Chapter 414: Reign Twilight
Competitive sports have a warm side, but competitive sports is more about showing his cruel side, no matter how warm the pre-match ceremony is, how warm the hugs are, when the players take off their jerseys and stand on the field, everything will change, the fans will go crazy, the players will become rough, and the coach will start roaring.
After losing three home games, the Lakers' morale in the face of the Trail Blazers has been worn out, Magic is still a magician, no one in the entire Trail Blazers can stop him, neither can Gan Guoyang, his skills are so skillful and superb, he has entered his peak and is unstoppable on the guard line.
However, the Lakers' aging frontcourt turned into decay in front of the energetic Trail Blazers inside, and the experience and skills they could have relied on were not brought into play in this game, Gan Guoyang did not play against Abdul-Jabbar in the game, and Adelman continued to let Sabonis "level up" on Abdul-Jabbar.
If Abdul-Jabbar had been younger, not much, as long as he was 5 years old, back to his 1985 form, Adelman would not have dared to easily let Sabonis play against Abdul-Jabbar, his experience, footwork and unstoppable hook would have made Sabonis understand what is the most difficult offensive technique to defend on the planet; But Abdul-Jabbar is 42 years old, the second-oldest player in NBA history (the first is the head coach of a team, who temporarily joined the team for a few minutes, when he was fifty or sixty years old), his every technical move looks like doing slow motion, young Sabonis is like a moving gate always stuck in front of Abdul-Jabbar, and he learned a set of single defense skills from Gan Guoyang, carding, topping, pushing, and didn't care at all that he was a veteran who had been fighting for 20 years.
"Abdul-Jabbar hooked his hand and was blocked by Sabonis! Gan got the ball and made a long pass to Cauchy, who handed it to Porter, who made a layup. Oh, Jabbar was still on the ground and didn't get up. The on-site anchor Shaunley saw Sabonis give Abdul-Jabbar a big hat on the defensive end, and because the ball was too powerful, he directly knocked Abdul-Jabbar to the ground, and Gan Guoyang took advantage of this to launch a fast attack.
When Potter hit the ball, Gan Guoyang stepped forward and reached out to help Abdul-Jabbar up, but Jabbar did not hold Gan Guoyang, but shook his hand at him, and then got up from the ground with his hands on the floor and re-entered the attack.
At this time, Abdul-Jabbar is still so arrogant, in fact, at the award ceremony of each away game, Abdul-Jabbar has a serious expression, this taciturn giant, always retains the dedication to victory and the love of basketball in his heart.
"Abdul-Jabbar took the ball again in the three-second zone, turned and deceived Sabonis, hit a hook with his left hand, and Abdul-Jabbar returned one!" Abdul-Jabbar, who had just been covered, immediately turned around and returned one on Sabonis's head, and after the goal, he held his head high and strode back to the backfield.
This is a goal in the third quarter of the game, the Lakers have fallen behind the Trail Blazers by 12 points at this time, they have been behind the Trail Blazers by about ten points since the second quarter, and then they are struggling to catch up behind them, the Lakers have never been able to play an offensive attack wave to smooth or narrow the difference, the Magic can always create good scoring conditions for their teammates, but they can't prevent the Trail Blazers' offense.
The Trail Blazers' offensive end is a reasonable switch between team offense and "Drexler-Gan Guoyang two-person turn", whenever the Lakers have momentum, Gan Guoyang and Drexler will use their individual ability and duo cooperation to suppress this momentum, which makes the Lakers always in a state of suppression.
At the end of the fourth quarter, the Lakers launched a final counterattack, and the Magic finally began to attack on his own with the ball, and Drexler, who was opposite him, could not limit the breakthrough of the Magician at all, and the Magic hit two consecutive three-pointers, causing Drexler and Gan Guoyang to foul respectively.
With the magician's free throw, the difference between the two sides was suddenly reduced to 6 points.
The pressure on the Trail Blazers increased, Adelman called a timeout to adjust the offensive strategy, just when everyone thought that Gan Guoyang was going to take over the game, Riley also carried out a heavy defense of Gan Guoyang, but after Gan Guoyang returned to the court, he was now in the low post on the left side After taking the ball, a wide range of transfer balls, the ball flew through the basket to the right bottom line, where was Terry Porter who was running and waiting, Porter received the ball directly outside the three-point line, the ball was hollow into the net, a simple and simple cooperation, and the situation was stabilized.
Subsequently, the Magic hit the inside again, and the Trail Blazers began that no one could stop the Magic from scoring the ball, his sense of rhythm control was too good, Gan Guoyang couldn't get his pace rhythm, the center of gravity was shaken, and the Magician made a clever backhand pick.
Beginning in the 1987 season, Johnson began to take on more scoring responsibilities as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar aged, and in 1987 he also increased his scoring to an average of 23 points per game, an increase of five points from the previous season, and he began to use scoring more to take over the game in the game.
His speed, power, and explosiveness aren't among the best among black players, but they're all excellent, and his dribbling feel, feints, pacing, and kung fu are superb, and combined with his massive passing threat and size, it's hard to stop him when he's in control of the game in the final moments.
Tonight was no exception, and the Magic had scored 10 points in a row in the fourth quarter, which made the hearts of all fans at the Memorial Stadium hang.
The difference came to 7 points, and there were more than three minutes left at the end of the game, and the Trail Blazers had to score another goal, this time Gan Guoyang was really tightly trapped, it was a three-man bag, and the Lakers also began to wander on the edge of illegal defense.
This time in the face of multi-person packing, the Trail Blazers players showed a different reaction than before, in January, whenever Gan Guoyang encountered the bag, the Trail Blazers' players will fall into a state of hesitation, tactics, response, and individual attacks will be slow to beat, and now they have successfully adjusted, once Gan Guoyang is trapped, the other four people will immediately enter the strong offensive mode, Gan Guoyang throws the ball to whoever receives the hand, who will attack by himself, do not pass, do not cooperate, do not give the opposing defender the opportunity to rotate and adjust.
This time, Cauthy got the ball and rushed straight to the basket from the right side, AC Green came back to make up for the defense and wanted to make an offensive foul on Cauchy, but he was a step slower, the referee blew the whistle and blew AC a block, and Cauchy went to the free throw line.
In the first free throw, Cauchy hit steadily, and the difference came to eight points.
In the second penalty, as soon as Cauchy made a shot, he knew that it was going to be bad, and the force of the shot was too small.
“Rebound! (rebounding)" Cauchy shouted at the free throw line.
This is Drexler's sudden kill, jumping before everyone else, and everyone below looked up to see a figure flying in the air, just catching the basketball that bounced off the basket, and dunking the ball into the basket with one hand!
The Memorial Coliseum was in a huge uproar, and Drexler's shot announced the death sentence of the Lakers' game, 10 points, two minutes, unless a miracle happens, and the Trail Blazers don't allow a miracle to happen here.
The game ended in Porter's delayed time, 122-112, and the Trail Blazers defeated the Los Angeles Lakers for the fourth time this season by 10 points, which the Lakers have never encountered since 1980, and the Lakers' dominance in the West may really be over, of course, everything will not be really seen until the playoffs three months later.
Gan Guoyang scored 25 points, 15 rebounds, 5 blocks, 5 steals and 5 assists in the super comprehensive "5" series of data, of course, there are actually 5 fouls.
After a few games, the Trailblazers slowly solved several problems, and the team's confidence was newly improved under the leadership of Gan Guoyang; Gan Guoyang suffered from the problem of bagging, and other players used more resolute individual attacks to make any team's bag pay the price; The problem of three-point defense, Adelman does not change, gamble on the feel, play counterattack, and few teams can really shoot the Trail Blazers with three-point shots.
Now, the Trail Blazers are still facing the last problem, that is, the problem of the sixth man leading the second team to fight, Buck Williams has performed very well in all aspects after doing many games as the sixth man, defense, second team leader, interior attack point, the only problem is that as a sixth man, his firepower is still not enough, there is still Drexler or Porter on the court to cooperate, and there is no third attack point on the guard line to provide enough points.
Danny Young, as a backup point guard, has acceptable scheduling ability on the court, and can shoot in the open position, but his independent offensive ability is too poor; Backup point guard Jim Paxson has been injured for multiple games and has been playing for a mediocre season, no longer having the All-Star style of the past.
In addition, looking at it, the Trail Blazers can't find any slightly more reliable backcourt players on the bench, which is in stark contrast to the Trail Blazers' extremely powerful frontcourt, in fact, one of the reasons why the Trail Blazers are afraid of three-point shots is that there are too few available talents in the backcourt, and only Drexler and Porter are running around on the outside, which is absolutely unbearable.
Soon, the Trail Blazers ran into difficulties with this issue.