By Joe Vardon | The Athletic, 2026-06-04 19:38:07
The Athletic 正在为您带来 尼克斯对阵马刺 的 2026年NBA总决赛第二场 实时报道。
圣安东尼奥——在职业生涯首场NBA总决赛结束后，维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 收到了格雷格·波波维奇 (Gregg Popovich) 的信息，这段评语听起来确实像是这位传奇前圣安东尼奥马刺主帅的风格。
“大意就是，我打得很糟糕，而且我曾打出过比这好得多的表现，”文班亚马在周四说道。
在周三晚上马刺以 95-105不敌 纽约尼克斯的比赛中，文班亚马砍下26分、12个篮板和3次盖帽，但运动战21投仅6中，三分球9投2中。
在失利后不久，文班亚马曾表示：“我今晚打得很差，事情就是这么简单。”而他对波波维奇短信内容的描述也大同小异。文班补充道，他和波波维奇在第一场比赛结束后还没有机会进行面对面交流。
由于首战结束到次战开始的间隔时间较短，马刺在周四没有安排训练，第二场比赛将于美东时间周五晚上8:30开打。文班亚马表示，马刺输球的原因并不是“技术或战术层面”的问题。他们在第三节曾领先14分，但最终被逆转，而文班在场上主要由尼克斯中锋卡尔-安东尼·唐斯 (Karl-Anthony Towns) 盯防。
尽管言辞间保持着尊重，但文班亚马听起来并没有对对手的表现感到过于惊艳。
“我们需要以更好的心理状态去迎接比赛，我们只需要打出自己的球风，保持常态，”文班亚马说道，“我们不需要去做什么惊天动地的事情。”
当被要求解释“常态”意味着什么时——这难道又是文班关于“合理篮球（ethical basketball）”的惊人言论吗？——他回答道：“‘常态’意味着互相信任、相信篮球之神、相信战术计划、做好执行，而不是过度依赖天赋去投篮或拯救球队。
“我们整个赛季都以某种特定的方式在打球，”文班亚马说，“我们通过这种方式取得了成功。没有任何理由在总决赛开打的那天做出改变。”
马刺在二次进攻得分上输了9分（14比23），并且整场仅送出16次助攻——主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示，这两个领域显然是圣安东尼奥可以改进的地方。他还指出，尼克斯收缩了禁区，切断了篮下的空接配合——这通常是为文班亚马设计的战术——而马刺应该能够利用尼克斯为了限制禁区内的文班而留下的空档。
“我认为我们在比赛的许多方面都找到了需要改进的地方，”约翰逊说道，“在许多战术执行的细节上，我们可以做得更加犀利。”
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After Game 1 Finals loss, Gregg Popovich tells Victor Wembanyama he’s ‘played better than this’
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SAN ANTONIO — Victor Wembanyama heard from Gregg Popovich after Game 1 of his first NBA Finals, and the critique sounded like something the legendary former San Antonio Spurs coach might say.
“In the big lines, it was that I’ve been bad and played a lot better than this,” Wembanyama said Thursday.
Wembanyama scored 26 points with 12 rebounds and three blocks in the Spurs’ 105-95 loss to the New York Knicks Wednesday night, but shot 6-for-21 from the field and 2-for-9 from 3-point range.
In the immediacy of the loss, Wembanyama said, “I was bad tonight. It’s not more complicated than that,” and his characterization of Popovich’s text messages sounded similar. Wemby added that he and Popovich had not had a chance to speak after Game 1.
The Spurs didn’t practice Thursday due to the short turnaround from the end of Game 1, and Game 2 is at 8:30 p.m. ET on Friday. Wembanyama said the reason the Spurs lost was not “technical or tactical.” They blew a 14-point lead in the third quarter, and Wemby was mostly guarded by Knicks center Karl-Anthony Towns.
Though respectful, Wembanyama didn’t sound overly impressed.
“We need to approach the game with a better mental state, and we just need to play our game, to be normal,” Wembanyama said. “We don’t need to do anything incredible.”
Asked to explain what “normal” meant — was this another of Wemby’s ‘ethical basketball’ bombs? — he said, “‘Normal’ means trusting each other, trusting the basketball gods, trusting the game plan, executing and not relying on talent so much to make shots or to save the day.
“We’ve been playing a certain way all season,” Wembanyama said. “We’ve been successful this way. There’s no reason to change the day the Finals start.”
The Spurs were outscored by nine on second-chance points (23-14) and only collected 16 assists — two areas where coach Mitch Johnson said it was obvious San Antonio could improve. He also said the Knicks packed the paint and took away lobs at the rim — a play typically run for Wembanyama — and the Spurs should be able to take advantage of what the Knicks are leaving open to take away Wemby in the lane.
“I think we gave ourselves a lot of aspects of the game where we need to improve,” Johnson said. “We can be much sharper on a lot of game-plan-execution stuff.”
By Joe Vardon, via The Athletic