By Jeje Gomez | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-03-05 01:39:31
在纽约遭遇挫折后，马刺队重回胜利轨道。他们在一场大胜中以40分的分差击溃了阵容不整的76人队，阵中共有八名球员得分上双。
在这8名球员中，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 是最接近得分未上双的一位。这位大个子在25分钟内仅出手5次，然而当他在场时，马刺队净胜费城41分，这一正负值全队最高。正如 J.R. 威尔科 (J.R. Wilco) 和我此前讨论过的那样，文班正在通过得分以外的方式主宰比赛，这是一个非常好的信号。
一场狂胜或许不是最佳的数据样本，但击败活塞队的比赛同样展现了这种态势。文班亚马在第一节出手6次得到5分。在随后的比赛中，他出手10次，并通过罚球以及在比赛末段针对底特律混乱防守的得分来积累分数。文班亚马在篮板球方面表现得像个怪物，最终抢下17个篮板。他送出6次盖帽，镇守禁区，并送出4次助攻。他的使用率在25%左右，并且在他所有的触球中，有三分之二都将球传了出去。他没有强行进攻，也没有粘球。
让我们将其与负于尼克斯队的比赛做个对比。在那场比赛中，文班亚马的得分和出手次数均领跑全队，但出现了7次失误。他尝试了7次三分球，仅命中1球。他的使用率在30%左右，而队内其他人的使用率甚至没过20%，且他在大约一半的触球中选择了传球。最终的数据统计其实差别并不大。对阵底特律时，文班16投21分，送出4次助攻和3次失误；对阵纽约时，他17投25分，送出4次助攻和7次失误。主要区别在于，在对阵活塞以及最近的几场比赛中，他的打法更加融入球队的进攻流转。
当然，文班亚马作为进攻端明确的第一选择本身并不是坏事。对手防守他的方式也各不相同，有些策略只有在他表现被动时才会奏效。这里的建议绝非是让这位“外星人”变成一名纯防守型的蓝领球员，而不去利用他惊人的进攻天赋。核心观点在于，尽管文班偶尔会陷入旧习惯，但他似乎在阅读防守、识别队友更优对位方面做得越来越好。他对阵76人只出手5次，是因为全队要取得一场大胜，他只需要出手5次。
在观看他的比赛时，你可以看到这种新打法的运用。马刺队的进攻战术并不算复杂，所以他们坚持通过几套战术为文班创造出手机会，通常涉及无球掩护或让他担任掩护者。当这些战术执行得力且防守者没有紧贴文班亚马时，他可以充当终结者的角色。此外，还有他在腰位或罚球线牛角位的单打，以及让他变身进攻发起者的反向挡拆。最后，就是文班拥有随时出手的无限三分开火权。
有些比赛中，他根本无法从这些战术中获得良好的出手机会，这主要是因为防守端会倾尽全力限制他，但他仍试图强行制造机会，结果往往不尽如人意。
以失误收场的突破、失去平衡的后仰中投、仓促的三分出手，以及倒地后向裁判要哨子，这些行为永远不会从他的比赛中完全消失，因为他永远不会变得完美。但这些是可以减少的。当文班面对对方中锋的贴身防守时，他可以简单地通过掩护或拉开场上空间，让后卫突破进空旷的禁区。当面对能跟上他敏捷度的侧翼大闸或被单人防守时，他可以寻求换位，从而吸引包夹或防守轮转，然后只需将球传导起来。
在文班在场的大部分时间里，进攻端可以也应当围绕他展开，但他不必非得通过高难度进球或华丽的助攻来体现进攻端的价值。我们已经看到了这一点，而他也正在意识到这一点。
让文班亚马显得与众不同的地方在于，他在防守端可以成为鲁迪·戈贝尔 (Rudy Gobert) 2.0，同时还能带来进攻天赋型大个子的得分、空间属性和策应传球。如果对方没有足够的防守资源来限制他，或者当他手感火热时，他可以砍下40分。但在某些日子里，他仅仅在防守端就能展现出如此彻底的统治力，以至于在进攻端扮演一个不那么核心的角色反而是他为胜利做贡献的最佳方式。这看起来可能违背直觉，但充当牵制者为马刺其他进攻武器创造机会，或许正是为他自己拉开空间、从而获得更多得分的必要条件。
完全进化版的文班在进攻端很可能是不可阻挡的，但就目前而言，他可以先做一个顶级的终结者和审时度势的组织者。他在最近的几场胜利中正是这样做的，这对即将到来的季后赛征程以及不久的将来都是个好兆头。届时，圣安东尼奥那些已经令人印象深刻的后卫们将进步到需要更多球权的程度，就像当年的托尼·帕克 (Tony Parker) 和马努·吉诺比利 (Manu Ginobili) 那样。
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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The Spurs are at their best when Wembanyama doesn’t force things
The Spurs are back to their winning ways after a stumble in New York. They demolished the shorthanded 76ers in a 40-point blowout that saw eight players finish with 10 points or more.
