By Jared Weiss / The Athletic, 2026-11-01 19:48:44
圣安东尼奥消息——万圣节之夜，NBA最令人着迷的球员打扮成一个来自异世界的人走进了球馆。
维克托·文班亚马 (Victor Wembanyama) 身穿黑色西装、头戴《巫师》中杰洛特的长长银色假发，弯腰穿过门口，随手把斗篷扔在地上。
万圣节是他的新爱好，他已经把赛前变装秀变成了和比赛录像一样不容错过的节目。
“我小时候其实不怎么打扮，”这位身高7英尺4寸的文班亚马在被问到年轻时找万圣节服装是否困难时说道。
现在情况不同了。他有一支能把他最疯狂的变装梦想变为现实的团队，把这个看起来像踩着高跷走路的人变成更加奇幻的形象。
在球场上，他也在尝试不同的风格。但随着他的比赛风格逐渐成型，他能否找到那记真正属于他的投篮？
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“我觉得所谓招牌投篮，是人们回顾时能完全确定‘这就是他的招牌投篮’的东西，”文班亚马说。“所以创造招牌投篮并不是目标。但杀手锏式的进攻手段？是的，那是目标。”
伟大的球员都有自己的杀手锏。
当卡里姆·阿卜杜尔-贾巴尔在合适的时机在合适的位置接到球时，接下来发生的事情既在意料之中，又无法阻挡。几乎没有什么能让人防住天勾。这个招牌动作定义了一位球员，而这位球员又定义了一个时代的篮球。
这一传承中的下一位球员能否找到自己的天勾？他需要一个“文班特供”吗？
过去一周，“文班式比赛”的概念开始逐渐成形。在万圣节马刺121-111战胜森林狼的比赛中，他出手职业生涯新高的34次，砍下43分，全面展示了自己的天赋。
无论是打板空接、快攻中的跟进三分，还是直接把空接球砸进篮筐，文班亚马的进攻正变得更有章法。有些投篮他知道自己一定能够要到。这并不是说对手完全不知道他要做什么，而是他们无法彻底把他从进攻选择中排除。
这是件好事。文班亚马似乎对“为了拥有招牌动作而刻意开发一个”的想法有些抵触。
“倒不一定，因为那种动作往往是无解的，”文班亚马说。“我的意思是，大家都知道贾巴尔要用天勾。照样管用。直到今天，联盟中那些伟大的球员都拥有那样的招牌动作。”
周六，森林狼想尽一切办法限制文班亚马。拉梅洛·鲍尔一度把“限制”理解得非常字面——他从背后追上文班亚马，拉住他，不让他跑回前场。
文班亚马最终还是砍下43分，最近三场比赛场均得到36分。据马刺电台解说丹·韦斯统计，他成为自2001年1月的蒂姆·邓肯以来，首位连续三场比赛上半场都得到20分的马刺球员。马刺主帅米奇·约翰逊在赛后表示，我们正在见证比赛在文班亚马面前慢下来的过程。
但他并不是一个人在摸索。达龙·福克斯正在帮助他找到答案。一位优秀控卫的远见不止于执行某一个战术。当福克斯持球时，他在为文班亚马构建一幅更大的蓝图：让他的效率最大化，同时把身体损耗降到最低。这正是定义文班亚马武器库的那记投篮如此重要的原因：短挡拆后的跳投。
福克斯明白，如果他每晚都让文班亚马深入禁区顺下几十次，这位大个子会被三名等着拦截他的防守球员不断击打腹部、手臂和胸口。
他能感同身受。福克斯职业生涯中曾有一个时刻，他意识到化繁为简才能走得长远。
“对我来说，那是我总是冲到篮下、总是摔倒的时候，”福克斯说。“我就想，好吧，我能做些什么来减少身体损耗？于是我练出了一手相当不错的抛投。……（对文班亚马来说）你不会想每场比赛顺下15次、每次都挨四记肘击的。所以就是想办法保护他的身体，因为我们需要他尽可能长时间地留在场上。”
为了让文班亚马免受伤害，福克斯努力为他创造轻松的出手机会。当防守策略在一晚上多次放空短挡拆跳投时，福克斯就会主动寻找这个机会，把球送到他手中。
“当他在短挡拆中接球时，很多时候我会告诉他直接投，”福克斯说。“十次能进六个，你就是史上最伟大的中距离射手之一。”
所以，也许最简单的一记投篮反而能成为文班亚马的招牌。它看起来平平无奇，却蕴含着诸多深意。福克斯指出，他希望让这记投篮打开局面，这样防守者之后就会吃他的投篮假动作，文班亚马要么可以从罚球线运一步球起跳扣篮，要么能造成防守者不情愿起跳后的犯规。正是这种简单的打法，能够撕开足够的进攻通道，成为他最有效的武器。
“我只是说，如果它注定要成为招牌动作，那应该是自然而然形成的，”文班亚马说。“但现在，打造杀手锏和舒适进攻区域，这是你可以掌控的东西。因为招牌动作某种程度上是一种叙事，你无法真正掌控它。因为你得先去赢下比赛。”
文班亚马在比赛中留下的印记清晰可辨：打板空接、封盖那些抱着渺茫希望强行突破的球员、以及防守起来毫无意义的快攻。
但很快，这些印记中可能会加入短挡拆跳投。或者快攻跟进的定点三分。又或者是横跨禁区的行进间低手上篮。这些投篮属于一长串统治级内线，他们都需要这些简单的东西来保持持续的伟大。文班亚马同样拥有那样的创造力。
随着他不断进步，他并没有在身体天赋上变得更加惊人。他只是更清楚自己想要如何攻击一套防守、如何利用一片空间。他的队友们懂得如何为他创造这些机会。他们对他是什么类型的球员、他能做什么的理解，都比以前更深了。
这只是一个开始，未来还需要经受更严峻的考验，但进步是显而易见的。文班亚马打球方式背后的原因正一天天变得清晰。
如今，他正在进步，学会按照自己的方式去打球。一直以来，在他摸索身体如何适配比赛的过程中，他始终乐于表达自我。
这就是为什么如今万圣节变装对他如此重要。
“因为，”他说，“我可以。”
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查看原文：Kareem had the skyhook. Does Victor Wembanyama need his own signature move?
Kareem had the skyhook. Does Victor Wembanyama need his own signature move?
SAN ANTONIO — On Halloween night, the NBA’s most transfixing player walked into the arena dressed as a man from another world.
Victor Wembanyama, wearing the black suit and long, silver wig of “The Witcher’s” Geralt of Rivia, ducked to get through the doorway and dropped his cloak on the floor.
Halloween is a new interest and he’s made the holiday’s pre-game runway as much a must-watch as his game tape.
“I didn’t really dress up,” the 7-foot-4 Wembanyama said when asked if it was hard finding a costume when he was younger.
Things are different now. He has a team that can build the costumes of his wildest dreams, transforming the man who looks like he’s walking on stilts into something even more fantastical.
On the court, he’s trying on different looks, too. But as his game starts to take form, will he find the singular shot that is officially his?
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“I feel like a signature shot is something you look back on and maybe completely know that this is their signature shot,” Wembanyama said. “So it’s not the goal to create a signature shot. But go-to moves, yes, it is.”
The greats all had a go-to.
When Kareem Abdul-Jabbar got the ball in the right spot at the right time, what came next was both predictable and unstoppable. Little could prepare anyone for the skyhook. That signature move defined a player who in turn defined a generation of basketball.
Will the next player in that lineage ever find his skyhook? Does he need a Wemby special?
Over the past week, the concept of a signature Wembanyama game has started to take shape. He took a career-high 34 shots en route to 43 points in the Spurs’ 121-111 win over the Timberwolves on Halloween, showing off the breadth of his talents.
Whether it’s the alley-oop off the glass, the trailing 3 on the break, or just smacking lobs down into the rim, Wembanyama’s offense is getting more organized. There are shots he knows he can get to. It’s not that opponents have no idea what’s coming, but that they can’t take him all the way off the board.
That’s a good thing. Wembanyama seemed to balk at the idea that he wants to develop a signature move for the sake of having one.
“Not necessarily, because that kind of move is often unstoppable,” Wembanyama said. “I mean, people knew Kareem was going to that skyhook. Still worked. Players to this day in the league, the great ones have signature moves like that.”
The Wolves tried everything they could to hold Wembanyama back Saturday. LaMelo Ball took it literally at one point, running up on him from behind, grabbing him and preventing him from running down the floor.
Wembanyama still ended up with 43 and is now averaging 36 over his last three games. He became the first Spur since Tim Duncan in January 2001 to have 20 points in the first half of three consecutive games, per Spurs radio play-by-play announcer Dan Weiss. Spurs coach Mitch Johnson said after the win that we are watching the game slow down for Wembanyama.
But he’s not doing it alone. De’Aaron Fox is trying to help him figure it out. The foresight of a great point guard goes beyond executing one play. When Fox has the ball, he’s building out a bigger vision for Wembanyama, in which he maximizes his efficiency while minimizing wear and tear. That’s where the shot that defines Wembanyama’s arsenal is so vital: the short-roll jumper.
Fox sees that if he lets Wembanyama roll deep into the paint dozens of times a night, the big man is getting hit in the stomach, arms and chest by three defenders waiting to intercept him.
He can empathize. There was a moment in Fox’s career when he decided simplifying meant surviving.
“For me, it was when I would always get to the rim and I’m falling down all the time,” Fox said. “I’m like, OK, well, what can I do that will allow me to take less damage? And I got a pretty good floater. … (For Wembanyama) you don’t want to roll 15 times a game and you’re getting hit with four elbows. So just trying to find ways to save his body, because we need him as much as possible.”
To spare Wembanyama the damage, Fox looks to create easy shots for his center. When the defensive coverage yields the short-roll jumper multiple times a night, Fox seeks it out and delivers it to his guy.
“When he catches it in the short roll, a lot of times I tell him to just shoot it,” Fox said. “You make six out of 10, you’re like one of the greatest midrange shooters ever.”
So maybe the simplest shot in the book could become Wembanyama’s signature. It’s something that looks so pedestrian, but has so many implications. Fox noted how he wants to get that shot going so that defenders will then bite on pump fakes and Wembanyama can either get to his one-dribble dunks from the free-throw line, or draw fouls on defenders reluctantly leaping into the air. It’s the kind of simple play that can open up enough lanes to make it his most effective tool.
“I’m just saying if it has to become a signature move, it should be naturally,” Wembanyama said. “But now, going to go-to moves and go-to spots, this is something you can control. Because the signature move is somewhat of a narrative, you can’t really control it. Because you got to go win the game.”
The marks Wembanyama leaves on games are unmistakable: the alley-oops off the glass, the blocks on helplessly optimistic drivers, the fast breaks that are pointless to defend.
But soon, those marks could include the short-roll jumpers. Or the spot-up 3s trailing the break. Or the running finger roll across the lane. Those are shots that belonged to a long line of dominant bigs who needed the simple stuff to stay consistently great. Wembanyama has that kind of inventiveness, too.
As he continues to improve, he’s not becoming more physically remarkable. He just has a better idea of how he wants to attack a coverage or manage a space. His teammates understand how to create those opportunities. They all comprehend who he is and what he does better than before.
It’s only a start, and will need to hold up against tougher tests ahead, but it’s unmistakable progress. The why behind how Wembanyama operates is becoming clearer by the day.
Now he’s progressing in how to do it on his terms. This whole time, as he figures out how his body fits his game, he has always been willing to express himself.
It’s why dressing up for Halloween is so important to him now.
“Because,” he said, “I can.”
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