By Joel Lorenzi | The Athletic, 2026-05-25 12:36:52
《The Athletic》正在为您图文直播马刺对阵雷霆的2026年NBA西部决赛第五场对决。
圣安东尼奥——俄克拉荷马城雷霆队的阵容深度在本赛季以及这轮西部决赛中一直表现惊艳，但在周日晚上，这股深度却未能创造奇迹。曾经的制胜法宝，如今却变得捉襟见肘。
在缺少了杰伦·威廉姆斯 (Jalen Williams) 和阿杰伊·米切尔 (Ajay Mitchell) 这两位球队最重要的进攻组织者后，雷霆队打出了他们在本届季后赛中最沉闷的一场比赛，以82-103惨败于第四战，大比分被圣安东尼奥马刺队扳平。这场比赛并没有展现出背水一战的拼劲，反而让人感觉他们被残缺的轮换阵容压得喘不过气来。
诚然，雷霆队在本赛季的不同阶段也曾面临过缺少多名持球手的情况。但现在的对手可不是二月的底特律，也不是十一月的犹他。在缺少必要进攻发起点的情况下，雷霆队还能在如此强悍的防守面前创造出进攻机会吗？
“我们可以，”主教练马克·戴格诺特 (Mark Daigneault) 在赛后表示，“我认为我们在进攻端的表现有很多不尽如人意的地方。我们缺乏撕开对手防线所需的犀利度、对抗力量和精准度。”
继米切尔在对阵洛杉矶湖人队的系列赛中大放异彩后，俄克拉荷马城（OKC）带着大约“三个半”球星的配置挺进了西决。然而，伤病的侵袭以及切特·霍姆格伦 (Chet Holmgren) 的隐身，让蝉联常规赛MVP的谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大 (Shai Gilgeous-Alexander) 的处境变得比预期要艰难得多。
霍姆格伦在本赛季成长为一名出色的终结者。他的篮板能力有所提升，在去年接受臀部手术后也重新找回了移动能力。他逐渐步入巨星行列，并入选了全明星阵容。
然而，在这轮系列赛中，他却显得有些沉寂。在篮板争夺中被对手压制，在进攻端游离于体系之外，甚至无法果断出手投篮。他的出手次数和战术比重都有所下降，这在以前雷霆兵多将广时或许不是什么大问题，但现在无疑成了致命伤。
在周日的26分钟出场时间里，霍姆格伦8投仅拿下了10分。而他那如同神话般的同届宿敌维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 则屡屡奉献致命一击。文班亚马在几次快攻扣篮中几乎摸到了篮板上沿，并在半场结束前投中了一记超远中场压哨三分，瞬间扑灭了雷霆队反扑的火苗。
他全场出手22次，其中三分球7投，狂砍33分。马刺队在他上场的时间里占据了绝对统治地位，其单场正负值高达+29。
雷霆队的替补席在周五的第三战中合力砍下了76分，但在周日的第四节开始前，他们仅仅贡献了18分。在这轮系列赛中多次扮演英雄角色的亚历克斯·卡鲁索 (Alex Caruso) 仅出场了14分钟。就在两天前，贾里德·麦凯恩 (Jared McCain) 和杰林·威廉姆斯 (Jaylin Williams) 还是改变比赛走势的关键先生，手感热得发烫，就像游戏《NBA嘉年华》(NBA Jam) 里那样。他们是弥补首发阵容缺陷的完美双人组，也是应对这轮瞬息万变系列赛的必要变招。
然而在第四战中，他们两人合计仅有17投2中。
当进攻更加依赖他们的节奏，且防守端对他们进行针对性盯防时，情况就完全不同了。在第三战被外线射爆后，圣安东尼奥在第四战中普遍采取了人盯人防守，不轻易给射手空间。他们对吉尔杰斯-亚历山大的协防包夹显得更加及时且有效。而当吉尔杰斯-亚历山大出球后，由于身边缺少了两位最能分担压力的持球手去冲击马刺防线转瞬即逝的漏洞，这种防守效果便被无限放大。
面对马刺这样的防守，谢伊·吉尔杰斯-亚历山大无法孤军奋战。(Scott Wachter / Imagn Images)
雷霆队的进攻比这轮系列赛的任何时候都更依赖场上五人阵容的默契配合。当晚，OKC出现了多达20次失误。他们在三分线外33投仅6中，创下了本届季后赛的最差纪录。在内线对抗中，雷霆也完全落于下风，内线命中率仅为43.9%。
“季后赛的许多比赛最终都取决于身体对抗和侵略性，”戴格诺特说道，“在防守端，你的侵略性必须压倒对方的对抗；在进攻端，你的对抗能力必须强过对方的防守侵略性。这就像是季后赛的战壕战……你必须为自己争取更多出手的机会。”
也许雷霆整场比赛打得最顺畅、最自然的阶段是在开局阶段，当时中锋意赛亚·哈尔滕施泰因 (Isaiah Hartenstein) 轻松抛投连连命中。然而，在首节余下的时间里，他们甚至很难把球传到吉尔杰斯-亚历山大手中，这似乎已经预示了第四战的结局。
戴格诺特需要仔细剖析球队的战术执行过程，并与那些极端的、异常的数据结果进行对比。他需要弄清楚，这场糟糕的失利中究竟有多少是对手防守带来的持续性影响，又有多少是可以在周二的第五战中得到解决的。
马刺队自己在第四战中打得也算不上完美。在得到103分的这个夜晚，他们的三分球同样只有33投9中。然而，两队之间显而易见的差距在于，马刺队展现出了背水一战的拼死决心。
“他们打得就像是输了就要回家一样，而我们没有展现出这种态度，”霍姆格伦说道。
抛开伤病和人员齐整度不谈，雷霆现在的任务是重新找回紧迫感和执行力，恢复高效与秩序。但马刺队的防守会让这一切变得困难重重。在雷霆取胜的两场比赛中，他们替补球员的无畏冲击挑战了文班亚马的护筐能力；而在失利的比赛中，文班亚马的防守威慑力则无处不在。除他之外，斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 对吉尔杰斯-亚历山大牛皮糖式的贴身防守也一如既往地稳定。
与大多数系列赛一样，这轮对决也在逐场发生变化。概率、形势、人员配置都在变。就在几天前，OKC在取得本届季后赛最令人信服、最具里程碑意义的一场胜利后，还占据着绝对优势。
而在周日，他们在第四节开始后不久便早早缴械投降，而他们的进攻其实在此之前就已经崩溃了。
“系列赛现在打成了2-2平，基本上回到了0-0的起点，现在变成了三局两胜的抢分战，”吉尔杰斯-亚历山大表示，“我没有一直去纠结这个，但这就是事实，也是我们目前所处的真实境地。”
经历过系列赛风浪的吉尔杰斯-亚历山大依然信心十足。然而，他身边逐渐枯竭的帮手资源，可能很快就会让他感到独木难支。
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SAN ANTONIO — The Oklahoma City Thunder’s depth, magnificent throughout this season and this Western Conference finals series, had no magic to give Sunday night. Depth went from a helpful tool to dire.
Down Jalen Williams and Ajay Mitchell, two of the team’s most important creators, the Thunder delivered their flattest game of the postseason, a 103-82 Game 4 loss that evened their series with the San Antonio Spurs. A game that did not reek of desperation, but instead felt weighed down by the depth chart.
Yes, the Thunder played without a bevy of ballhandlers at different points during this season. But this is not Detroit in February. Or Utah in November. Can the Thunder conjure offense against such a harsh defense without the necessary initiators?
“We can,” coach Mark Daigneault said postgame. “I thought we left a lot to be desired on that end of the floor. We didn’t have the sharpness, force or precision necessary to crack them.”
