By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-11-02 12:54:45
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马刺队助理教练兼球员发展教练乔什·布兰农 (Josh Brannon) 与圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 在2025年10月30日（星期四）主场迎战迈阿密热火队的比赛前，利用早期热身时间一起观看比赛录像。马刺队以107-101击败热火队，取得了队史首次5胜0负的开局战绩。
菲尼克斯电 – 上周四主场对阵迈阿密热火队的比赛开始前一小时，朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 坐到了马刺队的替补席上，挨着助理教练兼球员发展教练乔什·布兰农 (Josh Brannon)，进行最后一次录像分析。
这位四年级职业球员专注地盯着布兰农的笔记本电脑，研究着自己近期的防守端表现。而这一幕，在本赛季将无数次上演。
无论是在训练和投篮热身前后，还是在比赛开始前和进行中，抑或是在往返客场的飞机上、在酒店房间里，甚至是在自己家中。
“这是我整个职业生涯里看录像最多的一次，”尚帕尼说。“去年以及我职业生涯的每一年我们都会看录像，但我觉得今年看录像的频率大幅提升了，几乎是每天都在看，赛前看、赛后看、训练也看，天天都离不开录像。”
录像分析时间的显著增加，其根源要追溯到动荡的2024-25赛季。当时，名人堂成员格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 在赛季开始仅五场后不幸中风，这导致他在五月份宣布退役，而时任助理教练的米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 则被任命为代理主教练，并最终被扶正。
“这是我们作为一个团队和项目，甚至在去年就已经开始讨论的事情。当时我们回顾和评估了自身，思考在哪些方面可以继续进步，”约翰逊在谈到录像分析时间的激增时说道。
评估的结果是，马刺队扩充了他们的教练组和球员发展团队。
“去年情况突变时，我们没有增加人手，所以有些时候我们必须集中精力，权衡把时间和精力投入到哪里，”约翰逊说。“毕竟时间是有限的。”
如今，随着团队规模的扩大，球员们也得到了更多一对一的指导。
“就是有了更多的人手，可以投入更多的时间，无论是在比赛准备上，还是在自我复盘和自我审视方面，”约翰逊说。
尚帕尼表示，这对于像他这样自认为是“视觉型学习者”的球员来说，是极大的帮助。
“对于那些可能光靠说教无法理解的人来说，你把画面放到屏幕上，他们一看便知，”尚帕尼说。“他们自己就会开始弄明白。”
在周日对阵太阳队的比赛前，尚帕尼场均贡献7.2分、6.4个篮板和2.0次助攻。他表示，与布兰农——这位休斯顿人曾在2022-23赛季担任马刺队首席视频协调员——一起潜心研究录像，一切都是为了成为一名更出色的职业球员。
为了备战热火队的快节奏进攻，尚帕尼仔细研究了自己防守端的录像。
“我也看了一些自己进攻端的集锦，但大部分时间都在看防守，”他说。“我在赛前观看这些录像，就是想看看自己在哪些地方可以做得更好。在观看的同时，我们也会讨论迈阿密热火队可能会采取的战术。”
圣安东尼奥马刺队助理视频协调员乔恩·哈里斯 (Jon Harris)（中）与马刺队中锋俾斯麦·比永博 (Bismack Biyombo) 在2025年10月30日（星期四）主场迎战迈阿密热火队的比赛前，利用早期热身时间一起观看比赛录像。马刺队以107-101击败热火队，取得了队史首次5胜0负的开局战绩。
在约翰逊亲自主持的录像分析会上，有一点与以往不同——那就是缺少了波波维奇过去常常用来强调观点的那些“色彩斑斓”的言辞。
“波波教练，他非常严厉，”尚帕尼说。“是个硬汉。”
但这并不是说约翰逊是个软柿子。
“我猜当我们打出那种糟糕的比赛时，他也会痛斥我们，”尚帕尼说。“我的意思是，他一直都这样。当他觉得我们必须做得更好时，我们就要做得更好。他们只是两种不同类型的人。波波教练就是波波教练，米奇就是米奇。”
德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 是球队中的六年级后卫，他的效力年限仅次于七年级前锋凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson)，是队内效力时间第二长的现役球员。他说，米奇·约翰逊和他的团队极其注重细节。
“他们会把我们召集到一起，给我们看一些需要改进的短片，”瓦塞尔说。“他们力求完美，对此我非常感激，因为你显然不可能做到完美，但你必须无限接近完美。为了赢下一场比赛，你必须掌握那些微小的细节。他们紧抓细节不放，而我们则努力去执行。”
自从埃里克·斯波尔斯特拉 (Erik Spoelstra) 于1995年作为视频协调员在迈阿密开启其职业生涯以来，录像分析的艺术及其技术已经取得了长足的进步。如今，斯波尔斯特拉已是执教热火队的第18个赛季，在波波维奇执掌马刺29年后退役之后，他也成为了现役执教同一球队时间最长的NBA教练。谈及这些年来的变化，他不禁笑了起来。
“我真不想说，我第一年基本就是用录像机对拷录像带，”他说。“后来我们有了第一台电脑设备，这彻底改变了视频分析室的游戏规则。现在一个视频分析室能完成的工作量是我那时候的十倍。我总是告诉我们的视频分析员，跟他们现在做的工作相比，我当时简直是太轻松了，因为现在所有的助理教练都会给他们派发任务。他们深入研究一切，不仅是做球探报告，还要分析我们自身的情况、分析联盟趋势、分析其他球队、分析欧洲联赛，还要做数据分析。”
“我们那时候根本不做这些。”
另一个变化是：斯波尔斯特拉说，现在的年轻球员注意力集中的时间更短了。
“我记得我们拿冠军的那些年（2012年和2013年），我们过去每天会看一个小时的录像，”他说。“现在呢，你可能看个七分钟，大家就开始走神了。”
但这对于尚帕尼来说从来都不是问题。当需要长时间全神贯注地观看录像时，这位24岁的年轻人是个例外。
“录像是一种很棒的学习方式，至少对我而言是这样，”他说。“我是一个视觉型学习者，所以当我看到自己连续犯了十个错误时，我就会想，‘哦，该死，我必须做得更好才行。’”
“这很耗时，但这就是工作的一部分。”
Spurs assistant coach/player development Josh Brannon, left, goes over film with San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie during an early warm up before the home game against the Miami Heat at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Heat, 107-101, to secure their first 5-0 start in franchise history.
Spurs assistant coach/player development Josh Brannon, center, goes over film with San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie during an early warm up before the home game against the Miami Heat at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Heat, 107-101, to secure their first 5-0 start in franchise history.
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Spurs’ increased film study part of Mitch Johnson’s attention to detai
Spurs assistant coach/player development Josh Brannon goes over film with San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie during an early warm up before the home game against the Miami Heat at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Heat, 107-101, to secure their first 5-0 start in franchise history.
PHOENIX – An hour before the start of last Thursday’s home game against Miami, Julian Champagnie took a seat on the Spurs bench next to assistant coach/player development Josh Brannon for one final video session.
Staring intently at Brannon’s laptop, the fourth-year pro studied his recent play on the defensive end in a scene that will be replayed countless times this season.
Before and after practices and shootarounds. Before and during games. On flights to and from road games. In hotel rooms. At his home.
“This is the most film I’ve watched in my whole career,” Champagnie said. “We watched film last year and all the years of my career, but I feel like this year it’s taken the uptick of always, every day, watch film, pre-game film, post-game film, practice, film every day.”
The marked increase has its genesis in the turbulent 2024-25 season. That’s when Mitch Johnson moved from assistant coach to acting head coach after Hall of Famer Gregg Popovich suffered a stroke five games into the season that led to his retirement from the profession in May and Johnson’s promotion to head coach.
“It’s something we as an organization and program talked about even last year when we took a step back and reviewed and evaluated ourselves in terms of what we could continue to take steps forward in,” Johnson said of the spike in film study.
The evaluation resulted in the Spurs beefing up their coaching and developmental staffs.
“Last year when the circumstances changed, we did not add staff, and so there were times where we had to make concerted efforts of where to put our energy and time,” Johnson said. “You only have so many hours.”
Now, with a larger staff, players are getting even more one-on-one attention.
“Just more people, more man and woman power for putting in time, whether that’s preparation or self reviewing and self scouting,” Johnson said.
Champagnie said it’s been a real boost for the players who identify themselves, as he does, as “visual learners.”
“For someone who may not get it from you just telling them, you put it on the screen and they see it,” Champagnie said. “They start to figure it out.”
Champagnie, who entered Sunday’s game with the Suns averaging 7.2 points, 6.4 rebounds and 2.0 assists, said hunkering down with Brannon, a Houston native who was the Spurs’ head video coordinator during the 2022-23 season, for film study is all about becoming a better pro.
To prepare for the Heat’s up-tempo offense, Champagnie devoured the tape of his play on the defensive end.
“I watched some of my offensive clips, but most of the time it was defense,” he said. "I watched those during pre game to just see where I could be better. While watching those, we talked through what Miami’s going to do.
San Antonio Spurs assistant video coordinator Jon Harris, center, goes over film with Spurs center Bismack Biyombo during an early warm-up before a home game against the Miami Heat at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Heat, 107-101, to secure their first 5-0 start in franchise history.
One thing missing from the film sessions that Johnson himself conducts is the colorful language Popovich often used to drive home his points.
“Coach Pop, he was tough,” Champagnie said. “Tough guy.”
That’s not to say Johnson is a softy.
“I’d assume that when we have one of those kinds of games, he’s going to rip into us,” Champagnie said. “I mean, he does all the time. When he feels like we have to be better, we have to be better. It’s just two different guys. Coach Pop is coach Pop. Mitch is Mitch.”
Devin Vassell, the sixth-year guard who ranks just behind seventh-year forward Keldon Johnson as the team’s longest-tenured current player, said Mitch Johnson and his staff are extremely detail-oriented.
“They’ll pull us together and they’ll show us little clips of whatever we need to do,” Vassell said. “They’re trying to teach perfection, and I appreciate that because obviously you’re not going to be perfect, but you got to be close to it. In order to win a game, you got to be knowing the little things. They harp on the little things and that’s what we try to execute.”
The art of film study and its technology has come a long way since Erik Spoelstra began his career with Miami as video coordinator in 1995. Now in his 18th season as the Heat’s head coach, which makes him the longest-tenured current NBA coach following Popovich’s retirement after 29 years leading the Spurs, Spoelstra chuckles at how things have changed through the years.
“I hate to say I was deck to deck pretty much my first year,” he said. "The we got our first piece of computer equipment and it just changed the whole game in the video room. The amount of work a video room can do now is ten times what I used to do. I tell our video guys all the time, I was on easy street compared to what they do now because now all the assistant coaches have projects for them. They dive into everything. Not only as scouts, but analyzing our own stuff, analyzing trends, analyzing other teams, analyzing Europe, doing analytics.
“We didn’t do any of that stuff back then.”
Another change: Young players have shorter attention spans these days, Spoelstra said.
“I remember with our championship teams (in 2012 and 2013) we used to watch an hour of film a day,” he said. “Now you can watch, what, seven minutes, before we’re starting to (lose focus).”
But that’s never been a problem for Champagnie, a 24-year-old outlier when it comes to giving the video his full and undivided attention for long periods.
“Film is a great way of learning, at least for me,” he said. "I’m a visual learner, so when I go out there and I have to watch ten of my mistakes in a row, it’s like, ‘Oh, damn, I have to be better.’
“It’s time consuming, but it’s part of the job.”
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News