Chapter 106: The Horror Lakers
Updated: 2013-11-19
"Keeping your focus and competitiveness from the first second, this is the Lakers, and slackness will only make our death more ugly."
Gan Guoyang's mind remembered what Ramsey had said to him before the game, this is a game against the Lakers, and you have to give it your all.
From the moment of scrum, Gan Guoyang did his best!
He didn't move the ball in his own direction, but grabbed ahead of Abdul-Jabbar, relying on his superior bounce speed, and slapped the ball directly to the frontcourt.
The basketball flew unbiased to Mitchell, who was inserted between the two Lakers players? Sampson.
Sampson also didn't expect Gan Guoyang to shoot the ball to this side, the ball was not held firmly in his hand, and two Lakers players grabbed it.
But the strong Sampson still protected the ball, and in the gap he saw that Gan Guoyang had started to run to the front.
"Oh my God, Trail Blazers center, Gan, ran to the frontcourt, Sampson threw the ball out in the gap, Gan bent over to pick it up, and only Magic was next to him. Gan dribbled the ball and he threw the ball to the rebound! The ball bounces back and dunks in the air! ”
"Beep!" The referee's whistle blew.
But the whistle couldn't stop Gan from dunking the ball into the basket with one hand, and his man had already fallen heavily to the ground.
"Hmm~~" There was a low boo from the arena, and obviously everyone was stunned by Gan Guoyang's opening performance.
Under the interference of Magic Johnson, Gan Guoyang threw himself and dunked the ball into the basket, which also caused Johnson's foul.
"Are you alright?" Drexler stepped forward and asked, and Gan Guoyang was pulled by Johnson and lost his balance in the air, thus falling to the floor.
"I'm fine, I'm fine now." Gan Guoyang slowed down on the ground, felt that there was no problem, and jumped up from the ground, it seemed that there was indeed no problem.
The referee signaled for a foul on Johnson on the side, and at the same time picked up the ball and pointed to the free throw line, allowing Gan Guoyang to add a penalty.
"Oh, this year's Chinese Eye Show gave the Lakers a dismissal at the beginning, and the free throws were also scored, let's see how the magic responds."
Gan Guoyang hit a free throw and scored three points for the Trail Blazers in the opening game.
"It seems that this guy is in great shape, and hopefully he can stay on the court." Coach Ramsey thought to himself.
At this point, the Lakers were already on offense, Johnson quickly advanced past the half, and their small forward James? Worthy made a big circle from left to right, relying on the cover of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rambis, escaping Valentin's defense and finding a point guard on the baseline.
Johnson was standing on the left side of the court, and without pause, his left hand flicked and the ball flew past the heads of the two Trail Blazers players and came to Worthy like a locator missile.
Worthy made a shot, but unfortunately the opening hand was stiff, and the ball smashed into the basket and didn't go in.
Gan Guoyang prepared early under the basket, and it was impossible for Abdul-Jabbar, who is 37 years old this year, to rush to the front court for rebounds, so Gan Guoyang grabbed the ball with one hand.
"Wow, Gan grabs the rebound like Moses when he was younger? Marlon took it with one hand...... But he passed the ball to the front again! ”
Gan Guoyang didn't hesitate after winning the rebound, because he had already seen Jim? Paxson.
Because Magic Johnson is 6-foot-9 tall as a point guard, it is impossible for Valentine to defend him. Paxson goes to mark,
But also to Jim? Paxson's counterattack brought convenience, as soon as he saw Gan Guoyang win the backcourt rebound, he immediately started, and the basketball flew straight to Paxson's hands like an eye.
Paxson received the ball at the top of the arc, dribbled and jumped, and an easy layup added two more points to the Trail Blazers. 5:0。
Johnson didn't dare to foul again after Paxson, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to play in the first quarter.
"The Lakers got off to a bad start and were beaten twice in a row by the Trail Blazers, is anyone wondering who the Magic is? The energy shown by Gan is astonishing. "Zike? Hearn said a little helplessly.
But the game has just begun, and if those two balls can disrupt the Lakers, the Lakers won't be the king of the West.
Johnson was still very calm on the dribble, while his left hand was pointing around and directing his teammates' movements.
When he reached the three-point line, Johnson habitually turned his back to the basket and put his ass against Drexler to protect his ball.
Because he is too tall, Johnson is often prone to steals by small people when he is in possession, so he always carries the ball with his back to the basket on the perimeter.
The other three Lakers players moved to the left side, and the three formed a line to keep the Trail Blazers players in the way.
On the right side, it was handed over to Abdul-Jabbar, who stuck Gan Guoyang's important position in the waist position.
Although Gan Guoyang is young and strong, his height has always been his disadvantage, and as soon as Abdul-Jabbar leaned back, he found that he could barely see what was happening on the court.
Johnson hands the ball to Abdul-Jabbar, who dribbles, turns right and moves inside, hooking the ball with his left hand!
The ball bounced twice off the basket and still fell into the net.
It's a move that Abdul-Jabbar has been doing for more than 20 years, but no one can completely stop him from throwing the ball in, not even Gan Guoyang.
Although he had tried his best to squeeze and push, when Jabbar stretched out his long arm and made a hook motion, it was still so far away and unstoppable.
"Consume him! Consume him! Ramsey shouted from the sidelines, reminding Gan Guoyang not to think about being able to defend Jabbar with every ball, but to make it more difficult for him to score, so that in the second half of the game, the 37-year-old Jabbar may not have the physical strength to continue to score.
Coming to the offense, Gan Guoyang did not go to the low post, but came to the high post to make a wall, according to Ramsey's arrangement, the main strategy of the opening Trail Blazers was to rely on the peripheral conduction to open up the space, and use the breakthrough to kill the Lakers' interior line.
The Lakers players have an advantage in individual ability, but their two interior players are Abdul-Jabbar and Lambis are slow, so the Trail Blazers want to use the vitality of the outside line to impact the Lakers' interior line.
But the Lakers' outside players were unmoved by the interspersed runs of Vanderwich and Paxson, and still shrank around the three-second zone to protect their interior line.
With Gan Guoyang's cover, Valentin had space on the outside to observe the situation on the court, and he spotted Vanderwig cutting in from the right side to the basket, so he made an overhead through ball and passed the basketball to Vanderwicki.
But he underestimated the Lakers' defensive attention, and the ball got stuck near the free-throw line during the flight. Worthy bumped into it and changed course.
Byron? Scott cut the ball off and the Lakers launched a counterattack!
Scott passed the ball across the half court, and the ball reached Worthy's hand, who was about to dribble the ball quickly, but he didn't expect Gan Guoyang to appear in front of him, and a pair of long arms almost surrounded him.
This is one of the reasons why Ramsey put Gan Guoyang in the high position and did not let him sink into the low position, allowing him to delay the Lakers' fast attack.
Gan Guoyang's delay had an effect, Worthy almost lost the ball, barely controlled the ball, the whole Trail Blazers team had returned to the defense in place, and the Lakers' fast attack could not be played.
Worthy could only pass the ball back to Johnson and let him organize the attack.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Worthy goes to the right, and Scott follows! Johnson commanded loudly with the ball.
At this time, Abdul-Jabbar was late, but he also did not go low, but stayed at the top of the arc; The Lakers' power forward Rambis also came to the right side of the three-point line to cover the Magic.
The Trail Blazers' attention was focused on the Magic, who felt that he was going to block up with Rambis, but didn't notice Byron, who was also on the right? Scott had already swapped cross-screen positions with Worthy on the baseline, and Scott slipped to the weak side of the Trail Blazers' defense.
Johnson was aware of everything on the pitch, and at 45 degrees on the right side, he sent the ball to Scott with a surprise cross pass.
At this time, it was too late for Valentine, who had lost his position, to make up for it, and Scott made a 20-foot jumper and the ball went in! 4:5。
"How the fuck the hell is this ball passed?" Gan Guoyang took the ball to the baseline and was amazed by the magician's super passing ability.
In fact, when training in Palm Springs, Gan Guoyang felt that a team with the Magic has to be 100 percent focused, you don't know when he will pass the ball to you, and then you will find that there is a good opportunity to score in front of you.
Now that he is the opponent of the magician, Gan Guoyang knows that he must pay attention to 120% of the concentration.
Back on offense, the Trail Blazers are yet to score in the positional offense, and they need a goal to be determined to execute their tactical routine.
This time Gan Guoyang began to sink to the low position, but this was just a false move, after standing in the low position for a while, he immediately pulled to the high position, and by the way made a cover for Van Dewych, so that Van Dewic successfully reached the position in the low post.
The Lakers made a mistake defensively when they shrank too much and leaked the top of the arc.
After passing the ball to Vandervin, Valentin relied on Gan Guoyang's cover to get to the free throw line, and Vanderwig immediately passed the ball back to Valentin, and there was an empty space in front of him.
Valentine shot, "Bah! "It's a pity the ball didn't go in.
“dame! (Damn)" Valentine roared, it was a very, very good opportunity, but Valentin shot a little impatiently, and the ball swung around the basket and fell out.
"in-and-out, heart-break!" Hearn had the opportunity to utter his famous phrase and joke that Valentine couldn't score a simple goal.
The result of this goal not being scored was that Abdul-Jabbar took the rebound, put the ball in the hands of the Magic, and the Lakers launched a fast break!
When the magician began to advance quickly, no one could stop him, and he found Byron? Scott, a 20-yard long pass, Scott catches the ball and dodges two defenders and makes a layup!
The whole process takes no more than 5 seconds!
Fans of the Great Western Forum Arena once again appreciated Sho-Time's fast break, and they overtook the score!
