By MateoMayorga | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-12-26 05:13:13
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文班的精彩之夜不足以让圣安东尼奥在纽约取得胜利
文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)的狂飙猛进不足以推动马刺在圣诞大战中战胜尼克斯。这场比赛出现了20次领先优势互换，其中第四节就有6次。
“当你客场作战时，你必须终结对手，可能需要更好地完成几次进攻，更强硬一些，更有纪律性一些……”，主教练米奇·约翰逊(Mitch Johnson)赛后说道。
第一节双方展开了防守拉锯战。尼克斯对马刺的运球和传球施加了很好的压力，使马刺难以得分。在另一边，客队则专注于保护篮筐。随着比赛的进行，他们唯一跟丢的尼克斯球员是米卡尔·布里奇斯(Mikal Bridges)的空切和卡尔-安东尼·唐斯(Karl-Anthony Towns)在篮下的进攻。防守篮板球也是一个问题，主队在第一节得到了10个二次进攻得分。
文班亚马得到10分，投进了两个三分球，一个上篮和罚球，但大部分时间都在努力得分。杰里米·索汉(Jeremy Sochan)是马刺队中唯一一个投进多个运动战进球的球员，全队在禁区内21次出手仅命中7球。
然后他们在第二节开始时加快了节奏，在进攻时间早期连续投进五个球。文班在球队领先五分时短暂休息，他和克里斯·保罗(Chris Paul)在半场还剩近五分钟时重新上场，当时马刺落后一分。他们两人都通过挡拆和快攻让球队重新稳住阵脚，并在半场结束时取得了7分的领先优势。马刺的防守将尼克斯的投篮命中率限制在39%，其中贾伦·布伦森(Jalen Brunson)在第二节五次出手仅命中一球。
半场结束时，马刺队在禁区得到32分，快攻得到11分，二次进攻得到8分，对手失误得到5分。随后，球队的进攻在第三节开始后陷入困境，但索汉凭借8分帮助球队稳住局面。对于尼克斯来说，唐斯是他们的首选进攻点，他像一头饥饿的狮子一样攻击着马刺的防线。他的第五个进球迫使约翰逊在第三节中段请求暂停。
暂停回来后，文班亚马开始发力，就像一位重量级拳击手在被教练斥责输掉几个回合后从角落里走出来一样。但这不足以保持领先优势，因为布里奇斯再次爆发，五投四中，带领尼克斯打出一波10-0的攻势，结束了第三节。
接下来，马刺以83-88落后进入第四节。文班投进了8个球中的5个，保罗的三分球在比赛还剩41秒时将分差缩小到3分，但这还不够。尼克斯控制了球权，并抢到了圣安东尼奥扳平比分所需的进攻篮板。此外，马刺的防守在第四节崩溃，布里奇斯不断命中三分，哈特(Hart)也贡献了6分。
“[布里奇斯]打了一场精彩的比赛……肯定有一些事情我本来可以尝试着做的，比如把球从他手中拿走。当你身边还有贾伦·布伦森的时候，这很困难，”约翰逊说。
马刺以114-117输掉了比赛。他们在禁区得分上以50-58落后，并且只迫使尼克斯出现5次失误。
文班亚马说：“我们让他们抢到了我们的篮板球，我们让他们对我们施加了太多压力。所以这就是问题所在。他们并不是因为打得比我们好才赢了我们。完全不是。”
他后来还补充说，球队还没有准备好。
最佳球:
保罗在快攻中传球给斯蒂芬·卡斯尔(Stephon Castle)，后者隔扣布伦森完成了一记精彩的双手暴扣。马刺必须找到更多方法在开放的球场上利用他的运动能力。
要点:
- 马刺本场比赛的投篮命中率很高，有效投篮命中率达到60.2%，根据Cleaning the Glass的数据，这足以排在本赛季所有比赛的第82个百分位。大部分投篮来自三分线外（45%）和篮下（38%）。
- 文班亚马31投16中，得到42分，18个篮板，4次助攻，4次盖帽，1次抢断和4次失误。每场比赛，他至少会送出一记精彩的传球。这一次，是他的击地传球给底线空切的德文·瓦塞尔(Devin Vassell)，后者完成了一记扣篮。此外，他在外线防守挡拆方面也展现出了进步。例如，尼克斯在第三节开始时就利用挡拆针对文班亚马，但他立即在左侧瓦解了他们的进攻，完成了他的第三次盖帽。尽管输掉了比赛，但这仍然是他职业生涯中最令人印象深刻的表现之一。
- 索汉是马刺队中表现第二好的球员，他8投6中得到21分。他还负责防守布伦森，并迫使他投丢了三个球。他最大的缺点是出现了5次失误。
- 布里奇斯41分中有15分是在第四节得到的。他在运球后得分时，防守他的分别是尚帕尼(Champagnie)、索汉和保罗。
- 马刺在禁区的防守非常有效，将尼克斯的命中率限制在低于联盟平均水平7.6个百分点。然而，他们在保护底角三分方面做得不够好，让对手在底角15投8中。
- 尽管文班抢下了16个防守篮板，但球队还是给了尼克斯太多的二次进攻机会，对手也用19个二次进攻得分惩罚了他们。马刺必须在拼抢地板球方面做得更好，更凶悍一些。
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Spurs fall to Knicks on Christmas Day
Wemby’s big night isn’t enough to put San Antonio over the top in New York
Victor Wembanyama‘s rampage wasn’t enough to push the Spurs to a win in their Christmas showdown with the Knicks. The game featured 20 lead changes, including six in the fourth quarter.
“When you’re on the road, you got to put teams away and probably finish a few more possessions, a little bit tougher, a little bit more disciplined…,” coach Mitch Johnson said after the game.
The first quarter was a defensive tussle. The Knicks pressured the dribble and pass well, making it difficult for the Spurs to score. On the other side, the visitors focused on taking away the rim. The only Knicks they lost track of were Mikal Bridges on cuts and Karl-Anthony Towns near the basket as the period went on. And defensive rebounding was an issue, as the hosts scored 10 second chance points for the period.
Wembanyama had 10 points, making two 3-pointers, a layup and freebies, but mostly struggled to make shots. Jeremy Sochan was the only other Spur to make multiple field goals, as the team had only seven of 21 attempts in the lane.
Then they pushed the pace, scoring five consecutive baskets early in the shot clock to start the second quarter. Wemby took a brief break while his team was up five and he plus Chris Paul came back in with the Spurs down a point with nearly five minutes left in the half. Both of them resettled the team, taking a seven-point advantage heading into intermission via screen rolls and getting the Spurs out in transition. The defense held the Knicks to 39 percent shooting, including holding Jalen Brunson to one of five baskets in the period.
At halftime, the team had 32 paint points, 11 on the break, eight via second chances and five off turnovers. Subsequently, the team’s offense came out of the break struggling, but Sochan kept them afloat with eight points. For the Knicks, KAT was the go-to man, attacking the Spurs like an unfed lion. His fifth basket forced Johnson to call a stoppage about halfway through the period.
Wembanyama then got rolling out of the timeout, like a heavyweight boxer coming out of his corner after his trainer rips into him for losing a few rounds. But it wasn’t enough to keep a lead because Bridges caught fire again, making four of five shots to lead a 10-0 Knicks run to end the third quarter.
Next, the Spurs started the fourth down 88-83. Wemby had five of eight baskets and Paul’s 3-pointer cut the last deficit to three with 41 seconds left, but it wasn’t enough. New York had possession and recovered the miss San Antonio needed to tie. Additionally, the defense folded in the quarter as Bridges kept nailing threes and Hart added six points.
“[Bridges] had a heck of a game… definitely some things I probably could have done to try to get the ball out of his hands. It’s tough when you have Jalen Brunson over there,” Johnson said.
The Spurs lost 117-114. They were outscored in the paint 58-50 and could only force five Knicks turnovers.
Wembanyama said, “We let them get rebounds on us, we let them move us a little too much. So this is more what it was about. They didn’t win against us because they played better basketball. Not at all.”
He also added later that the team is not ready.
Play of the game:
Paul fed Stephon Castle on the break for a mean, two-handed poster over Brunson. The Spurs must find ways to use his athleticism more in the open court.
Takeaways:
- The Spurs had an accurate game shooting, recording 60.2 percent of effective field goals, good enough for the 82nd percentile of all games played this season, per Cleaning the Glass. Most shots were attempted from 3-point range (45 percent) and at the rim (38 percent).
- Wembanyama had 42 points on 16 of 31 attempts, with 18 rebounds, four assists, four blocks, one steal and four turnovers. Every game, he makes at least one amazing pass. This time, it was his bounce pass to Devin Vassell, cutting up the baseline for a dunk. Additionally, he is also showing an improvement in guarding pick and roll on the perimeter. For example, the Knicks started the third quarter targeting Wembanyama in PnR, but he blew it up immediately on the left wing for his third block. In spite of the loss, it was one of the most impressive performances of his career.
- Sochan was the second-best Spur, logging 21 points on 80 percent shooting. He also got time guarding Brunson and forced him into three misses. His biggest flaw was having five turnovers.
- Bridges had 15 of his 41 points in the fourth quarter. The baskets he scored on the dribble were over Champagnie, Sochan and Paul.
- The defense was potent in the restricted area, holding the Knicks to 7.6 percentage points below league average. Yet, they were not as sharp protecting the corners, conceding that area eight of 15 times.
- Despite Wemby’s 16 defensive rebounds, the team gave up too many extra opportunities to the Knicks, and they punished them with 19 second-chance points. The Spurs must do a better job of getting nastier on the hunt for loose balls.
By MateoMayorga, via Pounding The Rock