[PtR] 马刺总决赛G4不敌尼克斯：我们学到了什么

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By Charlie Thaddeus | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-06-11 15:30:44

今天早上我醒了过来。

我知道，我和你们一样惊讶，但我确实醒了。我走下楼，泡了杯咖啡，味道和昨天一模一样。阳光透过窗户洒进来，孩子们在玩乐高。一切安好，甚至可以说是完美。

我总是感到惊叹，生活竟能如此无情地继续向前迈进，丝毫不顾及那些填满我们生活空白的种种境遇和事件。没有什么会慢下来，也没有什么会加速。当然，时间也许是相对的，但它也是恒定不变的。明天永远会紧随今天而至。

如果你正在读这篇文章，那么恭喜你，你也挺过来了。6月10日在麦迪逊广场花园发生的一切并没有击垮你。虽然那种感觉可能确实糟糕透顶，但这并不重要。我们还在这里，我们还活着。除了重整旗鼓，我们别无选择。

现在，如果你愿意，我们当然可以坐在这里重新复盘这场比赛。巨大的领先优势、崩盘、错失的良机、OG的那次攻防、泰勒·斯威夫特 (Taylor Swift)。我有一整本记满笔记的本子，我们可以逐一剖析。我相信我们能在里面为一切找到足够多的借口和理由，找到那些能准确告诉我们一切何时何地开始分崩离析的蛛丝马迹。我敢打赌，如果我们看得足够仔细，甚至能精准指出我们的心碎成两半的那一秒。

但无论如何，我都无法想象自己会想再经历一次那样的痛苦。我宁愿去想想我们现在该怎么办。

显然，我们可以选择沉沦。天知道我们有充分的理由这样做。但是，听着，我们都看到尼克斯球迷在G3和G4之间的48小时里，在他们能找到的每一个播客、节目和平台上集体陷入了存在主义式的崩溃。我们看着他们走上街头，向苍天哭诉不公，哭诉在系列赛2-1领先的情况下还要遭受怎样的屈辱。我甚至看到一群人对着一个身穿德马尔·德罗赞 (DeMar DeRozan) 球衣的人大喊脏话。这些人简直不可理喻。

我对做这种事毫无兴趣。坦白说，这太失体面了。

昨晚的失利怪不得裁判。联盟跟我们没有深仇大恨。光明会也没有召开会议，决定为了世界的繁荣，必须让德克萨斯州第三大市场的球队在全国电视直播中蒙羞。我们只是输了。这很残酷，基本上是每个体育迷噩梦成真的时刻。但仅此而已，不过是一场失利。

而我们挺过来了。

大家听我说，我们真的无比幸运。在这样的时刻宣扬感恩，也许显得我有点矫情，但是，去问问萨克拉门托国王队的球迷，看他们愿不愿意和我们互换位置。去问问老鹰球迷，快船球迷。甚至，回到四年前，去问问当时那支排名西部第15、并列创下队史最差战绩的马刺队的球迷。今天的感觉确实很糟糕，但我绝不会拿现在的处境去交换任何东西。

如果你连总决赛的舞台都登不上，又怎么会经历这种心碎呢？

我们现在站在NBA总决赛的舞台上。我们拥有联盟历史上最具天赋、最年轻的阵容之一。我们拥有一个身高7英尺4英寸、能投后撤步三分的“少林武僧”。我们的主场球馆上空飘扬着五面总冠军旗帜。我们有蒂姆 (Tim)、马努 (Manu) 和波波 (Pop) 在停机坪等待着，帮我们重整旗鼓。我们还有彼此。

