By Jared Weiss, Christian Clark and Bob Harkins | The Athletic, 2026-04-25 05:26:21
圣安东尼奥马刺队并未受到维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 的缺阵的影响。他们无视了波特兰主场充满敌意的氛围，并在开局一度落后15分的情况下顽强反击。
最终，马刺在周五晚上以120-108击败开拓者，在西部季后赛系列赛中取得了2-1的领先。
斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 挺身而出，分别砍下33分和27分。其中哈珀替补登场，全场12投9中，手感火热。这对双子星弥补了文班亚马的缺阵——文班亚马在第二场失利中因一次严重摔伤提前退赛，目前仍未通过脑震荡保护协议。
开拓者在半场结束时曾以65-59领先，这主要归功于他们三分线外21投10中的火热表现，但他们最终没能守住优势。他们也浪费了35岁老将朱·霍勒迪 (Jrue Holiday) 焕发第二春的时刻，后者全场贡献29分、6个篮板和4次抢断。
系列赛第四场将于周日在波特兰举行，随着文班亚马复出的可能性越来越大，马刺现在已经拥有了领先的缓冲空间。
有了这群年轻人，谁还需要季后赛经验？
马刺需要有人站出来拯救球队。在文班亚马缺阵的情况下，队内另一位全明星球员德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 迟迟找不到准星。于是，他们理所当然地将目光投向了……他们的新秀？
迪伦·哈珀和卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant) 在第三节末和第四节初接管了比赛，在关键时刻到来前，将10分的落后分差逆转为11分的领先优势。
当布莱恩特出任5号位时，马刺的进攻一度陷入停滞，因为只要他持球，开拓者的中锋多诺万·克林根 (Donovan Clingan) 和罗伯特·威廉姆斯三世 (Robert Williams III) 就会蹲守在禁区。福克斯、哈珀以及其他人都无法突破防线。布莱恩特当时甚至放弃了一些大空位的机会，这让球队陷入了困境。
马刺主帅米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 本可以用老将哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 换下他，但他选择了信任这名新秀。
随后，布莱恩特展现出了自信的一面。就在他看起来快要退缩时，他命中了一记后撤步三分，马刺随即开启了进攻高潮。在接下来的10分钟里，他成功锁死了德尼·阿夫迪亚 (Deni Avdija)。
与此同时，哈珀在进攻端打出了一波流，彻底改写了比赛走势。他证明了自己在常规赛后半段展现出的进攻天赋完全可以延续到季后赛。
最终，这群年轻人拯救了马刺。在人们原以为马刺需要文班亚马回归才能翻盘时，他们已经取得了系列赛的领先。现在看来，马刺经验不足的问题似乎并不像最初想象的那样严重。 —— Jared Weiss，马刺随队记者
开拓者将为这场失利深感懊悔
距离朱·霍勒迪率领新奥尔良鹈鹕队在季后赛首轮横扫波特兰开拓者已经过去了近八年。具有讽刺意味的是，如今已是第17个赛季的霍勒迪，正试图帮助这支曾被他淘汰的球队闯过首轮。
霍勒迪在第三场比赛中的表现证明了他依然宝刀未老。在前三节比赛中，他表现得极具统治力，不断命中超远急停跳投并制造对手失误。他全场砍下29分、6个篮板、5次助攻和4次抢断，命中了5记三分球，其中3记是在半场前完成的。波特兰在半场结束时拿到65分，看起来即将迎来一个进攻爆发之夜。
不幸的是，这还不足以抵挡马刺从第三节中段开始发起的潮水般的反扑。在第三节还剩5分09秒时，波特兰还以82-67领先，但随后马刺在余下的时间里打出了一波53-26的高潮。
开拓者浪费了首发后场双人组的出色表现。霍勒迪表现卓越，斯库特·亨德森 (Scoot Henderson)（21分）也再次打出了一个强劲的夜晚。虽然德尼·阿夫迪亚在罚球线上16投12中，但他全场15投仅3中，在篮下终结极其挣扎。这也是开拓者在下半场仅得到43分的主要原因。 —— Christian Clark，NBA撰稿人
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No Wemby, no problem: Dylan Harper, Stephon Castle carry Spurs past Trail Blazers in Game 3
The San Antonio Spurs shrugged off the absence of Victor Wembanyama. They ignored the hostile crowd in Portland. And they dug deep after facing an early 15-point deficit.
