By Michael C. Wright | ESPN, 2025-10-23 14:58:00
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达拉斯电——在美国航线中心球馆，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 站在朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 身边，在技术台前欣赏着自己的杰作。
他的结论是？
“这球太——帅了。”
几分钟前，这位法国人做出投篮假动作，将P.J.华盛顿 (P.J. Washington) 晃飞到空中，随后运一步球杀向篮筐，完成一记雷霆万钧的反身风车暴扣，震得挂着麦克风的篮筐嗡嗡作响，引爆了圣安东尼奥马刺队的替补席。在这场以125-92狂胜达拉斯独行侠队的比赛中，文班亚马在周三尽情展示了他那个脱胎换骨的夏天所取得的全部成果，这个夏天让他在身体和精神上都完成了蜕变。
“我对自己身体的掌控力强多了，”文班亚马说。“精神层面，我并不担心，因为我经历过那种可能失去很多东西的处境，无论是你的职业生涯还是健康。所以我不再把这一切视为理所当然。身体方面呢？我现在感觉更有趣了，因为我的移动不再那么挣扎。我知道自己还需要变得更好，而且我还会继续进步。”
盖帽、扣篮、投篮、精进的脚步和低位技术——更不用说那种懂得如何将这些技术运用自如的直觉——这一切都让人难以相信，在战胜独行侠队之前，文班亚马已经有8个月零11天没有打过NBA比赛了。残留的锈迹荡然无存，文班亚马在场上势不可挡，成为自1977-78赛季以来，首位在投篮命中率达到70%的情况下，砍下40分、15个篮板、3次盖帽且0失误的球员。
文班亚马的40分也创造了圣安东尼奥队史赛季揭幕战的单场得分纪录。
“他已经缺阵八个月了，”马刺队教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道。“所以你看到他抓住了这个时刻，打出了惊艳的表现。但说实话，最令人印象深刻的数据是0失误。他今晚打出的那些基本功扎实的战术回合数量，着实令人赞叹。”
达拉斯本场比赛派出了他们的大个阵容，由安东尼·戴维斯 (Anthony Davis) 和德雷克·莱夫利二世 (Dereck Lively II) 镇守前场。文班亚马轻松击破了这个组合，在首节比赛中5投4中，贡献11分和1次盖帽。在侧翼佯装传球给哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 时，文班亚马短暂地定住了状元秀库珀·弗拉格 (Cooper Flagg)，从而领先这位新秀一步，完成了一记战斧式突破暴扣。没过多久，文班亚马又助攻榜眼秀迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 拿到了其职业生涯的首次助攻。这位法国人虚晃一招骗飞了莱夫利，然后将球回传给弧顶的马刺新秀。
哈珀立刻通过一次传切配合将球回传给文班亚马，后者隔着莱夫利完成双手暴扣。
“天呐，那家伙有7尺3寸高，”戴维斯说。“我觉得有些犯规吹罚有点值得商榷。但当一个7尺3寸的球员站在你面前时，没人能盖掉他的投篮。他是超手投篮。到了那个地步，你只能祈祷他投不进。”
如今这变得愈发困难，因为文班亚马的队友们已经找到了为他创造高命中率投篮机会的方法。在中场休息前8分28秒，二年级后卫斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 在转换进攻中送出一记空中接力，助攻当时正飞速超过德怀特·鲍威尔 (Dwight Powell) 的文班亚马完成了一记反身暴扣。很明显，这位上赛季的NBA年度最佳新秀在休赛期花了很多时间与文班亚马培养化学反应。
卡斯尔和文班亚马两人包办了圣安东尼奥上半场60分中的42分（直接得分或助攻），帮助马刺在半场结束时取得9分领先。
“就是大量的重复训练，一起看大量的比赛录像，”卡斯尔说。“我觉得这很有帮助，但这一点常常被忽视。能够和你将要一起打大量挡拆配合、一起完成很多转换进攻得分的队友看录像，绝对是有帮助的。这能让你了解在他被双人包夹时喜欢在哪个位置接球，包夹会从哪个方向来。兄弟，我们整个夏天都在练这些，现在开始初见成效了。”
文班亚马在第三节一波独得10分的攻势中，贡献了或许是全场最精彩的个人高光时刻，该节他4投3中，得到3个篮板、2次盖帽和1次抢断。文班亚马在篮下将莱夫利的上篮一掌扇飞，卡斯尔迅速得球并发动快攻。这位后卫立刻将球回传给文班亚马，后者向内线虚晃一枪，随即命中一记后撤步三分，同时造成了莱夫利的犯规。
文班亚马完成了这次四分打，将圣安东尼奥的领先优势扩大到14分。
“他太不可思议了。他是另一个级别的球员，”弗拉格说。“除非你亲自和他同场竞技，否则你无法体会那是什么感觉。这是我前所未见的。他今晚表现非常出色，但我们必须做得更好，努力限制他的一些出手机会，而且我们不能像今晚这样对他犯规那么多次。”
在文班亚马命中一记13英尺的后仰跳投、帮助马刺取得了30分的领先优势后不久，约翰逊便将他换下场。文班亚马承认，在那个时候，他开始回想起自己那个脱胎换骨的夏天，以及那段始于二月份深静脉血栓诊断的漫长旅程。
“感觉就像我们每天都在为建造一座宏伟的宅邸添砖加瓦，而今天感觉就像完成了当天的工作，”文班亚马说。“这就是我们努力的目标，是我们长期以来为之奋斗的东西，我感觉一切都恰到好处，感觉自己就属于这里。”
“我们需要在更衣室里表明一种态度。我们真实的感觉是，为了今天的胜利，我们已经倾尽所有，再无更多可做。我们感觉已经做了一切需要做的事情。我们感觉准备好了，对于夏天本该训练或本该完成的事情，我们没有任何遗憾。我对自己付出的努力以及迄今为止的准备工作感到安心。现在，西部赛区的骰子已经掷出。”
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Victor Wembanyama returns with 40-point showing in Spurs win
DALLAS – Victor Wembanyama stood next to Julian Champagnie in front of the scorer’s table at American Airlines Center, admiring his work.
His conclusion?
“That was niiiice.”
Minutes earlier, the Frenchman pump-faked, sending P.J. Washington skyward, then took one dribble toward the basket for a thunderous, reverse windmill dunk that rattled the miked-up rim, sending the San Antonio Spurs bench into a frenzy. Pacing a 125-92 stomping of the Dallas Mavericks, Wembanyama showed off Wednesday all that he gleaned from a transformative summer that changed him physically and mentally.
“[I was] much more in control of myself,” Wembanyama said. “The mind, I’m not worried about [that] because I saw what it’s like to be confronted with potentially losing a lot, whether it’s your career or your health. So I’m not taking this for granted anymore. The body? I’m having more fun now that I’m not struggling to move as much. I know I still need to get better, and I’m still going to get better.”
The blocks, dunks, shots, the refined footwork and post moves – not to mention the intuition to know how to best deploy them – belied the fact that Wembanyama hadn’t played in an NBA game in 8 months, 11 days prior to the win over the Mavericks. Residual rust was nonexistent as Wembanyama ran roughshod, becoming the first player since 1977-78 to score 40 points with 15 rebounds, 3 blocks, and 0 turnovers while shooting 70% from the field.
Wembanyama’s 40 points are the most for a player in a season opener in San Antonio franchise history.
“He’s been out eight months,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “So you saw him take the moment and play spectacular. But honestly, the most impressive line [is] zero turnovers. The amount of fundamentally sound plays he made tonight was impressive.”
Dallas started the game with its big lineup featuring Anthony Davis and Dereck Lively II manning the frontcourt. Wembanyama chewed through that group, hitting 4 of 5 shots for 11 points with a block in the opening frame. Faking a pass out on the wing to Harrison Barnes, Wembanyama froze No. 1 draft pick Cooper Flagg just long enough to gain a step on the rookie for a driving tomahawk dunk. Not long after, Wembanyama set up No. 2 pick Dylan Harper for his first career assist. The Frenchman pump-faked Lively to get him into the air then tossed it back to the Spurs rookie at the top of the key.
Harper immediately flung it back to Wembanyama on a give-and-go for a two-handed jam over Lively.
“Man, the guy’s 7-3,” Davis said. “I think some of the foul calls were a little bit questionable. But when he’s 7-3 and stands in front of you, nobody’s going to block a shot. He’s shooting over the top. At that point, you just pray he misses.”
That is tough now that Wembanyama’s teammates have found ways to get him high-percentage shots. With 8:28 remaining before intermission, second-year guard Stephon Castle fired an alley-oop in transition to Wembanyama, who was streaking past Dwight Powell, for a reverse dunk. It’s clear that last season’s NBA Rookie of the Year spent the offseason working with Wembanyama on their chemistry.
Castle and Wembanyama either scored or assisted on 42 of San Antonio’s 60 first-half points as the Spurs led by nine at the break.
“[It’s] just a lot of reps, a lot of watching film together,” Castle said. “I feel like that helps and gets overlooked a lot. Being able to watch film with a guy you’re going to do a lot of pick-and-rolls with and have a lot of transition buckets definitely helped. Being able to know where he likes the ball at with a double-team, where they’re going to come from. Man, we’ve been working on that all summer, and it’s starting to shape itself out.”
Wembanyama notched perhaps his most impressive highlight of the night during a 10-point, third-quarter burst in which he shot 3-of-4 with 3 rebounds, 2 blocks and 1 steal. Wembanyama smacked away a Lively shot at the rim that Castle quickly connected to initiate a fast break. The guard immediately tossed the ball back to Wembanyama, who faked inside before nailing a step-back 3 as Lively committed a foul.
Wembanyama completed the four-point play to boost San Antonio’s lead to 14 points.
“He is incredible. He is a different player,” Flagg said. “You can’t know what it’s like until you’re out there on the court with him. It’s something I’ve never seen before. He was great tonight, but we’ve got to do a better job of trying to just take away some of his looks, and we can’t foul him as much as we did.”
Johnson subbed out Wembanyama shortly after he connected on a 13-foot fadeaway that put the Spurs up by 30. At that point, Wembanyama admitted, he started to reflect on his summer of transformation and the long journey started in February by a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis.
“It feels like every day we try to lay a brick to build a huge mansion, and it felt like the job was done for the day,” Wembanyama said. "This is what we’ve been working for. This is what we’ve struggled for, for so long, and I just felt like it fits. I felt like I was in my place.
“We needed to make a statement in our locker room. The feeling really was that there wasn’t anything we really could have done more to help us today. It felt like we did everything we needed to do. We felt ready, and we felt like we wouldn’t have any regret about things we should have worked on or things we should have done in the summer. I was comfortable with the work we put in and with the preparation up to this point. Now all the dice are thrown in the Western Conference.”
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