路漫漫其修遠兮 湖人的季後賽之路

With the Los Angeles Lakers taking a one-step-forward, two-steps-backward approach to their post-All-Star playoff push following another defeat at the hands of a lesser opponent, LeBron James was asked if the pressure of it all was becoming a distraction to his team.

全明星後，湖人在自己的季後賽之路上剛前進一步，接着又倒回去兩步，輸給的對手還不算多強。勒布朗·詹姆斯被問到，這一切的壓力是否正在成爲他的球隊分心的因素。

"At this point if you are still allowing distractions to affect how the way you play, then this is the wrong franchise to be a part of and you should just come and be like, 'Listen, I don't think this is for me. I cannot do this,'" James said following a 110-105 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies on Monday.

“到現在這時候了，要是你還讓各種東西干擾到自己的場上表現，那隻能說明你不屬於這支球隊，你就該直接說‘我覺得我不適合這裏，我做不到，’”詹姆斯在週一以105比110輸給孟菲斯灰熊後說。

And the Lakers' 0-2 road trip quickly erased any momentum they hoped to have generated from their 19-point comeback victory over the Houston Rockets in their first game out of the All-Star break last week.

湖人0-2的客場之旅，很快抹去了他們希望得到的前進勢頭，原本在19分逆轉火箭取勝後，湖人已經看到了些許希望的。

"Like, seriously, if you're distracted by playoff pushes out of all the stuff that's been talked about this year, nah," James said. "Just come and do your job. We do our job at a high level and that's not a distraction. That's what you want. That's what you want every game. You want to feel like you're fighting for something."

詹姆斯說：“說真的，在經歷了這賽季種種事件之後，你要是連季後賽的壓力都承受不了，那還是算了吧。”“來幹好你該乾的事，我們想要把所有事情都做好，這不會分散我們的注意力。這就是你想要的。這就是你每場比賽想要的。你想感覺自己在爲某件事而奮鬥。”

James' career numbers took a leap forward — he became the only player in league history to rank in the top 10 in both career scoring and career assists after passing Andre Miller for No. 10 on the assists list, and his 24 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists moved him past Wilt Chamberlain for No. 5 on the all-time triple-doubles list with 79 — but it came on a night when he shot just 8-for-23 from the floor with five turnovers.

詹姆斯的職業生涯數據有了飛躍——他成爲聯盟歷史上唯一一個在總得分和助攻方面都名列前十的球員。他在助攻榜上超越了安德烈·米勒位列第十，24分、12個籃板和11次助攻的三雙，讓他的職業生涯總三雙數達到79個並超越威爾特·張伯倫，來到歷史第五——但在那場比賽中，他只有23投8中，失誤5次。

Still, despite playing on a sub-.500 team the latest into a season since his second year in the league back in 2004-05 with the Cleveland Cavaliers, James expressed optimism — a sentiment echoed by most of the Lakers' locker room.

現在，詹姆斯的湖人勝率不足50%，上一次他帶隊拿到這種低勝率，還要追溯到2004-05賽季的騎士。但他還是表現出了樂觀情緒，這一情緒在湖人更衣室的大部分人中得到了迴響。

"Just stay positive. That, you know, starts with me," James said. "I just got to stay positive. Keep knocking on the door. And I felt like if we play like we did tonight, then we got to continue that consistent effort, that will get us over the hump as we make this push."

“保持樂觀。你知道，那是從我開始的，”詹姆斯說。我只是要保持樂觀。繼續多多交流，我覺得如果我們今晚打得像今晚一樣好，那麼我們必須繼續不斷的努力，這會讓我們克服困難。”

Lakers coach Luke Walton lauded his team's "effort and togetherness," and also suggested that the disappointment from the loss was necessary to dwell on between now and their next game on Wednesday hosting those same Pelicans that just beat his team.

湖人教練沃頓稱讚他的球隊的“努力和團結”，並表示從現在到他們週三的下一場比賽，對於輸掉比賽的失望是有必要的，因爲他們要打的就是剛剛輸給的鵜鶘。

"One game. Feel this pain. Let's not try to run from it," he said. "It should hurt that we lost, that we went 0-2 on this trip. But the only thing that matters is the next game, the chance to redeem ourselves against New Orleans. We don't need to look further than that. That's all that we can control as a group. So that's where we need our mindset to be."

“一場比賽。感覺到這種疼痛。我們不要試圖逃避它，”他說。“我們輸了就應該感到傷心，應該爲0勝2負這樣的戰績失望。但唯一重要的是下一場比賽，在新奧爾良的比賽中挽回自己的機會，我們不需要看得更遠。這就是我們作爲一個集體所能控制的一切，這就是我們需要的心態。”

Or, as Brandon Ingram, who kept up his personal sharp play with a game-high 32 points, put it: "There's a certain fire that comes out when you continue to get what you don't want. I think that's where the hurt comes from, the chance for us to win."

或者，正如保持良好手感砍下32分高分的布蘭登·英格拉姆所說：“當你繼續得到你不想要的東西時，心中就會燃起怒火。我認爲這就是傷痛的來源，也是我們獲勝的機會。”

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