By Mateo Mayorga | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-02-05 14:44:06
赢得 NBA 总冠军需要一点运气，这是一个不可回避的现实。纵观任何时代的冠军球队，你都会发现伤病减员和不幸是如何影响夺冠之路的。俄克拉荷马城雷霆作为卫冕冠军，最近运气不佳，球员们接连遭遇伤病困扰，这可能会为其他球队打开机会之门。
谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) 周三更新的伤情报告显示，他因腹肌拉伤将至少缺阵到全明星赛后。这让这场对决失去了些许看点——而这还是在他们宣布另外五名在昨晚出战的轮换主力因新增“伤病”缺阵之前。然而，如果掉以轻心，即便是一支人手不足的球队也能制造杀伤。在圣安东尼奥马刺本赛季第五次对阵这支“残阵”雷霆的下半场，情况正是如此。
尽管如此，马刺还是在关键时刻完成了任务，成功击退雷霆。现在两队之间仅差五个胜场，负场数仅差四场。随着 亚历山大 和 杰伦·威廉姆斯 (Jalen Williams) 在可预见的未来内缺阵，马刺或许迎来了一个冲击西部第一、以确保季后赛主场优势的窗口期。值得注意的是，自 1984 年以来，头号种子曾 26 次夺冠，二号种子 8 次夺冠，三号种子 6 次夺冠，而六号种子仅有一次夺冠。
核心要点
- 雷霆一度落后多达 22 分，必须称赞他们在比赛中坚持了这么久。然而，马刺在背靠背的第一场比赛中有些自我满足，认为早期的投篮手感足以支撑全场，这种习惯必须改正。他们在第三季度的防守非常薄弱，因为过度协防送出了太多跳投机会；幸运的是，尽管给了雷霆六次空位出手，但他们并没有为此付出惨重代价。
- 在 维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 的基因里，他生来就是一名外线威胁，但在面对雷霆的小个轮换阵容时，他的心态是冲击身体。哈利路亚，他终于开窍了。他在篮下的命中率虽然只有 54.5%（比联盟平均水平低 12.2%），但这并不重要，因为随着身体素质的增强，他的准星自然会提升。值得称赞的是，自进入联盟以来，他确实增加了力量。如果他的力量能跟上他的臂展，他在每场至少 11 次篮下尝试（就像周三那样）的情况下，命中率有望达到正常的 77.2%。
- 当 凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 开始打爆对手时，我仿佛能隐约听到安东尼奥·班德拉斯在电影《杀人三部曲》(Desperado, 1995) 中弹奏吉他并演唱《流浪乐手之歌 (Canción del Mariachi)》的声音。本赛季很难找到哪场比赛是他没有拼尽全力的，即便投篮不中时也是如此。他虽然不是大个子，但凭借强悍的身体对抗，他在篮下的命中率甚至超过了许多内线球员，同时在场上其他位置也具备威胁。第六人的角色对他来说再合适不过了：他可以像球队摆烂时期那样自由地担任场上第一进攻选择，而不是在拥挤的首发阵容中被限制成一个定点射手。支持 凯尔登 竞逐年度最佳第六人！
- 想要赢得总冠军，球队必须展现出色的篮板球能力，马刺全年的表现都很犀利。他们在周三的胜利中刷新了赛季新高（63 个），且在本赛季抢下至少 50 个篮板的比赛中，战绩为 13 胜 3 负。请记住，马刺在 2014 年夺冠时篮板率排名联盟第七，2007 年排名第 11，2005 年排名第二，2003 年排名第六，1999 年排名第九。目前，他们的篮板率排名 NBA 第七。
- 亚历山大 的全明星名额需要一名替代者， 德亚伦·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 和 斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 都是有力的候选人（除非替代者必须是“世界队”球员——这是新赛制的奇葩规定之一）。看看 福克斯 的表现，他本赛季的有效投篮命中率达到职业生涯第二高的 54.7%，助攻失误比为 2.48。他的爆发力和速度让他的比赛极具观赏性，非常适合全明星表演赛。 卡斯尔 的效率数据虽然没那么高，但在全联盟中，你很难找到另外 15 名球员能像他这样，在提供顶级持球防守的同时，还能为球队贡献 16 分。
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
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What we learned from the Spurs win over the Thunder
It’s an inescapable reality that it takes a bit of luck to win an NBA championship. Look at the winners from any era, and you’ll see how attrition and misfortune affected the road. The defending champions in Oklahoma City have been unlucky lately as players have gotten banged up, and it could open the door for other teams.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander’s injury update on Wednesday, an abb strain that will sideline him at least until after the All-Star break, took the steam out of the matchup — and that was before they announced five other main rotation players who had played the night before were out with new “injuries”. Yet an understaffed crew can do damage when taken lightly, and that happened in the second half of the San Antonio Spurs’ win over the skeleton crew Thunder in their fifth matchup of the year.
Still, the Spurs did what they had to do to put the Thunder away down the stretch, and now both teams are only separated by five games, four in the loss column. With both SGA and Jalen Williams out for the foreseeable future, there may be a window for the Spurs to push for the first seed to secure home court advantage in the playoffs. Notably, since 1984, the first seed has won the title 26 times, the second seed has won eight, the third has won six and the sixth seed has won once.
Takeaways
- The Thunder were down by as much as 22 points, and credit to them for hanging in this game for so long. Still, the Spurs got a bit satisfied with themselves on the first night of a back-to-back, thinking their early shooting would cushion them the whole game, and that’s a habit they need to correct. Their defense was weak in the third quarter, allowing jumpers because of over-help, and they were fortunate it didn’t bite them, giving OKC six open shots.
- It’s in Victor Wembanyama’s DNA to be an outside threat, yet his mentality against the smaller Thunder rotations was to attack the body. Hallelujah, he gets it now, and it doesn’t matter that he only shot 54.5 percent at the rim (12.2 percent below the league average), because his accuracy will elevate when he gets stronger. To his credit, he’s added power since entering the league, and if his strength catches up to his length, he could average his normal 77.2 percent shooting at the rim on at least 11 attempts, like he had Wednesday.
- I can faintly hear Antonio Banderas play guitar and singing “Canción del Mariachi” from the film Desperado (1995) when Keldon Johnson starts lighting up opponents. Rarely can anyone point to a night this season in which he hasn’t brought it, even if the shots aren’t falling. He’s not a big man, but he’s putting up better shooting numbers around the rim than many of them due to sheer physicality while being a threat from other areas on the floor. The sixth man role has been perfect for him: he’s free to be the number one option of the floor like was has in their tanking years instead being limited to a spot-up shooter role in a crowded starting lineup. KJ for Sixth Man of the Year!
- Teams have to rebound well to win championships, and the Spurs have been sharp in this department all year. They also set a new season high in Wednesday’s win (63), and have a 13-3 record this year when pulling in at least 50. Keep in mind that they were seventh in rebounding percentage when they won in 2014, 11th in 2007, second in 2005, sixth in 2003, and ninth in 1999. They are currently seventh in the NBA.
- SGA will need a replacement for the All-Star Game, and De’Aaron Fox plus Stephon Castle are worthy nominees (unless his replacement is required to be a “world” player — one of the oddities of this new format). Consider how Fox is averaging the second-highest effective field goal percentage of his career (54.7), and logging a 2.48 assist-to-turnover ratio. His torque and speed make his game attractive and a great fit for the exhibition. Castle’s efficiency numbers aren’t as high, but you won’t find 15 other players in the league giving their team 16 points with top-shelf on-ball defense, like he is.
By Mateo Mayorga, via Pounding The Rock