By August Bembel | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-12-23 00:17:40
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。
文班在三分线外继续闪耀，即使这位“外星人”下场休息，马刺也打出了一场完美无瑕的比赛。
本赛季马刺队有很多比赛都打到了最后一刻，而且他们赢下了其中的大部分。作为球迷，观看这些比赛真是太棒了。毕竟，还有什么比关键时刻更刺激的呢？嗯，周四主场战胜亚特兰大老鹰队的比赛展示了更刺激的事情：五分钟的额外关键时刻。
在那场扣人心弦的比赛之后，我有点渴望看到一场马刺队，你知道，不用与对手鏖战48分钟，不用放弃巨大领先优势但最终守住胜利，不用追赶巨大领先优势并最终获胜，而是一场从头领先到尾的比赛。篮球之神满足了我的愿望：马刺队在主场以一种毋庸置疑的优势战胜了开拓者队，这种胜利足以让任何时代的马刺球迷感到自豪。
你是否已经开始参加圣诞派对或与来自外州的亲朋好友聚会，而他们并不像你一样热爱马刺队，并试图把你从电视机前拉走？这场比赛就是为你准备的，因为主队在第三节中段就锁定了胜局，让你可以安心地加入聚会，确保胜利毫无悬念。你是一个每分钟必看的球迷，从不安排任何与马刺比赛冲突的节日活动？好吧，好家伙们赢下了每一节，而且西迪·西索科(Sidy Cissoko)也得分了。还有什么不值得爱的呢？
要点
- 我们早已经知道，但再次确认这一点仍然令人欣慰：维克托·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)不需要抢下10个篮板就能拿到两双。当一支球队坚持在篮下挑战他时，他可以轻松砍下30分并送出10次盖帽。有趣的是，这场比赛他还打破了大卫·罗宾逊(David Robinson)此前保持的连续61场至少一次盖帽的队史纪录。
- 不过，文班也花了一些时间才找到得分节奏，几乎花了整个上半场。开拓者队派出了他们的侧翼球员杰拉米·格兰特(Jerami Grant)和德尼·阿夫迪亚(Deni Avdija)来防守他，他们的侧翼球员在防守文班方面比他们的内线球员做得更好——尽管考虑到文班在那晚砍下了30分，这只是一个相对的评价……
- 随着第二节末连续命中两记三分，文班终于摆脱了束缚，中场休息也无法阻止他的势头，他在第三节几乎是予取予求。最重要的是，他保持了不错的外线效率，8投4中。
- 说到投篮，马刺队在NBA赢得了一场大胜，即使他们的三分球36投仅10中——在2024/25赛季，这是一个相当低产量/低效率的表现。
- 临时主教练米奇·约翰逊(Mitch Johnson)继续试验阵容，垃圾时间并不是许多你预期会打更多时间的球员——包括索汉、德文·瓦塞尔(Devin Vassell)和凯尔登·约翰逊(Keldon Johnson)——都只打了24分钟或更少时间的原因。
- 除了文班之外，最引人注目的人事问题是查尔斯·巴塞(Charles Bassey)的表现，他持续进步。巴塞在仅仅18分钟内就贡献了16分和12个篮板。很高兴看到一位马刺替补内线打出一场无可争议的好球。没有其他要说的了。查理，把这种势头保持下去。
- 索汉和斯蒂芬·卡斯尔(Stephon Castle)的投篮效率都不高，他们目前可能不应该经常同时在场。为了不破坏球场空间，两人都需要参与到进攻当中。这不是一种理想的情况。
- 尽管如此，他们两人都擅长助攻队友，这对卡斯尔来说并不新鲜，但对索汉来说仍然相当出色，特别是他和文班之间的化学反应不断增强。（这是上赛季“控球索汉”实验的长期效应吗？我认为是的。）
- 丹·维斯(Dan Weis)和维克托·文班亚马的赛后场边采访也有一些值得学习的地方：当一个正常身高的人采访文班时，16:9的画面比例并不是最佳选择。
点击查看原文：What We Learned from the Spurs’ win over the Trail Blazers
What We Learned from the Spurs’ win over the Trail Blazers
Wemby continues to shine from deep, plus the Spurs had a spotless game even when their Alien took a seat.
The Spurs have had an awful lot of games this season that went down to the wire, and they’ve won the majority of those games. It’s been great to watch as a fan. After all, what’s more exciting than crunch time? Well, Thursday’s home win against the Atlanta Hawks showed what’s more exciting: five minutes of additional crunch time.
After that nailbiter, I was kinda thirsty for a game in which the Spurs, you know, don’t go head-to-head with the opposition for 48 minutes, don’t relinquish a major lead but hold on, don’t catch up on a major lead and prevail, but one in which they just lead all the way through. The basketball gods were content: The Spurs cruised to victory at home against the Blazers in the kind of no-doubt stomping that would have done any era of Spurs fan proud
Are you already doing Christmas parties or hangouts with relatives and friends from out of state who don’t share your love of the Spurs and were trying to pull you away from the TV? This game was for you, as home team had the game sewed up by the middle of the third quarter, allowing you to join the crew, secure that the victory wasn’t in doubt. Are you a watch-every-minute fan who’d never schedule any holiday event that competes a Spurs top-off? Well, the good guys won every quarter and Sidy Cissoko got on the board. What’s not to love about that?
Takeaways
- We already knew, but it’s certainly welcome to be reassured that Victor Wembanyama doesn’t need to grab 10 rebounds to record a double double. He can just score 30 points and block 10 shots when a team insists on challenging him at the rim. Interestingly, it came in a game in which he surpassed David Robinson’s so far franchise-leading streak of 61 consecutive games with at least one block.
- It took Wemby some time to get into a scoring groove though, almost the entire first half. The Blazers put their wings on him, Jerami Grant and Deni Avdija, and their wings did a better job on Wemby than their bigs — although that’s a relative measure on a night Vic popped for 30 points…
- With two consecutive threes to end the second quarter, Wemby finally broke free and half-time couldn’t break his momentum, as he pretty much roamed free in the third quarter. Most importantly, he managed to remain efficient from deep, going 4 out of 8.
- Speaking of shooting, the Spurs had a blowout win in the NBA even though they were 10 from 36 from deep – in the 2024/25 season, that’s quite the low-volume/low-efficiency performance.
- Interim head coach Mitch Johnson continued experimenting with lineups, with garbage time not really the reason why many guys you would expect to play more minutes – including Sochan, Vassell, and Barnes – all playing only 24 minutes or less.
- The most remarkable personnel matter, next to Wemby of course, was the performance of a certain Charles Bassey, who continues to get better and better. Chuck contributed 16 points and 12 rebounds in only 18 minutes. It’s good to see a Spurs backup big have an undeniably good game. No notes. Just take this momentum on the road, Charlie.
- Both Sochan and Castle scored inefficiently from the field, and they maybe shouldn’t share the court too often for the time being. Both need to be involved in the offensive action for spacing to not be ruined. It’s not an ideal situation.
- Still, both of them thrived assisting their teammates, which is nothing new for Castle, but still kinda remarkable for Sochan, in particular the chemistry between him and Wemby keeps growing. (A long-term effect of last season’s “Point Sochan” Experiment? I think so.)
- There was something to learn in the post-game on-court interview between Dan Weis and Victor Wembanyama as well: the 16:9 aspect ratio isn’t the best one when a person of normal height is interviewing Wemby.
By August Bembel, via Pounding The Rock