By J.R. Wilco | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-05-26 13:04:52
在马刺做出调整（这也是我们所有人一直强烈要求的）并取得一场大胜赢下第四战、将系列赛大比分扳成 2-2 平之后，“与敌共舞”栏目继续进行——这里的“敌人”指的是来自Daily Thunder的克雷·奥尔雷德 (Cray Allred)。现在，在这场漫长的拉锯战中，轮到阵容不整的雷霆再次做出调整了，因为这轮已经变成三局两胜制的系列赛将班师俄克拉荷马城。
J.R.
季后赛总是充满了起起落落。正如我在周日比赛前所说，输球之后，你会觉得己方再也赢不了了。因此，从周五晚上到周日下午这段时间，大多数马刺球迷的心情都跌到了谷底。你眼睁睁地看着系列赛大比分可能会变成 1-3，而且你很清楚，即便开局打出 15-0 的高潮，也无法避免最终惨败 15 分的结局。
随着周日比赛的打响，主队将防守强度提升到了如同侏儒鼩鼱新陈代谢般疯狂的节奏，我的焦虑感有所减轻，但也有限。马刺打得不错，但并没有拉开比分，而且他们在上半场罚丢了 6 个球。更糟糕的是，随着雷霆逐渐蚕食分差，感觉就像是第三战的重演。
接着，文班在半场结束前命中了一记完美的压哨超远三分，瞬间改变了一切。带着 12 分的领先优势回到更衣室，与仅仅领先 9 分有着天壤之别，但这还不是全部。那记从中圈 Logo 处的超远出手不仅仅是一记半场投篮，它是马刺全队努力的结晶，由文班亲手呈现并反映在比分牌上。它一扫之前的阴霾，并宣告了下半场的基调。那是一次极其大胆、势大力沉的超远出手。球进了，仿佛是命中注定；而那一声清脆的空心入网，更像是一个奇迹。
我之前呼吁球队做出调整，他们确实做到了。最主要的调整在于他们减少或改变了对谢伊 (Shai) 的包夹，这确实起到了效果，迫使雷霆的其他球员去自主创造机会，而不是仅仅接球投篮。我本以为 MD 会在下半场做出应对调整，但下半场依然是上半场的翻版。
现在我们回到了起点，系列赛大比分平手，但在打了四场比赛之后，两支球队都饱受伤病困扰，随着系列赛回到俄克拉荷马城，这将成为一个巨大的隐患。第四战是否让你看出了雷霆在只有一名组织核心的情况下该如何应对？什么让你感到担忧，又是什么给你带来了希望？
Cray
就在两天前，马刺球迷居然还是那种心情？
圣安东尼奥在面临 1-3 落后的绝境下拼下一场主场大胜，这并没有让我感到困扰。我担心的是俄克拉荷马城在进攻端根本无法获得轻松出手的机会、顺畅的传球或裁判的哨子——如果雷霆队中第二和第三好的组织者没有双双躺在伤病名单上的话，理论上他们本可以帮上忙。阿杰·米切尔 (Ajay Mitchell) 在第三战中遭遇比目鱼肌拉伤，这已经让他提前无缘第五战。而即便杰伦·威廉姆斯 (Jalen Williams) 奇迹般地获得医学许可，能从他近四个月来的第四次大腿后侧肌群拉伤中复出，只要他在场上，我每一秒都会担心他再次受伤。
除了这些痛苦之外，2-2 的大比分、谢伊和雷霆替补席的反弹能力，以及季后赛中总会发生疯狂之事的现实，都让我感到欣慰。谢伊一直是俄克拉荷马城的希望，我仍然深信不疑。即使作为唯一的组织核心，SGA 也会找到办法找回自我。对于球员和球迷来说，第五战的竞争将会更加白热化，第六战和/或第七战也是如此。这其中可能会有超出我心理准备的更多起伏。
欢迎回到季后赛，J.R.。你觉得我们能在这段要延续好几年的宿敌恩怨中挺过来吗？
J.R.
