By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2025-11-24 04:45:00
这场景仿佛似曾相识，马刺队带着主场连胜之势奔赴菲尼克斯，希望在一支本应在休赛期流失众多老将后陷入挣扎、却反而焕发新生的球队身上延续连胜。上半场，马刺一直舒适地保持领先；然而下半场的走势却演变成了他们首次客战菲尼克斯的翻版——太阳队凭借火热的三分球手感和比马刺更强硬的身体对抗，送给了失误频频的马刺队赛季首败。
比赛开局阶段，两队手感均不佳，但马刺通过攻击太阳队羸弱的内线防守并博得罚球机会，建立起21-13的领先优势。与上次交手不同，太阳队开场三分线外手感冰凉，前九次出手全部偏出，但他们通过冲击进攻篮板，在本节拼下7分的二次进攻得分，顽强地追回比分，并最终命中几记三分，打出了一波12-2的攻击波。此后马刺重新稳住阵脚，在首节末段连得七分，以30-25结束了前12分钟的较量。
第二节开始，卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant) 在他的大学教练——来自亚利桑那大学的汤米·劳埃德 (Tommy Lloyd)——面前获得了一些上场时间，他抓住机会命中一次快攻上篮和一记三分，帮助马刺队将领先优势扩大到当晚的第一个两位数，比分来到41-31。马刺将这一领先优势保持了一段时间，但进攻端的一些脱节表现导致菲尼克斯在转换进攻中命中数记三分，打出一波8-0的攻势。在领先优势被缩小到仅剩四分、距离半场结束不到五分钟时，米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 请求了暂停。凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 的一记三分帮助球队稳住了局势，经过几分钟的混乱场面后，马刺以56-49领先结束上半场。
尽管上半场大部分时间保持领先，但局势仍旧岌岌可危，因为太阳是一支依赖三分球定生死的球队，他们最终找回手感的概率要高于马刺。上半场两队各自仅命中四记三分，下半场开局马刺率先命中两球，但正如所担心的那样，太阳队迅速找到了他们的进攻节奏，用一波11-3的攻击波以63-62反超比分，这是他们自第一节初以来首次取得领先。马刺凭借一次5分进攻回合短暂夺回领先，但再次出现的 sloppy play 让他们陷入了标志性的“崩盘”一节。太阳队打出一波16-6的攻势，将领先优势扩大到七分，并且单节命中6记三分，以80-86领先进入最后12分钟。
进入第四节，马刺依旧打得毫无章法，防守端乱作一团，太阳队以一波10-4开局，将领先优势扩大到12分（84-72），迫使马刺叫了暂停。他们一度将分差拉大到13分，之后马刺才终于连续完成几次成功的防守和得分。但此时太阳队已经完全进入了进攻节奏，而马刺这边除了德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 或约翰逊的单打外，几乎无人能有效得分。在最后两分钟，马刺拼命尝试追分，但为时已晚，于事无补，最终以102-111本赛季第二次在菲尼克斯败北。
比赛要点
- 很难说马刺队有谁打出了一场好球。德阿隆·福克斯和哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 都是11投5中，不过巴恩斯未能命中三分，且仅出手两次，在出手选择上显得异常犹豫。福克斯至少打得很有侵略性，并频繁站上罚球线，16罚14中（这是马刺本场比赛唯一占据数据优势的环节，他们共获得34次罚球，而太阳仅有16次），砍下了全场最高的26分。替补席上，约翰逊继续证明为何他应被纳入年度最佳第六人的讨论中，他8投6中，其中三分球3投2中，高效得到14分。但今晚替补阵容整体表现糟糕，他的发挥也无法改变局面。
- 当你考虑到马刺在罚球线上有着17分的优势时，就能明白太阳在其他各项数据上是多么地完胜他们。太阳队多命中了11个运动战进球，多进4个三分球，多6次抢断，多2次盖帽，失误数比马刺少13次，并且利用对手失误得到的快攻得分也少了8分。事实上，马刺19次失误“仅”让对手得到14分，这还让我有些惊讶；我本以为情况会更糟。
- 马刺队在另一项数据上也实际占优，但观感上却并非如此，那就是进攻篮板，数据为14-11。感觉上太阳队抢到了多得多的进攻篮板，也许是因为像第二节初那样的一次进攻回合：太阳队连续获得三次出手机会，因为马刺球员只是将球向外拨，而不是牢牢抓住它，而拨出去的球总是落到太阳队球员手中。幸运的是，太阳队在那次进攻中并未得分，但这提醒了人们，马刺是多么想念维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 用他巨大的臂展范围一把抓下（而不是去拨球）每一个可能的篮板球。
- 第三节出现了一个极其尴尬的瞬间，狄龙·布鲁克斯 (Dillon Brooks) 似乎在向裁判大喊“拖延！”（想要一个马刺队拖延比赛的判罚）并领到一次技术犯规后被驱逐出场。所有人都以为那是他的第二次技术犯规，并对他仍然留在场上感到目瞪口呆。但结果是，之前在上述五分进攻回合中的一次技术犯规，实际上是吹罚在罗伊斯·奥尼尔 (Royce O’Neal) 身上的，尽管最初记录显示是布鲁克斯的。
下场比赛：周三客场对阵波特兰开拓者队
马刺将前往波特兰，挑战一支伤兵满营但仍在坚持的开拓者队，前马刺球员悉迪·西索科 (Siddy Cissoko) 在过去几场比赛中甚至出任了他们的首发控球后卫。比赛将于中部时间晚9:00在FanDuel Sports平台进行。
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点击查看原文：Rinse, Repeat: Spurs overpowered by Suns’ physicality and threes
Rinse, Repeat: Spurs overpowered by Suns’ physicality and threes
In what felt like a bit of deja vu, the Spurs strolled into Phoenix off consecutive home wins, looking to continue building a winning streak against a team that was supposed to struggle after losing so many veterans this offseason but instead has found new life. After staying comfortably ahead in the first half, the second half turned into their first visit to Phoenix, when the Suns handed them their first loss of the season thanks to getting hot from three and being more physical than the mistake-prone Spurs.
