By Jared Weiss, Christian Clark and Darnell Mayberry | The Athletic, 2026-04-26 22:27:01
在缺阵一场后回归，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 带领圣安东尼奥马刺队在周日下午的系列赛第四战中，克服了半场17分的落后局面，以114-93击败波特兰开拓者队。圣安东尼奥目前在首轮系列赛中以3-1领先。
文班亚马在第二场比赛中遭遇脑震荡，随后缺席了马刺在第三场的胜利。此役他砍下27分、11个篮板、3次助攻、4次抢断和7次盖帽。开拓者在下半场仅得到35分，全场命中率被限制在40%。
马刺后卫达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 砍下全场最高的28分，外加6个篮板和7次助攻；斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 为马刺贡献了16分和8次助攻。波特兰全场出现18次失误，让马刺借此得到29分。
以下是本场比赛的一些要点，第五场比赛将于周二在圣安东尼奥举行：
波特兰下半场的进攻哑火
开拓者将带着被淘汰的风险回到德克萨斯州，他们深知自己挥霍了两次让马刺陷入苦战的绝佳机会。周五，在文班亚马缺阵的情况下，波特兰丢掉了15分的领先优势。两天后，波特兰再次眼睁睁看着自己在主场建立的巨大领先优势化为乌有。
尽管半场领先17分，开拓者最终还是没能顶住马刺的反扑。波特兰的进攻在下半场彻底冰封。由于文班亚马镇守禁区，开拓者试图通过外线投篮来维持局面，但他们在下半场的三分球仅15投3中。
系列赛前三场场均得到23.3分的斯库特·亨德森 (Scoot Henderson)，在27分钟的出场时间里一分未得。波特兰的首发中锋多诺万·克林根 (Donovan Clingan) 表现也乏善可陈，10投2中仅得5分。马刺似乎很乐意让克林根在外线出手，这位身高7英尺2英寸的大个子三分球6投仅1中。
德尼·阿夫迪亚 (Deni Avdija) 得到了全队最高的26分，但文班亚马在下半场成功限制了他的突破型打法。在比赛还剩1分41秒时，文班亚马封盖了阿夫迪亚，完成了他全场7次盖帽中的最后一次。—— Christian Clark，NBA资深作家
马刺做出精妙的半场调整
显而易见，文班亚马在他职业生涯的首场季后赛客场比赛中表现出色，但马刺主帅米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 及其教练组在波特兰完成的又一次戏剧性下半场逆转，同样功不可没。
上半场，球权大部分时间都在文班亚马手中。马刺无法创造出优势，空间也变得停滞。
于是约翰逊在下半场重新调整了马刺的空间布局，将文班亚马置于肘区和底角的无球位置，通常与队友站位紧凑，试图将波特兰的中锋拉出禁区。突然间，马刺以惊人的频率获得了无人防守的扣篮机会。由于开拓者的中锋在三分线外被牵制，他们无法在防守端及时换防，难以应对马刺后卫和侧翼球员的冲击速度。
当开拓者主帅蒂亚戈·斯普利特 (Tiago Splitter) 尝试奇招，从替补席换上侧翼克里斯·默里 (Kris Murray) 来防守文班亚马时，这位马刺巨人短时间内多次甩开防守，在篮下轻松得分。随后开拓者尝试像上半场那样让朱·霍勒迪 (Jrue Holiday) 对位文班亚马，但这给了福克斯更多空间去利用错位得分，而不必担心被包夹。
在福克斯命中半场压哨上篮前，马刺曾落后19分。而到了关键时刻开始时，马刺已经领先了20分。这一切的发生是因为随着文班亚马在无球端变成一个防守威胁，福克斯接管了比赛。
马刺在波特兰通过战术管理和执行力展现了他们的冠军底蕴。随着系列赛的深入，他们越来越展现出能够发现波特兰的弱点并以多种方式加以利用的能力。马刺展现出的丰富应对策略，让他们看起来像是真正的争冠竞争者，因为他们距离九年来首次季后赛系列赛胜利仅一步之遥。—— Jared Weiss，马刺随队作家
福克斯宣告比赛结束
圣安东尼奥马刺队究竟需要福克斯做些什么？整个赛季这都是一个难以定义的问题，因为文班亚马的表现有目共睹，而外线搭档卡斯尔和迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 的成长也远超预期。福克斯的领导力得到了普遍赞誉，但有时看着马刺在不需要这位27岁、两次入选全明星、一次入选最佳阵容的控卫打出全明星水准的情况下依然表现出色，确实有些奇怪。
但这个基本问题始终有一个答案：当马刺在关键的季后赛中陷入困境时，他们需要福克斯。比如第四场比赛，当卡斯尔陷入犯规麻烦，而马刺有机会彻底击溃对手时。
福克斯挺身而出。在这场季后赛中，这位2023年NBA年度关键球员奖得主首次不负盛名。他通过一次上篮、一个中距离后仰和一记后撤步三分连得7分，随后助攻凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 命中三分，帮助圣安东尼奥领先13分。马刺从此再未让对手看到希望。
福克斯不再是萨克拉门托时期那个极具爆发力的球员了。他有时看起来不太愿意在禁区内完成终结，至少在单脚起跳时是这样。但他比国王队时期老练了一倍，并且展现出了一种敏锐的直觉，知道何时在这支才华横溢的马刺队中接管比赛，何时退居幕后。随着季后赛的继续，马刺需要在关键时刻看到第四场比赛中那样的福克斯。—— Mike Prada，NBA编辑部编辑
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Victor Wembanyama, Spurs suffocate Blazers in second half to take 3-1 series lead: Takeaways
After returning from a one-game absence, Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs rallied from a 17-point halftime deficit to defeat the Portland Trail Blazers 114-93 in Game 4 of their first-round series on Sunday afternoon. San Antonio now leads the series 3-1.
