It was a tough week for the Rockets. After narrowly beating the Bobcats in Charlotte last Sunday, we have lost four games in a row. It did not help that Tracy McGrady hurt his elbow when we were playing the Lakers, but we feel we have good players and should still win these games. The NBA season is so long. Every team, even the best teams, go through rough stretches where you may lose a few games in a row and not play your best. The difference between the top teams and the lesser teams in the league is that the better teams never lose sight of the larger goal of improvement and team development, while the lesser teams begin to bicker, point fingers and assess blame. I think that we have a very resilient team and I hope we will stay together as a team and work to improve the things that we have not done very well.

It is still very early in the season and we have had an unusually tough schedule thus far. Our team needs to stay the course and have faith in the plan. Our goal is to win a championship and we want to continue to improve throughout the season.  We want to play our best basketball when the playoffs start. While we want to win as many games as possible, we want to take steps to make our team better every weekend. Hopefully, we look at our team when we lose and take steps to ensure that we don't make the same mistakes twice.

So Rocket fans, keep the confidence! We will do our best to correct the problems and get back to our winning ways.

Talk to you later,

Shane

 以下是译文：

对火箭来说上周是非常艰苦的一周。在客场惊险地击败山猫之后我们连着输了四场比赛。麦蒂还在打湖人的比赛中弄伤了胳膊，这对我们来说真不是好消息。但是拥有众多优秀球员的我们其实本应该拿下接下来的这几场比赛的。NBA的一个赛季非常长，即使是那些高水平的球队，也会经历压力非常大的一个阶段，连续输球并且找不到状态。不过最顶级的球队和那些一般球队的区别就在于顶级球队从来不会放弃自己对最终目标的追寻，并且不断改造球队。那些一般的球队慢慢就只会互相指责了。我想我们是一支精力充沛的球队，我们能够齐心协力找回状态，并且完成那些还未进行的改进工作。

虽然我们已经开始经历了艰难时刻，但是现在仍然是赛季之初。球队需要在全局上统一信念。我们的目标是夺取总冠军，我们需要保持整个赛季都有不断地进步。我们希望在季后赛开始的时候能够发挥出最好的状态。我们希望尽可能地赢得更多比赛的胜利，我们要一步一个脚印把球队变得更强。希望将来我们不要发现自己把同一个错误犯了两遍。

所以，火箭的球迷们，对我们保持信心吧！我们会尽全力来纠正错误，重新回到胜利的轨道上去。

再见

肖恩