By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-06-03 21:00:00
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。
马刺十多年前建立的比赛风格，在今天的NBA总决赛中依然存在。
格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich)和“GDP组合”的传奇，首先也是最重要的，永远是关于总冠军的。波波维奇和蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan)一起赢得了五个总冠军，托尼·帕克 (Tony Parker)和马努·吉诺比利 (Manu Ginobili)参与了其中的四个。在1999年、2003年、2005年和2007年的总冠军赛季，马刺队因为其缓慢的节奏、以禁区为主的打法和防守端的统治力而被认为是“沉闷的”。这和当时其他成功的球队并没有什么不同，那时的比赛就是那样，但由于圣安东尼奥是小球市，并且缺乏像科比·布莱恩特 (Kobe Bryant)这样有市场的球星，NBA总裁大卫·斯特恩 (David Stern)公开（且不恰当地）抱怨他们的成功导致电视收视率下降。
然而，随着联盟在他们周围不断发展，并且赢得总冠军不再那么容易，波波维奇知道是时候做出改变了。无私的邓肯接受了一套新的进攻体系，这套体系不再以他为中心，而是更多地转向帕克和吉诺比利的节奏和跑动。波波维奇不像人们印象中那样固执，他开发了一种后来被称为“美丽篮球”的战术，也就是所谓的“.5秒篮球”：在接到球的0.5秒内决定是投篮、传球还是进攻。
这种进攻风格让防守方精疲力竭，再加上丹尼·格林 (Danny Green)、帕蒂·米尔斯 (Patty Mills)、博里斯·迪奥 (Boris Diaw)和蒂亚戈·斯普利特 (Tiago Splitter)等角色球员围绕着“GDP组合”和科怀·伦纳德 (Kawhi Leonard)，最终在2014年赢得了他们所有总冠军中最令人满意的一个——而且实际上受到了国家媒体的称赞，而不是抱怨！
虽然马刺队此后由于一些无需赘述的原因再未夺冠，但他们帮助建立的比赛风格仅仅是一个新篮球时代的开始，并延续至今。由“水花兄弟”率领的金州勇士王朝，凭借着精英级别的三分投射，将其提升到了另一个高度，而精彩的进攻和随时可以在社交媒体上发布精彩集锦的能力，使得这项运动的受欢迎程度呈爆炸式增长。
当然，它也有其弊端，比如球队过于沉迷于三分投射（这导致了数量惊人的30到40分的大比分失利，即使是最好的球队也会在状态不佳的夜晚出现这种情况），但2025年NBA总决赛的两支球队，俄克拉荷马城雷霆和印第安纳步行者，是找到了正确平衡的绝佳例子，他们运用“美丽篮球”来寻找最佳投篮机会，即使它并不总是价值三分。
特别是步行者队，在Thinking Basketball上有一个完整的视频介绍了他们的比赛是如何模仿2014年马刺队的，他们的快速传球和果断的行动正在消耗其他球队的防守。再加上冠军级别的防守，他们是近一段时间以来最令人惊讶和被低估的NBA总决赛球队之一，即使我们或许应该预见到他们的到来。
一些大佬和沿海地区的精英可能会抱怨两支来自内陆的小球市球队进入总决赛——尤其让我感到有趣的是，所有东海岸的人都在嘲笑竟然有人会考虑在俄克拉荷马城和印第安纳波利斯之间（相对较短的）700英里、12小时的车程，而不是直接坐飞机，但是，嘿，我们已经习惯了——但NBA一直在寻求更多的平衡，而现在他们得到了。即使这两支球队是谁，如果他们以正确的方式打球*，它也不会让我感到惊讶，这场总决赛会获得良好的收视率，并表明球队位于何处并不重要。你仍然可以赢得一切。
祈祷谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander)减少造犯规，因为如果没有它，他们也打“美丽篮球”。
点击查看原文：How the Spurs’ “Beautiful Game” lives on today
How the Spurs’ “Beautiful Game” lives on today
The style of play the Spurs founded over a decade ago lives on in today’s NBA Finals.
The legacy of Gregg Popovich and the Big Three will always be about championships first and foremost. Pop and Tim Duncan won five together, and Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili were there for four of them. For the 1999, 2003, ‘05 and ‘07 championships, the Spurs were considered “boring” for their slow pace, post-heavy game, and defensive dominance. It’s not like they were any different than other successful teams or that wasn’t the game was back then, but the small market and lack of a marketable star (like Kobe Bryant) had NBA Commissioner David Stern publicly (and inappropriately) moaning about their success due to lagging TV ratings.
However, as the league evolved around them and the championships stopped coming with relative ease, Pop knew it was time to shake things up. An unselfish Duncan accepted a new offensive scheme that was no longer centered around him but instead shifted more towards the pace and movement of Parker and Ginobili. Not as stubborn as his reputation, Pop developed a scheme that would become known as the Beautiful Game, playing what was known as “.5 ball”: deciding whether to shoot, pass or attack within 0.5 seconds of receiving the ball.
This style of offense was exhausting to defend, and with the right roster of role players such as Danny Green, Patty Mills, Boris Diaw and Tiago Splitter centered around the Big Three and Kawhi Leonard, it led to the most satisfying of all their championships in 2014 — and it was actually praised by the national media instead of begrudged!
Although the Spurs haven’t won again since for reasons that don’t need rehashing, the game they helped built was only the start of a new era of basketball that continues today. The Golden State Warriors dynasty, led by the Splash Bros, took it to another level with elite three-point shooting, and the game exploded in popularity thanks to exciting offense and the ability to post highlights on social media at any given moment.
Of course, it has had its downside, such as teams getting too caught up in three-point shooting (which has led to an oddly high number of 30 to 40-point blowouts on nights when even the best teams just don’t have it), but the two 2025 NBA Finalists, the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers, are prime examples of teams who have found the right balance, using the Beautiful Game to find the best shot, even if it isn’t always worth three points.
The Pacers in particular got an entire video from Thinking Basketball about how their game mimics the 2014 Spurs’, with their quick ball movement and decisive action that is wearing down other defenses. Combine that with a championship-level defense, and they are one of the more surprising and overlooked NBA finalists in quite a while, even though we maybe should have seen them coming.
Some big wigs and coastal elitists may be groaning at two small-market teams from the heartland making the Finals — I’ve been particularly amused at all the East Coasters laughing at the idea anyone would ever consider the (relatively short) 700 mi, 12-hour drive between OKC and Indy when you could just fly, but hey, we’re used to it over here — but the NBA has been seeking more parity, and now they have it. It won’t surprise me if these Finals get good ratings despite who the teams are and show that if you play the game the right way*, it doesn’t matter where your team is located. You can still win it all.
*Praying for less foul-baiting from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, because without it, they play the Beautiful Game, too.
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock