"The Nuggets' home cheerleaders are showing off their beauty and sexiness on the court, and I think the Los Angeles cheerleaders in the entire league can probably surpass them. And the Portland Trail Blazers will have to step up if they want to see a more exciting cheerleading show in Los Angeles. At the end of the timeout, the two sides were back on the court, and now with 3:13 left in the first half, the Trail Blazers trailed the Nuggets by 14 points at 45:59, and their offense in the first half was just terrible. ”

In the first half, the state of the Trail Blazers and Nuggets was simply a U-turn compared to the previous game, and the Trail Blazers were in no form on the offensive end, shooting less than 40 percent, which was their lowest first half in this playoffs.

In comparison, the Nuggets did not play at a super level, but against such a trail blazer, the Nuggets only need to play normally, and when they returned to the home court, they got rid of the cold feel of the last game and rediscovered the offensive feeling in the fiery cheers of the home fans.

At the end of the first half, Ramsey had to call a timeout, hoping that his players would be a little more uplifted and finish the first half so that the Trail Blazers would have room to save in the second half.

"Patience, no matter what kind of situation you encounter, you must be patient, do not rush, and ensure the success rate! Our goal now is not to let the margin continue to widen...... "The timeout has come and Ramsey continues to tell the players on the sidelines.

"Beep beep beep ~ The pause time is over! Please get back on the pitch soon! The referee started urging the Trail Blazers on the sidelines.

"Come on! Play to your true level! Don't be knocked out by your opponents! 'Ramsey finally let the players play.

Ramsey was deeply worried before the game that this would happen after coming to the Nuggets' home court, and it was all too common for any team to come back to the home court to bounce back from 2-0.

Ramsey's biggest concern is not that he loses this game, but that the Trail Blazers' momentum will be overwhelmed by the Diggers because of this road trip, and if that is the case, the course of the series could be changed.

You know, when Ramsey led the Trail Blazers to win the championship in 1977, they won four games in a row. Now, Ramsey doesn't want the opposite to happen to the Trail Blazers.

As the game continued, the Trail Blazers served the sideline, and Ramsey was on the lineup he thought was the most stable, Gan Guoyang, Sampson, Vanderwic, Paxson and Valentin, which were the Trail Blazers' usual starters during the regular season.

Paxson served from the outside, Valentin received the ball and began to organize the attack, and during the timeout, Ramsey asked Valentin to increase the penetration of the interior and wait for an opportunity to find an open shot from his teammates.

At this time, Ramsey's tactical conservative type is reflected, and he wants to try to maintain this difference in the first half and see you in the second half, rather than seizing all the time to chase a point.

Therefore, Valentine dribbles the ball unhurriedly on the outside to look for opportunities, and Gan Guoyang has mentioned the upper line to make a one-block cover for Valentin.

The Trail Blazers' most common positional offensive tactic is to rely on the cover of the center and point guard to open the gap in the opponent's defense on the line, and then use the covering of the shooting guard, small forward and power forward to find shooting opportunities.

"Valentin cut in from the top of the arc, the Nuggets shrunk the defense, he passed back to Gan, Gan passed the ball to Paxson, Paxson caught the ball and jumped! The ball is in! The Trail Blazers finally scored, and I think they haven't scored in a field game for almost two minutes. ”

The Trail Blazers relied on a skillful combination to score two points, and Paxson rewrote the score to 47-59 with the help of Sampson's covered C&s, and the gap was reduced to 12 points.

However, another big problem for the Trail Blazers in this game is that they can't stop the Nuggets' offense.

"Lief passes the ball to Iseer, who holds the ball and breaks through the middle! Throw! The ball is in! The referee's whistle also sounds, see who has committed the foul? ”

One big change for the Nuggets on the offensive end today was to start reusing veteran Dan Iser, who didn't get much of his chance due to injury in the previous game where Wayne Cooper took up the vast majority of his playing time.

But although Iser has old arms and legs, his awareness and skills are still there, and when he and Knight are on the court at the same time, the Nuggets' interior height is insufficient, but they are flexible and have a wide range of attacks.

Gan Guoyang had to go out often to defend Iser when he was on the field, but even if he followed, Iseer had first-class breakthrough ability among interior players, and his outstanding rhythm control ability made Gan Guoyang suffer a lot.

"I didn't touch him! My hand was just up, why for a foul? Gan Guoyang looked at the referee and pointed at him, saying that he had committed a foul, and Gan Guoyang's face was full of helplessness.

With this foul, Gan Guoyang has committed three fouls in the first half, in fact, his performance in the first half was not bad, 11 points and 9 rebounds, but it doesn't seem to be as big a help to the team as it used to be.

"The Trail Blazers have to make substitutions, and Isere's play played a key role in this game, and when Gan is not on the court, the Trail Blazers' defensive level has to drop a notch, and in this game, their defense is bad enough."

“**！” Gan Guoyang, who returned to the bench, slammed the towel hard. Since entering the second half of the season, until the playoffs, Gan Guoyang has rarely been plagued by fouls.

On the one hand, it stems from the rigorous technical training he underwent in high school and college, which made his defensive movements very standard and not prone to excessive fouls; On the other hand, he has gradually learned to control the number of fouls he has drawn and he has learned that staying on the court is the best help for the team.

But in this game, seeing the Nuggets' offensive wave rising higher and higher, Gan Guoyang, as the defensive core of the interior, was doing his best to suppress any Nuggets player who tried to attack in the three-second zone from beginning to end, and his block statistics in the first half were three.

But because of this, his foul got out of hand, and Ramsey had to replace him with Kenny Carr.

"You're doing a good job, but you know this guy Isel, he's an old fox, and when I was playing in the NBA, this guy was already in the league, and now I'm an assistant coach, and he's still playing." Rick Adelman, who was sitting next to Gan Guoyang, comforted Gan Guoyang in this way, Gan Guoyang has suffered a lot from Iseer this season.

From the first meeting between the two sides in the regular season, Nuggets head coach Doug Mo often let Iseer play to defend Gan Guoyang, or to play Gan Guoyang on the offensive end in a misplaced position, and Gan Guoyang has been played with technique by this old guy several times.

In the playoffs, Isemer's playing time began to decrease, but Gan Guoyang's dazzling performance quickly reminded Doug Mo of the veteran in his hand.

"I've got to teach him a good lesson in this series, or I don't think I have a chance." Gan Guoyang watched Iseer hit a free throw at the free throw line and said to Adelman.

Iser is retiring after the season, and this series is clearly the last time the two will meet on the court.

If Ramsey heard Gan Guoyang say this, he would definitely say to Gan Guoyang that he should put the interests of the team's victory and defeat first, win the game is the most important thing, and don't always think about fighting with the opposing team's players.

But Adelman is different from Ramsey, he heard Gan Guoyang's words, so he responded: "Then you better think about how to improve your single defense skills, your skills in defending the basket are not comparable to the level of your back defense." ”

Adelman's words made Gan Guoyang thoughtful, indeed, in terms of back-to-back defense, Gan Guoyang is not afraid of any center in the NBA, including Abdul-Jabbar.

This is thanks to his superhuman strength and solid training.

But once the opponent turns the basket to the basket, Gan Guoyang will sometimes be more blind, facing some very strong inside lines with the basket, such as Ralph Sampson, Jack Sikma, Dan Isele, Larry Nance, Gan Guoyang will have a time to be deflated.

So Gan Guoyang hates these basket-type inside lines very much, especially when they also add a little mid-range shooting skills, which makes Gan Guoyang, who is responsible for guarding the three-second area, quite difficult - to make up or not to make up?

"Then I have to train myself to be a Transformer who can change his voice at any time......"

Before Gan Guoyang finished speaking, the fans at home interrupted the conversation between the two with a loud noise.

"Dan Isel! Hit a three-pointer at 45 degrees on the right side! Pointers! Oh my goodness, this will be Isser's final season, and he'll be the end of his 15-year professional basketball career, with the seven-time All-Star spending the final decade in Denver. Now, he's giving his last bit to the team. When he hit this three-pointer, the audience gave him a round of applause...... You must know that he made a total of one three-pointer in the regular season this season. ”

To add insult to injury, Iseer poured salt into the Trail Blazers' wounds with a three-pointer that no one expected.

At 47:65, the difference between the two sides has widened to 18 points, close to 20 points.

"I can't believe it, have these two teams changed souls in two days?" Dick Stockton couldn't help but sigh when he saw that the performance of the two sides was very different from the day before yesterday.

At the end of the first half, with Vanderwicki's last shot missing, the score was fixed at 47:65, an 18-point gap, and the Trail Blazers fell behind the Nuggets by a large margin.

However, the Trail Blazers players didn't know that worse things awaited them.

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