By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-01-30 00:23:21
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文班有机会与迈克尔·乔丹(Michael Jordan)和大卫·罗宾逊(David Robinson)并肩而立——而这仅仅是他的第二个赛季。
维克托·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)几乎每次踏上球场都会创造某种历史，无论是取得独特的技术统计数据，还是比大多数（或任何其他）球员——或者至少是马刺球员——更早地达到某个里程碑。实时关注他的表现很有趣（而且几乎不可能全部记录），但考虑到他未来的潜力也同样有趣。他已经赢得了年度最佳新秀，并且是本赛季年度最佳防守球员的热门人选（未来可能还会多次获得该奖项），这将使他再次跻身极其罕见的行列。
昨天，Extra Muse 发布了一张维恩图，显示了同时获得年度最佳新秀、年度最佳防守球员和最有价值球员的球员。快速回顾一下，维恩图显示了多个概念之间的关系，圆圈重叠的地方是这些概念具有共同点的地方。在本例中，蓝色圆圈表示获得年度最佳新秀的球员，黄色表示年度最佳防守球员，红色表示最有价值球员。任何在这些圆圈重叠区域内的球员都是同时获得过这些奖项的球员。
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可能有点难以看清（可以点击放大），但里面有几位马刺球员。文班在新秀圈里（就在“YEAR”中“R”的右边），科怀·伦纳德(Kawhi Leonard)和阿尔文·罗伯逊(Alvin Robertson)在最佳防守球员圈里。在重叠区域，蒂姆·邓肯(Tim Duncan)同时拥有最佳新秀和最有价值球员，而站在中心位置的是大卫·罗宾逊和迈克尔·乔丹，他们是仅有的两位同时获得过所有三个奖项的球员。这证明了“海军上将”罗宾逊的伟大以及他如今被低估的程度，但也让人不禁为邓肯没有和他们在一起（再次）感到恼火。
尽管邓肯保持着 NBA 纪录的 15 次入选最佳防守阵容，但他从未获得过年度最佳防守球员。他确实是风格重于实质的受害者，在他巅峰时期，像本·华莱士(Ben Wallace)和德怀特·霍华德(Dwight Howard)这样更注重防守、身体对抗更强、更具戏剧性的球员总共获得了 七次 年度最佳防守球员。他们将球大力盖出界外的精彩封盖所产生的惊叹声比邓肯更微妙但同样有效的防守更引人注目，邓肯的防守目标通常是盖帽后控制球权，而不是将球扇出界外让对方重新获得球权。
另一个有趣的点是，只有三名球员获得过年度最佳防守球员和最有价值球员，但没有获得过年度最佳新秀：哈基姆·奥拉朱旺(Hakeem Olajuwon)、凯文·加内特(Kevin Garnett)和扬尼斯·阿德托昆博(Giannis Antetokounmpo)。“大梦”在 1986 年输给了乔丹，这是可以理解的，但事后看来，看看加内特和字母哥分别输给了谁：达蒙·斯塔德迈尔(Damon Stoudamire)（1996 年）和迈克尔·卡特-威廉姆斯(Michael Carter-Williams)（2014 年），这很有趣。这表明，这两人进入联盟时可能还比较稚嫩——当时 NBA 的身体对抗更激烈，他们都是又高又瘦的 18 岁年轻人，需要时间来成长——但他们很快就成熟了。
好了，不再跑题了（好吧，其实并没有），回到正题，也就是文班。你可能会注意到图表底部有一个很大的空白，目前还没有球员获得过最佳新秀和最佳防守球员但没有获得过最有价值球员——这可能证明最佳新秀的投票者往往首先考虑的是进攻。无论如何，罗宾逊将是曾经在这个位置上的唯一一位球员，他在获得年度最佳防守球员（1992 年）三年后获得了最有价值球员（1995 年）。从技术上讲，乔丹也拥有同样的荣誉，但他在 1987-88 赛季同时获得了他的第一个年度最佳防守球员和最有价值球员奖，所以他从未出现在这个图表中的这个位置，而是直接跳到了中间。
因此，由于文班是本赛季年度最佳防守球员的热门人选（但不是最有价值球员），他很可能最快在今年夏天就独自一人占据这个位置，并且成为继罗宾逊之后第二个出现在那里的球员。即便如此，他可能也不会在那里停留太久，因为他注定会在进攻端变得更加稳定，马刺整体实力得到提升后，成为未来的最有价值球员。尽管如此，无论他在最终加入中间的精英行列之前，独自拥有这个与 NBA 历史上任何其他球员都完全不同的荣誉的时间有多长，这都将是一件有趣的事情——之后，这个位置可能又会空缺。
这几乎概括了文班：独特、才华横溢，并且不断地做着很少有其他球员做到过的事情，而这仅仅是个开始。
点击查看原文：How winning Defensive Player of the Year would put Victor Wembanyama in extremely rare company
How winning Defensive Player of the Year would put Victor Wembanyama in extremely rare company
Wemby has a chance to stand alone with Michael Jordan and David Robinson — and it’s just his second season.
