内容摘要：“No, I think tonight was obviously not great,” Staal said, “but we’re going to have to wash it and move on and own a crappy game.”

“No, I think tonight was obviously not great,” Staal said, “but we’re going to have to wash it and move on and own a crappy game.”

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Janelle Salaun finished up her individual shooting drills after practice with the Golden State Valkyries on Monday and proclaimed herself more than ready to make her WNBA debut.She hopes that will be Wednesday night against the Washington Mystics in front of the the boisterous Bay Area fans.

Even with a late start from playing overseas and learning curve moving from the EuroLeague and adjustments that come with moving across the world to play professionally, the 23-year-old forward realizes she has landed in the right spot with supportive international teammates on an expansion team in basketball-loving Northern California.The transition has been a bit daunting since she arrived Thursday but each day Salaun makes strides in feeling more familiar with everything on and off the court — and she said there are no comforts she needs at her home because “I’m really 100% ... it’s really basketball, basketball that helps me be more comfortable. I’m here for this.”“I need to adjust quickly and that’s the most challenging part for me but we are Day 2 and I feel much better,” she said. “People are great here and helped me a lot. Everybody is trying to give me the rhythm and and I’m really grateful for that. I appreciate everyone here — coaches, players, everyone is trying to help me.”

A silver medalist with France at the Paris Olympics last summer, Salaun is fresh off leading Beretta Famila Schio to the Italian League title and Finals MVP honors.There are plenty of similarities in Golden State’s style of play.

“Physically, we run a lot. I love that actually,” she said. “I think this is the part of my game that will translate the most, the physicality, and I feel it. ... Little things really, but it’s still basketball. I’m still playing with great players, so not much differences but more like things that look alike.”

Valkyries teammate Carla Leite played alongside Salaun on the French national team and will do her best to assist getting Salaun acclimated in the coming weeks and months.That might sound like a mishmash kind of moviemaking. But for Jia, the preeminent cinematic chronicler of 21st century China, it’s a remarkably cohesive, even profound vessel for capturing what has most interested him as a filmmaker: the tidal wave-sized currents of technological progress and social transmutation that wash over a lifetime.

The high-speed upheavals of modern China are, of course, a fitting setting for such interests. Jia’s films are often most expressed in their surroundings — in vistas of infrastructure that dwarf his protagonists. Fans of Jia will recognize some from his previous films. For me, there’s never been a more moving backdrop from him than the rubble and mass displacement of theproject (seen here, as in his 2008 film “Still Life”).

“Caught by the Tides” is ostensibly about Qiaoqiao (Zhao Tao, Jia’s wife and muse) and her lover Bin (Li Zhubin), whom she searches for years after a row sent them in different directions. But in “Caught by the Tides,” these characters are more like life rafts bobbing in expansive waters, making their way aimlessly.The poetry of “Caught by the Tides” comes from a grander arc. In one of the film’s opening scenes, shot on grainy digital film, women in a Datong city room laugh together, singing old, half-remembered songs. The film’s final scenes, set more than two decades later in the southern city of Zhuhai, are more crisply photographed and depict a more impersonal world of smartphones, robots and QR codes. For a moment, Jia even adopts the perspective of a surveillance camera.