经历这样一场比赛后，球迷确实会陷入极度痛苦的境地。昨晚我妻子和我一起看了比赛，她评论了第四节雷霆球员在替补席上的神态，尤其是切特·霍姆格伦 (Chet Holmgren)。我不得不告诉她，切特在替补席上看起来很沮丧并不是什么新鲜事，因为这轮系列赛至今他一直都是这副表情。我是说，当他坐在板凳席上时。你得告诉我他打球时是什么表情，因为我感觉几乎没怎么看到他发挥。他是真的隐形了，还是只是我的错觉？
至于这段恩怨在未来的岁月里会把我们折磨成什么样，我都不知道下一场比赛后我的情绪会崩溃到什么程度，又怎么能回答这个问题呢！让我们从我的心理和情绪健康角度来回顾一下这轮系列赛。在第一场比赛开始前，我觉得马刺很有机会，但在看比赛时，我的身体反应就像是刚跳进了冰冷的水里。心率飙升，根本无法控制。马刺赢了，我感觉自己站在了世界之巅，完全忽视了所有的危险信号。在另一场势均力敌的比赛中输球后，我坚信没什么好担心的，因为圣安东尼奥拿下了第一个主场。而在主场失守后，我又觉得毫无希望了，因为雷霆顶住了马刺的最强一击。现在系列赛打平了，我又开始怀疑雷霆因为缺乏控球和发起进攻的人手而无能为力。你觉得这其中有任何健康的成分吗？我想，我们把“狂热分子 (fanatic)”缩写为“球迷 (fan)”是有原因的——这样我们就能忘记这个词起源于极端：一个对某事有着极端、盲目且往往毫无理智的热情或奉献的人。
你那颗狂热的心脏能承受得住这些吗？你认为哪里还有提升的空间？你对第五战有什么期待？
Cray
切特在替补席上总是显得很憔悴，因为他总是无所畏惧地用自己单薄的身体去拼抢。因为手指流血导致比赛中断对雷霆球迷来说早已见怪不怪了——我们甚至有一个推特账号，专门用来追踪他每场比赛脸上是否挨了打。霍姆格伦看起来确实格外沮丧，但他防守端的能量和影响力令人难以置信。根据 databaller 的数据，他是今年季后赛中防守文班第四频繁的球员；除了累积犯规之外，在所有防守这个“外星人”超过 25 个回合的大个子中，霍姆格伦是做得最好的。与此同时，他还将除迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 之外的其他马刺轮换球员的真实命中率限制在 50% 以下。当霍姆格伦在场时，圣安东尼奥的进攻效率仅为 106。
要在攻防两端对阵这支马刺时展现出这样的统治力，所付出的代价才是主因，而不是切特缺乏斗志或决心。但这确实更多地体现在了进攻端。对雷霆球迷来说，在后卫轮换捉襟见肘时，希望霍姆格伦能更多地作为组织者去发起进攻，这也不是什么新鲜事了。在二月和三月阿杰和 JDub 都缺阵期间，他的场均得分（常规赛场均 17.1 分）仅仅提升了 1.2 分，这已经让我们很不高兴了——而看到他在对阵马刺时这一数据暴跌至 11.3 分，简直是……用什么词来形容呢……令人泄气。
我不知道期望他在面对这些后卫时去持球突破是否现实，但至少他可以更果断地出手三分。他目前场均仅出手 2.3 次三分，创下了职业生涯新低，比他面对任何其他季后赛对手时都要少。对于一支极度渴望得分的球队来说，多扔几个三分可能会大有帮助。当然，这其中有文班效应的影响，但雷霆队中没有人的出手点比他更高，无法更强硬地迎着防守出手。
我不想再猜测任何一场比赛的走向了，但我预测我们会打到抢七。我只能同意威尔科医生 (Dr. Wilco) 的诊断：我们都是病态的狂热分子。所以我会严格按照我现实生活中的医生开的处方，按时服用降压药，并且在第五战开始前，我可能会多吃一粒。
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The Spurs adjustments put the ball in the Thunder’s court
Fraternizing with the Enemy — with the enemy being Cray Allred of the Daily Thunder — continues after the Spurs made the adjustments we were all clamoring for to take a dominant Game 4 win and even the series 2-2. Now, it’s up to the shorthanded Thunder to adjust again in this extended chess match as what is now a best-of-three series heads back to Oklahoma City.
J.R.
The playoffs are filled with ups and downs. Like I said before Sunday’s game, after a loss, you feel like you’ll never win. So the time from Friday night to Sunday afternoon was pretty low for most Spurs fans. You’re staring down the barrel of a potential 1-3 series deficit and you’re doing that knowing that a game-starting 15-point run wasn’t enough to avoid losing by 15.
As Sunday’s game began and the home team ramped up the defense to a pace that’d match the metabolism of a pygmy shrew, my unease decreased, but not much. The Spurs had played well but they didn’t have much separation, and they’d missed 6 free throws in the first half. Even worse, as OKC chipped away at the lead, it started to feel like a replay of Game 3.
Then Wemby hit an immaculate halfcourt shot at the buzzer and suddenly everything changed. Going into the locker room up 12 is a massive difference from going in up just 9, but that wasn’t all. That heave from the logo was more than just a half court shot. It was the validation of the team’s efforts personified in Wemby and represented on the scoreboard. It was a cleansing of doldrums and a declaration of how the second half would go. It was an audacious act of a ferocious fling. That it went in felt predetermined. That it was a swish felt like a miracle.
