By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-07-10 22:01:56
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。
哈珀将于周六对阵独行侠的比赛中迎来首秀。
NBA夏季联赛可能是一场混乱的体验。它更像是观看一支全新的发展联盟扩军球队的首场季前赛，而不是一场真正的NBA比赛，但有时也会有一些备受期待的比赛，比如维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 在2023年的首秀，以及今晚库珀·弗拉格 (Cooper Flagg) 的登场。
多数情况下，选秀高顺位球员只会打一两场比赛，因为他们没有什么需要证明的，通常会被限制出场以避免不必要的伤病，这样球队就能将注意力集中在那些更不为人知的球员身上。而且有时，他们也能令人兴奋！看看马刺队这些年发掘的一些瑰宝，比如加里·尼尔 (Gary Neal) 和乔纳森·西蒙斯 (Jonathon Simmons)，以及今年在加利福尼亚经典赛中爆发的大卫·琼斯-加西亚 (David Jones-Garcia)，也许他会是新的惊喜。
尽管马刺球迷在旧金山已经见到了首轮第14顺位新秀卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant)，但更受期待的拉斯维加斯夏季联赛今晚才正式拉开帷幕。榜眼秀迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 预计不会在今晚为马刺队出战，但他有望在周六对阵达拉斯独行侠队的比赛中完成首秀。如果弗拉格如期登场，那将是夏季联赛中那种让你“拥抱混乱”，尽情享受，同时又不必对比赛的起伏过于认真的比赛。
考虑到所有这些，以下是《The Ringer》杂志在其夏季联赛前瞻中对马刺队的评价：
马刺队是否已经集齐了他们的最终核心拼图？
马刺队已经在加利福尼亚经典赛中打了几场夏季联赛，但出于谨慎，在球队认为他腹股沟轻微受伤后，他们选择将迪伦·哈珀的职业生涯首秀留到拉斯维加斯。这将对哈珀的出场负荷产生多大影响尚不确定，但任何亲身体验哈珀巨大天赋的机会都将受到欢迎。如果弗拉格在2025年选秀中独树一帜，那么哈珀也紧随其后。如果文班亚马是圣安东尼奥的进化版蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan)，那么哈珀可能就是他们的下一位马努·吉诺比利 (Manu Ginóbili)。
哈珀的跑跳爆发力并不突出，但这只是他技术拼图的一部分。P3的生物力学专家对哈珀的减速能力和横向发力能力进行了评估，其水平可与詹姆斯·哈登 (James Harden) 和卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Doncic) 相媲美。哈珀最诱人的天赋包括他超凡的身体控制、精准的脚步和急停急起的突然性。他是一位出色的突破手，可以在挡拆中轻而易举地拆解双人包夹。在拉斯维加斯，有趣的一点将是马刺队如何优先分配他的上场时间。他们是否希望给他尽可能多的持球回合？或者他们是否希望培养他的无球舒适度，考虑到今年晚些时候达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 和斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 将为他们带来的平衡难题？
卡特·布莱恩特是马刺队的另一位首轮新秀，他或许是哈珀在风格和处境上的对立面。这位亚利桑那大学的佼佼者——就像过去的野猫队球员理查德·杰弗森 (Richard Jefferson) 和安德烈·伊戈达拉 (Andre Iguodala) 一样——是他所在届中最好的跑跳型运动员之一。但与哈珀在大学时期拥有巨大的球权不同，布莱恩特完全是作为一名进攻终结者和一个不拘泥于位置的防守威胁，在无球状态下打球。如果他最终只达到这个水平，那仍然是围绕文班亚马建队不可或缺的一部分。但马刺队对于超越3D（三分和防守）球员类型的基础来建队有着自己的独到见解。如果布莱恩特在亚利桑那大学隐藏了任何持球进攻天赋，我们很快就会知道。
谈到哈珀成为下一个吉诺比利，他已经开了一个好头，每天都向这位传奇人物请教：
迪伦·哈珀得到了整个马刺王朝的支持。
欲知更多关于榜眼秀的信息，请阅读来自@ MarcJSpears的报道：https://t.co/J8detVTZ0o pic.twitter.com/XubjnZqUjo
— NBA on ESPN (@ ESPNNBA) 2025年7月9日
虽然这不是哈珀的首秀，但马刺队今晚将在ESPN（中部时间晚上9点）对阵76人队（76人队同样没有探花秀VJ·埃奇科姆 (VJ Edgecomb) 出战）。哈珀对阵独行侠的备受期待的首秀将于周六在ESPN（中部时间下午3点）进行（你可以在这里查看他们的完整赛程）。马刺球迷们，你们希望夏季联赛能带来什么呢？
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What to expect from Dylan Harper and Carter Bryant in Las Vegas
Harper will make his debut on Saturday against the Mavs.
