"No one can substitute for the coach to make decisions ......"

After Gan Guoyang's words, the atmosphere in the entire locker room seemed to be much more relaxed all of a sudden, and even Ramsey's face looked better.

In the regular season, Ramsey spent a lot of energy and time balancing the conflicts and relationships between the players; The first was between Gan Guoyang and Sampson, the starting center position, and he didn't seem to respect the veteran so much.

Later, Gan Guoyang took the initiative to resolve the conflict with Sampson, which also made the interior line of the Pioneers peaceful.

But the outside line of the Trail Blazers is not so worry-free, and it is also the rise of newcomers, there has always been a discord between Drexler and Paxson, and in this regard, Ramsey has always supported Paxson.

But Ramsey didn't expect that in the end, Paxson would be the first team to beat him, in the team locker room away from home, with Mitchell starting lineup.

Two of the starters asked for a change of lineup, and the other two, Vanderwicz belonged to the "outsider", and the German was relatively peaceful, and did not mean to be the boss as soon as he came to the team; Valentin, the starting point guard, was also mild-mannered, and he was the best at getting on good terms with everyone, but this season, he himself began to be challenged by rookie Colter.

When the starting lineup was made, they didn't make a special statement, but chose to be silent.

Kenny Carr, although he is the nominal leader of the team's locker room on weekdays, is a leader in eating and drinking, and when it comes to games, his say is not as useful as when it comes to inviting everyone to drink; Drexler has a haughty temperament, but he is not arrogant, and there is even some cowardice in his bones, and in the face of Paxson's direct challenge, he also does not speak.

At this time, the attitude of Gan Guoyang, who was the last to enter the door, was particularly important.

Dan Iseer is indeed not wrong when he says that a veteran team will indeed have a lot of trouble, and the Trail Blazers do not have a veteran who is over 30 years old and has played for more than 10 years, balancing all parties at such a time when the contradiction is prominent.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang himself did not expect that in the team, he has gradually begun to exist as an important opinion force - although he used to naively want to seize the position of "team boss" in the past, but at that time he did not understand the true meaning of the team boss, he just wanted to play more on the field.

If his attitude is biased in favor of Paxson and Sampson, it will be an immediate threat to Ramsey, meaning that the coach's authority will be challenged by the players, which will be very bad for the Trail Blazers.

Although Ramsey is old, experienced in coaching, and tactically outstanding, he has not shown too much talent in controlling the emotions of his players, and Bill Walton will not fall out with the team back then.

He had no idea that a team that had been performing well and had a harmonious internal situation would erupt after only one game on the road.

Fortunately, Gan Guoyang was on Ramsay's side.

"Well, we should trust Coach Ramsey, it's just one game, and we're still 2-1 up, aren't we? There's a game ahead, so let's finish him and try to win the game, and then we can go back to Portland to end the series! After Gan Guoyang's statement, Kenny Carr immediately spoke out and expressed his support for the coach.

This guy is worthy of being a good person who is good at the left and right, and his words also aroused everyone's echo, in a team with many rookies, there are naturally more grass on the wall, and not everyone can be as important as Gan Guoyang.

Paxson didn't seem too surprised to see Gan Guoyang choose to side with Ramsay, in fact, the relationship between Paxson and Gan Guoyang has always been relatively average.

From the first day Gan Guoyang came to the Trailblazers, the two have spoken an average of no more than three sentences a day, partly because Paxson's alma mater, Dayton University, was eliminated by Gan Guoyang-led Gonzaga in the NCAA, but the main reason is that Gan Guoyang has always had a good relationship with Drexler.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang chose to maintain the status quo instead of supporting him, which was expected by Paxson.

After a few words, Ramsay disbanded and went to take a shower, followed by a routine press interview, and finally the whole team got on the bus and left the stadium and returned to the hotel.

On the way back, the car was quiet and terrible, completely devoid of the joy after the previous two days of winning.

Among them, Ramsay's face was not very good-looking from beginning to end, and he, nicknamed "Vulture", sat alone in the front row, looking particularly gloomy and lonely.

This situation continued until the next day's training, everyone looked a little awkward, everyone on the training ground looked cautious, and there seemed to be a powder bag in the team all of a sudden, which would explode if they were not careful.

Gan Guoyang also felt very strange in his heart, it was not that the team had no conflicts in the past, but for some reason this time it seemed to have a particularly big impact, especially for Ramsey, who seemed to be depressed a lot.

