[PtR] 马刺队有“神射手”吗?

By Lee Dresie | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-12-24 02:46:57

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。

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射手和神射手(首字母大写的)之间是有区别的。

PtR 的老读者都知道,当我不在电视上看马刺队的比赛(通常是录播)或自己打比赛时,我是一名洛杉矶的出庭律师。上周晚些时候,我和一位备受尊敬的洛杉矶高等法院法官进行了一次有趣的谈话。

这次谈话与法官正在为我的客户调解的纠纷无关。相反,法官一开始就说他听到了关于我的一些非常有趣的事情。我很明智地保持沉默——与法官交谈时必须小心谨慎。谢天谢地,他听到的关于我的事情是好事,而不是坏事。“我听说你是一个很棒的三分射手,”他说,“一个真正的远距离刺客。”

在法官可能听到的关于我的所有事情中,他听到的事情——至少有一个洛杉矶人把我描述为一个首字母大写的 神射手 ——在所有可能性中排名相当靠前。正如我在 2021 年写的那样:

神射手和射手不同。

神射手能给球队的球迷带来很多快乐。球迷人生中最大的乐趣之一就是看到他们球队的神射手起身远投。球迷知道,几秒钟后,球就会落入网中。就像神射手本人一样,球迷甚至在球入网之前就想象着自己回防的画面。

当神射手上场时,对方教练会提醒他的球队,指着神射手说一个词:“神射手”。在城市联赛或野球比赛中,另一支球队在分配对位时也会做同样的事情,并告诉负责防守神射手的人,“ 不要 放空他”。

神射手人生中最大的乐趣之一就是听到对方球员在神射手用一连串三分球点燃他们之后,随着每次命中的投篮,彼此之间用越来越高亢的声音互相喊叫:“我告诉过你不要让他得到空位!”更棒的是,当这一连串的投篮让对方球队恼怒地请求暂停。

自从我写了最初那篇关于神射手的文章以来,我又补充了真正神射手的一些其他特质。

首先,神射手必须出手迅速。因为防守方非常注意神射手,所以神射手必须能够快速出手。对于一个神射手来说,足够空旷到可以出手的时间不到一秒钟。从我的执教生涯中,我了解到快速出手取决于正确的步法。当传球到达神射手手中时,神射手的双脚必须已经处于正确的位置。只有步法正确,神射手才能立即起身投篮。

其次,虽然不像正确的步法那样绝对必要,但神射手应该能够接球就投和运球后投篮。我说运球后投篮不是绝对必要,是因为 NBA 的一位伟大 神射手 很少运球后投篮。克莱·汤普森(Klay Thompson),显然拥有必要的快速出手,在他投进 7 个三分球,29 投 18 中,得到 43 分的那晚,出名地只运了 4 次球。当他得到 60 分(只用了 29 分钟)时,他运球的次数高达 11 次。但对于普通人来说,能够运球后投篮,也许是在挡拆后,也许是在假动作之后,也许是在变向运球或后撤步之后,真的很有帮助。

第三,神射手必须果断出手。一个球员如果一场比赛只投一两个三分球,那他不可能是神射手。

有了这些补充,法官的评论引发了我一直在思考的一个关于我们最喜欢的球队的问题。马刺队有真正的 神射手 吗?道格·麦克德莫特(Doug McDermott)曾是一位 神射手 ,但他已经离开了。即使现在的马刺队阵容中没有 神射手 ,谁是马刺队最好的(小写字母的)射手?

在我之前的关于神射手的帖子中,PtR 的读者投票选出帕蒂·米尔斯(Patty Mills)为马刺队史上最佳射手——在我看来,这是正确的决定。我的老伙计马努·吉诺比利(Manu Ginobili)排名第二,丹尼·格林(Danny Green)排名第三。在本文的最后,我们将对 PtR 读者进行这些问题的投票。对于第二个问题(阵容中最好的射手),我建议答案应该取决于你对这个问题的回答:当那个球员起身投三分球时,你是否期待这球会应声入网?

