By Jeje Gomez | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-02-21 08:11:40
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。
马刺队的赛季已经结束，因此重点应该转移到未来，以确保文班亚马回归时拥有最好的支持阵容。
所有人都不想听到的消息还是宣布了。文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)在被诊断出肩部深静脉血栓后，将缺席本赛季剩余的所有比赛。
对于文班亚马和马刺队来说，这是一个令人担忧的时刻，因为如果凝血问题持续存在，这位明星内线的职业生涯可能会受到威胁。幸运的是，球队似乎对完全康复以及明年文班可以复出持乐观态度。
在没有更多信息的情况下进行推测是不负责任的，因此目前的工作假设是，圣安东尼奥的这位超级球星将在下赛季回归。考虑到这一前提，让我们来看看关于文班的消息对球队意味着什么。
短期来看时机糟糕，但长期来看是好事
没有人可以取代像文班亚马这样优秀的球员，但如果这个消息提前几周公布，马刺队至少可以尝试引进一位有实力的内线球员，以挽救这个赛季。唉，交易截止日已经过去，现在几乎没有其他选择来填补文班亚马的缺席在圣安东尼奥中锋轮换中留下的巨大空缺。一支原本在这个位置上就人手不足，并且因为他们的替补内线球员的能力不足而选择打小阵容的球队，现在发现自己处于一个令人羡慕的境地，不得不即兴解决失去联盟中最具影响力的内线球员之一的问题。就本赛季而言，诊断的时机再糟糕不过了。
然而，从长远来看，前景更加积极。最令人鼓舞的一点是，文班亚马应该有足够的时间接受治疗，并有望及时康复以备战下个赛季。训练营还有七个月的时间，因此在进入2025-26赛季时，应该可以清楚地了解文班的可用性。如果这种不幸的情况发生在今年早些时候，球迷们不仅会错过见证文班的崛起，而且马刺队很可能无法得到德埃隆·福克斯。如果它发生在今年晚些时候，治疗的时间表将会更加紧张。目前圣安东尼奥在积分榜上已经退出了附加赛的争夺，因此文班亚马并没有像蒂姆·邓肯在2000年赛季那样错过一个争夺冠军的年份。
如果文班亚马明年回归，正如球队所期望的那样，重建仍然完全按计划进行。他的缺席将使本赛季的剩余时间变得不那么愉快，但它不会扰乱圣安东尼奥精心制定的打造一支冠军球队的计划。
赛季已经结束，马刺队应该这样对待它
虽然没有足够的时间完全摆烂，但马刺队应该认为他们的赛季已经结束，并采取相应的行动。没有必要假装这支没有文班亚马的球队能够进入附加赛。即使他们最大的球星在自己的上场时间里占据主导地位，但今年仍然处于转型期，而这一消息只是证实了这一点。考虑到这一点，管理层和教练组应该彻底改变他们处理本赛季剩余时间的方式。这并不意味着他们应该竭尽全力尝试输球，但没有必要兼顾赢得比赛和发展球员这两个平行目标。优先级应该完全转移到后者，即使这意味着必须做出一些艰难的决定。
查尔斯·巴锡应该得到一切机会来证明他可以成为联盟中的轮换中锋，只要他恢复健康。马刺队投入的资金不多，但为他分配了两个赛季的阵容名额，目前尚不清楚他是否值得。弄清楚这一点是必须的。在较小的程度上，同样适用于马刺队球员马刺队球员马拉基·布兰纳姆和布雷克·韦斯利，他们获得了更多的机会，并且将在下个赛季签订合同。克里斯·保罗和哈里森·巴恩斯将获得上场时间，他们的领导才能可能对一支失去了教练和超级球星的年轻球队继续具有宝贵的价值，但应该共同努力为像斯蒂芬·卡斯尔(Stephon Castle)和杰里米·索汉(Jeremy Sochan)这样的年轻球员找到上场时间。即使像德文·瓦塞尔和凯尔登·约翰逊这样的年轻老将也应该看到他们的角色增加，因为管理层评估他们在未来的作用。德埃隆·福克斯现在应该被认为是核心。
赢得比赛以进入附加赛的目标已经消失。这并不意味着马刺队应该公然摆烂，但这确实意味着他们应该将所有注意力转移到未来，并在人事和轮换决策方面采取相应的行动。
关于文班亚马健康问题的消息是毁灭性的。没有必要以其他方式解读它。一位显然热爱比赛的年轻球星将在本赛季的剩余时间里缺席，而这已经是最好的情况了。这里没有一线希望，没有人可以责怪球迷们放弃了本赛季，只关心文班的康复。
马刺队的决策者没有这种奢侈。他们需要继续提高球队的实力，以便当文班亚马回归时，他将拥有他的天赋应得的支持阵容。接下来的几个月对球队来说将是巨大的，因此希望所有相关人员都能抓住机会，并在他们可以控制的范围内做到最好，以至少减轻球队面临的不幸情况带来的负面影响。
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What Victor Wembanyama being out for the season means for the Spurs
The Spurs’ season is over, so the focus should shift to the future to make sure Wembanyama has the best supporting cast for when he returns.
The news no one wanted to hear was announced. Victor Wembanyama will miss the rest of the season after being diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis in his shoulder.
It’s a scary time for both Wembanyama and the Spurs, as the star big man’s career could be in jeopardy if the clotting issues are persistent. Fortunately, the franchise seems optimistic about a full recovery and the chance of having Wemby available next year.
It would be reckless to speculate with no more information available, so at this point, the working assumption is that San Antonio’s superstar will return next season. With that foundation in mind, let’s take a look at what the news about Wemby means for the team.
The timing is bad in the short term but good in the long term
There’s no replacing someone as good as Wembanyama, but if the news had come out a few weeks earlier, the Spurs could have at least attempted to get a quality big man to try to salvage the season. Alas, the trade deadline came and went and there are now very few options to plug the major hole Wembanyama’s absence leaves in San Antonio’s center rotation. A team that was already thin at that position and was electing to play small because of the inadequacies of their backup bigs now finds itself in the unenviable position of having to improvise a solution to losing one of the most impactful big men in the league. The timing of the diagnosis, as far as this season is concerned, could not be worse.
Taking the long view, however, presents a more positive outlook. The most encouraging aspect is that Wembanyama should have plenty of time to undergo treatment and hopefully recover in time for next season. Training camp is seven months away, so heading into 2025-26 there should be clarity about Wemby’s availability. Had the unfortunate situation happened earlier in the year, fans would have not only missed out on witnessing Wemby’s ascent but also the Spurs would have likely not been able to get De’Aaron Fox. Had it happened later in the year, the timeline for treatment would have been tighter. Right now San Antonio is out of the play-in in the standings, so Wembanyama is not missing a contending year, like Tim Duncan did in the 2000 season.
If Wembanyama returns next year, as the team expects him to, the rebuild remains perfectly on schedule. His absence will make the rest of the season less enjoyable but it won’t disrupt San Antonio’s meticulous plan to build a winner.
The season is over and the Spurs should treat it as such
While there’s not enough time to fully tank, the Spurs should consider their season over and act accordingly. There’s no need to pretend that the team, without Wembanyama, can make the play-in. Even with their biggest star dominating his minutes, the year was shaping up to be transitional and the news just confirms it. With that in mind, the front office and the coaching staff should completely change how they approach the rest of the season. It doesn’t mean they should go all out to try to lose, but there’s no need to juggle the parallel goals of winning and development. The priority should shift fully to the latter, even if it means having to make some tough decisions.
Charles Bassey should get every chance to prove he can be a rotation center in the league, as soon as he’s healthy. The Spurs invested little money but allotted him a roster spot for two seasons and it’s unclear if he’s worth one. Figuring that out is a must. To a lesser extent, the same applies to Malaki Branham and Blake Wesley, who’ve had more opportunities and will be under contract next season. Chris Paul and Harrison Barnes will get minutes and their leadership could continue to be invaluable to a young team that has lost its coach and superstar for the year, but there should be a concerted effort to find playing time for younger players like Stephon Castle and Jeremy Sochan. Even young veterans like Devin Vassell and Keldon Johnson should see their roles increase as the front office evaluates their part in the future. De’Aaron Fox should be considered the centerpiece, for now.
The goal of winning to make the play-in is gone. It doesn’t mean the Spurs should blatantly tank, but it does mean they should shift all their focus to the future and act accordingly in terms of personnel and rotational decisions.
The news about Wembanyama’s health problems is devastating. There’s no need to spin it any other way. A young star who clearly loves the game will be sidelined for the rest of the season, and that’s the best-case scenario. There are no silver linings here and no one can blame fans for checking out on the season and only caring about Wemby’s recovery.
The Spurs’ decision-makers don’t have that luxury. They need to continue to improve the team so that when Victor Wembanyama is back, he’ll have the supporting cast his talent deserves. The next few months will be massive for the franchise, so hopefully everyone involved will rise to the occasion and excel at what they can control to at least mitigate the negative impact of the unfortunate situation facing the team.
By Jeje Gomez, via Pounding The Rock