年度最佳防守球員預測 追夢格林

These Golden State Warriors were supposedly too small, too thin and too offensively focused after the signing of Kevin Durant to maintain their status as an elite defensive team.

在金州勇士隊簽下杜蘭特之後，許多人認爲他們太瘦小，太過注重於進攻，而不能保持他們精英級別的防守。

Draymond Green, rather predictably, loved soaking up all that preseason nay-saying.

可以肯定的是，追夢很喜歡從人們季前的種種質疑中獲得動力。

"Obviously when you.hear that noise, you want to shut it up No. 1," Green told me in our SportsCenter talk last week. "So coming into the season, what everyone's saying—'They lost this guy; they lost that guy; their defense isn't going to be good, and that's where their downfall is going to be'—it motivates you. It motivated me to try to be the anchor of this defense."

“很顯然當你聽到那些聲音，你最想做的就是讓他們閉嘴。”格林上週在體育中心報的訪談中說到，“賽季開始時，大家都在說，他們失去了哪個球員，他們的防守肯定很爛，這賽季就是他們崩盤的賽季。這些言論會激勵你，也激勵了我成爲球隊的防守基石。”

Who but Green could rank as the only player on the league map to rack up 100-plus blocks and 100-plus steals for the second successive season while also placing in the top five—just one spot behind Gobert—in terms of opponents' field-goal percentage at the rim

除了格林聯盟中沒有哪個球員能連續兩個賽季賽季同時拿下100+封蓋和100+搶斷。同時格林在限制籃下命中率的排名中名列前五，僅僅排在戈伯特身後。

Entering the weekend, opposing players were shooting just 40 percent from the floor and turning the ball over in 14 percent of head-to-head confrontations with Green.

與格林對位的球員只有40%的投籃命中率，並且還有14%的失誤率。

He switches on to speedy guards, bangs with bulkier bigs and joins Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo on the exceedingly short list of players to lead their respective teams in steals and blocked shots as well as rebounds and assists.

他可以換防速度快的後衛，與內線的大個卡位，並且和字母哥一類極少數的人一樣，在搶斷、封蓋、籃板、助攻這4項記錄統計都排名隊內第一。

Only four players in league history, for the record, led their teams in those four categories for an entire season before Green and Antetokounmpo: Boston's Dave Cowens (1977-78), Chicago's Scottie Pippen (1994-95), Minnesota's Kevin Garnett (2002-03) and Cleveland's LeBron James (2008-09).

聯盟歷史上，在格林和字母哥之前，只有四位球員能在球隊內的四項數據統計上領先。分別是1977-78賽季凱爾特人的考恩斯，1994-95賽季公牛的皮蓬，2002-03賽季森林狼隊的凱文加內特和2008-09賽季騎士隊的詹姆斯。

Draymond Green is hoping he doesn't lose out on Defensive Player of the Year for a third straight season.

格林希望他不會連着第三個賽季失去年度最佳防守球員的稱號。

"I'm confident in the year I had defensively," Green told me in our SportsCenter conversation. "I think I've gotten a lot better over the last couple years, and I think I've continued to get better each year and I think this has been my best year defensively. And I'm proud of it.

“我對於我今年的防守表現非常自信，”格林在體育中心報的訪談中說到，“我認爲我在過去的幾年裏進步了很多，並且每年都在進步。我覺得今年打出了防守表現最好的一年，我也很自豪。”

"But with the way the voting has gone the last two years, I can't just say, 'Oh, I'm super confident, I know I'm getting it this time.' I don't know. It's out of my hands. I think I've done everything I possibly can to get the award, and obviously it's something I want to do over the course of my career.

“但是根據前兩年的投票方法來看，我也不能說‘我今年會得到這個獎’，我也不知道，這件事我無法控制，我想我做了我能做的一切來讓我得到這個獎，這也是我整個職業生涯都想做的事情。”

"Being adefensive-minded player, that is the ultimate. So definitely something I want to do, and I feel confident about what I've done on the floor, but I can't just say: 'Oh. I'm getting it.' I can't do that."

“做爲一個防守球員，這是最首要的，也是我最想做的事，我對我在場上做的一切都很有信心，但我還是不能說’我就要得到它了’，真的不能。”

Tune in June 26 on TNT for the NBA's maiden year-end awards show to see if everyone doing it for Green these days is proved correct.

6月26日TNT將會直播NBA本賽季各個獎項的頒獎典禮，讓我們拭目以待，看看格林最終能否如大家所預料的得獎。

Stein's official ballot: 1. Green; 2. Gobert; 3. Leonard.

Stein的投票：1.格林；2.戈伯特；3.萊納德

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