By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-01-23 04:37:42
48小时前，在休斯顿挥霍16分领先优势并彻底崩盘的经历，想必让马刺队在过去两天里都如鲠在喉。今晚对阵犹他爵士，他们确保了悲剧不会重演——尽管还是先让大家惊出了一身冷汗。马刺在上半场一度领先多达15分，但爵士在第三节强势反扑，将比分追平。进入第四节几分钟后，场上局势依然胶着，但犹他始终未能反超比分。最终，马刺在最后七分钟找回状态，以126-109击退了这支年轻而又难缠的爵士队。
德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 三分球9投6中，砍下31分，带领马刺五人得分上双。维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 得到26分，命中四记三分，而凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 则替补贡献了21分。爵士方面，埃斯·贝利 (Ace Bailey) 打出了其年轻生涯的最佳比赛之一，他不断撕裂马刺防线，拿下25分。优素福·努尔基奇 (Jusuf Nurkic) 则贡献了17分、11个篮板和14次助攻的三双数据。
赛后观察
- 最近的比赛让我养成了一个习惯：当马刺三分手感火热时，我不敢高兴得太早。但今晚他们又来了，开场前6次三分出手命中5球，其中朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 和福克斯各进两球，文班也有一球入账。当然，不出所料，他们在首节剩余时间里三分球8投2中。好在尚帕尼的第三记三分帮助球队在替补阵容登场、手感冰凉并送掉7分领先后，将比分追至31平。
- 第二节开场，乔丹·麦克劳克林 (Jordan McLaughlin) 获得了一些上场时间，原因不明。或许是教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 在首节末段表现低迷后，想表明一种态度，或是想寻找一个火花。但无论如何，球员们领会了意图，带着更强的能量和侵略性登场。麦克劳克林在场时，球队将领先优势扩大到了15分。他贡献了3个篮板、2次助攻和1次抢断，他就是那种从不犯错、能通过做好小事来帮助球队稳住局势的球员。
- 卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 和德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 一样遭遇了内收肌紧张的问题，马刺非常想念他。上半场，凯利·奥利尼克 (Kelly Olynyk) 获得了替补中锋的出场时间，尽管他表现平平，无功无过，但他的在场效果确实是负的。似乎每当文班下场休息，场上的进攻就陷入停滞。下半场，因病出战成疑的杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) 顶上了替补中锋的位置，毫不意外，球队的能量和拼劲都提升了一个档次。
- 如果一场比赛没有挥霍掉两位数的领先优势，那还能叫马刺的比赛吗？与上半场的情况正好相反，这次是首发阵容葬送了一度高达15分的领先，而稳定局面的反而是替补球员。他们从未让爵士取得领先，甚至一度将分差拉回到8分，直到凯尔·菲利波夫斯基 (Kyle Filipowski) 在第三节结束前命中压哨三分，将分差缩小到5分。整个第三节，马刺以32-39输给对手，防守端绝对是灾难性的一节。但功劳要归于替补阵容，他们重新激活了进攻，避免了这一节成为彻底崩盘的一节。
- 与输给休斯顿那场比赛类似，马刺在第四节开局阶段漫不经心地浪投三分，前五次出手全部投失，直到文班终于命中一球。对他们来说幸运的是，尽管爵士再次追平了比分，但与休斯顿不同，他们没能投进任何可以反超比分的球。马刺则在此期间重新振作，在比赛还剩7分钟时将领先优势拉开到10分。随后，福克斯和文班轮番上演致命一击，彻底终结了比赛。总的来说，从文班那记三分开始，他们以一波22-9的攻击波收官。
- 斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 的投篮依然总是投短。我很好奇他的拇指伤势到底对他影响多大，尤其是在休斯顿再次加重了伤情之后。尽管如此，除了12投4中的命中率，他今晚的表现依然很全面，他总共得到16分，外加7个篮板、8次助攻、2次抢断和仅1次失误。
- 每次看到裁判吹罚三秒违例（无论是进攻还是防守三秒），我脑海里都会冒出一个随想：我明白这项规则为何存在，但它很蠢，因为它在一场比赛中几乎从不会被吹罚超过一次，有时甚至一次都没有，而实际上可能至少有25%的回合都出现了这种情况。给人的感觉就是，只有当裁判觉得需要提醒大家这项规则还存在时，他们才会想起来吹一下。就好像他们隔三差五地吹一次，只是为了完成指标一样。
- 比赛期间揭示了一项惊人的数据：文班以场均命中2.2记三分球，成为马刺队史的场均三分王。这让我大为震惊。我知道这只是一个小样本数据，而且肯定有球员在单一赛季的场均三分命中数比这更高，但实在难以想象，像布鲁斯·鲍文 (Bruce Bowen)、丹尼·格林 (Danny Green)、帕蒂·米尔斯 (Patty Mills) 等投篮专家，在他们整个马刺生涯中的场均数据竟然没有更高。我猜这可能是多种因素共同作用的结果：比如自他们那个时代以来，三分出手数大幅增加；以及在整个职业生涯中并非一直处于主要轮换阵容，导致一些零星出场拉低了他们的生涯平均数据等等。
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San Antonio vs. Utah, Final Score: Spurs explode in fourth quarter to put Jazz away, 126-109
After blowing a 16-point lead and completely falling apart in Houston likely left the Spurs with a bad taste in their mouths for the last 48 hours ago, they made sure it didn’t happen again against the Utah Jazz tonight, although they still made everyone sweat a little first. After the Spurs got ahead by as much as 15 in the first half, the Jazz came all the way back in the third quarter. Things were still tied several minutes into the fourth, but Utah could never gain the lead, and the Spurs finally turned things back on in the final seven minutes to but the young but pesky Jazz away, 126-109.
