At the beginning of the third quarter, when Gan Guoyang became more and more unstoppable on the offensive end, Pat Riley, who was sitting on the sidelines, began to get anxious.

In fact, since 1985, Gan Guoyang's skills and experience have been improving every year, but his game rhythm has never changed much, scoring points in the first quarter, finding his feel in the second quarter, breaking out in the third quarter, and adjusting his playing style according to the situation in the fourth quarter.

Gan Guoyang's rhythm, the key is the outbreak of the third quarter, which has earned him the reputation of "the king of the third quarter", so as Riley, who has carefully studied Gan Guoyang's playing style all year round, he naturally knows that he should curb Gan Guoyang's play in the third quarter and let the Lakers continue to maintain their advantage.

But Riley is on the bench and deploys troops, using various methods to interfere with Gan Guoyang, like the most common rotation package, letting the defenders go around the front, and even letting Magic Johnson defend Gan Guoyang, in short, he doesn't give Gan Guoyang a chance to play, but Gan Guoyang really can't stop the big truck that runs to the top speed after starting.

And the Trail Blazers' players are not eating dry meals, Porter, Drexler and Jim Paxson on the court are all fully supporting Gan Guoyang, Adelman asked the backcourt players to pick up Gan Guoyang at any time to prevent Gan Guoyang from being caught and divided.

On the Lakers' side, Magic Johnson is still in a hot state, playing a single hit when he needs to, but the score gap between the Trail Blazers and the Lakers is narrowing little by little, because Gan Guoyang's offensive efficiency is higher, with him as the offensive core, the Trail Blazers played a beautiful and smooth collective offense.

"Gan holds the ball in the low post, wraps it up, Gan transfers the ball to Sabonis, Sabonis's touch pass! Cauchy makes a layup! Halfway through the third quarter, when Sabonis received a pass from Gan Guoyang and immediately hit the ground to make a layup for the inside cut, the two sides finally tied it.

The 13-point advantage established by the Lakers in the first quarter, the Trail Blazers spent two and a half quarters, blunt knife grinding flesh to chase back little by little, no matter how strong the Lakers' firepower on the offensive end, the Trail Blazers came hard in the rain of bullets, and now they finally came to the Lakers face-to-face position, it was time to knock them down with one punch.

"Avidas! Go outside, go outside, and leave the inside to me. Gan Guoyang returned to the backcourt and reminded Sabonis to stand outside, he himself stood directly in the three-second zone, due to the existence of the Magic in this game, Gan Guoyang's effect on the outside line to press the defense is not good, Johnson's ability to transfer the ball and find opportunities is too strong, Gan Guoyang's effect on the outside of the ball is not as good as squatting on the inside line and waiting for the rabbit to come, after all, Sabonis's deterrence under the basket is still not as good as Gan Guoyang's.

Magic Johnson's face is as cold as ever, he showed the ability of a superstar in this game, and the offensive end of the Trail Blazers couldn't contain him from beginning to end, from the opening to Jerome Cauchy's defense, to Adelman's decision to change to Drex to defend, not because Drakes defended better than Cauchy, but no matter who defended Magic, the result was the same, so he simply let Cauchy, who defended better, go to play against Worthy.

However, Gan Guoyang can feel that Johnson is also a little more anxious on his face, after all, the Lakers played really well tonight, but they were still caught up by the Trail Blazers, because the Trail Blazers played better, Johnson dribbled the ball with his right hand while stretching out his left hand to direct his teammates to run, which is also his classic action.

Gan Guoyang knows that at this time, you must not look at Johnson's eyes and gestures to judge the Lakers' offense, because Johnson's eyes and gestures are the most deceptive, if you stare at Johnson's eyes to judge his ball path, the final result is that the Lakers' players receive the ball and score, and the defenders don't know what happened.

So Gan Guoyang focused on the running position of other players, Gan Guoyang knew that the Magic must cooperate with his teammates, although the Magic stood outside the three-point line and did not understand, but his observation of the opponent's defensive line loopholes was unparalleled in the world, and the passing skills and boldness were rare in NBA history, Gan Guoyang knew that it was useless to deal with Magic Johnson's pass, and he needed to gamble with his senses.

