By Lee Dresie | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-11-12 08:01:53
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因为我不住在南德州，所以只能通过 NBA League Pass 观看马刺的比赛。League Pass 其实相当划算，整个赛季我只花了109美元，就能收看所有NBA比赛。当然，在 ABC、NBC、CBS、TNT、ESPN、NASA、NSA、HBO、HBO Max、Hulu、Apple 和 Prime Video 上播出的比赛除外。（我想这些我们都订阅了。）除了这些少数例外，我通常都能看到马刺的主场转播信号——也就是大家熟知的“肖恩·埃利奥特频道”。
然而，在多场比赛同时进行的夜晚，我唯一能看到的马刺比赛，就是由对手转播团队负责解说的版本。周一晚上对阵公牛的比赛就是其中之一。我之前也写过一次观看对手解说比赛的经历。那一晚，我看了马刺客场对阵明尼苏达的比赛，体验了一把当森林狼球迷的感觉。（那里真的非常冷。）我那篇文章提到，森林狼队在那场比赛举办了“丑陋圣诞毛衣之夜”大赛。这意味着每个商业暂停前后，镜头都会给到看台上穿着各式各样毛衣的明尼苏达球迷，这也催生了下面这句吐槽：
“那场比赛正值‘丑陋圣诞毛衣之夜’。从他们在广告前后展示的画面来看，大概有15000名球迷并列第一名。”
谢天谢地，公牛队的转播没有搞什么丑陋圣诞毛衣大赛。不过，他们倒是有个奇怪的环节，叫做“干杯镜头”（Cheers Cam）。转播会切到一些球迷的画面，他们举着各式各样的酒精饮料对着镜头，嘴里大概喊着“干杯”。有时候，整个看台区域的球迷会一起举起他们的易拉罐或塑料杯。就像我说的，非常奇怪。
同样奇怪的还有转播的开场方式。他们没有展示现役的公牛队，而是播放了一段三四分钟的集锦，内容是上世纪90年代的“乔丹公牛”，画面里全是乔丹、皮蓬、罗德曼、霍勒斯·格兰特等人在公牛冠军征程中的身影。在某种程度上，所有球队都活在过去——我和任何人一样，都会颂扬2014年那支打出“美丽篮球”的马刺。话虽如此，公牛队在2025年的比赛前，去致敬三十年前的球员和球队，还是有点过了。当然，在这三十年里，公牛队并未赢得过总冠军，甚至都算不上是一支有影响力的球队，这或许解释了大部分原因。在过去十个赛季中，公牛队仅有一次最终排名高于第八，那次第六名的成绩也在季后赛首轮便宣告出局。在这十年里的八个赛季，公牛队要么没能进入附加赛，要么就在附加赛中被淘汰，无缘真正的季后赛。
本赛季迄今为止，公牛队（以及马刺队）一直是联盟中的励志故事之一。进入周一晚的比赛前，公牛队战绩为6胜3负，仅落后马刺一个胜场，而马刺则更普遍地被认为是本赛季有望进步的球队之一。The Ringer 的迈克尔·皮纳 (Michael Pina) 对今年公牛队的描述，完全可以套用在2104年的马刺身上（看，我又写错了）：
“正如我们所有人‘预料’的那样，这支6胜3负的芝加哥公牛队是一档必看节目，他们在场上风驰电掣，分享球权，冲击篮筐，看起来像一个整体远大于部分之和的团队。根据 Sportradar 的数据，公牛队在包含四次或更多传球的回合占比上领跑全联盟。他们不断地组织进攻，直到撕裂防守，从一个战术无缝衔接到另一个战术，球员们持续跑动、空切并为彼此掩护。”
（迈克尔开头的几个词是反话——没人预料到公牛队能有什么作为，都以为他们又会是那个无聊的附加赛竞争者。）
正因为如此多的球员和球的转移，进入本场比赛前，公牛队成为了史上第一支在赛季前九场比赛中，每场得分都超过110分且助攻都超过25次的球队。（剧透一下——当晚比赛结束后，这个数字变成了连续十场。）
总而言之，通过“对手”的转播来观看这场马刺的比赛，是一次不错的体验。特别是因为在公牛队的转播中，扮演肖恩·埃利奥特角色的解说嘉宾，是前公牛队球员斯泰西·金 (Stacey King)。与许多主队解说嘉宾不同，斯泰西不是个“主队吹”。虽然他显然很喜欢自己的主队公牛，但他也完全愿意承认对手球员在某个回合中被犯规了，或者公牛球员可能踩线了但裁判没吹。他也很有个人特色——比如他把公牛队的红发得分后卫凯文·许尔特 (Kevin Huerter) 称为“红丝绒”（Red Velvet）。维基百科上说：“金作为解说员的受欢迎程度与日俱增，这得益于他饱满的热情以及他标志性的招牌语录和绰号。”我认为“红丝绒”就属于这一类，我的一位老朋友、同时也是公牛队铁杆球迷的瑞安还给我提供了以下这些（瑞安也总是看“客场”转播）：
德里克·罗斯 (Derrick Rose) — “太高、太快、太壮、太强”
吉米·巴特勒 (Jimmy Butler) — “吉米·G·巴克茨” (Jimmy G. Buckets)：G 代表 Gets (得到)。
布莱恩·斯卡拉布莱恩 (Brian Scalabrine) — “白曼巴”
赛迪斯·杨 (Thaddeus Young) – “赛魔师·约翰逊” (Thagic Johnson)
在开场介绍中，金和现场解说员亚当·阿明 (Adam Amin) 将这场比赛描述为公牛队与一支“非常出色的马刺队”之间的对决——能再次听到这样的评价真是太好了。和我一样，金对维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 的描述也聚焦于他全面的运动能力：“他不只是一个会盖帽的大个子，他是一名全能的球员。” 金还将文班亚马描述为球队的“组织中锋”。
