By Mateo Mayorga | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-03-26 21:49:35
维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 是联盟顶级的盖帽手，他与紧随其后的杰·赫夫 (Jay Huff)（1.9次）和切特·霍姆格伦 (Chet Holmgren)（1.9次）之间的差距非常明显。文班亚马拥有奥林匹斯众神都会嫉妒的身体天赋，而且他远未达到自己的最终形态。然而，他现在有了一个追逐的新标杆：职业生涯最后一个赛季的威尔特·张伯伦 (Wilt Chamberlain)。
NBA直到1973-74赛季才开始统计盖帽和抢断，那是张伯伦退役后的第一个赛季。但现在，Basketball Reference 添加了他最后一年的盖帽数据。36岁时，这位巨人打满了全部82场比赛，场均贡献5.4次封盖。随着这些数据的加入，这成为了NBA历史上第二高的场均记录（5.4次），仅次于马克·伊顿 (Mark Eaton)。
请记住，张伯伦的防守威力是如此具有传奇色彩，以至于你能找到他在单场比赛中送出十几次甚至二十次盖帽的旧剪报。具体来说，有一次他送出了16次盖帽，《洛杉矶时报》的撰稿人马尔·弗洛伦斯 (Mal Florence) 将他的统治力描述为“有些令人恐惧——就像现实版的格列佛在向那些打球的小人国居民发泄怒火”。
在职业生涯后期效力于洛杉矶湖人队时，他改变了打法，更多地扮演防守者和篮板手的角色。伊顿从来不是一个得分手，但他是一个身高7英尺4英寸、体重约275磅的庞然大物；他的弱点主要在于作为底线协防人的移动效率。
自然地，文班在风格上比伊顿更接近张伯伦。如果他想树立一个金牌标准以保持动力，他永远有张伯伦的纪录可以追逐。但这引出了一个问题：文班能多接近这位老牌“大北斗”73年的盖帽数据以及伊顿的历史纪录？
恕我直言，文班亚马可以超越张伯伦和伊顿。
首先，想想他的防守时机如何让他更擅长同时防守两名球员，以及他如何成为NBA顶级的内线屏障。值得注意的是，他本赛季场均3.0次盖帽是职业生涯最低的——低于新秀赛季（3.6次）和第二年（3.8次），但这更多是因为他成为了一个更聪明的防守者，确保自己不会丢掉篮板位置，而且他就像一个顶级角卫一样被对手避开，对手很少往他负责的区域进攻。
谢天谢地，张伯伦的录像确实存在，但公众能看到的远没有他们应该看到的那么多，不像人们想看勒布朗·詹姆斯 (LeBron James)、斯蒂芬·库里 (Stephen Curry) 甚至现在的文班的职业生涯那样方便。然而，现代社会提供了网络上无穷无尽的精彩集锦，且无处不在。要考虑的一点是，当年的许多比赛都没有录像，所以谁知道有多少张伯伦的“受害者”免于了尴尬？
除了文班亚马盖帽的威慑因素外，或许易于获取的录像/集锦也是他不再受到更多挑战的原因，因为对手不希望被羞辱的证据流传千古。他调整了自己的“蛇眼”技术，通过作为协防者切入来愚弄持球者，但这可能已经出现在球探报告中了，所以他必须进一步采取行动。
尽管如此，在某些夜晚，文班亚马在对位中展现了额外的统治力，比如本赛季他有16次盖帽数在5到9次之间。他应该更频繁地这样做，因为：1. 这将助力他的MVP竞选；2. 圣安东尼奥马刺队在这些夜晚取得了15胜1负的战绩，几乎是不可战胜的。
在过去的一个月里，他养成了在进攻端退居幕后、让队友发挥的习惯，因为他知道自己随时可以进入“野兽模式”。假设他像张伯伦那样减少得分，他的腿部力量会更充沛，能够轻松超越伊顿在NBA历史上的最高盖帽总数/平均值。在巅峰时期，他甚至可能不需要这样做；自新秀赛季以来，他一个明显的进步是横移速度变快了，这让他外线防守变得更好。
值得称赞的是，文班亚马在将球盖在场内并控制住球以发动反击方面做得很好。如果他提高盖帽数据，会让马刺队的进攻速度更快（目前反击频率排名第五），这是球迷们乐于见到的。篮球之美主要体现在快攻中，谁不想看到更多队内高水平运动员在跑道上飞驰呢？
本赛季追上张伯伦和伊顿是不可能的，但他进入每个新赛季都会有显著的飞跃。因此，如果他在五年内还没有超越他们的记录，那将是一个巨大的意外。
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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Victor Wembanyama has a new standard to chase
Victor Wembanyama is the league’s top shot-blocker, and it’s not close between him and the next guys, Jay Huff (1.9) and Chet Holmgren (1.9). Wembanyama possesses physical gifts that the gods of Olympus would envy, and he is far from his final form. Yet he has a new standard to chase: Wilt Chamberlain in his final season.
