Shane Battier

Peak Blog

April 13, 2009

It is the final week of the NBA regular season, can you believe it? I can't. The season has flown by so quickly and I really can't believe the playoffs will start in less than a week. As I write this, we have 2 games to go against New Orleans and Dallas. I am asked everyday about who I want to play in the playoffs. First of all, there are so many different scenarios, I can't keep them all straight. Secondly, I know that we are going to play a good team regardless, so why worry about what team we are going to play? The only thing we can control is our efforts against New Orleans and Dallas in these 2 last games. If we win both, we will win the division championship, which is amazing considering all of the injuries, trades, and lineup shuffles that we have had this year. In the NBA, anytime you win 50 games, that is a great accomplishment and you should be proud. Do you know how hard it is to win 50? It takes great consistency and effort. To win a divisional championship would be even better. It's something that I haven't done yet in my career.

Every playoff team in the Western Conference offers advantages and challenges. I think the Lakers are the best team obviously, but they have their weaknesses too. I cannot put them into words here, because they might be reading this, hahaha. After the Lakers, any of the teams could get hot and win multiple playoff series. It is not like the Eastern Conference which only has 3 great teams.

I only hope that we play well this last week to give us confidence as we open the playoffs. We have been an outstanding home team this year and need to secure home court advantage and win the first two games in the series. That would be huge for our young team.

Stay tuned!

I will talk to you later,

Shane

这已经是NBA常规赛的最后一个星期了，你能相信么？我不能。这个赛季过的太快了，我几乎不能相信季后赛不到一个星期就要开始了。我写这篇文章的时候，我们还有两场比赛要打，对手是新奥尔良黄蜂和达拉斯小牛。每天我都会被问到希望在季后赛遇上哪个对手。首先，将会出现多种不同的情况，我不可能完全的去掌控。第二，无论怎样反正我们明白将会面对一支很好的球队，那么为什么要去担忧究竟是哪一个呢？我们唯一能控制的事情就是在与黄蜂和小牛的比赛中全力以赴。如果我们两战皆胜，我们将会赢得分区的冠军，这对于我们今年所有的伤员、交易涉及的球员、目前的阵容中的战友来说都是非常奇妙和惊异的。在NBA中，赢下50胜的战绩，是一个伟大的成就，你的为此而自豪。你知道想要取得这样的成绩有多难么？这需要持之以恒和付出巨大的努力。而能够获得一个分区冠军也非常棒，我此前的职业生涯中还没有这样的经历。

西部每一支季后赛球队都非常的优秀和具有挑战性。我认为很明显湖人是最好的，但是他们也有自己的弱点。不过在这我不能说，因为他们可能有人会来看我的文章，哈哈。湖人之后任何球队都具备赢下这些系列赛的能力。这里和东部不一样，不是只有3支优秀的球队。

我只希望这最后的一周能够有好的表现，从而能带着更多的自信进入到季后赛。我们今年有着优秀的主场战绩，我们需要获得主场优势，然后在系列赛的前两场中获胜。这对于一支年轻的球队来说很重要。

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