帶隊揍趴雄鹿創歷史 小卡是季後賽最強球員嗎?

Not a discussion about whether Kawhi has outshone the likely league MVP, Giannis Antetokounmpo, during the first five games of the Eastern Conference finals, where Kawhi's Toronto Raptors on Tuesday took a 3-2 lead over the Milwaukee Bucks with a 105-99 Game 5 win. The answer to that question is beyond a shadow of a doubt.

在東部決賽的前五場比賽中，卡哇伊的表現是否超過了最有潛力的MVP字母哥還並不是一個值得討論的話題。但是直到週二，卡哇伊率領的多倫多猛龍隊以105-99戰勝雄鹿，以3-2領先。那個問題的答案已經毫無疑問了。

The question of who is currently the best basketball player on Earth seemed to center on whether Kevin Durant had surpassed LeBron James, and whether Giannis was on his way to surpassing them both, and where Steph Curry fits into the mix. We didn't even bring up Kawhi's name.

目前誰是世界上最好的籃球運動員的問題似乎集中在杜蘭特是否已經超越詹姆斯、字母哥是否正在超越他們兩人，以及庫裏是否應該列入討論。我們甚至沒有提到卡哇伊的名字。

We didn't even give him his due as the top two-way player in the league. This season, that discussion centered around Giannis or Paul George.

我們甚至沒有給他作爲“聯盟中最好的雙向（攻防兩端）球員”的應得的認可。這個賽季，討論的焦點則集中在字母哥或保羅喬治。

"He seemed to cruise to 30 points a lot of nights (during the regular season), and 30 is a lot in this league," Nick Nurse, the Raptors' first-year head coach, said before Game 5. "And that's why I kept saying, geez, it just feels like there's another gear here with this guy that we're going to see."

猛龍隊執教第一年的主教練尼克·納斯在第五場比賽前說到:“在常規賽的很多晚上，他似乎都能輕鬆拿下30分，在這個聯盟30分是很多的。”“這就是爲什麼我一直在說，天哪，感覺就像這個傢伙身上還有另一個齒輪，我們會看到的。”

"It's really different when you have a guy, when you're with him every day and you're witnessing it all," Nurse said. "

“當你在這樣一個傢伙身邊，並且每天都和他在一起並見證着這一切，這真的很不一樣，”納斯說。”

The Raptors at their best are not the Kawhi Leonard Show. Kawhi seemed to recognize that earlier in the series, and he has since eschewed much of the isolation, Kawhi-do-it-all basketball that he started the series with. When Kawhi shares the ball — his nine assists in Game 5 were a career high — the Raptors take it to another level.

猛龍隊最好的狀態並不是卡哇伊的獨秀時刻。卡哇伊似乎在這個系列的早些時候就意識到了這一點，從那以後，他就避免了很多拉開來單打，避免了這個系列開始時那種“卡哇伊無所不能”的籃球。在第五場比賽中的9次助攻是他職業生涯的新高，當卡哇伊分享這個球時，猛龍隊就提升到了另一個水平。

We don't know whether this version of the Raptors can push the Golden State Warriors in the Finals. Heck, we don't even know whether this version of the Raptors will make the , the Bucks haven't been great for a couple games.

我們不知道這個版本的猛龍能否在總決賽中給金州勇士帶來困擾。見鬼，我們甚至不知道這個版本的猛龍隊是否能進入總決賽。當然，雄鹿隊有幾場比賽表現不太好。

Sure, the Bucks haven't been great for a couple games, but an angry Giannis virtually guaranteed in the locker room after Game 5 that this series will come back to Milwaukee for a Game 7.

當然，雄鹿隊有幾場比賽表現不太好，但是憤怒的字母哥在第五場比賽後回到更衣室裏就向球迷們擔保了，這個系列賽將會回到密爾沃基打第七場比賽。

But I feel pretty confident in making a couple statements of certainty: That Kawhi Leonard has been the MVP of these playoffs. And that when he's going all-out in the playoffs, Kawhi Leonard is the best two-way player in the NBA.

但是我很有信心做出一些確定的聲明:倫納德已經成爲了季後賽的MVP。當他在季後賽全力以赴的時候，他就是是NBA最好的雙向（攻防兩端）球員。

And if he's both of those things, well, what should stop you from calling him the best basketball player on Earth in this very moment?

如果他同時具備這兩種能力，那麼，在這個時刻，有啥能阻止他成爲爲世界上最好的籃球運動員呢？

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