如果你现在依然感觉很难受，这没关系。去感受它，接受它，与这种感觉共存。如果你看体育比赛不是为了体验这些情感，那你根本没有领会体育的真谛。

尽情吃喝，及时行乐。

第五场对决将在周六打响。

比赛启示

  • 局势从未让人感到稳妥。哪怕一分一秒都没有，如果你觉得稳了，那你一定是没有认真看球。一切进展得太顺利了。投篮太轻松了。所有事情都在按计划进行。但这……根本不符合常理。整场比赛感觉就像是一个陷阱。和我一起看球的一个家伙嘀咕了一句：“你能想象花1.5万美元买那些座位，结果却度过了人生中最糟糕的一晚吗？”一听到这个问题，我差点把电视关了。我们挑战了命运。我们像伊卡洛斯一样飞得离太阳太近了。其实，他们早就给出了所有的线索。
  • 我愿意对达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 在最后一次转换进攻中尝试冲击篮筐的选择多一些宽容。我知道他现在对此有些敏感，正试图解释自己当时的真实想法，这没关系，他有权这么做。一切发生得太快了，那一刻他有些失控。昨晚的失误绝非他一人之过，我相信没有人比他自己更难受了。福克斯在这轮系列赛中还会重新证明自己，我能感觉得到。
  • 在第四节的某个时刻，我记得自己说过类似这样的话：“如果我们在余下的比赛里一个三分球也不投，我也完全能接受。”我不想当那种事后诸葛亮，但我当时真的只希望我们能一次又一次地冲击篮筐。这就是我全部的期盼。消耗时间，冲击篮筐，就算被盖帽也无所谓，但一定要让他们付出代价。我们当时就像是试图再次把闪电装进瓶子里，但闪电和瓶子根本不是这么运作的。闪电早已消失了。唉，我不知道，也许那样做也行不通。那场比赛注定要以某种方式让我们心碎，而任何战术板上都没有能够对抗命运的妙计。
  • 也许随着时间的推移，我的想法会发生改变，但我非常确定，这依然没有雷·阿伦 (Ray Allen) 的那一记三分球那么糟糕。确实很接近了！近到我这辈子再也不想经历第二次，但还没有糟糕到工作人员已经拉起夺冠庆祝警戒线的那种地步。没有什么能比那一刻更糟糕了。而且，就算真的有那么糟糕，嘿，最后的结果不也挺好的吗？

我们为什么会跌倒？
是为了学会如何自己站起来。
《蝙蝠侠：侠影之谜》 (Batman Begins)

— 迈克尔·凯恩 (Michael Caine) (@ themichaelcaine) 2024年8月19日

  • 马刺抢七夺冠。

WWL新闻发布会

额，我不知道该从何说起了。

是的。当你花了一整个晚上看着本森警探 (Detective Benson)、泰勒·斯威夫特和海姆姐妹 (Haim sisters) 在你的坟墓上跳舞时，确实很难再去寻找什么乐趣。

这种输球方式确实挺不体面的。

这绝非你所期望的。当你正在经历一场可怕的体育创伤时，镜头突然切到身穿超大连帽衫的亚当·桑德勒 (Adam Sandler)，他正为你的毁灭而鼓掌，这真是一种极其超现实的体验。我正试图平复悲伤，而大卫·扎斯拉夫 (David Zaslav) 却反戴着帽子盯着我。没有任何战术手册能应对这种情况。我们从未接受过这方面的训练。

你觉得如果只是普通的尼克斯球迷在庆祝，感觉会好受点吗？

我觉得，对于昨晚发生的那些事，去探讨任何形式的“好受点”在目前看来都是毫无意义的。

但依然坚信马刺抢七夺冠？

马刺抢七夺冠。

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What We Learned from the Spurs Game 4 loss to the Knicks

I woke up this morning.

I know, I’m as surprised as you are, but I did. I woke up. I went downstairs. I made coffee and it tasted exactly like it did yesterday. The sun was shining through the windows. My kids were playing with their Legos. Everything was fine. Perfect, actually.

It’s always striking to me how relentlessly life just marches on with so little regard for the circumstances and events that fill in the blanks. Nothing slows down, nothing speeds up. Time may be relative, sure, but it’s also consistent. Tomorrow will forever follow today.

If you’re reading this then, congratulations. You also survived. What happened in Madison Square Garden on June 10th didn’t kill you. It probably didn’t feel great either, but that’s beside the point. We’re here. We’re alive. There’s nothing to be done except pick up the pieces.

Now, we could certainly sit here and rehash the game if you’d like. The big lead. The big collapse. The missed opportunities. The OG play. Taylor Swift. I have a whole book full of notes and we can dissect it piece by piece. I’m sure we’ll find plenty of excuses and reasons for everything in there. Hidden gems that will tell us exactly when and where it all started to fall apart. If bet if we look close enough, we can pinpoint the exact second our hearts ripped in half.

For the life of me though, I can’t imagine wanting to go through that again. I’d rather figure out what we’re going to do now.

