The Golden Age of Basketball

When Adelman saw that the game was over, he wanted to replace Gan Guoyang from the court ahead of time, but Gan Guoyang shook his head at Adelman, so Adelman put Gan Guoyang on the court until the end of the game.

At this time, what Adelman is most concerned about is not that Gan Guoyang can score more points on the field and save some face for the team, but that Gan Guoyang will not be injured, especially when playing against a team like the Pistons. Tactics are more of a psychological tactic. There are not many players who were actually injured because of playing against the Pistons, but Adelman still inevitably has to worry about this problem.

Fortunately, Gan Guoyang played safely until the last second. Even the Pistons replaced the main players to meet the applause of the fans, but Gan Guoyang, as the absolute main force, still stayed on the court, even if the players around him were all Players on the edge of the bench.

When the final whistle blew, the whole Auburn Hills Arena cheered. , It also means that the team's transaction has achieved initial success. Aguili played very well in this game. More importantly, the relationship between him and his teammates is extremely harmonious. The bull's leading big man becomes the pawn of the Pistons.

The top star of the Pistons, Isiah Thomas, only scored 6 points and made only 11 of 2 shots. His performance was not bad, but the Pistons can still rely on their strong overall strength, correct and effective strategies, and take advantage of the Blazers. In the case of lack of people and a lack of lineup, it gave the opponent a head-on blow.

Although there are various unfavorable factors on the Blazers side, the final result is beyond many people's expectations, especially Gan Guoyang's performance, which is particularly bad under Dennis Rodman's harassment, which is typical. Rats eat elephants, low-grade horses replace high-grade horses.

Therefore, after the game, the Pistons players were extremely excited, while the Trail Blazers players were extremely depressed. Winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs, but the Trail Blazers this season have really tasted too little failure. There is only one failure.

At the press conference after the game, Gan Guoyang had to accept questions from the reporters without exception, especially when the Blazers lost, the reporters always had a lot of questions.

When a reporter asked Gan Guoyang why he did not leave the game at the last moment, Gan Guoyang replied: "I told the coach that I want to stay on the court and I don't want to leave, although I know we played badly tonight and the victory is gone. Hopefully, but I can't sit on the bench and watch the team lose. Even if I don't play well tonight, if I sit on the bench, there's nothing I can do."

"Also, I don't want to watch the sports news at night, and the camera of the TV station will scan the Blazers' bench and give me a big close-up." After Gan Guoyang's answer, he still didn't forget to add something, which triggered the reporter's attention. They laughed, but Gan Guoyang himself could only smile embarrassingly.

That's right, Gan Guoyang didn't want himself to be swept into the "All Beings". In fact, he didn't even watch the TV after returning to the hotel. He was so embarrassed by Rodman during the game.

When Gan Guoyang was lying on the bed feeling a little idle, the door was knocked, Gan Guoyang opened the door, and then saw Adelman standing at the door holding a video recorder in his hand, Gan Guoyang hurriedly let Adelman in.

"Good news, I borrowed a good VCR from the hotel, the one we brought with us broke down; bad news, Drexler could have returned on the 28th, but there was news from Portland, He needs to be observed again, his foot injury is repeated, we hope he can maintain his best state until the playoffs.” Adelman said to Gan Guoyang when he came in.

"That's right. If Clyde gets injured in the playoffs, that would be the worst. Now we can get through it, it's just a game." Gan Guoyang said while sitting on the bed.

"Yes, one game, but we made a lot of mistakes, you know, the whole league is watching us now, studying how to beat us, every time we fail, it will be analyzed by the coaches of other teams Go, find a way to defeat us." Adelman said while installing the video recorder on the TV in Gan Guoyang's room.

"Yes, but most of them failed." Gan Guoyang walked aside and poured Adelman a glass of water.

"But as long as they're a little bit successful, every team is a little bit successful, somebody's going to find a way to deal with us. I bet this guy Pat Riley is watching tape of our game against the Pistons right now, trying to figure out how Limit you, how to limit our fast break, how to limit Sabonis' pass, how to deal with Williams on the bench." Adelman is like Grandet at this time, afraid that the opponent will study them and steal a piece Bits of victory.

