The Vegas oddsmakers who just a couple of weeks ago installed the Chicago Bulls as the betting favorite to reach the NBA Finals in June clearly haven't been paying attention to the Atlanta Hawks
[내기에서 확률을 점치는 사람]라스베가스의 오드메이커는 2주전만해도 불스가 파이널에 갈거라 믿어서 지금까지 호크스에 진짜 ㅈ도 관심없었다
. Just like virtually everybody else. The Hawks keep carving up opponents, even the league's very best teams, and the skeptics keep offering reasons that Atlanta's 12-game winning streak and 33-8 record are a mirage. No superstar to close or carry the team through the torturous playoffs, no rim protector, no prerequisite postseason heartbreak ...
[나같은 전문가를 제외한]모두가 생각하듯이 호크스는 존나 강력하다. 심지어 비평가들도 호크스의 12연승은 개뽀록이라고 하는 데 그 이유는 슈퍼스타도 없고 떡대도 없고 플옵에 필요한 아픈 기억도 없다고 말이다[ 쉽게 말해 파이널 근처 가본적도
없는 새끼들이 무슨 절박함이 이겠냐라느 소리]

To recap a fabulous week lost on even casual basketball fans during the NFL playoffs: The Hawks crushed the Wizards (who then beat the Spurs and Bulls on consecutive nights) by 31. Atlanta then hit the road and won its franchise-record 11th straight road game, dismantling the Raptors in Toronto by 21.
미식축구보느라 잠시 느바쌩깠던 팬들을 위해 설명하자면 : 호크스는 위자드를 31점차로 떡바르고 랩터스도 21점차로 때려부수고 있다 즉, 존나 잘나가고 있으며 11연승 프랜차이저 기록도 넘어섰다
And then, playing their fifth game in seven days, the Hawks rather clinically disposed of the Bulls in Chicago, 107-99. Probably, there couldn't be a better set of conditions under which to be up for sale, as the Hawks are.
그리고 7일동안 5경기를 치르면서 호크스가 불스를 임상진단하듯이 107-99점으로 발라놓았다[약점을 결국 알려줬다] 아마 불스만큼 핵심을 잘 집어준 팀도 ㄴ없을 거다[솔직히 잘 모르겠다]

The Hawks, not the Bulls, are the best team in the Eastern Conference at the season's midway point, and the gap between the two teams ought to be alarming to the Bulls, who've followed a 13-2 run with a stretch of play characterized by lazy defense and at times a lack of energy and urgency.시즌 중반이 지난 이 시점에서 불스가 아닌 호크스는 동부 컨퍼런스에서 제일 잘나간다. 그리고
불스는 두 팀간의 격차를 반드시 인지해야만한다. 열의와 절박함이 부족한 수비로 스트레치 플레이 해봤자 13-2런으로 털린 것도 포함해서.
The Bulls have lost four of six, gotten smoked twice by a Wizards team that both teams know have the Bulls' number, and continue to play at home (12-10) as if they'd rather be on the road (15-5). The Bulls hit the halfway point of the season in the middle of the pack in opponents' scoring (15th), which has been the team's greatest strength during the Tom Thibodeau era, and seem to have become one of those teams that is convinced it'll turn it on and return to that 13-2 form when it needs to after the All-Star break.
불스는 최근 6전 4패를 기록했고 2번을 위자드한테 졌다. 홈에서 12승 10패 원정에서 15승 5패를 기록한걸보면 차라리 원정이 나을 정도다[보통 홈에서 더 기록이 좋음] 불스는 지금 시즌 중반를 거치면서 ????를 기록했고 모두 티보두의 업적이고 올스타 브레이크 이후에 13-2을 기록하는 팀 시절로 돌아간다고 보여도 믿을만큼 의미 있다.

The Bulls had better be right about that, because the other team in the ring with them Saturday night, Atlanta, played with all the energy, pace, ball movement and defensive intensity the Bulls have lacked the past two weeks. The Hawks are stunningly simple and fundamental in their approach and stunningly successful with the results.
그러나 불스는 부족한 점을 반드시 알아둬야한다. 왜냐하면 호크스는 2주동안 똥싸지른 불스와 다르게 열의를 갖고 경기에 임하기 때문인데  이를테면 호크스의 볼 무브먼트랑 페이스 조절 그리고 수비에 있어 불스와 비교가 안된다. 걍 호크스 걍 기본에 존나 충실하니까 결과가 잘나오는 거다.
Only an NBA junkie can name their starting five -- DeMarre Carroll and Paul Millsap at forward, Al Horford at center, Kyle Korver and Jeff Teague at guard -- and it's true they don't have superstar. Their most accomplished player is 35-year-old Elton Brand, who now, in his 15th season, comes off the bench.
오로지 농구 광인새끼들만 주전 라인에 서있을 수 있다.
[이름은 귀찮아서 안쓴다]
물론 얘내가 슈퍼스타는 아니지만 리그15년차 왕고참 앨튼 브랜드가 벤치 후보로 나오고 있다[즉 탄탄하다]
There's also no ball stopper, not a single knucklehead, and a roster full of players increasingly convinced with each win that this way of playing enables them not to need a superstar. It's the kind of five-man basketball the Spurs of the past two years have popularized and whose former executives and assistant coaches have spread like the gospel to the rest of the league everywhere one of them is hired.
다만 볼호그나 비큐 떨어지는 애들도 없고 오로지 승리에
만족하다보니 슈퍼스타가 필요없게 되었다. 이는 마치 샌안이 2년전 모든 느바 코치나 경영진들에게 외치듯[팀워크로 우승하는 거야 존만이들아] 대중화시킨 [르브론 찔리는 발언] 플레이와 같다.
Offensively, the Hawks literally pass opponents numb, until somebody is preposterously open. Quick passes -- direct, commonsense passes. Teague off the dribble, Horford and Millsap out of the double-team, Korver away from a late-charging defender. 우선 공격에서 호크는 와이드 오픈이 나기전엔 말그대로 패스만해댄다[잘모르겠다 표현이 이상해]즉, 존나 빠르면서 정확하고 제때 패스를 해주고 또 티크는 잡드리블 안치고 호포드나 밀샙 모두 더블팀때 잘 대처하고 코버는 집요하게 들이대는 수비수를 잘 벗겨낸다.
Korver has become the new Ray Allen or Reggie Miller in the commitment he has made to moving like a Tasmanian devil without the ball. Like those great shooters before Korver, moving to get open before the pass arrives is art with him, and it's become Atlanta's offensive signature.
코버는 이제 기여도면에서 레이알렌이나 레지밀어 다 됬다.마치 타스마니안 악마마냥 공없이 움직일때 말이다[레이알렌 레지밀러 모두 볼없을때 잘 움직였다].
"It's fun basketball," Korver said after torching his old team, the Bulls, for 24 points on 7-for-9 almost entirely wide-open 3-point shooting. "It's the best kind of basketball to me."
코버는 예전팀 불스를 밟은 후에  하는말이'노막 3점 존나 즐겁네요' '제가 제일 좋아하는 농구 스따일이에요'
이때 코버는 7-9 성공률로 24점을 기록했다.
Brand, who is playing for his fifth team, says he's never played in anything like this. "No sets, no trends," Brand said of the offense. "You see other coaches calling plays from the bench and guys looking over. ... You hear 'FIFTY-FOUR!' And you know the ball's going to Pau Gasol. This is totally different. I know the criticism for people looking to find something wrong with us is: 'No star to close.' But Kyle has closed games. Al has closed games. I know Jeff Teague has closed games. Yeah, it's safe to say I've never played in anything like this. When I was young, I know [as a top scorer] I was going to find a way to shoot the ball. This is different. Even when we were 5-5 I could see the way we were beginning to play. The unselfishness has to come from the players. We've got talent. We've got pieces."
