By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-10-09 02:45:54
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斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和克里斯·保罗 (Chris Paul) 也获得了总经理们的大力赞赏。
季前赛已经开始，常规赛也只剩下两周了。这意味着 2024-25 NBA 总经理调查 的时候到了，NBA 的 30 位总经理对关于最佳球队、球员、教练和休赛期运作的 50 个不同问题做出了回答。他们不能投票给自己所在的球队或人员。马刺队获得了广泛的赞誉，尤其是二年级球员维克托·文班亚马，他获得的选票可能比近年来任何一位马刺球员都多。
文班亚马最具统治力的胜利来自这个问题：“如果你今天要组建一支球队，并且可以签下 NBA 中的任何一名球员，你会选择谁？” 他获得了高达 77% 的选票，也就是 23 票（假设所有 30 位总经理都回答了这个问题），而谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) 和尼古拉·约基奇 (Nikola Jokic) 以 10% 的选票并列第二。对于一名即将进入第二个赛季的球员来说，这是相当高的评价，但也表明了他已经获得了多么高的评价。
文班亚马在防守方面也占据主导地位，他分别以 40% 的选票赢得了最佳防守球员和最佳内线防守球员，并且以 13% 的选票获得了最全能防守球员的第二名。（扬尼斯·阿德托昆博 (Giannis Antetokounmpo) 仅以一票之差获胜，因此这是一个竞争激烈的类别。）其他方面，文班亚马还与其他两位球员并列第二，成为最有可能迎来爆发赛季的球员；在最佳中锋的评选中，他以一票之差位居第三，落后于约基奇 (87%) 和乔尔·恩比德 (Joel Embiid) (10%)；在最佳国际球员的评选中，他获得了同样的结果，只是卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Doncic) 取代了恩比德。最后，文班亚马以 10% 的选票与其他球员并列 NBA 最全能球员的第三名，并获得了一张最佳大前锋的选票。
新秀斯蒂芬·卡斯尔也受到了一些关注，包括在最佳新秀的评选中以 13% 的选票位列第三，排在里德·谢泼德 (Reed Sheppard) 和扎克·埃迪 (Zach Edey) 之后。（为了说明这届新秀的不可预测性，状元秀扎卡里·里萨谢 (Zaccharie Risacher) 没有获得任何选票，这在历史上是非常罕见的。有趣的是，埃迪尽管是第七顺位被选中，但他仍然排在第二位，这比大多数模拟选秀对他的预测都要高。这表明，在本赛季的最佳新秀争夺战中，角色定位可能与任何其他因素一样重要——没有双关语的意思——埃迪预计将作为首发中锋为孟菲斯灰熊队效力，如果贾·莫兰特 (Ja Morant) 保持健康并保持清醒的头脑，灰熊队应该会进入季后赛。）
卡斯尔还以 17% 的选票在“五年后将成为同届球员中最好的球员”的评选中排名第二，仅次于谢泼德。对于这位低调的新秀来说，这是一个很高的评价，因为他是在文班亚马这位可能是史上最受关注的新秀之后进入联盟的。这表明，总经理们对这两位球员的未来充满期待，这也反映在他们被评为最具潜力的年轻核心阵容，排名第四，仅次于雷霆队、魔术队和火箭队。
最后一位获得多张选票的马刺球员是新加盟的受人尊敬的老将克里斯·保罗，他在最被低估的休赛期运作中排名第六，在未来最有可能成为最佳主教练的球员中排名第一（另一位新加盟马刺的球员哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 也获得了一票），在最佳领袖中并列第四，在最佳篮球智商中并列第三——所有这些特质都是年轻的马刺队在本赛季真正需要的，也是他们当初签下他的原因。
最后，不出所料，格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 继续被视为联盟中最好的教练之一，他在最佳人员管理者/激励者中排名第三。总的来说，马刺队以 17% 的选票在“本赛季进步最大的球队”评选中排名第二。（从某种程度上说，你可以说他们赢了，因为遥遥领先的获胜者是灰熊队，但实际上，这只是莫兰特回归的结果，而不是任何休赛期运作的结果，这些运作将使他们达到目前的阵容无法达到的高度。）
还有很多问题没有涉及到马刺队，所以如果你想从 NBA 高层的角度了解联盟，一定要去看看完整的调查结果。马刺队明天将在季前赛中对阵奥兰多魔术队，希望届时能看到文班亚马和保罗的首次联手！
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Victor Wembanyama named the NBA’s best defender and franchise player in annual GM survey
Stephon Castle and Chris Paul also got plenty of love from the GM’s.
The preseason has begun, and the regular season is just two weeks away. That means it’s time for the 2024-25 NBA GM Survey, where the NBA’s 30 general managers responded to 50 different questions about the best teams, players, coaches and offseason moves. They were not permitted to vote for their own team or personnel. The Spurs got plenty of love, especially second-year phenom Victor Wembanyama, who probably got more votes than any Spur has in quite a while.
His most dominant win came from the question, “If you were starting a franchise today and could sign any player in the NBA, who would it be”, as he grabbed a whopping 77% of the vote, or 23 votes (assuming all 30 GMs answered), with Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Nikola Jokic coming in a distant second with 10% each. That’s pretty high praise for a player entering just his second season, but it shows how highly he is already thought of.
Wemby also dominated in the defense category, winning best defensive player and best interior defender with 40% of the vote apiece, as well as coming in second with 13% of the vote for most versatile defender. (Giannis Antetokounmpo won with just one more vote, so this was a widespread category.) Other appearances included a three-way tie for second place as the player most likely to have a breakout season, a distant third for best center with a singular vote behind Jokic (87%) and Joel Embiid (10%), plus the exact same results for best international player, except with Luka Doncic replacing Embiid. Finally, Wemby came in tied for third place for most versatile player in the NBA with 10% of the vote and received a vote for best power forward.
Rookie Stephon Castle also received some attention, including coming in third with 13% of the vote to win Rookie of the Year behind Reed Sheppard and Zach Edey. (To show how unpredictable this draft is, top overall pick Zaccharie Risacher received zero votes in what has to be an extremely rare occurrence, and it’s interesting that Edey came in second despite being the 7th overall pick, which was still higher than most mock drafts had him going. It just goes to show that role may play as a big of a role as anything — no pun intended — in this seasons’ ROY race, and Edey is expect to start at center for what should be a playoff-bound Memphis team if Ja Morant stays healthy and keeps his head on straight.)
Castle also came in second behind Sheppard with 17% of the vote for who will be the best player from his class in five years. That’s some high praise for the quiet rookie who is coming in behind possibly the most hyped rookie of all time in Wemby, and it goes to show that the GM’s foresee a bright future for these two, which is reflected in them coming in fourth for most promising young core behind the Thunder, Magic and Rockets.
The final Spurs player to receive multiple votes is newest acquisition and respected veteran Chris Paul, who came in sixth for most underrated offseason acquisition, first for player who will make the best head coach someday (with another new Spur, Harrison Barnes, also receiving a vote), tied for fourth for best leader, and tied for third for best basketball IQ — all features that the young Spurs could truly use this season and why he was signed in the first place.
Finally, unsurprisingly, the Gregg Popovich continues to be viewed as one of the best coaches in the game, coming in third for best manager/motivator of people, and as a whole, the Spurs came in a distance second with 17% of the vote for the team that will be most improved this season. (In a way, you could say the won since the runaway winner was the Grizzlies, but in reality that would just a result of getting Morant back, not he result of any offseason moves that will put them in a place they haven’t already been with their current core.)
There are plenty more questions that didn’t include any Spurs, so be sure to go check out the entire thing if you want to get a feel for the league through the lens of the NBA’s top executives. The Spurs will be back in preseason action tomorrow against the Orlando Magic, and hopefully will get to see Wemby and Paul together for the first time!
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock