These Golden State Warriors were supposedly too small, too thin and too offensively focused after the signing of Kevin Durant to maintain their status as an elite defensive team.
在金州勇士队签下杜兰特之后，许多人认为他们太瘦小，太过注重于进攻，而不能保持他们精英级别的防守。
Draymond Green, rather predictably, loved soaking up all that preseason nay-saying.可以肯定的是，追梦很喜欢从人们季前的种种质疑中获得动力。"Obviously when you hear that noise, you want to shut it up No. 1," Green told me in our SportsCenter talk last week. "So coming into the season, what everyone's saying—'They lost this guy; they lost that guy; their defense isn't going to be good, and that's where their downfall is going to be'—it motivates you. It motivated me to try to be the anchor of this defense."“很显然当你听到那些声音，你最想做的就是让他们闭嘴。”格林上周在体育中心报的访谈中说到，“赛季开始时，大家都在说，他们失去了哪个球员，他们的防守肯定很烂，这赛季就是他们崩盘的赛季。这些言论会激励你，也激励了我成为球队的防守基石。”Who but Green could rank as the only player on the league map to rack up 100-plus blocks and 100-plus steals for the second successive season while also placing in the top five—just one spot behind Gobert—in terms of opponents' field-goal percentage at the rim除了格林联盟中没有哪个球员能连续两个赛季赛季同时拿下100+封盖和100+抢断。同时格林在限制篮下命中率的排名中名列前五，仅仅排在戈伯特身后。Entering the weekend, opposing players were shooting just 40 percent from the floor and turning the ball over in 14 percent of head-to-head confrontations with Green.与格林对位的球员只有40%的投篮命中率，并且还有14%的失误率。He switches on to speedy guards, bangs with bulkier bigs and joins Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo on the exceedingly short list of players to lead their respective teams in steals and blocked shots as well as rebounds and assists.
他可以换防速度快的后卫，与内线的大个卡位，并且和字母哥一类极少数的人一样，在抢断、封盖、篮板、助攻这4项记录统计都排名队内第一。Only four players in league history, for the record, led their teams in those four categories for an entire season before Green and Antetokounmpo: Boston's Dave Cowens (1977-78), Chicago's Scottie Pippen (1994-95), Minnesota's Kevin Garnett (2002-03) and Cleveland's LeBron James (2008-09).联盟历史上，在格林和字母哥之前，只有四位球员能在球队内的四项数据统计上领先。分别是1977-78赛季凯尔特人的考恩斯，1994-95赛季公牛的皮蓬，2002-03赛季森林狼队的凯文加内特和2008-09赛季骑士队的詹姆斯。Draymond Green is hoping he doesn't lose out on Defensive Player of the Year for a third straight season.格林希望他不会连着第三个赛季失去年度最佳防守球员的称号。"I'm confident in the year I had defensively," Green told me in our SportsCenter conversation. "I think I've gotten a lot better over the last couple years, and I think I've continued to get better each year and I think this has been my best year defensively. And I'm proud of it.“我对于我今年的防守表现非常自信，”格林在体育中心报的访谈中说到，“我认为我在过去的几年里进步了很多，并且每年都在进步。我觉得今年打出了防守表现最好的一年，我也很自豪。”"But with the way the voting has gone the last two years, I can't just say, 'Oh, I'm super confident, I know I'm getting it this time.' I don't know. It's out of my hands. I think I've done everything I possibly can to get the award, and obviously it's something I want to do over the course of my career.“但是根据前两年的投票方法来看，我也不能说‘我今年会得到这个奖’，我也不知道，这件事我无法控制，我想我做了我能做的一切来让我得到这个奖，这也是我整个职业生涯都想做的事情。”"Being adefensive-minded player, that is the ultimate. So definitely something I want to do, and I feel confident about what I've done on the floor, but I can't just say: 'Oh. I'm getting it.' I can't do that."“做为一个防守球员，这是最首要的，也是我最想做的事，我对我在场上做的一切都很有信心，但我还是不能说’我就要得到它了’，真的不能。”Tune in June 26 on TNT for the NBA's maiden year-end awards show to see if everyone doing it for Green these days is proved correct.6月26日TNT将会直播NBA本赛季各个奖项的颁奖典礼，让我们拭目以待，看看格林最终能否如大家所预料的得奖。Stein's official ballot: 1. Green; 2. Gobert; 3. Leonard.Stein的投票：1.格林；2.戈伯特；3.莱纳德更多精彩内容请关注微信公众号、新浪微博：篮球英文堂