波波:可愛第二戰不打，Zaza沒運動家精神 - NBA

原po漏了Popovich幾句很重要的話。

"When you're texting and end up killing somebody,
you might not have intended to do that.
All I care about is what I saw.
All I care about is what happened.
And the history there exacerbates the whole situation
and makes me very, very angry."

當你在發簡訊時不小心殺了人，
你或許也不是故意的。
我只在乎我親眼所見，
我只在乎已經發生的事。
而他過去的所作所為也讓整個情況更加惡化了，
這令我感到非常、非常憤怒。

"I don't give a damn about intent,
you still go to jail for manslaughter."

我才不管對方是不是故意的，
你還是得因過失殺人而去坐牢。


不過也有美國鄉民翻出了Popovich過去針對Bowen種種傷人行徑的發言：
http://tinyurl.com/mxy7m38

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich criticized the NBA on Friday
for warning Bruce Bowen about his defensive "tactics"
and complained league officials are
"trying to change the way my best defender plays."

馬刺教練Popovich在週五痛批NBA，
因為他們警告Bowen別再用這種防守策略，
並抱怨聯盟正試著「影響我旗下最佳防守者的打球方式」。

Popovich said Bowen is being singled out,
citing incidents where New Jersey's Richard Jefferson
and Dallas' Josh Howard sprained ankles
after landing on Miami's Shaquille O'Neal and Golden State's Mickael Pietrus.

Popovich說聯盟是專挑Bowen出來講，
並指出了R. Jefferson跟J. Howard也曾踩過Shaq跟Pietrus的腳。

"Did (the league) call them?" Popovich said.
"Did they call all those guys (Dirk) Nowitzki landed on
when he sprained his ankles the past three, four years?
The answer is no."

「聯盟有打電話給他們嗎？」Popvich表示。
「Nowitzki過去三、四年來每次踩到別人的腳時，
聯盟都有打給那些人嗎？
答案是沒有。」

"So why did they call Bruce?
Because it's happened to him twice?
Bruce guards an All-Star every night.
If he was doing what they're accusing him of doing,
wouldn't it have happened a higher percentage of times?

「那聯盟為什麼會打給Bowen？
只因為這在他身上發生過兩次嗎？
Bowen每個晚上都負責守全明星球員，
如果事情真像聯盟所說的一樣，
他害人受傷的機率不是應該再高一點嗎？」

"The people who cry about it
are just frustrated about having to go against Bruce."

「那些在靠么的人，
只是因為他們很害怕對上Bowen。」

"The league is just trying to cover its ass," Popovich said.
"I told Bruce, 'You be Bruce Bowen.
You're the best (expletive) defender in this league.
You will NOT change the way you play defense.'

「聯盟只是想推卸責任。」Popovich表示。
「我告訴Bowen：你就好好當你自己。
你是這個聯盟中他媽的最佳防守者。
你絕不能改變自己防守的方式。」


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挑出這兩段訪談來翻，
只是因為Popovich關於過失殺人的那一段話說得很有道理；

但他過去旗下也帶過Bowen這麼一位刻意傷人的球員，
而Popovich當時也確實護短了。

但這不代表Zaza這麼做就是對的，
或是馬刺應該遭報應，
而是我們該譴責Zaza跟Bowen的行為，
無論自己支持的是哪個球隊都一樣。

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