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2008-05-22, 09:08 PM
We won and we went to sleep ... to the floor of the plane
By MANU
Published:2008/05/21
西语原文http://argentina.manuginobili.com
赢了，然后……我们在飞机上过夜
我上网看了在Sunchales的第一场比赛，第二场和第三场我因为有比赛而无法观看。但是和黄蜂的系列赛一结束，我做的第一件事就是打电话确认Libertad对Quimsa的总比分。因为我哥哥Sepo的缘故，我确实很关心阿根廷联赛的总决赛。他们肯定是高枕无忧了。大比分已经3-0领先了，但比赛还尚未结束。我知道这对任何球员来说都很重要。另外，比赛进行到这个地步，我从心底为他高兴。许多人都告诉我家里通过电视转播收看比赛。Sebastian出现在TyC Sports，Leandro在7频道做评论员，而在美国，TNT转播我们的比赛。而唯一漏掉的是。。我妈妈参加了cooking show（烹饪节目）
说到阿根廷联赛，我得说第七场之后发生的一些不可思议的事让我想起了以前在 Andino 和 Estudiantes 打球的日子。回过头来想想，我在阿根廷的时候从没遇到过如此糟糕的事情。比赛一结束，Pop就让我们速度快点，这样我们就能尽早离开，多休息休息。事实上我们确实做到了，11：30，我们已经坐在了飞机上，准备起飞……当我们被告知飞机出现了机械故障他们需要一两个小时的时间来检修的时候，我们没太在意。我们刚刚结束了一个艰难的系列赛！此时正不停的讨论着，我们都很高兴，对于时间的延误并没有多想。两小时后，他们告诉我们问题并没有解决。制服组打电话想要订新奥尔良的宾馆以便让我们返回那里睡觉。但是没有任何空房了。四个人在找能让我们过夜的地方，他们给25家宾馆打了电话。从500美元一晚的，到29.99美元的，就像2000年我和Pacho Jasen来美国度假时住的那种。但在城里这种旅馆是很普通的。不可思议的是，全部被订出了。
我们被告知将要在飞机上过夜，并且没得选择。一些人开始打牌，其他人在看书或者看电影。（manu,乃此刻是在心里酝酿这篇日志么？是么是么？）最糟糕的是，有一些人很不习惯睡在座位上，比如我和tony就是。所以我们只能打地铺了，就睡在过道里。想象一下吧，两米高的人就那么睡在地上……真是个有趣的画面。我们一致决定在凌晨三点熄灯，我们必须有好的自控力。Fabri和我谈到这种休息方式时说：“别多虑了，这是我们成长要经历的过程。”最终，从新奥尔良到洛杉矶的行程用了11个小时，而通常情况下，这一过程是不会超过4个小时的。，另外，由于时差，我们到达这里的时候是早上8：30,所以我在房间里叫了早点，然后睡了一觉。我在上午10点还打了个盹，这真是不可思议。我们已经筋疲力尽，不可能再训练了。而马上就要开始和湖人的对决了。我们在第六场和第七场之间有4天时间而在西部决赛开始前只能休息一天。真是奇怪极了。
发生了这么多是，我都没来得及给你们讲讲第七场。那个……我们打了一场漂亮的防守战。我们遏制了他们第三节爆发然后迅速扩大领先优势的势头。这次我们在第三节得到15分，取得领先，并在第四节顶住了。我们的失误消耗了精力，最后阶段我们的体力下降了，而他们拼命反扑。当你用那种方式打球的时候，也许会投失所有或者命中所有。正如发生在Pargo身上的一切，他正是扮演了那种角色，介入到比赛中，搅乱比赛节奏，甚至翻盘。我们对此并不感到惊奇，我们了解他，在一场对阵达拉斯的比赛中他曾经拿下了30分。
Fabri所做的一切也非常重要。他并不总是和最难缠的那个人对位，比如这次的West,但是他必须全神贯注的防守Paul的挡拆。同时，他被认为是一个全能型的人，这点也很重要。我得防守Stojakovic或者Peterson并且一刻不停地在对手的严密防守下投篮。Fabri每场都在战斗并且在系列赛里承担了重要角色。他完成了可怕的任务，但是我们了解他，他总是这么做的，有些时候却被低估了。
不管怎么说，我们现在都要面对西部决赛了。事实上，Gasol的到来使得湖人的面貌焕然一新。他加盟以后，我们仅赢过他们一次，而当时我还受伤了，所以没能参加比赛。他们拥有强大的防守，现在“后卫Kobe”不是孤军奋战了。Gasol阅读比赛的能力非常强，和他在一起，角色球员也得到了提升。Gasol吸引了对方的注意力，使得他们更容易发挥，不仅如此，传球也变好了。他们打得更加细腻了。面对如此多的难题和极少的准备时间，我们还没研究过他们的比赛录像，只掌握了基本要领。不要让他们在习惯的区域内配合进攻和传球。我们不能失误，不能给他们翻盘的机会，因为他们不会手下留情的。
我们经历了一个冗长、艰辛的系列赛。在第7场，我打了41分钟，有时候自己都不听使唤了。而伴随着紧张和兴奋，季后赛的每一分钟都和常规赛不同。此刻我还在休息，而且感到有些劳累，但是我们必须前行并且尽一切可能赢下湖人，我们的季后赛征程才进行了一半呢。
注：
1．在第一段中，Manu在谈论他的哥哥Sebastian，他正在阿根廷篮球联盟打总决赛，他所在的Libertad队现在以3-0领先。而他的另一个哥哥，Leandro（前著名篮球运动员，已经退役），正在阿根廷电视台做NBA季后赛评论员。
2. 第二段末尾，Manu谈到他曾在2000年去美国度假，Pacho Jasen是阿根廷著名篮球运动员，在西班牙联赛打球，有时会入选国家队。
英文参考
The first game in Sunchales, I watched it over the internet. I couldn't watch games two and three, because I was playing. But as soon as we ended our series with New Orleans the first thing I did was to call to find out the score of Libertad-Quimsa. I'm following with quite enthusiasm the National League Finals because of my brother Sepo. They must remain calmed. They are 3-0 up, but it isn't over yet. I know how important is this for any player. And by the way the things are going, I'm happy for him. Many people tell me that the family has taken over the TV. Sebastian was on TyC Sports, Leandro was doing commentary on Channel 7, and in America, I was on TNT... Only thing missing was my mom on a cooking show!*
And talking about the League, let me tell you something unbelieavable that happened after the seventh game in New Orleans that reminded me of my trips with Andino and Estudiantes. But, on second thoughts, I haven't been through something like this in the worst moments in Argentina. As soon as the game ended, Pop asked us to hurry, so we could leave as soon as possible and get some rest. We did. At 11:30 pm, we were all on the plane, ready for take-off... when we were told that there were malfunctions and they were going to take one or two hours in repairing them. We didn't care. We just finished a very hard series! We kept chatting, we were happy and didn't think about the delay. Two hours later, they told us that the problem wasn't going to be fixed. Calls were made to the hotel to get back to New Orleans and sleep there. But there wasn't any room. Four people started looking for a place to spend the night. They called 25 different hotels. From those who charge 500 dollars a night, to those that charge 29.99, like the ones I slept in 2000 when I came the the US on holidays with Pacho Jasen. But there were conventions in the city. Impossible, everything was booked.*
We didn't have a choice but to ask permission to sleep on the plane. Some started to play cards; others to read or watch movies. The worst part is that many, like Tony or me, aren't used to sleep on seats, so we just threw ourselves to the floor, across the corridor. Imagine it, to watch people two metres tall sleeping like that... it was a funny picture. We agreed to shut down lights at 3 am and... we had to manage ourselves. Fabri and I told the rest: "Don't worry, that's the way we grew". In the end, the trip to LA took us 11 hours, when in normal conditions it shouldn't have been more than 4. Besides, with the different time zones, we arrived here at 8:30 am, so I asked for breakfast in my room and went to sleep. It was all so weird that I would call it a nap at 10 in the morning. We ended up dead, so we couldn't practice. And we have to play the Lakers right now. It's strange. We had four days off between games 6 and 7 with New Orleans and just one before the Conference Finals.
With so much going on, I didn't tell you anything about Game 7. Well... we played a great defensive game. We stopped them from having that start of the 3rd quarter were they broke us and got the crowd involved. This time in the third quarter we went up by 15 points and struggled in the last quarter. Because the effort we made took energy from us and we arrived tired at the end and they played with desperation. When you play that way, you either miss everything or you do all the thing right, like it happened to Jannero Pargo, who has that role, to get in, confuse things and turn around the game. We weren't surprised, we knew him, in a game with Dallas he scored 30 points.
It was also very important what Fabri did. Not always he's dancing with the ugliest one, like David West this time, but he had to be alert all the time with helping with Chris Paul in the pick'n'roll. It is also important to think that he has an important fatigue factor. I had to guard Stojakovic or Peterson and from time to time I get knocked in the face in a pick. Fabricio is fighting all the game and with big guys the entire series. He did a terrific job, but we know him, he does it all the time and sometimes we underrated him.
Anyway... we have to focus on the Conference Finals now. Truth is, that with Pau Gasol the Lakers are a new team. Since he arrived, we crossed our paths just once, but I couldn't play, because I was injured. They have great confidence. Now it's not just "guard Kobe" and that's it. With Pau, who reads the game very well, the role players have improved. They have a presence in the post who draws the attention, and like that wasn't enough, passes the ball very well. They improved in the elaboration of their plays. With all the problems and the little time, we haven't seen many tapes of them, but there are elementary premises. Don't allow them to play in a confort zone and move the ball well in offense. We can't feed them with turnovers and stupid mistakes, because they won't show mercy.
We come from a long, exhausting series. In game 7, I played 41 minutes, something I'm not used to. And those are different minutes from the ones in the regular season, with a lot of tension and adrenaline. Just now I'm relaxing and feeling the fatigue a little more. But we gotta move on and make everything possible to win in LA. We are just halfway of the playoffs road.
* Notes: In the first parragraph, Manu is talking about his brother Sebastian, who is playing in the Argentinian National League finals. His team, Libertad, is winning the series 3-0. His other brother, Leandro (a former basketball pro player, now retired) is commenting the NBA playoffs in the Argentinian TV.
In the second parragraph, near the end, Manu talks when he went on holiday to the US in 2000. Pacho Jasen is an Argentinian pro basketball player who plays in the Spanish League and is called for the National Team sometimes.
By MANU
Published:2008/05/21
西语原文http://argentina.manuginobili.com
赢了，然后……我们在飞机上过夜
我上网看了在Sunchales的第一场比赛，第二场和第三场我因为有比赛而无法观看。但是和黄蜂的系列赛一结束，我做的第一件事就是打电话确认Libertad对Quimsa的总比分。因为我哥哥Sepo的缘故，我确实很关心阿根廷联赛的总决赛。他们肯定是高枕无忧了。大比分已经3-0领先了，但比赛还尚未结束。我知道这对任何球员来说都很重要。另外，比赛进行到这个地步，我从心底为他高兴。许多人都告诉我家里通过电视转播收看比赛。Sebastian出现在TyC Sports，Leandro在7频道做评论员，而在美国，TNT转播我们的比赛。而唯一漏掉的是。。我妈妈参加了cooking show（烹饪节目）
说到阿根廷联赛，我得说第七场之后发生的一些不可思议的事让我想起了以前在 Andino 和 Estudiantes 打球的日子。回过头来想想，我在阿根廷的时候从没遇到过如此糟糕的事情。比赛一结束，Pop就让我们速度快点，这样我们就能尽早离开，多休息休息。事实上我们确实做到了，11：30，我们已经坐在了飞机上，准备起飞……当我们被告知飞机出现了机械故障他们需要一两个小时的时间来检修的时候，我们没太在意。我们刚刚结束了一个艰难的系列赛！此时正不停的讨论着，我们都很高兴，对于时间的延误并没有多想。两小时后，他们告诉我们问题并没有解决。制服组打电话想要订新奥尔良的宾馆以便让我们返回那里睡觉。但是没有任何空房了。四个人在找能让我们过夜的地方，他们给25家宾馆打了电话。从500美元一晚的，到29.99美元的，就像2000年我和Pacho Jasen来美国度假时住的那种。但在城里这种旅馆是很普通的。不可思议的是，全部被订出了。