We could wallow, obviously. Lord knows there’s every reason to. But, look, we all watched Knicks fans spend the 48 hours between Games 3 and 4 having a collective existential meltdown on every podcast, show and platform they could find. We watched them take to the streets and cry to the heavens about the injustice, the indignity, of having to suffer through a 2-1 series lead. I watched a crowd of people yell obscenities at a man in a DeMar DeRozan jersey. These are not serious people.

I have no interest in doing anything like that. Frankly, it’s unbecoming.

Last night wasn’t the refs. The league doesn’t have a vendetta against us. The Illuminati didn’t convene and determine that in order for the world to prosper, the third biggest market in Texas needs to be humiliated on national television. We just lost. It was brutal and it was basically every sports fan’s worst nightmare come to life. But that’s all it was. A loss.

And we survived.

Y’all, we are so unbelievably lucky. Maybe it’s a little hokey of me to be preaching gratitude at a time like this, but like, ask a Sacramento Kings fan if they’d trade places with us. Ask a Hawks fan. A Clippers fan. Hell, go back in time four years ago and ask a fan of the Spurs team that finished 15th in the Western Conference and tied for the worst record in franchise history. Today feels pretty awful but I don’t think I’d trade it for anything.

You can’t get your heart broken if you never go to the dance.

We’re in the NBA Finals. We have one of the most talented, young rosters in the history of the league. We have a 7’4″ Shaolin monk who hits step back threes. We have five banners flying back home in our arena. We have Tim, Manu, and Pop waiting on the tarmac to help pick up the pieces. We have each other.

If you still feel bad, that’s okay. Feel it. Embrace it. Live with it. If you’re not watching sports to feel something then you’re not doing it right.

Eat, drink, and be merry.

Game 5 is Saturday.

Takeaways

  • It never felt safe. Not for one single second and if you did feel safe you’ve not been paying attention. It was going too well. The shots were too clean. Everything was going to plan. That’s just…not how any of this works. It felt like a trap the entire time. A guy I was watching with made some comment about how, like, “Can you imagine paying 15K for those seats and now you’re having the worst night of your life?” and as soon I heard that question I almost turned the TV off. We tempted fate. We flew too close to the sun. They gave us all the clues.
  • I’m willing to give De’Aaron Fox some grace on that last play where he tried to go to the rack in transition. I know he’s being a little defensive about it right now, trying to explain his thinking on it, and that’s okay. He allowed to do that. It all happened really fast and the moment got away from him. There were no shortage of mistakes to go around last night and I’m sure no one feels worse about it than he does. Fox is going to be heard from again in this series, I can feel it.
  • At one point in the 4th quarter, I think I said something along the lines of “I’d be okay if we never shot another three the rest of the game.” I hate to be that guy, but I just wanted us to go to the rim over and over and over again. That’s all I wanted. Burn clock. Go to the rim, if you get blocked whatever, but make them work. It’s like we were just trying to re-catch lightning in a bottle and that’s simply not how lightning or bottles works. The lightning was gone. Ugh, I don’t know. Maybe that wouldn’t have worked either. That game simply felt destined to break our hearts one way or another and there isn’t really a tactic or scheme lurking around in some playbook to combat destiny.
  • Maybe it will change as we get a little further away from it, but I’m pretty sure this still wasn’t as bad as the Ray Allen shot. It’s close! As close as I ever want to even remotely get ever again, but it’s not as bad as the ropes already being out for the celebration. Nothing will ever be as bad as that. And even if it is, I mean, hey, everything turned out okay in the end, right?

Why do we fall?
So we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Batman Begin

— Michael Caine (@ themichaelcaine) August 19, 2024

  • Spurs in 7.

WWL Press Conference

I, uh, am not sure where to go on this one.

Yeah. Sort of hard to like, lean into the fun bits after you spent the evening watching Detective Benson, Taylor Swift and the Haim sisters dance on your grave.

Pretty undignified way to go.

It’s not what you want. It really is such a surreal experience to be living through a horrific sports trauma and then the camera cuts to Adam Sandler in a giant hoodie clapping along to your demise. I’m trying to process my grief and David Zaslav is staring at me in a backwards hat. There’s not a playbook for things like that. We weren’t trained for this.

Do you think it’d feel better if it were just random Knick fans instead?

I think the concept of whatever that was last night “feeling better” in any way, shape or form is not something I think is worth entertaining right now.

Spurs in 7 though?

Spurs in 7.

By Charlie Thaddeus, via Pounding The Rock

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