来源： http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/bk/bkn/5577003.html After Yao injury, Rockets' Mutombo rediscovers fountain of youth 在姚明报销後，老木返老还童 By JONATHAN FEIGEN Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle Dikembe Mutombo and Rick Adelman shared a few words on the side of the Rockets' practice court Monday. 礼拜一练球时，老木和Adelman在场边打了一下屁。 Mutombo said it might be time to start playing a few minutes a game, an idea Adelman and Rockets coaches already were entertaining. 老木说，Adelman和教练团说是时候让他每场上场几分钟为球队贡献。 Four hours later, Yao Ming called Mutombo to tell him he was out for the season with a stress fracture. The next night, Mutombo started and starred. 在姚明知道自己球季报销的四个小时後，就马上打电话给老木谈心。隔天晚上， 老木马上披挂上阵并成为休士顿的英雄。 By Wednesday, the 41-year-old Mutombo was ready not just to play down the stretch of his final season but is considering a return for another "last season of his career." 礼拜三，41岁(?)的老木不仅已经准备好在生涯最後一个球季大展雄威，甚至考虑明年继 续为火箭效力，永远打不完的最後一季。 "(Rockets general manager Daryl Morey) spoke to me about it, but I didn't answer him," Mutombo said. "I didn't answer him. I have to think about it, to talk to the wifey and the kids and see how everybody feels about it. Even my teammates said, Deke, we don't want you to leave. Shane (Battier) talked to me about it.T-Mac (Tracy McGrady) said, 'Deke, you're not going no where. I'll make sure you stay here.' But I don't know why everybody wants me to stay. I wonder to myself, when will I go home. 「Morey跟我谈了这件事，不过我还没回答他。」老木说。 「我还没给他答覆，我得好好考虑一下，和我的老婆及孩子们谈谈，看他们有什麽想法。 虽然我的队友说，『ㄟ，老木，我们不希望你离开阿....』乡巴爷就是这样跟我讲的。 T-mac也跟我说，『老木，我看透你了，你哪都不会去的啦，你一定会留在这里！』。 我不知道为什麽大家都这麽希望我留下来，我很想知道，我什麽时候才能回到我的家 乡？」 "Let's see how things go. If I wake up one morning and change my mind, God forgive. Right now, we're trying to finish the season, make the playoffs and maybe get a chance to win a championship." 「再说吧～如果哪一天我起床时改变了主意，老天爷就原谅我吧。现在我们应该先努力 打完这个球季，杀进季後赛，也许还是有机会得到总冠军啦！」 Fountain of youth 青春的泉源 The Rockets have a long way to go for that, and he has a long way to go before deciding to play an 18th season in the NBA. He seemed at first to be playing along with Morey's comment that Mutombo was ready to renegotiate his contract after learning of Yao's injury. But one game into Mutombo's return to the court, Morey seemed open to the idea of one more season. 火箭还有很长的路要走，同样的，老木对於是否打第十八个球季也还有很多得考虑。老木 根据Morey之前说的，老木在知道姚明受伤报销之後，就准备和火箭重新签合约。在老木 回来的第一场就大显神威的时候，Morey就很希望老木再打一年。 "We would love to convince him to play another year," Morey said. "You put him in a game, and all he does is produce. I'm not sure why you wouldn't want him to continue as long as he feels he's up to the conditioning. We can't imagine a better backup for Yao Ming. The Rockets are lucky, and the city of Houston is lucky to have him as a player and a member of the community." 「我们希望说服老木再打一年，」Morey说。「只要把老木推到场上，他就能有所贡献。 当老木觉得自己还能打的时候，我找不到任合理由不让他继续待在球队。我们找不到 比老木更适合担任姚明替补的球员。火箭很幸运能有老木这麽伟大的球员，休士顿也很 幸运有这麽棒的市民。」 On Tuesday, Mutombo had six rebounds, blocked four shots and brought reminders of last season, when he was unexpectedly sensational when Yao was out. 礼拜二的比赛，老木贡献6个篮板、4个火锅，这让我们想起去年姚明受伤时，老木也是 打出惊人的成绩。 "He's was huge," forward Luis Scola said. "He got four blocks. He got rebounds. He intimidated. He played huge. If he plays like that, we'll be OK. 「老木太威了，」Scola说。「他干了四个火锅，还能抓篮板，真他X的吓人。他在场上 真是太威了，如果每次都能打得这麽好，那我们一定没问题的。」 "He did not play the whole season. I was like, he's out of shape or he is not ready to play right away. It's not like we were getting him ready. I was a little concerned. Five minutes after the game started, all that concern went away. I was like, 'This guy never gets old. I want some of that medicine.' " 「老木并不常上场，我本来以为他会胖的跟猪样或是没办法随插即用。