Classic Kings continue to show up during skid

连败中典型的国王式比赛

by Jackson Rodriguez From ESPN.com  January 31, 2016 

I’ve seen this type of Kings talk too many times on social media

                                            在社交媒体上我见过太多这样的关于国王的言论。

Who cares if Rondo can’t defend the pick-and-roll? He is averaging 11 assists a game!

如果隆多不会防挡拆，谁会在意？他场均11次助攻！

How dare Bill Simmons bad-mouth the Sacramento Kings! We are a playoff team this season for certain.

Bill Simmons怎么敢批评萨克拉门托国王！某种程度而言这一赛季我们是一支季后赛球队！

What does it matter if we give up the most points in the paint out of any NBA team. DeMarcus Cousins is fourth in the league in scoring and fourth in rebounding!

相较于其他NBA球队，我们在油漆区丢掉的分数最多又如何？德马库斯•考辛斯场均得分、篮板都位列联盟第四啊！

Oh, the Kings just fell out of the eighth seed and are in the midst of a four-game losing streak.

Don’t worry, the team is just underperforming. They’ll come around.

国王只是刚刚跌出前八，经历了四连败而已。别担心，球队只是发挥失准，他们会回来的。

Will they?

Will they, really?

会吗？真的会吗？

Now nearly 50 games into the season, this is just who the Kings are. They make the same mistakes, show the same effort, and yet they expect to change their losing culture.

本赛季已进行了近50场比赛，到目前为止，他们犯了一些错误，同样也展示了他们的努力，也希望能够改变输球文化，这就是国王。

Sacramento has become painstakingly entitled, for a team with just 20 wins and no validity as a playoff organization in the Western Conference in the past decade.

对于一支过去十年每个赛季只有20胜且一直被挡在西部季后赛之外的球队而言，萨克拉门托已经足够努力。

After Saturday night’s loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento is now on a four-game losing skid. Falling further behind in the playoff race.

在周六晚上输给孟菲斯灰熊之后，萨克拉门托正经历四连败，也离季后赛资格越来越远。

Last night, the Kings dug themselves into an immediate hole against Memphis. Falling to a deficit of 22 points in the first half, the Kings gave up 65 total points to a below average offensive team.

昨晚对战灰熊，国王上来就给自己挖了一个大坑，上半场落后22分，面对进攻低于联盟平均水平的队伍丢了65分。

Shooting nearly 10 percent better from both the floor and behind the arc, the Grizzlies finished with a scorching 53 percent from the field and 44 percent from three.

赛后，灰熊的投篮命中率为53%，三分命中率44%，均高于球队赛季平均命中率10个百分点。

“It was a classic case of we showed up too late,” Rudy Gay told the Associated Press, who led the Kings with 21 points, including 13 in the fourth quarter. “We showed up to the game at 8:30 (p.m.) instead of 7 when it started.”

“这是一个典型的例子，我们的状态出现得太晚，”鲁迪•盖伊在接受美联社采访时说，他得到了全队最高的21分，其中13分来自于第四节。“8:30（p.m.）我们的状态才出现而不是在7点，比赛开始的时候”

Classic.

是的，典型的国王式比赛。

Sacramento was incredibly inefficient with the possessions they did have. The two stars of the Kings combined for 13 of their 19 turnovers. Rajon Rondo finished with seven turnovers, while Cousins finished with six turnovers himself.

萨克拉门托对于他们所有优势的使用令人难以置信的低效。国王的两大球星联手贡献了全队19次失误中的13次，拉简•隆多7次，考辛斯6次。

For the Grizzlies, it was all Jeff Green. Sacramento had no answer for the undersized forward as Green went on to finish the night with 29 points and three steals. Marc Gasol had a very quiet 22 and Vince Carter also contributed in his limited minutes off the bench, scoring 13.

对于灰熊，这是一场杰夫•格林的比赛。萨克拉门托对于在当晚拿到29分和三次抢断的格林束手无策。马克•加索尔悄无声息地拿到了22分，文斯•卡特从板凳席中站出来，在有限的上场时间里也贡献了13分。

The Grizzlies extended their lead to as much as 18 in the third. Scoring 92 points in 36 minutes, Memphis was five points shy of their season average with 12 minutes left to play.

在第三节，灰熊将领先优势保持在了18分之多，在36分钟里得了92分，只比球队赛季平均得分少了5分，而比赛时间还有12分钟。

Scoring from all areas of the floor, Sacramento played very soft defense against a much more aggressive team.

他们从场地的任何地方都能得分，萨克拉门托面对这支更有侵略性的球队时毫无防守可言。

Sacramento was able to string together a 13-2 run with eight minutes left in the fourth through the elevated play of Darren Collison and Omri Casspi. Collison scored 14 fourth quarter points and Omri had 17 points to go along with seven rebounds.

得益于达伦·科里森和欧米·卡斯比的高水平发挥，萨克拉门托打出了一波13-2的高潮，在比赛还剩8分钟时紧咬比分。科里森在第四节拿到了14分，而欧米拿到了17分和7篮板。

Sacramento scored 40 points and closed the Grizzlies lead to as little as two points with three minutes left remaining.

萨克拉门托拿到了40分，并在比赛剩余三分钟时将分差缩小至两分。

Then Memphis became Memphis and the Kings became the Kings.

然后，灰熊还是灰熊，而国王也还是国王。

The Grizzlies were able to score 16 in the final three minutes and sealed the game with four late free-throws by Courtney Lee. Finishing the night with a 121-117 win over Sacramento.

灰熊在最后的三分钟里拿到了16分，在康特尼·李的四罚全中中结束了比赛，以121-117战胜了国王。

Another disappointing loss for the Kings.

国王又一场令人失望的失利。

Trying to bounce back from a long week, the Kings take on the Bucks Monday night at Sleep Train Arena.

周一晚上国王将在主场迎战雄鹿，并试图从过去漫长的一周中有所反弹。