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《culturemap》NBA專欄作家Chris Baldwin撰文痛批火箭隊總教練麥克海爾就是迫不急待想證明球隊沒有Lin可以贏球，火箭上場與小牛隊比賽在最後一節花光14分領先優勢被翻盤，他是罪魁禍首。此外，鮑德溫也再次強調林書豪對火箭贏球至關重要，奉勸麥帥在關鍵時刻多信任書豪。
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No Jeremy Lin, no win: Another senseless benching leads to Rockets collapse — and it’s on McHale
沒林書豪，火箭不會贏：無理板凳林，功敗垂成要怪麥教頭
作者: CHRIS BALDWIN  11.22.13
Jeremy Lin isn’t put back into the game until there are 8.4 seconds left. By then, every bit of the Houston Rockets’ huge lead is long gone. And so is another win.

直到比賽最後的8.4秒，林書豪才被放回場上。那時，火箭隊大幅領先早已花光殆盡，也再一次賠上了原本該贏的比賽。

It will all be treated like some great mystery though by those who don’t want to accept how crucial Lin is to the Rockets.

這真是奧秘的事啊，那些不想承認『林對火箭隊有多重要的』的人們總是被打臉。

If any other team in the NBA blows a 14-point fourth quarter lead with its best point guard glued to the bench from the 9:17 mark until only 8.4 seconds remain, the head coach of that squad is coming under fire. When it’s the Rockets, Kevin McHale and Jeremy Lin, the coaching blunder isn’t even acknowledged.

如果NBA其他球隊的主教練在第四節搞丟了領先的14分，還讓最好的控衛從倒數9:17一直黏在板凳上到僅剩8.4秒的時間，那他早就被嚴厲批評了。但在火箭隊，對麥克海爾教練如此錯待林書豪的失誤卻一點表示也沒有。

Not having the team’s best point guard on the floor couldn’t have anything to do with the Rockets managing only two points in the last 2:53 of the game and missing their last five shots from the field. Don’t be crazy. That’s real Linsanity.

沒把球隊最好的控衛放場上和火箭隊在倒數2:53才拿到兩分並且最後五球皆墨，看來真是一點關係都沒有。別瘋了。那真是林來瘋。

The legion of Lin doubters want you to believe that the Rockets imploding and Lin sitting are mere coincidence. Which would be funny. If it wasn’t so damaging to the Rockets’ championship dreams.

這群不相信林的人總是要你相信火箭隊崩盤輸球和林坐冷板凳只是巧合而已。要不是對火箭隊的總冠軍夢有那麼大的損害，或許真是可笑的巧合吧。

Houston is an 8-5 team after that giveaway game in Dallas in no small part because McHale’s shown no real grasp of playing rotations.Omer Asik is already all but banished and on the way out, having committed the great sin of believing Daryl Morey’s free agent pitch from the summer of 2012. Lin got his starting job yanked away for a much less legitimate reason than Asik, but he’s soldiering on and taking what’s given to him.

休士頓火箭隊在輸給達拉斯小牛隊後是8勝5敗的戰績。輸給小牛隊的主因，就是麥克海爾並未正確地掌握輪換陣容。2012年夏季錯信莫雷的阿西克幾乎已被排除掉隨時準備走人了。然而林的情況卻完全不同，他被硬生生地從先發陣容抽離的理由更是牽強不合理，但他仍敬業地配合球隊指令。

Which happens to be one of the shortest leashes for a difference-making point guard in NBA history.

這種對一位能改變球隊化學效應的控衛所做的諸多限制程度應該是NBA的歷史上最嚴苛的吧。

Lin didn’t play particularly well against the Mavericks early, but how does a player who came into the game averaging 22.6 points per game over his last five games get only 17 minutes of playing time?

這次對陣小牛隊，或許林剛開始並沒有打得特別好，但讓一位過去5場球平均貢獻22.6分的球員只打17分鐘，這樣合理嗎？ 

McHale continues to reinforce the notion that he cannot wait to bench Jeremy Lin at any opportunity. And you think Gary Kubiak has a short leash with Case Keenum?

海爾就是迫不急待想證明球隊沒有Lin可以贏球的意圖越發得明顯。而你認為NFL德州人隊教練Gary Kubiak會如此限制壓抑那位可能得靠他保住教頭位置的菜鳥四分衛Case Keenum的表現嗎？
(註1)

註1: 這個故事, 有興趣者可自行點閱以下連結:
Case Keenum Is Gary Kubiak’s Last Hope for Keeping His Job

How does McHale not get Lin back into the Mavericks game as the Rockets melt down in the fourth quarter? Maybe, it was the great defense that bulldog Patrick Beverley must have been playing. Oh, that’s right, Dallas’ best backcourt player (Monta Ellis) torched Houston for 37 points.