Wembanyama, who missed the Spurs’ Game 3 win while recovering from a concussion he sustained in Game 2, scored 27 points with 11 rebounds, three assists, four steals and seven blocked shots. The Blazers scored just 35 second-half points while being held to 40-percent shooting for the game.
Spurs guard De’Aaron Fox scored a game-high 28 points with six rebounds and seven assists, and Stephon Castle added 16 points and eight assists for the Spurs. Portland turned the ball over 18 times, leading to 29 Spurs points.
Here are some takeaways with Game 5 set for Tuesday in San Antonio:
Portland’s offensive second-half output
The Trail Blazers will head back to Texas on the brink of elimination knowing they squandered two prime opportunities to make the Spurs sweat in this series. On Friday, with Wembanyama sidelined, Portland gave up a 15-point lead. Two days later, Portland again watched a sizable lead it built at home melt away.
The Trail Blazers couldn’t hold on against the Spurs, despite leading by 17 points at halftime. Portland’s offense went ice cold in the second half. With Wembanyama controlling the paint, the Trail Blazers tried to keep pace by launching 3s, but Portland converted just 3 of 15 looks from behind the arc in the second half.
Scoot Henderson, who averaged 23.3 points per game in the first three games of the series, went scoreless in 27 minutes. Donovan Clingan, Portland’s starting center, wasn’t much more effective, scoring five points on 2-of-10 shooting. The Spurs seemed content to let Clingan jack up 3s. The 7-foot-2 big man went 1 of 6 from distance.
Deni Avdija scored a team-high 26 points, but Wembanyama was able to limit his slashing-oriented game in the second half. Wembanyama swatted Avdija with 1:41 remaining for the last of his seven blocks. — Christian Clark, NBA senior writer
Spurs make brilliant halftime adjustment
It’s obvious that Wembanyama had a stellar performance in his first road playoff game, but Spurs coach Mitch Johnson and his staff deserve outsized credit for another dramatic second-half turnaround in Portland.
In the first half, Wembanyama had the ball in his hands for much of the time. The Spurs could not create advantages, and the spacing stalled out.
So Johnson reconfigured the Spurs’ spacing in the second half to put Wembanyama at the elbow and corner off the ball, often bunched up with a teammate, in an attempt to pull Portland’s centers away from the paint. Suddenly, the Spurs got uncontested dunks at an alarming rate. Portland couldn’t figure out how to pass off help assignments to deal with the downhill speed of San Antonio’s guards and wings, with the Blazers’ centers distracted on the perimeter.
When Blazers coach Tiago Splitter tried throwing a curveball and bringing in wing Kris Murray off the bench to guard Wembanyama, the Spurs’ giant left him in the dust multiple times in a short span for open buckets at the rim. The Blazers then tried putting Jrue Holiday on Wembanyama, as they did in the first half, but that gave De’Aaron Fox more room to cook mismatches without worrying about getting trapped.
The Spurs were down 19 before Fox hit a layup at the halftime buzzer. The Spurs went up 20 by the beginning of crunch time. It happened because Fox took over this game as Wembanyama turned into a terror off the ball.
The Spurs have shown their championship bona fides in Portland with their game-plan management and execution. The deeper this series has gone, the more they have shown they can find Portland’s vulnerabilities and exploit them in a variety of ways. It’s the wide range of answers the Spurs have shown that makes them look like serious title contenders as they move a win away from their first playoff series win in nine years. — Jared Weiss, Spurs writer
The Fox says it’s over
What do the San Antonio Spurs really need from Fox? It’s a question that’s been hard to define all season, with Wembanyama being Wembanyama and backcourt mates Castle and Dylan Harper being well ahead of schedule. Fox’s leadership has been universally lauded, but it’s been odd at times watching the Spurs play so well without even needing their 27-year-old two-time All-Star and one-time All-NBA point guard to play like it on the court.
But there’s always been an answer to that basic question: The Spurs need Fox when they’re in a tight spot in a pivotal playoff game. A game like Game 4, for example, when Castle got in foul trouble and the Spurs had an opportunity to step on an opponent’s neck.
Fox answered the call. For the first time in these playoffs, the 2023 NBA Clutch Player of the Year lived up to that billing. He supplied seven straight points on a layup, midrange fadeaway and stepback 3, then dished a rope to Keldon Johnson for another 3 to put San Antonio up 13. The Spurs never looked back.
Fox isn’t the same explosive player he was in Sacramento. He sometimes appears reluctant to finish in the lane, at least off one leg. But he’s twice as crafty as he was in his Kings days and has displayed a knack for knowing when to take over and when to hang back on this talented Spurs team. San Antonio will need Game 4 De’Aaron Fox to show up in critical moments as this playoff run continues. —Mike Prada, NBA staff editor
By Jared Weiss, Christian Clark and Darnell Mayberry, via The Athletic