By Jacob Douglas / Pounding The Rock, 2026-10-25 22:32:05
第二节还剩5分53秒时，达拉斯独行侠中锋丹尼尔·加福德抢下一个进攻篮板，完成暴扣，并对主场球迷怒吼庆祝。这记充满激情的进球让独行侠以49-43领先，尽管他们缺少了库珀·弗拉格和凯里·欧文等多名主力。这一幕促使圣安东尼奥马刺主教练米奇·约翰逊 (Mitch Johnson) 请求暂停。
彼时，关于马刺前两场比赛的所有悲观论调似乎都得到了印证。球队看起来迟缓而涣散，着实令人担忧。上赛季那股拼劲和血性去哪儿了？约翰逊在第二节暂停的围圈训话中，或许也向球员们提出了同样的问题。一番激励之后，从板凳席上站起来的已是另一支球队。
暂停过后，圣安东尼奥打出一波25-11的攻势，最终以122-106拿下赛季首胜。
那么，从那一刻起究竟发生了什么改变？一切始于持球点的防守压力。斯蒂芬·卡斯尔、德文·瓦塞尔和达龙·福克斯 (De’Aaron Fox) 都贡献了多次抢断，全队迫使对手出现21次失误，并借此得到26分。暂停之后，防守的能量和强度焕然一新。独行侠后场的失误为马刺送上了轻松的快攻机会，点燃了一场得分爆发，最终决定了比赛胜负。仅仅在强度和侵略性上稍作调整，就在比分上产生了巨大差异。
赛季开始以来，圣安东尼奥的球员和教练一直在强调努力和专注。福克斯提到了糟糕的季前赛，米奇·约翰逊则谈到要打出应有的标准，而不是一支努力程度时有时无的球队。令人担忧的是，一支刚经历过总决赛——并在其中错失多场本可赢下的比赛——的球队，依然表现出不稳定的努力程度。但也许这场对阵弱旅的统治级胜利，能把他们从赛季初的迷惘中唤醒。
圣安东尼奥即将迎来赛季初赛程中较为轻松的一段，对手都是上赛季未能打进季后赛的球队。一些统治级的胜利将是这支球队需要的持续回应，也可能标志着这场比赛成为今年这支球队的一个转折点。
要点总结：
- 圣安东尼奥仍在艰难摸索新的轮换体系。四后卫首发阵容迫使约翰逊改变后卫的轮换安排，目前效果喜忧参半。首发阵容在28分钟内净效率为+1.8，防守表现出色，但进攻摇摇欲坠。随后约翰逊会率先换下福克斯，再让他回来带领第二阵容，与凯尔登·约翰逊、朱利安·尚帕尼、卡特·布莱恩特/哈里森·巴恩斯以及卢克·科内特搭档。样本虽小，但这套阵容在9分钟内净效率低至-77.8。这套阵容缺乏足够的组织能力，最终演变成福克斯大量持球、全队跑位有限、进攻毫无流动性的局面。周六独行侠的几波得分高潮，大多是在这套替补阵容在场时打出的。
- 第二阵容表现如此糟糕的部分原因——也是上赛季季后赛中拖垮圣安东尼奥的原因——正是科内特的发挥。正负值通常不是一个理想的统计数据，但当它与肉眼观察相符时便有参考价值。科内特在14分钟内正负值为-18，投篮2投0中，抢下4个篮板并出现2次失误。赛季开始以来，他既无法在篮下完成终结，护框表现也不尽如人意。马刺第二阵容缺乏创造机会的能力，进一步放大了他的进攻短板；如果他既不能统治篮板，也无法镇守禁区，那么让他留在场上实在难言积极意义。
- 由于科内特陷入挣扎，马刺在第三节开始时派上了新秀小塔里斯·里德 (Tarris Reed Jr.)。这位新秀在4分钟的出场时间里帮助球队打出一波11-4的攻势。里德接瓦塞尔的空接传球拿下个人NBA生涯首分，还抢下一个进攻篮板，最终促成尚帕尼命中三分。他在总共7分钟内得到2分、3个篮板和1次失误。这样的表现，加上科内特的低迷，应该能为这位新秀赢得更多出场时间。教练组是否会像上赛季培养布莱恩特那样逐步增加他的机会，让我们拭目以待。
- 维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 在对阵达拉斯的比赛中化繁为简，打出了好得多的一场球。他以18投9中、三分6中2的表现砍下全队最高的23分。他主要在挡拆中充当空接威胁，尤其在与福克斯配合时如鱼得水。他仍然投了一些令人抓狂的三分球，但他命中的那些确实都出自进攻体系的正常流动之中。他也是受益于约翰逊第二节训话的球员之一。文班亚马上半场显得迟缓而低迷，但下半场用提升的防守做出了回应。这是朝着正确方向迈出的一步，但我们本赛季还没有看到文班亚马真正打出全面的表现。
- 福克斯是周六晚上的马刺MVP。他11投6中得到19分，外加9次助攻和3次抢断。他在挡拆中表现出色，与文班亚马的化学反应日渐成熟。他在进攻体系的流动中出手并命中投篮。在这些以后卫为主的新阵容中，他或许是适应得最好的马刺球员。
- 卡斯尔的投篮能力可能是真的。这位三年级后卫赛季至今三分命中率达到37.9%，场均出手9.7次。周六他三分8投3中。对手大多会放空他，而他在运球后出手三分时依然挣扎，但只要脚步站稳，他的投篮姿势相当漂亮。如果本赛季他能成为36%以上的三分射手，马刺就能更从容地让他与哈珀和福克斯同时登场。
- 凯尔登·约翰逊重新打出了上赛季让他大放异彩的高能量角色。他在26分钟内得到7分和6个篮板，其中4个是前场篮板。当约翰逊在转换进攻中全力冲击篮筐、积极拼抢篮板时，他总能处于最佳状态。
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查看原文：What we learned from the Spurs win over the Mavericks
What we learned from the Spurs win over the Mavericks
With 5:53 left in the second quarter, Dallas Mavericks center Daniel Gafford grabbed an offensive rebound, dunked it home, and screamed at his home crowd. The energy play gave the Mavs a 49-43 lead, despite missing several key starters like Cooper Flagg and Kyrie Irving. That play prompted a timeout from San Antonio Spurs head coach Mitch Johnson.
