By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-04-12 12:58:00
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。
马刺在半场后让所有主力休息，一场原本势均力敌的比赛迅速变成了一场惨败。
在经历自2019年以来首次压哨绝杀的兴奋之后，圣安东尼奥马刺队前往菲尼克斯，结束了为期四场的客场之旅，并打完了2024-25赛季的最后一场客场比赛。尽管球队缺少了德文·瓦塞尔(Devin Vassell)和凯尔登·约翰逊(Keldon Johnson)（以及维克托·文班亚马(Victor Wembanyama)、达龙·福克斯(De’Aaron Fox)和杰里米·索汉(Jeremy Sochan)），但马刺在比赛的前16分钟表现更好。然而，太阳队在第二节结束前火力全开，而米奇·约翰逊(Mitch Johnson)在下半场几乎让所有轮换球员都得到了休息。最终的结果是一场117-98的惨败，马刺最多曾落后31分，但在垃圾时间里稍稍挽回了一些颜面。
朱利安·尚帕尼(Julian Champagnie)顶替瓦塞尔首发，他以一次抢断和两个转换三分拉开了比赛的序幕，随后助攻俾斯麦·比永博(Bismack Biyombo)拿下马刺前八分。总的来说，他和斯蒂芬·卡斯尔(Stephon Castle)合力贡献了马刺前19分中的17分，帮助球队在中段以19-13领先。缺少凯文·杜兰特(Kevin Durant)的太阳队最初通过冲击前场篮板和命中一些关键三分来咬住比分。他们一度在一次马刺失误后由德文·布克(Devin Booker)投进三分，短暂地取得了本场比赛的首次领先，但马刺替补席立即回应了一波9-0的攻势，在12分钟后以33-28领先。
马拉基·布兰纳姆(Malaki Branham)在第二节开始时命中一记三分并完成一次突破扣篮，将领先优势扩大到两位数，但马刺的情况很快就开始崩盘。在比赛进行到四分钟后，他们在第一次暂停时仍然以42-33领先9分，但进攻端开始变得松散，而泰厄斯·琼斯(Tyus Jones)则带领太阳打出一波13-3的攻势，重新取得领先，迫使马刺在四分钟后请求暂停。马刺在进攻端寻找机会的努力继续受挫，太阳队将这波攻势扩大到20-5，以53-47领先结束上半场。
布雷克·韦斯利(Blake Wesley)和桑德罗·马穆克拉什维利(Sandro Mamukelashvili)在下半场顶替克里斯·保罗(Chris Paul)和哈里森·巴恩斯(Harrison Barnes)出场，后者通过打完上半场保持了他们完美的出勤记录。由于马刺队突然只剩下卡斯尔和尚帕尼两名轮换球员（如果算上比永博就是三名），并且德文·布克(Devin Booker)在进攻端找到了状态，太阳队开始了一波15-4的攻势，将领先优势扩大到17分。太阳队现在火力全开（并非双关语），在一支防守端显得毫无斗志的马刺残阵面前，他们在转换进攻中予取予求。太阳队将领先优势扩大到31分，总的来说，马刺在第三节以17-39落后，以64-92进入最后一节。
卡斯尔出人意料地在第四节开始时重新上场，现在轮到马刺在太阳队的三阵出场后打出转换进攻。他们以一波23-9的攻势开局，在比赛还剩六分钟时将分差缩小到14分，但科林·吉莱斯皮(Collin Gillespie)连续投进两记三分，将领先优势重新扩大到20分，基本上结束了马刺残阵在还剩13分钟时落后31分的情况下上演“史上最伟大逆转”的任何希望。
这场胜利结束了太阳队的八连败，但对他们来说为时已晚，因为他们已经失去了参加附加赛的资格。与此同时，这场失利也锁定了马刺在选秀抽签中获得第八顺位的概率。
比赛花絮
- 对于卡斯尔来说，这是一场由四个节组成的比赛。他在第一节表现出色，5投5中得到12分和3次助攻，但在中间两节，他成为了比赛变得混乱的原因之一。令人有些惊讶的是他在第四节回归，但他表现得更好，并在那波巨大的攻势中发挥了作用，短暂地让比赛变得有趣。尽管表现不均衡，但他仍然以16分和10次助攻完成了两双。
- 有时感觉马穆克拉什维利在尼克斯的比赛中用光了他在篮球之神面前的所有好感，他在那场比赛中14投13中，三分球7投7中得到34分。从那以后，他的投篮命中率低于40%，并且在本场比赛前49投仅14中。今晚的情况有所好转，至少在内线方面，他16投8中得到19分（三分球5投1中），并且以9个篮板险些获得两双。
- 朱利安·尚帕尼以23分领先马刺全队，他9投6中。他的很多进球都是在爆发中出现的，与卡斯尔类似，他在第一节和第四节表现出色，但在中间两节基本上隐身。我们很少看到尚帕尼在整个48分钟内都保持火热状态的比赛（他是冰火0.5——在比赛中时冷时热），因此如果他能找到更多比赛中的稳定性，他将继续成为马刺下赛季看起来会很棒的替补阵容中的一个强大武器。
最佳表现
我想马刺对这场比赛也不感兴趣。他们没有保存太多精彩集锦，所以这里是马穆克拉什维利在第四节反击时找到韦斯利的快攻传球。
布雷克·韦斯利一路杀到底pic.twitter.com/B8L7N7OGv9
— 圣安东尼奥马刺 (@ spurs) 2025年4月12日
下一场：周日主场对阵猛龙
马刺将在主场对阵多伦多猛龙队，结束2024-25赛季。比赛将于美国中部时间下午2:30在FanDuel Sports举行。
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Shorthanded Spurs get blown out by Suns in final road game of the season
The Spurs sat everyone after halftime, and a competitive game quickly turned into a blowout loss.
Coming off the high of their first buzzer-beater win since 2019, the San Antonio Spurs headed over to Phoenix to end a four-game road trip and play their final away game of the 2024-25 season. Despite being without Devin Vassell and Keldon Johnson (as well as Victor Wembanyama, De’Aaron Fox and Jeremy Sochan), the Spurs were the better team for the first 16 minutes of the game, but the Suns got hot to close the second quarter, and Mitch Johnson rested almost the entire rotation for the second half. The result was a blowout loss, 117-98, in which the Spurs had down by as much as 31 points before making things a little more respectable in extended garbage time.
Julian Champagnie, who started in place of Vassell, kicked things off with a steal and two transition threes before assisting Biyombo for Spurs first eight points. Overall he and Stephon Castle combined for 17 of the Spurs’ first 19 points as they got out to a 19-13 lead midway through. The Kevin Durant-less Suns initially kept up by attacking the offensive glass and hitting some timely threes. They briefly took their first lead of the game on a Devin Booker three off a Spurs turnover, but the Spurs bench immediately responded with an 9-0 run and led 33-28 after 12 minutes.
Malaki Branham opened the second quarter with a three and driving dunk to get the lead out to double figures, but things would soon fall apart for the Spurs. They still led by 9, 42-33 at the first timeout after four minutes, but things got sloppy on offense while Tyus Jones helped spear a 13-3 Suns run to retake the lead, forcing a Spurs timeout four minutes later. The Spurs’ struggles finding decent looks on offense continued, and the Suns extended that run to 20-5 to close the half leading 53-47.
Blake Wesley and Sandro Mamukelashvili started the second half in place of Chris Paul and Harrison Barnes, who kept their perfect attendance records intact by playing in the first half. With the Spurs suddenly down to just two rotation players in Castle and Champagnie (three if you want to count Biyombo) and with Devin Booker finding his groove on offense, Phoenix started the on an 15-4 run to get the lead out to 17. The Suns were now red hot (no pun intended), getting everything they wanted in transition against a skeleton Spurs squad that appeared checked out on defense. They got the lead as high as 31, and overall the Spurs were outscored 39-17 in the third and down 64-92 heading into the final frame.
Castle somewhat surprisingly checked back in to start the fourth quarter, and it was the Spurs’ turn to get out in transition with the Suns third string finally coming in. They kicked things off with a 23-9 run to get as close as 14 with six minutes to go, but two straight threes from Collin Gillespie got the lead back out to 20, essentially ending any hope the Skeleton Spurs had of making “the greatest comeback ever” after being down by 31 with just over 13 minutes to go.
The win ended the Suns’ 8-game skid, but it was too little, too late for them as they were already eliminated from play-in contention. At the same time, the loss also locks the Spurs into 8th place in lottery odds.
Game Notes
- The was a tale of four quarters for Castle, who was hot in the first quarter with 12 points and 3 assists on 5-5 shooting, but in the middle quarters, he was part of the problem with the play turning sloppy. It was somewhat surprising to see him return in the fourth quarter, but he was better and played a role in that huge run to briefly make things interesting. Despite the uneven performance, he still finished with a double-double of 16 points and 10 assists.
- Sometimes it has felt like Mamu used up all of his good will with the basketball gods in that Knicks game in which he scored 34 points on 13-14 from the field, 7-7 from three. Since then, he has shot under 40% from the field while hitting just 14-49 from three heading into this game. Tonight was better, at least from the inside, as he scored 19 points on 8-16 shooting (1-5 from three) and nearly had a double-double with 9 rebounds.
- Julian Champagnie had led all Spurs with 23 points on 6-9 shooting from the field. A lot of his makes come in spurts, and similar to Castle, he was hot in the first and fourth quarter but mostly invisible in the middle two. We’ve rarely seen a game where Champagnie stays hot the entire 48 minutes (he’s Icy-Hot 0.5 — goes hot and cold within games), so if he can find more in-game consistency, he will continue to be a strong weapon off what looks like will be a great bench unit for the Spurs next season.
Play of the Game
I guess the Spurs didn’t find this game interesting either. They didn’t save many highlights to work with, so here’s Mamu finding Wesley on the outlets pass while they fought back in the fourth quarter.
Blake Wesley all the way pic.twitter.com/B8L7N7OGv9
— San Antonio Spurs (@ spurs) April 12, 2025
Up next: Sunday vs. Raptors
The Spurs will close out the 2024-25 season at home against the Toronto Raptors. Tip-off will be at 2:30 PM CT on FanDuel Sports.
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock