By Mike Finger, Columnist | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-02-08 15:07:43
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夏洛特讯——达龙·福克斯(De’Aaron Fox)需要额外十分之二秒。
而他的新球队需要的远不止这些。
交易截止日的狂欢并不能保证战胜联盟垫底的球队，如果马刺队需要任何证明，那么他们在周五晚上就得到了。在福克斯凭借超乎寻常的表现带领球队战胜老鹰队仅仅一场比赛后，他本可以制胜的投篮却在蜂鸣器响起后才迟了一点，导致球队 丑陋地输给了黄蜂队 。
“时间过得太快了，”福克斯在谈到最后时刻接到球并投篮的1.4秒时说道。
最终，他会有时间喘口气的。在周日被从萨克拉门托交易过来，周一飞越大半个美国进行体检，然后又飞过另一半美国与正在进行本赛季最长客场之旅的马刺队会合之后，这位27岁的控球后卫可能错过了一点时间，这并不奇怪。
但马刺队引进他并不是为了权宜之计。他们引进他也不是为了在牛仔竞技表演期间进行一场改变赛季的冲刺。尽管这会很有趣，但他们引进他也不是为了在两个月内闯入附加赛。
他们引进福克斯是为了在未来的十年里，赢得更多像周五这样的比赛，无论是对阵NBA垫底的球队还是顶尖的球队。如果他的前两个晚上展现了球队对这个计划的信心？
那就是在那关键的十分之几秒里，他们早就知道他们希望球在哪里了。
“我们不会信任一半，”维克托·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)在谈到马刺队在对阵老鹰队和黄蜂队的比赛中反复依赖福克斯的终场表现时说。“我们会100%信任。”
对于马刺队来说，福克斯是一个具有即时可信度的长期解决方案，后者是关键。当他到达亚特兰大时，他从未与他的新队友进行过完整的训练。他们将在四个星期内不会在自己的主场比赛。但马刺队的代理主教练米奇·约翰逊明确表示，他不想让他“努力融入”。他希望福克斯做他自己。
因此，在对阵老鹰队的最后时刻，毫无疑问，福克斯会发起进攻，并通过突破为文班亚马创造一个精彩的扣篮。两天后，毫无疑问，在对阵黄蜂队的最后两次进攻中，谁会掌控球权。
第一次，福克斯在还剩7.9秒时命中了一个后撤步20英尺跳投，让马刺队自第一分钟以来首次领先。第二次，他扭曲身体投出的三分球落入网中，但回放显示，他释放球的时间晚了不到一秒。
这是一个糟糕夜晚的残酷结局，在这场比赛中，马刺队在比赛初期就被对手压制，而这个对手即使在通过多项交易让他们的阵容发生变化之前，就已经输掉了联盟第四多的比赛。如果圣安东尼奥想重返附加赛的行列——球员们当然想——那么输给夏洛特并不是一个理想的方式。
即便如此，即使没有人喜欢听到这一点，这个赛季仍然更多地是关于未来，而不是现在。是的，文班亚马和福克斯能在今年四月的重要比赛中一起上场会很棒。不，球迷们在对阵黄蜂队的比赛中一无是处之后，说马刺队绝对不能在对阵奇才队的比赛中也这么做，这并不算不公平。
但是，愿意接受失望是过程的一部分，没有人比福克斯更了解这一点。几年前在萨克拉门托，他赢得了NBA年度关键球员奖，部分原因是他不害怕在事情出错时为关键时刻的失利承担责任。
“你必须接受你不会投进每一个球，”福克斯说，“我对此没有意见。我接受这些结果。”
马刺队不会只信任一半，他们也会接受这些结果。
他们将在这次客场之旅的剩余时间里接受这些结果。当福克斯终于在霜冻银行中心完成他的首秀时，他们也会接受这些结果。他们希望陪伴福克斯足够长的时间，让他也能在圣安东尼奥市中心的一座球馆里打球。
换句话说，福克斯不应该太担心。他周五的时间用完了。
马刺队会给他更多的时间。
San Antonio Spurs De’Aaron Fox (4) moves on court against the Atlanta Hawks during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox (4) looks to pass the ball ahead of Charlotte Hornets forward Moussa Diabate, left, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)
Charlotte Hornets guard LaMelo Ball (1) looks to shoot against San Antonio Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox during the second half of an NBA basketball game in Charlotte, N.C., Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)
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De’Aaron Fox in for long haul with San Antonio Spurs
CHARLOTTE — De’Aaron Fox needed two extra tenths of a second.
