埃文·特纳（Evan Turner），开拓者和期望的负担

When reports surfaced yesterday that the Portland Trail Blazers lost forward Chandler Parsons to the Memphis Grizzlies and turned to forward Evan Turner instead, the world went crazy.当地反应倾向于愤怒;民族反应没有更多的积极.

It's possible that this is less of anEvan Turnerproblem and more of an us problem.

I'm trying not to blame Evan Turner. Really, I am. I'm staying open to the possibility that the perception we've developed of Turner over the years is less the fault of Turner himself and more just attributable to the circumstances he's fallen into and the impossible expectations we've built up for him.

六年前,特纳是我2号顺位n theNBA draft.John Wallwent first, to theWizards;76人接下来接了特纳，我们现在知道那是一个严重的错误。2010年的选秀已加载。要带特纳，费城不得不避开DeMarcus Cousins,保罗·乔治,德里克的恩惠,Gordon Hayward和埃里克·布莱索（Eric Bledsoe）。回想起来，我们知道选秀权是愚蠢的，但这并没有阻止我们使用它来定义特纳前进。特纳不能只是另一个在NBA找到稳定工作的轮换球员。他必须被烙上成为前者失望的前第二顺位。

特纳从来都不是一名球员 - 与其他笨拙，人为地被迫进行对话相比，他一直是理论上的构造，这是一个抽象的想法。在他在费城的早年期间，他是一名出色的年轻球员，但被沃尔（Wall）蒙上了阴影，从来没有足够成为76人队的特许经营球员 - 并不是说​​他应该被要求扮演这样的角色。在印第安纳州，他于2014年到达贸易截止日期，预计他将成为失踪的作品，有助于获得步行者over the hump and topple Miami to finally win the East; instead, the team imploded in the conference finals and Turner watched from the bench.

车工曾是never meant to be a No. 2 pick or the missing piece for a title contender. He's not that guy. He never had that talent. Whether you can accept him anyway is really a matter of perspective. Turner has proven that he can win the respect of teammates, coaches and fans - it just depends on their expectations.

When theCeltics2014年9月下旬，他签下了特纳（Turner），他几乎看上去不在联盟中。没有期望了。不再有关于他的血统或选秀职位的谈论。他只是一个努力工作的家伙。而且，令人印象深刻的是，他所做的不仅仅是举行 - 当凯尔特人交易时Rajon Rondo在十二月看Marcus Smart作为新秀，特纳（Turner）扮演了几次轻伤，扮演了首发控球后卫的角色。他的处理方式出乎意料，平均每36分钟获得7.2次助攻，这变成了一个怪异的组合点翼游戏机角色。他无法射击值得一游，但他是一名稳固的球手，组织者和防守者，对阵各种外线球员。他是凯尔特人队惊讶地赶紧开发并变成季后赛球队的重要组成部分，在2014-15赛季赢得了40场比赛和上个赛季的48场比赛时，他打了大会场。

现在，特纳（Turner）到达了另一支球队，令人惊讶地匆忙发展其发展并成为波特兰的季后赛球队。

I曾是漂亮的批判的的车工是的terday after the news broke that Turner, who's never posted a PER in his career higher than 13.6, was与开拓者签订四年合同worth $70 million. I was in shock, really. I couldn't believe the Blazers, who were rumored to be in the mix forDwight Howard,Hassan Whiteside,钱德勒·帕森斯（Chandler Parsons）and a bunch of other big names, were instead settling for a glorified sixth-man type on the morning of July 1. It didn't compute.

如果您需要在机翼上进行升级，而Parsons是您的计划A，那么Turner由于计划B非常令人失望。目前尚不清楚特纳（Turner）是否是在上个赛季在开拓者队为开拓者队（Diver）的替补席上的升级者升级。

But in the last 18 hours or so, I've been trying to talk myself into Turner a little bit. At the end of the day, he is a piece, and he's a piece who might be able to help the team a little bit in a pinch next season and beyond. He's no star, but he'll have some value. As has been noted elsewhere, the Blazers需要在某些东西上花费帽子空间在进入受限制的自由球员之前，专注于保留其现任人员。在考虑了一些想法之后，尼尔·奥尔希（Neil Olshey）和开拓者队的前台显然决定特纳（Turner）是那里最好的“东西”。

It's unclear how exactly Turner fits with this Blazers squad as we know it. If he's coming here to slide into the depth chart as a third guard behindDamian Lillard和CJ McCollum，这可能是使用他的一种完全不错的方法。他甚至可能是一个升级杰拉尔德·亨德森（Gerald Henderson）在那个地方。如果特纳来到这里来占据Al-Farouq Aminu在Small Forward开始的位置，正如已经有传言... well, that's a little more interesting. Either it means Farouq slides to the four, and the Blazers embrace their future as a smaller, spacier team, or it means Farouq gets demoted to the bench despite a really successful season starting. Either way, you're talking about a major change to your system, and it's hard to say if Turner is a good enough player to merit such a change.

The truth is that Evan Turner is flawed. His shot selection is questionable; his range is downright awful. His defense comes and goes. The good news is that Turner knows his limitations as a player -he's even joked about them. He might be imperfect, but he's self-aware and willing to play within himself, which is exactly what you want from a role player on a good team.

当然，他是一个价值7000万美元的角色扮演者，这将引起很多不满。下个赛季他将赚更多的钱Stephen Curry, which is downright criminal. But the process of accepting Evan Turner as a member of your basketball team gets a lot easier if you resist looking at him that way. Again, that's the folly of measuring Turner against unreasonable expectations. Just as it wasn't his fault that Turner wasn't John Wall, he's also not to blame for being a lesser player than Curry (orKlay Thompson, or詹姆斯·哈登, orKyrie Irving, all of whom will make less money than him next season too). Evan Turner might be a No. 2 pick; he might be a $70 million man; he might be a July 1 signing from a team that almost nabbed the Whitesides and Parsonses of the world. Try to put all that out of your mind, for as long as you can at least. Forget the comparisons for a bit - for now, let's just give Evan Turner a chance to be Evan Turner. He might just surprise us.