Among those 8 players, Victor Wembanyama was the closest to not reaching double digits. The big man only took five shots in 25 minutes, yet the Spurs outscored Philadelphia by 41 points with him on the floor, the highest numbers on the team. As J.R. Wilco and I previously discussed, Wemby is dominating games without having to score, which is a fantastic development.
A blowout win is not the best data point, but the win against the Pistons also showed this dynamic. Wembanyama had five points in six shots in the first quarter. He took 10 shots the rest of the way and racked up his points from the free throw line and by scoring late against a scrambling Detroit defense. Wembanyama was a monster on the boards, finishing with 17. He blocked six shots and walled off the paint, and he dished out four assists. He had a usage in the mid-20s, and he passed the ball on a two thirds of his total touches. He didn’t force things or hold on to the ball.
Let’s compare it with the loss to the Knicks. Wembanyama led the team in scoring and field goal attempts and had seven turnovers. He took seven three-pointers and made just one. His usage was in the low 30s while no one else got more than the very low 20s, and he passed the ball in about half of his touches. The final stat line is not that dissimilar. Against Detroit, Wemby finished with 21 points on 16 shots and four assists to three turnovers. Against New York, he finished with 25 points on 17 shots and four assists to seven turnovers. The main difference is how much more in the flow of the offense he played in the Pistons game and some recent others.
Now, Wembanyama being the clear first option on offense is not a bad thing in itself. There are also different ways he’s guarded, some of which only work if he’s passive. By no means is the suggestion here that The Alien needs to be a defense-only role player instead of using his impressive offensive tools. The main point is that Wemby, despite occasionally falling into old habits, seems to be doing a better job of reading what the defense is giving him and recognizing when others might have a better matchup. He only took five shots against the 76ers because he only had to take five shots for the team to win in a blowout.
You can see the new approach in action when you watch him. The Spurs don’t have the most sophisticated offensive playbook, so they stick to a few plays to get Wemby a good look, usually involving an off-ball screen or having him as a screener. When those plays are executed well and the defender doesn’t stick closely to Victor, he can act as a finisher. Then you have the isolations at the mid-post or the elbow, and the inverted pick-and-rolls that turn him into a shot creator. Finally, there are the threes that Wemby has the green light to attempt whenever he wants.
There are games when he simply doesn’t get good looks off those plays, mostly because the defense sells out to stop him, but he tries to make something happen anyway, to normally bad results.
The drives that end in turnovers, the fadeaway twos out of balance, the rushed threes, the pleas for a call as he falls won’t ever be fully eliminated from his game, because he’ll never be perfect. But they can be limited. When Wemby has a center sticking on him, he can simply screen or space the floor and let the guards drive into an open paint. When he has a big wing on him to match his agility or is single-covered, he can hunt switches that will lead to doubles or rotations and just move the ball.
The offense can and should revolve around him most of the time he’s on the court, but he doesn’t have to make tough buckets and get crazy assists to be useful on that end. We’ve seen it, and he’s realizing it.
What makes Wembanyama special is that he can be Rudy Gobert 2.0 on defense but also bring the scoring, spacing, and connective passing of offensively gifted bigs. He can drop 40 if the defense doesn’t have the personnel to stop him or when his shot is going in. But some days, he can just dominate so thoroughly defensively that playing a less central role on offense is the best way for him to contribute to winning. It may seem counterintuitive, but playing the decoy to give an opportunity to the rest of the Spurs’ offensive weapons, might just be what’s necessary to open things up for him to score more.
The fully realized version of Wemby will likely be unstoppable on offense, but for now, he can be an elite finisher and an opportunistic creator who picks his spots. It’s what he’s done in some of the recent wins, and it bodes well for the upcoming playoff run and the near future, when San Antonio’s already impressive guards progress to the point of needing more touches, just like Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili did back in the day.
By Jeje Gomez, via Pounding The Rock