本赛季的马刺队只有 5 名候选人可以(1)获得神射手的称号,以及(2)即使不配得上首字母大写的称号,也是队内最好的射手。候选人按场均三分球出手次数排序:

维克多·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)——场均出手 9.1 次,三分球命中率 35%

朱利安·尚帕尼(Julian Champagnie)——场均出手 7.2 次,三分球命中率 35%

德文·瓦塞尔(Devin Vassell)——场均出手 5.8 次,三分球命中率 41%

克里斯·保罗(Chris Paul)——场均出手 4.9 次,三分球命中率 36.5%

哈里森·巴恩斯(Harrison Barnes)——场均出手 3.5 次,三分球命中率 43%

点击查看原文:Determining if the Spurs have a Shooter

Determining if the Spurs have a Shooter

NBA: Atlanta Hawks at San Antonio Spurs

There’s shooters, and there’s Shooters (with a capital S).

Long-time PtR readers know that when I am not watching Spurs games on television (often on tape-delay) or playing in my own games, I am a Los Angeles trial lawyer. Late last week, I had an interesting conversation with a very well-respected Los Angeles Superior Court judge.

The conversation was not about the dispute the judge is mediating for a client of mine. Instead, the judge started the conversation by saying that he had heard something very interesting about me. I smartly remained silent — one must be careful when speaking to a judge. Thankfully, what he had heard about me was good, not bad. “I hear you are a great three-point shooter”, he said, “A real assassin from distance”.

Among all the possible things the judge could have heard about me, the thing that he heard — that at least one person in Los Angeles described me as a capital S Shooter — is pretty high on the list. As I wrote back in 2021:

A Shooter is different than a shooter.

Shooters give a team’s fanbase much happiness. One of a fan’s greatest joys in life is seeing their team’s Shooter rising up to shoot from distance. The fan knows that in a few seconds the ball will drop through the net. Like the Shooter himself, the fan imagines himself back-pedaling to defense even before the ball splashes through.

When a Shooter comes into the game, the opposing coach alerts his team, points at the Shooter and says one word: “Shooter”. In a city league or pick-up game, the other team does the same thing when assigning match-ups and tells whoever is covering the Shooter, ‘Do NOT leave him open’.


One of a Shooter’s greatest joys in life is hearing the other team’s players yelling at each other, with a rising crescendo with each made shot, after the Shooter has lit them up with a barrage of three-pointers. “I told you not to let him get open!” Even better is when that barrage of shots leads the other team into an angry time-out.

Since my original Shooter piece, I have added some other attributes of a true Shooter.

First, a Shooter must have a quick release. Because the defense is so conscious of the Shooter, the Shooter must be able to get the shot off quickly. For a Shooter, being open enough to get a shot off lasts less than a second. From my coaching days, I learned that a quick release depends on proper footwork. When the pass hits the Shooter’s hands, the Shooter’s feet must already be in the proper position. Only with proper footwork can the Shooter immediately rise into the shot.

Second, although not as imperative as proper footwork, a Shooter should be able to shoot both off the pass and off the dribble. I say it is not absolutely imperative to be able to shoot off the dribble because one of the NBA’s great Shooters rarely shoots off the dribble. Klay Thompson, who clearly has the requisite quick release, famously took only 4 dribbles on a night he made 7 threes, went 18 for 29 overall, and scored 43 points. He dribbled an exorbitant 11 times when he scored 60 (in only 29 minutes). But for mere mortals, being able to shoot off the dribble, perhaps coming off a ball-screen, perhaps after a pump fake, perhaps after a cross-over or step-back, really helps.

Third, a Shooter must Let it Fly. A player cannot be a Shooter if only shooting one or two threes a game.

With those additions, the judge’s comments triggered something I have been wondering about our favorite team. Do the Spurs have a true Shooter? Doug McDermott was a Shooter, but he is gone. And even if the present Spurs’ roster does not include a Shooter, who is the Spurs’ best small “s” shooter?

In my previous Shooter post, PtR readers voted Patty Mills as the Spurs best shooter of all time — the correct decision in my opinion. My Man Manu Ginobili came in second, with DannyGreen!! third. At the end of this, we will poll PtR readers on these questions. For the second question (best shooter on the roster), I suggest that the answer should depend on your answer to this question: When that player rises up to shoot a three-pointer, do you expect the shot to splash in?

This season’s Spurs have only 5 candidates for (1) Shooter designation and (2) even if not worthy of the capital S, the best shooter on the team. The candidates. listed in order of threes per game:

Victor Wembanyama — 35% (from three) on 9.1 attempts per game

Julian Champagnie — 35% on 7.2 attempts per game

Devin Vassell — 41% on 5.8 attempts per game

Chris Paul — 36.5% on 4.9 attempts per game

Harrison Barnes — 43% per game on 3.5 attempts per game.

By Lee Dresie, via Pounding The Rock