By Devon Birdsong | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-11-29 09:15:00
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
值得感恩的事情
不知何故，我一直对测量很着迷。小时候住在农舍里，我经常被落在铁皮屋顶上的瓢泼大雨吵醒。有时我会听着雨声醒好几个小时。不是因为我害怕雷暴，而是因为我想知道下了多少雨。
田垄里的水积起来了吗？车道尽头有溪流形成吗？现在降雨量有多少英寸？水有多高？五英尺高，还在上涨？
在一个经常遭受干旱的州，每一英寸的降雨都很重要。说德克萨斯州需要雨水是老生常谈；即使雨水过多，农民和牧场主也不太可能抱怨。总的来说，他们心存感激。
不过，这就是雨的特点：它是可以量化的。另一方面，感恩呢？我很难衡量它。
马刺输给湖人这件事在我的总体感恩量表上排名很低，这是必然的。另一方面，马刺在11月底之前就赢了十场比赛，这是多年来的第一次，所以得分相当高。
你如何量化感恩？在一个社交媒体营造的无休止幸福幻觉的时代，我很难理解这个概念。衡量感觉比以往任何时候都更重要，哪怕只是为了知道自己的立场。
马刺队正在赢得比赛，我对此感到高兴。但是有多高兴呢？我能更高兴吗？当然感觉我可以。
克里斯·保罗(Chris Paul)和哈里森·巴恩斯(Harrison Barnes)帮助提升了维克多·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)、斯蒂芬·卡斯尔(Stephon Castle)和杰里米·索汉(Jeremy Sochan)这三人的水平，以及其他队员的水平，我对此心存感激。有多感激？我应该用1-10的量表来绘制它吗？
马刺队到底进步了多少？他们真的是一支有资格参加附加赛的球队，还是仅仅是在对阵一群弱旅时取得了一波连胜？
在某个时刻，我想我必须接受并非所有事情都是可衡量的——我应该坐下来，吃我的馅饼，学会享受当下。
也许我应该练习列清单。
值得感恩的事情
- 在过去的10场比赛中，文班亚马场均得到30.7分/10.6个篮板/3.7次助攻/3.4次盖帽/1次抢断，投篮命中率为42/53/79。他是马刺球迷所希望的一切。
- 他还在23岁以下球员的所有防守指标中领先联盟（在其他几个指标中也是如此）。
- 尽管赛季初上场时间不多，卡斯尔在球队的防守胜利贡献值中已经排名第三（需要注意的是，索汉也缺席了比赛）。
- 保罗的真实投篮命中率为0.621，这是他整个职业生涯中最高的！虽然他指挥进攻的能力令人叹为观止，但他相对的进攻复苏同样重要，这使他没有成为净负值，并帮助为他的队友创造了更多的操作空间。
- 除了其他优点外，巴恩斯的三分球命中率高达47%。如果这种情况在剩下的赛季中持续下去，这将是他职业生涯的新高，而且幅度相当大。
播放结束曲——今晚的主题曲：
你无法衡量代价，演唱者：面包合唱团
点击查看原文：What we learned from the Spurs loss to the Lakers
What we learned from the Spurs loss to the Lakers
Things to be grateful for
For whatever reason, I’ve always been fascinated by measurements. As a small child living in a farmhouse, I was frequently woken to the sound of hard rain on a tin roof. Sometimes I’d lay awake for hours listening to it. Not because I was scared of thunderstorms, but because I wanted to know how much it was raining.
Is the water pooling in the field rows? Has a stream formed at the end of the driveway? How many inches of rain have fallen now? How high is the water? Five feet high and rising?
In a state frequently affected by droughts, every inch of rainfall matters. It’s a common refrain to say that Texas needs rain; farmers and ranchers alike are unlikely to complain, even when it falls in excess. Generally speaking, they’re grateful.
That’s the thing about rain, though: It’s quantifiable. Gratefulness, on the other hand? I’ve had a harder time measuring that.
It’s a foregone conclusion that the Spurs losing to the Lakers falls pretty low on my overall gratefulness scale. On the other hand, the Spurs have won ten games before the end of November for the first time in years, so that scores pretty highly.
How do you quantify gratefulness? It’s a concept I struggle with in an era of social media-curated illusions of uninterrupted happiness. Measurement feels more important than ever, if for no other reason than to know where one stands.
The Spurs are winning games and I’m happy about that. How happy though? Could I be happier? It certainly feels like I could be.
Chris Paul and Harrison Barnes have helped elevate the trio of Victor Wembanyama, Stephon Castle, and Jeremy Sochan, in addition to the rest of the team, and I’m grateful for that. How grateful? Should I chart it on a scale of 1-10?
And how much have the Spurs actually progressed? Are they truly a play-in caliber team, or has this just been a hot streak against a bunch of tomato cans?
At some point, I think I’ll have to accept that not everything is measurable — that I should just sit down, eat my pie, and learn to enjoy the moment.
Maybe I should just practice making lists instead.
Things To Be Grateful For
- Over the last 10 games Victor Wembanyama is averaging 30.7/10.6/3.7/3.4/1 on 42/53/79 shooting split. He’s been everything Spurs fans could have hoped for.
- He also leads the league in every defensive metric for players under the age of 23 (and in several others, period).
- Stephon Castle is already 3rd on the team for Defensive Win Shares despite a lack of playing time earlier in the season (important to note Sochan has also been out).
- Chris Paul has a True Shooting Percentage of .621, the highest TS% of his entire career! While his ability to direct the offense has been revelatory, his relative offensive resurgence has been of equal importance, keeping him from becoming a net negative and helping create even more space for his teammates to operate.
- In addition to his other merits, Harrison Barnes is shooting a scorching 47% from three. If that continues for the rest of the season, it’ll be a career-high by a considerable amount.
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By Devon Birdsong, via Pounding The Rock