我们被告知将要在飞机上过夜，并且没得选择。一些人开始打牌，其他人在看书或者看电影。（manu,乃此刻是在心里酝酿这篇日志么？是么是么？）最糟糕的是，有一些人很不习惯睡在座位上，比如我和tony就是。所以我们只能打地铺了，就睡在过道里。想象一下吧，两米高的人就那么睡在地上……真是个有趣的画面。我们一致决定在凌晨三点熄灯，我们必须有好的自控力。Fabri和我谈到这种休息方式时说：“别多虑了，这是我们成长要经历的过程。”最终，从新奥尔良到洛杉矶的行程用了11个小时，而通常情况下，这一过程是不会超过4个小时的。，另外，由于时差，我们到达这里的时候是早上8：30,所以我在房间里叫了早点，然后睡了一觉。我在上午10点还打了个盹，这真是不可思议。我们已经筋疲力尽，不可能再训练了。而马上就要开始和湖人的对决了。我们在第六场和第七场之间有4天时间而在西部决赛开始前只能休息一天。真是奇怪极了。
发生了这么多是，我都没来得及给你们讲讲第七场。那个……我们打了一场漂亮的防守战。我们遏制了他们第三节爆发然后迅速扩大领先优势的势头。这次我们在第三节得到15分，取得领先，并在第四节顶住了。我们的失误消耗了精力，最后阶段我们的体力下降了，而他们拼命反扑。当你用那种方式打球的时候，也许会投失所有或者命中所有。正如发生在Pargo身上的一切，他正是扮演了那种角色，介入到比赛中，搅乱比赛节奏，甚至翻盘。我们对此并不感到惊奇，我们了解他，在一场对阵达拉斯的比赛中他曾经拿下了30分。
Fabri所做的一切也非常重要。他并不总是和最难缠的那个人对位，比如这次的West,但是他必须全神贯注的防守Paul的挡拆。同时，他被认为是一个全能型的人，这点也很重要。我得防守Stojakovic或者Peterson并且一刻不停地在对手的严密防守下投篮。Fabri每场都在战斗并且在系列赛里承担了重要角色。他完成了可怕的任务，但是我们了解他，他总是这么做的，有些时候却被低估了。
不管怎么说，我们现在都要面对西部决赛了。事实上，Gasol的到来使得湖人的面貌焕然一新。他加盟以后，我们仅赢过他们一次，而当时我还受伤了，所以没能参加比赛。他们拥有强大的防守，现在“后卫Kobe”不是孤军奋战了。Gasol阅读比赛的能力非常强，和他在一起，角色球员也得到了提升。Gasol吸引了对方的注意力，使得他们更容易发挥，不仅如此，传球也变好了。他们打得更加细腻了。面对如此多的难题和极少的准备时间，我们还没研究过他们的比赛录像，只掌握了基本要领。不要让他们在习惯的区域内配合进攻和传球。我们不能失误，不能给他们翻盘的机会，因为他们不会手下留情的。
我们经历了一个冗长、艰辛的系列赛。在第7场，我打了41分钟，有时候自己都不听使唤了。而伴随着紧张和兴奋，季后赛的每一分钟都和常规赛不同。此刻我还在休息，而且感到有些劳累，但是我们必须前行并且尽一切可能赢下湖人，我们的季后赛征程才进行了一半呢。
注：
1．在第一段中，Manu在谈论他的哥哥Sebastian，他正在阿根廷篮球联盟打总决赛，他所在的Libertad队现在以3-0领先。而他的另一个哥哥，Leandro（前著名篮球运动员，已经退役），正在阿根廷电视台做NBA季后赛评论员。
2. 第二段末尾，Manu谈到他曾在2000年去美国度假，Pacho Jasen是阿根廷著名篮球运动员，在西班牙联赛打球，有时会入选国家队。
英文参考
The first game in Sunchales, I watched it over the internet. I couldn't watch games two and three, because I was playing. But as soon as we ended our series with New Orleans the first thing I did was to call to find out the score of Libertad-Quimsa. I'm following with quite enthusiasm the National League Finals because of my brother Sepo. They must remain calmed. They are 3-0 up, but it isn't over yet. I know how important is this for any player. And by the way the things are going, I'm happy for him. Many people tell me that the family has taken over the TV. Sebastian was on TyC Sports, Leandro was doing commentary on Channel 7, and in America, I was on TNT... Only thing missing was my mom on a cooking show!*
And talking about the League, let me tell you something unbelieavable that happened after the seventh game in New Orleans that reminded me of my trips with Andino and Estudiantes. But, on second thoughts, I haven't been through something like this in the worst moments in Argentina. As soon as the game ended, Pop asked us to hurry, so we could leave as soon as possible and get some rest. We did. At 11:30 pm, we were all on the plane, ready for take-off... when we were told that there were malfunctions and they were going to take one or two hours in repairing them. We didn't care. We just finished a very hard series! We kept chatting, we were happy and didn't think about the delay. Two hours later, they told us that the problem wasn't going to be fixed. Calls were made to the hotel to get back to New Orleans and sleep there. But there wasn't any room. Four people started looking for a place to spend the night. They called 25 different hotels. From those who charge 500 dollars a night, to those that charge 29.99, like the ones I slept in 2000 when I came the the US on holidays with Pacho Jasen. But there were conventions in the city. Impossible, everything was booked.*
