原文：http://ppt.cc/D5a1
原文太長，只做摘要翻譯
Not to disagree with LeBron James, but I disagree with LeBron
James. And so does Jerry West.
不是為了反對LBJ而反，不過我和West都不認同LBJ。
James says the NBA wasn't as competitive in 1971-72 as it is now
because the ABA was a separate league then. Therefore, the 33-game
winning streak by West's Los Angeles Lakers that season is a
watered-down light beer compared to the Heat's Dom Perignon streak
of 27 and counting.
LBJ認為1971-72年的湖人受到的挑戰沒有現代籃球大，
因為當時ABA和NBA還沒合併，就像稀釋過的啤酒一樣。
Sorry, LeWrong, but (A) no, and (B) hell, no.
但是你錯錯錯錯錯惹～
Let me count the ways that what the Lakers did then is harder than
what the Heat are doing now, even if they get to 33, starting
with …
我要用七大原因來打LBJ的臉：
1. Yes, the ABA
The 1971-72 ABA had only 11 rickety teams and was doing more
folding than a Gap clerk. Most really good players didn't want to
take the risk. It had some legends, but after Julius Erving
(Virginia), Rick Barry (New York), Dan Issel (Kentucky), Billy
Cunningham (Carolina) and Artis Gilmore (Kentucky), the talent
pool went downhill faster than Vince Wilfork on a water slide.
After the merger in 1976, four teams transferred into the NBA plus
another dozen or so other players. "If they were so great, why
didn't we see them in the league?" West asks.
I know why. I was 18 then. I loved the ABA, but even I knew most
of those guys couldn't have made an NBA roster. Some of them could
barely make a jumper.
第一，
ABA和NBA的確還沒有合併，但是扣掉我能想起來的五個明星外，
ABA當時已經比NBA弱了。
2. Travel
The Heat have their own plane. The Lakers flew commercial.
Sometimes -- coach. Sometimes -- layovers. Here's how different
road life was: They'd have to take their uniforms back to their
rooms and dry them over the shower bar.
One game during the streak, they played in Chicago, woke up the
next morning, went to O'Hare for their flight to a 7 p.m. game
that night in Philly, and couldn't take off for five hours.
"We just sat on the plane forever," West remembers. "And this was
the day of the game. That's when Wilt [Chamberlain] said, 'If I
had a gun, I'd shoot somebody right now.' Next thing I knew, they
were pulling him off. We didn't see him again until 6:55 that
night!"
(Not that it wasn't fun. They used to find somebody short,
surround him on all sides, and begin talking over the poor guy's
head. Six or seven 6-foot-6 guys pretending they didn't know he
was down there. "Some guy would be trying to get his luggage and
he'd have nowhere to go. We'd do it on elevators, too.")
第二，交通。
熱火有包機，湖人當時只能坐客機，辛苦多了。
3. Back-to-back-to-backs
The Lakers played three games in three nights four times during
the streak alone. Playing three games in three nights is as dead
now in the NBA as the set shot. If you asked the Heat to do it
even once you'd be hearing from their lawyers.
第三，背靠背靠背。
湖人的33連勝有四次背靠背靠背ㄟ，熱火的賽程算什麼。
4. Two questions
If the competition is so superior now, as James says it is, how
come two of the three greatest streaks in league history have come
in the past six years? Why are four of the top seven from 2000
and later?
第四，回答我：
1. 如果當時的聯盟比較弱，為什麼前三連勝多的有兩次在這六年內發生？
（指熱火和火箭）
2. 又前七名有四次發生在21世紀？
5. None-and-dones
In those days, no player could come to the league until his
college class had graduated. There's a huge difference between
playing against veterans and a lot of six-whisker 19-year-olds
who've never checked into a hotel much less into a 260-pound
center. "We weren't playing against a bunch of kids," says West.
"We were playing men."
第五，現在一堆高中跳級或大一輟學的小朋友，
那時候的聯盟大家可是都是跟大人打球。
6. Beasts
The NBA in those days was a kind of traveling triage. Every team
seemed to have some walking Sears Tower in the middle who handed
out contusions free of charge. And yet, during the streak alone,
the Lakers beat Wes Unseld (Baltimore), Nate Thurmond (Golden
State), Elvin Hayes (Houston), Bob Lanier (Detroit) and Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar (Milwaukee), who finally killed the streak with 39
points at home. Would you rather play them or Bismack Biyombo?
"It's funny," West says. "After the games, we weren't all that
excited about the streak. We were excited about how much money
we'd just made. They paid us $5 for every assist, steal and
blocked shot. I can remember Wilt would get 14 or 15 blocked shots
some nights. I'd get 10 steals in a night, no problem. We'd go
back to the locker room and try to add it up."
Can't you see Heat coach Erik Spoelstra handing LeBron James $105
and saying, "Now you save some of this, young man."
第六，內線怪獸。
那時候每一個球隊都有內線怪獸。
現在你數幾個出來給我看看啊～～
7. Immortality
The Lakers made those 33 look easier than the People crossword.
Only one opponent finished within four points of them. (Heat: five
times, so far.) They trailed at halftime in four games. (Heat:
nine times.) Only once did they trail after three quarters. (Heat:
five times.) The Lakers' margin of victory was almost 50 percent
more than the Heat's.
The Heat have needed luck that the Lakers never did. They beat
Boston (barely) without Kevin Garnett, Chicago without Derrick
Rose and Cleveland (barely) without Kyrie Irving. It has been a
squeaky streak.
The Lakers -- with West, Wilt and the purest shooter in the game
at the time, Gail Goodrich -- were a tidal wave of O that has
rarely been seen in basketball since. They scored over 120 points
22 times in that streak, with no 3-point line. They laid 154 on
the Philadelphia 76ers one night during the streak, without
overtime. Then, of course, they cleaned out the New York Knicks in
five games to win the title.
"We just didn't see how anybody could beat us," West says.
The one opponent the Heat have that is much tougher is the media.
The Heat are covered like freckles on a redhead 24/7 by dozens and
dozens of daily media. The Lakers had one traveling beat writer,
my old pal, the late Mal Florence, from the Los Angeles Times.
When they finally lost in Milwaukee, his editor called him off the
trip early to save money.
The next morning, Lakers coach Bill Sharman saw Mal holding his
suitcase in front of the hotel, waiting for a cab.
"Where you going?" Sharman asked.
Without a pause, Mal sniffed, "I don't cover losers."
第七，連勝內容。
拜託，湖人當時可是摧枯拉朽的33連勝ㄟ，沒有一場球需要靠「運氣」。
哪像熱火那麼抖，打沒有KG的老賽和沒有Rose的公牛或是沒有Irving的騎士
都抖的跟什麼一樣。
好啦，熱火唯一比較困難的是現今的媒體生態啦，
其他跟湖人當初沒得比。
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心得：
自從熱火連勝進入18場以後開始看到很多比較文，
衝破22之後更是每一場都有不同的名嘴出來把33vs2x比較一番
這一篇算是集挺湖人33連勝較優為大成的文章，足足列出七項原因試圖打臉
不過我想以ptt年輕族群為大宗的鄉民看起來應該也一眼就看出
這個作者肯定是個老頭（的確，60歲）。
我只想提出一個比較不常被討論的現象，
也就是現在的NBA比40年前的NBA應該是更優秀的主因，
在於參與人數（talent pool)的多寡。
我認為這跟整個社會經濟發展都有關。
尤其當時的年代即使在美國民風（尤其對黑人）還是相對保守，
學校的培養等等並不會著重甚至像現在一樣的鼓勵運動員走向職業運動。
這差別有一點像是台灣當年特殊的聯考制度。
以第一志願科系而言，60年代能進醫學系遭遇到的競爭不會有現在大，
主因就是現在的talent pool多了很多。
早期年代很多人被「稀釋」到五專高職甚至提早進入社會幫忙家庭的很多，
但是在穩定的經濟年代的現在，大家都能進高中，也不需要
提早進入社會。大家都進入talent pool，錄取名額還是一樣的話，
自然錄取率整體來看是下降的。
當時的NBA，第一，合格進入大學的黑人就少，即使當時對種族的民智漸開，
但是絕對比不上現在多元。很多黑人也不被鼓勵走這條路。
其實就算是擅長運動的白人，很多也不會以進入職業運動為職志。
第二，當時NBA的薪水並沒有跟其他行業差別那麼巨大。至少不像現在這樣。
基本上現在的NBA只要你有機會進入簽個10天約都比一般平均薪水高。
在這樣大的誘因下，自然很多人，尤其很多黑人反而從小就做起NBA夢。
現在的NBA則因為成功的商業經營，能吸引全世界最優秀的運動員來競爭，
光這一點，我認為就是40年前的NBA比不過的了。
當然，言歸正傳，回到比較熱火連勝還是湖人連勝優，我認為就變得沒意義。
作者洋洋灑灑寫的七大原因我覺得大部份都是真的所謂的貴古賤今的思維，
尤其像是2,3,5,6點都是整個聯盟的走向，不是只有當時的湖人在面對，
那基準線就是一樣的，你b2b2b，你的對手也b2b2b，那有啥好說那是劣勢？
至於第一點ABA，我是真的不熟那時候ABA是不是真的差NBA那麼多無從評論。
第七點，我的看法是熱火這波連勝其實還滿隨性的....
有幾場球我認為熱火根本在養身，只是正好贏了.... 囧
當然啦，搞不好當初的湖人也很養身只是就是能贏人家30分吧
至於第四點，就交給廣大鄉民來回答了。
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