"The magician was watching, and suddenly the ball was passed to the inside! AC Green catches the ball and makes a layup...... It is covered from the back! Gan took the ball off Green and passed it directly to Drexler, who was quick to break with the ball...... Slam dunk! The Trailblazers have overtaken! The Trailblazers have overtaken! ”

Gan Guoyang bet that Green will go around to the basket, which is a common tactic used by the Lakers, when Rambis was still in the Lakers, the Magic often stuffed a through ball into the hands of Rambis under the basket, and Rambis would score a layup.

Now Rambis is included in the Hornets due to the addition of the Charlotte Hornets, so his position is replaced by AC Green, AC Green is flexible, the finishing ability under the basket is better than Rambis, and the physical fitness is also better, like cutting into the basket to receive a Magic through pass to the layup to score, which has become his regular scoring means.

Gan Guoyang bet on this set of tactics, he had already stared at Green, so as soon as the magic man passed, he didn't look around to find who to pass to, but immediately turned around and gave Green a big hat directly, and when he took the ball from control in his hands, Drexler was already rushing halfway.

After scoring the goal, Gan Guoyang clenched his fists tightly, and then said to AC-Green on the side: "Little virgin, go find a Portland beauty tonight, otherwise you will be unhappy tonight." ”

AC Green is best known in the NBA for always insisting that he is a "virgin", because he is a devout Christian, and his favorite thing to do when he doesn't play is to go to church to pray or preach with a Bible.

Green is not a person who can speak well, and he can only bear Gan Guoyang's "provocation" silently, he is really unhappy tonight, because Riley has always asked him to defend Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang played Green as casually as Magic played the outside line of the Pioneers, and Gan Guoyang had already scored 11 points on Green in the third quarter.

When the Trail Blazers overtook the score, the situation on the court was completely different, the Magic took the initiative to ask the referee for a timeout after dribbling over half court, and the Lakers needed to stop and rest, if the Trail Blazers took this opportunity to fight back, it would be very bad for the Lakers.

Soon, Riley made an adjustment, replaced Abdul-Jabbar, replaced Sampson, Abdul-Jabbar's performance in this game can be described as miserable, under the joint defense of Sabonis and Gan Guoyang, only scored a pitiful 4 points in the third quarter, the old Tiangou really can't keep up with the extremely high rhythm of the two sides, Sabonis top defense, Gan Guoyang's strategy of assisting in the defense makes Abdul-Jabbar unable to play at all.

The key problem is that Abdul-Jabbar didn't find a scoring touch at the start of the first half and the beginning of the second half, which was when Abdul-Jabbar's physical strength was at its best, after which his remaining stamina was depleted after constant switchbacks and fierce battles.

However, Riley was also helpless to replace Sampson, they really had no one available on the inside, and Sampson was also dying.

When Sampson walked on the court, the fans still gave him warm applause, after all, the old champion of the Trail Blazers contributed eight years to the team here, this is the most precious years of his basketball career, although he did not bring any honor to the Trail Blazers, but as the top star of the former Trail Blazers, he supported the team's interior line, giving the fans here countless passionate nights.

So, after following the Lakers to beat the Trail Blazers last year, Sampson was the least emotional center of the Lakers, and in his words, "I was torn apart," his heart half in Portland and half in Los Angeles.

But on the court, Sampson is still very dedicated, when he played, the Lakers' offensive focus completely shifted to the outside, Sampson's main role is to participate in defense, especially to pinch Gan Guoyang, last year in the series of defeating the Trail Blazers, Sampson played a key role in Gan Guoyang's defense.

However, the current Gan Guoyang is no longer last year's Gan Guoyang, and Sampson is also a year older, and Pat Riley has found that Sampson has completely failed to contain Gan Guoyang when he stands on the sidelines.

"Gan held the ball in the horn position, Sampson came up to cover it, but Gan broke through directly from the middle! Left hand split! Oh! Sean Li shouted excitedly by Gan Guoyang's slash.

Sampson's bag is already very timely, but Gan Guoyang is obviously very well prepared, Sampson came from the outside to attack, he broke through directly in the opposite direction, where can AC-Green block Gan Guoyang's strong advance, and only Worthy is left guarding the basket on the inside, Gan Guoyang unceremoniously put a dunk on his head.

Everyone knows that Gan Guoyang has entered the state of "The-Field", in his realm, the defense no longer exists, and whether he can enter is only his own problem.