勇士已意識到挑戰,但現實遠不止如此

The most tantalizing storyline in the NBA, and perhaps in all of sports, unwound Monday in Oakland with discipline, kind words, a striking sense of self-awareness and a lot more caution and humility than when super teams first became a national fixation six years ago with LeBron James and the Miami Heat.

六年前，勒布朗-詹姆斯加入熱火，超級球隊第一次成爲全國焦點。隨着各種交易條例，客套話，強大的自我意識以及比以往更多關注的目光，週一在奧克蘭，發生了在NBA，也可能是所有運動聯盟中，最激動人心的故事。

But that doesn't mean the Warriors, fresh off a 73-win regular season that ended with a heartbreaking collapse in the Finals and the off-season addition of Kevin Durant, can expect a smoother ride.

勇士在常規賽奪得73勝卻在總決賽消沉，隨即在休賽期引入凱文-杜蘭特，但這並不意味着他們的新賽季旅程會有多麼輕鬆。

Star turns as ambitious and captivating as the one the Warriors are about to embark on rarely come crisis-free, even if the chances for greatness and glory are very, very high.

即使擁有這樣有野心以及魅力十足的球星，這支勇士球隊也無法躲避危機，就算對於偉大的球隊來說極有可能贏得最後的榮譽。

"To be quite frank with you," Draymond Green told reporters at the Warriors' media day and unofficial start of the Durant-meets-Warriors spectacle Monday, "I don't even want to win 74 games or 75 games. It's brutal.

“很誠實地跟你說，”在勇士媒體日以及週一非正式的杜蘭特加入勇士的見面會上，德雷蒙德-格林對記者說，“我甚至都不想贏下74或75場常規賽。這太兇殘了。

There definitely will be bumps in the beginning. It's not going to be all great like people think it will be.

從一開始我們就會受到極大的衝擊。結果遠不如人們所期望的那樣完美。

"If we were to start 19-6, and it's the world's coming to an end, and it's, 'KD's a problems because they lost more games in the first 25 games than they did last year.'

。人們就會說，今年他們（這裏指雷霆）在前25場比賽中比去年輸掉了更多的比賽，而杜蘭特就是其中的原因。

I've already prepared myself for that mentally."

“如果我們以19勝6負開局，那感覺一切就要結束了我已經在思想上做好了這種準備。”

Smart man. Because a great culture can only be so much of a firewall against the unique challenge of being the country's most intriguing and scrutinized sports team. Ask Pat Riley and the Miami Heat.

的確是個聰明的傢伙。因爲一個偉大的精神如一堵可以面臨強大沖擊的鐵牆，這也造就了這片土地上最有魅力和最受關注的球隊。這件事你可以問問帕特-萊利和邁阿密熱火。

Because a superstar on such a team, fair or not, will be get blamed for things he does not deserve and create crises he will only grasp months or years later. Ask LeBron James.

因爲一個超級巨星在這樣一個球隊，公平與否，都會承受他所不應當承受的責備，以及接受他在數月或數年才能體會到的危機。詹姆斯就是一個例子。

Because starting 9-8 can almost get a head coach fired, and players thrown so off-balance the repercussions will last well beyond November basketball.

即使9勝8負開局，也有可能導致總教練下課，球員們只有消除不適中才能在穩重地進入11月後面的比賽。

Ask Erik Spoelstra and the guys around him who struggled, despite having the best team in the NBA in 2010-11, to keep the train on the tracks.

就好像2010到2011賽季的埃裏克-斯波爾斯特拉和他的隊員們，即使擁有最佳陣容，依舊在掙扎着讓球隊步入正軌。

This Warriors team could be every bit as interesting, or more, than that Heat team from six years ago.

這個勇士陣容會十分有趣，甚至比六年前的熱火更加有趣。

I was there, I covered that group, and the unifying axis between then and now is threefold:

我當年也親身經歷過，跟蹤報道過這個球隊，一直以來我認爲球隊核心價值體現在三個層面：

A rabid curiosity for how this amalgamation of egos and talent and pressure will mix, a superstar making a bold move to a team with extraordinary expectations, and a group capable of so much that anything short of near perfection will be not just a media frenzy but water-cooler talk for fans across the country, day in and day out, without end.

首先是他們怎麼融合球員的個性，天賦以及挑戰，其次一個超級巨星加入一個球隊自然伴隨着前所未有的期望，最後是這個團隊是否可以承受日復一日，永無休止的媒體轟炸以及球迷們潑冷水。

"There's no more pressure than there was last year," Steph Curry said Monday.

“今年面臨着的壓力不比去年少，”庫裏在週一表示。

"Coming off a championship trying to defend the regular season we had, having a game seven..."

“從失去總冠軍，如今仍需要保持常規賽勝率，或許再打入總決賽第七場……”

Yes, and no. That pressure must have be intense last year, trying to validate that 73-win season through the Western playoffs and against a possessed LeBron in the Finals, and who are any of us to say otherwise?

常規賽好好打，總決賽不失利。去年的壓力確實很大，帶着73勝的常規賽戰績努力在西部總決賽中證明自己，接着在總決賽遭遇詹姆斯。有誰會否認這一點呢？

We didn't live it. Curry and his teammates did. But the pressure that comes next? That's not something Curry and Co. have seen, firsthand, let alone experienced.