回到那場對小牛隊比賽的第四節，當領先優勢漸漸消融之時，麥克海爾為什麼還不讓林回到場上呢？或許是需要貝弗利一直在場上像鬥牛犬似的防守。哦，對了，達拉斯小牛隊的最佳後場球員蒙塔艾理斯在火箭頭上狂砍了37分呢。

The Rockets being this great defensive force with Beverley on the court is the NBA’s version of Bigfoot. All myth.

火箭隊有貝佛利在場上能打出非常好的防守是NBA版的大腳怪。完全是迷思。

But that’s another one of those things that must not be spoken of. When Ricky Rubio — the young point guard of the Minnesota Timberwolves, the Rockets’ next opponent Saturday night — is benched by former Rockets coach Rick Adleman, it makes NBA headlines. When Lin is granted even less playing time, it’s instantly regarded as something that must be his own fault.

還有另一件不能說的事。當火箭禮拜六的對手灰狼隊年輕的控衛盧比歐被前火箭教練阿德曼放板凳時，馬上成了NBA頭條。但當林得到越來越少的上場時間，卻立即被歸咎於林一定是自己犯了什麼錯誤。

Now Rubio is a much better passer and a much more entertaining player than Jeremy Lin (there is plenty of Showtime flair in the Spaniard’s game). But Rubio is also a much worse shooter than Lin — and it’s hard to argue he is more of a difference maker at this point.

現在盧比歐傳球傳得更好了，而且還比林更具比賽娛樂性(這西班牙小將的球賽有很多風騷的球技時間)。但在投籃方面，他卻遠不及林，因此更遑論能創造球賽進攻差異性的程度。

Ricky Rubio Lessons
盧比歐的經驗教訓
Rubio’s Player Efficiency Rating (PER) is 14.35. Lin’s stands at a stellar 18.88. (By contrast, Beverley’s PER measures in at 12.64 — ouch.)

盧比歐的球員效率值（PER）為14.35。林的則是看台上恆星級的18.88。(對比貝佛利的PER是12.64—哎喲。)

Yet when Rubio’s playing time gets yanked around, it’s news. When Lin is inexplicably told he’s no longer a starter and then later essentially ignored in the wake of a great five-game run, it’s touted as smart basketball by the same stat heads who usually rely on . . . you know, stats.

然而盧比歐的上場時間被扯來扯去時，是個新聞。而林莫名其妙被告知將不再是先發，接著在他連五場好表現後又被忽略時，卻被那些平常依賴這些數據的達人們吹捧為聰明籃球。

How many more games do the Rockets have to blow before the need for Lin to close games is recognized? You really don’t think an extra passer, an extra ball mover, an extra driver would have made a difference in the American Airlines Center the other night?

火箭隊到底還要再搞砸多少場比賽才會了解到需要林來終結比賽。你真的不覺得一個額外的傳球者、額外的球移動者、額外的切入者，會在之前小牛主場上造成不一樣的結果嗎？

Dallas coach Rick Carlisle didn’t just channel Gregg Popovich in that between quarters ESPN interview. He schooled McHale like Popovich figures to if need be in the playoffs as well. Carlisle pulled off this comeback with the much less talented team.

小牛的教練卡萊爾在中段休息時間受訪時不僅是仿效馬刺教練波波的說話風格也幫麥克海爾上了一課，如果想進季後賽要跟馬刺教練波波多學學。卡萊爾教練用的球隊隊員天賦不比火箭隊多卻能反敗為勝。

The Rockets never blow that lead if the right players are on the floor. Dwight Howard lightly tossing that ball toward a Dallas heckler, drawing a senseless technical floor, suddenly doesn’t loom so large with a little better fourth quarter shot selection.

火箭隊如果有對的球員在場上的話，應該就不會搞砸領先。而相較於未能在第四節有好一點的投球選擇，魔獸霍華德把球丟向觀眾席球迷，領到一個愚蠢的技術犯規的事，反倒顯得比較沒那麼嚴重了。

How many more games are the Rockets going to toss away? It’s earlier than early, but in a talent-packed Western Conference late separation figures to be hard to come by.

而未來，火箭還會重演多少次這樣丟掉勝利的悲劇，現在還不好說，但在人才濟濟的西區聯盟中，想在第四節再次建立大比分領先優勢恐怕沒那麼容易了。

Jeremy Lin’s more than earned a little benefit of the doubt at this point, the chance to play through a bad beginning. McHale’s insistence otherwise only sets the Rockets up for a horrific final ending.

林書豪在這個節骨眼上，需要更多的信任和得到上場時間，即便一開始打得不夠好。而麥克海爾的執迷不悟則只會讓火箭隊得到更糟糕的結局。