His new team will need more than that.
Romps at the trade deadline don’t guarantee victories against the worst teams in the league, and if the Spurs needed any proof, they got it Friday night. One game after Fox delivered on every absurd expectation in lifting them past the Hawks, his would-have-been-winning flick of the wrist came a twitch after the horn sounded in an ugly loss to the Hornets.
“It went by fast,” Fox said of the 1.4 seconds he was given to catch and shoot on the final play.
Eventually, he’ll have time to catch his breath. After being traded from Sacramento on Sunday, flying halfway across the country for a physical on Monday, then flying across the other half of the country to join the Spurs on their longest trip of the year, it’s no wonder the 27-year-old point guard might have let a tick of the clock get away from him.
But the Spurs didn’t acquire him to be a quick fix. They didn’t acquire him to make a season-altering run during the rodeo. And as fun as this would be, they didn’t acquire him to crash the play-in party in two months.
They added Fox to win a whole bunch of games like Friday’s, against the bottom of the NBA and the top, for the better part of a decade to come. And if his first couple of nights showed anything about their faith in the plan?
It was in those crucial tenths of a second, they already knew where they want the ball to be.
“We’re not going to trust halfway,” Victor Wembanyama said of the Spurs’ repeated late-game reliance on Fox against both Atlanta and Charlotte. “We’re going to trust 100%.”
For the Spurs, Fox is a long-term solution with instant credibility, and the latter is key. When he made it to Atlanta, he’d never had a full practice with his new teammates. They won’t play a game together in their home arena for four weeks. But acting Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson made it clear he didn’t want him to “try to fit in.” He wanted Fox to be Fox.
So in the closing moments against the Hawks, there was no doubt Fox would initiate the action on a drive that created a huge dunk for Wembanyama. And two nights later, there was no doubt who’d be in control during the last two possessions against the Hornets.
On the first, Fox swished a step-back 20-footer with 7.9 seconds left to give the Spurs their first lead since the opening minute. On the second, his twisting 3-pointer found the bottom of the net, but replays showed he released the ball a fraction of a second too late.
It was a brutal end to a bad night, one in which the Spurs got pushed around early by an opponent that had lost the fourth-most games in the league even before throwing their roster into flux with multiple deadline deals. If San Antonio wants to climb back into the play-in race — and the players definitely do — losing to Charlotte is not an ideal way to do it.
Even so, and even though nobody loves hearing it, this season is still more about the future than it is about the present. Yes, it would be great for Wembanyama and Fox to play together in games that matter this April. No, it’s not unfair for fans to say that after laying an egg against The Hornets, the Spurs darn sure better not do the same against the Wizards.
But being willing to be disappointed is part of the process, and nobody understands hat better than Fox does. A couple of seasons ago in Sacramento, he won the NBA’s clutch player of the year award, in part because he wasn’t afraid to take the blame for close losses if things went wrong.
“You have to be okay with not making every shot,” Fox said “And I’m fine with that. I live with those results.”
The Spurs, not trusting merely halfway, will live with them, too.
They will live with them on the rest of this road trip. They’ll live with them when Fox finally gets to make his Frost Bank Center debut. And they hope to live with them long enough for Fox to play in a downtown San Antonio arena, too.
In other words, Fox shouldn’t fret too much. He ran out of time Friday.
The Spurs will give him plenty more.
By Mike Finger, Columnist, via San Antonio Express-News