MIAMI — The Heat’s current roster is made up of 19 players, but only 15 guaranteed contracts.
虎撲體育8月24日訊 邁阿密熱火隊(duì)現(xiàn)在陣容中有19名球員，但是只有15個人能有保障性合同。
With Miami forced to cut its team down to 15 players for the start of the regular season on Oct. 26, the four players with non-guaranteed contracts are feeling the pressure. Or are they?
10月26日常規(guī)賽開始之前，熱火隊(duì)必須將球隊(duì)名單縮減至15人，球隊(duì)中4名拿著非保障性合同的球員正在感受這種壓力。實(shí)際是這樣嗎？
Guards Briante Weber and Rodney McGruder, and forwards Stefan Jankovic and Okaro White insist there won’t be extra pressure on them in training camp next month despite their non-guaranteed contracts.
后衛(wèi)韋伯、RM，前鋒SK、OW堅(jiān)持說沒有感受到額外的壓力，他們的合同都是非保障性的，熱火訓(xùn)練營將在下個月開始。
“I just go in and handle what I got to do,” Weber said Monday at a back-to-school event at Shadowlawn Elementary in Miami. “Worrying about other people is not really my strong suit. So all I can do is be me and take care of what I can take care of.”
“我只是上場，處理我能做到的事情，”韋伯當(dāng)?shù)貢r間周一在邁阿密參加活動時說，“擔(dān)心其他人的事真得不是我的做法，我能做的就是做好我自己，關(guān)心我能控制的?！?/p>
For most of the offseason, Weber was looked at as the Heat’s backup point guard behind starter Goran Dragic. But last week’s signing of free agent point guard Beno Udrih to a guaranteed one-year contract puts Weber in a tough spot.
休賽期的部分時間里，韋伯都被看作是控球后衛(wèi)德約科維奇的替補(bǔ)，但是球隊(duì)上周用一年保障性合同新簽了自由球員本諾-尤德里，讓韋伯的處境看起來有些艱難了。
The 23-year old Weber impressed as a member of the Heat’s summer league team this offseason, averaging 9.3 points, 4.8 rebounds, 4.3 assist and 3.9 steals in nine games. But it still might not be enough to convince Miami to pick him over Udrih, who has played in 792 NBA games compared to Weber’s seven NBA games.
現(xiàn)年23歲的韋伯在熱火隊(duì)夏季聯(lián)賽的表現(xiàn)給人留下了深刻的印象，在9場比賽中，場均能得到9.3分4.8個籃板4.3個助攻3.9個搶斷。但是這樣的表現(xiàn)還是不能讓熱火隊(duì)放心，熱火簽約了尤德里。尤德里在NBA已經(jīng)打了792場比賽，而韋伯僅打過7場。
“My mindset is never going to change no matter who is in front of me, no matter how many people there are. I’m just going to be me,” Weber said. “I’m not going to change anything about how I do my things. I’m not going to try to be a different person. I’m just going to be the best Briante I can be.”
“無論誰在我的面前，多少個人在我前面，我的想法不會變，我只是要做自己，”韋伯說，“我不會改變自己做事情的方式，不會嘗試成為別的人，我要做最好的B?！?/p>
One advantage Weber does have is on the defensive end of the floor. The 6-foot-2 point guard finished his college career as VCU’s all-time steals leader with 374 steals before suffering a torn ACL, MCL and meniscus during his senior season in January 2015 that ended his college career.
“He’s an animal defensively,” Jankovic said. “He really gets after it, which is rare these days. He takes pride in that. Offensively, his game is there too. He creates and he’s just very, very defensively minded, which is rare.”
But Weber is going to have to prove in training camp that he deserves a spot on the Heat’s regular-season roster. While McGruder, Jankovic and White have an even smaller chance of making the team, they will take the same approach into camp as Weber.
“All I can control is my energy and my effort when I go in the gym every day,” McGruder said. “I feel like every situation takes care of itself. What happens in life is going to happen. You have no control over that, all you can control is your energy and effort.”
