The Golden Age of Basketball

Gan Guoyang feels that the current pioneers are almost in a state of unmanned and automated operation.

Ramsey, the old coach who was still enthusiastic last season, seems to have become an automatic substitution instruction machine after one summer. His main purpose of calling a timeout is to replace the main lineup to let everyone have a rest, and then replace them with substitutes. The lineup transitions.

In terms of tactics, he no longer makes special arrangements, no longer makes careful preparations before the game, and rarely makes targeted adjustments during the game. Everything is done step by step, just like clocking in at work.

This meritorious old man seems to be silently confronting the management with his non-cooperative and non-resistance attitude.

Fortunately, after the running-in of last season, coupled with the personal abilities of the players, the Blazers are still running well in an unmanned state.

In the second quarter, in the substitute rotation lineup, Paxson has begun to get used to the position of the substitute sixth man, and he has made great progress in supporting and scoring quickly.

"Paxson counterattacked with the ball, he slowed down slowly, now it's 3 on 4,... Paxson suddenly accelerated and broke through from the right side! Facing a high throw from Hayes! Hit the board and go into the basket! Paxson's ball He was extremely resolute and played like a strong man." Xiao Enli also saw the change in Paxson's stupid Aki.

You must know that in the summer, Paxson took the time to strengthen his ability to stop and jump and improve his shooting speed. This made him more decisive in the new season and his ability to attack independently was stronger.

This ball was originally a quick counterattack by the Blazers, but the Jazz returned to the defense quickly, so Paxson pretended to pause on the outside, and while the Jazz players were still observing the positions of their teammates, he suddenly accelerated from the right The side broke through.

Then facing the block of Jazz backup center Steve Hayes, he ended the offense with a lob and rewritten the score of the two sides to 45:34.

The reasonable operation of the rotation lineup did not allow the Blazers to be overtaken by the Jazz. Before the main lineup came on the field, they still maintained their lead over the Jazz.

Jazz head coach Frank Layden saw that he couldn't prevent the Blazers' offense, so he immediately called a timeout. He needed to send Mark Eaton to the field to change the current weak defense.

"Strengthen the defense, especially inside, let them shoot, shoot whatever you want. Don't let them play fast break! Remember, don't let them play fast break, pull them down. Remember, don't give them fast break opportunities, Don't give them a chance to score inside, let them shoot!" Frank Layden is a big fat man in a light blue suit with big square eyes, he looks like the owner of a fried chicken shop, not an NBA head coach .

In the first round of last season's playoffs, Frank Layden relied on the strategy of "sticking to the inside and letting you shoot from the outside". Coupled with the extraordinary performance of the players, he upset the Rockets with the twin towers.

Lyden knows that on defense, the Jazz's perimeter is too short and too thin. Both Stockton and Hansen are slow and thin whites. The conditions are indeed not good.

Another small forward, Dantley, who is also the Jazz's offensive core, is even more average defensively, basically on par with the Blazers' Vandeweghe, and it is common to become the biggest loophole in defense.

Therefore, Layden needs to shrink the defensive line, let them surround the big tree Eaton, and not give the opponent a chance to score in the three-second zone. As for whether to make a long shot or not, it depends on luck.

On the Trail Blazers side, the main players also returned to the field. Ramsey made a simple arrangement: "Attack must be resolute, don't hesitate, and give full play to your independent aggressiveness."

What Ramsey actually meant was "you can fight whatever you want, if you score, you will fight, if you can't score, you will fight me."

Then Gan Guoyang and Vandeweghe took off their jackets and re-entered the field, replacing Jerome Cosey and Jones, while Colter remained on the field, and Kenny Carr continued to be at the power forward position.

"What the hell are you doing Steve? Can't you score a goal? I was worried about you from the sidelines." As soon as Gan Guoyang came on the field, he dragged Colter to spray him, and Colter came off the bench In nearly 7 minutes, he still didn't score a point and only contributed two rebounds, which is really bad.

And Ramsey still put him on the field, I don't know what the purpose is, maybe he wants him to find his form quickly.

Colter didn't say anything after hearing Gan Guoyang's words, but bowed his head and walked away. He also felt uncomfortable playing like this on the court, especially Ramsey kept refusing to let him off the court, as if he intended to make him look ugly on the court.

A summer of waste, coupled with the erosion of drugs, made Colter's competitive state extremely poor. Fortunately, he trained well in the team's training camp, so he hasn't reached the point where he can't even run.

Moreover, marijuana is a soft drug after all, and the damage to the body is not as great as other drugs. Everything seems to be relatively normal for Colter. Once he starts to consume more toxic drugs, his career will be completely destroyed.

