Chapter 273: Winning by Difficulty

The game in the third quarter became a nightmare for the Trail Blazers, and the Clippers used an 11-0 shockwave at the beginning of the third quarter to quickly erase the five-point gap between the two sides in the first half, and by the way, they also led by six points.

It all happened very quickly, very suddenly, and the Blazers didn't know how to attack all of a sudden.

Gan Guoyang felt that he had suddenly returned to his rookie season, and he began to do switchback and running on the court again, back and forth, without even touching a ball.

The Clippers strengthened the protection of backcourt rebounds, the entire defense line shrank, and everyone grabbed rebounds, and it was difficult for Gan Guoyang to find an opportunity to pick up frontcourt rebounds.

The Clippers' defense is also very simple, it is one defense and one defense, putting the shot without bursting, putting it outside and not putting it inside, and the Trail Blazers shoot on the outside.

As a result, the Trail Blazers' shooting percentage in the third quarter was ridiculously low, and they didn't score a single goal.

The Clippers seized the opportunity to play consecutive counterattacks, and Ren Gan Guoyang had three heads and six arms, and he couldn't block all the opponent's attacks.

The Clippers rewrote the score to 68-63 in the fourth minute of the third quarter, and if it weren't for a lucky three-pointer from Drexler, the Trail Blazers would have been denied a point until the official timeout four minutes before the second half.

To make matters worse, when the Trail Blazers were being pressed and beaten by the Clippers, Ramsey didn't seem to have the slightest intention of calling a timeout, waiting for an official timeout.

“clam-don…… (Calm down)" This is the first thing Ramsey said when he paused, how awkward it sounded, I don't know if he was saying it to himself or the players, Gan Guoyang didn't feel that he was not calm, the team was just not in shape.

"Speed up, chase points quickly, play counterattacks, we have to play our own rhythm, not be led by the nose, it's terrible ............" After saying a few words, Ramsey didn't say more, but drew two tactics on the tactical board, one to switch the defense to Gan Guoyang to plug the ball, and one to Paxson's inside cutting and moving tactics.

The Trail Blazers' players returned to the court early, waiting for the official timeout to end, while the Clippers' head coach Don Chaney was still setting up his players, as if it wasn't the Trail Blazers but the Clippers who were behind.

"What the fuck is going on?" Gan Guoyang kept beating the drum in his heart, he didn't know what was wrong with Ramsey, what happened to the pioneers.

The first two games in Portland were fine, and although the opponent was a weak team, the team's tactics worked very well, and they both won the game, and everything was so good.

But since Gan Guoyang found out that Colter was taking drugs, it seemed that he had torn open the opening of an embroidered pillow, and the rags inside were being exposed little by little.

This made Gan Guoyang extremely indignant in his heart, and he couldn't wait to immediately run to Ramsay and yell at the old man, asking him what was going on inside his bald head.

Gan Guoyang was not carried away by this resentment, but vented it on the court.

"Spread out! Don't squeeze to the left! Give me the ball. Gan Guoyang directed his teammates to stack on the right side, leaving the left side empty, and then he ran to the horn position to ask Valentine for the ball.

Valentin handed the ball to Gan, who faced the basket against defender, the seven-foot-2 giant James Donaldson, who was 4 feet behind his opponent in height, and would have trouble dealing with Donaldson even if he relied solely on strength on the inside.

In the first half, Gan Guoyang and Valentin cooperated quite well, and Gan Guoyang got several easy-ball opportunities and easily put the ball in.

In the second half, Donaldson began to stay on his feet, and the Clippers began to shrink their bags.

"damn (damn it)." Gan Guoyang lowered his center of gravity to hold the ball in the horn position, and looked at Donaldson, who was covering him in front of him, and he found that the inside line was quite blocked, and once he broke through from the front, he would definitely be pinched.

But he was not allowed to hesitate, Gan Guoyang immediately made a choice, he made a tentative step, and suddenly moved the ball from the right side to the left with a flick of his arm, and he chose to break through from the side with his left hand!

Donaldson was a little caught off guard, plus he was tall and had a high center of gravity, so he couldn't keep up with Gan Guoyang's pace at all, so he could only pounce from behind.

On the inside of the Clippers, Maxwell, who was originally targeting Sampson, immediately made up for the basket to block Gan Guoyang.

There is no turning back arrow when the bow is opened, once Gan Guoyang starts, no matter who is in front of him, he can't stop!

Gan Guoyang faced Maxwell's wall of flesh, and suddenly accelerated to jump, Maxwell was motionless under the basket, waiting for Gan Guoyang to load up.

"Bang!" Maxwell was completely knocked away by Gan Guoyang and slid out of the baseline, and Gan Guoyang also put the ball into the basket in the air.

"Does it count?" Gan Guoyang's first reaction after the ball was scored was to look at the referee, to see if the referee's gesture was the ball in or not.

Thankfully, the referee signalled the goal and ruled Maxwell for a foul.

"Oh yes, nice goal...... Hey Max, how does it feel to be in Los Angeles? Gan Guoyang did not forget to tease Boston's veteran Maxwell when he made free throws, and then hit the free throw, 66:68, and the difference became two points again.

Gan Guoyang's ball should be said to be played very smart, he did not choose to hit Donaldson in the low post first, after all, Donaldson's height is there, and it will be better to break through with the basket and use the advantage of foot speed to obviously have a better effect.

At the same time, he found that Maxwell was very close to the basket, if he burst from the front, there was a chance that Maxwell would make an offensive foul, but from the side, Maxwell would have to move a farther distance if he wanted to make a foul, and it would naturally be easy to be blown and blocked.

Gan Guoyang's goal greatly boosted the morale of the Trail Blazers, and Ramsey also replaced the substitute Paxson, who was still in very good shape tonight, and his running injected some vitality into the slightly lifeless Trail Blazers, and also mobilized the Clippers' defense.

The Trailblazers finally began to slowly recover their state, and the internal and external offenses played vigorously again, and the two sides entered a state of dog-tooth chasing and catching up, and the Trail Blazers still maintained a certain advantage.

Gan Guoyang saw that his teammates' performance was not satisfactory, and once again strengthened his offense, began to constantly attack the interior of the Clippers, and he scored 13 points in the third quarter.

By the fourth quarter, the Trail Blazers had always maintained a four-point advantage, leading the Clippers by the nose.

With one minute and five seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Trail Blazers still led the Clippers by three points at 113-110, and a mid-range shot by Marquis Johnson on the Clippers' side stopped the Trail Blazers.

"Gan, expand the defense, increase the pressure on the outside, don't give them a chance. But remember, don't miss people, don't miss the inside, and if you can't, foul and send the opponent to the free throw line. 'Ramsey made a calm set-up and asked the team to play a pressing defence.

Then Ramsey asked to focus on Derrick Smith, who caused huge problems for the Trail Blazers tonight, and he has scored 26 points so far.

After the timeout ended, the game resumed.

Gan Guoyang stood near the free throw line, and a 10-foot radius was all under his jurisdiction, and it was completely impossible for the Clippers to drop the ball directly to the inside.

As the referee's whistle blew and the Clippers served, the Clippers' perimeter player circled twice outside the three-point line, drawing away the two defenders, only to be Ben Onette Benjamin who stepped up to catch the ball.

But Gan Guoyang made a mistake, Benjamin is not offensive from beyond the three-point line, although he can't pinch other players at this time, that's illegal defense, and he should also focus on the person who is most likely to catch the ball.

However, Gan's attention was on Benjamin, who paused after receiving the ball, turned around and passed the ball to Marquis Johnson, who was already running to the top of the arc.

Benjamin took advantage of the situation to make a blocking cover for Johnson, and Johnson directly accelerated to break through with the ball!

At this time, Gan Guoyang must step forward to make up for the defense, he followed Johnson, staring at him until he entered the inside line.

In order to avoid Gan Guoyang's big hand block, Johnson had to use a very difficult action to make a layup, so that he was not blocked by Gan Guoyang's hot pot.

The ball still shot, a high throw on the board, the strength of the ball was not well mastered, it bounced on the basket, and it was about to fall out.

At this time, Benjamin, who went down after covering, was vacated!

Benjamin jumped up and tapped the ball lightly.

"Huh!" The ball stumbles into the basket and Benjamin makes a layup! The rookie who came off the bench hit a key layup!

"Yay! Yay!" Benjamin made a successful rebound as if it was a stunner, but the Clippers were still one point behind.

"Stupid!" Gan Guoyang couldn't help but say when he looked at Benjamin's appearance.

Then Gan Guoyang turned to Van Dewicki, the ball just now should have been Van Dewicz to change the defense, but Benjamin was completely empty: "How did you do Kiki!" I'm going to defend Johnson, then you've got to get Benjamin in the spot! How can he make it so easy for him to make up the basket? ”

Gan Guoyang originally wanted to remind Van Dewig, but Van Devic ignored him at all, and walked back to the bench silently.

The relationship between the two has always been good, and they practiced shooting together yesterday, Gan Guoyang wondered if there was something wrong with his tone.

Fortunately, in the subsequent key attack, Gan Guoyang hit a big hook at 45 degrees on the right side!

The difference between the two sides was stretched to 3 points again, and the situation was stabilized.

With the Clippers opting to risk a three-point miss, the Trail Blazers narrowly beat the Clippers 115-112 three-pointers on the road, making it three straight wins to start the season.

Gan Guoyang was voted the best player of the game, he scored 41 points and 13 rebounds in the game, and hit a crucial hook shot, which can be described as a great credit.

It's just that Gan Guoyang, who won this game, was not so happy, and he knew that there must have been some problems within the Trailblazers.