 1659 NBA regular season
games, 1809 total games.
·Kevin Garnett has participated in 1264 NBA regular season games.
·Kareem Abdul Jabar participated in 1560 regular season games, 1797 total games

·火箭全隊15人總共打了1659場NBA例行賽，1809場籃球賽
·塞爾蒂克的凱文-賈奈特一個人總共打了1264場NBA例行賽
·賈霸一個人就打了1560場NBA例行賽，1797場籃球賽

·The entire 15 man Rockets roster has started 386 NBA regular season games.
·Kevin Durant (age 24) has started 390 NBA regular season games.
·Ray Allen has started 1141 NBA regular season games

·火箭15人總共擔任386場NBA例行賽的先發
·雷霆隊的凱文- 杜蘭特（24歲）總共擔任390場NBA例行賽的先發
·塞爾蒂克雷艾倫則擔任1141場NBA例行賽的先發

·The Rockets 15 man roster has played 35,089 NBA regular season minutes.
·Kobe Bryant has played 42,704 NBA regular season minutes, 7615 minutes more
than the entire Rockets team.
·The Rockets coach, Kevin McHale, played 35,834 NBA minutes, or 745 more than his whole team, at this point.

·火箭15人在NBA例行賽總共打了35,089分鐘
·科比在NBA例行賽總共打了42,704分鐘，比整個火箭隊多出7615分鐘
·火箭總教頭麥克海爾在NBA打了35,834分鐘，到目前為止還比他整個球隊多了745分鐘。

·The Rockets roster has scored 13,215 NBA regular season points.
·Carmelo Anthony (28) has scored 16,089 NBA regular season points.

·火箭目前的陣容在NBA例行賽總共得了13,215分
·甜瓜（28歲）在NBA例行賽總共得了16,089分

·The Rockets roster has played 2687 minutes of playoff basketball.
·Shane Battier has played 2438 minutes of playoff basketball.
·Tim Duncan has played 7415 minutes of playoff basketball.

·火箭目前的陣容在季後賽總共打了2678分鐘
·熱火的巴提耶在季後賽總共打了2438分鐘
·馬刺的鄧肯在季後賽總共打了7415分鐘

·The Rockets 15 man roster has 27 seasons of NBA experience.
·The Los Angeles Lakers’ starting five has 64 years of NBA experience. Kobe
Bryant and Pau Gasol have 27 NBA seasons between them.
·The New York Knicks have 115 combined seasons of NBA basketball played.
·Portland, considered a young team, has 46 seasons of NBA experience combined, or 19 more than the Rockets.

·火箭15人總共有27次NBA季後賽經驗
·湖人5位先發共有64次NBA季後賽經驗。科比和保羅- 賈索兩人合計就有27個季後賽經驗
·紐約尼克加起來總共在NBA打了115個季後賽
·波特蘭拓荒者隊也算是年輕的球隊，不外他們總共有46個NBA季後賽經驗，比火箭多了19個

·Only one team comes close to matching the Rockets for sheer inexperience:The
New Orleans Hornets. They boast 34 seasons of NBA experience across their roster, 7 more than Houston.
·New Orleans has logged 38478 regular season minutes played compared to the
Rockets 35089 .

·論經驗不足，唯一能和火箭拿來相提並論的是黃蜂隊。他們整個陣容也有34個NBA季後賽經驗，比火箭隊整整多了7個
·黃蜂隊總共在例行賽打了38,478分鐘，而火箭只有35,089分鐘

·Jeremy Lin has logged 1537 NBA minutes. Chandler Parsons has logged 2158 NBA
minutes.
·James Harden and Carlos Delfino have played 6507 minutes of NBA regular season basketball. The rest of the 15 man roster has played 6705 minutes of NBA regular season basketball.

· 林書豪在NBA打了1537分鐘，而帕森斯則打了2158分鐘
· 哈登和戴菲諾在NBA例行賽中打了6507分鐘，其他隊員則在常規賽中打了6705分鐘

There is of course, more. But why go on with this?

Even New Orleans, after utterly tanking a season, moving out all their players,
shockingly getting the 1-1 pick (whilst owned by the NBA, which also oversees the
draft lottery), still have more minutes of NBA experience than the Rockets.