It is impossible for Gan Guoyang to change Colter's life, but he is also unwilling to watch a teammate ruin his future.

"Stockton was caught between Gan and Colter, but Stockton passed the ball out to Eaton at the rim, and Eaton had a one-handed dunk ... I feel like he dunked it I didn't even jump, I just tiptoed lightly..."

Eaton is too tall and his arms are too long. He easily stuffed the ball into the basket after receiving a pass from Stockton. Kenny Carr at the basket didn't know how to interfere with him.

"**!" Gan Guoyang cursed after missing a big space under the basket. This is the disadvantage of gambling-style double-teaming. Once he meets a passer like Stockton, assists are born one after another.

But on the other hand, Colter also has a problem. He didn't put Stoke on the bottom line, but let Stockton easily cut in from the middle. This made Gan Guoyang helpless. Pass vision is really good.

The Jazz pulled back a goal, but ushered in a more powerful counterattack from the Blazers.

The Jazz made defensive adjustments, and the premise for this adjustment to work is that the Blazers' long-range shots feel average.

But Lydon miscalculated.

"Gump caught the ball at the corner, turned to face the frame, and jumped up and shot! Eaton missed the defense and the ball went in! A 16-foot jumper, Gan's jumper, clean and neat, added two points for the Blazers..."

"Vanderweghe passes to Gan, Gan passes back to Vandeweghe, Vandeweghe jumps up and shoots! Goin..."

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"Drexler ran back to the hoop, got a pass from Gan, but he was covered by Eaton, and Drexler passed back to Vandeweghe, and Vandeweghe made an 18-foot jumper... Foul by the hitter, Dantley fouled the thug."

Dantley had to foul, and the Blazers' shooting felt completely up.

Gan Guoyang's hard-working mid-range jumper has finally begun to become one of his weapons. After receiving the ball at the corner, without any special interference from other players, the jumper has already achieved a high degree of accuracy.

It happened that the Jazz were shrinking their defense again, and Eaton couldn't defend against it, and the outside players didn't come to obstruct it.

What made the Jazz even more troublesome was Vandeweghe. The white pitcher seemed to be crazy, and he launched a crazy personal attack on the outside. He almost beat Dantley out of breath on the offensive end.

Finally, Dantley couldn't bear it anymore, and slapped Vandeweghe on the arm directly, sending Vandeweghe to the free throw line.

When Vandeweghe made two free throws, the Blazers had changed the point difference to 62 points with 48:14, and the Jazz had no possibility of turning the situation around in the first half.

The Blazers, who were running automatically, crushed the Jazz all the way, and the second half was even more tragic. In the third quarter, the Blazers won the Jazz by 13 points in a single quarter, widening the difference between the two sides to more than 20 points. The fourth quarter also lost suspense.

After playing this game, perhaps Ramsey will start to doubt whether he really has no need for this Trail Blazers. Without his command and formation, this extremely talented team is Not really more powerful.

For this reason, Ramsey fell into deep doubts. He even began to question whether there was a problem with his coaching thinking, and whether Adelman's words were really reasonable. All these are intensifying the compression of the old man's coaching career. ——External pressure and inner doubts made Ramsey, who led the team to four consecutive victories, seem to be in a four-game losing streak.

After the game, Gan Guoyang, who scored 20 points and 21 rebounds in a single game and completed the double 20 data, still invited Stockton, his opponent and friend off the court, to have a meal near Chinatown. In addition, Bob- Hansen.

This time Gan Guoyang deliberately chose a relatively authentic Chinese restaurant in Chinatown. Due to Gan Guoyang's status in Portland and his wonderful performance in this game, the restaurant owner directly said that the meal was free.

It took a lot of courage for the boss to allow the three professional players to eat for free. Fortunately, the three of them paid more attention to controlling their diet. They did not order heavy meat and oily dishes, and the rice they ate was relatively limited.

The three of them generally ate delicious meals while chatting about recent interesting things about the league, especially about the rookies in the team.

"You know, who is Porter this guy most afraid of? It's not me, or the head coach, but Clyde Drexler. They seem to have fought in college before. Drexler put Porter played shit, so Porter is a little scared when he sees Drexler now. Drexler is always pulling Porter to train together. He has no memory of blowing Porter up on the court before... ..."

While Gan Guoyang was talking about the team, he saw a familiar figure on the street through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the restaurant.

"Hey Gan, what's the matter?" Stockton asked, watching Gan Guoyang staring outside.

"I'll go out first, wait for me for a while!" Gan Guoyang put down his bowl and chopsticks and ran out of the restaurant, walking quickly towards the figure he saw.