By Charlie Thaddeus | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-10-23 23:53:52
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。
没有别的话题可谈，也没有任何巧妙的切入点可以另辟蹊径。我们无法将这场比赛定义为两位状元秀在NBA首秀中的对决，也不是来讨论马刺几十年来首次在没有格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 执教的情况下开启新赛季。如果你想在这个崭新的NBA赛季里寻找一次温暖的握手和亲切的欢迎，抱歉，菜单上也没有这道菜。事实是，如果你关心这场比赛、这个赛季或者这支球队，答案只有一个：维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama)。而问题是什么，很大程度上已经无关紧要了。
这一次，感觉不一样了，不是吗？维克托 (Victor) 冲上球场并将其据为己有的方式，带有一种近乎野蛮的冲击力。这让我猝不及防。这并非什么关于一个来自法国的高个子男孩在市区里快速穿行的温情故事。这是一头被释放的掠食者，一个在球场上猎杀任何试图阻挡他的人，并立刻让他们打消念头的球员。我甚至感觉自己需要向人们道歉，告诉他们：“他平时不这样！他是个很乖的男孩！”
但这就是维克托。他一直都是如此。这位马刺的最新明星与旧时代的巨星们有着许多共同的基因，但他的构造确实与众不同。在他所做的一切之下，都涌动着一股对伟大的渴望。蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan) 是一位只有在回看录像时才能真正体会到其努力的球员。他整个职业生涯都在用一种享用美味三明治般的沉着与冷静，将整个联盟拆解得七零八落。我不确定邓肯是否曾渴望变得伟大，或是统治联盟，或是除了想独自待着之外的任何事。但对于维克托，我们无需猜测。
他想赢。不仅如此，他想在今天、明天以及未来的每一天都赢。他渴望胜利、总冠军和伟大。他想完成所有前人已经完成的壮举，然后继续向前突破。他想攀登高山，他想飞向月球。他想挑战那些敢在他面前筑起高墙并告诉他无法逾越的人。
这个休赛期，没人知道他到底有多高已经成了一个流传甚广的笑话。他的身高在各种报道中从7英尺3英寸到7英尺5英寸不等。布莱恩·文霍斯特 (Brian Windhorst) 认为他更接近7英尺7英寸。坊间传闻，他甚至可能更高。谁说得清呢？但让我感兴趣的是维克托本人对此总是遮遮掩掩的态度。他轻描淡写，他回避问题，他会说：“我比任何人都高。你们只需要知道这个就够了。” 我敢肯定，这之所以能一直成为话题，是因为人们觉得他想把身高当成秘密这件事本身就很好笑。仿佛他觉得这是可以瞒过公众的事情。别在意那个高个子；如果你仔细想想，他其实也没那么高。
也许这很傻，但在我看来，这恰恰说明了他的为人以及他的追求。对于维克托·文班亚马而言，最大的冒犯莫过于暗示他的伟大可能源于身高这么简单的事情。多么基础，多么平庸。这是他无法容忍的，因此，他会竭尽全力向你展示他付出的每一分努力。他会与僧侣一同训练，会与KG（凯文·加内特）在海滩上奔跑，会与奥拉朱旺 (Hakeem Olajuwon) 一同进入低位技术实验室。如果你觉得他会坐等比赛来适应他，那你就大错特错了。
我找不到合适的词语来准确描述我们昨晚看到的维克托对阵达拉斯时的表现，但我知道那深深地震撼了我的内心，其程度远超我的预期。我知道他会很出色，我甚至觉得他可能会非常伟大，但我完全没料到他会直接拔掉我的路由器，让整个系统都重置了。这个休赛期，我一直跟人开玩笑，问他们马刺新赛季会是西部第二，还是会稍稍滑落到第三。我保证，这玩笑十有六次能逗乐大家。但现在赛季开始了，这似乎不那么好笑了，对吧？维克托·文班亚马和他的队友们已经杀气腾腾地来了。
马刺的目标不是进入附加赛，他们甚至可能都不是为了西部第六的席位。马刺正试图证明，他们已经到来，并且为战斗做好了准备。马刺的目标就是赢球。句号。他们渴望任何一个人来告诉他们，他们做不到。
这赛季应该会相当有趣。
赛后观察
- 斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) ……相当不错！数据栏看起来很亮眼，但如果你只想看数据，那请移步别处。我们是来感受场上氛围的，而朋友们，这氛围太棒了。真的非常棒。他在球场上如蛇般穿梭，似乎占据了所有未被文班占据的空间。每当独行侠球员以为自己摆脱了防守，卡斯尔就会出现在那里。每当库珀·弗拉格 (Cooper Flagg) 得到一丝喘息的机会，卡斯尔就会贴到他身前。他在转换进攻中充满活力。从美学角度看，他仍然是马刺队史上自……我不知道，德里克·安德森 (Derek Anderson) 以来最好的扣将？他指挥交通，掌控进攻，仿佛那是他的地盘。如果你花了几个月在实验室里为他构思一个梦幻般的二年级首秀，最终的成品大概就是这样了。他打得太好了，以至于我都忘了他罚球不中时我有多恼火。
- 再次看到马刺球衣上的2号，感觉挺奇特的，对吧？即使过了这么久，仍然有点不习惯。不过我很高兴是迪伦穿着它。总得有人穿，我乐于见到是一个看起来准备好让这个号码属于自己的人。很多人已经指出了这一点，但我还是要为历史记录重申一次：我们能让他以任何他需要的节奏融入联盟，这真的太酷了。他可以从替补打起，可以和任何他需要的队友搭档，慢慢找到自己的路。我们不需要一个从罗格斯大学来的小伙子一上来就扛起一支球队。迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 只需搞清楚自己是谁，而现在已经很明显，他将会非常出色。
- 我真希望我能对米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 的执教首秀（算是吧）给出一些深刻的分析，但无论他部署了什么战术，都在维克托于全国直播中摧毁达拉斯独行侠精神世界的爆炸中心里消失得无影无踪了。不过，他在场边看起来很棒。那个他在暂停期间嘶哑地喊着“一回合一回合来……在半场进攻中瓦解他们”的片段，真的让我热血沸腾。我坐在沙发上，已经准备好为他撞穿南墙了。加油，米奇。我过去可能对你的执教风格一无所知。
米奇·约翰逊充满激情 pic.twitter.com/5H1dhR93FP
— CJ Fogler
(@ cjzero) October 23, 2025
- 独行侠的球馆灯光一直让我很烦。它们就像……总是在闪烁，有时还会诡异地在球场上投下一道随机的红色光束，让我感觉自己的大脑出了故障。这套我可不吃。达拉斯那边的审美简直是场灾难。
WWL 赛后新闻发布会
– 对于一个作者来说，赛季才打了一场就“词穷了”，这感觉可不是个好兆头。
– 嘿！也欢迎你回来！我想念这一切了，想念我们了。
– 冷静点。为即将到来的赛季准备了什么有趣的内容吗？
– 你这是在问我要“下回预告”？哇哦，我的意思是，听着，你知道我不喜欢剧透那些梗。那些梗必须像野外的小生物一样，不期而至。就像一只小鸟在森林里栖息在你的手臂上，提醒你，哪怕只有片刻，我们身边每天都环绕着奇迹般的美好。我们不能急于去寻找那只小鸟，必须让小鸟来找到我们。
– 你其实什么都没准备，对吧？
– 饶了我吧，我才刚回来上班第一天。
点击查看原文：What We Learned from the Spurs win over the Mavericks
What We Learned from the Spurs win over the Mavericks
There’s no other story. No clever side door to sneak through. We can’t frame this as the top two draft picks squaring off in their NBA debuts. We’re not here to talk about the Spurs starting a season without Gregg Popovich patrolling the sidelines for the first time in decades. And if you came looking for a warm handshake and a gentle welcome into this freshly minted NBA campaign, sorry, that’s not on the menu either. The truth is, if you care about this game, this season, or this team, the answer is Victor Wembanyama. The question is largely irrelevant.
It feels different this time, doesn’t it? There was something almost violent about the way Victor stormed onto the court and made it his own. It caught me off guard. This wasn’t some feel-good story about a tall kid from France making his way downtown, walking fast. This was a predator unleashed, a player hunting down anyone on the court trying to stop him and dissuading them of that notion immediately. I almost felt like I needed to apologize and tell people, “He’s not normally like this! He’s a sweet boy!”
But this is Victor. It always has been. The Spurs’ newest star shares plenty of DNA with the old regime, but he really is built different. There’s a hunger to be great that hums just beneath everything he does. Tim Duncan was a player whose effort only revealed itself in retrospect. He spent his career dismantling the league with the calm, quiet focus of a man enjoying a decent sandwich. I’m not sure Tim ever wanted to be great, or dominate, or do anything other than be left alone. With Victor, though, we don’t have to guess.
He wants to win. Not only that, he wants to win right now and tomorrow and the next day. He wants wins and championships and greatness. He wants to do everything that’s ever been done and then keep pushing from there. He wants to climb mountains. He wants to go to the moon. He wants to dare people to put a wall in front of him and tell him he can’t leap over it.
It’s become something of a running joke this offseason that no one knows how tall he is. He’s been listed everywhere from 7’3” to 7’5”. Brian Windhorst thinks he’s closer to 7’7”. Apocryphally, he might be even taller. Who can say? What’s interesting to me is how cagey Victor tends to be about it. He downplays it. He defers. He says things like, “I’m taller than anybody else. That’s all you need to know.” It keeps being a story, I’m sure, because people like to laugh at the idea of it being a secret. Something he thinks he can hide from the public. Pay no attention to the tall man; he’s not actually even that tall if you think about it.
Maybe it’s silly, but to me it feels like something that actually speaks volumes about who he is and what he’s about. The biggest affront to Victor Wembanyama is the suggestion that his greatness might stem from something as simple as his height. How basic. How mundane. That’s not something he can abide, and as such, he’s going to go out of his way to show you every single inch of his work. He’s going to train with monks. He’s going to run beaches with KG. He’s going to get in the post lab with Olajuwon. If you think he’s going to let the game come to him, think again.
I’m at a loss for words to describe exactly what we watched Victor do last night against Dallas, but I know it rocked me to my core in a way I wasn’t expecting. I knew it would be good. I thought it might even be great. I had no idea it would unplug my router and reset the whole system. My running bit this offseason has been asking people whether the Spurs are going to be the 2 seed or if they might slip a bit and wind up at the 3. It gets a decent laugh about sixty percent of the time, I promise. But now that we’re off and running, it doesn’t feel as funny anymore, right? Victor Wembanyama and the rest of this crew are out for blood.
The Spurs aren’t trying to make the Play-In. They probably aren’t even trying to get the 6 seed. The Spurs are trying to show that they are here and that they are ready for the fight. The Spurs are trying to win. Period. They’re dying for anyone to tell them they can’t.
Should be pretty fun to watch.
Takeaways
- Stephon Castle……Pretty good! The stat line was impressive, but if you want to read stats, go somewhere else. We’re here to vibe-watch, and friends, the vibes were good. They were very good. He slithered around the court and seemed to occupy every space not taken up by Vic. Every time a Mavs player thought he’d gotten loose, Castle was there. Every time Cooper Flagg got a second to breathe, Castle was in his space. He was electric in transition. He’s still aesthetically the best dunker the Spurs have had on their roster since, I don’t know, Derek Anderson? He directed traffic and ran the offense like he owned it. If you spent months in a lab drawing up a dream sophomore debut for him, you’d likely come up with something like this. He played so well I forgot how annoyed I was that he kept missing free throws.
- Pretty weird seeing #2 on a Spurs jersey again, right? Even after all this time, it still felt a little jarring. I’m glad Dylan’s wearing it, though. Someone needed to, and I’m happy it’s someone who seems poised to make it his own. It’s been pointed out by many, but I’ll reiterate for posterity that it’s incredibly cool we get to integrate him into the league at whatever pace he needs. He can come off the bench, play with whoever he needs to, and just find his way. There’s no need for a guy to come in from Rutgers and put a franchise on his back. Dylan Harper gets to just figure out who he is, and it already seems clear that he’s going to be awesome.
- I wish I could give you some sort of trenchant analysis of Mitch Johnson’s coaching debut (sorta), but whatever strategies he was deploying got lost in the blast zone of Victor demolishing the spirit of the Dallas Mavericks on national television. He looked good out there, though. That clip of him during a timeout, hoarsely yelling “POSSESSION BY POSSESSION… DISMANTLE THEM IN THE HALF COURT,” really got me going. I was sitting there on my couch ready to run through a wall for him. Let’s go, Mitch. I may have been unfamiliar with your game.
Mitch Johnson is intense pic.twitter.com/5H1dhR93FP
— CJ Fogler
- The Mavericks arena lights annoyed me. Constantly. They were like, always flashing and would at times ominously beam a random shaft of red light onto the court that made me feel like my brain was malfunctioning. Miss me with that. A real aesthetic nightmare up there in Dallas.
WWL Post Game Press Conference
– Feels like a bad sign for a writer to be “at a loss for words” one game into the season.
– Hey! Welcome back to you too! I missed this. I missed us.
– Calm down. Anything fun planned for the upcoming season?
– You’re asking me for coming attractions? Wow, I mean. Look, you know I don’t like to spoil the bits. The bits have to just come upon you in the wild. Like a little bird in the forrest who alights on your arm and reminds you, however briefly, of the miraculous wonder that surrounds us all on a day to day basis. We can’t be in a rush to find that little bird. The bird must find us.
– You don’t have anything planned do you?
– Lay off me, its my first day back.
By Charlie Thaddeus, via Pounding The Rock