The Oklahoma City Thunder are formidable, potent¹ and rife² with potential. And in the span of six days they’ve taken two games over the course of six days from a team that needed 64 days to register its second regular-season loss.

本场比赛，俄克拉荷马城雷霆队来势汹汹，势不可挡，全场潜力爆发。在短短六天的时间内，雷霆队已经拿下两场比赛，与此同时，对方勇士队也在短短几天迎来了64天以来本赛季第二次输分纪录。

OKC downed Golden State, a team that finished the regular season with a 73-9 record, 133-105 on Sunday evening. The Thunder took Game 3 of the Western Conference finals, earning a 2-1 series lead and pushing the Warriors⁴ to its third 2-1 postseason deficit⁵ in two years. The Thunder rallied from Draymond Green’s latest incident with Oklahoma City center Steven Adams to finish the second half on a 22-5 run and 67-38 splurge spread out over 18 minutes to send Golden State back to the drawing board for the second time in a week.

上周日晚上，雷霆队以133-105的大比分赢得在常规赛中打下73胜9败辉煌战绩的勇士队。西部决赛第三场比赛过后，两对总比分目前是雷霆2-1领先。这也是勇士最近两个赛季里第3次在季后赛系列中1-2落后。第二节比赛过程中，特雷蒙德·格林和史蒂芬·亚当斯在场上发生争执，雷霆队自此之后奋力反击，打下一个22-5的小高潮，并在18分钟的时间内将分差拉至67-38，成功在一个星期之内第二次让勇士队尝到濒临败北的滋味。

Russell Westbrook paced Oklahoma City with 30 points, eight boards and 12 assists, while Kevin Durant added 33 points and eight rebounds⁶; both in around 32 minutes of action. Golden State’s famed backcourt of Stephen Curry⁷ and Klay Thompson combined for 42 points while working just 29 minutes apiece in the loss, but no other Warrior³ scored in double figures.

拉塞尔·威斯布鲁克为全队贡献30分，8个篮板以及12次助攻。凯文·杜兰特则拿下33分以及8个篮板。两人上场时间都在32分钟。金州勇士队的最佳搭档斯蒂芬·库里和克莱·汤普森两人合力则只得42分，上场时间也仅有29分钟。勇士队其他球员也没有得分在两位数以上的。

Not only did the Thunder double up the defending champs in the second quarter, working on a 38-19 run overall, but the team put together a 45-point third quarter, at one point taking a 41-point lead. OKC entered the fourth quarter – mostly extended garbage time – with 117 points.

雷霆队不仅仅在第二节比赛中将对手碾压，曾打下38-19的小高潮，这支队伍还在第三节发力，单节比赛拿到45分，其中某一时段还一度领先勇士队41分。第三节结束时雷霆将比分提至117分，巨大的分差导致第四节成为了垃圾时间。

The Warriors missed 23 3-pointers in the loss and were crushed on the boards by a 52-38 margin⁸. Usually raw rebounding⁹ stats barely tell a major chunk¹⁰ of the story, but in this instance one can see where the Thunder sprung their spark.

勇士队在比赛中错失23个3分球，并一度以38-52的分差被对手领先。一般来说，篮板数据并不能真实反映比赛的主体情况，然而这场比赛中，雷霆队的小宇宙究竟如何爆发，从比赛数据中就可见一斑。

Serge Ibaka once again emerged from anonymity¹¹ to contribute 14 points, eight rebounds, two blocks and two steals in the win – acting¹² as the looming¹³ defensive¹⁴ force that made life so unpleasant for opposing offenses¹⁵ for years prior¹⁶ to this season. Reserve swingman Dion Waiters continued his turn of steady play with 13 points, and big man Enes Kanter added 10 points and 12 rebounds.

塞尔吉·伊巴卡从之前默默无闻的球员，到如今在赛场上成为为全队贡献14分、8个篮板、2个盖帽以及2次抢断的防守球员。本赛季之前，伊巴卡多年来一直充当抵御进攻的角色，这使得他的篮球生涯十分单调。摇摆人迪昂·威特斯则继续其平稳的表现，全场共得13分。大个子埃内斯·坎特则贡献10分，外加12个篮板。

“They didn’t have the best record in the NBA,” Westbrook told TNT’s Craig Sager¹⁷ following the game, adding that his Thunder understood they had to use their dynamic physical gifts to their advantage.

比赛过后，威斯布鲁克接受TNT记者克雷格·赛格采访时表示：“我们的球员们知道我们并没有那么光辉的战绩。”同时，他还补充道，雷霆队所有队员都深谙在赛场上要全力发挥自身体能优势的道理。

“We got a physical team, an athletic¹⁸ team, and we have to use that to the best of our ability.”

“我们是一支充满力量的球队，是一支有着运动精神的队伍，我们需要最大限度运用我们体能上的优势来和对手抗衡。”

Warriors coach Steve Kerr had plenty of time to digest things, with his team entering the final period facing a 37-point deficit, and he got right to the point following the loss:

最后一节比赛，勇士队面临落后对手37分的巨大分差，其教练史蒂夫·科尔不禁花大量的时间来消化这场比赛。比赛结束后，他也对本场比赛做了比较到位的评价：

“We got our butts¹⁹ kicked,” he said just moments after mentioning Los Angeles’ famed 34-point Finals loss to the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of the 1985 NBA Finals. “It doesn’t matter if it’s [a loss by] one point or 30, you have to look at the tape and figure out how you can be better, and you come back with a better effort. But [the Thunder] were the more desperate team tonight.”

科尔表示：“我们确实输的一败涂地。”在此之前他还提到了1985年NBA决赛第一场比赛中洛杉矶湖人以34分分差输给波士顿凯尔特人的著名战役。“事实上，无论是输一分还是三十分都不重要，你需要做的就是分析比赛录像，并反省自己哪里其实可以做的更好，然后以最佳的状态全力以赴迎接下一场比赛。说实话，今晚的雷霆确实表现更加突出。”

As was the case on Golden State’s bench, the Thunder had the entirety of the fourth quarter to ponder just how strongly the Warriors will come out for Tuesday evening’s Game 4.

和勇士队一样，雷霆队在第四节整整一节的时间内也在不断思考周二晚上第四场比赛勇士队将会如何迎战。

Who will come to win next game remains²⁰ to be seen. What sits in cement, though, is the idea that in spite of two straight blowout wins for either side, this Western Conference final remains as compelling as any pairing in NBA history.

下一场比赛究竟鹿死谁手，还有待观察。但唯一可以确定的是，纵使两只球队都各自获得两连胜，这场西部决赛的受关注程度也丝毫不逊色于NBA历史上任何一场。