The result was a 120-108 victory over the Trail Blazers on Friday night and a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference playoff series.
Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper led the way, scoring 33 and 27 points, respectively, with Harper coming off the bench to shoot a red-hot 9-of-12 from the field. The duo made up for the absence of Wembanyama, who did not clear concussion protocol after a nasty fall knocked him out early from a Game 2 loss.
The Blazers could not hold on after building a 65-59 halftime lead, an edge built by shooting a scorching 10-of-21 from 3-point range. They also squandered a fountain-of-youth moment from 35-year-old guard Jrue Holiday, who had 29 points, six rebounds and four steals.
Game 4 is Sunday in Portland, and the Spurs now have a cushion as the potential return of Wembanyama looms.
Who needs playoff experience when you have these kids?
The Spurs needed someone to save them. De’Aaron Fox — the team’s other All-Star with Victor Wembanyama out — wasn’t finding his shot. Naturally, they turned to … their rookies?
Dylan Harper and Carter Bryant took over late in the third quarter and early in the fourth, flipping a 10-point deficit into an 11-point lead by the start of crunch time.
The Spurs’ offense was sputtering as Bryant was playing the 5 position, as Blazers centers Donovan Clingan and Robert Williams III were sitting in the paint whenever he had the ball. Fox, Harper and everyone else just couldn’t get anywhere. Bryant was passing up wide-open shots, and it was killing the team.
Spurs coach Mitch Johnson could’ve yanked him for the veteran Harrison Barnes. Instead, he stuck with the rookie.
Then, Bryant showed a splash of confidence. He hit a step-back 3, just when it looked like he was going to put his tail between his legs, and suddenly the Spurs were off and running. He locked up Deni Avdija over the next 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, Harper went on a blistering offensive run that completely rewrote the game. He showed that his offensive emergence in the second half of the season can carry on in the playoffs.
When it was all said and done, the kids saved the Spurs, giving them the series lead when it looked as if they were going to need Wembanyama to bring them back in it. It looks like the Spurs’ inexperience may not be as big of a problem as it once appeared. — Jared Weiss, Spurs writer
Blazers will Jrue that loss
It’s been almost eight years since Jrue Holiday led the New Orleans Pelicans to a four-game sweep of the Trail Blazers in the first round of the playoffs. In a twist, Holiday — now in his 17th season — is trying to help a Blazers team he once eliminated advance past the first round.
Holiday’s performance in Game 3 showed he still has some juice. He looked dominant throughout the first three quarters, knocking down deep pull-up jumpers and forcing turnovers. He finished with 29 points, six rebounds, five assists and four steals. He made five 3-pointers, with three of those triples coming before halftime. Portland had 65 points at the break and appeared headed for a big night offensively.
Unfortunately for Portland, that was not enough to withstand the tidal-wave run the Spurs went on starting in the middle of the third quarter. Portland had an 82-67 lead with 5:09 remaining in the third. The Spurs outscored the Trail Blazers 53-26 the rest of the way.
The Trail Blazers wasted good games from both members of their starting backcourt. Holiday was excellent, and Scoot Henderson (21 points) had another strong night. But while Deni Avdija shot 12-of-16 on free throws, he struggled to convert inside in a 3-of-15 shooting performance. That was a key reason the Trail Blazers managed to score only 43 points after halftime. —Christian Clark, NBA writer
By Jared Weiss, Christian Clark and Bob Harkins, via The Athletic