By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-01-06 14:34:53
圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 在2025年12月8日星期一于新奥尔良举行的一场NBA篮球比赛中，于上半场对阵新奥尔良鹈鹕队命中一记三分球后庆祝。 (美联社图片/马修·辛顿)
他接下来要找的就是——脚。
“如果我看到你的脚在我附近，我就会主动找上去，”尚帕尼一边说，一边模仿着用自己的脚踩下想象中油门的动作。
大多数人在生活中都尽量避免踩到别人的脚。但尚帕尼——就像如今NBA的许多射手一样——却会主动寻找它们。
在当今的比赛吹罚尺度下，在跳投时哪怕制造最轻微的接触，都是一种让对手领到犯规哨声的万全之策。
在马刺队内，尚帕尼似乎对这类事情有着第六感。
“我能通过你离我有多近来判断，”尚帕尼说。“如果我知道你的脚就在那下面某个地方，我就会去找它。”
自从2017年西部决赛，当时金州勇士队的扎扎·帕楚里亚 (Zaza Pachulia) 在防守跳投的科怀·伦纳德 (Kawhi Leonard) 时垫脚，从而极大地改变了马刺队史的走向之后，NBA就对扑防犯规变得格外警惕。
根据NBA规则，射手在完成跳投出手后有权获得安全的落地空间。侵犯对手落地区域的防守球员几乎会自动被吹罚犯规。
如果扑防动作被认定为鲁莽，裁判可以吹罚恶意犯规——即便接触轻微且并非有意。这项旨在保护射手的规则，后来却被射手们学会了如何利用，甚至将其优势进一步扩大。
现效力于洛杉矶快船队的詹姆斯·哈登 (James Harden) 是NBA历史上在三分投篮中制造犯规次数最多的球员。而将在周三率领洛杉矶湖人队做客霜岸中心的卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Doncic) 也同样名列前茅。
没有什么比让对手获得空位三分机会更让NBA教练抓狂的了。然而，拼命上前补防的球员却常常陷入一种两难的境地。
扑防规则在多大程度上是射手的福音，它就在多大程度上是防守者的灾难。这是NBA规则手册中唯一一种可以在没有发生身体接触的情况下被吹罚的犯规。
“这很难防，因为球员们投篮时会向前跳，”科内特 (Kornet) 说道。“你必须主动提前让开。有时候你对此也无能为力。”
哈珀 (Harper) 最近一次经历这种吹罚，是在马刺队新年前夜战胜纽约尼克斯队的比赛第一节，当时他（起初）看起来成功地干扰了尼克斯队杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 的一次三分出手。
哈珀最初从布伦森的左肩旁滑过，甚至没有碰到他分毫。但在布伦森出手后，哈珀的一只脚却无意中移到了离射手落地区域过近的位置。
尽管完全没有身体接触，但裁判不仅吹罚了哈珀犯规，还在经过录像回放后，将其升级为一次恶意犯规。
赛后，马刺队教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示他不同意裁判对这次吹罚的判决。
“我们今年在关于这类犯规的解释上遇到过一些难题，”约翰逊说。“我言尽于此，但感觉吹罚尺度时常不一。”
回顾自己NBA生涯的第一次恶意犯规，哈珀将其归结为一次“新秀哨”。
“如果犯规的是其他人，他们甚至都不会去回看录像，”哈珀说。
即便如此，这位19岁的年轻人还是希望将这次事件作为他融入NBA过程中的众多学习经历之一。
“很明显，我不能扑到他的身下，”哈珀说。“关键是要保持重心，不要朝球员的方向上步，而是要向旁边撤步。”
即使是对经验丰富的NBA老将来说，要在积极防守三分线和避开射手落地区域之间找到平衡，也是一件难事。
“你需要注意的是，当球员们进入他们自然的投篮动作流程时，我想你只需要站在一旁，”约翰逊说。“如果你把自己置于错误的位置，那么他们就可能会吹罚。”
许多球员表示，完成一次合法扑防的关键，往往在比赛跳球前就已经开始了。
如今的赛前录像分析，不仅要研究对手偏好的进攻战术或防守策略，还要研究每个射手习惯的落地方式。
如果说NBA已经识破了尚帕尼骗取犯规的“锦囊妙计”，那么相应的反制措施尚未出现。
“我认为我在‘表演’这方面做得不错，”尚帕尼说。
尚帕尼在三分投篮中制造犯规的诀窍，并没有被他的队友们忽视。
“朱利安（尚帕尼）造了很多这种犯规，”福克斯 (Fox) 说。“人们去干扰他，而他就会说，‘我想怎么落地就怎么落地。’”
这是否意味着福克斯某天也可能会追随尚帕尼的脚步，学习这种“垫脚式”的造犯规技巧呢？
“绝不可能，”福克斯说。“我可不想落在别人的脚上。我的职业生涯中受过一次严重的脚踝伤。我再也不想经历那种事了。”
San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie, center, shoots a three-point basket against New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce McGowens, left, during the first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)
San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle (5), forward Julian Champagnie (30) and guard Dylan Harper (2) celebrate a basket by Harper during the second half of an NBA game in San Antonio, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. San Antonio beat Washington 119-94.
