By Joe Vardon | The Athletic, 2026-06-11 05:22:02
纽约——又一次，一支伟大的NBA球队在以最不可思议的方式输掉比赛后，不得不去解释那件无法解释的事。
这一次是圣安东尼奥马刺队。他们现在处于一个尴尬的境地——制造了NBA总决赛历史上最大单场逆转惨案。他们在下半场一度领先29分的情况下惨遭逆转，在总决赛第四战中以106-107不敌纽约尼克斯队。
在比赛还剩1.2秒时，OG·阿奴诺比 (OG Anunoby) 腾空而起的补篮得手，为这场温水煮青蛙式的崩盘画上了句号。而这场崩盘，始于第三节还剩9分27秒、尼克斯开始蚕食马刺29分领先优势的那一刻。
“我现在脑子里在想什么？我认为事情会朝两个方向之一发展……一个坏的方向，一个好的方向，”马刺球星维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 说道，“坏的方向是就此放弃。好的方向则是通过这次经历变得更强大、更团结。我知道这就是我们要做的。”
马刺新秀迪伦·哈珀 (Dylan Harper) 补充道：“我感受到了痛楚，但可能（我仍处于）震惊之中。”
“在这场比赛中，你坐在那里，会觉得我们拥有这样的阵容配置，投篮命中率尚可，打得也相当干净利落，”圣安东尼奥马刺队主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 表示，“但最后，我们却没能完成收尾工作。”
话虽如此，对于周三晚上在麦迪逊广场花园发生的一切，任何一名马刺球员、分析师或德州球迷的解释，都无法让人释怀。
马刺在半场便投进了创总决赛纪录的14记三分球，首节结束时作为客队领先19分也创下了总决赛纪录，半场结束时更是领先27分——差一点就打破了纪录。然而，在半场轰下76分之后，他们整个下半场仅仅得到了30分。
类似的事情也曾发生在东部决赛首战的克利夫兰骑士队身上。在比赛还剩8分钟、领先22分的情况下，骑士的进攻突然哑火，让杰伦·布伦森 (Jalen Brunson) 彻底投疯了。尼克斯一路狂追扳平比分，并在加时赛中赢下了比赛。那场比赛结束后，骑士主教练肯尼·阿特金森 (Kenny Atkinson) 神情恍惚，发出了狂妄的笑声；而到了系列赛结束时，尽管纽约即将横扫他们，他还在谈论骑士在“数据分析”上击败了尼克斯。
马刺听起来倒还不至于心态崩溃，而且如果他们想要挽救自己的赛季，他们从麦迪逊广场花园的阴影中恢复过来的时间要少得多。但这种失利往往极难走出来，现在圣安东尼奥发现自己在总决赛中已经以1-3落后。
“这很痛，”马刺第六人凯尔登·约翰逊 (Keldon Johnson) 说道，“我们亲手送掉了这场胜利。这很痛。我想从球员到教练组，每个人都感到痛心。我们为此付出了极大的努力。”
约翰逊补充道：“这真的很难让人接受，”以及“我觉得我们有些松懈了，然后事情就发生了。”马刺在下半场运动战投篮仅有39投8中，其中三分球17投3中。
文班亚马在第四节9投仅2中。在比赛还剩1分47秒、圣安东尼奥仍领先1分时，他投丢了两记罚球。
在比赛还剩不到10秒时，达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 本有机会耗尽时间，或者通过制造犯规让马刺领先3分，但他却选择突破上篮，结果被阿奴诺比封盖。
紧接着，在阿奴诺比冲向篮筐去拼抢布伦森投失的篮板球时，马刺竟然没有任何人对他进行卡位。
“球弹起的方向刚刚好。他补篮的角度也刚刚好。球进了，”在最后一防中离阿奴诺比最近的哈珀说道，“我可以去假设‘要是当时我做了这个，要是当时我做了那个就好了’。但归根结底，他把球点了一下，球就进了篮筐。
“我绝对以为我碰到了球。我甚至觉得是我帮着把球弄进篮筐的。但我们当时就是必须得卡好位。”
米奇·约翰逊表示，他告诉球员们，周三晚上可以为这场失利感到痛苦，但周四开始准备第五战时就必须将其抛诸脑后。他还表示，马刺“主导了”每场比赛的“结果”，这意味着他将1-3的落后局面归咎于他们自己犯下的错误。
文班亚马表示，未来的出路在于“互相督促、承担责任。多沟通。而不是互相指责。”
“在那之后，我们要么能做到，要么就做不到，”文班说道，他本场砍下24分和13个篮板，领跑全队。
哈珀和凯尔登·约翰逊都谈到了马刺阵中依然保留着强大的信念。
“最重要的一点是，信念还在，”凯尔登·约翰逊说道，“我们相信。我们的信念一如既往地坚定。如果没有信念，没有对彼此的信任，你是不可能走到这一步的，这一点现在也不会改变。如果这很容易，那每个人都能做到了。”
这听起来很动听，但他们还能说什么呢？马刺在周三的比赛中本是绝对不能输的，但他们却输了。
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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Spurs struggle to explain Game 4 collapse: ‘We gave this one up. It hurts’
NEW YORK — Once again, a great NBA team is left to explain the unexplainable after losing in a most unimaginable way.
