By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-03-26 10:30:00
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糟糕的上半场让马刺队难以克服，尽管下半场表现有所提升。
圣安东尼奥马刺队正值本赛季第二次三连胜的高光时刻，来到底特律面对一支进步显著的活塞队。一个月前，活塞队曾在奥斯汀以相当大的优势击败过他们。看起来，在没有凯德·坎宁安的情况下，如果他们联盟领先的三月份进攻火力能够继续闪耀，他们或许还有机会。但不幸的是，他们回到了现实，第二节表现糟糕，仅命中两个运动战进球，最终导致他们难以摆脱困境，以96-122的比分失利。
活塞队命中了他们的前三次投篮，但马刺队在比赛初期紧随其后，德文·瓦塞尔命中了三个早期的三分球。事实上，马刺队的前四个运动战进球都是三分球，他们在五分钟时以12-11领先。瓦塞尔包揽了球队前14分中的11分，但其他球员都难以得分，马刺队发现自己在几分钟后以20-14落后，并且难以阻止活塞队站上罚球线。布雷克·韦斯利替补出场，短暂地用连续五分打破了僵局，但除此之外，他们根本无法跟上节奏，第一节结束时以22-30落后。
桑德罗·马穆克拉什维利在第二节开始时命中一个三分球，但这将是马刺队在接下来的11分钟里唯一的一个运动战进球，直到瓦塞尔在上半场还剩31秒时上篮得分。这在很大程度上是因为他们在活塞队窒息般的防守下难以找到好的机会，并且经常不得不迫于进攻时间的压力而投出绝望的三分球。他们之间的其他得分都来自罚球线（哈里森·巴恩斯六罚全中，斯蒂芬·卡斯尔一罚一中），他们在经历了一个噩梦般的上半场后，发现自己以34-60落后。
底特律队在下半场开始时连得四分，将领先优势扩大到30分，之后马刺队的进攻终于苏醒，卡斯尔在本节独得15分，他在上半场没有命中任何投篮。他的努力和无所畏惧地攻击活塞队的内线防守，帮助提升了球队在攻防两端的整体表现。他们不断缩小分差，一度将差距缩小到15分，但活塞队，特别是马库斯·萨瑟，总能及时做出回应，阻止任何大规模的反扑，马刺队在进入最后一节时仍然以19分之差落后，比分为69-88。
或许是今晚第一次，两支球队在第四节开始时都全情投入，但这当然意味着他们大部分时间都打成了平手，因此马刺队无法进一步缩小活塞队的领先优势，真正威胁到反扑。这是一个身体对抗更加激烈的 Quarter，两支球队都在中场时进入了奖励状态。由于两支球队大多都在互换得分，约翰逊教练在四分钟时挥舞白旗，开始清空替补席。马刺队的进攻总有一天会回归常态，而底特律队拥有能够做到这一点的防守。
比赛记录
- 通常情况下，如果一支球队命中的三分球比两分球还多，那就意味着他们状态火热，这是一件好事，但如果情况恰恰相反，那就不是了。马刺队上半场只投中了10-45个球（命中率22.2%），其中三分球为6-25。如前所述，这很大程度上归功于活塞队强硬的防守，但马刺队自己也让他们钻了空子，实际上放弃了一些不错的内线机会，转而投三分球。马刺队在下半场表现有所好转，但最终全场投篮命中率仍然惨不忍睹，仅为36.3%，三分球命中率为31.8%。
- 替补席的发挥是本场比赛的另一个重要区别。萨瑟是活塞队替补席上的头号得分手，得到27分，总的来说，底特律队的替补席贡献了60分。与此同时，马刺队替补席只得到37分，其中马穆贡献了11分，凯尔登·约翰逊贡献了10分。杰里米·索汉只打了15分钟，得到2分，目前还不清楚他在这场比赛中的低效率是否是导致他上场时间如此之少的原因，或者这只是约翰逊教练的轮换怪癖之一，只是偶尔会发生，或者他是否通过更多地使用马穆和俾斯麦·比永博来增加阵容的尺寸。无论如何，对于一支通常实力强劲的替补阵容来说，今晚没有任何效果。
- 首发球员的表现也好不到哪里去。除了瓦塞尔（26分，三分球6-12）和卡斯尔（19分，投篮7-15）之外，没有人整晚有任何亮点。克里斯·保罗基本上毫无存在感，在21分钟内得到3分和3次助攻，巴恩斯的外线手感也不佳，他全场9投1中（但仍然得到9分，这要归功于那六次罚球，这帮助马刺队避免了在第二节遭遇更大的灾难）。有点令人惊讶的是，巴恩斯实际上似乎有点畏惧，放弃了几次上篮的机会，而是把球传到外面投三分球，而不是完成进攻。他在这场比赛中没有发挥出他平时的水平。
比赛最佳回合
瓦塞尔和卡斯尔（以及在较小程度上，马穆）是今晚马刺队中仅有的表现出色的球员，所以这里是前者在转换进攻中喂球给后者，因为他们试图在第三节扭转局面。
转换进攻中的妙传 pic.twitter.com/46A7yVakzN
— 圣安东尼奥马刺队 (@ spurs) 2025年3月26日
下一场：周四客场挑战克利夫兰骑士队
马刺队将在东部联盟客场之旅中对阵骑士队，骑士队最近几周表现有点挣扎，但在这个赛季的后期仍然以几乎不可逾越的五场比赛的优势领先他们的赛区。
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Spurs offense comes back to earth in blowout loss to Pistons
A horrible first half was too much for the Spurs to overcome despite a better effort in the second.
Riding high on their second three-game winning streak of the season, the San Antonio Spurs came into to Detroit to face a vastly improved Pistons squad that beat them pretty soundly in Austin a month ago. It seemed like they’d have a chance with no Cade Cunningham and if their league-leading March offense continued to shine, but unfortunately, they came back down to earth with a horrible second quarter in which they only hit two field goals, and that ended up being too big of a hole to dig out of on the way to a 96-122 loss.
The Pistons hit their first three shots, but the Spurs kept pace early thanks to Devin Vassell hitting three early threes. In fact, the Spurs first four field goals were threes as they led 12-11 five minutes in. Overall, he had 11 of their first 14 points, but everyone else struggled to score, and the Spurs found themselves behind 20-14 a few minutes later while struggling to keep the Pistons off the free throw line. Blake Wesley came in off the bench to briefly break the ice with five straight points, but otherwise they just couldn’t keep up and were down 22-30 at the end of the first quarter.
Sandro Mamukelashvili hit a three to open the second quarter, but that would be the Spurs’ only field goal for the next 11 minutes until a Vassell lay-up with 31 seconds left in the half, in large part due to struggling to find good looks against the Pistons’ smothering defense and often having to settle for desperation threes at the end of the shot clock. Their only other points in between came from the free throw line (six for Harrison Barnes, one from Stephon Castle), and they found themselves down 34-60 after a nightmarish first half.
Detroit scored the first four points of the second half to stretch the lead to 30 before the Spurs’ offense finally woke up, led by 15 points from Castle in the quarter after he failed to hit a shot in the first half. His effort and lack of fear attacking the Pistons’ interior defense helped lift up the rest of the team’s effort on both ends. They kept on chipping away, getting as close as 15, but the Pistons, especially Marcus Sasser, always had just enough of an answer to prevent any big runs, and the Spurs were still down by 19, 69-88 heading into the final frame.
For perhaps the first time all night, both teams were fully engaged at the same time to start the fourth quarter, but of course that meant they mostly played even, so the Spurs couldn’t put any more of dent in the Pistons’ lead to truly threaten a comeback. It was a much more physical quarter with both teams in the bonus by midway through. With both teams mostly trading points, Coach Johnson waved the white flag at the four-minute Mark and began emptying the bench. The Spurs offense was bound to come back to earth someday, and Detroit had the defense to make it happen.
Game Notes
- Usually if a team has more made threes than twos, that would mean they’re red hot and would be a good thing, but not when it’s the opposite. The Spurs only hit 10-45 shots (22.2%) in the first half, 6-25 of which were from three. As previously mentioned, a lot of that was credit to the Pistons’ stiffing defense, but the Spurs themselves allowed them to get in their heads and actually passed up some decent chances in the paint for three-pointers. The Spurs were better in the second half but still finished the game with putrid shooting percentages of 36.3% from the field, 31.8% from three.
- Bench production was another big difference in this game. Sasser was the Pistons’ leading scorer with 27 points off the bench, and overall, Detroit got 60 points from its second unit. Meanwhile, the Spurs only got 37 points from the bench, led by Mamu’s 11 and Keldon Johnson’s 10. Jeremy Sochan only had 2 points in just 15 minutes, and it’s not clear if his ineffectiveness is this game is why his minutes were so low, if it was one of Coach Johnson’s rotation quirks that just happens sometimes, or if he was going with more size by playing Mamu and Bismack Biyombo more. Regardless, nothing worked well for a usually strong second unit tonight.
- The starters weren’t much better than the bench. No one outside of Vassell (26 points, 6-12 from three) and Castle (19 points, 7-15 from the field) had anything going all night. Chris Paul was basically a no-show with 3 points and 3 assists in 21 minutes, and the outside stroke just wasn’t there for Barnes as he finished just 1-9 from the field (but still had 9 points thanks to those six free throws that helped save the Spurs from a an even bigger disaster in the second quarter). Somewhat surprisingly, Barnes actually seemed a little intimidated out there, passing up several driving lay-up attempts back out for threes instead of finishing the play. He just wasn’t his usual self in this one.
Play of the Game
Vassell and Castle (and to a lesser extent, Mamu) were the only Spurs who played well tonight, so here’s the former feeding the latter in transition as they attempted to make it a game in the third quarter.
dishin’ in transition pic.twitter.com/46A7yVakzN
— San Antonio Spurs (@ spurs) March 26, 2025
Up next: Thursday at Cleveland Cavaliers
The Spurs will end their Eastern Conference road trip against a Cavs team that has struggled a bit in recent weeks but is still leading their conference by a nearly insurmountable five games this late in the season,
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock