马刺

The Lakers have five regular-season games left, including Tuesday at Portland. They play host to front-running New Orleans (54-22) on Friday and San Antonio (53-24) on Sunday.

湖人还剩下5场常规赛，周二客场打开拓者，接着周五和周日主场分别"招呼"领头羊黄蜂和圣安东尼奥马刺。

Show how both the functional and matrix structures might create conflict within an organization.

活塞和马刺的圣诞大战便是这种理念的产物，虽然和同时进行的湖人和热火之争比起来，不那么吸引人。

And that was our message in the locker room after the game.

湖人主教练杰克逊说，那四我们在与马刺比赛后更衣室中达成的共识。

Now the Spurs can go back to number one seed and I can continue to loathe Houston again.

现在马刺回到了第一种子，我要继续憎恶火箭了。

The Spurs are "a tested team," said Memphis' Hakim Warrick."A championship team that's been through the wars."

灰熊队的H.WARRICK说：马刺是一支历经考验的球队，一支经过战争洗礼的冠军队伍。

But I do know he's a helluva coach and anybody would be lucky to have him as their coach.

马刺主帅波波维奇说："但我知道他是一位很棒的教练，任何能够在他手下打球的球员都很幸运。"

Won in five games despite ho-hum production from Odom was a surprise to many, and a sign of its overall depth.

在与马刺的第五场比赛中 Odom 的表现出乎大多数人的预料，似乎他又回到了低迷的状态。

In summary, except for the incantation, the Spurs is not dangerous anymore.

总之，排除魔咒的影响之外，马刺的现在的湖人已不成威胁。

But game is game after all, ace of what is actually happening can win Brazil with China, NBA ace can win spur with leopard cat, get the better of in order to lose strong be they overturned horizontal difference?

可是游戏究竟是游戏，实况高手可以用中国赢巴西，NBA高手可以用山猫赢马刺，以弱胜强是他们颠覆了水平的差距吗？

But the Spurs had been looking forward to this litmus test.

但马刺一直很期待这场面对湖人的考验。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。