庫裏和他們的隊友都經歷過，我們沒有。但是下一個挑戰呢？這是他們所不曾面對過的，直接地，獨自面對。

But again, I've been around this sort of hype train, and mark my words: It will take on a life of its own, and everyone else will be required to adjust to it, not the other way around.

不過，我曾有過這樣的經驗，記住我所說的：這就是生活本身，每個人都需要調整自身去適應它，沒有別的選擇。

In fact, it'a already started. Klay Thompson addressed early on Monday his comments from the summer that he wasn't going to "sacrifice" anything with a reasonable and, for me, believable answer: He'd been misunderstood.

事實上，新的旅程已經開始。克萊-湯普森在週一表達了他這個夏天的想法，他不會作出任何“犧牲”。對我來說合理，可信的回答是：他被誤解了。

"I'm really not sacrificing anything because you don't sacrifice when you acquire a player like Kevin Durant — and David West and Zaza Pachulia. We got better. That's what I meant by that."

“我不打算作出任何犧牲，因爲當你有像杜蘭特—還有大衛-韋斯特和扎扎-帕楚里亞這樣的球員，你不需要犧牲任何東西。我們變得更強了。這就是我說這句話的意思。”

Still, the season hasn't started — media day hadn't even begun — and already this was a big deal.

不過新賽季還沒有開始——媒體開放日也還沒有到來——而問題已經出現了。

And in his initial comments, Thompson went straight to feeling disrespected.

在他最初發表的言論中，湯普森感覺失去了尊重。

Even Durant, the source of much of the soon-to-be-everywhere Warriors hysteria, doesn't get it. Yet.

即使是杜蘭特，作爲勇士激情的來源，也還沒有體會到這點。

"I'll approach the game like I've always done it," he said. "Nothing's changed on my end except for my jersey."

“我會像往常一樣打比賽，”他說道。“除了球服其他對我來說都不會改變。”

Fact is, everything has changed. The lights will shine brighter, and differently, in large part because of what Curry alluded to: What was accomplished last year, and what was lost in that Game 7 loss to LeBron and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

他們身上的巨星光芒更亮了，也不同往常了，大部分是因爲庫裏所暗示的：上個賽季所取得的成就以及在總決賽第七場被詹姆斯所奪去的。

And, of course, because Kevin Durant has been thrown into the mix — an accelerant not just in the potential excellence of this team, but for the social justice questions that will pop up (as they did repeatedly on day one in Oakland), the losses that are inevitable, the struggles large or small that will be part of this team's learning curve, all of it.

當然，因爲杜蘭特已經進入了這個大熔爐—他是催化劑而不僅僅是其中的潛力股，但是社會關於正義的輿論也會隨之而來（就像他們在奧克蘭第一天所反覆強調的一樣），那些失敗是不可避免的，所有的都一樣。

Every little moment will be sensationalized, scrutinized, cynically observed in a way they haven't experienced before, not even last season.

每一個小事件都被渲染誇大，添油加醋，他們經歷了從未有的冷嘲熱諷，甚至在上個賽季也沒有過。

To be fair, this Warriors team seems well aware that integrating Kevin Durant into their culture, their approach, their system and their lives will be an uneven process almost certainly worth whatever price there is to be paid or whatever pain comes with the change.

公平一點講，這支勇士似乎非常清楚，杜蘭特融入球隊文化、道路、體系和生活都不會是一個平順的過程，無論他們付出多大的代價，面臨多大困難，都需要做到這一點。

"He's a well-rounded player," Curry said. "He does score the ball at a high rate and can do it all different ways.

“他是一位很全面的球員，”庫裏說道。“他可以以極高的成功率得分，他可以利用各種手段得分。

But our offense, even before KD, it's about ball movement and player movement and a flow and rhythm.

但是我們的進攻，在還沒有杜蘭特的時候，就以球的運轉和球員的跑動爲主，打得很靈活有節奏。

There's not a lot of standing, not a lot of one-on-one. He can do all of that at a very high level.

我們並沒有多少陣地進攻，也沒有很多的一對一。他當然也可以這樣打球，而且很高效。

"I know he just wants to play the game the right way," Curry continued. "That fits right into our identity.

“我知道他想立刻上場比賽，”庫裏繼續說。“這正符合我們球隊的認知。

But there's still obviously a transition. You have to figure out how to blend it all. But everybody has to be 100 percent themselves. When it comes to the full culture of our team it'll take a minute to flow."

當然我們也需要一個調整。你需要知道怎麼去調和這支球隊。每個人都百分之百有自己的特色。當進入到整個球隊文化的時候，總會需要一些時間去調整。”

Said Green: "There are some things that will have to grow. It will only get better with time.

格林說道：“有些東西總需要成長。隨着時間總會變得更好。

One thing you can't do is substitute or make up for time. Those things will happen as we're together more."

只是時間你沒辦法拿東西交換也不能彌補。當我們在一起打球這些東西就會更明顯。”

Exactly. It will take time and it will be hard. And how each and every one of these guys reacts to those struggles — and the weight of a thing they have not yet felt — will dictate how this story ends.

確實如此。他們需要時間，一切也會更加艱難。他們怎麼應對困難——其中仍有他們還沒有感受到的壓力——將會決定這個故事的走向。

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