I asked for the team to make adjustments and they did. The main one being how they reduced/altered the doubles on Shai, which definitely had an effect of forcing other guys to make plays instead of just catching and shooting open jumpers. I expected MD to come out of intermission with an adjustment of his own, but the second half was just more of the same.
Now we’re back where we started with an even series, but after four games, neither team is healthy and that looms large as we head back to OKC. Did Game 4 tell you anything about how the Thunder can play with just one playmaker? What worries you and what gives you hope?
Cray
How was it just two days ago that Spurs fans felt this way?
I’m not bothered that San Antonio ran away with a home win while facing down a 3-1 hole. I’m worried that Oklahoma City couldn’t buy a clean look, pass, or whistle on offense — things their second and third-best playmaker would theoretically help out with if they weren’t both stuck on the injury report. A soleus strain, suffered by Ajay Mitchell in Game 3 has already ruled him out for Game 5. And even if Jalen Williams somehow gets cleared to come back from his fourth hamstring injury in as many months, I would be worried about reinjury every second he played.
Aside from all that misery, I’m taking heart in a 2-2 series, the bounceback capabilities of Shai and the Thunder bench, and the reality that crazy things happen in the playoffs. Shai has always been OKC’s hope, and I still believe. SGA will find a way to look more like himself, even as the sole playmaker. Game 5 will be even more intense for players and fans to head into, as will Game 6 and/or Game 7. Potentially more ups and downs than I can prepare for.
Welcome back to the playoffs, J.R. Do you think we’re going to survive years of this rivalry?
J.R.
It certainly is a place of misery that a fan walks through after a game like that. My wife watched with me last night and she commented on the way the OKC players looked on the bench in the fourth, particularly Holmgren. I had to tell her that Chet looking miserable on the bench wasn’t news because that’s how his face has been all series so far. When he sits, I mean. You’d have to tell me what his face looks like when he plays because it’s like I’ve barely seen it. Is he actually disappearing or is it just me?
As to what this series will do to us over the years, how can I answer that when I can’t even tell where I’ll be emotionally one game from now! Let’s review the series so far through the lens of my mental and emotional well being. I thought I liked the Spurs chances coming into G1, but while I watched, my body reacted like I’d just jumped into ice cold water. Heart rate through the roof and no hope of controlling it. Spurs win, and I’m on top of the world while ignoring all of the warning signs. After a loss in another close game, I’m convinced that there’s nothing to worry about because SA takes the first at home. After that failed to happen, there’s no hope because OKC took the Spurs’ best punch. Now the series is even and I’m suspecting that there’s not much the Thunder can do because they lack ball handling and initiating. Does any of this seem healthy to you? I guess there’s a reason we’ve shortened the word ‘fanatic’ to fan – it’s so that we can forget its origins are in extremes: a person with an extreme, uncritical, and often irrational enthusiasm or devotion to something.
How is your fanatic’s heart handling this, where do you see room for improvement, and what do you expect from Game 5?
Cray
Chet always looks haggard on the bench, because he throws that frail body around fearlessly. The delay in action due to his bloodied finger is nothing new for OKC fans – we’ve even got a Twitter account dedicated to tracking whether he got hit in the face each game. Holmgren does look extra deflated, but he is playing with incredible energy and impact on defense. Per databaller, he’s been the fourth most frequent Wemby defender these playoffs; outside of racking up fouls, Holmgren has done the best job of any big trusted to guard the alien for more than 25 possessions. He’s done that while also holding the rest of the Spurs rotation players not named Dylan Harper under 50% True Shooting. San Antonio has a 106 offensive rating when Holmgren’s on the court.
What it takes to exert that force on both ends, against these Spurs, is more to blame than any lack of edge or determination from Chet. But it is showing up more on offense. Also nothing new for Thunder fans: wanting Holmgren to attack as a playmaker more when the guard rotation is thin. We were upset that he only bumped his scoring average (17.1ppg on the season) up by 1.2 points when Ajay and JDub were both out in February and March – seeing it drop to 11.3 against the Spurs is…what’s the word…deflating.
I don’t know if it’s realistic to expect him to put the ball on the floor against these guards, but he can at least be a more willing three-point shooter. He’s taking the fewest threes (2.3 per game) of his career, fewer than he has against any other postseason opponent. For a team desperate for points, a little chucking could go a long way. Of course some of that’s the Wemby effect, but there’s no one on OKC with a higher release point to try and get those off aggressively.
I’m done guessing how any game will play out, but I’m predicting we’re going 7. I can only concur with Dr. Wilco’s diagnosis: we are unhealthy fanatics. So I’m staying very up on my blood pressure medication as prescribed by my IRL doctor, and might pop an extra before Game 5.
By J.R. Wilco, via Pounding The Rock