By Marilyn Dubinski | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2026-07-31 21:30:00
欢迎阅读Pounding the Rock的2025-26赛季球员回顾！本系列将聚焦那些以保障合同在圣安东尼奥马刺结束本赛季，并且打了重要比赛时间和/或扮演了关键角色的球员（因此不包括双向合同球员，因为我们今年几乎没见过他们；不包括被交易走的球员；也不包括那些深板凳中锋，因为他们既无关紧要，现在也都离队了）。
卢克·科内特 (Luke Kornet)
2025-26赛季数据：68场比赛**, 场均21分钟, 6.5分, 6.1篮板, 1**盖帽, 投篮命中率64.3%
合同状况：剩余3年, $2970万（2028-29赛季为球队选项）
年龄：31岁
在2024-25赛季结束后，马刺意识到他们最大的弱点就是维克托·文班亚马身后的体形和内线产出。在作为达龙·福克斯交易的一部分送走扎克·科林斯，又因查尔斯·巴锡再次遭遇膝伤而失去他，最后文班本人也因深静脉血栓缺阵后，他们只能四处拼凑内线高度，结果就是签下了俾斯麦·比永博，并打了过多的五小阵容。由于缺少文班，季后赛变得遥不可及（尽管剩下的球员从未放弃尝试，这值得称赞），所以这还算可以接受，但如果马刺本赛季想达到新的高度，他们就必须在替补中锋位置上进行补强。
他们正是通过一笔低调的引援做到了这一点——用一份对球队友好的合同，签下了来自波士顿凯尔特人的老将、冠军中锋卢克·科内特。签约时并没有引起太大反响，但很快这被视为自由市场上最成功的引援之一。马刺的整体防守不仅大幅提升，而且多亏了科内特的身高和那种被低估的（如果说不上惊艳的）护筐能力，当文班下场时，球队表现的滑坡也比前几个赛季小得多。那些以为文班下场后就能畅通无阻杀向篮筐的球员，很快就意识到并非如此。（也许压力确实减小了，但绝不是畅通无阻。）
科内特尤其在赛季初大放异彩，因为文班在11月到12月间因小腿拉伤连续缺席了12场比赛，随后又在出场时间限制下替补打了6场，这导致科内特在18场比赛中首发了17场（他自己也缺席了一场）。在这些比赛中，马刺取得了15胜2负的战绩，科内特的每分钟效率数据保持稳定，球队整体表现也没有大幅下滑。他本赛季的最佳表现之一就发生在这段时间，他在客场战胜华盛顿的比赛中砍下20分12篮板的两双，当然还有他常规赛的最佳表演：在奥兰多，封盖弗朗茨·瓦格纳的压哨投篮，绝杀对手。
即便在常规赛剩余时间里重回替补角色，他依然保持着稳定和高效，他的主要弱点是出勤率（他因各种伤病缺席了14场比赛，所幸与文班缺阵的时间没有太多重叠）。然而，季后赛却是另一番景象，随着对手实力增强，他（以及似乎除迪伦·哈珀之外的每一位替补球员）的产量急剧下降，这可能也多少影响了他在这里的最终评分。
在季后赛首轮对阵波特兰的前三场比赛中，他连续得分上双并且正负值为正，但此后他得分最高的一场比赛，是在次轮对阵明尼苏达G5（即文班被罚出场的那场）中得到的7分，而唯一一次在非打花比赛中正负值为正，是西决G7对阵雷霆。但那是一场多么重要的比赛啊。尽管科内特的数据统计之夜并不亮眼，但他或许贡献了球队季后赛最关键的一个回合：在第四节，文班因犯规麻烦坐在场下，雷霆做最后一搏试图反扑时，科内特对以赛亚·哈尔滕施泰因送出追身大帽，彻底浇灭了雷霆的希望。
正是这个回合帮助马刺赢下了西部决赛，并将作为球队历史上最伟大的季后赛盖帽之一被铭记，将科内特刻入了马刺的季后赛传奇之中。不幸的是，这股势头未能延续到总决赛——无论对科内特还是对马刺而言。
未来展望
科内特下赛季很可能将扮演相同的角色：担任文班的替补。常规赛应该问题不大，但如果马刺希望赢得总冠军，他们将需要他（再次强调，以及整个替补席）在季后赛中有更好的产出，尤其是考虑到体力耗尽可能在他们总决赛失利中扮演了重要角色。另外，这或许不会马上发生，但科内特最终会感受到压力，因为马刺在选秀中选中了杰登·昆坦斯和小塔里斯·里德来增强内线身高，后者身体健康，一旦科内特受伤或表现下滑，他可能已经做好了NBA的准备。
如果马刺在未来几个赛季的任何时候觉得需要调整阵容，科内特的合同使他成为一个非常有交易价值的资产，但这份合同也让马刺在即将面临一些艰难的财务决策时，得到了一位性价比极高、产出丰厚的替补球员。他可以说是上赛季联盟最佳替补中锋，恰恰提供了马刺所需的一切：在替补甚至有时替代文班时，提供坚实可靠的上场时间，而不会导致球队表现大幅下滑。对他期望太多是不现实的，但仅仅希望他将常规赛的表现延续到季后赛，似乎并不过分，尤其是一位曾以同样角色赢得过冠军的球员。
最佳表现
首轮G3对阵波特兰开拓者：14分, 10篮板, 2盖帽
尽管在赛季初文班长期缺阵时，科内特打出过数据更漂亮的比赛，也有更令人难忘的时刻（例如封盖瓦格纳和哈尔滕施泰因），但这无疑是他在马刺最重要的一场比赛。当时文班因脑震荡缺阵，系列赛1比1战平，马刺需要客场作战。虽然文班最终只缺席了一场比赛，但科内特那场稳定军心的表现，在那个充满不确定性的时刻无疑给球队吃下了一颗定心丸，并帮助马刺以一场关键的120-108胜利重新夺回主动权。
最终评分: B-
下期预告：迪伦·哈珀
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查看原文：2025-26 Spurs Player Reviews: Luke Kornet
2025-26 Spurs Player Reviews: Luke Kornet
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).
