By Mateo Mayorga | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-01-08 13:48:44
当人们在工作中让观察者和评估者失望时，他们很自然地会想要超越自我。NBA 球队也是如此，当遭遇挫败后，他们通常会火力全开，强势反弹。
圣安东尼奥马刺队在周三得到了一个纠正错误的机会。
相似的战绩并不总意味着对手处于同一档次。然而，在体育界，检验他们是否是真材实料的通用方法，就是让两支顶级球队正面对决。就洛杉矶湖人队而言，他们缺少了勒布朗·詹姆斯 (LeBron James) 和奥斯汀·里夫斯 (Austin Reaves)，这是他们队内第二和第三出色的突破手，这严重削弱了他们的实力。然而，NBA 中存在一种现象，即人员不整的球队有时会爆冷击败更强的队伍，部分原因是他们被对手轻视了。这样的比赛结果恰恰表明了马刺队为抓住机会做了多么充分的准备。
在 NBA 赢球绝非易事，而马刺队不断证明，即使事情没有按照比赛计划进行，他们也能搞定比赛。他们克服了三分投射和进攻篮板的不足，而且在前三节比赛中处理球也相当草率。可以说，无论通过何种方式最终取胜的能力，是他们今年成长最快的方面。
此外，马刺队如今拥有划时代的球员维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama)；而在另一边，卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Dončić) 也在独行侠队大放异彩。他们之间的对决将在很长一段时间内成为必看的焦点。周三的比赛也不例外，场上的巨星们都闪耀着光芒，尽管比赛大部分时间里呈现一边倒的态势。
几点观察
- 这是马刺队的一场重大胜利，因为在周三的比赛前，他们与对手在前两次交锋中平分秋色。考虑到他们可能是季后赛的对手，或者在赛季末争夺相同的排名，这场胜利让他们在打破平局关系上领先了一场。如果他们真的在季后赛相遇，那将会是无比美妙的对决——因为两队的历史渊源、令人难以置信的球星号召力，以及双方都有充分的理由相信自己的当家球星是联盟未来的门面。
- 当然，东契奇（Don Luka）确实是顶级货色，但永远不要忘记帕特·莱利 (Pat Riley) 多年前曾大胆宣称，“手枪”皮特·马拉维奇 (Pistol Pete Maravich) 是有史以来最被高估的超级巨星，因为他不防守。尽管卢卡·东契奇是联盟中的重量级球星之一，但关于他防守的批评并非毫无根据。事实上，他如此懒散的防守态度，在某种程度上削弱了他非凡的个人表现。很难想象，当一个人在进攻端享受所有乐趣，却不参与防守端的脏活累活时，他的一些队友不会对此感到厌倦。
- 教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示，文班亚马的出场时间已接近上限，并且短期内不会打满40分钟。对于是否会逐步增加他的出场时间，约翰逊教练也未置可否，因为他想观察文班亚马的身体反应。这可能会让那些希望看到限制措施放宽的观察者感到沮丧，尤其是在看到文班亚马状态如此出色之后，但约翰逊教练做出了正确的决定。他让我想起了一位拳击教练，在摘掉训练辅助轮、让选手参加12回合的正式比赛前，会小心翼翼地安排他的新秀以更短的间隔参加比赛，循序渐进。
- 看到文班以替补身份出战是一种享受，而当被问及此事时，他听起来真诚又冷静的态度，让我深刻地认识到他是一个怎样的赢家。他是一个超级武器，以援军的角色被使用让我想起了凯文·麦克海尔 (Kevin McHale) 在其职业生涯大部分时间里作为替补是多么具有毁灭性的武器。他曾连续两年领跑联盟投篮命中率（虽然不是作为替补），这看起来像是文班亚马未来也能做到的事情。
- 湖人队此役之前场均让对手获得18.8次空位三分机会，但马刺队未能通过他们流畅的球和人转移来充分利用这些空档。甚至没有一名首发球员命中一记三分球，但他们没有让投篮失手影响到他们的防守活力。这让比赛变得艰难，但马刺队通过在周三打出赛季最佳的防守效率（89.2）进行了反击。他们需要这样的努力，因为他们不仅三分线外受限，二次进攻得分也只有6分，创下了赛季第二差的记录。
- 正如电视剧《火线》(The Wire) 中的斯金格·贝尔 (Stringer Bell) 曾说过的，“把话放出去”——凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 竞选年度最佳第六人的宣传攻势已全速启动。约翰逊的场均得分可能稍低一些（13.5分），但他的效率远超其他候选人，除了身为大个子的戈加·比塔泽 (Goga Bitadze)。他已成为马刺崛起的过程中不可或缺的一环。最重要的是，约翰逊本赛季替补出场的总得分（501分）排名第三，仅次于小海梅·哈克斯 (Jaime Jaquez Jr.)（536分）和纳兹·里德 (Naz Reid)（529分）。
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What we learned from the Spurs win vs. the Lakers
It’s natural for people to want to outdo themselves when they’ve disappointed observers and evaluators at work. NBA teams are the same and usually come out guns blazing when they have been humbled.