Victor Wembanyama makes some kind of history almost every time he steps on the court, whether it’s posting a unique box score or reaching a milestone earlier than most (if any) other player — or at least Spur — has. It’s fun to follow in real time (and nearly impossible to keep track of), but it’s also just as fun to consider his future potential. He’s already won Rookie of the Year and is the odds on favorite for Defensive Player of the Year this season (and likely for many more to come), which would put him in some extremely rare company yet again.
Yesterday, Extra Muse tweeted out a Venn diagram, showing players who have won Rookie of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and MVP. As a quick refresher, a Venn diagram shows the relationship between multiple concepts, and where the circles overlap is where those concepts have something in common. In this case, the blue circle consists players who have won Rookie of the Year, yellow is Defensive Player of the Year, and Red is MVP. Anyone within the areas where either of those circles overlap are players who have won each of those awards.
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It may be a little hard to see (you can click on it to expand), but there are several Spurs in there. There’s Wemby in the Rookie of the Year circle (just to the right of the “R” in YEAR”) and Kawhi Leonard and Alvin Robertson in DPOY. In the overlapping areas, you have Tim Duncan with both ROY and MVP, and standing in the center of it all is David Robinson and Michael Jordan as the only two players to have ever won all three awards. It’s a testament to both how great The Admiral was and how underrated he has become, but it’s also hard not to be irritated at the fact that Duncan isn’t in there with them (again).
Despite holding an NBA-record 15 All-Defensive team appearances, he never won DPOY. He was truly a victim of style over substance, where more defensive-minded, physically intimidating, dramatic players like Ben Wallace and Dwight Howard won the award a combined seven times during Duncan’s prime. The ooo’s and aah’s their booming blocks into the stands generated stood out more than Duncan’s more subtle but equally effective defense, which often had the goal of block-and-gather the ball to gain possession rather than giving the ball back to the other team by sending flying it out of bounds.
Another interesting note is just three players have ever won DPOY and MVP but not ROY: Hakeem Olajuwon, Kevin Garnett and Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Dream was beaten by Jordan for the award in 1986, so that’s understandable, but it is amusing in hindsight looking back at who beat Garnett and Giannis: Damon Stoudamire (1996) and Michael Carter-Williams (2014), respectively. It just goes to show that those two may have entered the league a little raw — both were long, super skinny 18-year-olds who needed time to grow back when the NBA was more physical — but they really blossomed soon after.
But enough geeking out (okay, not really) and back to the topic at hand, which is Wemby. You may notice a big ol’ gap at the bottom of the diagram, where currently there are no players who won ROY and DPOY but not MVP — likely proof that ROY voters tend look at offense first and foremost. Regardless, Robinson would have been the only other player in that slot at any point in time, having won DPOY (1992) three years before MVP (1995). Jordan technically owns the same distinction, but he won both his first DPOY and MVP awards in the 1987-88 season, so he never would have been in that slot in this particular diagram, instead jumping right to the middle
So with Wemby the favorite to win DPOY this season (but not MVP), he could very well be alone in that area as soon as this summer and be only the second player to ever sit there other than Robinson. And even then, he too may not stay for long as he has future MVP written all over him once he becomes a little more consistent on offense and the Spurs as a whole improve. Still, it will be interesting for whatever amount of time he owns that distinction on his own, completely unique from any other player in NBA history, before ultimately joining the same elite company in the middle — likely leaving that area vacant again.
That pretty much describes Wemby in a nutshell: unique, talented, and constantly doing things few if any other players have ever done, and this is only the beginning.
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock