Lamar Odom was in a foul mood, something that wouldn't make sense if you only saw the final score of the Lakers' 104-99 victory over the Jazz but seemed perfectly logical if you saw the manner in which they got it.
如果你不是仅仅关注湖人今天104-99战胜爵士的最终得分，而是欣赏了他们夺得胜利的整个过程，那么完全可以说奥多姆身处犯规状态。
This game shouldn't have required a fourth-quarter comeback, shouldn't have needed Kobe Bryant to be in closer mode, shouldn't have had Odom feeling so grumpy despite making the most important play of the day.
本场比赛原本不需要第四节的争锋，也不需要让科比在最后时刻拯救球队，奥多姆除了今天投进最关键的那个球，原本也不需要如此暴躁。
Especially when so many other things are going the Lakers' way. Bryant is looking more like the MVP runner-up of a year ago and less like this season's third-place finisher. He says his knee feels better and called it "encouraging" that he could move so well only 40 hours after finishing the Oklahoma City series. Bryant scored 31 points on 12-of-19 shooting and has made 33 of his past 63 shots (52%). The cartilage tear in Andrew Bynum's knee didn't keep him from starting and scoring eight points to go with 10 rebounds. Pau Gasol had a huge game with 25 points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots, living up to the "Gladiator"-themed "Spaniard" video of him that played on the Staples Center scoreboard.
特别是湖人现在很多其他的事情正回到正轨。科比已经不再像本赛季只排在MVP竞逐榜第三的那个人了，他恢复了上赛季MVP强有力竞逐者的表现。他说他的膝盖感觉更好了，这是对他的一种“鼓励”，让他能在和雷霆打完系列赛后的40小时后运动的如此舒服。科比19投12中，得到31分。他过去的63次投篮命中了33个。拜纳姆膝盖的伤病没有干扰他首发、得到8分并抓下10篮板。加索尔打得十分出色，25分12篮板以及5盖帽，在斯台普斯球馆演绎了一个活生生的西班牙斗士。
But just when the Lakers looked ready to accelerate into the fast lane and not exit until the NBA Finals, they went into a skid. That's because their second unit scored only one point in more than four minutes at the beginning of the second quarter and the Jazz cut an eight-point lead down to one.
但是正当湖人看起来准备好加速冲刺进入总决赛时，他们又一次打滑了。这是因为他们的第二阵容在第二节开始的4分钟内只得到了1分，爵士趁机把8分落后缩小到1分。
"The second unit has got to play better," Bryant said. "Simple as that."
“第二阵容需要打得更好”科比说“仅仅如此。”
Odom was a co-conspirator, sharing the court with Shannon Brown, Luke Walton, Jordan Farmar and starter Andrew Bynum in a stretch that included five missed shots and two turnovers. Not even the return of the starters could stem the Jazz momentum initially, as Utah took a four-point lead before Bryant scored 11 points in the final four minutes to boost the Lakers to the W in the opener of the second-round series.
在整个5投不中以及2失误的过程中，奥多姆是个合谋者，他与布朗、沃顿、法玛尔以及首发拜纳姆一同在场上。甚至湖人首发刚回到场上的一阵子，他们都阻挡不住爵士的势头，他们还取得了4分的领先，但科比紧接着连得11分并锁定湖人第二轮系列赛的首场胜利。
The Jazz have trouble scoring inside over the taller Laker frontline. Until Andrei Kirilenko feels healthy enough to play they have no one to keep Bryant from doing whatever he wants on the court. But Jerry Sloan can send Paul Millsap down to the scorer's table to check in, and Millsap could very well produce a double-double. It's happened three times already this postseason and he almost did it again Sunday with 16 points and nine rebounds.
爵士面对湖人高大锋线，内线得分十分艰难。或许只有基里连科康复回场才能让爵士有人能阻挡科比的为所欲为。但是杰里·斯隆能用好米尔萨普这枚棋子，而米尔萨普也能打出漂亮的两双。本次季后赛就已经发生了三次，而且他周日也几乎做到了--16分9篮板。
The Lakers are still waiting for the first double-double of the 2010 playoffs from Odom, who averaged 18 points and 11 rebounds in the Lakers' five-game elimination of the Jazz in the first round last year. Last season Odom got to start because of Bynum's ineffectiveness coming back from a different injury, and Jackson said Odom would have to adjust to playing as a reserve this season. But Odom seems reluctant to let the starting days go. He still plays better when he's with Pau Gasol, as evidenced by a nice interior pass he threw to Gasol for a layup Sunday.
湖人仍然等待着奥多姆在2010季后赛的第一个两双，去年湖人第一轮与爵士的五场较量中他场均18分11篮板。去年因为拜纳姆伤愈回归后表现一般，奥多姆顶替他首发，杰克逊也认为奥多姆本赛季能适应自己的板凳身份。然而奥多姆看起来不情愿打替补。他和加索尔在一起的时候打的仍然很好，周日他给加索尔那记巧妙的内线传球印证了这一点。
Odom gave the impressions that he didn't like the second-unit vibe Sunday. They sure didn't bring out his best, as Odom scored three of his four field goals when he was the only Laker bench player in the game.
周日，奥多姆表现出他不喜欢第二阵容的气氛。他们当然没法让奥多姆打到最佳水平，奥多姆投中了4次出手的3次，他也是湖人唯一进入比赛状态的板凳。
"We play hard, we play together, it's tough to beat us," Odom said. "When we separate and kind of do our own thing mentally, then we can be beat. We'll be all right, as long as we do everything together."
“我们打的很努力。我们很团结，很难被战胜。”奥多姆说：“如果我们有些分歧并在精神上各自为政，我们就会失败。我们会好起来，只要我们团结一致。”
So were they separate Sunday afternoon?
那么他们周日下午是不是有分歧呢？
Odom paused.
奥多姆停了停。
"We've been closer," he said. "Mostly I'm talking about our second unit, giving up leads, letting teams get back into it, letting their bench outplay us."
“我们几乎如此。”他说“我大多数值得是第二阵容，让我们失去领先，逼首发回到场上，让对手的板凳打爆我们的。”
Sometimes it's Brown rushing things or Farmar trying to take matters into his own hands. And sometimes it's Odom not taking enough control, not becoming the offensive leader the coaches want him to be when the starters are resting.
有时候布朗推进过快，有时候法玛尔持球过多。有时候奥多姆无法掌控，他无法在首发休息时成为教练希望的进攻领袖。
Odom was supposed to be the solution to the Lakers' bench problems when the return of Bynum from an Achilles tendon injury at the start of the playoffs shifted Odom back into his sixth-man role. But the reserves had a collective plus/minus of minus-24 in the two losses to Oklahoma City and were minus-8 against Utah Sunday.
季后赛一开始，拜纳姆从跟腱拉伤中康复回归，奥多姆又成为了第六人，他本应该是湖人板凳表现萎靡的一剂良药。然而在湖人输给雷霆的两场，板凳们总共输掉了24分，周日对阵爵士他们落后对手的板凳8分。
Odom could be absolved of some of the blame in Game 1. He finished in positive plus/minus territory after being allowed to stay on the court with the starters (minus Bynum) in the fourth. He did grab 12 rebounds, including a missed jumper by Bryant that Odom converted into a layup for a three-point Laker lead with 49 seconds remaining -- "the key rebound of the game," Bynum called it.
奥多姆可以免于第一场的一些责难。他第四节代替拜纳姆留在场上让他最终有着良好的表现。抓下12篮板，以及在最后49秒时抢下科比投丢的前场篮板并上篮得到2分。“本场的关键篮板”拜纳姆如是说。
But his scoring average of 10.8 points this season was the lowest of his career, and his 46.3% shooting was the lowest in his six years with the Lakers.
但是他本赛季场均10.8分是他生涯最低，在跟随湖人6年征战中，46.3%的命中率也是他最低水平。
Odom has this endearing quality that makes it hard to stay mad at him. Once, early in Phil Jackson's time coaching him, Jackson even offered to give Odom a hug when he seemed down.
但是奥多姆十分可爱，你很难一直跟他生气。在菲尔早期执教他的时候，曾经有一次杰克逊甚至在奥多姆失落时给了他一个拥抱、
On Sunday Odom was 3-for-9 from the field, then he delivered the big putback. He also had a critical blocked shot and rebound in the final minute of the Lakers' escape from the noise cauldron in Oklahoma City in Game 6 of the first round.
周日奥多姆9投3中，然后他投中了关键的二次进攻。他在第一轮第六场的最后时刻也提供了一个关键的盖帽和篮板。
It's a reminder that even though the Lakers' bench problems aren't all of his doing, he can do something about it.
这提醒大家湖人的板凳问题不全是他的错，他能做一些对的事情。
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