比赛的另一大看点是见到了我们的老朋友特雷·琼斯 (Tre Jones)。琼斯为公牛队首发了每一场比赛，场均贡献13.5分、5.5次助攻和4.2个篮板。这场比赛他表现更佳，贡献了20分、7助攻、7篮板和两次抢断。金还提供了一项关于琼斯的有趣数据。他在马刺生涯中送出了超过1000次助攻，而他只是一名二轮秀。在马刺队史上，只有另一位二轮秀的助攻数超过了1000次。能猜到是谁吗？我给你个提示。他的姓氏发音和“吉诺比利 (Ginobili)”很像。再给你一个提示：
看到特雷·琼斯有如此出色的发挥，我由衷地为他高兴，但这份喜悦之所以更加甜美，是因为马刺在第四节逆转了两位数的落后劣势。而且，无论马刺球迷看的是哪个版本的转播，我们都能对本场比赛的最佳镜头达成共识。或许是对 The Athletic 的约翰·霍林格 (John Hollinger) 未将自己列入NBA前四球员名单感到不满，文班亚马打出了近期记忆中最出色的第四节表现之一，以及最精彩的最后60秒。比赛还剩一分钟时，他命中一记27英尺的三分，将比分追至114平；随后，他又（通过一次交叉步后撤步）投进了第二记27英尺的三分，帮助球队以117-114反超，当进攻时钟即将走完时，球应声入网，此时距离比赛结束还剩27.9秒。
虽然特雷的20分/7助攻/7篮板数据线令人印象深刻，但马刺队“组织中锋”的38分/12篮板/5助攻外加5次盖帽的数据则更为惊艳。
但我相信，赛后文班亚马肯定是一位十足的绅士，不会向他的老朋友提及此事。
点击查看原文：Sleeping with the enemy (or at least watching the other team’s local broadcast)
Sleeping with the enemy (or at least watching the other team’s local broadcast)
Because I don’t live in S|uth Texas, I can only watch Spurs games on NBA League Pass. The League Pass is actually a great deal, as I pay only $109 for the entire season, and I get every NBA game. Of course, except for the games on ABC, NBC, CBS, TNT, ESPN, NASA, the NSA, HBO, HBO Max, Hulu, Apple and Prime Video. (I think we subscribe to all of those.) Except for those rare exceptions, I generally get to watch the Spurs home feed – you know, the Sean Elliott channel.
However, on nights where many teams are playing, the only Spurs game available to me is the game handled by the other team’s broadcasting crew. Monday night against the Bulls was one of those nights. I have written about watching the game with the other team’s announcers once before. That night I had watched the Spurs play at Minnesota and got to enjoy life as if I was a Timberwolves fan. (It was very cold.) My post mentioned that the T’Wolves were holding an Ugly Christmas Sweater Night contest for that game. This meant that every commercial break was bracketed by shots of Minnesota fans in the stands wearing all types of sweaters, and led to this line:
“It was ‘Ugly Christmas Sweater Night’ for the game. From what they showed before and after commercials, about 15,000 fans tied for first place.”
Thankfully, the Bulls broadcast did not include an Ugly Christmas Sweater contest. However, they did have a strange thing they called a Cheers Cam. The broadcast would pick out fans holding all sorts of alcoholic beverages towards the camera, apparently shouting “Cheers”. Sometimes entire sections of the stadium would hold up their cans or plastic glasses. As I said, very strange.
Also strange was the way the broadcast began. Instead of showing the current Bulls team, they showed a three or four minute montage of the “Jordan Bulls” from the 1990s, with shots of MJ, Pippen, Rodman, Horace Grant, etc. in the Bulls championship runs. All teams live in the past to some extent — I celebrate the Beautiful Game 2014 Spurs as much as anyone. That being said, the Bulls’ celebration – before games in 2025 — of players and teams from thirty years ago is a bit much. Of course, the Bulls have not won, or even been that relevant in those thirty years, which probably explains much. In the last ten seasons, the Bulls have finished higher than 8th only once, and that was a 6th place finish that led to a first round exit in the playoffs. In eight of those ten seasons, the Bulls either did not even make the Play-In Round or didn’t make it out of that round into the actual playoffs.
So far in this season, the Bulls (and the Spurs) have been one of the league’s feel-good stories. Going into Monday night, the Bulls were 6-3, only a game behind the Spurs, who were much more likely to be on everyone’s list of teams expected to improve. The Ringer’s Michael Pina described this year’s Bulls in a manner which would have fit into a description of the 2104 Spurs (see, I did it again):
“Just like we all anticipated, the 6-3 Chicago Bulls are must-see TV, zipping up and down the court, sharing the ball, attacking the rim, and looking like a sum that’s much greater than its individual parts. According to Sportradar, the Bulls lead the league in percentage of possessions that include four or more passes. They keep working possessions until the defense breaks, flowing from action to action, constantly moving, cutting, and screening for one another.“
(Michael’s first five words were sarcastic – no one anticipated that the Bulls would be anything other than boring Play-In candidates again.)
Because of all the player and ball movement, going into the game the Bulls were the first team ever to start the season exceeding 110 points and 25 assists in each of the first nine games. (Spoiler alert – that number became ten straight games before the night was over.)
All in all, it was a good game to tune into the “other team’s” broadcast of a Spurs game. Especially because the announcer filling the Sean Elliott role for the Bulls broadcast was ex-Bulls player Stacey King. Unlike many home-town color men, Stacey is not a homer. While he clearly likes his Bulls, he is also perfectly willing to say that the opposing team’s player got fouled on a play, or that the Bulls’ player just might have stepped on the out-of-bounds line without getting called. He can also be colorful – for instance referring to Bulls red-headed shooting guard Kevin Huerter as “Red Velvet”. Wikipedia says “King’s popularity as an announcer has grown thanks to his great enthusiasm as well as his signature catch-phrases and nicknames.” I think Red Velvet falls into that category, as do these other ones supplied by my buddy Ryan, a long-time Bulls fan who also watched the “out of town” broadcast (as Ryan always does):
Derrick Rose — “too big, too fast, too strong, too good”
Jimmy Butler — “Jimmy G. Buckets”: The G stands for Gets.
Brian Scalabrine — “White Mamba”
Thaddeus Young – “Thagic Johnson”
In the introduction, King and the play-by-play announcer Adam Amin described the game as one between the Bulls and a “very good Spurs team” – so nice to hear those words again. Just as I do, King’s description of Victor Wembanyama focused on his the overall package of athleticism: “He is not just a big guy who blocks shot. He is a complete player.” King also described Victor as the team’s “point center”.
Another great thing about the game was seeing our old friend Tre Jones. Jones has started every game for the Bulls, averaging 13,5 points, 5.5 assists and 4.2 rebounds. Tre was even better in this one, going 20/7/7 with two steals. King also supplied a fascinating stat about Jones. He had over 1,000 assists as a Spur and did it after being drafted in the second round. Only one other Spur drafted in the second round had ever exceeded 1,000 assists. Any guesses? I will give you a clue. His last name rhymes with Rinobili. Here is another clue:
As much as I enjoyed seeing Tre Jones play, and play so well, that enjoyment was easier to savor because the Spurs erased a fourth quarter double-digit deficit. And we all can agree on the game’s highlight, whichever broadcast Spurs fans were watching. Perhaps upset that John Hollinger of The Athletic had not included him in John’s list of the top four players in the NBA, Victor had one of the best fourth quarters, and best last 60 seconds, in recent memory. A 27-foot three-pointer to tie the game at 114 with one minute left, followed by a second 27-footer (off a cross-over step back) to go ahead 117-114, the ball dropping through as the shot clock wound down with 27.9 seconds left.
While Tre’s 20/7/7 line was impressive, the Spurs’ point center’s line of 38/12/5 — with 5 blocks, was even more so.
But I am sure Victor was too much of a gentlemen to mention that to his old friend after the game.
By Lee Dresie, via Pounding The Rock