The NBA didn’t start counting blocks and steals until 1973-74, the first season Chamberlain had retired, but now, Basketball Reference has added his block numbers for his last year. At age 36, Goliath played in all 82 games, averaging 5.4 rejections. With these numbers added, it now claims the second-highest average in NBA history (5.4) behind Mark Eaton.
Keep in mind that Chamberlain’s prowess was so legendary that you can find old news clippings of him after blocking shots in the teens or up to the 20s. Specifically, once when he blocked 16 shots, the LA Times scribe Mal Florence described his dominance as “sort of frightening- a real life Gulliver venting his rage on the little folks who played the game.”
He changed his game later in his career with the Los Angeles Lakers to be more of a defender and rebounder. Eaton was never much of a scorer, yet he was a towering figure at 7’4 and about 275 pounds; his weakness was mostly being effective as a low man.
Naturally, Wemby is much closer to Chamberlain than Eaton. If he wants to set a gold standard so he never loses motivation, he will always have Chamberlain’s records to chase. Yet it begs the question of how close could Wemby get to the old Dipper’s ‘73 block numbers and Eaton’s all-time record?
With all due respect to Chamberlain and Eaton, Wembanyama can top them.
First, think about how his defensive timing has made him sharper at guarding two players at once, and how he is the premier inside presence in the NBA. Notably, his 3.0 blocks per game are the lowest of his career after his rookie (3.6) and second year (3.8), but this is more about becoming a smarter defender, ensuring he doesn’t give up rebounding position, and he’s avoided like a cornerback who doesn’t get much action on his side of the field.
Thank goodness Chamberlain tapes exist, but the public doesn’t have access to nearly as many as they should, like how they would if they wanted to watch the careers of LeBron James, Stephen Curry or even what we have of Wemby now. However, modern times present an endless highlight reel that lives online, and it’s inescapable. One thing to consider was that many games were not recorded back in the day, so who knows how many of Chamberlain‘s victims were spared from embarrassment?
Aside from the intimidation factor of Wembanyama’s blocks, perhaps the easily accessible tapes/highlights are a reason he isn’t getting challenged more because opponents don’t want the evidence to linger for eternity. He’s adjusted with his snake-eyes technique to fool ball handlers by coming in as a helper, but that’s probably on the scouting report now, so he’ll have to take matters into his own hands further.
Still, there are nights when Wembanyama has brought a little extra to the matchup, like the 16 times this season he’s finished between five and nine blocks. He should do it more often because 1. it would boost his MVP case, and 2. the San Antonio Spurs are almost unbeatable with a 15-1 record on those nights.
He’s developed the habit over the last month of taking a step back on offense while his teammates get theirs since he knows he can go beast mode at any time. Hypothetically, if he cut down on his scoring like Chamberlain, he’d have more juice in his legs and could surpass Eaton’s highest block total/average in NBA history comfortably. He may not even need to do that in his prime; one noticeable improvement he’s made since his rookie year is becoming laterally faster, making him better on the perimeter.
To Wembanyama’s credit, he does a good job of keeping blocks in bounds and recovering them to get transition started. If he raised his block numbers it would make the Spurs faster on offense (currently fifth in tension frequency), and that’s something the fans would appreciate. Basketball’s beauty is mostly seen in the open court, and who doesn’t want to see more of the team’s high-level athletes on the runway?
Catching Chamberlain and Eaton is impossible this season, but he takes a significant leap going into each new one. So it would be a huge shocker if he hasn’t surpassed their marks in five years.
By Mateo Mayorga, via Pounding The Rock