(Yesterday Mr. Jack Ramsay passed away from cancer in the real world.) Although I don't want to mention it, there is a role for this great coach, and I would like to pay some tribute to this wonderful Hall of Fame coach. Actually, I should have said this yesterday, and I wrote about Mr. Ramsay at the beginning of the previous article, but I forgot about it...... I almost forgot about it today. ）

“Hi-there-once-again，this-is-Johnny-Most-high-above-courtside-from-venue,here-the-Boston-Celtics-an-Portland-Trail-Blazers-are-getting-set-todo-basketball-battle。” (Hi, I'm Johnny Most, and once again from the sidelines, I'm here to tell you about the basketball battle between the Boston Celtics and the Portland Trail Blazers.) ”

On another night of excitement in Boston, John Muster once again sat in his most familiar position, overlooking the parquet floor of Boston Garden Square, ready to bring a great game commentary to the local sports fans.

Boston fans have been happy this season, and after last season's humiliation, the Celtics are ready to go, and the Celtics fans are also enthusiastic, and the Celtics are unbeaten at home so far since the start of the season.

With the team's current form, such a winning streak is likely to continue, and it looks like no team can beat the vengeful green giants on the road.

And while Most warmed up the game with his magnetic hoarse voice, the players from both sides had not yet taken the court, and the Trail Blazers players playing away were sitting in the sweltering away locker room preparing for the game.

"Damn it, the heating in Boston was never fucking fixed!" Jones, the oldest and oldest veteran center on the Trail Blazers, complained.

He started his basketball career in the ABA back in 1973 and came to the NBA in 1976, and in the old words, Boston has been through so many ups and downs, and the only constant is not their dominance in the NBA, but how bad their away locker room is.

For Rick Auerbach, who will do anything to win, it's not impossible to have the air conditioner in the away dressing room in the winter and the heat in the summer, but it's just the regular season now, and it's good to have the heater break down in the cold of December.

"Okay, we should get used to this old guy's tricks, the strength of the Celtics lies in the strength of their team, these are just drizzle, kick their ass away from home and heat up this hellish place." Ramsey encouraged the players.

Ramsey's first coaching job was with Billy Cuningham, the godfather of the 76ers, as an assistant coach for the 76ers, whose greatest achievement was defeating the eight-time champion Celtics in the 1967 playoffs to reach the Finals and eventually reach the top, ending the Celtics' ten-game winning streak.

When Ramsey became the head coach, but 10 years later, in 1977, he led the Trail Blazers to defeat the 76ers, the former club, and won the most important championship in his life.

"We're going to get revenge for last season's killing, give them some color!" After his comeback, Drexler's performance in the last game was average, and he was holding back his strength to play well in this game.

Gan Guoyang's heart was really tight when he heard Drexler's words, last season's stunner, Gan Guoyang still remembers it vividly, and he couldn't move at all at that moment......

"What's wrong Gan? Your face is a little pale? Is it nervous? Drexler saw that Gan Guoyang, who had always been active, was speechless, biting his lower lip in a daze.

"I just feel a little cold... I'm going to run more when I get to the field so I can get warmer. Gan Guoyang shrugged his shoulders and said, after speaking, the Trail Blazers are ready to play.

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Once again, stepping onto the parquet floor of Boston's Garden Square, no matter which player you play, will feel very different from what you would be anywhere else, like being in a blood-soaked Colosseum, surrounded by arrogant aristocrats who give you a thumbs up.

The visitors are captured beasts, and their only hope of surviving is to kill the gladiators dressed in green, and there is no other way to do it, and the spectators won't give them a thumbs up.

Just as both teams were warming up, the Celtics' new signing this year, former Trail Blazers Pride Bill Wharton, walked to the sidelines, gave a simple hug to Trail Blazers head coach Ramsey, whispered a few words and immediately parted.

Now Wharton and the entire Trailblazers have long been strangers, and the former heroes of the West Coast are now working as eagle dogs for the green empire of the East Coast.

This history is naturally going to be a big gimmick for this game, but the Trail Blazers players said that they are not willing to look for that poor grain of rice in the dust of history, but want to create their own big scene.

The first quarter of the game had just begun, and the Celtics' aggressive offense caught the Celtics off guard.

With Van Deweic plagued by an ankle injury, Drexler was replaced by Drexler at all starting small forwards, with Jim Paxson returning to the starting point guard.

In Ramsey's opinion, Jerome Cauchy may be able to restrain Donimic Wilkins against the Hawks, because Wilkins himself is a physical man with a passing hole, and it would be better for Cauchy, who is also a quality man, to stare at him.

But the Celtics' real small forward in this game is the "bird god" Larry Bird, a guy whose physical fitness seems to be mediocre, but he is ten times more terrible than Wilkins.

