Chapter 481: Careful Planning
The 2-3-2 format of the Finals, with the current overall score of 2:1, means that the Trail Blazers will be in Detroit for nearly a week, and all three away games will be full, so how to survive the last two games in the Motor City and steal one of the victories will be crucial.
Many commentators have argued that the Trail Blazers are likely to continue to lose Game 4 and then compete with the Pistons for a championship point in Game 5, which the Trail Blazers don't want to see at all, because if that happens, the crucial Game 5 will be played in Auburn Hills, which will be very detrimental to the team.
After the third game, the next day, the entire Trail Blazers team finally had time to devote themselves to training, no more plane delays, no more traffic jams, no more horn blaring, and training started early in the morning and lasted until 6 p.m.
The intensity of the training is not too high, because there are still games to be played, but the training is very targeted, and the intention of the Trail Blazers coaching staff is very clear, which is to solve the problems that arise in the third game.
The key problem they solved was the problem of adapting to the venue, the Trail Blazers players played twice at the Auburn Hills Palace Arena, and lost all of them, unlike the Great Western Forum Arena that they have fully adapted to, the baskets, floors, and especially the noise and shouts of the audience made everyone very uncomfortable.
The coaching staff came up with a solution, Culp got a tape from an amateur documentary filmmaker, who wanted to shoot a documentary about the finals, and he happened to have a live HD recording of the game at the Palace of Auburn Hills, and after Culp bought the tape, he began to play it on the high-pitched speaker during training, and for a while the noise and swear words in the training hall were all over the sky, and the players instantly seemed to have come to the Palace of Auburn Hills.
The names of the players still don't appear in the audio, and naturally there are some swear words that can scare the Trail Blazers players at first, after all, this is in the training gym, and everyone quickly gets used to it, and basically will never be affected by these off-court factors again.
During the training, Adelman and Bellman coached each player individually, discussed and communicated in detail about the problems that arose in the previous game, and tried to face these problems better and more calmly when they encountered the same problems in the next game.
In the entire playoffs, the Trail Blazers lost a total of two games, no losing streak, and the closest they came to losing was the fourth game of the Western Conference Finals against the Lakers, which was extremely difficult, but finally survived, and before that game, the Trail Blazers also made extremely full and meticulous preparations, meticulous to Adelman and Bellman to communicate, arrange, and practice with each player.
The same is true today, this is also the style of the Trail Blazers, and Riley's high pressing, good at agitating people, Daley's dad style, and the management model of father and son between players, Adelman's Trail Blazers is a team that pursues details, pursues control of the rhythm, and pursues technical and tactical countermeasures against opponents, although it seems that this is a passionate, open and close offensive team, but in fact, their control of rhythm and details is the best in the league.
Gan Guoyang, as the only player who swings normally and has no problems to solve, was left aside, practicing three-point shooting alone on the opposite court, for the coaching staff, Gan Guoyang never had to worry about them, now the tacit understanding between him and Adelman has reached the point where Adelman has a look, he knows what he wants to go up to the extent that Adelman has enough confidence in him, and many times whether to pause on the court to a certain extent depends on Gan Guoyang's decision.
While Gan Guoyang practiced his three-point shot from all angles, and from time to time he was distracted to look at the other side, and he saw that Bellman was carefully instructing Sabonis on some defensive details and teaching him how to deal with the old rascal Ranbill.
Compared with when he first arrived at the Trail Blazers a few years ago, Bellman's head unconsciously has a few more whites, in this team, he has gone from a cautious assistant rookie to now an important left and right hand for Adelman, and sometimes players are afraid of Bellman more than Adelman, because Bellman scolds people too much.
But the changes that Bellman brought to the Trail Blazers are visible, and it can even be said that Bellman injected style into this Trail Blazers, and the characteristics of the Trail Blazers are actually the characteristics of the team when Bellman was coaching, very, very important to details, good at accumulating advantages from every detail, and finally winning, because whether Bellman is coaching a girls' high school, Palo Alto or Gunzaga, the players under him are all mediocre people, only Gan Guoyang is such a treasure, so he must pick out the details, You must take advantage of every bit of strength to compete with your opponent's talent.
After arriving at the Trail Blazers, Adelman is good at digging talents, Bellman is good at creating details, and the strengths of the two combine to create such a team with the strongest level in history, so Gan Guoyang is also very proud of the fact that he once said that Bellman came to the Trail Blazers to apply, and he did change the team.
After a very fulfilling day, everyone had dinner together, and in the evening they discussed the tactical details in the hotel, and the players went to bed early, and no one went out to hang out and have fun.
The staff of the team gave each player an earplug and an eye patch, hoping that the players could sleep well at night, and at the same time, in order to prevent the fire brigade from suddenly appearing to "extinguish the fire" and other special circumstances, except for the players and coaches, the other staff did not sleep, but stayed outside the room, and those staff went to sleep after the early morning.
When the Trail Blazers players got up in the early morning of June 11, they were all full of energy, but a few staff members were a little sluggish, and then in the morning the whole team carried out simple shooting exercises and tactical drills, and in the afternoon went to the Auburn Hills Palace Arena for adaptive training, waiting for everyone, it was the fourth game of the finals.
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At 7 p.m. Eastern time on June 11, the fourth game of the 1989 nBa Finals continued in Detroit, and today happened to be the weekend, according to statistics, the ratings of the Finals reached 16 percent, creating a new record since statistics, and the previous record from 1976 was the third battle between the Celtics and the Lakers in 1987, when the ratings reached 15.9 percent.
The Trail Blazers players continued to appear at the noisy Auburn Hills Arena, and the audience was even more booed when dJ introduced Gan Guoyang, because at this time, China has been criticized and sanctioned by many countries because of the square time, and Gan Guoyang is naturally inevitably affected, but Gan Guoyang's expression is unusually calm, and the other players are also the same as Gan Guoyang, very calm, not at all the face full of discomfort in the last game.
When the Pistons players entered and the atmosphere was ignited, the Trail Blazers players formed a circle on the sidelines and began to cheer themselves on, seemingly shielding everything around them out.
When the players on both sides stood on the floor of the Auburn Hills Palace arena again, the Pistons players could clearly feel that the atmosphere of the Trail Blazers was different from the previous game, and at this time they seemed to be not in Auburn Hills, but in the Memorial Arena, and everyone had a rather calm face.
Ranbir continued to battle Sabonis in the centre circle, while Gan crossed his waist and exposed his hard iron elbow and landed a single kick between Rick Mahon and Terry Porter.
At the beginning of the last game, Rick Mahon took advantage of the opportunity to "fight" for the ball with Porter to bring Porter down and give the Trail Blazers a dismissal, so this time Gan Guoyang stood next to Mahon and warned him not to think about it again.
Rick Mahon, as a famous villain in the league, has one of the most powerful big butts in the league, but he still doesn't dare to go head-to-head with the league's "power king".
Ma Hong glanced at Gan Guoyang twice, but finally withdrew his gaze, and some small thoughts in his heart were also put away.
The referee of the game, Jess Cosse, after making sure that both sides were ready and greeting the technical table, took the ball to the centre circle and threw it into the air.
The fourth battle, which will determine the trend of the finals, has begun.