Adelman's worries are neither superfluous nor superfluous, because every team has to face so many opponents and play so many games in the regular season. Although they will target one or two teams, it is impossible to keep an eye on them every day. A team, with the strength of the Trail Blazers in many cases, does not need to adjust very much. As long as there are no injuries and all the way to the end of the season, the problem will not be too big.

Needless to say, it is for the playoffs. The regular season is the practice field, and the playoffs are the real battlefield. It will be too late to study strategies and tactics in the playoffs. During the regular season, we must find more problems , Solving problems, especially some key problems, is likely to be fatal in the playoffs.

The Detroit Pistons are the biggest favorite in the Eastern Conference this season. They were the champions last year. It's as simple as a small forward misplaced to defend a center. Gan Guoyang was defeated by the entire Pistons system, not by Rodman.

This is also the scary thing about the Pistons. Special tactics need to be practiced repeatedly in normal times. It seems that Daly has long been prepared for how to deal with Gan Guoyang.If Adelman doesn't make some preparations, then Gan Guoyang will be restricted by the opponent's team in the playoffs, which will be fatal.

"Okay, the video recorder is installed, let's watch tonight's game, I know you don't want to watch it, but we need to improve, and I have some good suggestions for your style of play. The husband discussed it, and I think these suggestions are very good." Adelman said to Gan Guoyang after finishing the video recorder.

Gan Guoyang nodded after hearing this. As long as he can make improvements and make progress, watching a video of a loss is nothing.

However, when Adelman turned on the video recorder, Gan Guoyang still couldn't bear to see his own performance in it. He missed the ball, missed the pass, couldn't get the ball, missed the hook, and got fouled by pushing Rodman. He scolded Lambiel and got a technical foul, and until the end of the game, he ran back and forth on the court alone. All this, coupled with Gan Guoyang's recollection of the game process, not only gave him goosebumps.

At this time, Adelman's suggestion made Gan Guoyang think again.

"Look, Gan, you try to rely on your running position to get rid of Rodman's entanglement, but how can you entangle a small forward? And you find no, your position is too close to 45 degrees down, too close The bottom line, these balls near the bottom line, you look here, here, here, several players of the Pistons are surrounding you, you should also know that this position is the easiest to fall into defensive traps, and we often create You have fallen into such a trap now."

Adelman actually pointed out a very important issue, that is, Gan Guoyang's positioning. As an insider, Gan Guoyang's great advantage is his flexible positioning. A place to catch the ball and start the offense.

However, there are two problems caused by such erratic positioning. One is the increased difficulty for teammates to cooperate with him, and the other is that Gan Guoyang will sometimes be driven into the opponent's defensive trap unconsciously.

"Look here, I stopped the video, Sally, Lambiel, Rodman, formed a small encirclement at this position, and you fell into this small encirclement, you see you are on the left, I know that You are most comfortable with the ball in this place, and turning to the baseline is also your forte, but the opponent also knows your intentions.” One of Gan Guoyang’s best attacking tricks is to catch Sabonis’s pass from the baseline or a little outside after slipping the baseline The mid-range jump shot is an easy way to score. In general games, Gan Guoyang can score seven or eight points with this kind of running position, catch and jump shot.

But tonight, Gan Guoyang didn't take any of such easy scoring opportunities.

"Gan, I want to say that your skills are really comprehensive. It is very, very rare for an inside player to slip the bottom line to catch the ball and score a jumper like you; but I want to say that you can score in this way, Paxson , Cosey, and Clyde can do it, and even Brans can do it. If it were them, would the opponent defend in such a targeted manner? I don’t think so, but when they meet you, they will. So, in the future I will not arrange such a tactic for you again, you need to go to a more important and deadly position." After speaking, Adelman pointed to the TV with his finger, pointing to three positions, one low, one Horn position, an arc top.