這樣的例子當然不乏其人，不外有必要接下去嗎？

即使像黃蜂這樣的球隊，在上季徹底擺爛、清空了所有的球員、不成思議地得到首輪第1順位的狀元簽之後（球隊當時被監督選秀籤的NBA買下），他們打NBA的經驗還是比火箭來的多。

For all the talk about Lin being the go-to guy,let’s keep a sense of perspective, eh? He’s got a bit more than half a season’s experience, going off starters
minutes. That’s a heavy expectation for a guy who is essentially a mid -season
rookie. But I bet when you think of Chandler Parsons and Jeremy Lin you didn’t suspect Parsons had 621 minutes more experience. That would translate to 19 more games at 32 minutes a game.

Daequan Cook, to add further perspective, has 4033 more minutes of NBA playing
time than Lin, or 126 games, at 32 minutes a game.

Omer Asik has played almost exactly 100 more minutes (or 3ish games at 32
minutes) more than Chandler Parsons. That’s your experienced big man.

This isn’t a knock on anyone, (especially Saint Jeremy), just a way of saying,
manage your expectations. Harshly.

因此，對於所有認為林應該是主力隊員的討論，是不是應該更客觀一些呢？林擔任先發，好不容易才累積了稍微過半的賽季經驗。對一個基本上只有半個賽季經驗的菜鳥來說，這個期望太沉重了。我敢打賭當你想到帕森斯和林書豪時，你不會料到帕森斯其實比林多了621分鐘的經驗，以32分鐘的上場時間換算，相當於19場的比賽。

再提一點幫忙大家進一步用客觀的角度看待火箭隊。

和哈登一起交易過來的戴奎恩- 庫克比林書豪多了4033分鐘的NBA比賽經驗，以32分鐘的上場時間換算，即126場球賽。

阿西克比帕森斯多打了將近100多分鐘的時間（大概3場球賽擺佈，以32分鐘上場時間計），而隊上有經驗的大個子就屬他。

我不是刻意要打擊任何人（尤其是受萬人景仰的林書豪），只是用比力不入耳的方式告訴大家：請調整你對火箭的期望值。

The Rockets have a star now, right? So they’re ready to compete, right? Again,
perspective, its a team whose 23 year old star, max contract, player is going to start his 17th game in the NBA when next the team plays. 9 of those starts have come with the Rockets, this season. Harden’s 24 year old OKC buddy Kevin Durant has started 433 games.

Let’s compare Durant’s starts to the Rockets grizzled voice of experience,
Cabeza Delfino. In 7 previous seasons Delfino has started 165 games, or about 2 seasons’ worth of starts, or 268 fewer than Durant, considered an NBA baby. The wily veteran of the Rockets is, thus, a career bench guy who should never, ever, shoot another step-back three pointer again. The fact that he does shoot such
shots might suggest something about the quality of his advice.

火箭現在不就有一個球星嗎？他們已經準備好和其他球隊比拼，不是嗎？

但其實，客觀來說，當火箭接下來要和本賽季勝負率.9的隊伍碰頭的時候，哈登這名23歲領著頂薪的當家球星，正準備進入他在NBA第17次先發的比賽，而他在雷霆的老搭檔、24歲的杜蘭特卻已經是433場比賽的首發。

我們把杜蘭特的首發經驗和火箭所謂的“老將”戴菲諾做個比力。過去7個賽季，戴菲諾打了先發165場比賽，相等於2個賽季的先發經驗，比杜蘭特少了268場，所以他在NBA裡其實算是乳臭未乾的小子。於是火箭這名狡猾的老將，在板凳上度過他的職業生涯。希望他永遠再也不要用後撤步投三分球，因為單憑他用後撤步三分這一點，大概就可以看出他給出的忠告的品質。

This team has been competitive in every game it has played. It has lost
substantial leads in all but one loss. The team is rebounding and scoring well. By the beginning of next season the Rockets will add about 20,000 more minutes
played, or 57% of the current total minutes played for this year’s team.*

There’s a lot to be excited about, and a lot to learn.

*You read that right – the Rockets have less than 2 seasons overall experience across 15 players in terms of NBA minutes played.

然而火箭隊在每一場比賽都是拚勁十足的。過去輸的幾場比賽，火箭輸在沒把握住本色的領先，只有一場是真正輸了。火箭的籃板和得分都很好。下個賽季開始的時候，火箭隊就會增加20,000多分鐘的經驗，這相當於增加現役球員本年上場時間總數的57%。*

火箭隊實在有很多令人興奮的事，而他們要學的東西還多著呢。

*你沒有理解錯誤—火箭15個球員每個人打NBA的時間都少於兩個賽季。

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