On May 4, the first spot in the NBA to enter the division finals was born, and the Portland Trail Blazers won the fourth game with a 7-point advantage of 117-110 on the road, and swept the Denver Nuggets with a total score of 4-0 to successfully advance to the Western Conference Finals.

The Nuggets, who trailed 0-3 before the game, will say they will fight for honor and win a game at home, while the Trail Blazers players hope not to return to Portland and settle the battle in Denver.

But the reality is cruel, and it has been proven that two teams with a large gap in strength, as long as the strong team does not make mistakes, the weak team does not have much chance.

The Trail Blazers made a mistake last year, and this year they learned their lesson by not giving the Nuggets a chance and sending the Angelish to fish with a clean, bald head.

Such an outcome was undoubtedly cruel for Nuggets players, with Inglish coming to the Colorado Plateau in 1979 as a second-round pick, Doug Mo coming to the team in 1980 to bring a new style of play, and then the Nuggets made the playoffs every year from that year on.

By the 1984-85 season, the big trade was completed, the Nuggets became a team powerhouse with all the men, and Inglish became one of the league's best scorers, and they began to try to challenge the order of the West.

It's just that I didn't expect that the Portland Trail Blazers, who helped them reach the next level, completed an even greater transformation with a draft pick and kept the Nuggets out of the division finals for two consecutive years.

In a sense, the Nuggets have a five-year horizon in sight, and they probably won't be able to touch the floor of the Western Conference — unless something miracles happen, like the Trail Blazers got their hands on that pick.

Gan Guoyang hugged Inglish tightly after the game and wished him good luck, this little-known small forward in history, Gan Guoyang did not know him at all when he first arrived in this time and space.

The two encounters in the playoffs made Gan Guoyang realize his terrible, the kind of strong scoring ability that can focus on the weakness of the Trailblazers, and even almost kill the Trailblazers.

Gan Guoyang also shook hands with Doug Mo, but the character coach with buckteeth obviously couldn't hide his disappointment, nodded and didn't say much to greet, and hurriedly walked back to the players' tunnel.

The scene quickly fell silent, and the fans left the stadium in twos and threes, and they were still applauding the Nuggets at the end of the game, encouraging them to perform well for a season, but after all, the team had been eliminated from the competition, and the journey of a season had come to an end.

Gan Guoyang was interviewed by reporters on the sidelines as the best player of the game, and he scored 30 points, 11 rebounds and 4 blocks in this game, and was the biggest contributor to the team's victory.

In an interview this time, Gan Guoyang was finally able to say openly that "I am thinking about the next opponent".

At this time, the other round of semifinals in the West will be played in the fourth game tomorrow, and the Rockets, who won the third game of "Little Tianwang Mountain", led the total score of 2:1, which was also greatly unexpected by people.

Of course, even after falling behind 1:2, most people are still more optimistic about the Lakers, after all, from historical experience, the Lakers are really the number one team in the West, in the past five seasons, they have reached the Finals four times, and they have never played a tie-break in the West.

However, in the 1980-1981 season, the only one of those five seasons that failed to reach the Finals, their defeat was due to the Houston Rockets.

Gan Guoyang was asked who he was more optimistic about the Lakers and the Rockets, and he did not hesitate to choose to be optimistic about the Rockets.

This does not only come from Gan Guoyang's knowledge of some historical processes, after all, some history has been changed by him, Gan Guoyang is more out of the sensitivity of a professional player to judge the victory or defeat of the series.

In the first three games, Gan Guoyang watched the live broadcast without pulling all the games, which is different from Gan Guoyang in the past, in the past, Gan Guoyang was a person who didn't even bother to check the schedule, often after one game, he couldn't understand who he would play against.

From the live broadcast, Gan Guoyang can clearly feel the Lakers' weakness, especially in the third game, in Houston, the Lakers' troika has been playing at its best, but he still lost this game, not because he was killed, nor because he was unlucky, but he really couldn't beat the opponent in the fourth quarter.

The Rockets' tall and strong, coupled with championship coach Bill Feige's command, made the Purple and Gold feel like they couldn't beat their opponents for the first time.

You must know that in 1981, the Rockets were able to knock out the Lakers in the first round, in addition to the play of Moses Malone, the conflict between Magic Johnson and head coach Westhead became public, and the internal crisis of the team was also an important factor in the loss of the defending champion.

Even if he missed several finals, losing to the 76ers in 1983, the 76ers were too strong on the one hand, but Worthy's absence due to injury was also one of the reasons.

In 1984, they lost seven big games, which also had an element of bad luck, and they were indeed very close to the championship, and the following year they also succeeded in revenge.

But this time, Gan Guoyang can see that the Lakers are really a little unbeatable.

On May 5, at the Summit Arena, the Lakers once again welcomed the impact of the Twin Towers, and they had to win this battle, otherwise it would be too difficult to meet Los Angeles with a score of 3:1.

But this kind of plot was repeated in the fourth game, the first three quarters of the two sides back and forth, you chased me, first the Lakers took the lead in the second quarter, and at the end of the third quarter, the two sides tied into the fourth quarter, which is not bad for the first three quarters of the third game.

In the fourth quarter, the Lakers' nightmare struck again, and they were bored again!

The troika had little time to rest, James Worthy didn't rest for a minute, and correspondingly, McGregory, who defended Worthy, also played 48 minutes on the court!

The three of them still played very well, Magic Johnson got a triple-double, but apart from these three, there was no fourth point that could stand up to share the pressure for them, and the Rockets' strangulation tactics were successful.

The Lakers, who ran out of energy, were beaten by the Rockets 16:25 in the fourth quarter, and scored only 20 points in the fourth quarter of two consecutive games, and finally they lost helplessly at the Summit Arena, this kind of consecutive loss has not been encountered by the Lakers since 1983.

3:1, to everyone's surprise, the major media have begun to hype the Western Conference finals Gan Guoyang and the Rockets Twin Towers showdown, in the fourth game, Olajuwon went all out to score 35 points and 4 blocks, and the debate about who is the strongest center in the class of 1984 rookies has been fully rolled out.

Gan Guoyang didn't care too much about these saliva, the advantage of the 4-0 victory over his opponent is that he has enough rest, even if the Rockets eliminate the Lakers in the next game, the Western Conference Finals will not officially start until May 10.

On May 5, Gan Guoyang stayed at home for a day and watched the Lakers and Rockets game, and the result was as he expected, so early the next morning, Gan Guoyang resumed training and kept in good shape to prepare for the Western Conference Finals.

Since the start of the playoffs, the amount and content of the team's training have gradually decreased, but the training has become more and more targeted, especially some tactical training, which occupies the main content of the team's training.

However, Gan Guoyang attaches great importance to physical training, and he does not hesitate to torture himself with high-intensity long-distance running, in order to adapt to the increasingly intense playoffs and keep his body in a vigorous competitive state.

After watching the game between the Lakers and the Rockets, Gan Guoyang strengthened his determination to improve his physical fitness, no matter whether the opponent in the Western Conference Finals is the Lakers or the Rockets, physical fitness is definitely the key factor that determines the outcome of the game.

However, Gan Guoyang is still very protective of himself, he knows that incorrect running posture on hard courts and running for a long time will hurt his knees a lot, so he chose to start a three-hour marathon running training on the treadmill.

Driven by Gan Guoyang, all the players of the Trailblazers have devoted themselves to active training, and have carried out targeted exercises for their positioning in the team and their own characteristics.

The coaching staff's Aaron Ramsay, Bellman and Adelman are keeping a close eye on the other semi-final, with their divisional final opponents likely to be decided on May 7.

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Meanwhile, in the East, the Boston Celtics also followed suit with a 4-1 win over the Atlanta Hawks to advance.

The Hawks, like the Nuggets, trailed 3-0 early, only to save some face on the fourth occasion and pull back a point with a big home win.

However, this result is to bring the Celtics back to the home court, in the deafening cheers of the home fans, the 33-point advantage swept the Hawks to advance, this game is simply the Celtics carnival, Larry Bird is naturally the brightest star, scoring a game-high 36 points, McHale also contributed 25 points.

And the Celtics team has a total of 12 players, all of whom got the opportunity to play, and all of them scored!

Even a cooler manager like Rick Carlisle (yes, the Mavericks' head coach later) was given more than ten minutes to play and threw a goal.

If the Hawks had known this, it would have been better to lose four games and come to Boston to be tortured.

On the other hand, the feud Bucks and the 76ers' game was not so easy, they were completely on the bar, from 1:0 to 1:1, then to 2:1, 2:2, 3:2, the Bucks fought for this victory in the fifth key battle of Tianwang Mountain, and they will return to their home court in the sixth game, and the situation is very good.

But the 76ers gritted their steel teeth, Charles Barkley once again scored 23 points and 21 rebounds for a big double-double, and veteran Maurice Cheeks scored a triple-double.

Bobby Jones, who has always been off the bench, came to the starting position and played 28 minutes as a wonder man, shooting 7-of-9 from the field and 9-of-11 from the free-throw line to score 23 points in an incredibly efficient manner.

The 76ers also beat the Bucks on the road, leaving the suspense of the series until Game 7.

At this time, the Lakers, the old rival of the 76ers, had died under a flying immortal-like lore.