A perfect display of how dysfunctional this Houston Rockets team can be; 73 points in one half, 19 points in the second. The Oklahoma City Thunder come away with the 104-92 win that was mostly about 3-point shooting and timing, as Jeremy Lin gets left out when his team needed some intelligence on the court, and James Harden tried to save the day but to no avail.
這場比賽完美的演示了這支球隊是多麽功能失常；上半場73分，下半場19分。104-92，雷霆帶走了這場主要關係在三分和時機上的勝利。在球隊需要一些場上智慧的時候，林書豪被落下，而哈登嚐試扭轉局麵卻無功而返。The warning is always on the wall when a team throws all of its eggs in one basket. Counting on James Harden to win a game on his own, especially with such a negative momentum, is risky, and simply taking the easy way out. This wasn’t a great game for Lin, which usually struggles against the Thunder. He finished scoring 6 points on 2-of-8 from the field, but the Rockets’ best portion of the game (late in the second quarter) came when he was on the court and moving the ball, something that hardly happened in the second half. Kevin McHale took him out late in the third quarter and brought him back in with less than five minutes to play in the fourth, when the Thunder already had a firm grasp on things. The Rockets didn’t really play anything remotely smart to try and change the tide.
一個球隊把所有蛋放在一個籃子的做法是必須警戒的。要靠哈登憑一己之力贏得勝利，尤其是在形勢不利的情況下是冒險犯難，想要投機取巧而已。這不是林打得很好的比賽，他通常對上雷霆都很掙紮。最後他是8投2中得了6分，但火箭打得最好的時段（第二節結束前）正是他在場而且運行著球的時候，而這個場麵在下半場幾乎看不到。海爾在第三節後段把他換下，然後在第四節剩下不到五分鍾的時候換他上場，這時候雷霆已經掌握勝局了。火箭完全沒有一個聰明的對策去改變形勢。
So what happened? The shots stopped dropping, the ball stopped moving, while the opposite worked for the Thunder. The Rockets hit 12 3-pointers in the first half and 0 in the second. They scored 10 points in the third quarter, nine in the fourth. James Harden was brought into the game with the Rockets still in the lead, but McHale’s (or Harden’s) decision to play one vs the world once again wasn’t very helpful against the Thunder who were playing their usual brand of excellent fourth quarter defense and hitting on all cylinders offensively.
結果怎樣了?球投不進了，也沒在傳導了，相反的對麵的雷霆卻都做得到。火箭在上半場投進了12個三分球而下半場一個都沒有，他們第三節隻得了10分，第四節9分。哈登在火箭還在領先的時候上場，但這時候海爾（或者是哈登自己）又一次的讓他一人對抗全世界，但這個決定對雷霆招牌的第四節防守和全麵的進攻是毫無勝算的。
The Thunder shot only 6-of-25 from beyond the arc, but all of those 3′s came in the second half. Kevin Durant wasn’t having a good shooting day (not too many of them since Westbrook went down with an injury), but finished scoring 36 points, including 18-of-21 from the line, getting way too much help from the officials. Reggie Jackson with 23 points and a big night from Serge Ibaka (21 points, 15 rebounds, 5 blocks) were there to provide major help.