그는 5번째 팀에서[호크스] 뛰면서 하는 말이 '진짜 이런팀은 처음이에요 트렌드도 없고 세트 오펜스도 없음' 완전 달라요 이를테면 대개 코치들은 벤치에서 선수들에게 플레이를 명령하잖아요? 54라고 하면 파우가솔한테 패스가 가는 식으로 말이죠. 근데 우린 이타적이다보니 걍 경기할때 어떻게 움직일지 삘이와요[역시 노련미가 느껴지는 팀이네] 물론 우릴 씹는 팀들은 '니넨 캐리할 슈퍼스타가 없어'라고 하겠지만 코버도 캐리하고  제프나 티그도 해냈죠. 우리도 능력있어요 엣헴

Defensively, although the Bulls are trying to settle into their complex rotations, which, to be fair to Thibodeau, has worked every single season, the Hawks play pretty much without exception a see-your-man, guard-your-man scheme that has left Atlanta with the No. 1 defense in the league in terms of points per game allowed and the No. 4 defense in the league in opponents' field goal percentage.
수비면에선 호크스가 불스 감독 티보두가 고안해낸 복잡한 로테이션보다 더 뛰어나다. 기본만 잘 지키면서 플레이해도 득점 허용지수에서 1위를 하고 필드골에선 4위를 해냈다[즉 흠잡을 데가 없다]
The similarity to the Spurs runs even deeper than X's and O's and attitude. Coach Mike Budenholzer, who spent 18 years working for the Spurs and Gregg Popovich, has even taken to resting players as he sees fit, just the way Pop does. Before Saturday's game in Chicago, Budenholzer announced that reserve big man Pero Antic would sit. "Trying to keep him healthy," was the reason the coach gave. "We pick our spots ... we're trying to be proactive."
선수 운영면에서도 스퍼스를 닮았다. 이를테면 상황봐가면서 뺄놈은 빼고 넣을 놈은 넣는 식으로 말이다. "선수를 보호해야되니까요' 이게 코치 부덴홀저가 한말이다
It's nothing like the approach in Chicago, where there is still the tug-of-war between Thibodeau's big minutes, tough-it-out approach and the management/player preference of erring on the side of caution. In fact, the Bulls' season (again) is framed in part by the team's health. While Joakim Noah is out now with a sprained ankle, a big reason the Bulls' defense has been diminished is Noah's inability, coming off summer knee surgery, to move with his usual quickness and certainty. Dragging a leg simply hasn't allowed Noah the range of movement he had last season when he was the league's best defender. It's no secret that the Bulls players, having dragged wearily and injured into the playoffs last season, have vowed to themselves they won't do that this season. That's a reality the fresh Hawks haven't had to react to and navigate just yet. The Bulls, they would suggest privately, have been the hot, young team storming with vim and vigor through the regular season, only to be slowed by the quicksand that is the NBA playoffs.
아 시발 썻는 데 날라갔네.
무튼  운영면에서도 불스와는 다르다. 티보두감독은 존나게 선수들 굴리면서 승리하려고 하는 것과 아니면
걍 극단적으로 안전플레이를 할것인가 고민하고있다.노아킴이 무릎 수술 이후로 발목을 다쳤는 데 이는 노아의 넓은 수비가 불가능함을 의미한다. 사실 작년에도 불스 선수들이 다친채로 플옵에 질질 꿀려갔고 다시는 다친채로 플옵을 가지 않으리라 라고 본인들에게 맹세를 했지만 이러한 현실을 망각한채 불스는 '어맛 우린 정규 시즌땐 잘하거등요? 플옵때 좀 느릴 뿐이지 라고 변명하는 거 같다[운영ㅇ이 잘 안된다]
A head coach who played in the league and who has made multiple trips to the NBA Finals reminded me last week, "Remember, guys in this league are excited about playing together the first 25 games and excited about playing together the last 25 games, and you'd better be really, really careful about drawing any conclusions off of the 30 games in the middle where guys are tired of each other or tired of their coach or coming off the holidays or dragging. You know how this league works."
지난 주에 플옵 파이널에 여러번 경험한 헤드코치가 해준 말이 기억나는 데 '선수들은 시즌 첫 25게임과 나중 25게임때 신이나곤 한다. 그래서 중반 30게임때즘에 잘 판단해야한다. 이를테면 선수들이 휴식, 코치, 걍 끌려가는 것에 질렸는 지 말이다. 이 리그가 돌아가는 방식을 알아야된다고 말했다.
And all of that speaks to the Bulls, these Bulls, knowing that there are no orange slices and trophies awarded at this level for full participation, that the No. 1 seed in the conference seems less and less attractive each season and nowhere near as important as springtime health. As Budenholzer said of the San Antonio approach, "I think every team is prioritizing players' health."
무엇보다 불스는 모두[선수 경영 코치 감독]의 참여가 중요하다는 걸 알아야한다 여기엔 개꿀같은 보상도 없지만 1번 시드는 해가 갈수록 덜 중요하고 보다 더 중요한건 봄때 선수들의 건강이라는 점이다. 부덴홀저가 샌안을 언급하길'요즘은 건강이 우선인거 같아요'
To that end, Rose and Noah are still the two most important members of the Bulls team, with Gasol and Jimmy Butler now also being indispensable. While the Bulls' offense is a half-court slow dance and moves with none of the crispness of Atlanta's, the Bulls nonetheless share the ball as well as any team in the league, though the turnovers have sabotaged several efforts of the first half.
마지막으로 노아랑 로즈는 여전히 팀의 핵심이고 버틀러랑 파우 가솔도 필수라는 점이다. 공격에선 애틀랜타와 비교했을때 존나 느리고 상콤함이 부족하지만 그래도 불스도 비교적 이타적이다 물론 턴오버가 그 노력을 방해하지만..
The best news over the past week has been Rose's resurgence after missing a game to rest his sore left knee. Since then, Rose has had two of his best games of the season, the 29-point, 10 assist game in Boston and the next night, against Atlanta, the 23-point, 10-assist, eight-rebound performance while being guarded by Teague. The wisest approach would probably be a Spurs-like resting of Rose every eight or 10 games, not that the Bulls seem inclined to approach it that way. The Bulls have a deep enough roster, especially once Mike Dunleavy and Noah return, to be proactive in resting players the same way the Spurs and Hawks do and the Bulls are old enough as a team to warrant it, but it's not Thibodeau's philosophy.
그나마 불스의 최고 소식은 로즈의 건장함인데 로즈는 보스턴전에서 29득 10어시를 이루고 애틀전에서 티그의 보호를 받으며 23득 10어시 8리바를 해냈다.
근데 중요한건 불스는 로스터가 훌륭한 팀이고 스퍼스를 본받아 좀 로즈를 쉬게 해줄 필요가 있는 데 티보두는 그럴 마음이 없어 보인다.
For a while this season, while the Bulls were winning 13 of 15 games, there was little reason to second-guess or look for different solutions. But now, having seen the Hawks win 26 of 28 games (the only losses were at home to Milwaukee and at Orlando), including at Portland, at Houston, at the Clippers, at Dallas and at Cleveland, it might be time for the Bulls and all the other teams getting crushed by the Hawks to sneak a peek at what Atlanta is doing, which is scarily similar to what the Spurs have been doing all this time.

The Bulls have, on deck, the Cavaliers for the MLK holiday, the Spurs, and a trip that will send them to Dallas, Golden State and Houston, among other stops. If the Bulls, surely built to win now, are going to justify the faith that so many people put in them late this fall, they might want to summon the intensity and defensive purpose that has served the team so well in recent seasons, lest they find the Hawks, among others, looking at them in the rearview mirror.