We didn't have a choice but to ask permission to sleep on the plane. Some started to play cards; others to read or watch movies. The worst part is that many, like Tony or me, aren't used to sleep on seats, so we just threw ourselves to the floor, across the corridor. Imagine it, to watch people two metres tall sleeping like that... it was a funny picture. We agreed to shut down lights at 3 am and... we had to manage ourselves. Fabri and I told the rest: "Don't worry, that's the way we grew". In the end, the trip to LA took us 11 hours, when in normal conditions it shouldn't have been more than 4. Besides, with the different time zones, we arrived here at 8:30 am, so I asked for breakfast in my room and went to sleep. It was all so weird that I would call it a nap at 10 in the morning. We ended up dead, so we couldn't practice. And we have to play the Lakers right now. It's strange. We had four days off between games 6 and 7 with New Orleans and just one before the Conference Finals.
With so much going on, I didn't tell you anything about Game 7. Well... we played a great defensive game. We stopped them from having that start of the 3rd quarter were they broke us and got the crowd involved. This time in the third quarter we went up by 15 points and struggled in the last quarter. Because the effort we made took energy from us and we arrived tired at the end and they played with desperation. When you play that way, you either miss everything or you do all the thing right, like it happened to Jannero Pargo, who has that role, to get in, confuse things and turn around the game. We weren't surprised, we knew him, in a game with Dallas he scored 30 points.
It was also very important what Fabri did. Not always he's dancing with the ugliest one, like David West this time, but he had to be alert all the time with helping with Chris Paul in the pick'n'roll. It is also important to think that he has an important fatigue factor. I had to guard Stojakovic or Peterson and from time to time I get knocked in the face in a pick. Fabricio is fighting all the game and with big guys the entire series. He did a terrific job, but we know him, he does it all the time and sometimes we underrated him.
Anyway... we have to focus on the Conference Finals now. Truth is, that with Pau Gasol the Lakers are a new team. Since he arrived, we crossed our paths just once, but I couldn't play, because I was injured. They have great confidence. Now it's not just "guard Kobe" and that's it. With Pau, who reads the game very well, the role players have improved. They have a presence in the post who draws the attention, and like that wasn't enough, passes the ball very well. They improved in the elaboration of their plays. With all the problems and the little time, we haven't seen many tapes of them, but there are elementary premises. Don't allow them to play in a confort zone and move the ball well in offense. We can't feed them with turnovers and stupid mistakes, because they won't show mercy.
We come from a long, exhausting series. In game 7, I played 41 minutes, something I'm not used to. And those are different minutes from the ones in the regular season, with a lot of tension and adrenaline. Just now I'm relaxing and feeling the fatigue a little more. But we gotta move on and make everything possible to win in LA. We are just halfway of the playoffs road.
* Notes: In the first parragraph, Manu is talking about his brother Sebastian, who is playing in the Argentinian National League finals. His team, Libertad, is winning the series 3-0. His other brother, Leandro (a former basketball pro player, now retired) is commenting the NBA playoffs in the Argentinian TV.
In the second parragraph, near the end, Manu talks when he went on holiday to the US in 2000. Pacho Jasen is an Argentinian pro basketball player who plays in the Spanish League and is called for the National Team sometimes.