Luke Kornet
2025-26 stats: 68 games**, 21 MPG, 6.5 points, 6.1 rebounds, 1** block, 64.3 FG%
Contract Status: 3 years, $29.7 million remaining (team option for 2028-29)
**Age:**31
Following the 2024-25 season, the Spurs knew their biggest weakness was size and production behind Victor Wembaynama. After trading Zach Collins as part of the De’Aaron Fox trade, losing Charles Bassey to yet another knee injury and finally Wemby to deep vein thrombosis, they were left scrambling for size, resulting in the signing of Bismack Biyombo and more than enough small ball. It was fine since the postseason became a far reach without Wemby (although to the remaining players’ credit, they never stopped trying), but the Spurs would have to get better at backup center if they wanted to reach new heights this season.
They did just that with the under-the-radar signing of Luke Kornet — a veteran, championship-winning center from the Boston Celtics — on a team-friendly deal. Not much was made of it at the time, but it was soon seen as one of the best pick-ups of free agency. Not only was the Spurs’ defense drastically improved overall, but there was much less drop-off when Wemby left the court compared to previous seasons thanks in part to Kornet’s size and underrated (if unspectacular) rim protection. Players who thought they had a free lane to the basket once Wemby left the court quickly learned otherwise. (It may have been less daunting, but certainly not free.)
Kornet especially got to shine early in the season, with Wemby missing 12 straight games between November and December with a calf strain, followed by 6 coming off then bench on a minutes restriction, resulting in Kornet starting for 17 of 18 games (he missed one of his own). In those games, the Spurs went 15-2 with Kornet’s numbers remaining consistent on a per-minute basis without much drop-off as a team. One of his best performances of the season came in that time frame, with a 20-12 double-double in a win in Washington, and of course there was his best play of the regular season: a game-winning, buzzer-beating block of Franz Wagner in Orlando.
He continued to be steady and productive even back in a bench role for the rest of the regular season, with his main weakness being availability (he missed 14 games with various ailments, fortunately without too much overlap with Wemby). However, the playoffs were another story, as he (and seemingly every other bench player not named Dylan Harper) saw his production plummet as the strength of opponent rose, likely skewing his final grade here a bit.
After three straight games scorning in double figures and posting a positive plus-minus to open the playoffs against Portland, his highest scoring game the rest of the way was 7 points in a Game 5 loss to Minnesota (the Wemby ejection game), and the only time he posted a positive plus-minus in a non-blowout game was Game 7 against the Thunder, but what a big game it was. Even though it wasn’t a huge night statistically for Kornet, he provided perhaps their most important play of the postseason: a chase-down block of Isaiah Hartenstein in the fourth quarter that sucked the life out of the Thunder as they made a last ditch effort to come back while Wemby sat with foul trouble.
It’s a play that helped the Spurs win the Western Conference Finals and will go down as one of their best postseason blocks ever, etching Kornet into Spurs playoff lore. Unfortunately, that momentum didn’t carry over to the Finals — for Kornet or the Spurs.
Looking ahead
Kornet will likely play the same role next season: backing up Wemby. There won’t be much doubt in the regular season, but the Spurs will need better production from him (and again, the entire bench) in the playoffs if they hope to win a championship, especially considering exhaustion appeared to play a big role in their Finals loss. Also, it may not be immediate, but Kornet will eventually be looking over his shoulder with the Spurs going for size in the draft with Jayden Quaintance and Tarris Reed, the latter who is healthy and possibly NBA-ready if he gets hurt or his production stumbles.
Kornet’s contract makes him a very tradable asset should the Spurs see the need to shake things up at any point in the next few seasons, but it also gives them a very productive bench player on the cheap in a time when they’ll have to start making some tough financial decisions. He was arguably the best backup center in the league last season by providing exactly what they needed: solid minutes to back up and even replace Wemby at times without a massive drop in production. Expecting much more from him is a stretch, but simply hoping it carries over into the playoffs doesn’t seem like too much to ask, especially from a player who has won a championship playing the same role before.
Top Performance
14 points, 10 rebounds, 2 blocks in Round 1, Game 3 @ Portland Trail Blazers
While Kornet had games with bigger numbers early in the season when Wemby missed extensive time and more memorable moments (such as the Wagner and Hartenstein blocks), this was by far his most important performance for the Spurs, with Wemby out with a concussion and the series tied 1-1 heading out on the road. While Wemby only ended up missing one game, Kornet’s stabilizing performance was certainly reassuring in an uncertain time and helped put the Spurs back in the driver’s seat with a crucial 120-108 win.
Final Grade: B-
Up next: Dylan Harper
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