This time it’s the San Antonio Spurs, who are now in the dubious position of owning the biggest in-game collapse in NBA Finals history, blowing a 29-point lead in the second half to lose Game 4 to the New York Knicks, 107-106.
OG Anunoby’s soaring putback with 1.2 seconds to go was the finishing touch on a slow-drip collapse that began when the Knicks started to cut into the Spurs’ 29-point advantage with 9:27 left in the third quarter.
“What’s going through my mind right now? I think it’s going to go one of two ways. … A bad one and a good one,” Spurs star Victor Wembanyama said. “The bad one would be giving up. The good one would be getting stronger through this, getting more together. I know this is what we’re going to do.”
Added Spurs rookie Dylan Harper: “It’s hit me, but probably (I’m in) shock.”
“That’s a game where you sit there and you say you had the type of personnel that you had, you shot the ball decent, played a pretty clean game,” San Antonio coach Mitch Johnson said. “Then kind of didn’t finish the job.”
Again, there is nothing any single Spur, analyst or Texan could say about what transpired at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night to make it understandable.
The Spurs made a finals-record 14 3s in the first half, set a finals record with a 19-point lead after one quarter by a road team, and led by 27 at halftime — nearly a record. And then they scored 30 points in the second half after scoring 76 in the first.
The same sort of thing happened to the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals. Up 22 with eight minutes to play, the Cavs offense went cold and let Jalen Brunson get scorching hot. The Knicks came back to tie the score and won in overtime. Cleveland coach Kenny Atkinson had a dazed look and a maniacal laugh after that one; by the end of the series, he was talking about the Cavs beating the Knicks on “analytics” even though New York was headed for a sweep.
The Spurs didn’t quite sound like they were cracking up, and they have a lot less time to recover from what happened at the Garden if they want to save their season. But these are the kinds of losses that are tough to come back from, and now San Antonio finds itself down in the finals, 3-1.
“It hurts,” Spurs sixth man Keldon Johnson said. “We gave this one up. It hurts. I think it hurts everybody, from players to staff. We put a lot into it.”
Johnson added, “It’s a tough pill to swallow,” and “I feel like we got comfortable and things happened.” The Spurs shot 8-of-39 from the field and 3-of-17 on 3s in the second half.
Wembanyama shot 2-of-9 in the fourth quarter. He missed two free throws with 1:47 left and San Antonio still up by a point.
De’Aaron Fox had a chance to either dribble out the clock or get fouled and maybe put the Spurs up by three inside of 10 seconds to go, but instead drove in for a layup that was blocked by Anunoby.
And then no one boxed out Anunoby as he crashed the rim to corral Brunson’s miss.
“Bounce off the rim the right way. He tipped it in the right way. It went in,” said Harper, who was closest to Anunoby on the final play. “I could play ‘wish I could have did this, wish I could have did that.’ But at the end of the day, he tipped the ball, and it went in the rim.
“I definitely thought I had a hand on it. I definitely think I helped put the ball in the rim. But just got to box out.”
Mitch Johnson said he told his players to let the loss hurt Wednesday night but to flush it Thursday as they begin to prepare for Game 5. He also said the Spurs “have dictated the outcome” of each game, which means he’s pinning their 3-1 deficit on mistakes they’ve made.
Wembanyama said the path forward would be found through “holding each other accountable. Communicating. Not pointing fingers.”
“And after that, we either got it or we don’t,” said Wemby, who led the Spurs with 24 points and 13 rebounds.
Harper and Keldon Johnson spoke about a strong belief that remains on the Spurs’ side.
“The main thing is that belief is there,” Keldon Johnson said. “We believe. Our belief is as high as ever. You don’t get here without belief, without faith in each other, and that’s not going to change now. If it was easy, everybody would do it.”
It sounds nice, but what are any of them supposed to say? The Spurs simply couldn’t lose Wednesday’s game, and they did.
By Joe Vardon, via The Athletic