（招工）Halfway through, time for our Vegas awards show
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LAS VEGAS -- We've reached the midpoint of the NBA Summer League at UNLV, with Tuesday's six games completing Day 5 and five days' worth of games to go.
So . . .
Sounds like a good time to take Stein Line stock of what's been happening on the court . . . as opposed to the considerable action in the stands at what league organizer Warren LeGarie likes to call the NBA's answer to baseball's winter meetings.
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My favorite Trail Blazer: [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4130]LaMarcus Aldridge[/url][/b]
[img=195,262]http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0710/nba_g_aldridge_195.jpg[/img] Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images
Aldridge's emergence continued in the Vegas spotlight.
[url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4243]Greg Oden[/url] almost got the sympathy vote now that his struggles to cope with a sinus infection and tonsil problem will require a tonsillectomy Saturday, leaving Oden with some underwhelming totals from his first NBA experience: 19 points and 19 fouls in two games.
[i]Almost.[/i]
Fact is, even Oden would insist that we vote for Aldridge . . . if he were still here. It was Oden, after all, who unexpectedly pinned a "beast" tag on the slender Texas ex over the weekend. Not the sort of tag Aldridge is used to.
Yet it's clear that Oden's new frontcourt partner -- who didn't look nearly this confident a year ago, when Aldridge was Portland's top-two pick in Vegas -- has been the Blazers' best player. I was pretty worried for Portland when I saw Aldridge at the '06 Vegas Summer League, but he has returned with a considerable combination of self-belief and constant energy while averaging 21.0 points and 11.0 rebounds through three games. Plus he never gives the impression that he's above summer-league duty, which easily could have been the case after Aldridge rebounded from the shoulder trouble that plagued him here last July to make the All-Rookie Team.
[b]Honorable mention: [/b][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4134]Brandon Roy[/url]. Word is that Roy badly wanted to play for the Blazers' summer squad again, even after his near-unanimous Rookie of the Year season, but his bosses apparently urged Roy to rest as a health precaution. How antsy is he? During Oden's second game, I saw Roy hiding a ball and dribbling it below his knees while watching from the Blazers' bench.
[b]My favorite import: [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4296]Marco Belinelli[/url][/b]
It's simply impossible not to pick the Italian. He's become such an instant favorite with the Vegas crowds -- averaging 25.0 points through three games and generally commanding Best Player So Far status from coaches and personnel types in attendance -- that most of his misses from outside are met with a disappointed groan from fans.
Ever since that 14-for-20 shooting spree in Belinelli's 37-point opener? The locals apparently think that Golden State's No. 18 pick is supposed to make every shot.
"But he's not just a shooter," said one Western Conference executive. "Don't be mistaken. He had [Philadelphia's Rodney] Carney isolated at the top of the key, beat him with a super crossover and finished at the rim over two people. He's going to fit right into the way Golden State plays. And he's not as bad defensively as people thought. Philly tried to iso him a few times in that game and he did a decent job."
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Yi hasn't made a great percentage of shots, but he has looked good.
Yet I insist on a Yi mention as well, even though he has struggled mightily from the field (26.1 percent) while averaging 13.8 points in four games for Team China. His movement, if not quite mechanical, seems a little strained at times to me, but Yi knows what to do with the ball and hasn't backed down in his new environment. When you add up Yi's size, youth and his smooth, high-release, high-arching jumper -- and when you remember that China still doesn't have a single guard who can make the game easier and thus make him look good -- you start to understand why the Bucks were willing to draft a guy they're not even sure they can get to Milwaukee.
[b]My favorite vet: [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3952]Jason Maxiell[/url] [/b]
From the moment I got my first up-close access to him at the 2005 Vegas Summer League, I've been a big Maxiell guy. That was before anyone knew he could succeed in the NBA as an undersized power forward, back when the Pistons were equally unsure.
Now?
He's shed 25 pounds since last season, after getting his first meaningful playoff minutes for the Pistons. Which means he's lean and mean in '07, attacking the rim and banging bodies with his usual ferocity.
[b]My favorite project: Cheikh Samb[/b]
I can still remember standing near a boisterous group of Knicks summer-leaguers around this time last year. They were snickering at the sight of Samb, the No. 51 pick in the '06 draft, who wasn't yet carrying 200 pounds on a 7-1 frame.
