He was named NBA Rookie of the Year after being selected by the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first overall pick in the 2011 NBA draft.
凯里-欧文在2011年的NBA选秀大会上被克利夫兰骑士队以状元签选中，并当选了年度最佳新秀。
A five-time NBA All-Star, Irving was selected to the All-NBA Third Team in 2015. He won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016.
凯里-欧文曾5次入选全明星阵容，并于2015年入选了NBA最佳阵容三阵，于2016年随骑士队获得NBA总冠军。
The unsung brilliance of Kyrie Irving
凯里-欧文被低估的才华
With Irving out resting his knee, let's take a minute to appreciate his splendid first season with the Boston Celtics. We tend to focus on the brilliance of Irving's dribbling exhibitions — the crossovers and step-backs that flow together in a liquid dance.
随着欧文休战疗养膝盖伤势，让我们花几分钟时间欣赏欧文加盟凯尔特人第一个赛季的精彩表现。我们会将重点放在欧文卓越的运球才华上——即他那行云流水般的胯下运球和后撤步。
They are magic. There is some basketball IQ in them, too — Irving thinking two moves ahead, using the first hard dribble to set up the final blow.
这些技术犹如魔法一般，其中也蕴含着一些篮球智商。欧文会提前在脑中构思这两个动作，然后用一个力道十足的运球来制造最后一击。

But Irving's overall basketball IQ has always been a bit underrated, probably because it hasn't translated into enough playmaking for others.
但是欧文的整体篮球智商却常常被低估，也许是因为他并没有为队友创造足够多的进攻机会。
It showed in his screening ballet with LeBron James in Cleveland — the way Irving disguised the direction of his picks until the very last second, and rolled downhill (semi-illegally) into the chest of LeBron's defender, dragging the defense into the very switch it feared.
欧文在克利夫兰与勒布朗-詹姆斯打挡拆时，我们可以看出，欧文直到最后时刻才会暴露自己的接球方向，然后顶着詹姆斯防守者的胸口径直切入(有犯规嫌疑)，迫使对方做出换防。
Another recent example:
以下是最近比赛的一个例子：
Irving calls over Marcus Morris knowing the Rockets will switch. (Houston's switching has flummoxed teams all season, and they seem to be doing even more lately.) Even a clean switch leaves a split-second window between the moment one defender leaves and the next arrives. Irving is playing for that window.
欧文告诉马库斯-莫里斯火箭队会做出换防。(火箭队的换防整个赛季都给其他球队制造了不小的麻烦，并且火箭队的换防在最近的比赛中应用得更加频繁)。即便是干净利落的换防，也会在一个防守球员离开和另一个防守球员扑上来补防之间留下短暂的间隙。欧文正是为了制造这样的间隙发起进攻。
He dribbles once, but he doesn't intend to go anywhere. It is a super-quick, low dribble designed to activate his shooting motion while James Harden is still several feet away — to rise up before Harden can close out.
他会运一次球，但不打算移位。他会在詹姆斯-哈登离自己还有几英尺时快速低手运球，为做出投篮动作做准备，然后在哈登扑上来前跳投。

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