After Mitchell’s prominence in the Los Angeles Lakers series, OKC entered the West finals with roughly 3 1/2 star talents on the roster. But the injuries, as well as Chet Holmgren’s disappearance, have made the life of back-to-back MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexander a lot more difficult than anticipated.
Holmgren blossomed as a play finisher this season. He improved as a rebounder. He regained mobility after last year’s hip procedure. He rounded into stardom and made the All-Star team.
In this series, though, he’s been quiet. Overpowered on the glass. Irrelevant in the offense. Incapable of launching his jump shot. Down in volume and attempts, which might not have been such an issue previously with OKC’s numbers but undoubtedly is now.
In 26 minutes on Sunday, Holmgren tallied 10 points on eight shots. His mythical contemporary, Victor Wembanyama, produced back-breaking plays. He scrubbed the top of the backboard for several fast-break dunks. He vacuumed any trace of OKC momentum with a half-court heave to close the first half.
He took 22 shots, seven of them 3s, and scored 33 points. The Spurs dominated his minutes, a plus-29 on the night.
The Thunder bench, fresh off a 76-point display in Friday’s Game 3, scored only 18 before Sunday’s fourth quarter. Alex Caruso, heroic for much of this series, played just 14 minutes. Two nights earlier, Jared McCain and Jaylin Williams were gamebreakers. NBA Jam hot. The perfect two-man antidote to the starters’ deficiencies. They were necessary wrinkles for an ever-changing series.
In Game 4, they combined to shoot just 2 of 17.
It’s different when the offense is more dependent on their rhythm and when a defense is fixated on them. San Antonio generally stayed home on shooters after being blasted from deep in Game 3. Its collapses on SGA felt more timely and effective. That can happen when his two best complementary ballhandlers aren’t available to attack the rare gaps in San Antonio’s defense once he gets off the ball.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander can’t do it all by himself against this Spurs defense. (Scott Wachter / Imagn Images)
The Thunder offense was more predicated on the cohesion of five-man lineups than at any other point in the series. OKC had 20 turnovers on the night. Its display from deep, just 6 of 33, was its worst in these playoffs. The Thunder were outclassed in the paint, shooting 43.9 percent on those shots.
“A lot of these playoff games come down to physicality and force,” Daigneault said. “Your force has to be better than their physicality on defense, and your physicality has to be better than their force on offense. That’s kind of the trenches of a playoff game. … You’ve gotta give yourselves more bites at the apple.”
Perhaps the Thunder’s most rhythmic, unforced stint in the game came in the opening minutes, when center Isaiah Hartenstein walked into a handful of floaters. That the remainder of the period was spent struggling to get SGA the ball should’ve portended Game 4’s results.
Daigneault will need to sort through the team’s process versus the dramatic, outlier results. He’ll need to determine how much of the ugly was sustainable and how much can be ironed out in Tuesday’s Game 5.
The Spurs did not piece together a masterpiece in Game 4 themselves. They made just nine of their 33 3-point attempts on a night they scored 103 points. Among the tangible differences, though, was that they played with desperation.
“They played like their season was on the line, and we didn’t,” Holmgren said.
The task now, separate from availability, is to conjure urgency and competence. Efficiency and order. San Antonio’s defense will make that difficult. In the Thunder’s pair of wins, the fearlessness of their reserves challenged Wembanyama’s rim protection. In their losses, his impact is loud. Beyond him, Stephon Castle’s smothering of SGA remains consistent.
This series, not unlike most, is morphing from game to game. The odds, the circumstances, the personnel. Just days ago, OKC held an advantage after its most convincing and momentous win of the postseason.
On Sunday, it waved the white flag fairly early in the fourth quarter, its offense deteriorating well before then.
“The series is 2-2, basically 0-0, and it’s first to two games now,” Gilgeous-Alexander said. “It’s not at the front of my mind, but it is a fact and the reality of where we are.”
Gilgeous-Alexander, experienced in the changing landscape of a series, remains undeterred. But his dwindling resources could soon become too overwhelming.
By Joel Lorenzi, via The Athletic