By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-04-17 19:02:16
圣安东尼奥马刺队自2019年以来首次杀入季后赛，对阵波特兰开拓者队的首轮第一场比赛定于中部时间周日晚8点开打。在此期间，让我们一同回顾球队历史上最出色的常规赛赛季之一。
在第一部分中，我们回顾了赛季初期，尽管在开局阶段缺少了达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox)，且维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 曾连续缺阵12场，但球队依然取得了强劲的开局。在第二部分中，我们重温了12月下半月那段令人难忘且足以定义赛季的征程，其中包括文班的复归、NBA杯半决赛的胜利，以及在12天内两度击败卫冕冠军雷霆队，这正式让马刺队受到了全联盟的关注。最后，在第三部分中，我们审视了球队在1月份经历的赛季唯一一段低潮期，但现在回想起来，那可能是一段磨炼意志的时期，这种韧性在月初的转折点便展现了出来，而这正是我们今天要开始聊的地方。
第四部分：2月1日 – 4月12日 (29胜4负)
从纸面上看，马刺队在2月1日主场战胜奥兰多魔术队的比赛仅仅是符合预期。他们以9分优势击败了一个实力不俗但稍逊一筹的对手，但更多的背景细节让这场比赛成为了赛季的转折点。为了打这场比赛，球员们经历了重重波折：前一天晚上因为暴雪被困在夏洛特，当比赛当天终于启程返回圣安东尼奥时，飞机又因机械故障不得不在亚特兰大紧急迫降（球员们承认当时的情况非常惊险）。NBA原本理应推迟这场比赛（或者更早地推迟夏洛特那场，不让马刺陷入这种境地），但联盟只是将比赛从下午改到了晚上，马刺全队不得不从机场直奔球馆。
如果他们因为精疲力竭而输掉这场比赛，也是情有可原的，但相反，他们展现出了顽强的斗志，拼下了这场令人疲惫的胜利。这一刻最终成为了定义球队性格的瞬间，并开启了队史上最出色的长距离冲刺之一。马刺由此开启了自2016年以来的首个11连胜，这股势头贯穿了整个2月——使马刺成为历史上第一支在单月保持全胜且每场比赛得分均达到110分或以上的球队——直到“牛仔节客场之旅”（Rodeo Road Trip，今年比往常晚了一周开始和结束）的倒数第二场比赛。
那段征程留下了许多令人难忘的比赛，包括斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和文班在分别对阵独行侠和湖人的比赛中连续砍下40+，其中卡斯尔的表现还是一份三双数据。
但或许最能证明马刺不仅找回了12月的状态，而且已经正式“跨入”争冠行列的两场胜利，是来自对阵同一个对手：一场是在结束奥斯汀的两场比赛后开启牛仔节之旅第二阶段时，另一场则是结束客场之旅回到主场后，对阵东部头号种子底特律活塞队。马刺不仅令人信服地赢下了这两场比赛（虽然比分接近，但马刺始终掌控局势），在底特律，德文·瓦塞尔 (Devin Vassell) 砍下28分带队取胜，在圣安东尼奥，文班则狂轰38分。这两场胜利也有力地回击了那种认为马刺无法应对身体对抗强悍球队的言论。
马刺队随后稳稳锁定了西部第二的位置（尽管无法追上同样势头火热的雷霆队以夺取头名），但一路上仍有许多惊心动魄的时刻。其中一场就发生在第二天晚上，疲惫不堪的马刺队本赛季首次面对科怀·伦纳德 (Kawhi Leonard) 领军的快船队。当时马刺看起来已经弹尽粮绝，在下半场初期一度落后多达25分，随后他们发起了史诗级的大反扑逆转比赛。文班在最后一分钟投进了两记关键球，两次帮助球队反超比分，随后则是惊险的罚球大战。这场比赛在身体和情感上都消耗巨大，以至于文班在赛后激动落泪。
令每一位马刺球迷感到欣慰的是，马刺最终完成了对快船的赛季横扫，而伦纳德的球队在附加赛中出局，同时由于Aspiration丑闻，他在心仪球队的前景也变得扑朔迷离。八年来，我们第一次感觉到“天道轮回”回到了马刺这一边，我们也终于从他当年的行为给球队带来的破坏中彻底走了出来。
另一场令人难忘的比赛是3月19日对阵菲尼克斯太阳队的混战，太阳队当时是潜在的首轮对手，也是马刺的眼中钉。太阳队在大部分时间里保持领先，随后马刺在第四节再次上演逆转，这一次是文班在比赛还剩1.1秒时的跳投定乾坤。虽然官方定义上不算是压哨绝杀，但这却是他职业生涯第一个领先制胜球。
总的来说，马刺以史无前例的29胜4负结束了本赛季。在牛仔节客场之旅期间磨合完毕，随后在3月打出强势表现，一直是马刺冠军球队的招牌特征，因此很高兴看到他们回归到了这一屡试不爽的成功模式。如果说这段时间有什么令人担忧的地方，那就是有三场失利是输给了丹佛掘金队，而掘金很可能是他们第二轮的对手。好消息是，文班只参加了其中的一场——那是在丹佛的一场加时惜败——而且即便没有他，另外两场比赛也打得很胶着。但常规赛收官战尤其令人沮丧，当时尼古拉·约基奇 (Nikola Jokic) 只打了上半场，马刺本有机会将他们踢到第四种子，送往雷霆所在的半区。
无论如何，马刺队带着“打入附加赛”或“获得较低季后赛席位”的合理目标开启了本赛季，而他们的表现远超预期。他们仍需在季后赛中证明自己，但目前唯一能让这个赛季显得不完美的可能就是首轮被爆冷，而这看起来不太可能发生（*祈祷好运）。在真正追逐总冠军之前，他们或许需要，也或许不需要那个“学习之年”（即经历并从季后赛失利中汲取教训），但底线是，这个常规赛的表现已经远远超出了我们所有人的预期，回顾这段历程充满了乐趣。
在耐心等待周日晚到来的同时，我们将带来更多关于对阵开拓者首轮对决的分析。在此期间，请务必告诉我们你本赛季最喜爱的回忆！
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Spurs Regular Season Recap, Part 4: A new title contender is born
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. 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 season, whuch 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. Finally, in Part 3, we looked at their one rough patch of the season during the month of January, but in hindsight, it may have actually been a character-defining stretch, and that showed at the turn of the month, where we’re kicking off today.
Part 4: February 1 – April 12 (29-4)
On paper, the Spurs’ home win against the Orlando Magic on February 1 simply met expectations. They beat a decent but inferior opponent by nine points, but there was a lot more context that made this game a turning point. They went through a lot just to play that game, having been trapped in Charlotte the night before due to a snow storm, and when they finally started heading back to San Antonio the day of this game, they had to make an emergency landing in Atlanta due to mechanical issues with their plane (which players admitted was a scary situation). It would have made sense for the NBA to just postpone the game (or better yet, have postponed the Charlotte one and not even put the Spurs in that situation), but instead it got pushed back a mid-afternoon game to a night one, and the Spurs had to go straight to the arena from the airport.
They would have been forgiven for being too tired and dropping this one, but instead, they showed grit and fight to pull out the exhausting win, which ended up being a character-defining moment and kicked off one of their best extended stretches in franchise history. It started their first 11-game win streak since 2016, which ran all the way through February — making the Spurs the first team to have an undefeated month while scoring 110 or more point in every game — to the penultimate game of the Rodeo Road Trip (which started/ended a week later than usual).
That run featured many memorable games, including consecutive 40-point games from Stephon Castle and Wemby against the Mavs and Lakers, respectively, with Castle’s performance also being triple-double.
But perhaps the two wins that showed the Spurs had not only returned to their December form but had officially “arrived” as contenders came against the same team: one as they started the second leg of the RRT after their two Austin games, and the other in their “return home from the RRT” game against the East’s top seed: the Detroit Pistons. Not only did the Spurs convincingly win both of those games (both were close, but the Spurs were always in control), led by 28 points from Devin Vassell in Detroit and 38 from Wemby in San Antonio, but it helped squash the narrative that they couldn’t handle physical teams.
The Spurs ran away with the second seed in the West from there (albeit unable to catch the similarly hot Thunder for the top seed), but there were plenty more thrillers along the way. One came the very next night, when an exhausted Spurs team faced Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers for the first time this season. It seemed the Spurs had nothing left in the tank and found themselves down by as much as 25 early in the second half before a massive rally back to steal the game, including two huge buckets from Wemby in the final minute, in both cases to retake the lead, followed by some free throw drama. It was such a physically and emotionally draining game that it literally had Wemby in tears afterwards.
Probably much to every Spurs fans’ satisfaction, they would go on to sweep the season series against the Clippers, and Kawhi’s team would lose in the play-in while his future with his desired club is up in the air due to the Aspiration scandal. For the first time in 8 eight years, it finally feels like karma is back on the Spurs side, and we have officially moved on from the destruction his actions brought upon the franchise.
Another memorable game was a chaotic win against a then-potential first round opponent (but not anymore) and thorn-in-the-side Phoenix Suns team on March 19. The Suns led most of the way before the Spurs made another fourth quarter comeback, and this time it was a Wemby jumper with 1.1 sec left that sealed the deal. While not officially a buzzer-beater, it was the first go-ahead game winner of his career.
In all, the Spurs went an unprecedented 29-4 to close the season, and coming together during the RRT followed by strong Marches have always been a calling card of the Spurs championship teams, so it’s good to see them returning to a formula that has always been successful. If there was one concern in that stretch, it was three of the losses were to a Denver Nuggets team that will likely be their second round opponent. The good news is Wemby only played in one of them — an OT loss in Denver — and even without him the other two were close, but it was especially frustrating in the regular season finale when Nikola Jokic only played in the first half and the Spurs had a chance to knock them back to the 4th seed and to the Thunder’s side of the bracket.
Regardless, the Spurs came into this season with the play-in or a lower playoff seed seeming like a reasonable goal, and they far exceeded those expectations. They still have to prove themselves in the playoffs, but the only thing that could make this season a bust at this point would be a first round upset, which seems unlikely (*knock on wood). They may or may not need that “learning” year (i.e. experiencing and learning from a playoff loss) before they can truly chase a championship, but the bottom line is this has been far and away a better regular season than any of us could have asked for, and it has been so much fun going back through it.
We will have more on the opening round match-up against the Blazers while we patiently wait for Sunday evening to get here, and in the meantime be sure to tell us about more of your favorite memories from this season!
By Marilyn Dubinski, via Pounding The Rock