The NBA Summer League can be a chaotic experience. It can be more akin to watching an expansion G League team’s very first preseason game with an entirely new roster than an actual NBA game, but there can also be some wildly anticipated games, like Victor Wembanyama’s debut in 2023 and Cooper Flagg’s tonight.
For the most part, the higher draft picks just play in a game or two but otherwise have nothing to prove and are usually shut down to avoid unnecessary injury so teams can focus on the more unknown players. And sometimes, they can be exciting too! Just look at some gems the Spurs have uncovered over the years, like Gary Neal, Jonathon Simmons, and possibly a new one to come in this year’s California Classic breakout player David Jones-Garcia.
While Spurs fans got a glimpse of 14th overall pick Carter Bryant in San Francisco, the more anticipated Las Vegas Summer League begins tonight. Second overall pick Dylan Harper is not expected to play for the Spurs tonight, but he is expected to make his debut on Saturday against the Dallas Mavericks. Assuming Flagg plays, that will be one of those games that you just “embrace the chaos” of Summer League and have fun while keeping in mind not to take the highs and lows too seriously.
With all that in mind, here is what The Ringer has to say about the Spurs in its Summer League preview:
Do the Spurs have their final core pieces in place?
The Spurs already have a few summer league games under their belt at the California Classic, but they opted to save Dylan Harper’s pro debut for Las Vegas, out of an abundance of caution following what the team deemed a minor groin injury. How much that will impact Harper’s workload is still up in the air, but any opportunity to take in Harper’s immense talent firsthand will be welcome. If Flagg was in a tier of his own in the 2025 draft, so was Harper just below him. And if Victor Wembanyama is San Antonio’s evolutionary Tim Duncan, Harper might just be its next Manu Ginóbili.
Harper’s run-jump explosiveness is unremarkable, but that’s only one piece of the puzzle. The biomechanics experts at P3 graded Harper’s deceleration and lateral force production at levels comparable to those of James Harden and Luka Doncic. Some of the most tantalizing gifts at Harper’s disposal are his preternatural body control, footwork, and stop-start suddenness. He’s an exceptional driver who can split a double out of the pick-and-roll in his sleep. What’ll be interesting to see in Vegas is how the Spurs prioritize his minutes on the floor. Do they want to give him as many on-ball reps as he can handle? Or do they want to build his comfort level playing off the ball, knowing the juggling act that awaits them with De’Aaron Fox and Stephon Castle later this year?
Carter Bryant, the Spurs’ other first-round selection, is perhaps Harper’s stylistic and situational inverse. The Arizona standout—like past Wildcats Richard Jefferson and Andre Iguodala—is one of the best run-jump athletes in his class. But where Harper was given monumental usage in college, Bryant played exclusively off the ball as a play finisher and a role-agnostic defensive menace. If that’s all he projects to be, that’s still an integral part of building a team around Wembanyama. But the Spurs know a thing or two about building beyond the base of a 3-and-D archetype. If Bryant has any juice on the ball that was kept hidden at Arizona, we’ll know fairly quickly.
Speaking of Harper being the next Ginobili, he’s off to a good start by being sure to pick the legend’s brain every day:
Dylan Harper’s got the entire Spurs dynasty behind him
Read more on the No. 2 pick from @ MarcJSpears: https://t.co/J8detVTZ0o pic.twitter.com/XubjnZqUjo
— NBA on ESPN (@ ESPNNBA) July 9, 2025
While this won’t be Harper’s debut, the Spurs play the 76ers (also without third overall pick VJ Edgecomb) tonight at 9:00 PM CT on ESPN. His anticipated debut against the Mavs will be on Saturday at 3:00 PM CT on ESPN (you can see their entire schedule here). What are you hoping to get out of Summer League, Spurs fans?
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock