The Golden Age of Basketball

"Good evening, everyone, and welcome to our NB TV broadcast in prime time tonight. I'm your old friend Dick Stockton. Today we bring you the third game of the Western Conference semifinals. In Denver, Colorado, the Denver Nuggets are playing against the Portland Trail Blazers at home. The Nuggets are currently trailing the Portland Trail Blazers 0:2 on the total score, which is a very bad situation for them. This home game It will also determine whether the Nuggets have a chance to continue in the playoffs. If they lose this home court, then I want to say that no team in nb history can come back from a 0:3 deficit Success. Okay, the game is about to start, let's turn the camera to the scene, and Rick Barry, a reporter from BS TV, will bring you live reports."

Familiar voice, fluent broadcast, on the night of May 1985, 5, Dick Stockton started his broadcast of another nb game.

Since 1960, Stockton began to work for bs sports television, at the same time he also part-time local television sports commentary work.

In 1978, he was still working full-time for BS TV. He not only commented on nb games, but also commented on nfl and mlb. It should be said that his sports knowledge is rich, his commentary is smooth and smooth, and he is not lacking in passion. He is loved by many TV viewers TV commentator.

This season, he has commented on the Portland Trail Blazers. It should be said that he is very familiar with the Portland Trail Blazers and Gan Guoyang. Tran Blazers' preference.

But another commentator, the reporter who is currently reporting on the spot, the famous Warriors forward, Rick Barry, is different. He doesn't like the Portland Trail Blazers very much-or in other words, nb hardly likes him. team, he's always such a stinkin' fart.

"Hi everyone, I'm Rick Barry, and I'm in Denver to bring you live coverage of the Western Conference semifinals. We can see that both sides have started warming up on the court, and the game is about to start. From the front Looking at the two games, this is a rather inexplicable game. In the first game, the Trail Blazers and the Nuggets played against each other. They once led by a big score, but they were almost turned over. In the end, they relied on Gan's key The performance won the game at all times; and in the second game, the Blazers led by a big score again, and the Nuggets did not turn over this time. I think the current big score does not really reflect the strength of the two teams, especially the strength of the Nuggets , In fact, the Nuggets still have a lot of room to play, and now they are at their home court, I believe they will reverse." Barry did not hesitate to side with the Nuggets in his pre-match predictions, although many People call Vandeweghe the second in Rick Barry, but for Rick Barry, "I am number one in the world, who can be the second?"

However, as a former superstar and finals mvp, Barry's words are definitely not fabricated on the fly. As an experienced basketball player and commentator, he has experienced and watched countless games. He can indeed have a very deep grasp of the trend of a series.

At this point, the head coach of the Blazers, Ramsey, also has deep concerns. In the conversation with the Blazers last night, he felt that the players seemed a little too relaxed. [

It must be very, very dangerous to play a difficult away game with such a mentality, especially when the opponent they face is no worse than the Blazers in terms of strength.

"The game is about to start. Trail Blazers center No. 11 Gan and Nuggets center No. 42 Wayne Cooper are already standing in the center circle ready to jump the ball. Tonight's referee is John Fanako, and Hugh M. Evans. The referee tossed the ball in the air, and the game officially began!"

The ball was hanging in the air, and Gan Guoyang jumped high as usual, but this time, his attention seemed not so concentrated, and Wayne Cooper touched the ball first.

Fat Leaf got the ball, the Nuggets' possession!

Leaf quickly entered halftime, and at his own home court, Leaf seemed to be able to even dribble.

He dribbled the ball on the right side and quickly passed the ball to Calvin Knight who mentioned the line. After receiving the ball, Knight did not pause and broke through directly from the middle.

Knight's breakthrough was so sudden that Kenny Carr felt that he was not well prepared, and the Blazers players also felt that the defense had not yet started, and Knight had already rushed in.

"Nate made a breakthrough with the ball, jumped up and threw it in the air! The ball hit the board and went into the basket! The Nuggets quickly scored the first point of the game." After Knight broke through to the inside, Gan Guoyang quickly defended. But Knight was not afraid, and faced Gan Guoyang's slap with a high toss, the ball hit the board high and went into the basket.

Knight also made physical contact with Gan Guoyang in the air, and fell heavily on the ground, but Gan Guoyang did not foul, he picked up the ball and immediately returned to the bottom line to serve. At this time, Knight was trying to get up from the ground.

"Blazers fast ball attack, Valentine fast forward, there seems to be no chance, the Blazers start to reorganize the offense. Gan, he quickly went down low, Valentine fed the ball to Gan, Valentine was walking in. Gan didn't pass the ball, he was going in... left hook! Blocked by Cooper!"

Gan Guoyang's hook was taken off by Cooper!

For any nb player, there is no one who does not get his shoes wet when he often walks by the river. No matter how many blocks Gan Guoyang sends in nb, no matter how difficult his hook is, there will be times when he will be blocked, even Kareem Abdul-Jabbar .

And this ball, Gan Guoyang held the ball in the low position on the left, Valentin took away the defense inward, and then Gan Guoyang dribbled inward for a single, and reached a very deep position, but he used his unskilled internal turn Left hand hook.

In the last two games, Gan Guoyang tried to use the left-handed hook for the first time in an official game. It can be said that he tasted the sweetness. In this game, he continued to use the left-handed hook to get a good start, but he was slapped by Cooper. down.

"Leeve got the ball and started to counterattack... But the Blazers backed away very quickly. They didn't give the Nuggets a chance to counterattack. They started to play. Knight on the baseline, no chance...Leeve gave the ball to the upper line. Cooper, English come around the inside to catch the ball, do a fake, miss the shot, pass back to Cooper, Cooper jumper! Left 45 degrees... Goal! Cooper hit a 13 Foot mid-range shot, the Nuggets opened 4:0.”[

The Nuggets' opening offense can be said to be very patient. It should be said that the reason why the Nuggets averaged a league-high 120 points per game in the regular season is not just because of their fast offensive and defensive rhythm.

Some teams have a fast offensive and defensive rhythm, but they conceded more points than they scored, and the Nuggets were able to score so many points, the tacit tactical cooperation between the players is absolutely indispensable.

If the Trail Blazers and Lakers have the league's best fast counterattack because they have the league's best engine and the best fast break finisher, then the Nuggets have the league's best team basketball coordination system.

It can be seen from the first two games that a major feature of the Nuggets is that the ball rarely stops in the hands of the players for more than two seconds, unless there is no tactical opportunity in the end and they can only rely on the stars to play singles.

At other times, the basketball moves rapidly in the hands of the five Nuggets players. Once it is in the hands of a certain player and there is a loophole in the opponent's defense, that player will shoot.

Before Gan Guoyang thought that Wayne Cooper was not very good at attacking, because Cooper almost did not attack on his own in the first two games, but he did not expect that Cooper would give him two blows in a row at the beginning.

Tolerable or unbearable!

"Pass me Dennis." Gan Guoyang said to Valentine when he was serving. He hadn't said "give me the ball" to his teammates for a long time.

Valentine nodded towards Gan Guoyang, and he also felt that Wayne Cooper should be taught a lesson in the interior, although the two were once teammates.

"Blazers, they opened up the space, they opened up on the right side, Valentine lobbed the ball to Gan, Leaf stepped up and flanked... No, he still went to defend Valentine, Gan was going to singles Ku Per, Gump, dribble, turn inside, but Knight comes up on the line, and he and Cooper put Gump in the middle, and Gump has no room to move."

Gan Guoyang took the ball on the right side he was familiar with, and was about to turn inward and hook directly, but he just turned halfway, and Knight, who was originally on the line, immediately straightened up and made up for it.

Knight didn't reach out, and didn't stop the ball. He simply raised his hand straight to block Gan Guoyang's turning line, which blocked Gan Guoyang into a dilemma.

"Beep!" It was the referee's whistle. Gan Guoyang turned his head and saw that the referee's hand was pointing at him, and at the same time his two hands were spinning like a small flywheel.

"Gan walked away... Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay... Oh, indeed, after being flanked, he moved his pivot foot when he turned around." In the replay of BS TV, Gan Guoyang was flanked Finally, he was about to turn in the other direction, but his leg was stuck by Wayne Cooper, so the pivot foot moved involuntarily, and was caught by the sharp-eyed referee.

Gan Guoyang had no choice but to shake his head and throw the ball to the referee, and ran back to the half court to defend.

"Come on, start with defense! Don't let up! I don't want to see you look downcast! The game has just begun!" Ramsey shouted from the sidelines, he already felt that the morale of the team was not right .

"The Nuggets made the sideline ball, and Leaf continued to control the Nuggets' offense. This season, he has completed the duties of the point guard very well, making the Nuggets' offense more smooth...Pick-and-roll, Leve's breakthrough, wide-range Transferred, the ball passed to English on the right, English took off and shot, it was a three-pointer! The goal was scored!"

A three-pointer!The Nuggets fell into a jubilation at home, and they beat the Blazers a little bit at a time, with a small climax of 7:0.

"Beep! Blazers pause."

In just 2 minutes of the opening, Ramsey had to call a timeout. The state of the Blazers in this game was worrying.