By Charlie Thaddeus | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-12-03 01:46:09
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。
圣安东尼奥凭借三分浪潮赢得了比赛
韧性是一种难以衡量的东西。它不会出现在任何数据统计表上——它通常只是隐藏在表面之下，静待时机。如果你只是粗略地看一下过去几年的圣安东尼奥马刺队，韧性不一定会是你首先想到的东西。但也许它应该是。
输球很艰难。它不适合意志薄弱的人，也不是每个人都能承受的。你看联盟中那些在争冠行列之外的球队，情况可能会相当惨淡。比赛打得糟糕，球队的氛围更糟。球员们垂头丧气，教练们看起来兴致缺缺，球迷们也心不在焉。圣安东尼奥最近看起来是这样吗？我不这么认为。也许我戴着玫瑰色的、带有后见之明的眼镜来看待这个问题，但我从不记得事情曾经让人感到绝望。这很烦人，很令人沮丧，坦率地说，还有点无聊。但从来不会让人绝望。我一直觉得，如果我们能继续努力，就会有更大的成就。
我不是科学家什么的，但我敢肯定这就是韧性的样子。它是在事情看起来势不可挡时坚持不懈。它是在一切都对你不利时奋勇向前。它是在你无法看清道路时仍然知道你正朝着正确的方向前进。
马刺队并没有什么特别之处，也没有得到篮球之神的眷顾什么的。老实说，最重要的是，他们很幸运。他们很幸运有格雷格·波波维奇(Gregg Popovich)掌舵，而不是一个总是担心保住自己工作的人。他们很幸运，球队老板从未惊慌失措。他们很幸运能够引进像凯尔登·约翰逊(Keldon Johnson)这样的球员，他接受了球队交给他的任何角色。他们很幸运，球迷们一直保持着关注。他们很幸运，乒乓球在他们需要的时候落到了他们想要的位置。这样的例子不胜枚举。
但你必须利用好运气。去年当维克托·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)穿上球衣时，马刺队并没有自动变得优秀，而现在他们也不是自动成为冠军争夺者。努力、态度和幕后的工作才是让一支球队从去年在萨克拉门托最后时刻葬送领先优势，到今年克服两位数的落后并轻松取胜的关键。这其中有无数的变量在起作用，但最重要的是，一支球队必须要有韧性。
工作还没有完成——甚至还差得很远。我知道这只是一场胜利，我也知道这支球队远不完美。只是看着他们比赛时，我脸上止不住的笑容。“每场比赛的相对笑容”是另一个难以量化的统计数据，但它也越来越不容忽视。
要点
- 我觉得马刺队执行“尽可能多投三分”的策略很酷。我认为他们应该更经常这样做。
- 我觉得提醒大家文班目前还没有打出很好的表现非常重要。你知道吗？就像，每个人都一直在说，在他的第二个赛季他会迎来飞跃，而这个飞跃，至少到目前为止，还没有出现。这几乎是令人失望的？我花了太多时间看着他，对他本可以做得更好的事情摇头。总之，他昨晚又拿到了三双，扛起了球队，而且他在三分线外的信心比以往任何时候都更强。真是个奇怪的球员！
- 最终，德文·瓦塞尔(Devin Vassell)将回到首发阵容，这无疑对马刺队来说是件好事。话虽如此，我真的很喜欢他现在替补出场。这对我来说就像是一个小小的款待，作为观众。我们一开始有一阵小高潮，然后就该换人了，然后，哦，嗨，我的朋友德文来了，他要来改变一下局面。每当一个好球员替补出场，人们就急着说“下一个马努？？？？？”，这是世界上最烦人的事情，所以我不会这样做。我只是说我喜欢这样。
- 我也很喜欢凯尔登·约翰逊现在所做的一切。他天生就是替补席上的能量球员。他看起来强壮、快速、自信，最重要的是，他每次踏上球场都像是玩得很开心。我知道他可能是马刺队现在阵容中最明显的“交易筹码”，但真的很难想象不想让KJ参与到马刺队的未来。
WWL 赛后新闻发布会
*- * 你真的在大部分比赛时间里都在担心文班做得不对吗？
- 不是。我的意思是，既是也不是。只是很奇怪，不是吗？他显然很棒。他显然在场上做着一些不可能的事情。他比我们梦想的任何东西都要好。那么为什么我……对他没有耐心呢？可能是我自己的问题。我只是看着他打出了一场史诗级的比赛，然后他在低位背打一个比他矮一英尺的家伙，然后把球传给德文投一个奇怪的后仰三分。德文是个很酷的家伙，所以德文投进了三分，每个人都很高兴，但这球仍然让我很恼火！坏习惯得到了奖励！我看到文班在那之后做了一个很酷的庆祝动作，因为那是让他拿到三双的助攻，而我只是想……不！你做错了！
- 你不是也说过运气是等式的重要组成部分吗？
- 如果我在这段时间里告诉过你什么，那就是你不应该听我告诉你的事情。
点击查看原文：What We Learned from the Spurs win over the Kings
What We Learned from the Spurs win over the Kings
San Antonio rides three point wave to a win
Resilience is a hard thing to measure. It doesn’t show up in the stat sheet anywhere — it mostly just hangs out under the surface, biding its time. If you just glanced at the San Antonio Spurs over the last few years, resilience wouldn’t necessarily be the first thing that popped into your mind. But maybe it should be.
