By Christian Clark | The Athletic, 2026-05-27 11:23:09
《The Athletic》正在实时报道2026年西部决赛的雷霆对阵马刺G6。
俄克拉荷马城——在今年西部决赛的大部分时间里，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 看起来都如同超人一般。
在第一场比赛中，这位圣安东尼奥马刺队身高7英尺4英寸的中锋模仿起了斯蒂芬·库里 (Steph Curry)，在中线内侧直接干拔出手，投中了一记超远三分，将比赛拖入第二个加时。而在第四场比赛中，文班亚马甚至在中线后投出了一记距离更远的三分，并且空心入网。
马刺在这两场比赛中都取得了胜利。在周二的第五场比赛开始前，他们本希望将卫冕冠军俄克拉荷马雷霆队推向淘汰的边缘。这本是文班亚马巩固自己世界第一人地位的机会，更重要的是，这也是向总决赛迈进的关键一步。然而，他却罕见地显露出了凡人的一面。在马刺127-114不敌雷霆的比赛中，他仅得到20分和6个篮板，创下了他本系列赛单场得分新低。
文班亚马的大部分得分都来自罚球线，他罚球12罚12中，但运动战投篮仅15投4中。他在油漆区内9投4中，而外线的5次三分出手则全部偏出。赛后，马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示，他需要这位22岁的超级巨星做出更多贡献。
“即使算上罚球，他也必须出手超过15次，”约翰逊说道，“毫无疑问，他的得分必须超过20分。”
在马刺击败雷霆的两场比赛中，文班亚马的表现堪称天神下凡。在首场双加时的险胜中，他狂砍41分和24个篮板的恐怖数据；随后在第四场的狂胜中，他又斩获了33分、8个篮板和3次盖帽。
如果马刺想要终结雷霆的季后赛之旅，他们需要文班亚马在接下来的两场比赛中都拿出这样的统治力。
“他们派了太多人去围堵他了，”得到24分的马刺后卫斯蒂芬·卡斯尔 (Stephon Castle) 说道，“有时候这确实很难。我觉得他只是想做出正确的战术选择。这不容易，他是我们最好的球员，我们需要他打得更具侵略性。我觉得只要他打得强硬，就能为其他队友创造出投篮机会。”
半场结束时，文班亚马仅仅抢到了一个篮板。这也让NBC分析师卡梅隆·安东尼 (Carmelo Anthony) 不禁怀疑文班亚马是否出现了疲态。在第一场比赛中，文班亚马出战了49分钟，随后的三场比赛分别出场了37分钟、39分钟和31分钟。对于他那瘦削的肩膀来说，这确实是极重的负荷。
文班亚马在周二马刺失利后的反应，似乎印证了安东尼的猜测。他像往常一样进行了漫长的赛后恢复流程。但当队友德阿隆·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 在马刺更衣室接受媒体采访时，文班亚马没有回答任何问题便径直离开——对于这位在NBA中一向极具思想和表达欲的球员来说，这实属罕见。
本场比赛15投仅4中、仅得9分的福克斯表示，他的这位明星搭档只是经历了一个手感冰凉的夜晚。
“他站上了罚球线，”福克斯说，“只是球没投进。我觉得他打得很积极，他的侵略性还在，只是球没投进而已。”
第三节比赛中，马刺一度落后多达20分。在一次暂停期间，转播镜头拍到文班亚马正在情绪激昂地向队友们训话。在第四节还剩7分02秒时，马刺将雷霆的领先优势缩小到8分，但这也是他们能追至的最小分差。进入雷霆首发阵容的后卫贾里德·麦凯恩 (Jared McCain) 顶住压力，命中了两记关键的三分球，确保雷霆始终与马刺保持安全分差。就在两天前的第四场比赛中，雷霆全队仅得到82分，而麦凯恩本场的出色发挥成功激活了俄克拉荷马城的进攻。
“我们在很多防守落位和防守策略上都出现了错误，做出了糟糕的决策，”约翰逊说道，“在今晚这样的比赛中，如果你在整整48分钟里都打出这种水平，你根本没有任何赢球的机会。”
马刺全场出现了15次失误，三分球41投仅12中。在第六场比赛中，他们有很多细节需要总结和改进。但要击败雷霆，仅仅做到“合格”是远远不够的，必须追求卓越。如果马刺想要赢下这个系列赛，他们需要的是那个无所不能的“超人”文班亚马，而不是周二晚上那个跌落凡间的他。
“从表面上看，这或许是最容易解决的问题，”约翰逊说道，“他肯定需要有更多的出手。但我们在各个环节都暴露出了很多问题。甚至在没有优势的情况下，我们也没能通过最简单的传导球来把握住每次进攻回合的机会。在这样高强度的比赛中，你必须以一种稳健、成熟的方式，确保自己做出的每一个选择都是正确的。”
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Victor Wembanyama looked mortal in Game 5 loss. The Spurs need his superhuman form
The Athletic has live coverage of Thunder vs. Spurs in Game 6 of the 2026 Western Conference Finals.
OKLAHOMA CITY — For much of these Western Conference finals, Victor Wembanyama has looked superhuman.
In Game 1, the San Antonio Spurs 7-foot-4 center did his best Steph Curry impression, pulling up just inside the half-court line and burying a 3 to force a second overtime. In Game 4, Wembanyama let go an even deeper 3 from behind the half-court line and swished it.
San Antonio won on both those nights, and entering Tuesday’s Game 5, the Spurs were hoping to put the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder on the precipice of elimination. With a chance to cement his status as the best player in the world — and more importantly, take another step toward reaching the NBA Finals — Wembanyama looked surprisingly mortal instead. He scored 20 points, his fewest in a game this series, and grabbed six rebounds in the Spurs’ 127-114 loss to the Thunder.
Wembanyama did the majority of his scoring from the free-throw line, where he shot 12 of 12, but he went 4 of 15 from the floor. Wembanyama converted 4 of 9 shots in the paint and missed all five 3s he attempted. Afterward, Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said he needs more from his 22-year-old superstar.
“He has to take more than 15 shots, even with the free throws,” Johnson said. “He’s going to have to score more than 20 points, for sure.”
Wembanyama has been transcendent in the Spurs’ two wins over the Thunder. He tallied an absurd 41 points and 24 rebounds in San Antonio’s Game 1 double-overtime win and then notched 33 points, eight rebounds and three blocks in his team’s blowout victory in Game 4.
If the Spurs want to end the Thunder’s season, they’ll need Wembanyama to reach that level in two more games.
“They sent so many bodies towards him,” said Spurs guard Stephon Castle, who scored 24 points. “It’s hard sometimes. I think he just wants to make the right play. It’s tough. He’s our best player. We need him to be aggressive. I feel like him being aggressive opens up shots for other guys.”
At halftime, Wembanyama had only grabbed one rebound. That was part of what prompted NBC analyst Carmelo Anthony to wonder if Wembanyama was feeling fatigued. Wembanyama played 49 minutes in Game 1 and then 37, 39 and 31 minutes in the next three games. That is a heavy load to carry on such skinny shoulders.
The way Wembanyama reacted after the Spurs’ loss Tuesday suggested that Anthony’s observation had merit. Wembanyama did his typically lengthy postgame recovery routine. But as teammate De’Aaron Fox was speaking to reporters in the Spurs’ locker room, Wembanyama walked out without taking any questions — an atypical occurrence for one of the NBA’s most insightful players.
Fox, who only scored nine points on 4-of-15 shooting, said his co-star simply had an off shooting night.
“He got to the free-throw line,” Fox said. “He just didn’t make shots. I think he was aggressive. I think his aggression was there. He just didn’t make shots.”
The Spurs fell behind by as many as 20 points in the third quarter. During a timeout, cameras caught Wembanyama giving an impassioned speech to his teammates. The Spurs cut the Thunder’s lead to eight with 7:02 remaining in the fourth, but that was as close as they got. Thunder guard Jared McCain, who stepped into Oklahoma City’s starting lineup, ensured the Spurs stayed at arm’s length by hitting a pair of timely 3s. McCain helped spark Oklahoma City’s offense, which mustered just 82 points two nights earlier in Game 4.
“There were a lot of things where we were in wrong positions or wrong coverages. Poor decisions,” Johnson said. “In a game like tonight, you give yourself no chance if that’s the level you’re going to play at for the 48 minutes.”
The Spurs committed 15 turnovers and shot 12 of 41 from 3. There is plenty they can clean up and do better in Game 6. But beating the Thunder requires excellence, not competence. The Spurs need the superhuman version of Wembanyama if they want to win this series. Not the mortal one who played on Tuesday.
“That’s probably the easiest in terms of surface-level stuff,” Johnson said. “He’ll definitely need to take more shots. But there is a lot of things all over the place. Even when we didn’t have advantages, we didn’t make the simple plays to take advantage of the opportunity of the possession. In this type of game, you have to be sure of everything you’re doing in a secure, mature way.”
By Christian Clark, via The Athletic