Hubby Brown's guess was correct, after determining that the opponent in the semifinals was the Phoenix Suns, Adelman decided to let Duckworth as the team's center, so that the Trail Blazers would have an absolute advantage in size on the inside, 7-foot Duckworth, 6-foot-1o Gan Guoyang, and the opposite Sun took the road of lightweight, the center was 6-foot-1o Mark West, and the big front was Tom Chambers, both of whom were one size smaller than the Trail Blazers inside in terms of weight, height and strength.

Mark West, like Gan, entered the league in 1984 when he was drafted by the Dallas Mavericks, then traded to the Milwaukee Bucks, then sent to Cleveland the next season, until he came to the Phoenix Suns last season and finally landed a solid center position.

Mark West is athletic, and he is a big mouth, he likes to squirt two sentences when he has nothing to do, and he is also bold, no matter who is on the other side, he dares to spray with him, and tonight he didn't have a chance to match Gan Guoyang, so he dumped trash talk on Kevin Duckworth.

Kevin Duckworth has a gentle personality, although he is a little lazy, but he is also very diligent under the spur of Gan Guoyang, but tonight he played as a playoff, or in the playoffs, it is inevitable that he is a little nervous, but he didn't fight for West when he was scrambling for the ball, and West jumped three times to dial the ball from the air to Hornacek.

Although Kevin Johnson is the Suns' point guard, and his average assists per game in the regular season have reached an astonishing 12.2, he is still offensive in his style of play, and many assists come from the point of view after impacting the interior.

"Hornacek's advance was very fast, and the Suns wanted to hit the Trail Blazers with an unstable landing, but Hornacek's ball was destroyed, and Gan poked the ball out of the baseline, and the Suns hit the sideline."

Hornacek was quick to push forward and wanted to hit the Trail Blazers by surprise, Tom Chambers had already rushed to the inside line to receive Hornacek's lob, but Gan Guoyang did not stare at Tom Chambers, but directly stepped forward to press Hornacek, and knocked Hornacek's ball out of the sideline, buying time for the establishment of the Trail Blazers' defensive formation.

"Gan was very accurate in judging the timing, Hornacek walked from the touchline, and just after halftime, Gan immediately came up and pressed, squeezed Hornacek into the corner of the half, and almost caused him to make a mistake." Hubby Brown knows that Gan Guoyang's ball is a big risk, because this kind of fast-moving interior line is most likely to leak a big gap for the opponent to play empty cuts, breakthroughs, and lose points is not too easy, so under normal circumstances, interior players are to fill the basket, even if the opponent wants to play unstable, he can only choose to jump on the outside, so the threat will be much smaller.

If Gan Guoyang played center this time, he would definitely not press Hornacek, but because Duckworth was there, he was relieved to boldly break the ball and cause it out of bounds, and the Trail Blazers showed that they wanted to put pressure on the Suns on the defensive end.

Sure enough, when the Suns re-sidelined the ball, the Trail Blazers were already in a tight position, Kevin Johnson took the ball at the top of the arc for a long time and did not find an offensive breakthrough, the anxious Sun coach shouted outside, but he could only pass the ball to Tom Chambers, who stepped forward to answer, Chambers faced Gan Guoyang and wanted to break through the basket, but missed the basket under Gan Guoyang's interference.

Chambers missed, but Mark West got the rebound and made a layup! The Suns got their first point after the opening! ”

Mark West somehow grabbed the rebound and ruined the Trail Blazers' opening defense, and a simple frontcourt rebound can sometimes be more effective than a clever tactic.

"You're going to get stuck, Kevin, how can you get that fat guy to grab a frontcourt rebound?" Gan Guoyang patted Duckworth's arm, Duckworth looked obviously a little unable to let go, and he didn't feel comfortable yet.

In the subsequent game, Mark West suddenly became the wonder soldier of the Suns, and Gan Guoyang couldn't care about competing for backcourt rebounds because he had to spend energy to make up for defense and help defend outside players.

As a result, Gan Guoyang worked hard to disrupt the Suns' rotation passes, interfere with Kevin Johnson's breakthrough and Hornacek's organization, and defend Tom Chambers alone, their shooting percentage was a mess, but such a successful defense was solved by Mark West's rebound in the front court under the basket, and more than 2o seconds of all-out defense in exchange for conceding two points, which was a big blow to the Trail Blazers' defensive morale.

Not only that, without backcourt rebounds, the Trail Blazers' fast counterattack can't play, so they can only fight with the Suns, fortunately, Gan Guoyang and Drexler are in good shape, and Hornacek and Chambers are in vain in these two positions.

"Hornacek's three-pointer! Missed, but Mark West grabbed the rebound and he passed it back to Kevin Johnson, who broke through the middle for a layup! The Trail Blazers fouled, Duckworth fouled, Kevin Johnson made free throws. ”

Hornacek couldn't defend the ball, threw a three-pointer indiscriminately, and the ball collapsed far away, but Mark West sucked the ball into his hand as if he had a basketball vacuum cleaner in his hand, which was already his fourth frontcourt rebound of the first quarter, and Kevin Johnson made a foul to the free throw line, at which point the Trail Blazers only led the Suns by three points.

"What's the matter with you, Kevin, jam him, watch him, don't let the ball slip through your fingertips!" Gan Guoyang stepped forward and yelled at Duckworth.

And Mark West snickered on the side, muttering: "This big stupid duck can't handle me, this big stupid duck can't get me ............"

Gan Guoyang's heart was on fire when he heard West's words, he knew that West had been spewing trash talk to Duckworth since the first quarter, Gan Guoyang didn't bother to look for a ballast because he didn't oppose West, and now seeing that West was so arrogant, Gan Guoyang knew that it was time to teach him a lesson.

Kevin Johnson made a free throw, Gan Guoyang deliberately walked in the three-second zone after Johnson made the first free throw and switched to the other side, I don't know if Gan Guoyang shook a glance in front of him to remind Johnson of the past, but Johnson missed the free throw in the second ball, Gan Guoyang suddenly stuck Mark West behind him with a quick card position, and then grabbed the long arm, the ball went into his arms, Mark West had no chance to grab the frontcourt rebound, you must know that they are facing the NBA four-time rebounding king, If it weren't for a year in between, five consecutive rebounding champions wouldn't be a problem.

After Gan Guoyang handed the ball to Porter, he ran quickly across the front court, Porter understood it, and also held the ball and advanced quickly, Gan Guoyang did not go to the low post after half court, but stood at the free throw line to ask for the ball.

This position is the easiest to ask for the ball, Porter also took advantage of the Suns players were in the defensive run, and directly hoisted the ball to Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang got the ball at the free throw line, and it was Mark West who defended him at this time, because the Suns' defense has not yet been placed, and everyone is misplaced.

Gan Guoyang paused for a moment after receiving the ball, and then a simple sigma step turned to the basket, regardless of the three-seven-twenty-one directly from the right side to break in, Mark West naturally rushed to the front, but his strength was not enough to block Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang did not add, and used a medium pressure on Mark West to crush in.

Hornacek on the side wanted to reach out for the ball, but Gan Guoyang dodged it with both hands, and at the same time he also started to start, jumping directly against Vester in two steps.

"Gan broke through the middle and pressed West for a direct dunk! Oh, West was knocked to the ground, the referee didn't blow the whistle, no one fouled, it was a good shot. Patrick was also shocked when he saw Gan Guoyang's ball, this ball is indeed too domineering, Mark West is similar to Gan Guoyang in height and weight, but Gan Guoyang can run West in and dunk in his face through people.

After scoring the goal, Gan Guoyang glanced at West who fell to the ground, and then said: "You can't handle me, you can't handle me......"

West glanced at Gan Guoyang helplessly, and could only stand up from the floor with the support of his teammates, indeed, if he was one-on-one with Gan Guoyang, West would definitely not be able to handle him, like Tom Chambers, and Gan Guoyang one-on-one, he basically gave up, just looking forward to Gan Guoyang's own hand not to score.

At the same time, Gan Guoyang said to Duckworth while returning to the defense: "Get him, duck, or I'll get you!" ”