哈登 莫以一場成敗論英雄

James Harden had perhaps the worst Game he has ever played in a Rockets uniform during Game 6 on Thursday.

西部半決賽第六場，對詹姆斯·哈登來說，可能是他加入火箭之後最糟糕的一戰。

The Houston Rockets crashed rockily into their offseason in a brutal 114-75 defeat, and their do-everything superstar managed to do little to stop their collapse.

休斯頓火箭經歷了一場慘敗，他們以75-114輸給了聖安東尼奧馬刺隊，毫無反抗地結束了他們的季後賽之旅。而他們無所不能的全明星領袖面對潰敗卻幾乎什麼都沒有做。

Harden finished the game with 10 points on 2-of-11 shooting, managing only seven assists to six turnovers. He didn't attempt a field goal until halfway through the second quarter. He only had two shot attempts at halftime, and his passiveness stood out strangely in a crucial game.

哈登在本場比賽中僅11投2中，得到10分。他僅有7次助攻，卻刷了6個失誤。甚至，到比賽的第二節中段，他都沒有嘗試出手。他僅僅在中場時試着投了兩次籃，在如此重要的一場比賽裏，他的激情莫名其妙地消失了。

Yet it doesn't invalidate his season, and it certainly doesn't weaken his MVP case.

儘管如此，我們仍不能因爲這一場比賽否定他整個賽季的出色發揮。同時，這一場比賽也不能減少他獲得MVP的可能性。

Harden will be accused of that constantly in the aftermath of Game 6, a game where he was objectively terrible.

這場比賽之後，哈登可能會一直遭受指責，客觀來說，他確實表現太差了。

It doesn't help that he cost the Rockets Game 5, wearing down in the overtime period and failing to score a point without Kawhi Leonard even in the game.

再加上，第五場比賽的時候，他葬送了火箭的大好局勢，加時賽期間表現疲軟，在卡哇伊-萊昂納德不在場的情況下一分未得。

The past 53 minutes that Harden has played have been horrid, and recency bias is strong. But what about the other 3,264?

過去的53分鐘，哈登的打得很糟糕，現在，近期效應很嚴重，人們過度的被他這53分鐘的表現所影響，而忽略了之前的3264分鐘。

In a move from shooting to point guard, Harden lit up opponents with sparkling efficiency and led the league in assists in a turbocharged Mike D'Antoni offense.

從得分後衛轉爲組織後衛後，在麥克-德安東尼的跑轟進攻體系下，哈登的高效“亮瞎”了黑子們。

Second in the league in scoring, Harden averaged fewer than 19 field goal attempts, scoring more than 1.5 points per shot.

他的場均助攻聯盟居首。他在得分榜上排名第二，而他的場均出手還不到19次，平均每次出手可以得到超過1.5分。

His turnovers broke a league record, and that's obviously not ideal, but it came within a system created to allow just that.

他的失誤很多，打破了聯盟記錄，雖然這很不理想，但這在他們的進攻體系內是可以被允許的。

His constant pushing and risk taking allowed for errors, with the belief being that it would benefit Houston more times than not. (It did.)

他的這種冒險的打法是有考慮到犯錯的可能性的，而他們堅持這種打法是因爲堅信這種打法在多數時候是對火箭更有利的（事實證明確實如此）。

It's a laugh to say that any guard could have done this with D'Antoni at the reigns.

可笑的是有人說在德安東尼的執教體系下任何後衛都能打出哈登的表現。

Any guard could have been a facsimile, sure, but hardly anyone could have reached these magnitudes.

沒錯，任何一個後衛可能都會去做同樣的事情，但是不是每個後衛都能做得這麼出色。

Harden didn't throw passes that seemingly broke physics, but he routinely threw ones that broke conventionality.

哈登雖然沒有傳出那種看起來打破人類所能的球，但是他會把一個普通的傳球演繹的很不尋常。

A pass to a corner shooter is so ordinary, and yet his still caught defenses by surprise.

傳個球到底角的射手是個很平常的事兒，但是他依然能讓防守者吃驚。

He threatened teams around the rim and used that to find open shooters, and his ability to create shots — even from 26 feet out — routinely bailed the Rockets out of bad spots.

他通過突破威脅對方的籃筐，然後尋找外線的射手。他製造投籃的能力也讓對手忌憚，他經常依靠個人投籃挽救火箭於危急時刻。即使在26英尺外他也仍然具有威脅。

All of that is hard to remember with the repellant Game 6 version of Harden so fresh on our minds, but it's true.

所有這些我們都很難記起來，因爲現在第六場裏那個糟糕的哈登在我們的腦子裏那麼清晰，但是，哈登那些優秀的表現都是真的。

Amusingly, Harden's struggles in his nightmare game seemingly came from him trying to hard to do the right thing.

有趣的是，哈登在第六場夢魘般的比賽裏，之所以那麼掙扎似乎是因爲他在試圖做正確的事情。

San Antonio smartly decided that they weren't going to guard Clint Capela, leaving him open constantly from five feet and betting their defenders could psych him out enough to render those possessions ineffective for Houston.

聖安東尼奧馬刺做了個很機智的決定，他們沒有去防守克林特-卡佩拉，放他差不多五英尺的距離，他們賭這種方式可以使卡佩拉喪失信心，致使傳到他那裏的球都不會轉化成得分。

Capela shot 3-of-11 for 15 points, many of his points coming off Harden passes.

