By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-08-26 22:34:47
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谁没有得到足够的尊重，谁在到来时被寄予厚望却辜负了期望？
欢迎回到 PtR 调查，我们将跟随网络趋势，球迷们将投票选出他们心目中的球员，以填写如下方格。我们从史上最佳和最差马刺球员开始，得出了两个毫无悬念的答案。
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毫无疑问，蒂姆·邓肯(Tim Duncan)是身披银黑战袍的最强者，他赢得了高达 93% 的选票——他赢得了 5 个总冠军、3 次总决赛 MVP、2 次常规赛 MVP、15 次入选最佳阵容和 15 次入选最佳防守阵容——但对于究竟是什么定义了“最差”球员，还是存在一些争议。尽管如此，最终约书亚·普里莫(Joshua Primo)以相对轻松的 47% 得票率获胜。他在 2021 年以首轮第 12 顺位被选中——远远超出任何人的预期——他在新秀赛季展现出了一些潜力，并以他的潜力和开朗的态度赢得了球迷的喜爱，但在第二个赛季初期就因为不雅行为被突然裁掉。没有比这更糟糕的了。
接下来是一个稍微复杂一点（在我看来）的话题：史上最被低估和高估的马刺球员。对于被低估的球员，我很难忽视马刺队的一些球星是如何被忽视的（现在仍然如此）。首先是马刺队的初代球星乔治·“冰人”·格文(George “the Iceman” Gervin)。如果他的整个职业生涯都在 NBA 度过，而不是与 ABA 分道扬镳，可能会对他有所帮助，但他仍然是一位在当今时代经常被忽视的伟大球员。
然后是马刺队最近的两位球星，托尼·帕克(Tony Parker)和马努·吉诺比利(Manu Ginobili)。他们从未被马刺球迷低估，但他们似乎经常被外界忽视（除非是为了支持某些人而把他们抬高，因为有人试图声称邓肯被高估了——很有趣，事情就是这样）。事实上，他们两人都没有入选 75 周年纪念球队，这似乎是非常不尊重的，尤其是当看到一些人取代了他们的位置时。
最后，我试着在这里加入一个角色球员，我选择了一个我认为即使是马刺球迷也低估了的人：蒂亚戈·斯普利特(Tiago Splitter)。许多人只记得马刺队在 2014 年季后赛最后两轮让鲍里斯·迪奥(Boris Diaw)进入首发阵容，并认为这意味着斯普利特不够好。恰恰相反，这只是一个对位调整，许多人忘记了他在前两轮对阵身材更高的达拉斯独行侠和小牛队的比赛中是多么重要，而迪奥无法与他们的首发大个子相提并论。
对于最被高估的球员，我们有一些球员，他们来到这里时都希望帮助马刺队继续他们的胜利之路，但要么没有做出预期的贡献，要么甚至无法让他们保持在胜利者的行列。首先是属于前一类的几位球员：拉马库斯·阿尔德里奇(LaMarcus Aldridge)和德玛尔·德罗赞(DeMar DeRozan)。两人在其他球队都取得了作为球星的成功，但那是因为他们在之前的球队中更像是二当家，并且得到了更多球星的帮助。虽然两人都被赋予了几乎不可能完成的任务，即接替巨星（分别是邓肯和科怀·伦纳德(Kawhi Leonard)），但也许值得考虑的是，阿尔德里奇是自愿来的，而德罗赞则别无选择。
接下来是一位在“最差”类别中被人们强烈要求入选的球员：理查德·杰弗森(Richard Jefferson)。虽然他远非史上最差的马刺球员，但他来的时候肯定被寄予了比他实际表现高得多的期望。其中一些可以归咎于格雷格·波波维奇(Gregg Popovich)，因为他试图把一个在他到来之前一直是球队第一或第二选择的人变成一个简单的 3D 球员，但他仍然远远没有达到人们的预期。
反过来，他又被交易换来了一个可能比任何人都高估自己的人：斯蒂芬·杰克逊(Stephen Jackson)。虽然杰克逊作为角色球员为 2003 年的总冠军做出了很大贡献，但随后他希望到其他地方成为头号球星。相反，由于行为和态度问题，他最终成了一名流浪汉，但在 2012 年，每个人，包括他自己，最初都对他回到圣安东尼奥感到兴奋。然而，他很快就因为认为自己缺乏作用而再次疏远了自己，并且从那以后就一直对此耿耿于怀。
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PtR Survey: The most underrated and overrated Spurs of all time
Who doesn’t get enough respect, and who had too much coming in but didn’t live up to it?
Welcome back to the PtR Survey, where we are following an online trend where fans are voting on players from their team to fill out a grid like the one below. We started with the Best and Worst Spurs of all time and came to two unsurprising answers.
There’s little doubt in anyone’s mind that Tim Duncan, who won a whopping 93% of the votes, is the best to ever don the Silver and Black — having won 5 championships, 3x Finals MVP, 2x MVP, 15x All-NBA and 15x All-Defense — but there was a bit of debate over what actually defines the “worst” player. Still, in the end, Joshua Primo won with a relatively comfortable 47% of the vote. Picked 12th overall in 2021 — well ahead of where anyone else had him — he showed some promise as a rookie and won over fans with his potential and cheery attitude before being suddenly waived early in his second season for lascivious behavior. It doesn’t get much worse than that.
Next comes a slightly more complicated (in my opinion) topic: the most underrated and overrated Spurs of all time. For underrated, it was hard for me to look past how overlooked some of the Spurs’ stars were (and still are). There’s the Spurs’ original star in George “the Iceman” Gervin. It may have helped had his entire career been in the NBA instead of split with the ABA, but he’s still an all-time great who is often overlooked in modern days.
Then there’s two of the Spurs more recent stars in Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. They were never underrated by Spurs fans, but they often seemed to be overlooked from the outside (unless it fits the narrative to prop them up because someone is trying to claim Duncan is overrated — funny how that works). The fact that neither made the 75th Anniversary Team seemed wildly disrespectful, especially when looking at some who did get in over them.
Finally, I tried to include a role player in here, and I went with one who I think was underrated even by Spurs fans: Tiago Splitter. Many just remember the Spurs moving Boris Diaw to the starting lineup for the final two rounds of the 2014 playoffs and take that to mean Splitter wasn’t good enough. On the contrary, this was just a matchup move, and many forget how important he was in the first two rounds against the taller Mavericks and Trail Blazers, while Diaw couldn’t match up with their starting bigs.
For most overrated, we have players who came in expecting to help the Spurs continue their winning ways but either didn’t contribute as much as expected or couldn’t even keep them in the winning category. First are a couple of players in the former category: LaMarcus Aldridge and DeMar DeRozan. Both saw success as stars on other teams, but that was when they were more like the 1b’s on their former teams and had more star help. While both were given nearly impossible tasks to replace big names (Duncan and Kawhi Leonard, respectively), it’s probably worth considering that Aldridge came on his own volition, while DeRozan had no choice.
Next is someone who was being clamored for in the “worst” category: Richard Jefferson. While far from the worst Spur ever, he certainly came in with much higher expectations than he delivered. Some of that can be blamed on Gregg Popovich for trying to turn someone who had been the first or second option before his arrival into simply a 3-and-D player, but he still vastly underwhelmed.
In turn, he was traded for someone who probably overrates himself more than anything: Stephen Jackson. While Jax contributed plenty as a role player to the 2003 championship, he then left hoping to be the top dog elsewhere. Instead, he ended up being a journeyman due behavioral and attitude issues, but everyone was still initially thrilled to have him back in San Antonio in 2012, including himself. However, he soon alienated himself again over a perceived lack of a role, and he has been griping about it ever sense.
Be sure to vote, and remember, if “Other” wins in either poll, I will check the comments here and on social media, and the most liked will win.
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock