科比与卫冕冠军湖人队发现他们面临十字路口的窘境，在连续输掉两场比赛之后，而且这次是大比分惨败，他们与黑马雷霆队系列赛打成了2-2的对峙局面。
但是科比与他的老道的队友没有理由会因为对手是联盟最年轻球队表现出令人惊讶的神奇而感到惊慌，毕竟雷霆的大部分球员还是头一回打季后赛呢。
科比在第四战89-110落败的比赛中仅得到12分，他说：“这情况并不复杂，我们打了一场艰苦的战斗，我们必须做好调整，而且我们的对手目前气势十足状态极佳，我们需要好好处理。”
“这不是我们丧失斗志的时候，他们保住了主场胜局，现在轮到我们了，就这么简单。”
双方的第五战将在美国时间周二在斯坦普斯中心打响。
费舍尔说：“我们并未意料到这种场面，但是事实已如此，但对于每一战的态度我们都没有丝毫改变，即使我们是3-1领先，我们也会努力赢下周二这场比赛。”
“我们目前最重要的就是做出必要的调整，让我们找回自身的位置赢下周二的比赛，从而把局面重新扭转回来。”
禅师杰克逊为球队所做出的调整在第四战中最终还是不奏效。湖人依然在半场崩盘，任由雷霆在攻防转换中实施破坏，他们在快攻得分上以24-2占据压倒性优势，而且即使湖人在内线拥有加索尔拜纳姆的双塔组合，雷霆在篮板上继续掌控着优势，他们在罚球次数上比湖人多出了20次。
先前期望能早早结束本次系列赛而空出时间给8名负有不同伤势的湖人球员休养的美好愿望破灭了。
科比仍身负膝盖与右手食指的伤，他说：“打从一开始我们就说这个系列赛不会很轻松，会是很漫长的系列赛，而且是激斗的系列赛。如今事实更是如此，他们信心暴涨，知道如何对付我们，了解他们所适应的对碰。所以我们得迎面而上。”
湖人上赛季季后赛第二轮与火箭对碰时也遇到过类似的困境。尽管姚明因伤缺阵，火箭以29分的分差（周六雷霆领先湖人的最大分差也为29分）将与湖人的大比分扳为2-2.
湖人最终保住主场胜利，赢下第5和第7场晋级下一轮。
科比说：“我们不能情绪太高涨，也不能太低沉，得保持好适中的情绪，专注于下一场比赛。很明显我们拥有很丰富的经验，但单单这样是无法赢下比赛的。”
“我们得打好球，好好打，努力打。”
湖人上一场比赛完全进入雷霆的圈套，对手首次在这系列赛中取得强势领先开局，而且主场吵闹的观众也给主队带来了不少帮助。而湖人而结合了多种问题，糟糕的投篮选择，惨淡的罚球，不理智的犯规（包括科比2次的3分线外犯规）
卫冕冠军共出手22个三分球，但仅命中4个，而且前12个罚球竟丢了9个。
全场至终，雷霆得到了现场挥舞着毛巾精力旺盛的球迷的大力支持，当征战客场时这会是他们想念的优势。
雷霆前锋杰夫格林说：“在洛杉矶不会有我们的球迷在，我们得把那种能量带过去，全场48分钟都需要。我们必须找到方法继续发起攻击，继续在没有球迷支持的情况下发挥出能量。你看看上两场比赛吧，球迷是我们取胜的X因素。”
科比在惨败后说道他不清楚接下来球队的心境会是如何，但后来他补充说明了他本应回到这个同去年争夺第4冠时一样的问题。
“情况就是如此，这是季后赛，激烈的争夺。你可能本场打得极其出色，但下场又被打得落花流水，之后你又重振雄风，这就是上下起伏的问题，特别当是你面对的球队具有很强的竞争力。这就是季后赛的一个特色。”
原文来自：http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/preview?gid=2010042713
翻译：松爷
Kobe Bryant(notes) and the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers find themselves at a crossroads.After suffering their second straight loss, this time in blowout fashion, their series against the upstart Oklahoma City Thunder shifts back to Los Angeles tied at two games.
But Bryant and his veteran teammates see no reason to panic after a surprising surge by the youngest team in the NBA, with most of Oklahoma City’s players making their first postseason appearance.
“It’s not rocket science,” said Bryant, limited to 12 points in the 110-89 loss in Game 4. “We had a tough battle, we’ve got adjustments to make and we have a team that’s playing extremely well right now that we have to deal with.
“It’s not something where we lose swagger. They defended their home court. Now, it’s our turn. Simple as that.”
Game 5 is Tuesday night at the Staples Center in L.A.
“We didn’t envision ourselves in this situation but it’s where we are, and that doesn’t change anything about the way that you should approach the next game,” Derek Fisher(notes) said. “If we were up 3-1, we would still want to go back and win Tuesday night’s game.
“That’s what our focus is right now, is making the necessary adjustments to put ourselves in position to win Tuesday night’s game and kind of get the series back in our favor.”
None of the adjustments coach Phil Jackson laid out for his team ended up taking shape in Game 4. The Lakers again failed to make it a half-court game and instead allowed the Thunder to do damage in transition, with a 24-2 edge in fast-break scoring. Oklahoma City also continued its baffling control of the boards despite the presence of 7-footers Pau Gasol(notes) and Andrew Bynum(notes) inside for Los Angeles while shooting 20 more free throws.
Any hopes of an early end to the series and extra rest for a team that lists eight players with various injuries are gone now.
“We said at the beginning of the series this wasn’t going to be easy,” said Bryant, who’s nursing a sore knee and a broken right index finger. “It was going to be a long series, it was going to be a dogfight. Now more so than before because they have a ton of confidence, they know how to play against us, they know what matchups they like. So, we’ve just got to go forward now.”
The Lakers faced a similar dilemma in their second-round series against Houston last year. Despite Yao Ming’s(notes) absence due to an injury, the Rockets opened a 29-point lead—the same as the Thunder’s biggest margin on Saturday night—on their way to tying that series 2-2.
Los Angeles ended up protecting its home floor and winning Games 5 and 7 to advance.
“You can’t get too high and you can’t get too low. You’ve just got to pretty much stay even-keeled and just move on to the next one,” Bryant said. “We obviously have a lot of experience in doing that but that’s not going to win the next game.
“You’ve got to play. You’ve got to play well. You’ve got to play hard.”
The Lakers played right into Oklahoma City’s hands in Game 4 by allowing the Thunder get off to a strong start for the first time in the series, keeping a noisy home crowd involved in the game. Then L.A. compounded its problems with ill-advised fouls—including two against 3-point shooters by Bryant—to go with poor shot selection and missed free throws.
The defending champs settled for 22 3-pointers, making only four, and missed nine of their first 12 foul shots.
All the while, the Thunder continued to get a lift from an energized crowd whirling rally towels—something they’ll be missing as the series heads west.
“We’re not going to have our fans. We’ve got to bring the energy somehow, all 48 minutes,” forward Jeff Green(notes) said. “We’ve got to find a way to continue to attack them, to continue to bring the effort and the energy without our fans behind us. You’ve seen the last two games, they’re our extra boost.”
Bryant said after the rout that he wasn’t sure what his team’s frame of mind would be moving forward, but he later added that he couldn’t have answered the same question last year on the way to winning his fourth NBA title with the Lakers.
“It happens. The playoffs, it’s tough,” Bryant said. “You go through games where you play extremely well and then you get busted up pretty well, and then you’re on to the next one. It’s such an up and down thing, especially when you’re playing against great competition. It’s just part of the playoffs.” |
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