After suffering the first two blows from the Trail Blazers in the opening game, the Lakers relied on stable offense and good defense to easily turn the score over.
Now, the Trail Blazers are in dire need of scoring in positional battles, and their first five points are all coming from the fast break.
Valentin dribbled across the half court and passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, who was standing at the free throw line in the high post, Gan Guoyang observed the ball with both hands and found that the Lakers' defense was quite meticulous and there was no gap.
At this time, Van Devic asked for the ball on the right side, and Gan Guoyang handed the ball to Van Devic.
Vanderwig averaged 30 points per game in previous games and was the team's leading scorer, and the summer signing has also become Portland's number one star.
When the Trail Blazers can't get out of the way, it's up to Vanderwich to solve the problem.
Vanderwig took a step inside the three-point line to hold the ball, and in the face of Magic Johnson's defense, he suddenly feinted to break through with the ball, and his left foot had already stepped out.
Johnson took advantage of the trend and retracted it, but Vanderwig did not continue to go inside, but dribbled and pushed back, and his whole body suddenly opened two steps away from Johnson.
“it’s-the-kiki-move! (This is Van de Wych step!) Vanderwig shoots from 20 feet! The ball went in, and Magic Johnson couldn't reach it. "Zike? Hearn said helplessly.
Van de Veric's step is Van de Veric's famous stunt, which is a practical tentative step that pretends to break through, but the actual person retracts backwards, so as to open up the distance from the defender and get space to shoot.
"Gan, stand a little further in, go inside!" Ramsey yelled on the side, reminding Gan Guoyang to go a little inside when his teammates were shooting from afar, so that if the shot didn't go in, the chance of picking up the rebound in the front court would be greater.
"Your coach is really long-winded, or you don't understand anything, rookie?" Worthy, who was on the side, listened to Ramsey's words and said sarcastically.
"He's old, aren't you too?" Gan Guoyang sneered at each other, sarcastically saying that Worthy was a verbose old man.
"Be careful, rookie."
When he was in the Palm Springs training camp, Worthy was very unhappy with Gan Guoyang, he didn't expect this Chinese kid to be so arrogant.
Gan Guoyang didn't have time to talk to Worthy, and Abdul-Jabbar had already rushed to the basket.
In the same way that Abdul-Jabbar successfully took the ball in a single game, Abdul-Jabbar and Johnson connected on the right and the other three pulled out on the left.
But this time Abdul-Jabbar didn't play alone, just when Gan Guoyang was concentrating on making Abdul-Jabbar uncomfortable, Magic Johnson, who passed the ball, cut directly inward!
Paxson couldn't react and couldn't stop Johnson, and Abdul-Jabbar made a ground-hitting pass to Johnson, a pass inside and out.
Sampson, who was defending Rambis on the other side, couldn't make up for it, and Johnson made a successful layup! At 8:7, the Lakers overtook again.
“**!” Gan Guoyang smashed the ball hard, whether it was hooking or passing, he had no way to take Jabbar twice defending, which made him extremely annoyed.
"Quick, pass, don't procrastinate!" Valentine reminded that it is normal for opponents to score goals, and he must launch a quick attack to do so.
But by the time he dribbled past halfcourt, it was too late, and the Lakers' defensive formation was already in place, and the Trail Blazers had to play positional offense.
At this time, the Trail Blazers had problems on offense, and the continuous positional offense was not advanced, which gave them a blow to their confidence in executing their tactics, and the previous routine no longer worked.
In the face of the Lakers' tight defense, the Trail Blazers had no choice, and finally let Sampson, a power forward, break through on the outside, only to knock down Rambis and be whistled by the referee for an offensive foul.
"What are you doing! Don't mess up and pay attention to the options of attack! Ramsey yelled off the pitch, extremely unhappy with the attacking choice.
On the defensive end, the Trail Blazers were hit again, Worthy received the ball at the free throw line and hit a jumper from Vanderwicki's defense, 10:7, and the Lakers' offensive seemed unstoppable.
"Yay! ~~"The atmosphere of the Great Western Forum Arena has been completely driven up with the Lakers' consecutive shots, and the Trail Blazers have been in a mess in comparison.
Ramsey had to call a timeout to stabilize the situation on the court.
Gan Guoyang also felt helpless, in fact, the Trailblazers played very well, the opening momentum was full of momentum, and several tactical executions were successful, but the ball did not score.
But on defense, they really have no way to take the Lakers, and he has no way to take Abdul-Jabbar, and when he comes to the game, he feels how strong Abdul-Jabbar is.
And he understands that Abdul-Jabbar is far from giving it his all, so is Johnson, and even the Lakers as a whole aren't giving it their all.
They were just running back and forth a few times following the usual routine.
Only 5 minutes into the first quarter of the game, Gan Guoyang began to feel the horror of the Lakers, and the rest of the game was still very long.
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