By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-01-10 12:30:39
2025年12月23日，周二，圣安东尼奥，霜岸中心球馆，圣安东尼奥马刺队前锋哈里森·巴恩斯（40号）在第一节比赛中绕过俄克拉荷马城雷霆队中锋以赛亚·哈尔滕施泰因（55号）传球。最终马刺以130-110击败雷霆。
波士顿电——马刺队的领袖们呼吁球队在当前这段艰难的赛程中打起精神，哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 表示，这个时期正值季后赛的竞争者们开始为季后赛排位“全力冲刺”之际。
“他们能够借此机会扩大与身后球队的领先优势，”作为一名在2015年随金州勇士队夺冠、征战联盟14载的前锋，巴恩斯说道。“又或者，如果有些球队一直（受伤病困扰），现在正是提升排名的好时机，可以借此杀入附加赛区，或者跳出附加赛区、跻身前六，无论目标是什么。”
巴恩斯说，马刺队最不希望看到的情况就是，等到四月份回首时追悔莫及，心想：“天啊，要是我们当初拿下了这场比赛，或是那场比赛……”
为了避免这种情况，他希望队友们能抱持这样的心态：“嘿，好的，从现在开始，我们要拿下那些我们本就该赢下的比赛。”
“（你希望看到的情况是）如果对手击败了我们……那是因为我们已经拼尽全力，而他们技高一筹，而不是因为‘我们不在状态’、‘我们不够努力’，或者‘对手的求胜欲更强’。”
对马刺而言，不幸的是，他们本月已经输掉了一场纸面实力上本应获胜的比赛——于上周二以105-106惜败于伤兵满营的孟菲斯灰熊队。在那场失利后，马刺队在过去六场比赛中输掉了四场。第二天晚上，他们以107-91战胜洛杉矶湖人队，强势反弹。这场比赛也标志着一段魔鬼赛程的开始，他们将连续面对六支志在季后赛中走得更远的球队。
鉴于最近输给了灰熊队，在击败由卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Donic) 领衔的湖人队并将战绩提升至26胜11负后，马刺队并未因此沾沾自喜。在周六对阵凯尔特人队（24胜13负）的比赛前，马刺队排名西部第二，落后于俄克拉荷马城雷霆队（32胜7负）五个胜场。
“比赛太多了，这让你很容易再次犯错，”维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 在谈到常规赛82场的漫长赛程时说。“真正的挑战在于每晚都要打出最佳状态。”
马刺队本赛季的目标不仅是终结队史最长的连续六个赛季无缘季后赛的尴尬纪录，更希望能在季后赛中有所作为。
但即便在取得了一个出人意料的强势开局后，他们也丝毫不敢掉以轻心。
“从现在到全明星周末期间，你要做的就是努力建立良好的习惯，对吧？”巴恩斯说。“这期间几乎没有任何喘息的机会，没有真正的休息或间歇。所以，关键就在于谁能最好地保持专注……因此，对我们这样的球队来说，关键在于我们如何能持续进步？如何能继续专注于我们想要达成的目标，而不是让上半赛季的出色表现，因为一段为期三周的低迷期之类的原因而付诸东流。”
文班亚马说，为了保持正轨，马刺队正专注于驱散任何“信心上的小低谷”。
“好消息是，我们的更衣室里有活力源泉，”他说。“我们在场下的氛围也一直很棒。”
瓦塞尔在波士顿进行康复训练
德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 随队参加了马刺的三连客之旅，这次客场之旅从周六对阵凯尔特人开始，并将在周日和周二先后客战明尼苏达和俄克拉荷马城。
周六上午，当队友们进行投篮训练时，这位因腹股沟伤势已连续缺席5场比赛的前锋正在爱默生学院进行康复训练。
目前尚无他复出的具体时间表，但马刺队教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示，他的康复进展顺利。
San Antonio Spurs forward Keldon Johnson (3) and forward Victor Wembanyama (1) chest bump as the starting line up is announced before a home game against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Monday, Dec. 29, 2025.
