MIAMI — The Heat’s current roster is made up of 19 players, but only 15 guaranteed contracts.
虎扑体育8月24日讯 迈阿密热火队现在阵容中有19名球员，但是只有15个人能有保障性合同。
With Miami forced to cut its team down to 15 players for the start of the regular season on Oct. 26, the four players with non-guaranteed contracts are feeling the pressure. Or are they?
10月26日常规赛开始之前，热火队必须将球队名单缩减至15人，球队中4名拿着非保障性合同的球员正在感受这种压力。实际是这样吗？
Guards Briante Weber and Rodney McGruder, and forwards Stefan Jankovic and Okaro White insist there won’t be extra pressure on them in training camp next month despite their non-guaranteed contracts.
后卫韦伯、RM，前锋SK、OW坚持说没有感受到额外的压力，他们的合同都是非保障性的，热火训练营将在下个月开始。
“I just go in and handle what I got to do,” Weber said Monday at a back-to-school event at Shadowlawn Elementary in Miami. “Worrying about other people is not really my strong suit. So all I can do is be me and take care of what I can take care of.”
“我只是上场，处理我能做到的事情，”韦伯当地时间周一在迈阿密参加活动时说，“担心其他人的事真得不是我的做法，我能做的就是做好我自己，关心我能控制的。”
For most of the offseason, Weber was looked at as the Heat’s backup point guard behind starter Goran Dragic. But last week’s signing of free agent point guard Beno Udrih to a guaranteed one-year contract puts Weber in a tough spot.
休赛期的部分时间里，韦伯都被看作是控球后卫德约科维奇的替补，但是球队上周用一年保障性合同新签了自由球员本诺-尤德里，让韦伯的处境看起来有些艰难了。
The 23-year old Weber impressed as a member of the Heat’s summer league team this offseason, averaging 9.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.3 assist and 3.9 steals in nine games. But it still might not be enough to convince Miami to pick him over Udrih, who has played in 792 NBA games compared to Weber’s seven NBA games.
现年23岁的韦伯在热火队夏季联赛的表现给人留下了深刻的印象，在9场比赛中，场均能得到9.3分4.8个篮板4.3个助攻3.9个抢断。但是这样的表现还是不能让热火队放心，热火签约了尤德里。尤德里在NBA已经打了792场比赛，而韦伯仅打过7场。
“My mindset is never going to change no matter who is in front of me, no matter how many people there are. I’m just going to be me,” Weber said. “I’m not going to change anything about how I do my things. I’m not going to try to be a different person. I’m just going to be the best Briante I can be.”
“无论谁在我的面前，多少个人在我前面，我的想法不会变，我只是要做自己，”韦伯说，“我不会改变自己做事情的方式，不会尝试成为别的人，我要做最好的B。”
One advantage Weber does have is on the defensive end of the floor. The 6-foot-2 point guard finished his college career as VCU’s all-time steals leader with 374 steals before suffering a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus during his senior season in January 2015 that ended his college career.
“He’s an animal defensively,” Jankovic said. “He really gets after it, which is rare these days. He takes pride in that. Offensively, his game is there too. He creates and he’s just very, very defensively minded, which is rare.”
But Weber is going to have to prove in training camp that he deserves a spot on the Heat’s regular-season roster. While McGruder, Jankovic and White have an even smaller chance of making the team, they will take the same approach into camp as Weber.
“All I can control is my energy and my effort when I go in the gym every day,” McGruder said. “I feel like every situation takes care of itself. What happens in life is going to happen. You have no control over that, all you can control is your energy and effort.”
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