San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie (30) shoots over Portland Trail Blazers center Yang Hansen (16) during the second half of an NBA basketball game in San Antonio, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie (30) takes a three-point shot during the first quarter against the Atlanta Hawks at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Atlanta Hawks 135-126.
San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie (30) shoots a three-pointer during the first half of an NBA game with the New York Knicks in San Antonio, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. Champagnie made 11-of-17 three point attempts to lead all scorers with 36 points and help the Spurs beat the Knicks 134-132.
San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie (30) takes a shot over Atlanta Hawks forward Jalen Johnson (1) during the first quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025.
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Spurs’ Champagnie reveals secret to drawing jump-shooting fouls
San Antonio Spurs forward Julian Champagnie reacts after a three-point basket against the New Orleans Pelicans during the first half of an NBA basketball game in New Orleans, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)
The next thing he is looking for is feet.
“If I see your feet near me, I’m going to search them out,” Champagnie said, pantomiming his own foot stamping down on an imaginary accelerator.
Most people go through life trying not to step on anybody’s toes. Champagnie – like many NBA shooters these days – actively seeks them out.
The way close-out fouls are officiated in the modern game, creating even the softest contact on a jump shot is a sure-fire way to draw a whistle on an opponent.
Among the Spurs, Champagnie appears to have a sixth sense for that sort of thing.
“I can just tell by how close you are to me,” Champagnie said. “If I know your feet are somewhere down there, I’ll look for it.”
Ever since the 2017 Western Conference finals, when Golden State’s Zaza Pachulia slid under the ankles of a jump-shooting Kawhi Leonard and changed so much about the trajectory of Spurs history, the NBA has been hyper cognizant of close-out fouls.
Under NBA rules, shooters are entitled to a safe landing after releasing a jump shot. Defenders who invade an opponent’s landing space are almost automatically whistled for a foul.
If the close-out is deemed reckless, a flagrant foul can be assessed – even if the contact is minimal and unintentional. It is a rule aimed at protecting shooters that those shooters have since learned to bend even further to their advantage.
James Harden, now of the Los Angeles Clippers, is the NBA’s all-time leader in drawing fouls on 3-point attempts. Luka Doncic, who brings his Los Angeles Lakers to the Frost Bank Center on Wednesday, is also high on the list.
Nothing drives an NBA coach battier than giving up a wide open 3-point attempt. Defenders hustling to prevent them, however, are often put in an unwinnable situation.
As much as the closeout rule has been a boon to shooters, it has been a bane to defenders. It is the only foul in the NBA rulebook that can be called without contact occurring.
“It’s a hard thing, because guys jump forward when they shoot,” Kornet said. “You have to be proactive about getting out of the way. Sometimes you can’t do a lot about it.”
His most recent came in the first quarter Spurs’ New Years Eve victory over New York, when Harper (at first) successfully appeared to contest a 3-point shot by the Knicks’ Jalen Brunson.
Harper initially slid past Brunson’s left shoulder without so much as breathing on him. After Brunson released the ball, however, one of Harper’s feet wandered a little too near the shooter’s landing zone.
Despite a lack of physical contact whatsoever, officials not only called a foul on Harper but – after video review – upgraded it to a flagrant.
After the game, Spurs coach Mitch Johnson indicated he disagreed with the referees’ decision on the call.
“We’ve had some tough explanations in regards to those this year,” Johnson said. “I’m just going to leave it at that, but it feels inconsistent at times.”
Looking back on the first flagrant foul of his NBA career, Harper chalked it up to “a rookie call.”
“If it was anyone else, they’re not even going to review it,” Harper said.
Even so, the 19-year-old Harper hopes to use the incident of one of many learning lessons when it comes to matriculating into the NBA.
“Obviously I can’t close out under him,” Harper said. “It’s that mindset of staying down, not stepping toward guys. You have to step away.”
The balance between aggressively defending the 3-point line while steering clear of a shooter’s landing zone is difficult even for seasoned NBA veterans to strike.
“The thing you got to be mindful of is when guys start their natural flow, I guess you just need to stand on the side,” Johnson said. “If you put yourself in the wrong position, then they may call it.”
To hear many players tell it, the key to executing a legal closeout often begins long before tipoff.
Pregame film studies now not only go over opposing teams’ preferred offensive actions or defensive coverages.
They also cover how individual shooters like to land.
If the NBA has caught on to Champagnie’s bag of foul-drawing tricks, the counter adjustment hasn’t come yet.
“I think I do a good job of selling them,” Champagnie said.
Champagnie’s knack for drawing fouls on 3-point tries has not gone unnoticed by his teammates.
“Julian gets a lot of them,” Fox said. “People contest him, and he says, ‘I’m going to land where ever I’m going to land.’ ”
Does that mean Fox might one day look to follow in Champagnie’s foul-drawing, foot-stomping footsteps?
“Hell no,” Fox said. “I’m not trying to land on someone’s foot. I’ve had one bad ankle injury in my career. I never want to go through that again.”
By Jeff McDonald, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News