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) drives on Washington Wizards guard Bilal Coulibaly (0) during the first half of an NBA game in San Antonio, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2025. San Antonio beat Washington 119-94.
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) tries to drive under New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson (11) during the first half of an NBA game in San Antonio, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. The Spurs beat the Knicks 134-132.
Los Angeles Lakers forward Jarred Vanderbilt (2) hits San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) in the head as he looks to make a pass during the fourth quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026. The Spurs defeated the Lakers, 107-91.
San Antonio Spurs forward Victor Wembanyama (1) is greeted by center Bismack Biyombo as he comes off the court during a time out in the second half of an NBA game with the New York Knicks in San Antonio, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2025. The Spurs beat the Knicks 134-132.
San Antonio Spurs Victor Wembanyama (1) dunks over Utah Jazz Cody Williams (5) In the first half on Saturday, Dec. 27,2025 at the Frost Bank Center
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Spurs aim to strengthen playoff position as season nears midpoint
San Antonio Spurs forward Harrison Barnes (40) makes a pass around Oklahoma City Thunder center Isaiah Hartenstein (55) during the first quarter at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025. The Spurs defeated the Thunder, 130-110.
BOSTON — Spurs leaders are calling for the club to buckle down during this tough portion of its schedule, which Harrison Barnes says comes at a time when playoff contenders are starting to “lock in” on playoff seeding.
“They’re able to establish either more space between them and the next team behind them,” said Barnes, 14th-year forward who won a championship with Golden State in 2015. “Or if teams have been (dealing with injuries), this (is the time to) move up in the standings and either get into the play-in or get out of the play-in and get into the top six, whatever it is.”
What the Spurs don’t want to wind up doing is look back in April with regret thinking, “Man, if we would’ve got this game here, this game there …,” Barnes said.
In order to avoid that, he wants his teammates to think along the lines of, “Hey, OK, we’re going to take care of the games we need to take care of —now.”
“(You want it to be) if someone beats us … we played great and they beat us, as opposed to ‘We didn’t show up,’ or ‘We didn’t give effort,’ or ‘They just wanted them more.’”
Unfortunately for the Spurs, they’ve already dropped a game this month to a team that on paper they should have beat, losing 106-105 at injury-depleted Memphis last Tuesday. At that point, the Spurs had lost four of their last six games. They bounced back with a 107-91 win over the Los Angeles Lakers the next night in a game that marked the beginning of a stretch in which they will face six teams that have the goal of making deep playoff runs this season.
Given the recent lost to the Grizzlies, the Spurs didn’t puff out their chests after downing Luka Donic and the Lakers to improve to 26-11. They entered Saturday’s game with the Celtics (24-13) second in the West, five games behind Oklahoma City (32-7).
“There’s too many games. It’s too easy to make mistakes again," Victor Wembanyama said, referring to the 82-game regular season schedule. "The hard thing is to answer the call every night.”
The Spurs hope this season to not just snap their franchise-record six-season playoff drought but to make some noise in the postseason.
But even after a surprisingly strong start, they aren’t taking anything for granted.
“You’re essentially trying to establish good habits between now and the All-Star break, right?” Barnes said. “There’s nothing really in between. There’s no real breaks or any gaps. So it’s a matter of who can maintain focus the best. … So for a team like us, it’s all about how can we continue to get better? How can we continue to focus on where we want to be at and not let a good first half of the season be erased by a three-week bad stretch or something like that.”
To stay on course, the Spurs are focusing on dispelling any “little slumps of confidence,” Wembanyama said.
“The good thing is we got energizers in the locker room,” he said. “We got all the time good vibes together off the court.”
Vassell rehabs in Boston
Devin Vassell is on the Spurs’ three-game road trip that began Saturday against the Celtics and will conclude with stops at Minnesota on Sunday and at Oklahoma City on Tuesday.
The forward did rehab work at Emerson College for the groin injury that has sidelined him the last 5 games while his teammates went through shootaround Saturday morning.
There’s no timeline for his return, but Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said his rehab is going well.
By Tom Orsborn, Staff Writer, via San Antonio Express-News