With the Houston Rockets' season finally over after a 114-81 loss to the Golden State Warriors¹, the truth was finally uttered in the locker room.

在以81比114大比分输给金州勇士队之后，休斯顿火箭队的这个赛季终于结束了，而一些事实则最终在更衣室中公诸于众。

"The season from the beginning wasn't going our way," James Harden said. "We had too many distractions², a bumpy³ road this entire season."

詹姆斯·哈登说：“本赛季一开始我们就没有按照我们的方式去打球。我们有太多的干扰，整个赛季就像一条崎岖不平的路。”

A team with fantastic chemistry in Golden State won the first-round series 4-1. Klay Thompson led the way with 27 points. The Rockets played the Warriors without Curry⁴ four times this season, winning just once. Harden was the only offense⁵ for the Rockets, scoring 35 points on 12-of-23 shots from the field. The Rockets' star guard was alone, very alone on the offensive end in noisy Oracle⁶ Arena⁷.

充满奇妙化学反应的金州勇士队以4比1的大比分赢得了首轮系列赛。克雷·汤普森本场拿下27分。火箭队本赛季与缺少库里的勇士共交手过4次，但只赢下了1场。哈登是今天火箭队唯一的一个进攻火力点，他23投12中拿下35分。在嘈杂的甲骨文球场，这位火箭队的明星后卫在进攻端显得很无助，非常无助。

Dwight Howard, potentially playing his last game with the Rockets, finished with eight points and 21 meaningless rebounds⁸, missing 10 of 13 shots. Trevor Ariza, dreadful in this series, missed 7 of 8 shots, including all seven of his 3-point attempts. Jason Terry, the man who guaranteed a victory in Game 5, missed all seven of his shots.

德怀特·霍华德，在有可能是他为火箭队效力的最后一场比赛中，拿下8分和毫无意义的21个篮板，13次出手投丢了10次。在这轮系列赛中表现糟糕透顶的特雷沃·阿里扎，本场比赛8次出手投丢了7球，其中3分出手7次无一命中。那个赛前保证拿下第五场比赛的贾森·特里本场比赛更是7投全失。

So where was the other offense for the Rockets? Well, Michael Beasley, the late-season signing by GM Daryl Morey, finished with 11 points, but needed 13 shots to do it.

那么火箭队的其他进攻点呢？恩，迈克·比斯利，这位总经理莫雷在赛季尾声阶段签下的球员，本场比赛拿下11分，不过他为此出手了13次。

The chemistry between Howard and Harden disintegrated⁹ over the course of the season; Howard, dismayed with not getting the ball enough, and Harden, not trusting in what the center could do.

而霍华德与哈登之间的化学反应在整个赛季都是分裂的。霍华德因为没有足够的球权而沮丧，哈登则是不信任这名中锋（霍华德）的表现。

Now, it's over with. Howard will become a free agent this summer, seeking a big-money contract he likely won't receive from the Rockets.

现在，一切都结束了。霍华德将会在这个夏天成为自由球员，去寻求一份他可能不会在火箭队能得到的大额合同。

Most in the locker room didn't make a plea for the center to return next season.

而更衣室里的大多数人都没有请求这名中锋于下赛季回到球队。

"I mean, ultimately it's his decision," Harden said. "But you know obviously we love Big Fella here and I guess he'll go back with his family and figure it out."

“我要说的是，这最终是他自己的决定。”哈登说。“但是你们很清楚，我们爱这个大家伙，我想他会和他的家庭回来的，并解决好这些问题。”

Howard declined to talk about his future and didn't respond when asked whether he would speak with his teammates about returning.

霍华德拒绝谈论关于他的未来的问题，并且当被问到他是否会和队友们谈论回归的事宜时，他也没有作出回应。