By Charlie Thaddeus | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-03-12 01:28:17
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。
我想现在下车
我已经不再享受这个赛季了。说实话，我尽力了，努力坚持计划，好好看球，但我挣扎了。球队感觉像是失去了动力，每场比赛都开始变得像是一项苦差事。这并没有削弱我对球队或其未来的热情，但这个特殊的赛季已经脱轨了。而且在这一点上，我认为我们已经过了不归路。
现在输给这支独行侠队几乎是不可原谅的。他们没有球员（字面意义上）！他们刚刚遭受了一场篮球创伤，其灾难性程度之大，冲击波仍在联盟中蔓延。他们的球迷公开反抗。他们的短期和长期计划都泡汤了。然而，尽管如此，他们还是来到了圣安东尼奥，并以四分的优势获胜。你还能说什么呢？
马刺队看起来心不在焉，毫无动力。他们会在短时间内得分，然后立即回到他们追求的目标，即跌落到所有防守指标的底部。似乎什么都不重要。感觉就像在看一群高得离谱的家伙之间的训练赛。
也许只是近因效应，但我记不清看过哪场比赛比这场更无聊。毫无激情。毫无热情。毫无意义。很多次，我发现自己在想，我们到底在这里做什么？ 这可不好！这绝对不是这一切的目的。这与我所相信的关于体育的一切背道而驰，至少，它们应该是有趣的。
然而，昨晚却不是。
我想专注于球员培养。我想看德阿隆·福克斯(De’Aaron Fox)和斯蒂芬·卡斯尔(Stephon Castle)，并找到一些可以抓住的东西。但现在，这感觉像是家庭作业。一些违背我意愿的任务。我凝视着窗外在课间玩耍的孩子们，而现实敲着我的桌子，提醒我完成我的报告。
真的，这不是任何人的错。这只是我现在的状态。
我只是心情不好。再说一次，我没有生气。我甚至没有失望。只是失去了幻想。又是一个夜晚，走过场，完成一个注定失败的赛季。
当终场哨声响起时，我甚至无法鼓起劲来对失利感到沮丧。天啊，我甚至没有因为摆烂的目的而“高兴”。我只是耸耸肩，凝视着远方，再一次问自己：
我们到底在这里做什么？
要点：
- 我愿意承认，我对今晚比赛的一些不满可能要归咎于背靠背因素起了很大作用。我也觉得这支马刺队有点顺着他们目前面对的对手来打。比如，前几天的雷霆队比赛？那很有趣。每个人都对那场比赛感到兴奋。国王队的比赛？福克斯回家？每个人都为此兴奋起来。但昨晚，面对可怜的独行侠队，他们只是…我的意思是，我认为他们的整个事情太令人沮丧了，也许只是影响了我。不能排除这种可能性。无论如何，这场比赛真的很糟糕，我坚持这一点。
- 我非常喜欢凯尔登·约翰逊(Keldon Johnson)。我现在没有任何关于他作为球员的深刻见解，至少没有什么我以前没说过的，但我就是喜欢他。他打得很努力，而且他似乎喜欢成为一名马刺球员。我不知道他是否会参与到球队的下一个阶段，但我知道，如果他真的离开，我会非常想念他。
效率格局。有什么突出的地方？pic.twitter.com/IsPvfSuTgY
— Kirk Goldsberry (@ kirkgoldsberry) 2025年3月7日
- 自从文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)受伤以来，看到马刺队的标志沿着防守效率轴线下滑真是令人沮丧。失去年度最佳防守球员会造成这种情况是可以理解的，而且很有道理，但看到这种情况仍然令人难过。老实说，在看了我们最近的比赛后，我对竟然还有球队排在我们之下感到非常震惊。嘿，费城！天啊！
- 我认为福克斯的比赛中最酷的部分，至少从我作为一名马刺球员观看他的比赛的早期回报来看，是他传球比赛的独特之处。他总是将自己的身体绕过防守者，扔出单手火箭般的传球，或者以 45 度角跳到空中，然后将球横传给一个原本不应该在他的雷达范围内的人。我不得不想象，当他年轻还在发展时，这对于国王队的球迷来说是令人恼火的，而且就像把球扔出界外或其他什么，但我真的很享受我们现在掌握的更成熟和更有控制力的产品。
ST3PH
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— 圣安东尼奥马刺 (@ spurs) 2025年3月11日
赛后新闻发布会上我们学到了什么
- 你看起来很沮丧。
- 我就是很沮丧，谢谢你注意到！
- 我的意思是，你并没有试图隐藏它。
- 不，我没有。听着，你有时必须写下你的感受，昨晚让我很沮丧。事情可能没有看起来那么糟糕，我可能会在下一场比赛中感觉好些，但这场比赛真的很糟糕，我唯一知道如何处理它的方法就是把感觉表达出来。
- 考虑到所有因素，这可能是有益健康的。
- 我读到的就是这样，是的。听着，我很想被提振起来！告诉我我错了！告诉我为什么我需要更加投入！告诉我为什么这个赛季不是彻底的失败，以及为什么我不应该直接退出，开始观看棒球春季训练赛，因为至少那些比赛不会伤害我。
- 春季训练赛可能会伤害你，别被愚弄了。
- 唉，我知道。你不能让春季训练赛偷袭了你。
点击查看原文：What We Learned from the Spurs loss to the Mavericks
What We Learned from the Spurs loss to the Mavericks
I’d like to get off now
I’m no longer having fun with this season. I tried my best, honestly, to bear down, stick to the plan, and just watch some basketball, but I’m struggling. The team feels checked out, and every game is starting to feel like a chore. This hasn’t dampened my enthusiasm for the team or its future, but this particular campaign has gone off the rails. And at this point, I think we’re past the point of no return.
Losing to this Mavs team right now is almost inexcusable. They have no players (literally)! They just suffered a basketball trauma so catastrophic the shockwaves are still rippling through the league. Their fans are in open revolt. Their short- and long-term plans are in the toilet. And yet, despite all of that, they came into San Antonio and won by four. What are you even supposed to say about that?
The Spurs looked unfocused and unmotivated. They’d score in short bursts, then go right back to their quest to plummet to the bottom of every defensive metric in existence. Nothing seemed to matter. It felt like watching a scrimmage between a bunch of unreasonably tall guys.
Maybe it’s just recency bias, but I can’t remember watching a basketball game I’ve enjoyed less. Zero juice. Zero enthusiasm. Zero point to it. Multiple times, I caught myself thinking, What are we even doing here? That’s not great! That’s decidedly not the point of all this. It runs counter to everything I believe about sports, which is that, at the very least, they’re supposed to be fun.
And yet, last night wasn’t.
I want to get locked in on player development. I want to watch De’Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle and find something to latch onto. But right now, it feels like homework. Something assigned to me against my will. I’m staring out the window at the kids playing at recess while reality taps my desk, reminding me to finish my report.
It’s nobody’s fault, really. That’s just where I’m at.
I’m just having a bad time. Again, I wasn’t mad. I wasn’t even disappointed. Just disenchanted. Another night of going through the motions, playing out the string of a lost season.
When the final whistle blew, I couldn’t even muster the energy to be upset about the loss. Shoot, I wasn’t even “happy*”* about it for tanking purposes. I just shrugged, stared off into the distance, and asked myself one more time:
What are we even doing here?
Takeaways:
- I’m willing to admit that some of my issues with tonight’s game could be chalked up to the back-to-back factor playing a large role. I also feel like this Spurs team kind of plays along with whatever opponent they’re currently facing. Like, the Thunder game the other night? That was fun. Everyone was pumped for that one. The Kings game? Fox coming home? Everyone got up for that one. Last night though, against the poor Mavs who just…I mean I think their whole deal is so depressing that it maybe just rubbed off on me. Can’t rule that out. Regardless, this game really stunk and I stand by that.
- I like Keldon Johnson a lot. I don’t have any cool insight about him as a player right now, at least nothing I haven’t said before, but I just like him. He plays hard and he seems to like being a Spur. I have no idea if he’s going to be around for the next phase of things, but I know that If he does leave that I will miss him terribly.
The Efficiency Landscape. What Jumps Out? pic.twitter.com/IsPvfSuTgY
— Kirk Goldsberry (@ kirkgoldsberry) March 7, 2025
- It’s been a real bummer to watch that Spurs logo sliiiiiiiiiiiiide on down the Defensive efficiency axis since the Wembanyama injury. It’s understandable and make a lot of sense that losing the Defensive Player of the year would do that, but it still hurts to see. Honestly, after watching us play recently, I’m pretty shocked their are teams below us. Hey Philadelphia! Yikes!
- I think the coolest part of Fox’s game to me, at least from the early returns of watching him as a Spur, is the unique look he has to his passing game. He’s always sort of angling his body around defenders to throw one handed rockets or jumping up in the air at 45 degrees and tossing it cross court to someone that shouldn’t have been on his radar in the first place. I have to imagine this was maddening as a Kings fan when he was younger and still developing and like, whipping balls out of bounds or whatever, but I’m really enjoying the more finished and in control product we’ve got on our hands now.
ST3PH
— San Antonio Spurs (@ spurs) March 11, 2025
What We Learned Post Game Press Conference
- You seem down.
- I AM down, thanks for noticing!
- I mean, it wasn’t like you were trying to hide it really.
- No, no I wasn’t. Look, you have to just write what you feel sometimes, and last night bummed me out. Things probably aren’t as bad as they seem and I’ll probably feel better during the next game, but this one just stunk and the only way I know how to deal with it is to get the feelings out.
- That’s probably healthy to do, all things considered.
- That’s what I’ve read, yea. Look, I’d love to be picked up! Tell me I’m wrong! Tell me why I need to lock in more! Tell me why this season isn’t a total bust and that I shouldn’t just check out and start watching baseball spring training games because at least those can’t hurt me.
- Spring Training game can hurt you, don’t be fooled.
- Ugh, I know. You can’t let Sprint Training sneak up on you.
By Charlie Thaddeus, via Pounding The Rock