勇士大魔王重現江湖不遠了！Thompson傷後首次參加團隊訓練

千呼萬喚始出來，正逐漸顯露聯盟王者之風的的勇士迎來好消息，自從2019年總決賽G6發生左前交叉韌帶撕裂和2020年11月的右跟腱撕裂後，等待已久的Klay Thompson終於在週二首次參加了團隊訓練。

引用Thompson：“這真的是一種幸福，就只是在球場上跑來跑去打球就太令人興奮了。現在才剛恢復到比賽狀態，我必須保持耐心，因為我可能是個過於渴望打球的人，我真的很感激能到球場。過去2年我和訓練員所做的工作得到了回報，而且很難以言語形容我有多麼感激可以再次打籃球。”

雖然傳言勇士希望Thompson能夠在聖誕節前後復出，但總教練Steve Kerr再次重申回歸日期還沒確定，他們希望Thompson在長時間缺席後能繼續增強肌耐力以應付正式比賽。Thompson上週才被批准與勇士隊友一起進行5對5的訓練，隨著歸隊日期越來越近，他本人當然躍躍欲試。

引用Kerr：“我們沒有訂下明確日期，“我們有幾週的時間可以確定將在何時讓他復出，現在就是盡可能多讓他訓練以建立耐力。我想在幾週內我們將能夠確定一個目標日期，但現在沒有。”

隊友Kevon Looney則是明顯發現到Thompson相隔2年多來的第一次團隊訓練為球隊帶來了多少“快樂”。

引用Looney：“Klay看起來不錯，尤其是對於一個已經缺陣那麼久的人來說。你仍然看得出來他還有些練習要做，而他一直在努力不懈，他看起來已經就像是一名NBA球員，或是一個頂尖運動員了。所以我很高興看到他回到球場上，他每天、每週都在進步，所以我很開心看到他邁出下一步。”

當然Thompson屆時回歸也可能會受到時間限制上的保護，不過勇士現在的狀況足以讓他好整以暇的準備，他也提到了球隊現在的優異戰績。

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Thompson：“我們現在的戰績是15勝2負。這對於一支準備爭冠的隊伍來說是一個很好的指標，我們的防守還有我們的進攻都是聯盟前三，我甚至還沒有加入呢。我也比以往任何時候都更有動力，我非常想要一個冠軍，這比什麼都重要。”

Thompson說他並不害怕再次受傷，因為過去兩次大傷的經驗而受到批評者的激勵，這些人懷疑他和勇士能否重回巔峰。

引用“我想進入歷史75大球星名單，我想要得到一些認可，但我沒有得到它，這很好。你知道你該如何獲得認可？就是你要贏。我只想再贏一次，我想要贏得第4枚冠軍戒指。在過去的2年無法參加比賽，我覺得我有很多被壓抑的精力需要證明，不是向其他人證明，而是向我自己證明，我仍然是最好的球員之一。”

相較起球員的興奮，Kerr還是強調耐心的重要性。

引用“最重要的是他已經有2年半沒有上場比賽了，所以阿基里斯腱在結構上是健康的，沒有不良影響，但需要重新建立力量和耐力，尤其是耐力部份很需要時間。所以他需要每天一遍又一遍的重複練習，恢復他的體能以及耐力，我們也會對Klay非常有耐心。”

無論Thompson還需要多少時間恢復，或者他回歸後還剩下多少功力，以現在勇士的球賽內容以及氣勢，其他球隊不免感受到即將要面對那個睽違已久的大魔王躍重現江湖了。
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引用"It's so exciting," Thompson said. "Just to be running up and down the court and playing basketball, it's truly a blessing and it makes coming to work so easy. The boring stuff's behind me, and now it's just getting back in game shape -- I got to stay patient because I can be an overeager person to get out there and play, but I'm just incredibly grateful to be out there. The work the training staff and I have done over the last two years is really paying off, and it's hard to put into words how grateful I am to be playing basketball again."

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引用"We don't have a target date," Kerr said. "What we have is a number of weeks ahead of us for certain where we're going to play it out, keep letting him scrimmage as often as possible so that he'll build that endurance. And I would think within a few weeks we'll be able to finally sort of get a target date, but we don't have one right now."

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引用"Klay looked good," Looney said. "Especially for someone who had been out that long. You can still tell that he's got work to do, and he's been working hard, he looks good, he looks like an NBA player, he looks like a top-notch athlete already. So I'm excited to see him get back on the court. He gets better every day, every week, so I'm excited to see the next step he takes."

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引用"Oh, yeah," he said. "We're 15-2. That's a great indicator of [championship readiness], and our defense, I think it's top three in the league as well as our offense -- and I'm not even out there yet. Think about that. Really think about that. I'm more motivated than ever as well. I want a championship so bad. More than anything."

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引用"I wanted to be on that top [75 list]. I wanted some recognition. I didn't get it, and that's fine. You know how you get recognition? You go win. I just want to go win again. I want to win a fourth ring," he said. "Not being able to compete for the last two years, I feel like I have a lot of pent up energy to prove -- not to anybody else, but to myself, I'm still one of the best."

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引用"The biggest thing is he hasn't played in 2½ years," Kerr said. "So while the Achilles is structurally sound, there's been no ill effects; it's just a matter of building strength and endurance, especially the endurance part, it just takes time. It takes a while. So even though he's playing full bore, and he practiced full bore just now, he needs to keep doing this over and over and over again every day, really blow it out. Get his conditioning back, his endurance back. So we're going to be very patient with Klay, too."