(Yesterday's emergency, I didn't even have time to ask for leave online, and today will be two shifts)

When the two sides re-sent their main lineups, the Trail Blazers still maintained a suppressed posture against the Suns.

The Suns do suffer a big loss in the lineup structure, and no one can match Gan Guoyang one-on-one on the inside, whether it is Adams or Jones, there is no way to stop this increasingly skilled insider.

Maybe only the bag can slightly alleviate Gan Guoyang's killing of the inner line of the sun.

"Gan took the ball in the low post, which was his favorite position, and Sanders stepped forward to wrap Gan Guoyang, and Gan passed the ball back to Valentine, who in turn passed the ball back to Gan...... Gan turned around and hooked his left hand! Ball in! Beautiful left-handed hook, Gan's hook is getting more and more proficient! ”

After being defeated by the Sun's two trapping attacks, Gan Guoyang began to think about changing the means of attacking.

Because Gan Guoyang used to run the Sun's inside line and come directly to the basket and then play a small hook, the Sun began to let the players on the line come over to wrap Gan Guoyang and prevent Gan Guoyang from squeezing into the middle.

So, Gan Guoyang changed his strategy, he pretended to turn inside and squeeze in, but after receiving the ball again, he turned directly outside and turned to the baseline, and then performed a left-handed hook that was also practiced hard in the summer, and hit a two-point shot.

The score between the two sides had changed to 51:40 by this time, and the Trail Blazers gradually stretched the difference to 11 points.

In defense, the Trail Blazers' players are also starting to get more and more comfortable, and some covert illegal defense is being played by them.

One of the advantages of zone defense is that it is not easy to be broken by the opponent's punch, and once the opponent has one or two strong single points, the defense is easy to be broken up as the game goes deeper.

The zone defense is a more "labor-saving" defense, players help each other, although it will cause a relatively large hole in the entire defense line, and losing points is inevitable, but the team's defense line can still maintain the formation.

Of course, an even more important reason is that the three-point shot was the nemesis of the zone defense at that time, and it had not yet become the mainstream scoring tool in the league.

"Beep!" At this time, the referee's whistle sounded again, and it turned out that Gan Guoyang had played the side ball again when he was defending, and he paid too much attention to Sanders without the ball, and was blown by the referee for an illegal defense.

"I just looked there a few times, couldn't I just look at it a few times? I didn't turn around, I didn't have the tendency to flank him! Gan Guoyang ran to the referee to argue a few words, now Gan Guoyang is no longer a rookie last season, and the referee has to give a little face to a player like Gan Guoyang.

"You've played a couple of sidelines and I can't let you do it all the time, I've got to give you a foul." The referee is indeed like a torch, although he turns a blind eye to such a side-kick, he still has to blow when it is time to blow the penalty.

Gan Guoyang pretended to shake his head helplessly, but he knew that it was inevitable to be blown by the referee, and he couldn't always let the Trailblazers take advantage.

And the Trail Blazers' defensive purpose has been achieved, which is to disrupt the Suns' offensive rhythm, make their offense fragmented and single, and let them score in a more laborious way, so that the Trail Blazers can win with less effort.

With Adams hitting a free throw, the score came to 51-41, and the Trail Blazers still held a 10-point advantage.

"The Suns continue to attack, Sanders holds the ball and forces a breakthrough! Jams grabbed the rebound, made a layup, and still didn't score, and Paxson took the rebound. ”

The best player in the Suns is Sanders, no way, Vanderwig's defense is really a little worse, Sanders eats him quite easily.

But with Gan Guoyang's supplementary defense, it is not so simple for Sanders to score consecutive goals.

Paxson was the only substitute to stay on the court, and Ramsey was not prepared to continue to play Drexler in the first half, and controlling his playing time allowed him to recover from a leg injury.

With such a lineup, the Trail Blazers began to grind up a positional offense with the Suns, and they wanted to play a success rate.

Gan Guoyang has scored 14 points on 6-of-8 shooting and 2-of-2 free throws in the first half, plus 9 rebounds, and the Suns have nothing to do with him.

But Gan Guoyang's performance did not end, he ran to the left low post and pretended to ask for the ball, but the Sun's defense line was very tight at this time, and if Gan Guoyang held the ball in the low post, he would inevitably be trapped.

So Paxson, who was holding the ball, hesitated and did not pass the ball to Gan, he passed the ball to Van Dewig, who was inserted from the right side.

Van Dewig received the ball and immediately dribbled through the middle, at which time Gan Guoyang had left the low post and walked out, leaving room for Van Devic to break through.

The Suns naturally contracted their defense on the inside, and Adams stepped forward to make a closing goal, blocking Vanderwicki's breakthrough route.

Vanderwig didn't force his shot, nor did he fall into Adams to eat an offensive foul, he turned his head and passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, who was walking out!

At this time, Gan Guoyang was completely empty, and the other players of the Suns did not come up to make up for the defense, Gan Guoyang was unceremoniously shot in the 15-foot position on the left.

"Huh!" Hit a mid-range shot, a 15-foot jumper!

"Yes!" Gan Guoyang clenched his fist after scoring the goal, obviously this kind of mid-range shot scored more exciting than the successful dunk, which was a success that he had only practiced hard for more than a year.

Ramsey, who was on the sidelines, also applauded when he saw Gan Guoyang score the goal, and then sat on the bench on the bench.

Ramsey was unusually happy in this game, yelling at the players no more than twice, even if the team was chased by the Suns all the way, he was not impatient, after all, he had a lot of confidence in the strength of this Trail Blazers - this is the strongest Trail Blazers since 1977.

With the buzzer sounding, the first half of the game ended, and the Trail Blazers went into halftime with a 12-point advantage at 55:43.

43 is indeed too little for the Suns, and under the NBA basketball environment and tactical thinking at the time, a team should generally score around 60 points in the first half and 110 points in the whole game.

The Suns' dysfunction on the offensive end, in addition to the absence of the team's big players and the disadvantage of the roster structure, is mainly due to their lack of adaptation to the Trail Blazers' defense.

Bellman's new defensive system for the Trail Blazers, judging from the first half, was not very pressing, and it was evident from the Suns' turnovers that they only had three turnovers.

But the Suns' offensive rhythm was disrupted, with singles and forced shots taking up the bulk of the Suns' offense, which made their shooting percentage pretty poor at just 37 percent.

In comparison, the Trail Blazers played with ease, they didn't use a lot of aggressive offense, they didn't have many quick offenses that could match the Lakers, Drexler's injury was partly the reason, and the Trail Blazers didn't do their best.

At halftime, the atmosphere in the Trail Blazers' locker room was quite relaxed, and Bellman finally eased up from his overly nervous state after the first half of the game.

'The defense was good, and it would have been nice to have been convicted less of illegal defending. But I still want to emphasize that don't neglect individual defense, don't always think that someone will come and wipe your ass, this is against the Suns, if we face the Lakers, it will definitely not be so easy. 'Ramsey is as always fond of vaccinating his players.

Indeed, in any case in the NBA, one defense and one is the mainstream defensive strategy, and making corresponding changes on this basis is the main idea of the current Trail Blazers coaching staff.

Ramsey also reminded the players not to rely too much on this kind of "side-by-side", and to improve the level of individual defense is king.

However, Gan Guoyang knows that with the development of the NBA, although individual defense will always be the mainstream of the NBA, a variety of defensive systems and defensive strategies will emerge as the times require, which will have a profound impact on the technical and tactical development of the NBA.

If this trend is inevitable, then let the pioneers follow this trend, or even become the "pioneers" of the trend.

The second half of the game continued at the Memorial Stadium, and the score of 55:43 and the 12-point difference were not so insurmountable.

So the Suns launched a fierce counterattack as soon as they came up, and they still took advantage of the Trail Blazers' defensive hole at the Vanderwich point, and took advantage of the advantage of point guard Humphries over Valentin, using the player's individual ability to storm the basket.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's disadvantage of not guarding under the basket was highlighted, and he needed to move a longer distance to return to the basket to make up for the defense, and Sampson was a step worse than Gan Guoyang in terms of defensive effectiveness.

So, Sanders and Humphries began to score in succession.

But the most lethal problem for the Suns is that they can't defend themselves against the Trail Blazers, although Vanderwich was blown up on the defensive end, he is in excellent shape on the offensive end, Sanders has not scored a goal, he will definitely return one on the offensive end.

It is very difficult for a team without defensive intensity to smooth out a large point difference, and the opponent will not always cooperate very well to miss consecutive attacks and give you a chance to counterattack and chase points.

This kind of back-and-forth situation is obviously beneficial to the pioneers.

"Gan and Drexler block and dismantle, Drexler passes, Gan bursts into the inside, and dunks with both hands reflexively! Oh ~ The Suns' interior is fragile, and I think the Trail Blazers are already thinking about their opponents for the next game. ”

Gan Guoyang and Drexler made a blocking and inward cut, Gan Guoyang received Drexler's ground-hitting pass, burst into the inside line through the Suns' double attack, and won the dunk, pushing the atmosphere of the Memorial Stadium to the most.

At this time, the score was 98:77, the game had lost its suspense, and the Trail Blazers ushered in a good start at home, a big win.

After the game, Gan Guoyang, who got 27 points, 14 rebounds and 2 blocks, said in an interview with reporters: "Our form is great, I am very confident in us, although it is the first game, I think we can enter the finals this year." ”

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