By Charlie Thaddeus | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-01-21 06:42:44
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。
一支年轻的球队在前往巴黎前再次遭遇挫折
我认为这算得上是低迷期了。我不确定具体的统计指标是什么，但就我而言……马刺队正处于低迷期。
对于这样一支球队来说，你可能必须预料到这种情况：时不时的小低迷，状态不佳，一切都不顺利。我们都经历过，对吧？在这些比赛中，我没有注意到任何让我担心未来或觉得我们需要按下紧急按钮的事情。这就是低迷期。它会发生。
那么是什么导致了这种情况呢？他们累了吗？过度疲劳？还是他们只是没有足够的天赋？以上所有情况可能都是肯定的。在我们坐在沙发上的前排座位上，可能还有其他一些我们无法看到的问题混杂在这个不幸的困境中。他们在赛季开始时就失去了主教练——也许这最终会让他们付出代价。也许一位表现出色的第一年主教练仍然难以填补名人堂成员留下的空缺。也许围绕着地球上最著名的运动员之一的旋风式关注比我们意识到的更令人疲惫。我可以肯定地告诉你，他们昨天在迈阿密的比赛表现并不好，但我怀疑有人能真正指出更深层次的原因。
与我们相关的是，它正在发生。低迷期正在发生，我们就在这里，承认这个事实。他们如何以及何时摆脱困境是我们无法控制的，所以作为球迷，我们所能做的就是认识到这一点，不要完全失去冷静。对吧？我们不会抓狂，对吧？
因为很容易抓狂。我知道会的。我经历过这些崩盘，感受到了胸中的怒火。*他们比这更好！我知道他们是！我亲眼见过！为什么他们不能……做得更好？*这太令人沮丧了，无论多么深呼吸，看着我们的球员在进攻时间快要结束时反复错过防守任务，或者在进攻端强行出手本不该强行的投篮，都无法让人感到有趣。这就是我们现在的现实，而现在，我们的现实很糟糕。
也许快速跨越大西洋的旅行对每个人来说都是一次很好的重置。有机会从不同的角度看待事物，摆脱NBA赛程的压抑。这不是每个人都希望他们带着这种糟糕状态登上巴黎的全球舞台，但嘿，这不是世界末日。坦白说，这些都不是。
马刺队是一支年轻的球队，目前正处于他们相当大的能力范围的低端。他们似乎无法解决问题，但这并不意味着他们永远无法解决。
要点：
- 我想我们都同意关于马刺是否需要杰里米·索汉(Jeremy Sochan)上场的争论可以到此为止了。我相信我们都能理性地同意，呃，当然杰里米让我们变得更好。在他长期缺席之前，任何对此持观望态度的人都可以优雅地接受失败并退出这场争论。*球队想念他的身体对抗，他在阵容中任何位置都能胜任的能力，他的活力——整个杰里米·索汉的体验。很难定义为什么他如此重要，这就是为什么一开始会有这场争论，但马刺在球场上成为破坏球的能力中，索汉形状的空洞是显而易见的。
我完全认识到并承认，在互联网上争论的人永远不会真正停止争论或优雅地做任何事情。
- 这支球队似乎无法在攻防转换中做好任何事情，这令人困惑，因为它感觉上应该是他们的强项。我们又高又壮又快，你认为转换防守应该很自然。他们需要在任何时候都能冲刺，找到自己的位置，并扑灭“火灾”。没有人会在攻防转换中使用复杂的战术，所以我们的防守也不应该复杂。每个人只需要反应更快。也许说起来容易做起来难——我又懂什么呢？
- 让维克多·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)在一节比赛中一分未得几乎是不可原谅的。这应该是不可能的。如果他要成为马刺进攻的焦点，那么球队需要把他放在能够成功的位置上——更好的战术，或者，嘿，任何战术都可以。球队似乎已经意识到，你可以对克里斯·保罗(Chris Paul)进行身体对抗，以至于他一开始甚至很难组织进攻。如果发生这种情况，那么其他人需要把球带过半场。跳出固有思维模式。我知道克里斯掌控着比赛，但我们正在快速接近这样一个点，我们一遍又一遍地做着同样的事情，期待着不同的结果。这行不通。
- 输给像热火这样的球队，目前正与其自己的球员处于僵持状态，是愚蠢和尴尬的。整个吉米·巴特勒(Jimmy Butler)和热火之间的动态关系本身就相当愚蠢和尴尬。更尴尬的是，有人预测马刺现在会交易来像吉米·巴特勒这样性格的球员，希望他是让他们进入，我不知道，第八名的轻微推动力？愚蠢。我有没有提到尴尬？因为它很愚蠢。而且很尴尬。
WWL赛后新闻发布会
- 你兴奋地在法国观看比赛吗？
- 如果我真的在法国观看比赛，我会更兴奋。
- 你是说Pounding The Rock没有出钱让你飞到那里去看比赛？
- 他们没有！
- 你有没有向他们解释过你坐在场内的见解会有多宝贵？
- 当然。
- 你有没有向他们解释过，在法国观看这些比赛有一种，我不知道是什么，但在家是无法准确报道的？
- 一种难以言喻的感觉？当然。（法语：A je ne sais quoi? Bien sûr.）
- 真见鬼！（法语：Zut alors!）
- 的确！（法语：En effet!）
点击查看原文：What We Learned from the Spurs loss to the Heat
What We Learned from the Spurs loss to the Heat
A young team faces another setback before Paris
I think this qualifies as a slump. I’m not sure what the actual statistical measures are, but as far as I’m concerned… the Spurs are slumping.