So Ramsey still sought stability and put the more experienced combination of Paxson and Drexler.

Before this game, Ramsey made full tactical preparations, and he asked the Trail Blazers to rush to the frontcourt rebounds at all costs in the first quarter of the game, and kill the Trail Blazers' interior as much as possible.

This is very different from the strategy pursued by the Trail Blazers in the past to go all out to defend without grabbing the frontcourt board.

Because Ramsey knows that after the Celtics have Bill Wharton, the strength and thickness of the frontcourt have reached an astonishing level, and if the Celtics are not consumed in the first quarter, and the Celtics are allowed to play a normal rotation later, the Trail Blazers' ball will be very difficult to play.

In the face of an opponent who is a step ahead, you must ask for change.

Paxson catches the ball and jumpers, but the ball hits the basket and misses the ...... Gan grabbed the frontcourt rebound and made a layup! The referee's whistle blew, Parrish fouled, and Gan was about to go to the free throw line, and it was only five minutes into the game, which was the third time Gan had stood on the free throw line. ”

From Most's commentary, it can be heard that Gan Guoyang did carry out an effective killing in the first quarter of the game, and his three frontcourt rebounds allowed Parish, McHale, Bird, and the Celtics' frontcourt triumvirate to each give a foul.

"Hit both penalties! The Trail Blazers already have an eight-point lead over the Celtics at 12-4, and Coach Jones didn't call a timeout, and it seems that he is confident in the players' ability to adjust. ”

KC Jones was indeed very confident, and the Celtics players did not feel good in the opening game, and several attempts at outside jumpers were unsuccessful.

For a super strong team like Celtic, they often don't need to play any special tactics at the beginning, every player they start has excellent individual ability, and the most important thing for them is to find the feeling of the game early, as long as they find the feeling, everything will be easy to do later.

Damn, they had a terrible opening and it was Larry Bird's turn to step up.

Bird got stuck on the right side, Angie passed, Bird turned and dribbled...... Shots hit! Also caused a foul! Gan's foul! ”

Bird was originally on the right side, he suddenly crossed from the baseline to the left waist, squeezed away Drexler with his back, received the pass and deceived Drexler with a realistic turn and shoot feint, and then leaned on Drexler and shot with a very awkward right hand one-handed shot.

Drexler has tried his best to avoid Bird, he knows that this is Bird's stunt to rub the foul, but Gan Guoyang, who stepped forward to make up for the defense, failed to dodge, and his fingertips still hit Bird's palm when he was blocking, and the referee blew a foul.

And the ball is still hollow into the net.

"The referee's whistle is really for you tonight~" Bird looked at Gan Guoyang after scoring the goal and joked, the game had just started, and there were already four fouls related to Gan Guoyang.

Bird hit an easy free throw, and for him, a free throw was easier than a layup.

"Spread out! Disperse! "Valentin was in charge of the attack, and Paxson and Drexler hadn't started at the same time for a long time, and the two of them obviously had problems with their chemistry when they played together, both of them were crowded on the right, and the movement was suddenly impossible to develop.

The Celtics' defensive intensity also increased, with Dennis Johnson putting Valentine under extreme pressure and his teammates who didn't run away from him from passing.

"I'm here!" Gan Guoyang saw that Valentin seemed to be having a hard time getting the ball, and immediately mentioned the high post to answer for him.

Valentin reluctantly handed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and as soon as Gan Guoyang took the ball and turned around, he was already standing outside the three-point line.

"Damn, there's no time." The offensive time is obviously insufficient, after Valentin cut in, Johnson is still staring at him very hard, with Gan Guoyang's passing level, directly stuffing the ball into the ball is basically equivalent to a mistake, he is not Magic.

Seeing that the time to attack was coming, Gan Guoyang suddenly bent over with the ball, he was going to do it himself!

"Gan holds the ball and breaks through the middle! Forced layup! Don't enter! But...... Drexler ...... clicked to the rebound, and then clicked, the ball returned to Gan's hands, and Gan was under the basket, and made a strong layup again...... The referee blew the whistle and Parish fouled again...... Second foul in the first quarter. ”

Gan Guoyang's breakthrough layup was interfered with by Parish, and the force of the board was too great, and the ball bounced out of the basket.

But Drexler jumped from another rush and relied on his own anti-sky bounce to point the ball out, and Gan Guoyang jumped a second time to win the rebound and made a strong layup under the basket, causing a foul on Parish.

"Damn, is this guy possessed by Moses Marlon!" Coach KC Jones, who has always been unimpatient, finally got a little anxious, and the Celtics got off to a bad start, and in six minutes, the starting center had already committed two fouls and was about to go off the court.

However, compared to last season, KC Jones no longer needs to worry about interior rotation.

"Bill, get ready to play, restrain that kid."