The Golden Age of Basketball

The 2-3-2 format of the finals, with the current total score of 2:1, means that the Trail Blazers will stay in Detroit for nearly a week, and all three away games will be played. It is very important to get through the next two games safely and steal one of them.

After the end of the third game, many commentators believed that the Blazers were likely to continue to lose in the fourth game, and then compete with the Pistons for championship points in the fifth game. The crucial Game [-] will be played in Auburn Hills, which will be a huge disadvantage to the team.

After the end of the third game, on the second day, the entire Trail Blazers team finally had time to devote themselves to training, no more plane delays, no more traffic jams, no more honking horns, early in the morning The training started and continued until 6 pm.

The intensity of the training is not too high, because there are still games to come, but the training is very targeted. The intention of the Blazers coaching staff is very clear, which is to solve various problems that occurred in the third game.

The first problem they solve is to adapt to the venue. The Blazers players have played at the Palace of Auburn Hills twice and lost all of them. This is not like the Great Western Forum, which they have fully adapted to. , The basket, the floor, and especially the noise and shouts of the audience made everyone feel uncomfortable.

To this end, the coaching staff thought of a way. Culp got a tape from an amateur documentary shooter who wanted to shoot a documentary about the Finals. He happened to have the scene of the game at the Palace of Auburn Hills. High-definition recording, after Culp bought the tape, he began to play it on a high-pitched speaker during training. For a while, the noise and swear words in the training hall were all over the sky, and the players seemed to have come to the Palace of Auburn Hills in an instant. museum.

Will the names of the players appear in the audio, followed by some swear words, which can scare the Blazers players at first, after all, this is in the training hall, and soon everyone gets used to it, basically no longer will be affected by these external factors.

During the training, Adelman and Behrman gave individual guidance to each player, discussed and communicated in detail about the problems that occurred in the previous game, and strived to be better when they encountered the same problems in the next game. Face these problems better and more calmly.

Throughout the playoffs, the Trail Blazers lost a total of two games, without a losing streak. The closest they were to losing streak was the fourth game against the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. That game was extremely difficult, but they finally survived. Before that game, the Blazers also made extremely sufficient and meticulous preparations, so detailed that Adelman and Bellman communicated, arranged, and rehearsed with each player.

The situation is the same today. This is also the style of the Blazers. Unlike Riley's high oppression and good at inspiring people, Daly's father style is different from the management model of the players who feel like father and son. Adelman's pioneering style The latter is a team that pursues details, control of rhythm, and technical and tactical countermeasures. Although it seems that this is a passionate and aggressive offensive team, in fact they have a strong focus on rhythm and details. His control is the best in the league.

Gan Guoyang, as the only player who played normally and had no problems to solve, was abandoned and practiced three-pointers alone on the opposite field. For the coaching staff, Gan Guoyang never had them to worry about. Now he and Adelman The tacit understanding has reached the level that Adelman knows what he is going to do with just one look. Adelman also has enough confidence in him. In many cases, it depends on Gan Guoyang's decision whether to pause on the court to a certain extent.

Gan Guoyang was practicing three-pointers from all angles, and from time to time he took a break to look at the opposite side. He saw that Behrman was carefully instructing Sabonis on some defensive details, teaching him how to deal with Lambir, an old hooligan.

Compared with when he first arrived in the Trail Blazers a few years ago, Bellman has a few more gray hairs on his head. In this team, he has become an important assistant for Adelman from a cautious rookie. Left and right, sometimes players are more afraid of Behrman than Adelman, because Behrman scolds people too much.

But the changes that Bellman brought to the Trail Blazers are visible. It can even be said that Bellman has injected style into the Trail Blazers. The characteristics of the Trail Blazers are actually the characteristics of the team when Bellman was coaching. Very, very He pays attention to details, is good at accumulating advantages from every detail, and wins in the end, because whether he is coaching a girls' high school, Palo Alto or Gonzaga, his players are all mediocre, and only Gan Guoyang is such a treasure. , so he must pay attention to the details, and must make good use of every bit of advantage to fight against the opponent's talent.

After arriving in the Trail Blazers, Adelman was good at digging talents, and Bellman was good at creating details. The combination of the strengths of the two created such a team with the strongest level in history. Therefore, Gan Guoyang once persuaded Bellman to come to the Blazers The application is also very proud, he really changed the team.

The day's training was extremely fulfilling. After the end, everyone had dinner together, and discussed the tactical details in the hotel at night. The players went to bed early and rested. No one went out to hang out or have fun.

The staff of the team gave each player an earplug and an eye mask, hoping that the players can have a good night's sleep. At the same time, in order to prevent special situations such as the fire brigade suddenly appearing to "extinguish the fire", except for the players and coaches, The other staff did not sleep, but stayed outside the room, and those staff only entered the room to sleep after midnight.

When the Trail Blazers woke up in the early morning of June 6th, they were all full of energy, but a few staff members were a little sluggish. Then the team conducted simple shooting practice and tactical drills in the morning, and went to the Palace of Auburn Hills in the afternoon. After adaptive training, what awaits everyone is the fourth game of the finals.

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At 6:11 p.m. Eastern time on June 7th, the fourth game of the 1989 NBA Finals continued in Detroit. Today happened to be the weekend. According to statistics, the ratings of the finals reached a record high, creating a new historical record since statistics were available. , the highest record of cbs TV station statistics from 1976 was the third war between the celtics and the lakers in 1987, when the ratings reached 15.9%.

The Blazers players continued to play in the noisy Auburn Hills arena. When the dj introduced Gan Guoyang, the audience booed everywhere, because at this time, China had already been criticized and sanctioned by many countries because of the square time. Naturally, Gan Guoyang It was unavoidable to be affected, but Gan Guoyang's expression was unusually calm, and the other players were just like Gan Guoyang, very calm, not at all as uncomfortable as in the last game.

When the Pistons players entered the court and the atmosphere was ignited, the Blazers players formed a circle on the sidelines and began to cheer for themselves, as if shielding everything around them from the outside.

When the players on both sides stood on the floor of the Palace Arena in Auburn Hills again, the Pistons players could clearly feel that the atmosphere of the Blazers was different from the previous game. At this time, they seemed to be not in Auburn Hills, but in Memorial Stadium , everyone's face is quite calm.

Lambiel continued to fight for the ball with Sabonis in the middle circle, while Gan Guoyang crossed his hips, exposing his hard iron elbow, and put his foot between Rick Mahon and Terry Porter.

At the beginning of the last game, Rick Mahon used the opportunity of "competing" with Porter for the ball to bring Porter down and gave the Blazers a blow, so this time Gan Guoyang stood beside Mahon and warned him Stop having extravagant thoughts.

As a well-known villain in the league, Rick Mahon has one of the most powerful big butts in the league, but he still dare not go head-to-head with the "power king" of the league. At that time, Ma Hong was completely abused by Gan Guoyang, and he was completely unable to restrain the mvp.

Ma Hong glanced at Gan Guoyang, but finally withdrew his gaze, and put away some small thoughts in his heart.

After confirming that both sides are ready and saying hello to the technical table, the referee Jess Cosey took the ball to the middle circle and threw the ball into the air.

The fourth battle, which determines the trend of the finals, has begun.