The Golden Age of Basketball

Ramsey is an experienced but also very stubborn old coach. Although Drexler attacked with all his strength in the first half, the effect was not as good as expected, but Ramsey still insisted on using Drexler The main attack point.

Drexler's breakthrough in the opening stage was actually very good and a great threat. Dunn on the opposite side basically couldn't prevent Drexler's breakthrough, and after Drexler broke in, he had many choices. In this way, he can not only attack the basket directly, but also choose to pass the ball to his teammates to create easy-ball opportunities.

But the Nuggets' defensive adjustments came in a timely manner. Doug Mo did not hesitate to shrink the line of defense and did not give Drexler more room to break through. The Nuggets will lose sight of one another, and the defense collapses like the previous two times.

But tonight, Vandeweghe and Paxon did not find the feeling of shooting. Vandeweghe was entangled by Calvin Knight from the very beginning of the game. The home whistle must be biased toward the home team.

Vandeweghe's playing time is limited. For an attacker, there is not enough time to warm up, and the playing time is cut, which greatly affects the offensive state.

Gan Guoyang's double-teaming was also extremely violent. Many of the Nuggets' actions were greater than those in the previous two games.

Everything was actually exactly as Ramsey expected. The two major scorers were contained as expected. Ramsey also proposed a solution to let Drexler take more shots, but Drexler couldn't help it. Throw the damn ball in the basket, and Ramsey can't help it standing on the sidelines.

Had it not been for Ramsey to replace Jones and let Gan Guoyang cover more in the high position to open up space for the inside, Drexler would have completely become headless on the offensive end.

"In the last attack of the first half, the Blazers were still 7 points behind. Drexler held the ball. He scored a team-high 14 points in the first half, but he only made 12 of 5 shots. The shooting rate was worrying. Especially It's a mid-range shot, I don't think he made any of them. Let's see if he can continue to drive and cause damage to the Nuggets...Drexler slams into the penalty area from the right side and passes to Terry on the baseline- Porter, Porter made a jump shot! The goal was scored! The buzzer in the first half! The point difference was narrowed to 5 points. The Blazers' two scoring points were suppressed in the first half. Let us look forward to their performance in the second half."

Drexler once again showed his talent for passing vision at the end of halftime. Porter made a pass, Gan Guoyang blocked, Drexler cut sideways, and Gan Guoyang pulled out and then gave Porter made a screen, Drexler rushed in and attracted the defense to pass to Porter, and Porter hit the buzzer.

But Ramsey clearly doesn't want Drexler to be just a passing point guard on the floor.

"You need to find the rhythm of your shots, make more use of screens, take more corner positions, don't force shots, and don't pull up and throw directly after dribbling, conduct more, catch the ball and shoot, and step on your point!" La In the locker room, Munzi barks at Drexler almost like a high school coach.

Since Drexler's rookie season, Ramsey expressed dissatisfaction with his stiff shooting posture and asked him to make technical corrections, but Drexler was arrogant and unrepentant. Until now, his shooting posture is still the same. The culprit that affected his shooting stability.

Now it is impossible to let Drexler correct his posture. Ramsey asked Drexler to find the right rhythm and follow the trend instead of forcing the attack.

"Also, calm our minds, the gap of five points is definitely within the acceptable range. Clyde, you have to remember, as long as your point is opened, the two points of Kiki and Gan will also be driven, Remember that you are the key, show your courage and will!"

Ramsey paid so much attention to Drexler's offense tonight, not only because of the consideration of this game, he also considered the following games, whether the Blazers are facing the Lakers, Rockets or Celtics, the outside line has A third point that is stable, efficient, and able to control the game is very important.

Moreover, Drexler has characteristics that Gan Guoyang and Vandeweghe don't have-his passing allows him to become the engine that drives the whole team, which is what Gan and Vandeweghe, who have super scoring ability, lack.

If Drexler is relied on to make up for this deficiency, Ramsey feels that the Blazers will definitely have a bright future in the playoffs.

The playoffs are like this. It depends not only on the game between the two sides, but also on their respective growth. Many teams and players have been sublimated in the process of growth in the playoffs.

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"The second half of the game continued. The Nuggets' defense tonight played a role. The Blazers failed to play as many blooming offenses as they did in the previous two games. In comparison, the Nuggets' offense has always been stable and not too much. Big ups and downs, this is also the characteristic of the Nuggets. Let's see how the two sides will change in the second half."

Although the Nuggets are not a strong defensive team, and they can't play a high-intensity defense like the Boston Celtics, their strategic success still allows them to take advantage of the defense from the very beginning. Just like the offense, the defense is also Need to find a feeling.