The San Antonio Spurs got their turn to right that wrong on Wednesday.
Similar records don’t always mean rivals are in the same class. Yet, universally in sports, the way to reveal if they are for real is to have two of the top go head-to-head. In the Los Angeles Lakers’ case, they were without LeBron James and Austin Reaves, their second and third-best penetrators, severely weakening them. Yet there’s this NBA phenomenon in which the undermanned team upsets the superior unit, in part because they were slept on. These outings indicate how prepared the Spurs are to take advantage of a situation.
Winning is hard in the NBA, and they keep showing they can do it when things don’t go according to the game plan. It took working around a lack of 3-point shooting and offensive rebounding, plus they were sloppy with the ball for three quarters. Getting it done by any means is arguably the area where they’ve grown the most this year.
Additionally, now that they have a generational player in Victor Wembanyama and the Lakers have Luka Dončić, matchups between them will be appointment viewing for a long time. It was no different on Wednesday as both flashed greatness, in spite of the game being mostly one-sided.
Takeaways
- This was a big win for the Spurs considering they had split the first two matchups before entering Wednesday’s game. Considering they could be playoff opponents or possibly vying for the same seed by the end of the year, it puts them one game closer to owning the tie-breaker. It would be so sweet if they do match up because of history, incredible star power, and each side having a solid case for their best player being the future face of the league.
- Of course, Don Luka is the goods, but never forget how Pat Riley boldly said many years ago that Pistol Pete Maravich was the most overrated superstar ever because he didn’t play defense. As much as Dončić is one of the league’s heavyweight stars, criticisms about his defense are not unwarranted. In fact, being such a lazy defender waters down how remarkable he is a bit. It’s hard to imagine it doesn’t get old with some teammates that one guy has all the fun with the ball and doesn’t participate in the heavy lifting on the other side.
- Coach Mitch Johnson said Wembanyama was near his cap in minutes and that he won’t be playing 40 any time soon. He was also noncommittal about incrementally raising them because he wants to see how Wembanyama’s body reacts. This might frustrate observers who wish to see precautions eased after seeing how good he looks, yet Johnson is making the right call. He reminds me of a boxing trainer carefully maneuvering his prospect into fights with fewer intervals before taking the training wheels off and letting them go into a 12-rounder.
- It’s a treat to see Wemby off the bench, and him sounding sincerely cool about it when asked tells me a lot about the winner he is. He’s a super weapon, and being used in the reinforcements role reminds me of how much of a devastating weapon Kevin McHale was as a reserve for most of his career. He led the league in field goal percentage in consecutive years (not as a reserve), which seems like something Wembanyama could do down the line.
- The Lakers came into the game allowing 18.8 wide-open 3-pointers, but the Spurs could not capitalize on all of those openings with their ball and body movement. Not even one starter made a trey, yet they didn’t let the misses piling up affect their vigor to defend. That made things tough, but the Spurs countered it by logging their best defensive rating of the season on Wednesday (89.2). They needed that type of effort because they weren’t just limited from three, but also in second-chance scoring to their second-worst night of the year with just 6 points.
- As Stringer Bell once said on The Wire, “Put the word out there” that the Keldon Johnson Sixth Man of the Year hype train is at full speed ahead. Johnson’s scoring average could be a bit higher (13.5), but he is blowing away the other options in efficiency, except Goga Bitadze, who is a big man. He has been an indispensable part of the Spurs’ rise. On top of that, Johnson is third in total points (501) scored off the bench this season behind Jaime Jaquez Jr. (536) and Naz Reid (529).
By Mateo Mayorga, via Pounding The Rock