By Michael C. Wright | ESPN, 2025-02-16 10:31:00
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旧金山——克利夫兰骑士队(多诺万·米切尔(Donovan Mitchell)和埃文·莫布里(Evan Mobley))周六晚在起亚技巧挑战赛决赛中以1分0.03秒的成绩击败了金州勇士队(德雷蒙德·格林(Draymond Green)和摩西·穆迪(Moses Moody))，但比赛并非毫无争议地结束。
圣安东尼奥马刺队(克里斯·保罗(Chris Paul)和维克多·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama))认为他们在障碍赛的规则中找到了漏洞，这项比赛要求球员们以高速通过各个站点进行各种传球和投篮练习。然而，两人发现自己因未能在第一轮中完成三次有效的投篮尝试而被取消比赛资格。
保罗和文班亚马放弃了除一次（文班亚马的扣篮）之外的所有投篮，专注于执行传球，在官员取消马刺队资格之前，他们以47.9秒的时间完成了首轮比赛。
“我的意思是，如果挑战赛允许我们这样做，那就是一个漏洞，”文班亚马说，他表示马刺队不投篮的策略是他的主意。“这意味着我们没问题。”
首轮训练包括一系列传球，之后球员们到达一个放满球的架子进行投篮。马刺队没有试图将球投入篮筐，而是将球扔向篮筐的大致方向，并没有尝试连接。他们加快完成首轮比赛的努力最终付诸东流。
由于被取消资格，保罗参加技巧挑战赛六次，却从未获胜。据ESPN研究显示，他参加的六次比赛比其他任何球员都多两次，是退役的马刺传奇球星托尼·帕克(Tony Parker)的两倍。
“我们尝试了一种我们认为可以获胜的方法，看看我们是否能获得最佳成绩，”保罗说，他在被取消资格后向官员们辩解了马刺队的情况。
格林提到，文班亚马在比赛前曾向多位联盟官员询问马刺队不投篮的策略是否合法。
“看到他们那样扔球，肯定让人难受，”格林说。“但我要说的是，文班在球场上走来走去，问每个人，因为他们说要尝试一次或三次。所以文班亚马说，‘哦，我可以把这三个球都投到那里吗？’所以他问了。他可能没有问对人。但我要为文班亚马辩护，他问了很多人。我听到他问了五六个人。”
根据技巧挑战赛的规则，球员最多需要进行三次有效的尝试，或者在继续前进之前投中一球。
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Wembanyama, Paul DQ’d for not taking ‘valid’ shots in skills event
SAN FRANCISCO – Team Cavs (Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley) bested Team Warriors (Draymond Green and Moses Moody) in the final of the Kia Skills Challenge on Saturday night with a time of 1:00.03, but the event didn’t end without mild controversy.
Team Spurs (Chris Paul and Victor Wembanyama) thought it found a loophole in the rules in the obstacle course that features players speeding through stations with various passing and shooting drills. Instead, the duo found itself disqualified from the competition after the first round for failing to complete their sequence with three valid shot attempts.
Eschewing all shots but one (a Wembanyama dunk) in favor of concentrating on executing the passes, Paul and Wembanyama finished the opening round with a time of 47.9 seconds before officials disqualified the Spurs duo.
“I mean, if the challenge lets us do that, there’s a loophole,” said Wembanyama, who said Team Spurs’ non-shooting tactic was his idea. “It means we’re not a problem.”
The opening-round drill consisted of a variety of passes before the players reached a rack of balls to shoot. Instead of attempting to sink those balls, Team Spurs tossed them in the general direction of the basket without trying to connect. Their effort to speed up the finish to their opening round went for naught.
With the disqualification, Paul now has gone six times in the Skills Challenge without a win. His six appearances are two more than any other player and twice as many as any player besides retired Spurs legend Tony Parker, according to ESPN Research.
“We tried something that we thought could win to see if we had the best time,” said Paul, who pleaded Team Spurs’ case to officials in the aftermath of the disqualification.
Green mentioned that Wembanyama had asked multiple league officials before the competition about the legality of Team Spurs’ strategy of not taking shots.
“It definitely sucked to see them throwing the ball like that,” Green said. “What I will say is Wemby walked around the court asking everybody because they say make one or three attempts. So Wemby said, ‘Oh, I can just get all three of them up there?’ So he asked. He may not have asked the right people. But I will say in Wemby’s defense he asked a lot of people. I heard him ask five or six people.”
According to Skills Challenge rules, players need to take a maximum three valid attempts or make a shot before moving on.
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