After Gan Guoyang turned over and dunked into a two-handed dunk, there was no trace on Ewing's face like an ancient giant.

The young man from Jamaica has long forged a calm and resolute personality in Georgetown, so he did not respond to Gan Guoyang's provocation, but stood on the bottom line to serve.

If the ball had been replaced by Olajuwon, the tough boy from Africa, who had not yet become a modest and disciplined Muslim, he would have either returned one in the attack or would have fought Gan Guoyang directly.

While training at the University of Houston in the offseason, the two had no shortage of sparks.

This may be the difference between Ewing and the other two, he is a perfect team player, but in this commercial league of heroes, he lacks a touch of decisive heroism.

"Gan's dunk is really powerful, Ewing may not have expected Gan to turn around so quickly, like lightning, Ewing has to adapt to the NBA defense, there is no joint defense here." Tom Heinsohn "kindly reminded" Ewing Road.

At this time, the Knicks called a timeout, and Hubby Brown seemed to want to use a timeout to calm down Ewing and not be stimulated by Gan Guoyang's provocation, but he didn't know that Ewing was not moved at all.

'Try to break him down on the inside, but it's important to defend, we need to improve the defensive intensity, they don't have a lot of individual quality, don't let their passing be too smooth.' Ramsey asked the Trail Blazers to defend and rely on defense to pull the score.

The 20-second timeout ended quickly, and the Trail Blazers made a slight personnel change, and Ramsey brought on Terry Porter, who suffered a minor foot injury today, and he was beaten a little badly by Roy Sparrow in the first quarter.

"Defend Sparrow, put some pressure on him." Ramsey patted Porter and said that the rookie had earned Ramsey's trust, he was taller, stronger, and had the same steady style and trained extremely hard.

Ramsey wanted Porter to put some pressure on Sparrow, but he didn't want him to say this, but he actually put pressure on Porter, after all, he was only a first-year rookie and had only played a few NBA games.

Especially when he faced Sparrow, who has five years of NBA experience and is in his playing years.

Sparrow, though only a fourth-round pick, is one of the players who doesn't know which corner he was thrown into before being singled out, and is the kind of small point guard who is most underappreciated, fast, but thin, short, and lacking in power.

But he can gain a foothold in the NBA because of diligence, hard work, and continuous hard work on the court.

In his second year in the NBA, he was traded to Atlanta and secured the position of starting point guard, averaging 10 points and 5 assists per game, and then was traded to the Knicks and became the Knicks' starting point guard.

Now, he's a small point guard with plenty of regular season experience.

Sparrow had already scored seven points and three assists in the first quarter, and now the Trail Blazers have replaced Rookie Porter to see if the young man can cool Sparrow down...... Sparrow passed the ball to Bannest, Ewing was on the left side, but he was killed by Ganka, the ball went to Wilkins, Wilkins dribbled a step, jumped up and passed, gave Sparrow, Sparrow shot! Oh roar~ The ninth point of the first quarter, Sparrow, rewrote the score to 19:20, and the Knicks overtook again. ”

Sparrow didn't fight Potter hard, but started an active run of his own after moving the ball, making a 45-degree circle from the right side to the left baseline.

Ewing was almost unstable by Gan Guoyang's top of the stand, and Bannest naturally couldn't pass the ball to him, so he gave it to Wilkins, who came forward to pick him up from the middle.

Wilkins wanted to break through, but found that Gan Guoyang was eyeing him on the inside, even if he let go of Ewing, he would block the middle, and he rushed in from the middle to be capped.

However, Potter lost Sparrow, and Wilkins passed the ball to Sparrow and shot unguarded.

"Cunning fellow." Gan Guoyang gave this little point guard an evaluation in his heart.

Sparrow's several points were not scored by rushing hard, but relying on accurate movement and good shooting opportunities to shoot, and it just so happened that he had a good hand today, and several goals were scored.

And Gan Guoyang has to spend more time taking care of Ewing today, and it is impossible to fill all the holes on the outside, so Sparrow seems to be so comfortable.

"Follow the people, don't stare at the ball, everyone else will be handed over to me." Gan Guoyang reminded Terry Porter.

Potter could only nod his head, but this sentence is easy to say, after actually standing on the court, especially for small players, there are all long people around, and Sparrow may not be able to find anyone if he goes around it a little bit.

As a rookie, Porter didn't have enough defensive experience to make it easier for him to follow others, let alone set defensive traps.

But the Knicks quickly fell to the back as the Trail Blazers' formidable offensive machine kicked in.

"Drexler received a pass from Gan and gave the ball to Sampson, who dunked! Nice passing, nice fitting. ”

A quick attack, Gan Guoyang received the ball in the low post, and then a cut inside pass to Drexler who cut in from the middle, Drexler faced the rebounding Bennest, and another clever split passed the ball to Sampson, who dunked hard.

"Gan got the rebound in the backcourt, passed the ball to Porter, and Porter pushed ...... Long pass! Drexler catches the ball under the basket and picks the basket to win! Drexler's fingertip basket skills have improved dramatically. ”

"yes, he feels more and more like Irving when he's on the fast break, and as soon as I see him going down I think, 'The Trail Blazers are going to score again!' ”

The Trail Blazers seized another opportunity when Terry Porter made an extremely bold long pass to Drexler, who jumped up to catch the ball near the three-second zone surrounded by three men.

He didn't use feints to shake off his opponent, because there were too many of them, and when he got to the last one, the first one might jump again.

So he simply took advantage of his super speed to get up again, gently picked up the basket with his fingers, crossed the fingertips of the defender, and scored the ball.

When the first quarter ended, the Knicks trailed the Trail Blazers by 8 points at 26:34, not because the Knicks' offense was not good, but because the Trail Blazers' offense was too strong.

"The current Knicks make me feel like they're lacking in talent, they don't have a player other than Ewing who is strong enough to break the offensive deadlock, you know, the tactics don't always work, and when the tactics come out, they need someone to throw the ball into that damn basket." Tom Heinsohn pointed out the Knicks' current predicament, they have no talent, and the only talented man is just starting to sculp.

Their number one star is now recovering from an injury at home, and the pressure on the Trail Blazers would be huge if Bernard King is around.

"That's right, just like the Boston Celtics, there was a Russell, and then he was assisted by all kinds of outside All-Stars, and it took eight straight championships."

"Don't forget, there's me as a power forward, hahaha." Tom Heinthorne was afraid that Dick Stockton would leak himself.

The two CBS TV commentators said a word to me, and they talked and laughed about half of the game in the second quarter, because the scene of the game was really not good.

The Knicks, who also relied on tactical literacy and Sparrow's resistance for a while in the first quarter, suddenly collapsed in the second quarter, and their offense fell into a complete state of silence.

Ewing couldn't beat Gan Guoyang at all except for picking up missed singles, he was defended to death by this senior who entered the NBA a year earlier, Ewing found that Gan Guoyang's strength and single defense skills have evolved to a terrifying point.

With the exception of Ewing, no one else has the ability to attack on their own, and the Knicks can't play except for Bernard King, and the team's other all-around scorer, Pat Cummins, also didn't play due to injury.

A team that does not have the ability to attack independently is pathetic, the opponent does not need any strategy when defending, do not flank, do not defend in advance, do not shrink, do not press, just a simple defense and one can do.

"Oh my God, the Knicks' offense is completely out of the backbone, they don't know how to play anymore, if it weren't for the Trail Blazers' shooting percentage today, I think the score gap would have been even greater." When Dick Stockton said that, the Trail Blazers already had a 15-point lead over the Knicks.

"I feel like Gan doesn't seem to want to attack much, but let's see, he's got five assists tonight, which is very rare, and he's only scored eight points, not a lot of singles."

Heinsohn said, Gan Guoyang won the backcourt rebound again, a long pass passed the ball to Vanderwig, Vanderwig made a jumper at the baseline, but it didn't go in.

Back-to-back still has a great impact on the physical strength of the Trail Blazers players, and their hand feeling is generally average, but the experienced Trail Blazers attackers still use breakthroughs and free throws to constantly widen the gap between the two sides.

For the Knicks, the most important thing is that they can't score goals by themselves, and once they fall into position, they are almost unable to attack, and they can only rely on offensive and defensive conversions to score points.

Soon, Gan Guoyang was replaced by Jones before the end of the second quarter, but judging from the first half, this so-called matchup between Ewing and Gan Guoyang was not so exciting, and there were not many one-on-one conversations between the two, and there was no scene where you hit one and I was the other.

The Knicks are too weak, or the Trail Blazers are too strong, making the game one-sided.

"***, it's a flower again." Gan Guoyang sat on the bench and said in Chinese, and no one understood what he was saying.

At this time, there is also Inman, who has the same feelings, he has begun to doubt, is his judgment of this Trail Blazers wrong, will this year be a good time for the Trail Blazers to win the championship?