Neither team was hot to start the game, but the Spurs managed to build a 21-13 lead by attacking the Suns’ vulnerable interior defense and getting to the free throw line. Unlike their last meeting, the Suns were initially cold from three, missing their first nine, but they clawed their by back by attacking the offensive glass for seven extra points in the quarter before finally hitting a couple of threes as part of a 12-2 run. The Spurs regrouped from there and scored the final seven points of the first quarter to lead 30-25 after 12 minutes.
Carter Bryant got some minutes to open the second quarter in front of his college coach, Tommy Lloyd of the University of Arizona, and he made the most of it with a fast break layup and three to help spark the Spurs to their first double-digit lead of the night at 41-31. They kept the lead in that range for a bit, but some disjointed play on offensive led to a couple of threes in transition for Phoenix as part of an 8-0 run, and Mitch Johnson called timeout with the lead cut down to four with just under five minutes remaining in the half. A Keldon Johnson three helped stabilize things a bit, and after a few chaotic minutes, they were up 56-49 at the half.
Despite holding the lead most of the first half, it still felt precarious since the Suns are a team that lives and dies by the three, and the odds that they would eventually find their stroke was better than the Spurs. After both teams had only hit four threes each in the first half, the Spurs hit two to open the second, but as feared, the Suns quickly found their offense and used an 11-3 run to retake the lead for the first time since early in the first quarter at 63-62. The Spurs briefly got it back thanks to a 5-point possession, but again sloppy play had them marred in one of the signature “turd” quarters. The Suns stretched the lead out to seven on a 16-6 run and overall hit 6 threes in the quarter to lead 80-86 with 12 minutes to go.
The Spurs remained disjointed to start the fourth quarter, with the defense out of whack as the Suns started on a 10-4 run to get the lead up to 12 84-72, forcing a Spurs timeout. They would get up by as much as 13 before the Spurs finally stringed a few stops and makes together, but by now the Suns were in an offensive rhythm while no one outside of De’Aaron Fox or Johnson in isolation could do much. The Spurs desperately tried to get back in it in the last two minutes, but it was too little, too late as they fell in Phoenix for the second time this season, 102-111.
Game Notes
- It’s hard to argue anyone had a good game for the Spurs. De’Aaron Fox and Harrison Barnes were both 5-11 from the field, although Barnes failed to hit a three and only attempted two, seeming uncharacteristically hesitant to pull the trigger. Fox was at least aggressive and got to the line, where he hit 14-16 FTs (the only part of the game where the Spurs had a statistical advantage with 34 attempts compared to just 16 for the Suns) and scored a game-high 26 points. Off the bench, Johnson continued to show why he should be in the mix for 6th Man the year with 14 points on 6-8 shooting and 2-3 from three, but the bench unit as a whole was poor tonight, and his play couldn’t put a dent in it.
- When you consider that the Spurs had a 17-point advantage at the free throw line, that tells you how badly the Suns outplayed them in every other category. They hit 11 more field goals, four more threes, had six more steals, two more blocks, committed 13 fewer turnovers and gave up 8 fewer points off those turnovers. I was actually surprised the Spurs “only” gave up 14 points off 19 turnovers; I figured it would be much worse.
- Another stat the Spurs also actually won but it didn’t feel like it was offensive rebounds, 14-11. It felt like the Suns had so many more, maybe because of possessions like one early in 2nd quarter, where the Suns three because Spurs were just tapping the ball out instead of grabbing it, and the taps kept landing in the Suns hands. Fortunately they didn’t score on that possession, but it was a reminder of how much the Spurs miss Victor Wembanyama snatching (and not tapping) every available ball in his massive reach.
- In one extremely awkward moment in the third quarter, it seemed like Dillon Brooks was ejected after getting a technical yelling “delay!” at the refs, wanting a delay of game call on the Spurs. Everyone thought it was his second T and were dumbfounded that he was still on the court, but it turned out an earlier technical as part of the aforementioned five-point play that was actually on Royce O’Neal, even though it had originally been assigned to Brooks.
Up next: Wednesday at Portland Trail Blazers
The Spurs head to Portland to take on an injured Blazers squad that is still holding on and even featuring former Spur Siddy Cissoko at starting point guard the last few games. Tip-off will be at 9:00 PM CT on FanDuel Sports.
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock