The Golden Age of Basketball

During the intermission, Adelman was the only voice in the Blazers locker room. He was not satisfied with the performance of the players in the first half, but he also admitted that the Blazers were not fully prepared tactically.

Sabonis was absent, and the advantage brought by Duckworth's starting game was not brought into play in the first half of the game, but the disadvantage was wiped out by the sun.

Because of the lack of a strong inside support and passing point, the Blazers' offensive routines have become relatively single, and the fluency of the offensive position has declined. The state of the halftime was really bad.

At the same time, Duckworth does not have the ability to pass like Sabonis. When he gets a rebound from the backcourt, it is difficult to directly launch a quick counterattack. This also makes the Blazers' best fast break play only [-]%.

The advantage of this lineup lies in defense. Duckworth is better than Sabonis in single defense and assist defense. More importantly, with Duckworth, Gan Guoyang's perimeter oppressive defense can be more unscrupulous, but The Suns' offensive and tactical coordination is quite good today, and they have well distributed the functions of the three points of Kevin Johnson, Tom Chambers and Hornacek, Mark West and Corbin, and Eddie Johnson on the bench has played very well, and the Blazers can keep the score difference within 20 points, which is considered a high profile.

Adelman said a thousand words and ten thousand in the locker room, and he knew in his heart that the most important thing is to see whether Gan Guoyang's state can recover. In such a good situation, it is difficult for the team to win.

But Gan Guoyang sat there without saying a word. He was also trying to reflect on himself. In the first half, he felt that he couldn't exert his strength, especially after the offensive end was hindered, and even the defensive end became a little impatient. Looking up, this is obviously not a good phenomenon.

"We have completely lost our rhythm of the game. Looking at our performance, singles, turnovers, omissions, there are many small mistakes that should not have occurred, and the accumulation has become the current situation. The first thing we have to do in the second half, It is to reduce turnovers, reduce turnovers, reduce turnovers!" Adelman said three times in a row to reduce turnovers, because the Blazers made an astonishing 15 turnovers in the first half. If you want to use fast breaks to get points, the result is that the team made a lot of mistakes. Not only did they not get back the points, but they gave the opponent a chance to counterattack, and the point difference further expanded.

Adelman believes that the team's problem is not in tactics, but in mentality. Compared with the last two games, the Blazers' tactics have not changed much. Although the Suns have made adjustments, they still play those few Personally, there will not be any huge changes. In the final analysis, it is the mentality that changes.

Sweeping their opponents easily for five consecutive games made the Blazers feel relaxed psychologically. They felt that a team like the Suns who had no defense at all would be another 4-0 sweep. Energy, the core of the Blazers has fallen into the quagmire again, so it's no wonder they don't lag behind.

The second half of the game is about to start, and the players are about to return to the field to start the second half of the game. It was Gan Guoyang who stood up first, walked to the center of the locker room and said to everyone: "I really hope to go home, but I hope the next time When we stood at the Memorial Stadium, it was in the Western Conference Finals. Absolutely, never give the enemy any chance. To give the enemy a chance is to dig his own grave. We must recover every point, because we are the best in history. of!"

After Gan Guoyang raised his hand high, the others also stood up, gathered around Gan Guoyang, and put their hands on Gan Guoyang's.

"E-on! Blazers!"

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If a team wants to win, it is of course useless to just shout slogans. In this kind of backward adversity, I don’t know how many teams shouted cheering slogans hoping to make a comeback, but where is the hole they dug? It is so easy to fill in.

The second half of the game began quickly, and when they returned to the court, Sun fans began to wave their white towels again. The atmosphere here was not worse than Portland at all.

"The second half of the game is about to start. The Suns took a 19-point lead. They completely suppressed the Blazers in the first half, with smooth offense and fighting spirit, while the Blazers kept making mistakes, mistakes, and then again. They made too many turnovers. And Gan only scored 6 points in the first half, which may be his worst first half of the season.” Don Patrick did not criticize Gan Guoyang because he is a shareholder of ESPN He was merciful, because Gan Guoyang's performance was indeed poor, and the only thing worthy of praise was that his mistakes were still well controlled.

In the second half, the Blazers still started with Duckworth, and their tactics have not changed. Adelman firmly believes that it is very taboo to change the overall tactical thinking in a game. There is no big problem with their tactics in this game. The problem lies in Player mentality.

But after the start of the second half of the game, Adelman realized that there was indeed a problem with the team's mentality, but the team's tactical preparation might be the bigger problem.

"Porter passes to Cosey, Cosey gets double-teamed, Cosey tries to pass the ball to Gan, but... there's chaos, the ball goes out of bounds!"

In the first round, Porter passed the ball to Cauchy. Cauchy wanted to pass the ball to Gan Guoyang at 45 degrees. Throwing the ball to Gan Guoyang in a panic, the pass was not in place, Gan Guoyang and West squeezed together, Hornacek on the side also rushed to grab the ball, as a result, he rushed out of the baseline with the ball , The person who hit him turned his back on his back.

"Beep!" The referee blew his whistle, hesitated for a moment, communicated with another referee, and whistled the Suns' ball.

Gan Guoyang was also very helpless. Hornacek was too exchanged. He didn't go for the ball at all, but for people. out.

This one looks honest, and he really can't be underestimated at all. He has the same virtue as Stockton.

Hornacek had just successfully interfered on the defensive end, and immediately made another contribution on the offensive end.

After serving the ball out of bounds, Hornacek took the ball and advanced quickly. He didn't give the Blazers a chance to return to the defensive position, and passed the ball directly to Tom Chambers on the right. Chambers wanted to break through with the ball, but Gan Guoyang blocked in front of him. , he immediately weakened his legs and passed the ball to Corbin, who came in from the back. field rebounds.

Hornacek didn’t make a layup. He knew that Gan Guoyang was back, and he would definitely be blocked for the layup, so he passed a pass to West who slid to the left baseline. West caught the ball from the baseline and made a 12-foot spot-up jumper. .

"This cunning guy!" Gan Guoyang couldn't help cursing secretly in his heart. In the NBA, Gan Guoyang has never been afraid of those big old thick-muscled bastards. Anyway, he is invincible in strength. He is not afraid of anyone, but like Hornacek Such old fritters have always been the type that Gan Guoyang hates the most. When he was a rookie, he was miserable by such old fritters.

The same type is Stockton, but the key is that he and Stockton are old teammates and are quite familiar with his style of play, so Gan Guoyang is very good at targeting Stockton, while Huo, who looks more honest and innocent Although Nacek has only entered his third year in the NBA, he is really an old fox. He has a good control over the situation of the game. Kevin Johnson is just an assaulter, while Hornacek really manages the situation on the court. general.

The game quickly returned to what it was in the first half, but the Blazers made fewer mistakes, and Gan Guoyang's touch began to recover. Mark West's method of putting Gan Guoyang's left hand in the first half was connected by Gan Guoyang in the same position. Two left-handed hook hits were beaten.

However, the Blazers' own offense was normal, but they couldn't defend against the Suns' offense. The Suns' defensive methods in the first two games have been cracked. The Suns players completely let go of their psychological restraints and let go of their hands. The strength of the second attack force, the point difference has been maintained at 15 points.

This was consumed until the end of the third quarter, and Adelman finally couldn't sit still. He pointed to the bench and said, "Get ready to play and replace Duckworth."

"Mark West defensive foul, Gan going to the free throw line... Blazers change, Adelman, Adelman replaces Jim Paxson, replaces Kevin Duckworth, and Any other moves? No more, they replaced their center forward with a shooting guard, and the Blazers are going to play one big and four small!"