By Charlie Thaddeus | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-11-04 00:09:46
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好吧，这一天迟早是要来的。
此前的氛围实在是太好了。简直是好得过了头，你懂的吧？马刺似乎不可能输球，文班亚马似乎不可能打得糟糕，球队里的每个人似乎也不可能……集体掉线。但这一切都发生了。从头到尾，这都是一场糟糕的比赛。一场不折不扣的烂仗。这感觉就像眼睁睁看着你认识的最酷的家伙一头撞在邮箱上。我看得很煎熬，我打赌你也是。
那么，我们该何去何从？能从中得到什么启示？主要的一点是：这支球队仍是一个未完成品，而这场比赛用加粗的红墨水强调了这一点。相比过去很长一段时间，它已经更好了，更接近了，也更有望成为一个完成品，但它仍在摸索之中。这或许没什么大不了。我的意思是，这肯定没什么大不了。只是，在“新晋NBA总冠军竞争者”的派对上被当头浇了一盆冷水后，我们所有人都需要花点时间来重新调整心态。
面对这场惨败，人们很容易反应过度，我显然不认为这是解决问题的办法，但或许我们应该审视一下，对于开赛阶段我们送给对手的那些大胜，我们是否也反应过度了。维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 看起来是如此出色。斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 看起来是如此出色。迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 看起来是如此出色。这简直就是我们所期盼的一切。我们想从这支球队身上看到的所有迹象，都像霓虹灯一样闪耀。他们打球的方式充满了速度、努力和激情，让我们得以暂时挣脱时间的束缚，窥见了这个团队未来可能达到的高度。那场面太燃了！太令人神往了！但……那终究，只是一瞥。
但那是多么美妙的一瞥，对吧？我的意思是，你真的能责怪我们为此兴奋不已吗？
出于种种原因，这场比赛并非任何事情的终点，大家也很容易就能翻过这一页。在理想世界里，这场比赛只会是我们征途上的一个短暂注脚，提醒我们凡人终有一败。它让我们意识到，胜利不会被拱手相让，如果这支球队真的想在这个赛季、在当下就被认真对待，那么他们所付出的努力和强度，就必须与开赛前五场比赛时所展现出的一致。
从宏观来看，这或许不可能实现。不过，我依然非常期待看他们为此努力。
几点启示
- 我们在菲尼克斯看到的那支球队，缺席了不少人。都是关键人物。那些本可以带来真正改变的球员。马刺在开赛阶段即便阵容不整，也取得了出色的成绩，这令人激动。我们都有过这样的感慨：“快看！他们在缺少福克斯、索汉和科内特的情况下打成这样！太不可思议了！” 的确不可思议。但现在呢？是的，我希望我们所有的人都能尽快回归。越快越好。谢谢。
- 唉，尤其是考虑到我们最喜欢的新人之一，迪伦·哈珀，在这场比赛中倒下了。如今，小腿伤病真像是NBA里的一个梦魇。它就像是未来跟腱撕裂的可怕前兆，每当想到这个，我都会全身一僵。伤病是最糟糕的。这不是什么新闻，但它确实存在。它让我夜不能寐。这是我唯一认为能让马刺这个项目脱轨的东西，而且几乎没有任何办法能真正防范它。这只是做生意的成本。我先去对着枕头尖叫一会儿。
- 嘿，还有，如果我关于“小腿伤病感觉像是跟腱撕裂的可怕前兆”的科学论断让你觉得不对劲，或者干脆就是错的，也欢迎你把这个想法留给自己。这里是本站的“氛围角落”，不是“科学角落”，所以我犯的任何错误都是有意为之的。
- 我迫切希望我们的球员回归的另一个原因是，这场比赛有点像一个反面教材，说明了为什么你不能总是让文班像他自己可能希望的那样，百分之百地油门踩到底。这场比赛他看起来有点筋疲力尽，而且理由充分。本赛季他如火箭般一飞冲天，从那以后就基本没有松懈过。我们引进的两个替补，科内特和奥利尼克，一直没能给他分担压力，结果就是他承担了太多。让他和俾斯麦·比永博 (Bismack Biyombo) 搭档前场？这可不是你想要的！（对比斯致以崇高的敬意，他是个我愿意与之在战壕里并肩作战的老好人。但你知道，不是所有时候。我希望他待在战壕边上。我希望他在战壕里的垃圾时间上场。）无论如何，维克托需要休息。他需要为这个赛季调整自己的状态，而且必须尽快，否则这支球队只会是昙花一现，而非长久之计。
- 凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 是我的兄弟。我爱他，他这辈子没做过任何错事。从来没有。
把他挂上扣篮海报
@ FanDuelSN_SW pic.twitter.com/8kBmj990Zq
— San Antonio Spurs (@ spurs) November 3, 2025
“我们学到了什么”赛后新闻发布会
– 很难为这样一场比赛打起精神。一场被你亲切地称为“不折不扣的烂仗”的比赛。
– 嗯，是的。这是事实。不过有时候一场糟糕的比赛真的能点燃你心中的火焰。让你释放一些心魔，让它们自由奔跑，制造点麻烦！具体情况具体分析，这可能也挺有趣的。
– 释放心魔？这是什么意思？
– 我的意思是，你知道，也许他们打得太烂了，以至于你会发表一个你内心并不真正相信但在那一刻感觉很对的观点。有点像情绪失控的情况？
– 像蹒跚学步的小孩那样？
– “情绪失控”可不是幼儿的专利。这是一项基本人权，我们不应该为偶尔为之感到羞耻。而且，坦白说，我认为当我们这样做的时候，应该得到一些宽容。我应该可以第二天回到这里说：“嘿，当我说米奇·约翰逊没资格在我家附近的Arby’s快餐店上夜班，更别说执教一支NBA球队了，我不是那个意思。那是心魔在作祟。”然后大家都会说：“啊，是的，当然，是心魔，请继续。”然后我们就继续。我们继续我们的一天。
– 所以只要你为自己的粗鲁道歉，就可以粗鲁无礼了？
– 看看录像！我可没道歉！我只是把锅甩给了心魔。这是个完全不同的过程。
– 不知为何，感觉更糟糕了？
– 是啊，我的意思是，它们可是心魔。你还能指望什么？
点击查看原文：What We Learned from the Spurs loss to the Suns
What We Learned from the Spurs loss to the Suns
Well, that probably had to happen at some point.
The vibes were too high. Simply too high, you know? It didn’t seem possible for the Spurs to lose, or for Wembanyama to play poorly, or for everyone on the team to just… not really show up. But it happened. It was a bad one from start to finish. A full-on stinker. The basketball equivalent of watching the coolest guy you know walk straight into a mailbox. I had a bad time watching it, and I bet you did too.
So where do we go from here? What’s the takeaway? Mostly that this team is still an unfinished product, and this game underlined it in thick red ink. It’s better, closer, and warmer to being a finished product than it has been in a long time, but it’s still working things out. That’s probably okay. I mean, it’s definitely okay. It’s just going to take a minute for all of us to recalibrate after having cold water dumped on us at the Freshly Minted NBA Title Contender party.
It’d be easy to overreact to this shellacking and I obviously don’t think thats the answer, but taking stock of whether or not we had overreacted to the shellackings we were handing out in that opening stretch might be in order. Victor Wembanyama looked so good. Stephon Castle looked so good. Dylan Harper looked so good. It was just everything we were asking for. All the signs we wanted to see from this team were glowing in neon lights. They played with speed and effort and passion in a way the allowed us to become unstuck in time a little bit and catch a glimpse of what this group might be capable of. It was electric! It was enthralling! It was….still, only a glimpse.
What a glimpse though, right? I mean, can you really blame us for getting all worked up?
For a variety of reasons, this game is not the end-all, be-all of anything, and it will be easy enough for everyone to move on from it. In a perfect world, this game will exist as a quick nod to our own mortality before we get on with our journey. An acknowledgment that this isn’t going to be handed to us, and that if this team really wants to be taken seriously right now, this season, then the level of effort and intensity required will have to match what they brought to the table in those first five games.
In the grand scheme of things, that might not be possible. I’m still pretty excited to watch them try though.
Takeaways
- The team we saw out there in Phoenix was missing a lot of dudes. Important dudes. Dudes who would’ve made a real difference. The Spurs were doing great things in those opening games despite not having their full complement available, which was thrilling to see. We all got to do the “Look! They’re doing this without Fox, Sochan, and Kornet! This is amazing!” routine. And it was amazing. But now? Yeah, I’d like to see all of our dudes back in the saddle, please. Sooner rather than later. Thank you.
- Ugh, especially in light of one of our favorite new dudes, Dylan Harper, going down in this one. Calf injuries have really started to feel like a bogeyman in the NBA these days. It’s like a terrible precursor to future Achilles tears, and it makes my whole body shut down for a little when I think about it. Injuries are the worst. This is not breaking news, but it’s there nonetheless. It’s what keeps me up at night. It’s the only thing I really think can derail the project the Spurs have going on, and there’s virtually no way to truly protect against it. It’s just the cost of doing business. I’m going to go scream into a pillow.
- Hey, also, if my science about calf injuries feeling like a terrible precursor to Achilles tears feels off or is just plain wrong, you’re welcome to just keep that to your self. This is a Vibes Corner of the site, not a Science Corner, so any mistakes made by me are intentional and on purpose.
- Another reason I desperately want to get our dudes back is that this game was kind of a showcase for why you can’t just let Wemby go full pedal to the metal 100 percent of the time in the way that he probably wants to. He looked a little gassed in this one, and with good reason. He shot out of the gate this season like a rocket and basically hasn’t let up a single bit since then. The two guys we brought in to spell him, Kornet and Olynyk, haven’t been able to do that, and as a result he’s just taken a lot on. Him and Bismack Biyombo leading the front line? Not what you want! (All due respect to Bis, who is an all-time good guy that I want in my foxhole. Just not, you know, all the time. I want him foxhole adjacent. I want him in foxhole garbage time minutes.) Regardless, Victor needs to get some rest. He needs to calibrate himself for this season, and he needs to do it quickly or this team is going to be here for a good time, not a long time.
- Keldon Johnson is my dude. I love him and he’s never done anything wrong in his life. Ever.
PUT HIM ON A POSTER
— San Antonio Spurs (@ spurs) November 3, 2025
WWL Post Game Press Conference
-Hard to get up for a game like this one. One you so lovingly referred to as “a full-on stinker.”
– Well, yeah. It’s true. Sometimes a bad game can really light a fire under you though. Lets you get some of the demons out so they can run free and cause mischief! That can be fun on a case-by-case basis.
– To let the demons out? What does that mean?
– I mean, you know, maybe they play so badly that you let a take off that’s not something you truly believe but feels right in the moment. Kind of a lashing-out situation?
– Like what a toddler does?
– Toddlers don’t get to own “lashing out.” That’s a fundamental human right, and we shouldn’t be ashamed to do it from time to time. And, frankly, I think we should be afforded a little grace when we do. I should be able to roll back in here the next day and be like, “Hey, when I said Mitch Johnson isn’t qualified to run the night shift at my local Arby’s, much less an NBA team, I didn’t mean that. That was the demons,” and then everyone will be like, “Ah, yes, of course, the demons, carry on,” and then we will. We will carry on with our day.
– So as long as you apologize for being rude, it’s okay to be rude?
– Check the tape! I never apologized! I just shifted blame onto the demons. It’s a very different process.
– It feels worse somehow?
– Yeah, I mean, they’re demons. What were you expecting?
By Charlie Thaddeus, via Pounding The Rock