By Jeje Gomez | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-07-28 06:09:23
欢迎来到 Pounding the Rock 的 2025-26 赛季球员总结！本系列将盘点那些在圣安东尼奥马刺以保障合同结束赛季、且出场时间较长和/或扮演了关键角色的球员（因此不包括我们今年几乎没怎么见过的双向合同球员、被交易走的球员，以及板凳末端的中锋，因为他们既无足轻重，且现在都已经离队了）。
乔丹·麦克劳克林 (Jordan McLaughlin)
2025-26赛季数据：出场44场比赛**，场均6.4分钟、2分、0.7个篮板、0.9次助攻，三分命中率42.5%**
合同情况：1年底薪合同
年龄： 30
对于拿底薪合同的流浪球员，你不能奢求太多。人们只期望他们在需要时（通常是因为轮换球员受伤）能够披挂上阵，并尽可能融入球队，在可行的情况下提供帮助，但最重要的是不要给球队帮倒忙。
银黑军团未能找到一位能达到这些微小期望的老将内线，但他们从自己的第四控卫身上基本得到了想要的东西。麦克劳克林在常规赛中总共只打了282分钟，分布在44场比赛中，作为对比，这比杰里米·索汉 (Jeremy Sochan) 的出场时间还要少，因此很难将他视为一名有影响力的球员。好消息是，当他的名字被叫到时，他并没有试图去强行表现，即使是在他仅有的几分钟季后赛出场时间里也是如此。
在职业生涯的这个阶段，麦克劳克林深知自己能留在联盟的原因在于他打得本分、不越界。这位老将后卫很好地保护了球权，提供了极具破坏性的防守，并且乐意在三分线外拉开空间，将球传给更有天赋的创造者。无论是在垃圾时间还是在分区决赛中，他都展现出了同样高度的职业精神，这正是你对球队第11人所期望的。
对于一个出场时间如此之少、且经常在非关键时刻上场的人来说，深入研究数据并没有太大意义，因此对麦克劳克林的任何评价都必须依赖于直观感受，而这一项对他来说是加分的。作为一名“应急备用”的持球手和老将稳定器，他表现得非常称职。他从未让人惊艳，但当他在场上时，他很少像其他板凳末端的球员那样显得格格不入或无能为力。
展望未来
虽然麦克劳克林上赛季在自己的角色中表现尚可，但这在很大程度上得益于与那些表现糟糕的老将中锋群，以及表现令人失望的林迪·沃特斯三世 (Lindy Waters III) 的对比——后者虽然展现出了一些令人期待的闪光点，但未能挤进轮换阵容。由于大家对阵容边缘球员的期望值都很低，因此麦克劳克林达到预期并不能算是什么了不起的成就。
展望2026/27赛季，有理由对第四后卫的位置进行调整。虽然清楚一个球员能带来什么会让人感到安心，而且依然年轻且极具天赋的马刺也需要那些甘愿接受极少甚至没有出场时间的老将，但从长远来看，寻找一个比麦克劳克林更有冲击力、比赛更有活力的球员或许是个好主意。毕竟，随着阵容成本的增加，控卫位置上的拥堵迟早会消退，届时圣安东尼奥将需要替补席提供实打实的产出。
不过就目前而言，麦克劳克林（以及双向合同后卫们）还够用。这位老将不会抱怨自己有太多太多场比赛无法上场，并且有望继续投进空位三分，以辅佐他扎实的场上组织和顽强的防守。
如果这（正如理应如此的那样）是 J-Mack 在圣安东尼奥的最后一个赛季，他有机会在有限的出场时间里，仅仅通过保持平庸而非成为累赘来留下一个好印象，这似乎是他完全能够做到的事情。
最佳表现
在对阵俄克拉荷马雷霆 (OKC) 的西部决赛第二场中，得到6分和1次助攻。在达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 缺阵的情况下，麦克劳克林获得了虽然短暂但至关重要的出场时间，并在大场面下表现得足够出色。
最终评级：C+
下一位：卡特·布莱恩特 (Carter Bryant)
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查看原文：2025/26 Spurs Player Reviews: Jordan McLaughlin
2025/26 Spurs Player Reviews: Jordan McLaughlin
Welcome to Pounding the Rock’s 2025-26 player reviews! The series will look at the players who finished the season with the San Antonio Spurs on guaranteed contracts and who played consequential minutes and/or a vital role (so no two-way players because we hardly saw them this year, no players who were traded away, and none of the deep bench centers, since they were both irrelevant and are now all gone).
Jordan McLaughlin
2025-26 stats: 44 games played**, 6.4 MPG, 2 points, 0.7 rebounds, 0.9 assists, 42.5 3FG%**
Contract Status: 1 year, minimum contract
Age: 30
There’s not much that can be asked about journeymen on minimum contracts. They are simply expected to suit up when needed, likely due to injury to a rotation player, and mostly blend in, helping when possible but mostly just not hurting the team too much.
The Silver and Black, who couldn’t find a veteran big who could live up to those modest expectations, mostly got that from their fourth-string point guard. Jordan McLaughlin only played a total of 282 minutes in the regular season, fewer than Jeremy Sochan, as a comparison point, spread over 44 games, so it’s hard to consider him an impact player. The good news is that he didn’t try to be one when his number was called, even in his handful of playoff minutes.
At this point, McLaughlin knows that the reason he’s still in the league is that he plays within himself. The veteran guard took decent care of the ball, played disruptive defense, and was happy to pass to a more talented creator while spotting up from beyond the arc. He brought the same level of professionalism in garbage time as he did in the Conference Finals, which is what you want from your 11th guy.
Delving into the numbers from someone who played so little and so often in low-leverage situations isn’t really helpful, so any judgement of McLaughlin has to rely on the eye test, which is kind to him. As a break-in-case-of-emergency ball handler and veteran stabilizer, he looked the part. He never impressed, but he rarely looked out of place or helpless when he was on the floor, as others in the deep bench did.
Looking ahead
While McLaughlin was fine in his role last season, he benefits from the comparison to the horrendous platoon of veteran centers and an underwhelming Lindy Waters III, who showed some intriguing flashes but couldn’t crack the rotation. The expectations from everyone on the periphery of the roster were low, so McLaughlin meeting them doesn’t feel like a significant achievement.
There was a case to be made for a change in the fourth guard spot heading into 2026/27. Knowing what you are going to get from someone can be comforting, and the still youngish and supremely talented Spurs need veterans who will be fine with little to no minutes, but taking the long view, finding someone with more oomph to their game than McLaughlin might have been a good idea. After all, at some point the logjam at point guard will eventually disappear as a result of the increasing cost of the roster, and San Antonio will need actual production from a backup.
For now, though, McLaughlin (and the two-way guards) will do. The vet won’t complain about the many, many games in which he won’t get to see the floor and hopefully will continue to hit open threes to complement his solid floor game and tenacious defense.
If this is, as it probably should be, J-Mack’s last season in San Antonio, he has the opportunity to leave a good impression just by being ordinary instead of a liability in the few minutes he gets, which seems like something he should be able to accomplish.
Top performance
6 points, 1 assist in Game 2 of the Western Conference Finals against OKC. McLaughlin got few but important minutes in De’Aaron Fox’s absence and did well enough under the bright lights.
Final grade: C+
Next up: Carter Bryant
By Jeje Gomez, via Pounding The Rock
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