The top priority for the Blazers in the second half is that they can no longer let the Nuggets feel good about defending like this. They must pierce the Nuggets' defense!

"Leeve passed the ball, Nuggets started their best screen cooperation again, Knight, passed to English, English made a through ball, Leeve caught the ball and layup! Perfect combination! Nuggets come up Just scored one goal, and the score was drawn again to 7 points."

The Nuggets' offensive coordination is so skillful, the team with the best screen-pass-shooting in the league, when they completely spread out the offensive points and English is not used as an offensive arrow, the Blazers have to Give up their "fake zone defense" and deal with the Nuggets with a relatively inefficient one-on-one defense.

"Come on, Clyde, show them some color." Gan Guoyang also tried his best to defend the ball just now, but the gap inside was indeed a bit wide, and it was too late to stop Leaf.

Gan Guoyang didn't shoot many shots tonight. He would be double-teamed almost as soon as he got the ball. He didn't choose to attack under the double-team. Instead, he simply reserved his energy and prepared to exert his strength in the fourth quarter.

Now the critical third quarter depends on Drexler.

"Drexler made a quick push and went straight in from the middle! Layup! Whoa, Drexler, caught the Nuggets by surprise!"

Drexler made a direct drive from the backcourt, and used a speed change near the top of the arc to fool the Nuggets' defensive players. Since the second half had just begun, the Nuggets players were still a little slack, and Drexler easily Drilled into the basket and made a layup.

Immediately afterwards, Drexler interrupted the ball in English's hands on defense, and once again rushed from the backcourt to the frontcourt, directly dunking and scoring. The point difference between the two sides was only three points.

Drexler's four-pointer suddenly made the situation tense again, especially for the Nuggets. Leaf subconsciously slowed down the speed of advancement, hoping that this goal could be scored steadily.

"Nate broke through the middle with the ball, Gan interfered with the layup and missed it, Sampson got the backcourt rebound, and the Blazers were about to launch a fast break again!"

Once again Drexler took the lead, dribbled the ball, and in the face of interference from the defender, Drexler used a clever behind-the-back handover to change the ball from left to right, and then scored an easy layup.

At the beginning of the second half, Drexler scored 6 points in a row, narrowed the point difference to 1 point, and stopped the Nuggets.

"Good job Clyde, but when the Nuggets shrink their defense in a while, I hope you can continue to attack the Nuggets' defense. I have confidence in your shooting." Ramsey patted Drexler's Shoulders, Drexler encouraged.

If you say that Ramsey has confidence in Drexler's shooting, Drexler himself laughed, but now it's a fierce playoffs, Drexler can't laugh, as soon as he opened the game in the first half The same is true for scoring consecutively, but once the Nuggets change, Drexler will be restricted.

"I'll do my best." Drexler nodded.

However, it is absolutely impossible for Ramsey to put all the chips on Drexler, so after a timeout, after the Nuggets scored a goal, Gan Guoyang immediately seized the gap in the counterattack, a 12-foot hook Hit, obviously Gan Guoyang has to find his target in the third quarter and practice his touch.

Just when the Nuggets felt that Gan Guoyang or Vandeweghe would explode in the third quarter, Drexler suddenly found his shooting sense and began to hit consecutive mid-range shots.

"Drexler, the right wing received a pass from Gan, went straight to the jumper, and the ball went in!"

"Drexler, catch jumper, hit."

"Sampson grabs the offensive rebound, passes to Drexler, Drexler makes a jumper...Dunn sluggers, but the ball goes in! Threes!"

When Drexler made his third jump shot, Dunn, who was defending him, finally became anxious.

"Shua!" With the hit of the extra penalty, the Blazers completed a counterattack in the third quarter, from being behind by five points to overtaking the Nuggets by five points, and stopping the Nuggets again.

Obviously, Doug Mo smelled a huge crisis, and the Nuggets players were also a little discouraged. They originally wanted to further expand their advantage in the third quarter, but Drexler, who had been unreliable in shooting, suddenly broke out, and the Nuggets On the offensive end, it is tepid, can't get offensive rebounds, and relies solely on shooting for food. Even if the shooting percentage is higher, one of the two offenses is not bad.

However, Drexler did not simply explode suddenly. After all, before the game, he formulated a strategy based on him, plus the whole first half of the game, and the feeling of changing pigs would explode.

The momentum is developing in a direction that is extremely unfavorable to the Nuggets. Faced with a huge sense of crisis behind 0:3, the players will either explode or perish.

At this time, Gan Guoyang, who had been dormant for most of the game, began to show a ferocious face.