By Jeff McDonald, Staff writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-01-05 13:00:42
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。
维克托·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)在他21岁生日当天，于周六晚上的加时赛中输给丹佛掘金队的比赛里，拿下20分23个篮板和4次盖帽。
芝加哥——维克托·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)在他21岁生日这天几乎得到了他想要的一切。
这位马刺队的球星在周六于弗罗斯特银行中心与丹佛掘金队的二番战中，部分时间表现出色，砍下20分，并拿下职业生涯最高的23个篮板。
但这不足以让马刺队战胜掘金队，后者在加时赛中以122-111取得了胜利。
紧接着周五在丹佛以113-100的比分获胜之后，这场惜败或许会让文班亚马和马刺队感到满意。但事实并非如此。
“这并不意味着足够好，”文班亚马说道。“一场胜利总比没有好，但比两场胜利差。”
文班亚马和马刺队将期待在周一于芝加哥对阵公牛队的比赛中反弹，公牛队曾在12月初在弗罗斯特银行中心以139-124的比分大胜他们。
就个人而言，文班亚马在他21岁生日当天的第一场比赛足够特别。他成为NBA历史上第十位在生日当天取得20+20数据的球员，也是自2017年德怀特·霍华德以来的第一位。
尽管比赛结果不尽如人意，但文班亚马表示，这一天感觉就像一场庆祝。
“从看到我进来并说‘生日快乐’的厨师，到在热身时轻轻哼唱的球迷，每个人都很友善，这感觉当然很好，”文班亚马说道。“每个人都心情很好，所以这也让我心情愉悦。”
到周六加时赛结束时，文班亚马的心情已经有点糟糕了。
他在加时赛中一分未得，三分线外2投0中。总的来说，马刺队在最后五分钟内9投1中，在加时赛中以两位数分差落败。
“我们让这场胜利溜走了，”控球后卫克里斯·保罗(Chris Paul)说道。
这位寿星也同意这一说法。
在评估马刺队与掘金队的背靠背比赛时，文班亚马回到了他在赛季早些时候听到保罗说过的一句话。
“我们来这里不是为了打好比赛，而是为了赢球，”文班亚马说道。“所以我们不能满足于说，‘哦，好吧，我们和他们打到了加时赛，我们表现不错，伙计们。’但这并不是我们想要的。”
得分困境困扰着CP3
对于保罗来说，周六2分的表现标志着他连续第五场比赛得分未能上双。
这位39岁的控球后卫自圣诞节输给纽约的比赛中得到13分以来，就再也没有得分上双。在与丹佛的背靠背比赛中，他总共20投4中。
尽管马刺队在得到这位12次入选全明星的球员时并不需要他得分，但保罗也承认他最近缺乏得分令人担忧。
“我得找到我的进攻感觉，”保罗说道。“我投不进球。我得更多地看篮筐，更有侵略性。”
索汉(Sochan)回归阵容
马刺队在与掘金队的第二场比赛中恢复了完全健康，首发前锋杰里米·索汉(Jeremy Sochan)在缺席一场比赛后从伤病名单中回归。
在除夕夜战胜洛杉矶快船队的比赛中，索汉扭伤了背部，因此错过了马刺队在丹佛的胜利。
他在回归后的表现相对平淡，在26分钟内得到5分和8个篮板。
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Wemby: Split with Denver not good enough
Victor Wembanyama scored 20 points with 23 rebounds and 4 blocks on his 21st birthday in Saturday night’s overtime loss against the Denver Nuggets.
CHICAGO — Victor Wembanyama got almost everything he wanted for his 21st birthday.
The Spurs star was dominant for parts of Saturday’s rematch against Denver at the Frost Bank Center, scoring 20 points to go with a career-best 23 rebounds.
It wasn’t enough to lift the Spurs past the Nuggets, who claimed a 122-111 victory in overtime.
Coming on the heels of a 113-100 win in Denver on Friday, the near miss might have left Wembanyama and the Spurs satisfied. It did not.
“It doesn’t mean it’s enough,” Wembanyama said. “One win is better than zero, but it’s worse than two.”
Wembanyama and the Spurs will look to bounce back Monday in Chicago, against a Bulls team that routed them 139-124 at the Frost Bank Center in early December.
Individually, Wembanyama’s first game as a 21-year-old was special enough. He became the 10th player in NBA history to log a 20-20 game on his birthday, and the first since Dwight Howard in 2017.
It was all part of a day that — despite the outcome of the game — Wembanyama said felt like a celebration.
“It feels good for sure to have everybody being kind, from the chef who saw me coming in and saying, ‘happy birthday,’ to the fans singing a little bit during warmups,” Wembanyama said. “Everybody is in a good mood, so it makes me in a good mood.”
By the end of overtime Saturday, Wembanyama’s mood had soured a bit.
He failed to score in the extra frame, going 0 of 2 from the 3-point arc. Overall, the Spurs missed 8 of 9 from the field in the final five minutes, losing by double digits in OT.
“We let this one get away,” point guard Chris Paul said.
The birthday boy agreed.
In assessing the Spurs’ back-to-back split against the Nuggets, Wembanyama hearkened back to something he had heard Paul preach earlier in the season.
“We’re not here to play good games, we’re here to win games,” Wembanyama said. “So we could get satisfied with saying, ‘Oh well we played them to overtime and we had a good one fellas.’ But that’s not what we want.”
Scoring woes weigh on CP3
For Paul, Saturday’s 2-point performance marked a fifth consecutive game failing to crack double digits in the scoring column.
The 39-year-old point guard has not posted a double-digit outing since going for 13 points in a Christmas Day loss at New York. In the back-to-back against Denver, he was a combined 4 of 20 from the field.
Though the Spurs did not acquire the 12-time All-Star needing him to produce points, Paul agrees his lack of scoring lately in concerning.
“I got to find my offense,” Paul said. “I couldn’t make a shot. I got to look at the rim more, be more aggressive.”
Sochan back in the lineup
The Spurs returned to full health in the second game against the Nuggets, which starting forward Jeremy Sochan returning from the injured list after a one-game absence.
Sochan missed the Spurs’ victory at Denver after tweaking his back in a New Year’s Eve win over the Los Angeles Clippers.
He was relatively quiet in his return, scoring five points with eight rebounds in 26 minutes.
By Jeff McDonald, Staff writer, via San Antonio Express-News