However, Ramsey still prepared enough for tomorrow's game against the Nuggets, and he decided to increase Norris's playing time and let the more attacking Norris attack the Nuggets inside, which worked well against the Mavericks.

On the defensive end, he also hopes that Gan Guoyang will put more energy into it, and it is best to disrupt the Nuggets' outside passing and reduce their offensive efficiency as he did in the first game.

It should be said that after three games, there are not many tricks that can be used by both sides, like the kind of big move used by Ramsey in the first game is no longer effective, and the more important thing is to see the performance of the players and the coach's on-the-spot command.

But for a team playing away from home, morale may be more important than tactics and condition, and you can imagine how to beat the owner of the stadium if everyone doesn't support you and boos you.

The Nuggets were originally the home of the Devils, and the team's leading scorer, Vanderwicki, was inevitably affected when he came here - after all, he had many good memories on this court.

Now, with Paxson making such a fuss, the Trail Blazers' entire team is gone, and everyone seems to have their own agenda.

The biggest hit was undoubtedly Drexler, the shooting guard who always had a slightly shy smile on his face and a solemn face before Game 4 began.

"Cheer up, we're here to win this game, and we'll be back in Portland after this game!" Gan Guoyang patted Drexler on the shoulder and said to him before the game.

Drexler smiled reluctantly, then nodded, ready to dive into the game.

However, Gan Guoyang may not have noticed it himself, and even he himself was thinking that "we can go back to Portland after this game." ”

In fact, not only Gan Guoyang, but all the players of the Trail Blazers were thinking "we can go back to Portland after this game," and the city on the Pacific coast seemed to give the players a spiritual calling, "We can leave the hellish place of Denver and go home soon!" ”

This kind of thinking is very dangerous.

A really strong team should have an impregnable home stadium, but they can't rely on their own home stadium and when they play away they think "I want to go home, but I would prefer the battle to end in someone else's home." ”

The Trail Blazers, on the other hand, are looking at Portland as a haven and are desperate to get home, home advantage, and they want to finish the Denver Nuggets at home.

Once you have this in mind, you can imagine how effective the players will be on the road.

From the beginning of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers fell behind, and the Nuggets first stopped the Trail Blazers with an 8-0 offensive mini**, and then the two sides began to fall into a see-saw.

The Trailblazers still have no way to limit the Nuggets' offense, no matter how desperately Gan Guoyang tries to make up for the defense on the inside, but after all, he only has one pair of hands and one pair of legs, no three heads and six arms, and the Nuggets' smooth cooperation makes Gan Guoyang often take care of one and lose the other.

At the same time, once Gan Guoyang starts to make up a lot of defense, the Trail Blazers' backcourt rebounding control will have a small problem and will be exploited by the Nuggets.

In the first half, the whole Trail Blazers gave people the feeling that they had to be slow down everywhere, they seemed to be a lame person chasing after a normal person, and one would accidentally fall a big heel.

At halftime, just like the previous game, the Trail Blazers once again trailed the Nuggets by 49-63 by 14 points, and their offense and defense were once again in shambles, and they had to rely on individual play by their players to stay alive.

At half-time in the dressing room, Ramsey let out a roar of rage, shouting at the players for their carelessness.

"If you come back to Portland in this form, there's no guarantee we'll win at home! You're a piece of shit! Played completely ......"

Ramsey has always rarely sweared in the team, and this time, he finally couldn't help but explode, but in the end, he didn't know what to say, so he could only slam the tactical pen in his hand.

In the locker room, the team again fell into a terrible silence, no one spoke.

Gan Guoyang wanted to say something, but he was a rookie who played in the playoffs in his first year, what could he say? This is not a university, everyone is a student, Gan Guoyang only needs to show his eloquence to make everyone's blood boil.

In the professional teams of the NBA, this doesn't always work, and everyone is an adult.

And Gan Guoyang has long discovered that the current Portland Trail Blazers are a stable and strong team, but it lacks blood, which can be seen from the fact that the Trail Blazers rarely make big comebacks in the regular season.

Once this team falls behind in the first half, the odds of losing skyrocket, and it always seems that no one can rise out of adversity.

Gan Guoyang has such blood, but he is a center forward, and the center is subject to the problem of ball possession, and is always in a secondary position when leading the turnaround.

The twenty minutes of halftime passed quickly, and the Trail Blazers' problems were not resolved.

The situation is getting worse and worse.