By Michael C. Wright, 2026-05-23 14:18:20
圣安东尼奥——周五，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 陷入深思，用麦克风轻轻敲打着自己的右脸颊，思索着自己还能多做些什么，来改变马刺在西部决赛第三场中以 108-123不敌 雷霆的结局。
文班亚马本场砍下全队最高的26分，外加4个篮板和2次盖帽，成为自2007年名人堂成员蒂姆·邓肯 (Tim Duncan) 连续8场达成此成就以来，首位连续三场季后赛砍下20+得分且贡献多次盖帽的马刺球员。然而，这也是圣安东尼奥在今年季后赛中，首次在文班亚马得分达到25分或以上的情况下输掉比赛。此役过后，雷霆在系列赛中取得了2-1的领先。
“我觉得我现在很难让队友变得更好，”文班亚马说道，“我的投篮命中率并不糟糕。我需要成为一个更具团队精神的球员，做好组织串联，更好地拼抢篮板，把他们的防线拉得更开，看看他们需要对我的队友投入多少协防，然后给队友喂球。”
这是马刺自今年1月以来首次遭遇连败。不过，圣安东尼奥在一定程度上缓解了前两场比赛中的失误问题，这主要得益于后卫德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 和迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 的复出，他们两人都分担了斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 的控球重任。在系列赛的前两场比赛中，卡斯尔累计出现了20次失误，创下了自1977年有数据追踪时代以来，季后赛历史上球员在连续两场比赛中的最高失误纪录。
在首节比赛的前2分37秒内，福克斯便砍下他首节9分中的4分，并贡献了1次抢断和1个篮板，帮助马刺打出15-0的梦幻开局，引得霜冻银行中心球馆的球迷们欢呼雀跃。
马刺也成为了自1997-98赛季引入逐球统计（play-by-play）时代以来，第二支在季后赛中打出15-0或更好开局却最终输掉比赛的球队。第一支是华盛顿奇才，他们在2017年东部半决赛对阵波士顿凯尔特人的比赛中以16-0开局，但最终以111-123落败。
“比赛时间很长，”福克斯在周五比赛后期加重了右脚踝高位扭伤的伤势，正是这一伤病导致他缺席了系列赛的前两场比赛。他表示：“要保持这样的势头很难，尤其是要坚持整整48分钟。但当你看到领先优势逐渐被蚕食时，心里难免会想，‘该死，我们本来领先那么多，怎么一下子就没了。’”
文班亚马（右）得到全队最高的26分领跑马刺，但在周五第三场失利导致圣安东尼奥大比分1-2落后之后，他表示自己需要“更具团队精神”。Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images
马刺在文班亚马下场期间的挣扎表现是失利的主因之一。首节比赛文班亚马在场时，圣安东尼奥以26-11领先俄克拉荷马城；但他下场休息后，雷霆以15-5的比分压制了马刺。在马刺首节得到的31分中，有14分来自于文班亚马的得分或助攻，其中福克斯接到他的传球3投3中。
“我们在开局阶段表现得非常犀利，但显然没能延续下去，那种开局的势头也是不可持续的，”马刺主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 说道，“我觉得我们打得非常快，但随着比赛的进行，这种节奏慢了下来。”
马刺表现挣扎的替补阵容也没能提供帮助。在系列赛的前两场比赛中，俄克拉荷马城的替补得分就以107-41遥遥领先马刺替补，而在第三场比赛中，他们更是以76-23的替补得分彻底击溃了主队。雷霆替补后卫贾里德·麦凯恩 (Jared McCain) 在27分钟的出场时间里砍下了24分。
当被问及系列赛前三场比赛中替补阵容的挣扎表现时，文班亚马特意强调了这需要全队共同承担。
“我觉得我们每一个人都需要做得更好，”文班亚马说道，“作为一个团队、一个组织，我们面临着许多全新的体验。我们必须找到解决办法。这是我的第一次季后赛，对我们中的许多人来说也是第一次。当然，艰难的考验是不可避免的，这完全在预料之中。但现在，是时候检验我们的成色了。”
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Wembanyama on Spurs’ Game 3 loss: Got to be better ‘team player’
SAN ANTONIO – Victor Wembanyama lightly tapped a microphone against his right cheek in deep thought Friday, pondering what more he could have contributed to change the outcome of the Spurs’ 123-108 loss to the Thunder in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.
Wembanyama scored a team-high 26 points with four rebounds and two blocks, becoming the first Spurs player to produce three straight games with 20-plus points and multiple blocks since 2007, when Hall of Famer Tim Duncan accomplished the feat in eight consecutive outings. Yet for the first time this postseason, San Antonio lost a game in which Wembanyama scored 25 points or more, as the Thunder seized a 2-1 lead in the series.
“I feel like I’m having trouble making my teammates better right now,” Wembanyama said. “My shooting splits aren’t terrible. I need to be more of a team player, facilitate better, rebound the ball better, push their defense a little bit further and see how much they need to help with my teammates and [then] feed them.”
The Spurs lost back-to-back games for the first time since January. But San Antonio somewhat cleaned up its turnover woes from Games 1 and 2, largely due to the return of guards De’Aaron Fox and Dylan Harper, who both helped Stephon Castle with the ballhandling duties. In the series’ first two games, Castle totaled 20 turnovers, the most by one player in a two-game span in postseason history during the tracking era (since 1977).
Fox helped San Antonio speed to a 15-0 start in Game 3 by scoring four of his nine first-quarter points while adding a steal and a rebound in the first 2:37 of the game, as fans at Frost Bank Center roared.
The Spurs became the second team in the play-by-play era (since 1997-98) to start a playoff game on a 15-0 run or better and lose, joining the Washington Wizards, who opened the Eastern Conference semifinals in 2017 on a 16-0 run against the Boston Celtics but lost 123-111.
“It’s a long game,” said Fox, who aggravated the high right ankle sprain that kept him out of the first two games of the series late in Friday’s contest. “It’s hard to sustain something like that, especially for a full 48 minutes. But when you see the lead kind of dwindle, it’s something that’s like, ‘Damn, we got this lead, and it went away so quickly.’”
Victor Wembanyama, right, led the Spurs with 26 points but said he needs to be “more of a team player” after Friday’s Game 3 loss put San Antonio in a 2-1 series hole. Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images
The Spurs’ struggles with Wembanyama off the floor was one of the culprits. San Antonio outscored Oklahoma City 26-11 in the first quarter with him on the floor, but when he subbed out, the Thunder outscored the Spurs 15-5. Wembanyama either scored or assisted on 14 of San Antonio’s 31 points in the first quarter, with Fox shooting 3-of-3 off his passes.
“We were really sharp to start the game and obviously didn’t sustain it, and that wasn’t sustainable how we started,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “I thought we played very fast. That’s something that tapered off as the game went along.”
San Antonio’s struggling bench didn’t help. Oklahoma City’s backups had outscored the Spurs’ reserves 107-41 over the first two games of the series before blasting the home team 76-23 in bench scoring in Game 3. Thunder backup guard Jared McCain had 24 points in 27 minutes.
Asked about the bench’s struggles over the first three games of the series, Wembanyama made it a point to include the entire team.
“I feel like each and every one of us got to be better,” Wembanyama said. “It’s just that as a team, as an organization, there’s a lot of new experiences. We’re just going to have to find the answers. It’s my first playoffs. It’s the first playoffs for many of us. Of course, there was going to be hard trials. That’s to be expected. But now we’re going to see what we’re made of.”
By Michael C. Wright, via ESPN