Losing is hard. It’s not for the faint of heart, and it’s not something everyone can handle. You watch teams around the league that are operating outside the championship hunt, and it can be a pretty bleak affair. The basketball is bad, and the vibes are worse. Guys are hanging their heads, coaches look disinterested, and the fans are checked out. Is that what it looked like in San Antonio recently? I don’t think so. Maybe I’m looking through rose-colored, hindsight-tinted glasses here, but I don’t ever remember things feeling bleak. It was annoying, it was frustrating, and it was, frankly, a little boring. Never bleak, though. It always felt like there was something bigger going on if we could just keep working.
I’m not a scientist or anything, but I’m pretty sure that’s what resilience looks like. It’s persevering when things seem overwhelming. It’s pushing forward when everything feels stacked against you. It’s knowing you’re headed in the right direction even when you can’t quite see the way.
The Spurs aren’t special or touched by divine basketball karma or anything. Honestly, more than anything, they’re pretty lucky. They’re lucky they had Gregg Popovich at the helm and not someone constantly worried about keeping his job. They’re lucky ownership never panicked. They’re lucky they were able to bring guys like Keldon Johnson into the fold, who bought into whatever role he was tasked with. They’re lucky the fanbase stayed locked in. They’re lucky the ping-pong balls fell their way when they did. The list goes on and on.
But you have to capitalize on luck. The Spurs didn’t automatically become good last year when Victor put the jersey on, and they aren’t automatically a championship contender now. The work, the attitude, and the behind-the-scenes stuff are what make a team go from blowing a lead late last year in Sacramento to, this year, shrugging off a double-digit deficit and cruising to a win. There are a million variables at play, but, more than anything, a team has to be resilient.
The job’s not done—not even close. I know it’s just one win, and I know this team is far from perfect. I just can’t wipe the smile off my face when I watch them. My “relative smiles per game” is another one of those stats that’s hard to quantify, but it’s also one that’s getting harder to ignore.
Takeaways
- I think it’s cool that the Spurs ran the “make most of your threes” play. I think they should do that more often.
- I feel like it’s so important to remind everyone that it still doesn’t feel like Victor is playing great yet. You know? Like, everyone kept saying that in his second year he was going to take a leap, and that leap, at least so far, has yet to appear. It’s almost been disappointing? I spend too much time watching him and shaking my head at things I feel like he could be doing better. Anyway, he had another triple-double last night, put the team on his back, and has more confidence than ever from beyond the arc. Weird player to watch!
- Eventually, Devin Vassell is going to be back in the starting lineup, and that will undoubtedly be a good thing for the Spurs. That being said, I’m really enjoying him coming off the bench right now. It’s like a little treat for me, the viewer. We have our little flurry out of the gates, and then it’s time to start subbing people in, and like, oh, hi, there’s my friend Devin coming in to shake things up. It’s the most annoying thing in the world whenever a good player comes off the bench and people rush to be like “NEXT MANU???” so I’m not doing that. I’m just saying that I enjoy it.
- Also loving everything Keldon Johnson is doing right now. He was born to be an energy guy off the bench. He looks strong and fast and confident and, most importantly, like he’s having a blast every time he steps on the court. I know he’s probably the most obvious “trade piece” the Spurs have on the roster right now, but it’s really hard for me to imagine not wanting to have KJ around for whatever comes next for the Spurs.
WWL Post Game Press Conference
- Are you really spending most of the game worried that Wemby isn’t doing things correctly?
- No. I mean, yes and no. It’s just weird isn’t it? He’s obviously great. He’s obviously doing things on the court that shouldn’t be possible. He’s better than anything we could’ve dreamed of. So why am I like…being impatient with him? Probably my own issues. It’s just that i’ll be watching him have an All Time Heater of a game and then he’s backing down some dude who is a foot smaller than him in the post and then he’ll pass it out to Devin for a weird fall away three. Devin is a rad dude so Devin nailed the three and everyone was happy, but the play still annoyed me! Bad habits getting rewarded! I watched victor do a little cool celebration after that because that was the assist that got him a the Triple Double and I was just like…No! You did bad!
- Didn’t you also say that getting lucky was a big part of the equation?
- If I’ve told you anything over the course of however long I’ve been doing this it’s that you shouldn’t be listening to the things that I’m telling you.
By Charlie Thaddeus, via Pounding The Rock