By Sam Amick | The Athletic, 2026-06-04 10:40:43
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圣安东尼奥——文班并不担心，至少他自己是这么说的。
尽管纽约尼克斯闯入圣安东尼奥马刺的主场，以105-95偷走了总决赛首场胜利。也尽管马刺这位超凡脱俗的年轻球星在面对尼克斯的身高时，整晚大部分时间都显得有些不知所措，21次出手投失了15球（包括9次三分出手投失了7次）。
赛后，当22岁的维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama)被问及如何评估这一切的深层意义时，他在赛后新闻发布会上简洁而坚定地表示，自己并没有感到丝毫担忧。
“我会解决这个问题的……”
“我觉得我们让这场胜利溜走了……”
“说实话，我没有为任何事情感到自责。……我一点也不担心。”
即便他其实应该感到担心。
虽然文班亚马最终交出了又一份填满数据栏的季后赛成绩单——26分、12个篮板和3次盖帽——但这场表现（还包括6次失误）进一步证明，尼克斯拥有足以限制他那无与伦比的身材和技术所需的阵容配置。
正如12月16日尼克斯在NBA杯决赛中击败马刺时那样，当时卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl-Anthony Towns)（7英尺，248磅）、OG·阿奴诺比 (OG Anunoby)（6英尺7英寸，240磅）和米切尔·罗宾逊 (Mitchell Robinson)（7英尺，240磅）的三人组极好地限制了文班亚马（7英尺4英寸，236磅），使其正负值低至-18。纽约看起来是联盟中少数几支有能力应对这一独特挑战的球队之一。
在进入这轮系列赛之前，尼克斯经常将那场比赛视为他们夺取自1973年以来首个总冠军的蓝图。然而，马刺很快指出，在接下来的六个月里，他们已经有了显著的进步和成熟。这当然没错，但事实依然是，文班亚马在面对尼克斯时再次迷失了自我。
“我今晚打得很糟，”文班亚马直截了当地说，“事情就这么简单。”
要是他能早点拿出第四节末段眼看比赛流逝时展现出的那种激情就好了。
距离比赛结束还剩3分24秒，马刺落后4分，文班亚马在左侧侧翼面对唐斯的单防。他毫不犹豫地展开进攻，在突破禁区时将右肩撞向唐斯的胸口，随后顶着犯规完成上篮，而这位尼克斯大个子则倒在地上，一路滑行了大约10英尺，滑到了底线外的场外。
唐斯此役15投7中得到18分、12个篮板、4次助攻和2次失误，正负值为+14。他倒地后捂着胸口躺了数秒，随后才缓缓站起身来。
然而，马刺面临的问题是，文班亚马这次强硬的2+1只是一个特例。
“感觉他开局投丢了几个球，”马刺主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示，“我们必须让他活跃在空间里并向篮筐发起冲击，无论是通过顺下还是在转换进攻中奔跑。但我们需要对篮筐施加压力，并在禁区内展现侵略性。显然，他们在身体对抗和协防包夹方面做得很好。我们确实需要做得更好，从比赛一开始就奠定这样的基调。”
然而，在与尼克斯的对决中，这就是马刺所面临的难题。正如我上个月所写的那样，当时三位匿名高管在评估防守文班的挑战时，尼克斯就被指出是少数几支拥有应对他的配置的球队之一。
在接下来的几个月里，联盟其他球队可能会觉得有必要引进更多高大且敏捷的防守者，但纽约的优势在于，他们的阵容已经调配得恰到好处。
至少在系列赛首战之后，情况看起来确实如此。
“就是尽量给他制造困难，”唐斯在谈到防守文班亚马的策略时说道，“他是一位令人惊叹的球员，是这个联盟有史以来见过的独一无二的球员，你只能尽一切可能去让他打得艰难。”
现在令人期待的是，我们将在周五的第二场比赛中看到这位总决赛新兵如何应对他最新的逆境。在今年季后赛至今的历程中，文班亚马每一次都能重新振作。
然而，这一次没有切特·霍姆格伦 (Chet Holmgren) 供他欺负，也没有像俄克拉荷马雷霆那样在西决中缺少几名关键球员的对手。这支尼克斯队基本保持了健康，杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson)（砍下30分，其中13分来自第四节）正带伤（脚踝和膝盖不适）作战，而罗宾逊尽管在系列赛开始前伤到了小拇指，但依然能够上场提供帮助。
文班亚马的队友们也没能像对阵雷霆时那样挺身而出，达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 13次出手投丢了10次，而开局表现强劲的迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 全场得到16分，其中只有4分是在下半场拿到的。马刺全场三分球总共43投仅11中（命中率25.6%）。
文班亚马现在可能还不担心，但有理由认为他应该感到担忧。
“我的意思是，这甚至不像是需要我去解决什么难题，”他说，“我只需要打出正常水平就行，甚至都不需要多么超常发挥。”
“做好正确的事情就足够了。当我们打得不好、当我打得不好时，那是因为我们自乱了阵脚。这就是为什么我不担心。我们会打得好得多。我也一定会打得好得多。”
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
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Victor Wembanyama got his first taste of the NBA Finals. It could have gone better
The Athletic has live coverage of Knicks vs. Spurs in Game 2 of the 2026 NBA Finals.
