As a white center who is not too talented, Ranbir can mix well in the league, in addition to perseverance (there is no outstanding player in the NBA who does not work hard), this gentleman's wall-like face on the court is also indispensable.

Gan Guoyang turned around and cleaned him up, then sent an angry slap on his head, and then sprayed a dirty word at him, and ran back to defend without looking back, but Ranbier looked indifferent, picked up the ball on the ground and went to serve behind the sideline, without being affected by Gan Guoyang's provocation in the slightest.

The skill of this thing is to make others lose their minds through provocation, and the basic requirement for this is to always keep their sanity themselves.

The tempo of the two sides slowed down significantly in the second quarter, the players were basically into the game, the intensity of the confrontation was increasing, the difficulty of scoring goals increased, and the whistle began to intensify.

At this time, Van Dewig began to exert his power after returning to the court, and Vanderwic, who basically did not have much pressure on the defensive end, was able to put all his energy into the offense, and the biggest hole in the Pistons lineup is the defense of the small forward position, and Vanderwicki's strong projection ability began to exert great power.

"Don't let him catch the ball easily! Keep your body in touch! Stare at him, stare at him! Chuck Daly yelled on the sidelines because Vanderwig had hit three goals in a row.

Although the Pistons guard Van Dewech tightly on the defensive end, the tactically skilled Trail Blazers always have a way to create better catch-and-shoot opportunities for Van Dewec, and Kelly Tripka, who defends Van Deweic, is a white man who is even slower than Van Dewic, and it is difficult for him to keep an eye on Van Dewic.

Vanderwig received a pass on the wing again, he and Tripka were deadlocked on the baseline, Vanderwicki, who held the ball in both hands, suddenly broke through from the outside, and then used his height and strength advantage to squeeze Tripka away, and then hit a board throw from the 12-foot position in a confrontational state, at this time the score had become 45:40, and the Trail Blazers reversed the situation and overtook by five points.

"Beep!" The referee blew the whistle and Daley called a timeout.

"Wrap up Van de Veicki, Dumas, put some pressure on this guy and Ranbir, don't let him shoot around the three-second zone easily, I don't want to see him shoot at 12 feet. Of course, pay attention to Gan, he should be on the court soon, protect the frontcourt rebounding, Mahon you go on the court to replace Benson, properly top Gan, don't let him shoot the feeling, we are currently restricting him well. ”

Daley arranged a defensive strategy against Van Dewic, Van Dewicki's hand is too hot, and he is likely to be disabled in the first half if he does not contain it, and at the same time, the Pistons must also beware of Gan Guoyang, who has only scored 8 points at present, all of which are some missed balls, and only the ball that deducts Ranbir in the singles.

Gan Guoyang's scoring explosiveness is quite strong, you don't know when he will come and lead the Trail Blazers to an offensive shockwave, many teams are taken away by a wave like Gan Guoyang, which is also the difference between him and many steady centers.

However, the thoughtful Daley did not guess the subsequent trend of the Trail Blazers this time, and the Pistons' defense did limit Van Dewig after the timeout, and their move was the same as the Trail Blazer Bellman's defensive strategy, that is, to rub the edge of the joint defense, and Joe Dumas, Mahon or Thomas were ready to wrap Van Devic at any time before Vanderwig received the ball.

And Ranbier also expanded the defensive range, and after Gan Guoyang and Van Dewig blocked and dismantled, he made strong blocks on Van Dewig many times, not giving Van Devic the opportunity to attack easily.

At the same time, Rick Mahon also began to take special care of Gan Guoyang, the meat shield power forward transferred from the Washington Bullets has the biggest ass in the league, and the fat level is even more than Barkley, and the "beef guy" is like a hard to wash lard, once it rubs on the clothes, it is really difficult to get rid of it.

However, the Trail Blazers still played a climax in the second quarter, leading the Pistons by as many as 13 points at 60:47 at the end of the first half, because the Pistons defended the Trail Blazers' position, but let the Trail Blazers play a tidal wave of fast breaks.

Although the Trail Blazers don't have Drexler's sharp knife on the front line, the real soul and engine of the Trail Blazers' fast break is their center Gan Guoyang and his stable backcourt rebounding.

Whether a team can play fast break is either they have a point guard who can push the ball or have an interior line that can provide stable backcourt rebounds - he can allow the forward players to jump into the fast break early without having to fight for backcourt rebounds.

Vanderwich and Paxson aren't speedy guards, and Cauchy isn't Drexler's kind of fast-break player, so the Trail Blazers' fast-break won't have to play if they still have to help the interior grab backcourt rebounds.