At that point, all of the doom and gloom about the Spurs’ first two games seemed warranted. The team looked sluggish and disengaged in a genuinely worrisome way. What happened to the fire and spunk this team played with last season? Johnson may have asked them the same question in the huddle during that second-quarter timeout. A different team emerged from the bench after the pep talk.
San Antonio responded with a 25-11 run after the timeout, leading to their first win of the season, 122-106.
So what changed after that point? It started with defensive pressure at the point of attack. Stephon Castle, Devin Vassell, and De’Aaron Fox all had multiple steals as the team forced 21 turnovers, leading to 26 points off them. The energy and intensity on defense changed after the timeout. The Mavericks’ backcourt mistakes led to easy runouts for the Spurs, igniting a scoring explosion that inevitably won the game. Just a tweak in intensity and aggression made a major difference on the scoreboard.
To start the season, San Antonio’s players and coaches have talked a lot about effort and focus. Fox cited a bad preseason, and Mitch Johnson talked about playing up to a standard and not being a team that just flips the effort switch on and off. It’s concerning that a team coming off an NBA Finals in which they blew multiple winnable games is still showing inconsistent effort. But maybe a dominant win against a team they are supposed to beat will wake them up from this early-season stupor.
San Antonio is entering an easier part of their early-season schedule with games against teams that failed to make the playoffs last year. Some dominant wins would be the type of continued response this team needs, and could signal this game as a turning point for this year’s squad.
Takeaways:
- San Antonio is still struggling to figure out its new rotation. The four-guard starting lineup has forced Johnson to change how he staggers his guards. The results thus far have been mixed. The starting lineup has a +1.8 net rating in 28 minutes, with the defense looking great and the offense shaky. Johnson has then taken Fox out first and brought him back in to run the second unit with Keldon Johnson, Julian Champagnie, Carter Bryant/Harrison Barnes, and Luke Kornet. Small sample size here, but that lineup has a net rating of -77.8 in 9 minutes. The group simply needs more playmaking to succeed. It ultimately turns into Fox dominating the ball with limited movement, and no offensive flow. The bench lineup was on the floor for most of Dallas’ scoring runs on Saturday.
- Part of what has made those second-unit lineups look so bad, and what killed San Antonio in the playoffs last year, has been the play of Kornet. Plus-minus is not usually a great stat, but it can be helpful when it matches the eye test. Kornet was -18 in 14 minutes, going 0-2 from the field, grabbing 4 rebounds and recording 2 turnovers. He has not finished in the paint, nor protected the rim well to start this season. His offensive limitations are exacerbated by the Spurs’ lack of second-unit creation, and if he’s not crushing the glass or holding down the paint, it’s hard to find a lot of positives in having him out there.
- With Kornet struggling, the Spurs went to the rookie, Tarris Reed, to start the third quarter. The rookie helped the team go on an 11-4 run in his 4-minute stint. Reed scored his first NBA bucket on a lob from Vassell, and snatched an offensive rebound that eventually led to a Champagnie three-pointer. He had 2 points, 3 rebounds, and a turnover in 7 total minutes. That performance, and Kornet’s struggles, should earn the rookie some more minutes moving forward. We’ll see if the coaching staff gradually increases his opportunities as they did for Bryant last season.
- Victor Wembanyama had a much better game by keeping things simple against Dallas. He led the team in scoring with 23 points on 9-for-18 shooting, making 2 of his 6 three-pointers. He mainly served as a lob threat in the pick-and-roll, particularly thriving when running the action with Fox. He still took some frustrating three-pointers, but the ones he made genuinely came within the flow of the offense. He was also one of the players who benefitted from Johnson’s second-quarter pep talk. Wembanyama looked a step slow and lethargic in the first half, but responded with improved defense in the second. It was a step in the right direction, but we still haven’t seen Wembanyama put it all together this season.
- Fox was the Spurs MVP on Saturday night. He had 19 points on 6-for-11 shooting, adding 9 assists and 3 steals. He was fantastic in the pick-and-roll, developing chemistry with Wembanyama. He’s taking and making shots within the flow of the offense. He may be thriving more than any of Spur in these new guard-heavy lineups.
- Castle’s shooting may be real. The third-year guard is now shooting 37.9% from three on 9.7 attempts to start the season. He went 3-for-8 from deep on Saturday. Teams are leading him open for the most part, and he still struggles to shoot threes off the dribble, but when his feet are set, his shot looks good. If he becomes a 36%+ shooter this season, he’ll make it easier for the Spurs to play him alongside Harper and Fox.
- Keldon Johnson was back to playing the high-energy role that made him so successful last season. He had 7 points and 6 rebounds, 4 of them offensive, in his 26 minutes. Johnson continues to be at his best when he is driving hard to the cup in transition and crashing the boards.
By Jacob Douglas / Pounding The Rock
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