That’s something you probably have to expect with a team like this: little slumps here and there, stretches where things just aren’t clicking and nothing’s really coming together. We’ve all been there, right? I haven’t noticed anything in these games that makes me worry about the future or feel like we need to smash the panic button. It’s a slump. It happens.
What’s contributing to it though? Are they tired? Overextended? Do they just not have enough talent? Probably yes to all of the above. There’s likely a handful of other issues mixed into this unfortunate stew that we can’t possibly see from our front-row seats on the couch. They lost their head coach right as the season was starting—maybe that’s finally catching up to them. Maybe a first-year head coach doing an admirable job is still having a tough time filling the gaps left by a Hall of Famer. Maybe the whirlwind of attention that comes from having one of the most famous athletes on the planet is more taxing than we realize. I can tell you for sure they didn’t play very well in Miami yesterday, but I doubt anyone can truly pinpoint the deeper reasons why.
What’s relevant to us is that it’s happening. The slump is happening, and we’re here, acknowledging that fact. How and when they pull out of it is beyond our control, so all we can do as fans is recognize it and not completely lose our cool. Right? We’re not going to freak out, right?
Because it’d be easy to. I know it would. I’ve sat through these collapses and felt the anger rising in my chest. They’re better than this! I know they are! I’ve seen it! Why aren’t they just… doing it better? It’s beyond frustrating, and no amount of deep breathing makes it any more fun to watch our guys repeatedly blow their defensive assignments deep in the shot clock or force shots on offense that have no business being forced. This is our reality right now, and right now, our reality bites.
Maybe a quick trip across the pond will be a nice reset for everyone. A chance to see things from a different perspective and get out of the oppressive grind that is the NBA schedule. This isn’t exactly the strong form anyone was hoping they’d carry onto the global stage in Paris, but hey, it’s not the end of the world. Frankly, none of this is.
The Spurs are a young team playing at the low end of their considerable capabilities at the moment. They can’t seem to figure it out, but that doesn’t mean they never will.
Takeaways:
- I think we can all agree the debate about whether the Spurs need Jeremy Sochan in the lineup can be put to rest. I’m sure we can all be reasonable and agree that, duh, of course Jeremy makes us better. Anyone who was on the fence about it before his extended absence can accept defeat gracefully and bow out of the race.* The team misses his physicality, his ability to slot in anywhere in the lineup, his energy—the whole Jeremy Sochan experience. It’s not easy to define why he’s so important, which is why this debate was a thing in the first place, but the Sochan-shaped hole in the Spurs’ ability to be a wrecking ball on the court is glaring.
*I fully recognize and acknowledge that no one who argues on the internet will ever actually stop arguing or do anything with grace.
- This team can’t seem to get transition anything right, which is confounding because it feels like it should be a strength. We’re so long and athletic and fast that you’d think transition defense would flow naturally. At the drop of a hat, they need to be sprinting, finding their spots, and putting out fires. No one is running complicated schemes in transition, so our defense shouldn’t be complicated in return. Everyone just needs to react faster. Maybe that’s easier said than done—what do I know?
- It feels almost inexcusable to have Victor go scoreless in a quarter. That should be impossible. If he’s going to be the focal point of everything the Spurs do on offense, then the team needs to be putting him in positions to succeed—better sets or, heck, any sets at all. Teams seem to have figured out that you can be so physical with Chris Paul that he has trouble even starting the offense in the first place. If that’s happening, then someone else needs to bring the ball up the court. Think outside the box. I know Chris runs the show, but we’re fast approaching that point where we’re doing the same bit over and over, expecting different results. It’s not cutting it.
- Losing to a team like the Heat, which is currently in a hostage situation with its own player, is dumb and embarrassing. The whole Jimmy Butler–Heat dynamic is pretty dumb and embarrassing in its own right. The only thing more embarrassing is people predicting the Spurs would trade for a personality like Jimmy Butler right now, hoping he’s the slight push needed to get them to, I dunno, the 8th seed? Dumb. Did I mention embarrassing? Because it’s dumb. And embarrassing.
WWL Post Game Press Conference
- Are you excited to watch the games in France.
- I’d be more excited to watch the games in France if I was actually watching the games in France.
- You’re telling me that Pounding The Rock didn’t front the money to fly you over there for this?
- They didn’t!
- Did you explain to them how valuable your insights would be sitting in the arena?
- Of course.
- Did you explain to them that there is a certain, I don’t know what, about being in the France for these games that will be impossible to accurately report on from home?
- A je ne sais quoi? Bien sûr.
- Zut alors!
- En effet!
By Charlie Thaddeus, via Pounding The Rock