卡佩拉那場比賽11投3中，得了15分，他大部分的得分都是來自於哈登的傳球。

At other times, Harden saw the gaps closing on him and flung the ball out to the perimeter instead, passes that often got tipped or in a couple cases picked off.

在其他時間，哈登受到包夾後，就會把球傳到外線，這些傳球經常被防守隊員碰到，有些時候會被直接搶斷。

The Spurs baited him with an open player around the rim, and he couldn't help himself.

馬刺會通過故意漏掉一個外線球員來引誘哈登傳球，而哈登總是忍不住把球傳過去。

It wasn't working, and those aren't excuses. Instead, Harden needed to be taking those drives directly to the rim and powering into defenders, drawing fouls or finishing despite contact.

這種打法沒有用，那些說法也都不是藉口。哈登應該直接殺向籃筐，和防守者對抗，製造犯規或者進球。

Houston couldn't score, and instead of trying a last ditch takeover and attempting to overwhelm San Antonio's tactically sound defense with his sheer talent, he deferred.

火箭不能得分時，他沒有試圖接管比賽並用他的天賦來打破馬刺的防守策略，他站出來的太晚了。

It's a flaw he has,where he can't help himself from making the smart play even if it isn't the right one, even if it's a noble one.

這算是他的一個缺點，他忍不住想要打得聰明，即使那不是正確的，即使那是毫無作用的。

We're still riding high off the Kobe era of superstars, and Harden is the one who passes too much. Who's to say one is worse than the other?

我們現在仍然對非科比時代的明星們多加溢美之詞，而哈登就是那種會常常傳球的球員。我們怎麼能說哪種更好呢？

Still, it's not like Harden was some train wreck once the regular season calendar was torn off the wall and a playoff one replaced it.

哈登不是那種季後賽會比常規賽表現差的球員。

In 10 postseason games, before this total dud, Harden had a point more than the regular season, shot 1.5 percent less, assisted about three times fewer but also decreased his turnovers.

除了這場徹底啞火，在他之前的10場比賽裏，他的得分比常規賽還多，命中率降了1.5，助攻差不多少了三次，但是失誤也減少了。

The Rockets were fine, and so was Harden,He had a couple 40-point games.

火箭表現很不錯，哈登也是。他有兩場比賽拿了40+。

Houston's two postseason opponents geared up around him to reduce his impact, and he still had about the same one we saw during his 81 regular season games played.

火箭的對手們圍繞他做了很多準備來減少他的影響，但是他仍然打出了和81場常規賽一樣的表現。

If you had Harden as your MVP, or as your MVP runner up, neither of those things should change. Why would they?

如果你原本認爲哈登應該是MVP，或者是MVP的第二名，那麼你的選擇現在也不應該改變，爲什麼？

Harden had his worst game of the season in the postseason, losing in six games to a team with a better record and coach in the Western Conference semifinals.

哈登在季後賽裏打了他整個賽季最差的一場比賽，在西部半決賽裏，經歷了六場比賽之後，輸給了比火箭戰績更好並且教練也更出色的球隊。

It's a regular season award, and a game doesn't make a season. You all know this, and using it just to support a certain counter MVP narrative is so reactionary.

MVP是一項常規賽的獎項，並且一場比賽也不代表整個賽季的表現。這個道理大家都懂，因爲這場比賽就去支持那些反對哈登MVP的言論是不對的。

(This feels like a timely moment to remind everyone that Russell Westbrook, another perfectly acceptable and brilliant MVP candidate, lost to Harden's Rockets in five games.)

（這似乎是個合適的時機去提醒大家一下，另外一個被熱議的、表現亮眼的MVP候選人拉塞爾-威斯布魯克，在第一輪中以1:4被哈登淘汰。）

We should flip this narrative in the opposite way, too: Game 6 doesn't go away because Harden was really, exceptionally good during the regular season.

我們應該將這件事用一個相反的方式表述：人們對於哈登第六場比賽的表現耿耿於懷，是因爲他在常規賽表現的太過出色。

It can't happen again. Harden shouldn't go into the summer with no cares because he did a good job leading Houston to the league's third-best record.

這種事情不會再次發生。哈登不應該絲毫不被關注地結束這個賽季，因爲他做得足夠好，他帶領火箭獲得了聯盟第三的成績。

This embarrassment ought to motivate him. Certainly, he still has improvement left to be done, like his struggles when games get tight late.

這場比賽尷尬的表現應該成爲他前進的動力。當然，他仍然有需要改進的地方，比如他在比賽的關鍵時刻會表現的很掙扎。

All those things are perfectly valid things for Harden himself to worry about. But Game 6 isn't a referendum on him, or the Rockets, or, c'mon damnit, their modern style.

對於哈登來說，那些關於投票、人們的評議之類的事情都不是他需要去擔心的。他需要思考的是，第六場比賽的結果可不是人們對他、對火箭以及對他們的打法投票的結果。

It's a bad game at a worse time that unfortunately mars the end of one of the most unstoppable seasons we've ever seen. That's all. You can leave it at that.

這是場糟糕的比賽，發生在了糟糕的時間，使這個偉大的賽季收尾的不夠完美。僅此而已。何必在乎它呢？

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