The Golden Age of Basketball

For an nba playoff team, how to win away games in the playoffs is a problem that all teams must consider.

The home team has the right time, place and people, and all factors other than strength itself have an advantage, so it is bound to be more favorable in the game.

On the contrary, when the away team is exhausted, they go to the opponent's field to play. Except for the dozen or so people on the bench, the rest of the tens of thousands of people will boo you at you. If you enter, you will not respond. If you don't enter, you will all cheer. It's no small test.

Of course, professional players have long been accustomed to this, but the difference between the playoffs and the regular season is that the more intense the game, the greater the impact of some non-strength factors on the progress of the game, and any small event will affect the result of the game. make an impact.

On the last day of April, the Blazers once again beat the Denver Nuggets at home. Just like last year's playoffs, they took a 4-2 lead. Then, they will go to the away game to attack the Nuggets. McNichols Sports Center.

In the NBA, although there is only one game difference between 2:0 and 3:0, it is completely different. Although 2:0 has a huge advantage, there are not many examples of 2:0 being turned over in the history of the NBA. It used to be like this , In the future, there will be many teams that complete major reversals.

3：0就不同了，3：0往往意味着宣判落后的球队死刑，没有球队在0：3落后的情况下能翻盘，哪怕1954年尼克斯在0：3落后时扳到3：3，最后还是输掉了系列赛。

Until 1986, there was still no team that could counterattack when it fell behind 0:3. In fact, this result will not change in another 20 years.

Therefore, the third game in the Denver Plateau is a game that determines the trend of the series. Last year, the Trail Blazers lost the third game, and inexplicably broke out infighting, which directly led to a 2-0 lead. Three games and almost died in the semifinals.

People can't fall in front of the same pit at the same time. Therefore, on the plane to Denver, Ramsey began to yell at all the players, asking them to try their best to win and not to give the Nuggets a chance to save the playoffs.

Ramsey knows it's difficult. Now Denver is struggling, especially with the experience of last year's comeback. They must have made extremely sufficient preparations. They want to fight this crucial game at Denver's home court and rely on the whole team It is very difficult to burst into multiple blooms. On the contrary, Ramsey must guard against the Nuggets' multiple blooms at any time.

As the head coach who once directed the first 0:2 comeback in the finals in NBA history, Ramsey understands how important momentum and confidence are in a round of series. It is absolutely impossible to be suppressed at the beginning .

Based on the above two considerations, for the Blazers, the most important thing is that there must be surprise players, and there must be players on the bench, because Gan Guoyang on the inside and Vandeweghe on the outside will definitely be taken care of by the Nuggets.

Ramsey locked his eyes on Clyde Drexler.

In the first two games, Drexler didn't score much, with 19 points in one game and 15 points in the other game, because he played more of an organizer role in the game. Colter, as the starting point guard, he He lacked some organizational experience and needed Drexler's help.

As a shooting guard, Drexler has practiced mid-range and long-distance jump shots for three years, and he still has a shot like Duan Yu's Six Meridians Excalibur. When he steps on the rhythm, he can practice scoring. Ramsey stood on the sidelines watching him shoot, and wanted to throw the tactical board on him to kill him.

Due to the existence of Gan Guoyang and Vandeweghe, plus injuries, Drexler has mainly played the role of a third scoring point and a versatile player in the team this season. He is very proficient in assists, rebounds, and steals. The defense should be said to be pretty good, at least compared with the two white outsiders, his physical fitness has an advantage.

Such a jack-of-all-trades player is often easily overlooked in the offense and becomes a fish that slips through the opponent's defense. In fact, as a new generation of shooting guard, Drexler is actually very explosive in scoring besides shooting shit. , but under the light of Gan Guoyang, he looked a little bleak.

After thinking about it, Ramsey decided to put the winner of the third game on Drexler, let this talented but stubborn young man, as the leader of the team, give the opponent Bring some surprises.

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"... Let's take time back to last year's Western Conference semifinals. The No. 2 Trail Blazers took a 0-2 lead after two home games, but after coming to Rainbow Home, the Denver Nuggets won two consecutive games and won The score became 2:[-], and then in the crucial fifth game, the Nuggets overthrew the Blazers away and won the match point. That is to say, the Nuggets are only one step away from the Western Conference finals, but the Blazers are tenacious in Saved the match point in the sixth game, dragged the game into a life-and-death battle, and won the series..."

Before the game, the cbs TV screen was looking back at last year's Western Conference semifinals. The Nuggets were facing exactly the same situation as last year. Obviously, the fans in Denver hoped that the team could reproduce last year's momentum and find the lost field at home. return.

The game is about to start, and many fans at the scene played the "2:2" sign. It seems that they are not worried at all when facing the home team's 0:2 deficit, and they are full of confidence in the Nuggets.