"The Somalian [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3149]Ben Wallace[/url]," chortled one Knick.
One year later? It's not exactly widespread knowledge that Samb is actually from Senegal, but we can tell you that the snickering has stopped. Samb took care of that by adding the 25 pounds Maxiell dropped to start filling out a bit and by returning from a year in Spain with a surprising scoring touch to complement his considerable shot-blocking potential.
Strength and stamina remain sizable concerns, but I'm told it's looking conceivable that Samb will wind up on the Pistons' roster next season, working closely with famed Detroit strength Arnie Kander. With a D-League affiliate in Fort Wayne, Ind., Samb wouldn't have to travel far if he can't get minutes with the Pistons.
[b]My favorite Laker: Coby Karl[/b]
The reflex answer, if you had surveyed the stands after the Lakers' first game, would have been [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4297]Javaris Crittenton[/url], after several successful slices to the rim by the point guard from Georgia Tech in his 18-point debut.
But I'm going with the sentimental choice -- cancer survivor Coby Karl -- because it's not just a sentimental choice. Karl happens to look rather solid already, emerging as the glue guy for the Lakers' summer squad.
He's a late bloomer, but he's also blessed with hoops smarts and proven toughness after overcoming what he's faced already in life at 24. If you can also shoot with the range Karl is showing here, you're going to stand out in the summer league.
Another system player for Phil Jackson in the [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3735]Luke Walton[/url] mode? Could be. Big guards who can pass and move have a future in Jackson's triange offense, which has never relied on traditional point guards.
Said one falling-in-love West exec: "He should have been a late first-round pick. He's going to play in this league for a long time."
[b]My favorite battle: [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4152]Kyle Lowry[/url] vs. Mike Conley [/b]
Lowry is ahead on points at present, but one interesting theory I'm stealing from an Eastern Conference personnel man is that these two could form Memphis' answer to the [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3711]T.J. Ford[/url] and [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3989]Jose Calderon[/url] combination in Toronto.
There will be nights, in other words, when you don't know which guy is better until the game unfolds.
Or perhaps new Grizzlies coach Marc Iavaroni will find a way to play them together.
[b]My not-so-favorite development: James White's struggles[/b]
It's too early for full-fledged disappointments. The only true disappointment I've seen in Vegas so far was the unspeakable sight of a young man bringing a bag from McDonald's into an In-N-Out on Tuesday afternoon, something I've never witnessed in 25 years as an In-N-Out zealot. He ate his McDonalds while his dining companion enjoyed the most sumptuous burger in the history of fast food. It was the epitome of sacrilege.
Anyway . . .
If anything else has troubled me -- apart from the fast-approaching reality that we won't be getting Oden vs. Durant on Sunday night -- it's Flight White's poor showing with San Antonio.
The champs still hope to inject their rotation with athleticism and White is getting a prime shot to impress them after basically spending a year as an apprentice, learning the team's culture. There is a great deal of curiosity in San Antonio, given White's dunking reputation, about what he can do in game situations and what he has learned.
The answer, sadly, appears to be [i]not much.[/i]
[b]My favorite shooter: Belinelli[/b]
[img=195,262]http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2007/0710/nba_g_belinelli_195.jpg[/img] Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images
Belinelli's shooting has been one of the Vegas hightlights.
No contest. Again.
But I should note that my favorite rookie from the class of '06 -- Houston's [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4160]Steve Novak[/url] -- just got here. And I haven't seen him play yet, because the Rockets' only game so far conflicted with Tuesday night's China-Knicks game.
So we'll see . . . although Novak (gulp) shot 1-for-7 on 3-pointers in his debut.
It's a big summer for Novak, too, since he barely played for Jeff Van Gundy after wowing folks in Vegas last summer with his ability to get his shot off and drain 3 after 3.
Novak again brings good size and a quick release to the desert. Every team in today's NBA, furthermore, loves the idea of a 6-10 forward who can stretch the floor with Novak-type range. Yet Novak knows he won't play any more for Rick Adelman if he can't figure out how to stay on the floor defensively. It hasn't happened yet.
