哈登怀念遭火箭交易4将 林书豪不习惯球队变化
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北京时间2月22日《休斯顿纪事报》消息：虽然火箭在交易截止日前没完成别的交易，但昨天的3队交易中一下子失去了4名球员，这还是让莫泰尤纳斯等球员感到非常不适应。球队的领袖哈登，今天在微博上表达了对4名前队友的想念。
“我深信一切都会过去的。我们会想念曾经一起战斗过的兄弟：马库斯-莫里斯、科尔-阿尔德里奇、帕特森和TD（道格拉斯）。”哈登如是写道。
另一名球队核心林书豪，在昨天便表达了对失去战友的伤心之情。他同时还承认，获悉火箭送走了4名球员后，他甚至都不想参加与雷霆的比赛，由此可见豪哥也是个性情中人。
但对于老鸟德尔菲诺来说，这些事情有些见怪不怪。
“这里是NBA，每年这个时候都会上演离别，你必须适应和习惯这些。这是个生意场，（交易）让人难以接受，但每支球队都渴望得到最好的化学反应。看到帕特森、阿尔德里奇和道格拉斯离开真的很难接受，但我们还是要继续前进。”阿根廷人如是说道。
接下来，火箭将会打小个子阵容，德尔菲诺将会出任4号位的首发。不过更让林书豪难以适应的是，他赴客场坐飞机的一些常规——交易发生前，坐在他身边的一直都是道格拉斯。
“上飞机后，我都是和托尼坐在一起。（交易）真的有些不可思议，作为一名年轻的球员，我还不适应这些突发交易，真的有些怪异。”林书豪如是对记者说道。
相比之下，生涯曾先后效力4支球队的德尔菲诺就很看的开，他很淡定的说道：“有段时间我突然获得重用，出场时间明显增加，但后来戏份减少，如今又成为了首发大前锋，我会全力以赴，努力为球队贡献自己最大的力量。”
对于赴国王的3名前队友，哈登对他们的前景表示了担忧。“（在这个时候被交易），对于他们来说有不小的难度。当初我被交易是在赛季开始前，我有 一个赛季的时间来适应新东家，但他们是在赛季中期加盟新的球队，得首先去熟悉球队的情况，搞清楚自己的球队定位，适应新的环境，做到这一点确实很艰难。” 哈登说。
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Players on trades: ‘You have to get used it it … it’s a business’
As Rockets athletic trainer Keith Jones kept walking into the team’s locker room Wednesday night and players kept leaving after being told they were being traded, Rockets forward Donatas Motiejunas said he and his remaining teammates began wondering when the exodus would stop.
It ended with four departures – Patrick Patterson, Toney Douglas and Cole Aldrich to the Kings, Marcus Morris to the Suns – and the impending arrival of power forward Thomas Robinson, forward Tyler Honeycutt and guard Francisco Garcia from Sacramento.
That’s the clear-cut part. The mystery is what the Rockets do from here as they attempt to close in on a playoff berth while perhaps staging themselves for more moves in the offseason.
“It’s the NBA. It’s that time of year,” said veteran Carlos Delfino, who now finds himself in the unfamiliar position of being the Rockets’ starting power forward in a downsized lineup. “You have to get used to it.
“It’s a business. It’s tough. You want to have chemistry and a good group of guys in the locker room, and it’s tough to see Pat and Cole and TD going away. But we will move forward and see how we can do.”
The adjustments began with significant things – as in how the matchups will be adjusted without Patterson and Morris for the Friday night game at Brooklyn – and with smaller but still significant adjustments, as in travel routines.
“Going on the plane, I sit next to Toney (Douglas),” said guard Jeremy Lin. “It’s a little weird. I’m just not that used to trades just yet, being younger in the league. It’s weird.”
Having played on four NBA teams in his career, Delfino is by now accustomed to the weirdness.
“For some weeks I was coming off the bench and playing a lot, and then I was playing a little less, and now I’m a power forward,” he said. “I do whatever I can to help the team win.”
Delfino said the Rockets talked during practice about defensive adjustments – “some things that are just momentary, a couple of days, I guess” – that will be his responsibility as Robinson arrives and gets adjusted to his new team.
The Rockets began the season with a blockbuster deal, the acquisition of All-Star James Harden, but Harden said the three players coming in from the Kings will face a different challenge than he faced.
“My trade was before the season. I had basically a full season to fill myself in,” he said. “These guys are in the middle of the season.
“Guys get comfortable with their roles on a certain team, familiar with the organization. Having to go into a new environment is going to be tough.”
What the Rockets need, Harden said, is defensive intensity from their new teammates.
“Obviously, we can score the basketball,” he said. “What got us that win (Wednesday night against Oklahoma City) was our defense coming down the stretch.”
As for Motiejunas, whose playing time may increase with Patterson’s departure, he said the challenge is to seize the opportunity for which he has been preparing all season.
“I was here before everyone showed up for summer league and training camp. I was the first one here after summer league,” he said. “I’ve put in a lot of effort. I really spent a lot of energy to get a chance, and I’m happy I will reach my chance.”
There are downsides, he acknowledged, to the trade.
“For young guys it is really important to have someone who has your back and keeps pushing,” he said. “I lost a couple of guys who were helping me, especially (Patterson). He was helping me on the court and off. For one thing it’s sad, for the other, it’s the NBA.”
He said he was nervous as Jones kept informing players they would not play because of their impending departures.
“Every time (Jones) came in, we were thinking ‘maybe someone else,’” he said. “Now we will see what happens in the future. I hope I will get my chance. That’s why I have been working every single day. I’m ready to take advantage. I’m ready to have my chance.”
Chronicle staff writer Jonathan Feigen contributed to this report.