Indeed, although the ranking of the Nuggets has dropped this season, but with the rise of Leaf, the enrichment of the inside and the continued peak state of English, the Nuggets have not declined in strength. They lost 0:2 in the first two games, a On the one hand, the strength of the pioneers has improved, on the other hand

It was a matter of the coach's strategy. He pinned his hopes on the two white center forwards, thinking that the two of them could act as surprise soldiers to contain Gan Guoyang.

This is the case with Surprise Soldiers. If you succeed, you will gain huge profits. Once you fail, the loss will be difficult to recover.

Therefore, after Drexler was appointed by Ramsey to attack with all his strength at the beginning and found the feeling of scoring, the "glider" was still a little nervous.

Because Drexler has such a personality, he is competitive, but he has not reached the level of Gan Guoyang, Jordan and others. He is completely acceptable to be a second-in-command with peace of mind and do a good job of supporting work at critical moments.

Now let him be the temporary leader, he is really not used to it.

Gan Guoyang had no objection to this, and he also knew that as long as Drexler opened it, he himself would be less double-teamed and able to fight inside and outside.

So at the beginning of the game, Gan Guoyang won the ball with a jump ball, and immediately began to screen for Drexler on the outside.

"Drexler broke through from the right side with Gan's screen, changed direction and passed Dunn, and made a layup with a left hand change! Got the first point of the game!"

On the first ball, Drexler didn't choose a jumper. He used a beautiful change of direction to pass the defender, and then lay up with the left hand on Schayes. Under the pressure, he jumped too high.

"In the NBA, apart from Michael Jordan, there are very few players who can break through like Drexler." The commentator Brent Musberg said that this time CBS's commentary on the Trail Blazers game was finally not Dick - Stockton is gone.

What Musberg said is right. Before Drexler and Jordan, the breakthroughs of shooting guards were like old ladies with small feet. defense, but can't stride to the basket like these two flying men, and then find a gap under the defense of three or four people to pass the ball to the basket.

Compared with Jordan, Drexler's breakthrough changes are less, and his movements in the air are not as good as Jordan's, but as long as he can score goals, the effect is the same.

But soon, the Nuggets showed the difference between their home and away games. After Drexler scored the first goal, Liv immediately responded with an emergency stop jumper. The shot was very decisive. It can be seen that the Nuggets started He took out the momentum of defending the home court to the death.

"Drexler came around, received a pass from Coulter, and went straight to the shot! The ball missed, English got the backcourt rebound, passed to Liv, Nuggets' fast break, Gan has returned At the basket, but English turned over the baseline and made a jump shot...the ball went in! 12:7, the Nuggets led by 5 points."

"How the hell did this guy score with such an ugly shooting posture?" Gan Guoyang originally returned to the basket to defend against the Nuggets' fast break, but English caught the ball from the baseline and turned around and shot directly. His shooting posture is quite weird. He erected himself into a telegraph pole, put the ball on the pole, and then flicked his wrist, and the ball flew out.

Like this turnaround jump shot, in fact, his body has not turned around at all. He threw the ball sideways, but it just went in.

Gan Guoyang's complaints are nothing but complaints. He has played against English many times and he also knows that English's offensive power is really great.

On the defensive end, Gan Guoyang and Vandeweghe were indeed tightly double-teamed and defended. Doug Mo made adjustments in the matchup, so Calvin Knight defended Vandeweghe and let English go. Anti-Sampson.

English, who is tall and lanky, is certainly no match for Sampson one-on-one, but now Sampson is no longer the team's main offensive point, and Ramsey did not arrange singles tactics for him, as long as English persists If you don't let Sampson catch the ball, you have completed your task.

"Drexler was holding the ball at the top of the arc. He hesitated a bit. Passing or shooting... The shot, the ball missed, collapsed far away, Knight got the rebound, the Nuggets counterattacked again, and the Blazers failed to return. Dunn made a successful layup, and the point difference became 7 points."

Ramsey immediately called a timeout. Drexler's missed shot did a lot of damage to the Blazers, because the arc of his shot was very flat. The three-point line is near, which gives the opponent a good opportunity to break fast, and also makes it difficult for teammates to return to defense.

This is also one of the important reasons why Ramsey wanted to hit him with a tactical board when he saw Drexler shooting randomly.

But during the timeout, Ramsey did not criticize Drexler, but encouraged him: "Clyde, enrich your options, pass, shoot, layup, you have to find your own rhythm, not blindly You have to give yourself confidence...Jones, you go on the field, Gan you play power forward, drag it out, and return to the defense faster, don't let the Nuggets easily counterattack."

Ramsey continued to ask Drexler to focus on finding his feeling. He understood that the use of tactics should be firm and never be easily shaken by temporary setbacks.