SAN ANTONIO — Wemby isn’t worried, or so he claims.
Never mind that the New York Knicks came into the San Antonio Spurs’ home and stole Game 1 of the NBA Finals 105-95. Or that the Spurs’ transcendent young star spent most of the evening looking out of sorts against the Knicks’ size while missing 15 of his 21 shot attempts (including seven of nine 3s).
When the 22-year-old Victor Wembanyama was asked to assess the deeper meaning of it all afterward, he succinctly insisted in his postgame news conference that there was no concern creeping in.
“I’m going to figure it out …”
“I think we let that one go …”
“I’m not kicking myself about anything, really. … I’m not worried (in) the slightest.”
Even if he should be.
While Wembanyama finished with another one of his fully packed, playoff stat lines — 26 points, 12 rebounds and three blocks — this performance (which also included six turnovers) served as further proof that the Knicks have the sort of roster that it takes to slow his unparalleled size and skill.
As was the case in the Knicks’ win over the Spurs in the NBA Cup title game on Dec. 16, when the trio of Karl-Anthony Towns (7-foot, 248 pounds), OG Anunoby (6-7, 240) and Mitchell Robinson (7-0, 240) contained Wembanyama (7-4, 236) so well that he finished at minus-18, New York looked like one of the few teams in the league equipped to handle this unique challenge.
Entering this series, the Knicks often pointed to that game as a blueprint they planned to use en route to the franchise’s first title since 1973. However, the Spurs were quick to point out that they had evolved and matured significantly in the ensuing six months. That is most certainly true, but the fact remains that Wembanyama wasn’t himself against the Knicks — again.
“I was bad tonight,” Wembanyama said plainly. “It’s not more complicated than that.”
If only he had played with the kind of fervor he showed with the game slipping away late in the fourth.
With 3 minutes, 24 seconds remaining and the Spurs down four, Wembanyama faced single coverage against Towns on the left wing. He wasted no time going to work, planting his right shoulder into Towns’ chest as he drove into the paint, then finishing the layup through the foul as the Knicks big man hit the floor and slid some 10 feet out of bounds behind the baseline.
Towns, who had 18 points on 7-of-15 shooting, 12 rebounds, four assists, two turnovers and was plus-14, stayed down for several seconds while holding his chest before eventually getting up.
The issue for the Spurs, though, is that Wembanyama’s gritty three-point play was an outlier.
“Felt like he missed a few shots early,” Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said. “We’ve got to get him moving in space and toward the rim, whether that’s on rolls or running in transition. But we need the pressure on the rim and the force in the paint. They did a good job of obviously being physical and showing crowds. We need to do a better job of establishing that early on, for sure.”
This is the problem for the Spurs, though, in a matchup with the Knicks. As I wrote last month, when three front-office executives weighed in anonymously on the challenge of dealing with Wemby, the Knicks were noted as one of the few teams well-equipped to handle him.
The rest of the league will likely feel compelled to add even more big, agile defenders in the months to come, but it’s to New York’s advantage that its roster is already set just right.
Or so it would seem after the series opener.
“Just try to make it difficult,” Towns said of the approach against Wembanyama. “He’s an amazing player, one-of-a-kind player in this NBA that the league has ever seen, and you just try to make it as difficult as possible.”
The intriguing part now is that we’ll see in Game 2 on Friday how this neophyte will respond to his latest bout with adversity. Wembanyama has bounced back every time to this point in the postseason.
However, there is no Chet Holmgren to bully this time around, nor a foe like the Oklahoma City Thunder that was without several key players in the West finals. These Knicks are healthy, for the most part, with Jalen Brunson (30 points, including 13 in the fourth quarter) battling through ankle and knee ailments and Robinson able to help despite the pinkie finger injury he suffered before the series.
Wembanyama’s teammates didn’t meet the moment as they had against the Thunder, either, with De’Aaron Fox missing 10 of 13 shot attempts and Dylan Harper, who had a strong start, scoring just four of his 16 points in the second half. The Spurs hit just 11 of 43 3-pointers overall (25.6 percent).
Wembanyama might not be worried just yet, but there’s an argument to be made that he should be.
“I mean, it’s almost not like I have anything to figure out,” he said. “It’s almost like I have to play normal, not even good.
“Doing the right things is enough. When we play bad, when I play bad, is when we shoot ourselves in the foot. This is why I’m not worried. We’re going to be so much better. I’m going to be so much better.”
By Sam Amick, via The Athletic