G6 and James Harden

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

　　西部半决赛第六场，对詹姆斯·哈登来说，可能是他加入火箭之后最糟糕的一战

　　

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

　　休斯顿火箭经历了一场惨败，他们以75-114输给了圣安东尼奥马刺队，毫无反抗地结束了他们的季后赛之旅。而他们无所不能的全明星领袖面对溃败却几乎什么都没有做。

　　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 passivenessstood out strangely in a crucial game.

　　哈登在本场比赛中仅11投2中，得到10分。他仅有7次助攻，却刷了6个失误。甚至，到比赛的第二节中段，他都没有尝试出手。他仅仅在中场时试着投了两次篮，在如此重要的一场比赛里，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.

　　尽管如此，我们仍不能因为这一场比赛否定他整个赛季的出色发挥。同时，这一场比赛也不能减少他获得MVP的可能性。

　　

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

　　这场比赛之后，哈登可能会一直遭受指责，客观来说，他确实表现太差了。

　　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，第五场比赛的时候，他葬送了火箭的大好局势，加时赛期间表现疲软，在卡哇伊-莱昂纳德不在场的情况下一分未得。

　　

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

　　过去的53分钟，哈登的打得很糟糕，现在，近期效应很严重，人们过度的被他这53分钟的表现所影响，而忽略了之前的3264分钟。

　　

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

　　从得分后卫转为组织后卫后，在麦克-德安东尼的跑轰进攻体系下，哈登的高效“亮瞎”了黑子们。

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

　　他的场均助攻联盟居首。他在得分榜上排名第二，而他的场均出手还不到19次，平均每次出手可以得到超过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.

　　他的失误很多，打破了联盟记录，虽然这很不理想，但这在他们的进攻体系内是可以被允许的。

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

　　他的这种冒险的打法是有考虑到犯错的可能性的，而他们坚持这种打法是因为坚信这种打法在多数时候是对火箭更有利的（事实证明确实如此）。

　　

　　It’s a laughto say that any guard could have done this with D’Antoni at the reigns.

　　可笑的是有人说在德安东尼的执教体系下任何后卫都能打出哈登的表现。

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

　　没错，任何一个后卫可能都会去做同样的事情，但是不是每个后卫都能做得这么出色。

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

　　哈登虽然没有传出那种看起来打破人类所能的球，但是他会把一个普通的传球演绎的很不寻常。

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

　　传个球到底角的射手是个很平常的事儿，但是他依然能让防守者吃惊。

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

　　他通过突破威胁对方的篮筐，然后寻找外线的射手。他制造投篮的能力也让对手忌惮，他经常依靠个人投篮挽救火箭于危急时刻。即使在26英尺外他也仍然具有威胁。

　　

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

　　所有这些我们都很难记起来，因为现在第六场里那个糟糕的哈登在我们的脑子里那么清晰，但是，哈登那些优秀的表现都是真的。

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

　　有趣的是，哈登在第六场梦魇般的比赛里，之所以那么挣扎似乎是因为他在试图做正确的事情。