By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-04-16 18:10:05
马刺自2019年以来首次杀入季后赛，与波特兰开拓者 (Portland Trail Blazers) 的首场对决将于中部时间周日晚上8点开打。距离比赛还有几天时间，在此期间，我们将回顾这段队史最佳常规赛之一的历程。
在第一部分中，我们回顾了马刺赛季初的表现，尽管达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 缺席了开局，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 连续缺阵12场，球队依然打出了强劲的开局。在第二部分中，我们重温了12月下半月那段令人难忘、甚至可以说定义了整个赛季的征程，其中包括文班的回归、杯赛半决赛的胜利，以及在12天内两次击败卫冕冠军雷霆，正式让马刺名声大噪。这一年以朱利安·尚帕尼 (Julian Champagnie) 对阵尼克斯时的破纪录表现收尾，但随后马刺遭遇了本赛季可以说唯一的低谷期，这也是我们今天要聊的话题。
第三部分：2026年1月（8胜7负）
在2025年的收官战对阵尼克斯时遭遇腹斜肌拉伤后，文班缺席了2026年的前两场比赛：一场战胜了实力较弱的步行者，另一场则是在主场惜败给开拓者。（我才意识到文班本赛季错过了所有三场对阵开拓者的常规赛，所以季后赛有了一个新的变数，因为他们没有机会通过实战来考察这组对决。）他很快迎来复出，但1月依然延续了起伏不定的态势，既有漂亮的胜利，也有令人沮丧的失利。
他们第二次战胜了湖人，尽管卢卡·东契奇 (Luka Doncic) 拿下了常规操作般的38分10篮板10助攻的三双；随后又在波士顿击败了凯尔特人，这支球队本该因为杰森·塔图姆 (Jayson Tatum) 缺席大部分赛季且交易走了大量深度球员而处于“过渡年”，但他们凭借杰伦·布朗 (Jalen Brown) 的MVP级表现稳居东部第二。噢，对阵湖人的比赛也是杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) 最后一次伟大的“搞心态”时刻，他在赛后彻底激怒了贾里德·范德比尔特 (Jared Vanderbilt)。
这两场胜利之后，球队在客场负于森林狼和雷霆这两支季后赛球队，但随后在文班与扬尼斯·阿德托昆博 (Giannis Antetokounmpo) 的又一场经典对决中重新振作。（比赛本身并没有那么惊心动魄，但考虑到扬尼斯在雄鹿不确定的未来，谁知道这组对决以后会如何发展呢，所以趁现在好好享受吧。）
紧接着是对阵明尼苏达森林狼的一场惊心动魄且扣人心弦的胜利。马刺凭借第二节单节48分的赛季新高，在半场结束时建立了25分的领先优势。但就像本赛季每次对阵这支球队的剧本一样，马刺随后开始崩盘，安东尼·爱德华兹 (Anthony Edwards) 在第四节狂砍55分中的26分。森林狼一度反超比分，随后“光头”文班开启巨星模式，狂砍39分带队逆转，但在最终获胜前，还经历了不少罚球大战的戏码。
此后马刺继续着胜负交替的节奏，战胜爵士和火箭的比赛与负于鹈鹕和火箭的比赛交织在一起。当然，谁能忘记1月的最后一场比赛呢？当时他们在夏洛特的周六比赛被提前到了中午，以便能赶在暴风雪来临前打完撤离，结果马刺在最后时刻崩盘输掉比赛，却依然被困在恶劣天气中，在第二天赶回圣安东尼奥参加比赛前遭遇了更多麻烦。如果要说本赛季有什么月份是想让人忘掉的，那一定是1月。
常言道，所有优秀的球队都必须经历逆境才能真正凝聚在一起，事实证明，这可能就是那个时刻。从那以后，马刺在剩余的赛程中打出了一段近乎史无前例的连胜，请关注明天的报道，我们将回顾赛季（漫长的）收官阶段最伟大的时刻，那时马刺证明了自己是真正的争冠竞争者。
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Spurs Regular Season Recap, Part 3: Every team hits a rough patch
The Spurs are headed to the playoffs for the first time since 2019, with Game 1 against the Portland Trail Blazers set for 8 PM CT on Sunday. That’s still several days out, so in the meantime, we’re looking back one of the best regular seasons in franchise history.
In Part 1, we reviewed the first part of the Spurs season that featured a strong start despite missing De’Aaron Fox to start the season and Victor Wembanyama for 12 straight games. In Part 2, we recalled their memorable and arguably season-defining stretch in the second half of December, which featured Wemby’s return and a Cup Semi-finals win plus two more in a 12-day span against the defending champion Thunder, officially putting the Spurs on the map. The year concluded with a record-breaking performance from Julian Champagnie against the Knicks, but then the Spurs hit arguably their only rough patch of the season, which is where we’re picking up today.
Part 3: January 2026 (8-7)
After suffering a strained oblique in the Knicks game to close 2025, Wemby missed the two opening games of 2026: a win over the lowly Pacers and close loss at home to the Trail Blazers. (I’m just now realizing Wemby missed all three regular season matchups against them this season, so there’s a new twist to the playoffs due to them not having a chance to scout that match-up.) He soon returned, but January continued to follow an up-and-down pattern with some good wins combined with frustrating losses.
They got their second win over Lakers despite a typical 38-10-10 triple double from Luka Doncic, followed by a victory in Boston against a Celtics club that was supposed to be in a “gap” year with Jayson Tatum missing most of the season and them having to trade away a lot of their depth but rode an MVP-level performance from Jalen Brown to the second seed in the East. Oh, and the Lakers game was our last great Jeremy Sochan “troll” moment as he set off Jared Vanderbilt after the game.
Those two wins were followed by road losses to two playoff teams in the Timberwolves and Thunder, but then it was up again with another classic match-up between Wemby and Giannis Antetokounmpo. (It wasn’t that exciting of a game, but who knows where this match-up is headed with Giannis uncertain future with the Bucks, so we’ll enjoy it while it lasts.)
That was followed by a heart attack-inducing but thrilling victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Spurs built a 25-point halftime lead thanks to a season-high 48 points in the second quarter, but in pattern from each of their match-ups against this team this season, the Spurs proceeded to blow it while Anthony Edwards scored 26 of his 55 points in the fourth quarter. The Wolves eventually took the lead before bald Wemby went into superstar mode to bring them back with a 39-point performance, but it wasn’t won without plenty of free throw drama first.
The Spurs continued to trade wins and losses from there, with wins against the Jazz and Rockets alternating with losses to the Pelicans and Rockets, and of course who can forget the final game in January, when their Saturday game in Charlotte got moved back to noon so they could play and get out before the impending snow storm, only for the Spurs to blow the game in the final moments, still get trapped by the weather, and face even more troubles before getting back to San Antonio for a game the very next day. If there was one month to forget from this season, January was it.
They say all good teams must go through some adversity to truly come together, and as it turned out, this may have been it. From there, the Spurs would go on a nearly unprecedented run the rest of the way, so check back tomorrow for the greatest moments of the (very long) final stretch of the season, when the Spurs proved to be a true contender.
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock