By Devon Birdsong | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-04-25 22:17:38
据我所知，托尼·帕克 (Tony Parker) 和马努·吉诺比利 (Manu Ginobili) 职业生涯中仅有两次在同一场比赛中各砍下至少30分。
那两次经历我都记忆犹新。
第一次是在2007年西部半决赛对阵菲尼克斯太阳队的第六场晋级战中，那是一场至关重要的主场胜利，否则系列赛可能会被拖回菲尼克斯进行抢七决战。
第二次是在随后的2008年，在另一场竞争激烈的西部半决赛对阵克里斯·保罗 (Chris Paul) 时代的黄蜂队（现鹈鹕队）的第三场比赛中，那个系列赛最终确实打满了七场。
在2007年的那场季后赛中，帕克和吉诺比利分别为24岁和29岁——次年则是25岁和30岁。
而就在昨晚，年纪轻轻（分别为21岁和20岁）的斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 和迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 不仅差点复刻了这一壮举（仅差一个三分球），而且他们几乎成为了马刺队史上在季后赛同场各砍30分最年轻的二人组。
一方面，想到帕克和吉诺比利在并肩作战的这么多年里，竟然只有两次达成同场30+，这确实令人惊讶。
另一方面，想到卡斯尔和哈珀正在追随前辈的脚步，而他们中只有一个人到了法定饮酒年龄，这简直太疯狂了。
更疯狂的是，他们是在圣安东尼奥的基石球员缺阵的情况下打出这种表现的。
这对羽翼渐丰的组合在季后赛的至暗时刻，凭借一己之力扛着马刺走过了第四节，这让我坐在那里，对自己刚刚目睹的一切感到震惊。
第三节还剩5分09秒时，马刺以65-80落后，ESPN预测波特兰的胜率高达91.4%，这是他们全场胜率的最高点。局面看起来非常严峻。我早已停止了因裁判判罚而产生的焦躁踱步，那种冲动的焦虑感也基本离开了我的身体。
我坐在我兄弟家最舒服的椅子上，聊着文班 (Wemby) 的脑震荡，讨论着第四场比赛可能会如何发展，大脑里还在搜寻着在这个令人沮丧的夜晚到底能写点什么。
马刺当时正在苦苦挣扎。他们似乎无法限制波特兰的后场双枪斯库特·亨德森 (Scoot Henderson) 和身价不菲的朱·霍勒迪 (Jrue Holiday)。在维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 不在场的情况下，那套对大多数球队都行之有效的进攻体系，此时却怎么也找不到爆发的契机。
由于波特兰的比赛计划是尽量降低德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 的威胁（加上他反常地早早吃到四次犯规），马刺这位常规赛二号得分手在场上显得过于谨慎，球权流转也随着他的停滞而陷入僵局。
推特（Twitter）上到处都是对福克斯和整个球队失望透顶的言论，于是我关掉了手机，开始思考未来，这时我的兄弟们问起圣安东尼奥在系列赛余下比赛中的机会。
就在交谈间，我差点错过了哈珀封盖掉亨德森17英尺急停跳投的精彩瞬间，紧接着在大约30秒后，他又命中了一记关键的三分球。
但我绝没有错过那个绕过罗伯特·威廉姆斯三世 (Robert Williams III) 伸出的双臂、在空中换手的慢动作扣篮，那一球足以让迈克尔·乔丹 (Michael Jordan) 感到自豪。
马刺替补席彻底沸腾了。文班被这一球深深震撼，他转过身去，难以置信地抱住头。那一刻，我胃里翻江倒海的感觉，正像2014年吉诺比利在克里斯·波什 (Chris Bosh) 头上完成那记宣告回归的隔扣时一模一样——那是一种“稳了”的确定感。
尽管那记扣篮后马刺只领先3分，但我（我想波特兰队和他们的主场观众也一样）知道比赛已经结束了。马刺球员的表现显然也证明了他们深知这一点。此前四个半节里枯竭的信心之泉，此刻正喷涌而出，洒满赛场。
卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 和卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant) 组成了一对极具默契的组合，在他们共同上场的每一分钟里都让开拓者队窒息。卡斯尔带着一种“义无反顾”的态度和凶猛劲头冲击篮筐，似乎能随意制造犯规，而只要开拓者在三分线外对他稍有松懈，他就会让他们付出代价。
甚至连福克斯也终于找到了空间，因为波特兰的球员们正手忙脚乱地在接踵而至的威胁中疲于奔命。除了计时器还在跳动，比赛在各个层面都已经结束了。马刺绝不会让这场胜利溜走。
无论他们是在把握命运还是在创造命运，似乎没有什么能再困扰他们，没有什么能干扰他们所处的这种节奏。当你见证这样的时刻时，你不需要言语。
你只需要坐在那里，保持安静，欢呼雀跃，并祈祷这种状态能持续到季后赛结束。
我的兄弟们并不是资深篮球迷，但有那么几分钟，整个客厅都安静了下来。
每一个见过这种场面的马刺球迷都知道自己在看什么，即使他们不知道该如何表达；而每一个没见过这种场面的马刺球迷，都体会到了第一次见证奇迹的快感。
那一刻，美版《办公室》里的那句名言在我脑海中回响：“我希望有一种方法，能让你在离开‘美好的旧时光’之前，意识到自己正身处其中。”
昨晚，卡斯尔创下了球员职业生涯季后赛客场首秀的历史第二高分。哈珀成为了NBA历史上季后赛拿到两双最年轻的后卫，是季后赛历史上替补出场砍下20+得分第二年轻的球员（仅次于科比·布莱恩特），是历史上第四位在季后赛单场砍下25+得分并抓下10+篮板的新秀，并追平了吉诺比利保持的新秀季后赛单节得分纪录。
他们还加入了凯文·杜兰特 (Kevin Durant) 和拉塞尔·威斯布鲁克 (Russell Westbrook) 的行列，成为历史上唯二在21岁或以下就能在同一场季后赛中各砍25+的组合。
有时候在生活中，我们确实能清楚地意识到自己正经历着一个特别的时刻。
这只是季后赛首轮的第三场比赛。它既微不足道，又意义非凡。但它感觉就像是一个预兆，预示着未来的辉煌。很有可能，我会一直记得这场比赛，直到我老得什么都记不住为止。
我猜，我不会是唯一一个有此感受的人。
赛后要点
- 绝对没有人能说服我卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet) 的合同不是一份超值合同。马刺队能够利用凯尔特人队资金相对紧张（且被出售）的机会签下他，这成了我这辈子见过的马刺最成功的自由球员签约之一。无论文班在不在场，他都表现得极其硬朗，不仅能护筐、干脏活累活，还能以一种在常规赛大部分时间里都不曾见到的方式，敏锐地捕捉对手防守端的任何疏漏。马刺需要他提供的每一个得分和每一次聪明的传球，而他用可以说是一场赛季最佳表现回报了球队。即使波士顿球迷对他评价颇高，也没人真正意识到科内特竟然是一名如此出色的“季后赛型选手”。他的表现绝对物超所值。
- 如果说之前关于哈里森·巴恩斯 (Harrison Barnes) 休赛期去留的问题还有待商榷，那么现在几乎可以肯定了。在卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant) 拿出这样的表现后，我预计马刺只愿意以低廉的价格留住巴恩斯。巴恩斯是一个伟大的队友，在萨克拉门托经历了那段“篮球炼狱”后，他显然很渴望胜利，所以他很有可能接受降薪留队。但布莱恩特的数据统计并不能完全体现他对昨晚胜利的重要性。他抢下的6个篮板似乎每一个都是在激烈对抗中拿到的，或者是延续了进攻回合。一旦他在比赛后半段与科内特搭档，圣安东尼奥的防守就开始接连完成抢断和封盖。再加上他那三次非常及时的盖帽，只要他能偶尔投中三分球，我认为马刺就找到了季后赛（至少目前是）的首发大前锋，因为队内没有其他球员能像他这样拥有如此出色的运动能力（而且现在这种能力已经基本处于可控状态）。
- 此外，我认为米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 也功不可没，他正在摸索如何根据波特兰的调整（以及面对一些值得商榷的判罚）临场调配阵容。将科内特和布莱恩特放在一起是预设的策略还是无奈之举已经不重要了，因为至少我们可以欣慰地看到，约翰逊在面对失败时不会选择保守。这是他今年最精明的调整之一，我认为这充分说明了他对这支极其年轻的球队有多么信任，以及球员们对他有多么信任。我不得不说，马刺这次又选对人了。意料之中。
晚安曲——今晚的主题曲：
Styx 乐队的《Come Sail Away》
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点击查看原文：What we learned from the Spurs Game 3 win over the Trail Blazers
What we learned from the Spurs Game 3 win over the Trail Blazers
As far as I can tell, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili only scored 30 points in the same game twice.