The Trail Blazers' backcourt rebounds in the first half were almost all given to Gan Guoyang alone, the Trail Blazers grabbed a total of 22 rebounds in the half, and Gan Guoyang took 19 alone, as long as he got the rebounds, it means that the Trail Blazers have a chance to break the Pistons with a fast break.

On the defensive end, Gan Guoyang did not have the pressure on the offensive end, and went all out to defend the interior, not to mention that the Pistons did not get any offensive rebounds, and the breakthrough was also greatly resisted, and the second quarter was not smooth at all.

Gan Guoyang's data of 10 points and 19 rebounds in the half is also a big miracle, but it is enough to show that even if Gan Guoyang does not attack, his contribution to the Trail Blazers is huge.

In the second half, the Pistons were eager to contain the Trail Blazers' offense, but they didn't have any frontcourt rebounders in their team, and the frontcourt rebounds basically relied on picking up, but the balls that didn't score were still sucked away one by one by Gan Guoyang like a vacuum cleaner, and at the same time became the ammunition for the Trail Blazers' fast break.

In fact, the Pistons also have a backcourt rebounding master, that is, Ranbier, who is opposite Gan Guoyang, the center who has ranked second in the rebounding list for many years this year, if you don't count frontcourt rebounds, he is already the rebounding king before Gan Guoyang. (The previous rebounding king has been dominated by Moses Malone, but Moses Malone's frontcourt rebounds are really too much.) ）

But the emergence of Gan Guoyang's rebounding machine has dashed Ranbir's hopes for the rebounding king this season, just in the recent game, Gan Guoyang's average points per game has declined slightly, but his average number of rebounds per game has risen to 16, surpassing Ranbier's 13 and ranking first in the league.

The last NBA player who averaged more than 16 rebounds per game was Moses Malone in 1978-1979 when he was still with the Houston Rockets, and no one has averaged more than 16 rebounds per game since the eighties.

As long as Gan Guoyang maintains a steady rebounding performance in the remaining games, it will certainly not be a problem to break the record of 16 rebounds per game this season, and not only that, but last season he had broken Moses Malone's four-year monopoly on rebounding since 1981.

Apparently, a new king of rebounding has been born.

In the second half of the game against the Pistons, the Trail Blazers still controlled the situation on the court, which can be seen from Gan Guoyang's rebounding count continuing to rise steadily.

The famous Japanese center Akagi Goken once said, "The person who controls the rebounding ball can control the game", and Gan Guoyang controlled the whole court with the rebounding ball in this game.

For the Pistons, the lack of impact in the lineup is magnified, Rick Mahon and Ranbier are good hands and good meat shields in defense, but they can't pose a threat to Gan Guoyang's inside line in the offense, and Gan Guoyang feels extremely good about grabbing rebounds tonight, so in the end, the Pistons completely gave up the rush to grab rebounds in the front court, and they didn't even want to pick it up, and went all out to defend it.

This makes the Pistons' offense lack of change, and it also makes the Trail Blazers' defense free of the interference of unstable factors, it is simply sitting firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, you love to shoot or not, throw in and pull down, and if you can't throw, you are waiting to eat my counterattack.

Gan Guoyang also experienced the feeling of sitting in charge of the Chinese army and commanding the forwards to charge, which is really more enjoyable than his own continuous scoring with the ball, and the game also entered garbage time in the fourth quarter, the bigger the Blazers, the smoother the score, the more open the score, and the suspense has been lost.

Gan Guoyang didn't care about his stats in the game, and when he was interviewed on the sidelines after the game, Gan Guoyang learned from reporters that he scored 17 points in the whole game and picked up 37 rebounds at the same time, setting a single-game rebounding record this season.

"Why did you pick up so many rebounds tonight, looking at your stats, it feels like the scoring and rebounding are reversed." The reporter asked on the sidelines, indeed, Gan Guoyang's normal data should be 37 points and 17 rebounds, instead of the current strange 17 points and 37 rebounds.

"It's hard to say, it's like it's not me grabbing the rebound, it's the basketball grabbing me, it's just willing to come to me! It's an amazing feeling, you can't stop at all. Gan Guoyang was also very excited to obtain such data, which he did not expect.

"It's like going back to the NBA in the '60s, when Chamberlain and Russell dominated the basket, with 30 or 40 rebounds a game. We know you've shown great rebounding talent in your rookie season and won the rebounding title, but how did you get that many rebounds? "Journalists are always so inquisitive.

Gan Guoyang is in a good mood tonight and is willing to answer reporters' questions well.

"Talent, plus hard work, and a heart willing to jump up and grab the ball. Whoever can do these three things will be the next rebounding king, even if he is a 6-foot-6 man. ”

The reporter didn't pay much attention to Gan Guoyang's last sentence, because he didn't know that the competition for rebounding kings in the next many years would be between Gan Guoyang and a 6-foot-6 small man.