[b]My ultimate favorites: [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3864]Pape Sow[/url], Ralphy Holmes and Lior Eliyahu[/b]
No mystery to this list. Sow and Holmes are the only Cal State Fullerton alumni on the 22 rosters in Vegas. Eliyahu is the Maccabi Tel-Aviv forward drafted No. 44 overall in 2006 and acquired by the Rockets, who's now hoping to become the first Israeli to actually play an NBA game.
Eliyahu just got to town, so you can expect to hear more about him later. Lots more, actually. He's the best hoops athlete Israel has ever produced and I desperately need the pick-me-up, with my two Titans off to, uh, slow starts.
After missing all of last season with Toronto thanks to a freak neck injury suffered during a summer-league practice last year, Sow struggled mightily in his debut with the Suns. Otis George is the non-roster forward who has Phoenix intrigued early.
Holmes, meanwhile, has yet to get a minute from the Lakers and appears on their roster as Randy Holmes.
[b]My Rookie of the Year favorites: Greg Oden and [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4244]Kevin Durant[/url][/b]
C'mon, people. You know the disclaimer we cite at summer league every year: It's dangerous to get too excited or discouraged about anything that happens in this environment, where the defense, teamwork and refereeing are all so sketchy.
Remember?
Oden's summer might have ended before it started and Durant might be shooting 9-for-36 from the field, but one veteran personnel man chided me before I could even ask for his assessment of the draft darlings so far.
"Even when Durant misses, his shot is so damn gorgeous," he said. "Their time is going to come. These are 19-year-old kids playing against men for the first time." 小试牛刀，有些可能未翻译出来，请不要见怪~~~ hadeselgin兄,你忘了写原文连接哦
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[url]http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=stein_marc&id=2932441[/url] [size=1][color=black]半路谈,维加斯"表演赛"的时光我们已经打完了在UNLV举行的拉斯维加斯夏季联赛的一半赛程,随着星期二的6场比赛就完成第5天的比赛,还有5天的比赛值得我们观赏.
所以……
这听起来就像一次绝佳的时机去买Stein发生在球场上的“网上股票”……
相对于大量的运动，联赛的组织者Warren LeGarie喜欢把NBA的“答案”称为棒球的冬季联赛（？？？）
我喜欢的开拓者———— [/color][/size][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4130][size=1][color=black]LaMarcus Aldridge[/color][/size][/url]
[url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4243][size=1][color=black]Greg Oden[/color][/size][/url][color=black][size=1]几乎因为他与鼻窦染在斗争和在这个星期六的一个扁桃体手术而得到同情票，剩下的是Oden第一次NBA经历的不完全数据————在两场比赛中得到19分与19个犯规[/size]
[/color][size=1][color=black]实际上，即使Oden坚持下来，我们仍然会投Aldridge一票……如果他还在这里。这就是Oden,经过所有后，谁想到在这个星期他会被贴上了“野兽”的标签，而不是贴在Aldridge身上。
然而我们清楚的是Oden'的新前场搭档————一年前还看起来失去信心的Aldridge。当Aldridge是Portland在拉斯维加斯球员内拥有的最高的第二顺位时，他已经成为Portland最好的球员。我上一年当我看到Aldridge徘徊于球队边缘时真的担心Portland，但他带着强大的自信和稳定的能力回来了，而他也在三场比赛中场均的到21.0分和11.0个篮板。加上他从来没有给人们留下印象，因为他从未参加过夏季联赛，在Aldridge上年7月因为抢篮板而造成困扰他的肩伤之后，这就成了他加入全新秀队的最大包袱 。