I remember both instances well.
The first came during the clinching Game 6 win against the Phoenix Suns in the 2007 Western Conference Semifinals, a critical home win with the series potentially going back to Phoenix for a deciding Game 7.
The second came the following year, in Game 3 of another hotly contested Western Conference Semifinal against the Chris Paul-era Hornets (now Pelicans), in a series that did go seven games.
Parker and Ginobili were 24 and 29 respectively in the 2007 postseason — 25 and 30 the following year.
And last night, at the tender ages of 21 and 20, Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper not only came within a three-pointer of duplicating that feat, but they also nearly became the youngest pair of Spurs to score 30 points in a postseason game, period.
On the one hand, it’s almost shocking to find that Tony and Manu only combined to score 30 points together twice in all the years they played together.
On the other hand, it’s absolutely crazy to think of Castle and Harper following in their footsteps when only one of the two can even legally buy an alcoholic beverage.
Crazier still to consider that they performed the way they did in the absence of San Antonio’s franchise player.
That the fledgling duo effectively carried the Spurs in the fourth quarter of a dark postseason hour left me sitting there in shock at what I’d just witnessed.
With 5:09 left in the 3rd quarter, the Spurs were down 65-80, and ESPN had Portland’s chance of winning at 91.4%, their highest percentile of the game. Things looked grim. I had long ceased my pacing over the officiating, and that propulsive agitation had largely left my body.
I was sitting in my brother’s most comfortable chair, engaged in conversation about Wemby’s concussion, discussing how Game 4 might go, brainstorming what I could even write about on a night that had felt deflating.
The Spurs were flailing. They couldn’t seem to stifle Portland’s guard duo of Scoot Henderson and the well-heeled Jrue Holliday. The offense that had worked so well against most teams in the absence of Victor Wembanyama just couldn’t find that extra gear.
Possessions looked stagnant as Portland’s game plan to minimize De’Aaron Fox’s effectiveness (and an unusually early four fouls) had San Antonio’s 2nd leading scorer of the regular season looking overly careful as ball movement stalled along with him.
Twitter was awash with tweets crashing out about both Fox and the team at large, so I closed it out and started thinking ahead, as my brothers asked about San Antonio’s chances for the rest of the series.
Caught up in conversation, I almost missed Dylan Harper blocking the snot out of Henderson’s 17-foot driving jump-shot, and then following it up with a clutch three-pointer about 30 seconds later.
I did not miss the slo-motion hand-switching dunk around the reaching arms of Robert Williams III that would have made Michael Jordan proud.
The bench went wild. Wemby was so blown away that he turned around and put his head in his hands in disbelief, and I felt that same thing in the pit of my stomach that I’d felt back in 2014 when Manu Ginobili threw down a statement dunk on Chris Bosh — certainty.
The Spurs were only up by three points with that dunk, but I (and I think both Portland and their crowd) knew it was over. The Spurs certainly played like they knew it was. Whatever well of confidence it was that had dried up over the previous four-and-a-half quarters was overflowing and pouring out all over the hardwood.
