#5 | Miami Heat 120-111 Portland Trail Blazers



Goran Dragic didn’t know what to expect when he came to the United States from Slovenia in 2008 to further his basketball career.
“My goal was to find my place. Hopefully I could play three or five years in the NBA and now it’s been 11,” Dragic said. “This is Year 11.”
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A transition layup in Saturday's second quarter gave Dragic his 10,000th career NBA point, making him the first Slovenian player to reach that total. He now has scored 4,324 points with the Heat, after scoring 4,753 with the Phoenix Suns and 945 with the Houston Rockets.
“It means a lot,” Dragic said of getting to 10,000. “You’re working hard all your life. ... Hard work pays off. I still love basketball. I still like to play. I like to practice and keep continuing to work hard.”
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这场比赛德拉职业生涯总得分破万，创造了斯洛文尼亚篮球员另一个历史的里程碑。虽然待的环境与打法天差地远，但这场比赛仿佛看到2013-14赛季的德拉季奇。

#14 | Miami Heat 120-107 Brooklyn Nets

Guard Goran Dragic said the session, as well as the leadership of coach Erik Spoelstra, allowed the Heat to regain a degree of swag after three consecutive losses.
"We had a little meeting to just try to get that swag back," he said. "Everybody was pumped. Everybody was cheering for each other. And we just followed the recipe of how Spo and the coaching staff told us before the game of how we need to defend and how we need to play. When we do that and focus, it’s a little bit easier."
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三连败后球队开了小会议。这场比赛热火就像是之前的对手奇才一样，面目全非，渴望胜利。德拉就算已失去原本的模样也一如既往，永远听从教练的安排，依照教练所说的去执行。

德拉的脚还是没恢复

An MRI on Dragic’s knee returned negative when he originally hurt it earlier this month. But the Heat will re-evaluate the injury Monday.
“We’ll find out. We’re going to re-evaluate him tomorrow and have those kind of discussions,” Spoelstra said in advance of Sunday’s game. “We felt like it was something we could get under control. There are no absolutes in this league and every case is different, and his knee hasn’t responded the way any of us had hoped. When you’re playing games constantly and you’re as competitive as Goran, he wants to be there for his team.”

BY ANTHONY CHIANG | December 07, 2018 03:41 PM
（太阳赛前）
But it hasn’t just been a frustrating time for the team, Dragic’s patience has been tested waiting for his swollen right knee to respond to treatment and rest.
“It was frustrating,” said Dragic, who made his return Friday night against the Suns. “Every time when I did something, it swelled up. But finally it’s been calming down. I practiced two, three days straight. The knee reaction was good.”
The Heat’s starting point guard missed eight consecutive games with the injury, but went through shootaround Friday morning in Phoenix and started in the first game of Miami’s six-game trip. He had fluid drained from his right knee more than two weeks ago after an MRI returned negative.
Even with the handful of practices Dragic has been able to get in during his three-week hiatus, he didn’t expect to be 100 percent in his return. In fact, he expected to be on a minutes restriction.
“When you have problems with the knee, you cannot do much,” he said. “I tried to do my treatment. My focus on that, and then it was starting to feel better. I tried to do conditioning. I’m still not there, but I think it’s good enough.
“When the knee swells up, you have a limited range of motion and you cannot move well. So that was my biggest concern. I tried to get that swelling out. I was doing treatments a lot, and the last couple of practices the knee reacted really well. So the range of motion is back.”
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Dragic played in four games after returning from the injury the first time before shutting it down again. This time he took a more methodical approach and missed eight games to allow his knee to heal, which he hopes makes this latest return different.
“I was out for eight games, so I did everything that was in my power and took the time,” Dragic said. “The training staff really helped me with that. That [scoreless] game, I didn’t even have an opportunity to practice and this time I practiced three or four times with the team.”
Remaining patient wasn’t easy for Dragic. But the hope is that it pays off.
“I had to battle myself, because I want to be there. The knee just didn’t allow it to,” he said. “There was a little bit of frustration, But the only thing that I could control was to do fitness every day, try to do everything that the staff was saying. And finally the time came that I could come back.”
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挑目前最弱的太阳复出，最安全。
Gogi要适应理解自己这副32岁的身体。

#24 | Miami Heat 115-98 Phoenix Suns

After the Heat’s win over the Suns, Dragic said his knee wasn’t an issue in his first game back. But his conditioning is still a work in progress.
“I was fatigued. I couldn’t move,” Dragic said with a grin. “My lungs were almost exploding. But I was in constant communication with Spo when I needed to get out and get back. I think for the first couple of minutes, three or four minutes, I already was signaling to Spo that I wanted to get out.”
The Heat announced after Friday’s game that Dragic will not play Saturday against the Clippers on the second night of the back-to-back set. This was part of Miami’s plan even before Friday night, with Dragic coming off an injury.
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Dragic says his focus was on "getting everyone involved"
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Dragic said: “Bam did an amazing job setting those screens. And when I was in that gap, he rolled really fast. From there on, it’s just reading the situation and it was pretty good.”
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"The whole five players on the floor, they need to work together and I feel [Friday], we did a better job," he said. "We need to sacrifice for others."
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背靠背不打，因为还在伤势治疗计画中。
虽然德拉只打21分钟，但高速大量的推进运转又刚复出，所以很疲惫。
德拉还提到阿德巴约提供了很好的掩护，让他能顺利进到内线处理球。

#24 | Miami Heat 115-98 Phoenix Suns

Anthony Chiang@Anthony_Chiang
Goran Dragic is happy with how his knee responded after returning Friday against the Suns: "I feel good. After the Phoenix game the knee was in pretty good shape, so it looks positive."
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加油Gogi

Gogi右脚右膝已经不行了，这赛季甚至之后应该没办法保持竞争力了，这么多年辛苦了，Gogi，你目前的成就比我预期的还要好上太多了。

赛季又接近尾声了，现在的Gogi，看一场比赛少一场比赛，当初得知Gogi在打欧锦赛前宣布国家队退役的消息时，整个背脊发凉，眼眶发酸，真希望「那天」的到来能够慢一些，难以想像我以后的日子里没有Gogi的篮球，难受又惋惜…

跟开季时的想法一样，焦点是韦德最终舞，是个开始就已经结束的赛季。这阵容，进没进季后赛真没差，因为几乎原班人马的阵容缺陷一直都在，每个赛季热火像是假装看不见问题死拖歹活不做改变，不在热火未来的合同，早该干脆点清掉…
白边一直以来的问题就是斯波与他自己时好时坏的职业态度，这几个赛季热火已给予白边很大的包容了，可惜斯波与白边之间真的无解。
JJ与韦特斯从伤病归来失去了角色定位，两人身体都不在最佳状态，韦特斯年龄与合同还能再观察看看。JJ迷失在斯波三心二意的阵容与打法体系，失去球权自由的JJ因自身战术素养不够反而放大他许多的坏习惯，而且年龄也差不多了不能像之前靠身体素质解决问题了。
德拉是体系球员前几年还能靠一些个人能力弥补产生的不适应但终究年纪到了，最大的问题他下赛季还在就会影响温斯洛的成长空间，他还在斯波用也不是不用也不是，他永远不会是热火系的球员，斯波这几个赛季不管怎么使用德拉总有不对劲的地方。
对热火而言留着德拉也没多大的帮助。对膝伤手术后的德拉而言最安全的就是继续留在迈阿密，但在热火真的已经没什么可做的了，热火也不需要他，现在与热火之间的关系境地如一摊死水，所以明知会很危险但我还是希望他跳出合同再去冒险，再去冒险吧，德拉。

在职涯所剩不多的打球日子，何不尝试换个环境看是否还能有新的进展，或是去到适合自己的地方充分发挥自身优势，或是为了冠军戒指去能争冠的球队碰碰运气，不都比继续待在热火好，不是吗！ ？

Anthony Chiang@Anthony_Chiang | 2018-12-19
Goran Dragic is undergoing a right knee scope today. No timetable on return.
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先前在经过各种治疗方式都无法改善后决定动手术

Here’s what Goran Dragic is willing to do in wake of Winslow’s growth
February 21, 2019 | BARRY JACKSON
PHILADELPHIA
Heat starting point guard Goran Dragic returned to practice from a December knee surgery this week to find essentially a new Justise Winslow: a player who has thrived playing 26 games as a starting point guard.
But Dragic, who was inactive for Thursday’s game against the 76ers, made clear Thursday that he’s willing to adjust to accommodate the team’s needs.
“If Justise is going to play on the ball, I can play off the ball,” Dragic said after the team’s shootaround at Temple University, in advance of Thursday night’s game against the 76ers. “We can interchange. As long as we’re winning, that’s the most important thing. We have a lot of guys who can play the same position. That’s coach’s decision. I did it in Phoenix, I did it here. I can play off the ball.”
Reminded that it got a bit awkward at times in Phoenix with three natural point guards (Dragic, Eric Bledsoe and Isaiah Thomas), Dragic reminded that he and Bledsoe played well together and said “that was totally different position. With three, it’s a little bit different [than two point guards]. It’s tough. It definitely helps now that you know what is best for the team. You can play without the ball, with the ball.”
Dragic, who has missed 39 of the Heat’s past 41 games, loves the Heat’s depth at guard (with himself, Dion Waiters, Winslow and Dwyane Wade) but said: “We need to work on it. We didn’t play a lot of games together. I know what me and Dion did in the past. It’s going to take time. But I’m looking forward to it.”
Coach Erik Spoelstra made clear that Dragic — who was averaging 15.3 points and 4.9 assists in 14 games — “is not ready to play 32 minutes” but “he will be back soon.”
Asked if he has decided on an eventual starting lineup — when Dragic is ready for his normal minutes — or whether it will be based on player performance in the coming days, Spoelstra cracked, “I may or may not.”
Dragic said he needs to work on his conditioning, but his shot is fine because he was able to do shooting drills in recent weeks. “My shot is where I wanted,” he said.
Spoelstra is encouraged by how Dragic looked at practice the past two days. “I’ve seen the things that can really help our team,” Spoelstra said. “You are talking about an All-tar veteran, a reliable player. We need that.”
Spoelstra downplayed any concern about having too many ball-handlers on the court at once.
“To beat the best teams in the league, you need playmakers, and that’s something at times we’ve lacked this season because of injury and guys being out,” Spoelstra said. “It’s a welcome addition to be able to have guys that can make plays. Guys have really learned how to play off the ball and be effective within the context of the offense. Goran is a guy that can play with or without the ball.”
Winslow, who previously expressed an interest in continuing to start, said that’s not important and he’s happy to do with whatever is asked of him.
Of he and Dragic, Winslow said: “We’re both attacking guards, like to get out in transition and run. That part is going to be natural for us. It’s not the first time me and Goran have played together. We’re both excellent playmakers.”