The Golden Age of Basketball

"The cheerleaders at the home of the Nuggets show off their beauty and sexiness on the court. I think only the Los Angeles cheerleaders in the entire league can surpass them. If the Portland Trail Blazers want to see more exciting cheerleaders in Los Angeles performance, then they must work harder. The timeout is over, the two sides have returned to the field, now there are 3 minutes and 13 seconds before the end of the first half, the Blazers are 45 points behind the Nuggets 59:14, they The offense in the first half was really bad."

In the first half, the state of the Blazers and Nuggets was a complete turnaround compared to the previous game. The Blazers were in no state on the offensive end, with less than 40% of their field goal percentage. One of the lowest first halfs of the game.

In comparison, the Nuggets did not perform at a super level, but against such a Blazers, the Nuggets only need to perform normally. When they returned to the home game, they got rid of the cold feeling of the previous game, and the fans at home cheered enthusiastically The sense of attack that I found again in the sound.

At the end of the first half, Ramsey had to call a timeout. He hoped that the players could cheer up and end the first half well, so that the Blazers would have room to save in the second half.

"Be patient, no matter what kind of situation you encounter, you must be patient, don't rush to attack, and ensure the success rate! Our goal now is to prevent the point difference from widening..." The timeout has come, but Ramsey still Continue to instruct the players on the sidelines.

"Beep beep beep~ The timeout is over! Please come back to the field quickly!" The referee began to urge the Blazers from the sidelines.

"Go! Play your true level! Don't be knocked down by your opponent!" Ramsey finally let the players play.

Before the game, Ramsey was deeply worried that such a situation would happen after coming to the Nuggets' home court. For any team that fell behind 0:2, it is very common to return to the home court to rebound.

What Ramsey is most worried about is not losing this game. What he is most worried about is that the momentum of the Blazers will be overwhelmed by the Diggers because of this road trip. If this is the case, the progress of the series is likely to be overwhelmed Change.

You know, when Ramsey led the Blazers to win the championship in 1977, they pulled four games in a row.Now, Ramsey doesn't want the opposite to happen to the Blazers.

The game continued, and the Blazers served a sideline kick. At this time, Ramsey lined up what he thought was the most stable lineup, Gan Guoyang, Sampson, Vandeweghe, Paxson and Valentine. This is what the Blazers have always used in the regular season. The starter.

Paxson served from the outside, and Valentine started to organize the offense after receiving the ball. During the timeout, Ramsey asked Valentine to increase the breakthrough and damage to the inside, and at the same time wait for an opportunity to find open shots for his teammates.

At this time, Ramsey's conservative tactics are reflected. What he wants is to maintain the point difference as much as possible in the first half, and see you in the second half, rather than seize all the time to chase a point.

Therefore, Valentine dribbles the ball unhurriedly on the outside looking for opportunities, and Gan Guoyang has already mentioned going up the line to do a single block for Valentine.

The Blazers' most commonly used offensive tactic is to rely on the cover of the center and point guard to open the gap in the opponent's defense on the line, and then use the cover of the shooting guard, small forward and power forward to find shooting opportunities.

"Valentin cuts from the top of the key, Nuggets shrink, he passes back to Gan, Gan passes to Paxson, Paxon catches a jumper! Goal! Blazers finally score, I think they've Almost two minutes without a goal in open play."

The Blazers relied on a skillful cooperation to get two points. Paxson rewritten the score to 47:59 with the help of Sampson's c&s after the screen, and the score gap was narrowed to 12 points.

However, another big problem for the Blazers in this game is that they can't stop the Nuggets' offense.

"Liff passed the ball to Iser, and Iser took the ball and broke through the middle! Throw it! The ball went in! The referee's whistle also blew, let's see who made the foul?"

A big change for the Nuggets today on the offensive end is that they began to reuse veteran Dan Issel. In the previous games, Wayne Cooper occupied most of the playing time. Issel did not get much due to injury. Chance.

But although Issel has old arms and legs, his awareness and skills are still there. When he and Knight are on the court at the same time, although the Nuggets are not tall enough inside, they are more flexible and have a wide range of attacks.

When Gan Guoyang was on the field, he often had to go out to defend Iser, but even if he followed him, Iser had the first-class breakthrough ability among inside players, and his outstanding rhythm control ability made Gan Guoyang suffer a lot .

"I didn't touch him! I just raised my hand, why did you call me a foul?" Gan Guoyang watched the referee pointing at himself, saying that he had fouled, and Gan Guoyang looked helpless.

In addition to this foul, Gan Guoyang had already fouled three times in the first half. In fact, his performance in the first half was not bad, with 11 points and 9 rebounds, but the help to the team did not seem to be as great as in the past.

"The Blazers have to make substitutions. Issel played a key role in this game. When Gan is not on the court, the Blazers' defensive level will drop a notch. In this game, their defense is enough. Oh no."

"**!" Gan Guoyang, who returned to the bench, slammed the towel hard.Since entering the second half of the season, until the playoffs, Gan Guoyang has rarely been troubled by fouls.

On the one hand, it stems from the strict technical training he went through in high school and college, which made his defensive actions very standard and not prone to too many fouls; on the other hand, he has gradually learned to control the number of his fouls. I already understand that staying on the court is the best help for the team.

But in this game, seeing the Nuggets' offense wave after wave, Gan Guoyang, as the defensive core inside, tried his best to restrain any Nuggets player who tried to attack in the three-second zone from the beginning to the end. He had three blocked shots at halftime.

But because of this, his foul was out of control, and Ramsey had to replace him with Kenny Carr.

"You did a good job Gan, but you know this guy Issel, he's an old fox, when I was still playing in the NBA, this guy was already in the league, and now I'm an assistant coach, he's still playing Rick Adelman, who was sitting next to Gan Guoyang, comforted Gan Guoyang in this way. Gan Guoyang suffered a lot from Issel this season.

From the first match between the two sides in the regular season, Nuggets coach Doug Moe often let Issel play to defend Gan Guoyang, or play Gan Guoyang on the offensive end. Gan Guoyang was played by this old guy several times with his skills.

In the playoffs, Issel's playing time began to decrease, but Gan Guoyang's dazzling performance made Doug Mo quickly think of the veteran in his hands. As expected, no matter how talented Gan Guoyang is, he still has to eat Some losses.

"I must teach him a good lesson in this series, or I don't think I will have a chance." Gan Guoyang looked at Issel at the free throw line and said to Adelman.

Issel will retire after this season, and this series is obviously the last time the two will meet on the court.

If Ramsey heard Gan Guoyang say this, he would definitely tell Gan Guoyang that he should put the team's interests first, winning is the most important thing, and don't always think about fighting with the opponent's players.

But Adelman is different from Ramsey. When he heard Gan Guoyang's words, he responded: "Then you'd better think about how to improve your single defense skills. Your defense against the basket is not as good as your back defense." s level."

Adelman's words made Gan Guoyang thoughtful. Indeed, in terms of back defense, Gan Guoyang is not afraid of any center in the NBA, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

This is thanks to his superhuman strength and solid training.

But once the opponent backs the basket and turns to face the basket, Gan Guoyang will sometimes be more blind, facing some very strong insiders facing the basket, such as Ralph Sampson, Jack Sikma, Dan Issel, Larry -Nance and Gan Guoyang will be deflated sometimes.

So Gan Guoyang hates these face-to-basket insiders very much, especially because they also add a little mid-range shooting skills, which makes Gan Guoyang, who is in charge of guarding the three-second zone, quite embarrassed-whether to make up or not to make up?

"Then I must train myself to become a Transformer who can change his voice at any time..."

Before Gan Guoyang finished speaking, the fans at home interrupted the conversation between the two with a huge noise.

"Dan Issel! Hit a 45-pointer at 15 degrees to the right! Three-pointer! Oh my god, this is going to be Issel's last season and he's going to end this season In his [-]-year professional basketball career, the seven-time All-Star spent his last ten years in Denver. Now, he is contributing his last strength to the team. With this three-pointer, the audience applauded He gave warm applause... You must know that he only made one three-pointer in the regular season this season."

To make matters worse, Issel sprinkled a handful of salt on the Blazers' wounds with a three-pointer that no one thought of.

47:65, the point difference between the two sides has widened to 18 points, close to 20 points.

"I can't believe it, did these two teams change their souls in two days?" Dick Stockton couldn't help feeling when he saw that the performance of both sides was very different from the day before yesterday.

At the end of the first half, as Vandeweghe missed the last shot, the score was fixed at 47:65, with a gap of 18 points. The Trail Blazers fell behind the Nuggets by a large margin.

However, the Blazers players didn't know that there were worse situations waiting for them.