Luke Kornet and Carter Bryant had come together in the most wholesome of combos to stifle the Trailblazers every moment that they shared the court. Stephon Castle was driving with such a ‘damn the torpedoes’ attitude and ferocity that he was drawing fouls seemingly at will, and making the Blazers pay any time they sagged off of him a little around the arc.
Even De’Aaron Fox was finally finding space as the Portland players frantically shifted focus from threat to materializing threat. It was over, everywhere but the clock. They weren’t letting this one go.
Whether they were seizing their destiny or forging it, it seemed that nothing could bother them. Nothing could disturb the flow they were in. And when you get to witness something like that, you don’t say anything.
You just sit there and shut up, and cheer, and hope that it lasts for the rest of the postseason.
My brothers aren’t really big basketball fans, and yet, for a few minutes, the entire living room went quiet.
Every Spurs fan who had seen it before knew what they were watching, even if they didn’t know how to say it, and every Spurs fan who hadn’t seen it before got the thrill of watching it for the first time.
For a moment, I had that great line from the U.S. version of The Office echoing in my head: “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them.“
Last night Stephon Castle scored the 2nd most points in a player’s 1st playoff road game ever. Dylan Harper became the youngest guard in NBA history with a playoff double-double, the second youngest player to score 20+ points off the bench in the playoffs (after Kobe Bryant), the fourth rookie to ever score 25+ points and tally 10+ rebounds in a postseason game, and tied Manu Ginobili’s rookie record for most points in a postseason quarter.
Together, they joined Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook as the only duos age 21 or younger to each score 25+ points each in the same playoff game.
Sometimes in life, we do get to know exactly when we’re living in a special moment.
It was Game 3 of a first-round series. It meant nothing and everything. But it felt like an omen of things to come, and there’s a good chance I’ll remember it until I can’t remember things anymore.
I suspect I won’t be the only one.
Takeaways
- Absolutely no one is ever going to be able to convince me that Luke Kornet’s contract wasn’t a significant underpay. That the Spurs were able to take advantage of the Celtics being relatively cash-strapped (and sold) has made this one of the best San Antonio free-agent signings of my lifetime. With Wemby and without, he’s been absolute nails, not just rim-protecting and doing the dirty work, but also taking advantage of any defensive lapses from the opposition in a way that he didn’t for most of the regular season. The Spurs needed every point and heady pass that he had in him, and he rewarded them with what was pretty arguably his best performance of the season. Even with positive comments from Boston fans, no one really understood what a playoff riser Kornet is. He’s been worth every penny, and more.
- If there weren’t already going to be some questions about the off-season fate of Harrison Barnes, there almost certainly will be now. After Carter Bryant’s performance, I expect the Spurs will only be willing to keep Barnes on the cheap. Barnes is a great teammate who clearly missed winning after time in the basketball purgatory that is Sacramento, so he may very well do that, but Bryant’s box score does not fully express how vital he was to last night’s win. Seemingly, all 6 of his rebounds were heavily contested and/or kept possessions alive, and once he was paired with Kornet in the latter half of the game, San Antonio’s defense began to find stop after stop. Add to that his three very timely blocks, and as long as he can splash the occasional three, I think the Spurs have their power-forward for the postseason (at least), as there’s just no other player who can match his athleticism on the roster (now that it’s mostly under control).
- Also, I think a lot of credit has to go to Mitch Johnson for this one, who’s figuring out how to mix and match his roster to Portland’s adjustments (and in the face of some questionable calls) seemingly on the fly. Whether pairing Kornet and Bryant was a preconceived strategy or an act of desperation hardly matters because at least we have the satisfaction of knowing that Johnson won’t play it safe in the face of defeat. This was one of his most canny adjustments this year, and I think it says a lot about how much faith he has in an incredibly young roster, and how much faith they have in him. I have to say, I think the Spurs got this one right again. Shocker.
Playing You Out – The Theme Song of the Evening:
Come Sail Away by Styx
By Devon Birdsong, via Pounding The Rock