In the first quarter, the basket of the Trail Blazers was as wide as the sea, and the Trail Blazers players who were full of energy, under the leadership of Gan Guoyang and Terry Porter, played a high shooting rate, of which Gan Guoyang and Porter shot five of six three-pointers, Porter's three-point stop and Gan Guoyang's Chuck Daley shot from the perimeter anti-aircraft battery wanted to pull his head.

Of course, Chuck Daley certainly doesn't pull his head, and like Pat Riley, he is meticulously groomed before each game, plus a meticulously ironed suit, Chuck Daley is affectionately called "Million Daddy" by the Pistons' players, meaning he dresses like a Monopoly man.

As a coach who has seen the world, it is of course not the first time that he has encountered such a situation at the beginning, seeing that he called two timeouts, there is still no way to stop the Trail Blazers' fiery offensive, and it is useless to command loudly on the sidelines, Daley knows that the first quarter will definitely not be able to stop the Trail Blazers' offense.

At this time, Daley calmed down, sat back on the bench, and began to wait patiently for the end of the first quarter of the game.

Daley knows very well that the Portland Trail Blazers are an extremely sharp offensive team, the league's first firepower, 360 degrees of offense without dead ends, in the Western Conference Finals and the Lakers' offensive matchup, the Trail Blazers have overwhelmed their opponents on the offensive end by virtue of their interior advantage, and the only teams that can beat the Lakers in the playoffs in the NBA in the past ten years are this year's Trail Blazers and the 1983 Philadelphia 76ers.

Therefore, Daley knows that it is not okay to fight hard with the Trail Blazers when their offense is at their most ferocious, and when the momentum is always exhausted, the Trail Blazers cannot endlessly feel hot, and all the Pistons have to do is wait.

However, they couldn't just watch the Trail Blazers pull the score bigger and bigger, so Daley chose to make a substitution.

The Pistons asked for a substitution, and Dennis Rodman came on for Mark Aquili (a roster error in the previous chapter), and John Long replaced Rick Mahon. With two minutes left before the end of the first quarter, the Trail Blazers had already led the Pistons by 11 points at 34:23, and the Pistons were still trading their main players down. Daley's substitution Sean Lee is also not very understandable, the difference in the first quarter has reached more than 10 points, and Aquilli is an important scoring point in the Pistons section, and Rick Mahon is directly opposite Gan Guoyang.

Needless to say, he replaced Aquili to strengthen the defense, and this John Long is a thorough player at the end of the bench, and he is also a scoring guard, so that the Pistons are in a three-guard formation on the court, and Rodman is at the position of a power forward against Gan Guoyang.

As soon as Gan Guoyang saw Rodman playing, he knew that Daley had used Rodman to cause him a lot of trouble, and Rodman's kraft-like defense was annoying, but now Gan Guoyang is confident that he will play Rodman on the offensive end so that Rodman doesn't even know him.

However, the Pistons' offense was not affected by this substitution, in fact, the Trail Blazers also struggled to defend the Pistons' offense, the Pistons' offensive points were too balanced, and throughout the 1989 season, no player on the Pistons team averaged more than 2o points per game, including team boss Isiah Thomas, and Dantley, who was traded away in the middle of the game, Thomas averaged 18.2 points per game.

The second in scoring is Joe Dumas with 17.2 points, and the next few players are averaging around 15 points per game, and the six players on the team are averaging more than 13 points per game, and Sarly, Rodman, Vinnie Johnson, and James Edwards can all provide firepower on the bench, so this is a team with all the names, offensive lineups, and extremely balanced play.

The strength of the Trail Blazers' defense lies in the ability to "pinch people" is very strong, from a one-on-one point of view, Porter, Gan Guoyang, and Cauchy are all very strong single defense masters, Sabonis has become an excellent meat shield, and Drexler has a talent for helping defense, with Gan Guoyang's large-scale wandering, and the team's outstanding athleticism, the Trail Blazers can often strangle the opponent's offensive strength.

However, the Pistons are a team that can be a strong point for anyone, especially their backcourt, which is a relatively weak part of the Trail Blazers.

"Thomas got past Potter, but he didn't break through, he turned back and got back inside! Go around from the bottom line, turn around and hit a mid-range shot! ”

Thomas was in the middle of the Trail Blazers, relying on his delicate ball control to easily pass Porter and then not rushing straight inside, but instead of dumping a shot, he pretended to go outside, but soon he turned and burst inside, shuttled under the basket, and ran to the other side to hit a jumper.

Thomas can wear it around like this because Sabonis has to run to the outside to defend Ranbill, and Gan Guoyang can't target Thomas like he does against Magic, choking Magic is equivalent to choking half of the Lakers' offense, but choking Thomas is only choking one-fifth.

As a result, Gan Guoyang didn't have time to follow up with the defense to assist Porter and lost two points. At 34:25, the margin returned to within 1o points, but the Trail Blazers were confident that they would continue to score.

But soon the Trail Blazers' players finally figured out why Daley sent Rodman and Long, who didn't come up to strengthen the defense, but to foul them.

Porter dribbled just over half court and wanted to play with Gan Guoyang to block and dismantle, but Long didn't say a word and directly fouled him, and the Trail Blazers took the ball out of bounds.

Throw-in, the Trail Blazers had to change their tactics, Gan Guoyang asked for the ball in the low post, Cauchy directly dropped the ball to Gan Guoyang, but Gan Guoyang was just about to make a move, Dennis Rodman hugged Gan Guoyang again, and the referee blew the foul again, this time Gan Guoyang was going to the free throw line.

"Rodman fouled, the Pistons have committed four fouls as a team, and they are about to go to the free throw line...... The first free throw is hit, and the second free throw is still a hit! Oh, Daly, your tricks don't necessarily work for Ganko. ”

Shaunley felt that Daley's method didn't work, because every player on the court made good free throws, and it was not easy to rely on foul tactics to find points in the first quarter when everyone was full of energy.

However, Rodman and Long are still implementing foul tactics, the last three rounds, as long as the Trail Blazers have a slight sign of attack, the fouls of the two did not hesitate, which made the last two offenses of the Trail Blazers all completed at the free throw line, Gan Guoyang and Porter made three of four free throws, but for the Pistons, Dumas hit a key three-pointer from the outside, and the score at the end of the first quarter was 37:28, and the Pistons were still 9 points behind.

At this point, Daley appeared pleased with the players' performance and touched Rodman's head, as if they were not behind by nine points at the end of the first quarter, but by nine points.

And Adelman also smelled a hint of conspiracy emanating from Daley, of course, Daley would not use a pair to exchange for the Trail Blazers players like Riley at this time, Rodman and Long's fouls are very ordinary, and there is no malicious component.

When the two sides rested for five minutes and the second quarter began, Rodman and Long were back on the bench, Daley sent Pooh Johnson, and inside John Sully came on, and the Trail Blazers players were now on the side, and their hot hands in the first quarter had cooled down.

"Cauchy breaks through the baseline for a layup and is knocked out from behind by Ranbier! The piston moved the fast attack! Vinnie Johnson dribbles to the basket. The Pistons played a 5:o small **, and the difference narrowed to 4 points at once. ”

At the beginning of the second quarter, Ranbir hit a three-point shot from the outside, and then clicked off Cauthy's breakaway layup on the defensive end, and Johnson immediately scored on a fast break and beat the Trail Blazers 5:O.

At the same time, the addition of Sali on the defensive end increased the defensive density of the Pistons, and Ranbir began to directly oppose Gan Guoyang.

"Good luck, three-pointers, blocks." Gan Guoyang couldn't help but spray him when he saw Ranbier walking towards him with a half-dead look.

Lambier glanced at Gan Guoyang, the corners of his mouth raised, and said, "Your luck won't be so good anymore." ”

In fact, if Zhengda is bright one-on-one, Gan Guoyang can beat Lambier out of the, although Lambir's single defense ability is very good, but Gan Guoyang's hook hand and turnover jump shot, Lambir's bounce is not a way to buy him at all, but the problem is that Lambir's defense against Gan Guoyang has never been above board.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Ranbir began to use all means, playing and singing to constantly harass Gan Guoyang, this guy is not only observing the opponent when defending, but also observing the referee, when the referee's attention is not on his side, he began to make some small moves to distract Gan Guoyang's offensive attention.

And the entire Pistons, from the end of the first quarter, have been constantly using various methods to interfere with the offensive rhythm of the Trail Blazers, Daley sent two bench fouls, not expecting the Trail Blazers to not score free throws, but to use these fouls to interrupt the Trail Blazers' originally smooth offensive momentum, Beess paused, tactics reorganized, running from the beginning, everything is to avoid the Trail Blazers' edge, slowly drag the game into a tug-of-war, and then wait for opportunities to look for opportunities.

"Potter misses three points! Ranbir gets the backcourt rebound... Oh, he seems to have given Gan an elbow back, but the referee didn't blow it, and Winnie Johnson held the ball and broke fast, and made a pull-up jumper! Hit! At 39:37, the Pistons were just one point away. ”