[color=black]我喜欢的国外球员[/color]————[/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4296][b][color=black]Marco Belinelli[/color][/b][/url]
[color=black]去挑选一个意大利球员简直无法置信，他在参加拉斯维加斯夏季联赛的球员中迅速走红，在3场比赛中场均得到25.0分，从教练和工作人员的眼光看，他是至今为止的最佳球员。他大多投不进的球都令他的球迷失望痛绝。
自从他开赛第一场14投20中得到37分以来，当地的人明显地认为金州所挑选的18号新秀能投中所有的球。
“但他不仅仅是一个射手。”一个西部赛区的高官说，“请不要误会。当他在关键时刻单打费城的Carney，用漂亮的变向打败了他并在两个人头上命中两分。他已经准备好去适应金州的比赛了。还有他没有人们所想象那么差的防守。Philly有时试着去单打他，不过他做好了他本分的工作。”
但我也坚持易建联的打球模式，即使他为他难以想象的命中率 (26.1%）挣扎着，而他为中国队的4场比赛只拿下了场均13.8分。他的移动，如果少一点机械性，在我看来他还是有点紧张，但是易建联知道怎样去打球和在新环境中还未曾退缩。但你加上易建联的体型，年龄和稳定，高弹跳时，和你记得中国还没有一个后卫能使比赛变得更简单而使他变得更好时。你开始明白雄鹿为什么去选这样一个人，他们还不能确定他是否能登陆Milwaukee。
我最喜欢的野兽————[/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3952][b][color=black]Jason Maxiell[/color][/b][/url][color=black][b] [/b]
[b]在2005年的[/b]拉斯维加斯夏季联赛中我曾与他有过近距离的接触，他是一个大家伙。那是以前任何人都认为他作为一个矮小的强力前锋能在NBA中获的成功，当时活塞队也不清楚。
而现在呢？
他从上个赛季开始减重25磅，之后他在活塞队取的有意义的季后赛出场时间后。这表示他在2007年的削瘦的身体，以凶猛地进攻着目标……即使Detroit没有要求他瘦身或第3年在它的夏季联赛队里打比赛。
我最喜欢的“工程”————[color=black][b]Cheikh Samb[/b]
[b]我还记得上一年我站在热闹的尼克斯夏季联赛队的人群中，他们在Samb的视线下议论纷纷，这个2006年选秀第51顺位的7-1尺，200磅的人。[/b][/color]
[b]“他是索马里的[/b][/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3149][color=black]Ben Wallace[/color][/url][color=black]，”一个尼克斯队员说
一年后？没有精确的资料表明[b]Samb的确来自塞内加尔，但我们可以告诉你对于他的议论已经消失了，Samb关心着他增重的25磅和从西班牙带回来的惊人的投篮手感和增强了的封盖能力。[/b]
[b]实力和潜力仍然受到关注，但我可以告诉你越来越能想象到Samb能在活塞队下一赛季的名单中找到自己的名字。他在活塞队的体能教练[/b]Arnie Kander下紧密地训练。同在D-League 的一个Fort Wayne队，如果他不能在活塞队中得到时间，他就不用长途跋涉了。
我最喜欢的“湖人”————[b]Coby Karl[/b]
[b]如果你在看完湖人的第一场比赛之后去调查一下，你会发现[/b] [/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4297][color=black]Javaris Crittenton[/color][/url][color=black]，经过在Georgia的几次成功后，首次演出他便作为控球后卫拿到了18分。
但我会作出选择伤感的————癌症幸存者Coby Karl ，因为这不只是伤感的选择。作为湖人夏季联赛队里的新兴的防守者。Karl 已经看起来更加坚强。
他的挫折已经过去，但他仍然用他的智慧与韧性证明他能克服他在24岁所面对的事。如果你能在 Karl 所展示的射程处投篮，你就可以在夏季联赛中站出来。
Phil Jackson 的另一个系统球员是 [/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3735][color=black]Luke Walton[/color][/url][color=black]，一个能传球能跑动的高大后卫而并不是传统的后卫能在Phil Jackson 的三角进攻中拥有一个将来吗？
一个西部坠入爱河的人说：“他应该有个后一点的第一轮选签，他应该能在这个联盟中打相当长的一段时间。
我喜欢的对抗————[/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4152][b][color=black]Kyle Lowry[/color][/b][/url][color=black][b] vs. Mike Conley [/b]
[b]Lowry[/b][b] 目前是得分的推进点，不过我从一个东部赛区的人听取到一个有趣的理论，这两个来自[/b]Memphis的”答案“就好象Toronto的[/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3711][color=black]T.J. Ford[/color][/url][color=black] 和[/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3989][color=black]Jose Calderon[/color][/url][color=black]的配合一样。[/color][/size][color=black][size=1]
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[size=1]或许新的灰熊的教练Marc Iavaroni 会找到新的方式把他们两个结合去来。[/size]
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[size=1]我不是很喜欢的发展————[b]James White的挣扎[/b][/size]
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[size=1][b]这还太早地对他做消极的评价。最大的失望是目前为止在[/b]拉斯维加斯[b]我无法形容看到一个男人带着一个从[/b]McDonald带来的袋子，一些我在25年里从来没看见过的。他讨厌他的McDonalds而他的餐厅大多享受的是在快餐历史上的豪华汉堡。这是一个亵渎的缩影.[/size]
