【2010-2011/NBA/公牛/球員(舊文)】該給Keith Bogans的肯定(外電翻譯)

前言：
今天看到了這篇外電，剛好前幾天也在板上發了有關Keith Bogans的文章，娓娓看來、一邊試著去想像Keith Bogans一路以來的心聲，很有感觸。

希望能在2010-2011季後賽的最後一天，看著他先發上場，在公牛主場，一樣的一樣沒有打很久，然後在最後一分鐘的時候跟白曼巴還有Big Sexy一起上場，接受全場觀眾的歡呼。

僅以此篇，向這個球員獻上敬意。

Keith, I don't think that you'll be getting many of these, so you might want
to save this one...maybe even buy a frame or something.

Keith，我不認為你會得到很多這樣的致意，所以你也許會想存下這篇...或許甚至買個表框或什麼之類的。

You came to the Bulls this past summer, signing for about $400,000 over the league minimum and about 1/3 of the amount that your fellow new Bulls'shooting guards, Kyle Korver and Ronnie Brewer, were getting.  Although new Bulls Head Coach Tom Thibodeau was a fan dating back to your brief time together in Houston, most observers figured that you'd be nothing more than veteran depth on a young team that while improved, wasn't expected to make any kind of loud noise on the 2010-11 NBA scene.

上個夏天你來到公牛，簽了大約高於最低薪資40萬鎂還有你在公牛SG位置的新隊友KK還有小酒所拿到薪水的三分一左右的約。雖然公牛的新教頭Thib因為與你在火箭那段共處的短暫時光而成為你的擁蹙，但大部分的人認為你只不過是個正在發展、但不被期待能為2010-2011 NBA 球季帶來多大迴盪的年輕球隊中，用來提供經驗值的老手。

Of course, you worked hard to prepare yourself for the coming season, same as always, and play whatever role coach Thibs wanted you to play.  Since ou'd been around the NBA block a time or two, you knew about Chicago and its fans.  Great sports town, love their teams and have a particular fondness  for "blue collar" type players who may not be the most talented, but give it their all when they're out there...definitely your kind of fans.

當然，你一如往常一樣，認真為了將到來的球季準備，也扮演任何Thib要你扮演的角色。既然你已經在NBA 這個環境逛了幾趟，你知道芝加哥跟他的球迷。一個偉大的運動城市，他的球迷喜愛他們的隊伍並對於那些可能不是最有天分，但願意在每一次上場是復出他們所有的藍領類型球員有特別的鍾愛，就跟那些支持你的粉絲一樣。

The Trouble "Starts"

問題"開始"

Late September comes around and you find that Brewer is still suffering from the hamstring injury he suffered last season.  As a result, Thibs puts you in the starting preseason lineup and you're absolutely shooting lights out...over 50% for field goals and a kinda crazy 50% on 3-pointers.  Your preseason true shooting percentage, one of those new high-tech scoring efficiency stats, is an absolutely ridiculous 70%, by far the best on the team...hell, it was probably some kind of world record.  Yeah, you didn't score a lot,but Thibs didn't really want you to.  Besides, how many points are you gonna to score when you only take 3 or 4 shots a game?

九月底來了而你發現小酒仍然為了他上季受到的腿筋傷痛而困擾。因此，Thib將你放在季前熱身賽的先發陣容中，你也大放異彩的投射著...，超過50%的投籃命中率還有有些瘋狂的50%三分球命中率。你季前熱身賽的真實命中率，是絕對誇張的70%而且在當時的隊中是最棒的...我的天，這可能是某種世界紀錄。對啦，你並沒有得很多分，但Thib並沒有真的要你得很多分。此外，如果你一場只出手3-4次你能得多少分？