我们没有给他时 间好好准备，所以我一开始有点担心。没想到比赛才开打五分钟，老木就让我的担心 一扫而空。当时我只觉得，『靠，这家伙真是永远都不会老！哪里有这种不老仙丹？ 我也要阿！』」 The fact that's he is 41 makes Mutombo's play seem remarkable, but the rarer accomplishment could be that he is making big contributions after playing so little. 也许41岁(?)的事实让老木的表现看起来非常惊人，但更难能可贵的是，老木之前打这麽 少比赛竟然还能一上场就这麽威！ Mutombo played just four minutes in the Rockets' previous 21 games before playing 23 on Tuesday. His two field goals and four blocked shots were twice his totals for the rest of the season. 木桶伯在最近的21场比赛紧紧上场4分钟，而礼拜二他竟然打了23分钟！他这场比赛的4分 和4火锅竟然是本季前面所有比赛总和的两倍....囧 "It's pretty amazing what he did," Battier said. "This is a guy who has played very few minutes this year, saw very limited action. He came in and changed the game. Forget his age; I don't know how many people could do that, to go from inactivity to changing the game and really lifting our team. We feel good about having him out there. 「老木的表现真是太不可思议了！」Battier说。 「老木今年根本没打几场球，但他上场之後，竟然就改变了比赛。别管老木的年龄了， 我不知道有多少人能像他一样，从超级冷板凳突然变成改变比赛的超级英雄率领球队赢 球。有老木真是太好了！！」 "Obviously, he's a situational matchup for us. Especially when playing big guys, he'll be out there more. But it's nice to know Deke still has some of the magic there." 「很显然地，他会随对手的不同而上场。当我们得面对有高大中锋的球队时，老木就会 上场更久。看到老木还能像变魔术一样的表现真是太爽了。」 In 33 games last season when Yao was out, Mutombo averaged 10.4 rebounds, 1.5 blocked shots and 4.9 points on 58.2 percent shooting. 在上个球季姚明缺赛的33场比赛里，木桶伯每场平均10.4篮板，1.5火锅，4.9分，命中率 高达58.2%。 That was stunning then, particularly when he blocked five shots against the Lakers to move into second on the career list and had 22 rebounds in Denver, where he began his career. 更吓人的是，当他在对湖人的比赛巴了五个火锅，其中第二个火锅让他成为NBA史上第二 火锅王；对金块的比赛还抓了22个篮板，那个当年他开始NBA生涯的球队。 But it's further proof that Mutombo is his best when needed. 这证明了，当球队需要老木时，他能立刻展现他的最佳状态。 "Of course, off the floor, we've all witnessed that fact," guard Rafer Alston said. "On the floor, whenever he was needed or called upon, he stepped in a huge way for us. When we got the news about Yao, some of us knew what we were going to get from Deke." 「当然，我们在场下早就见识过老木还是很威的，」Alston说。 「在球场上，只要我们需要他，他就能马上为球队带来很大的贡献。当我们知道姚明报销 时，我们有些人就马上想到我们还有老木！」」 Shaking off rust Mutombo said that is how he still can succeed, because now, his team needs him. On Monday morning, he wanted to help. By Monday evening, he knew he had to help. 老木说他之所以还能这麽屌，是因为他知道球队需要他。礼拜一早上他就希望能帮球队 些什麽。而傍晚的时候，他就知道自己真的得挺身而出。 "I was feeling worse about myself about not playing that much," Mutombo said. "I think before (Tuesday) and during the practice, I went to greet him. I said 'Coach, I'm glad we won 12 games. I'm asking myself how much I'm contributing. It's good to be a cheerleader on the side. But have you thought about giving me even two minutes?' He was like, 'Yeah we were talking about it in the coaching meeting. Definitely, we have to find a way to play you more minutes.' 「之前上场这麽少，我也觉得很不爽，」木桶伯说。 「在这之前以及上次练球的时候，我一直在想这件事，於是我跟教练说了，『教练，我很 高兴我们12连胜，但我问了自己到底作了啥贡献？能在板凳上当啦啦队队长也很爽，不 过你有没有想过让我上场个一两分钟也好呢？』他回我说，『是阿，我们在教练团会议 中就有谈到这个，我们一定会找时间让你上场的。」 "Now I have to deliver. It's not all on me. But there are a lot of things I have to do with my old body. I think this time, I didn't have no choice for me to come in and step up." 「现在我得为球队贡献。当然不是只靠我一个人，不过我得靠我的老骨头去作一堆事情。 不过我想这次我别无选择，是我该挺身而出帮助球队的时候了！」 [email protected] -- █ █ ███ █ █ █ ████ ████ ████ ████ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ ████ █ █ █ █ █ █ ██ █████ █ █████ █ █ █ Ｘ Japan THE LAST LIVE ▉▊▋▌▍▎▏ ~嘎 抓~ -- --

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