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[size=1]如果还有什么东西烦恼着我，除了快接近现实的星期天晚上的Oden对上 Durant----这个在San Antonio飞行的White表现不佳。[/size]
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[size=1]训练营始终希望注入新的活力而White正在炫耀他自己作为一年学徒的基本功，正在学习队伍的文化。San Antonio存在着一个好奇心，给White的扣篮恢复声誉，关于他在比赛形势中应该怎么做和他到底学会了什么。 [/size]
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[size=1]这个答案，悲伤地说，还没有太大的进展。[/size]
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[size=1]我喜欢的射手————[b]Belinelli[/b] [/size]
[size=1]再次没有比赛。[/size]
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[size=1]但我应该记下06届我喜欢的新秀，Houston的[/size][/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4160][size=1][color=black]Steve Novak[/color][/size][/url][color=black][size=1]，才刚刚来。我还没有真正看过他打比赛，因为目前为止火箭的比赛正好与星期二白天的中国队对尼克斯队的比赛相撞。[/size]
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[size=1]所以我们将会看见------虽然Novak在首场比赛3分球只是7投一中，[/size]
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[size=1]这对于 Novak来说也是一个重大的夏天，自从他上个夏季勉强为Jeff Van Gundy打联赛后，他的能力得到了充分的肯定。[/size]
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[size=1]Novak再一次为这片荒漠带来了好的体型和快的反应。在现今NBA的每个队伍里，都喜欢这个在Novak的射程内投射的6-10 尺的前锋 。然而 Novak知道他在下一年在Rick Adelman下不能得到太多的出场时间，除非他知道在球场上防守时的站位。然而这事还没发生。[/size]
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[size=1]最终我喜欢的————[/size][/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=3864][b][size=1][color=black]Pape Sow[/color][/size][/b][/url][color=black][b][size=1], Ralphy Holmes and Lior Eliyahu[/size][/b]
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[size=1][b]这份名单没有神秘感，[/b]Sow 和 Holmes是在拉斯维加斯夏季联赛的22个球员名单中唯一的一对加州州富勒顿校友 ，Eliyahu是被火箭买得的2006年44顺位的马卡比特拉维夫前锋，其实是第一个打NBA的以色列人。[/size]
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[size=1]Eliyahu刚到城市，所以你期望听到更多关于他的消息。实际上，他是以色列史上培养出的最好的篮球运动员。[/size]
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[size=1]在错过上一个赛季的猛龙的所有比赛后，多亏在2006年夏季训练营里的一个怪的颈伤，Sow好不容易才在第一场对太阳的比赛中露面。[/size]
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[size=1]与此同时，Holmes从湖人里取得出场时间……和在他们的名单中出现。[/size]
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[size=1]我喜欢的新秀————[b]Greg Oden and [/b][/size][/color][url=http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/players/profile?statsId=4244][b][size=1][color=black]Kevin Durant[/color][/size][/b][/url]
[color=black][size=1]你 知道我们每一年都支配着夏季联赛，对于这个环境中发生的一切，无论是兴奋或沮丧的都是危险的，那里的防守,团队精神和裁判都极为简单。[/size]
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[size=1]还记得吗？？？[/size]
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[size=1]Oden的这个夏天也许会在开始前便结束， Durant 也许在球场上只是36投9中。但是一个资深的人士在我要求他对今年选秀的真命天子作评价时责怪我，[/size]
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[size=1]”即使 Durant 投失了球，他的镜头还是那么的华丽，“他说，”属于他们的时代即将来临，这是19岁的孩子的第一次互相对抗。“[/size][/color]
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