De’Aaron Fox led five Spurs in double figures with 31 points on 6-9 from three, Victor Wembanyama had 26 points with four threes, and Keldon Johnson scored 21 off the bench. For the Jazz, Ace Bailey had on of his best games of his young career with 25 points while continuously slicing through the Spurs defense, and Jusuf Nurkic had a 17-11-14 triple-double.
Observations
- Recent events have conditioned me to not get excited when the Spurs are hot from three, but they did it again tonight, hitting 5 of their first 6, with two from Julian Champagnie and Fox and one from Wemby. Of course, they then went 2-8 for the rest of the first quarter, although a third from Champagnie helped them tie things back up a 31 apiece after they had gone cold when the bench came in and gave up a 7-point lead.
- Jordan McLaughlin got some minutes to start the second quarter for unclear reasons other than Mitch Johnson either wanted to make a point or find a spark after the slow end to the first quarter, but whatever the reason, they got the memo and came out with much more energy and aggressiveness, building the lead up to 15 with him on the floor. He recorded three rebounds, two assists and a steal and is just one of those players who doesn’t make mistakes and does the little things that can help steady the ship.
- Luke Kornet joins Devin Vassell with adductor tightness, and the Spurs missed him badly. Kelly Olynyk got the back-up center minutes in the first half, and while he didn’t do much, good or bad, he was a net negative for a reason. It seemed like everything bogged down every time Wemby left the floor. Jeremy Sochan, who was questionable with an illness, got the back-up center minutes in the second half, and unsurprisingly the energy level and feistiness was higher.
- It’s not a Spurs game without a blown double-digit lead. In a reverse from the first half, this time it was the starters that gave up the entirety of what was once a 15-point lead, and the bench unit that did the stabilizing. They never allowed the Jazz to take the lead and even got it back up to 8 before a Kyle Filipowski three before the third quarter buzzer got it down to five. Overall, the Spurs were outscored 39-32, so it was definitely a turd quarter on defense, but credit to the bench for getting the offense going again and preventing it from being a full-blown turn quarter.
- Similar to their loss in Houston, the Spurs opened the fourth quarter by carelessly jacking up threes, missing their first five before Wemby finally got one to fall. Fortunately for them, while the Jazz again tied things back, unlike Houston, they couldn’t hit any shots that would have given them the lead before the Spurs got their act back together and pulled back up by 10 with 7 minutes left. Fox and Wemby then traded haymakers to put the Jazz away. Overall, they finished on a 22-9 run after that Wemby three.
- Stephon Castle’s shots continue to be short. I wonder how much that thumb is bugging him, especially after he re-aggravated it in Houston. Still, other than shooting 4-12, he had a solid night by getting to the line for 16 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 2 steals and just 1 turnover.
- Random thought that jumps in my head every time three seconds is called, offensive or defensive: I get why the rule exists, but it’s dumb because it’s almost never called more than once a game, sometimes not at all, but it probably happens on at least 25% of possessions. It just feels like something that is called when the refs feel like they need to remind everyone that it exists. It’s like they need to meet an allotment by calling it every so often.
- Wild stat that was revealed during the game: Wemby is the Spurs’ franchise leader in three-pointers made per game at 2.2. That shocks me. I know it’s a small sample size, and there have certainly been players that averaged more makes than that in a single season, but it’s so hard to imagine that shooting specialists like Bruce Bowen, Danny Green, Patty Mills, etc. didn’t average more across their Spurs careers. I guess it’s just a combination of the rise in attempts since their playing days, not being in the main rotation the entire career meant small appearances hurt their career averages, etc.
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock