"We were suppressed tonight, we were completely suppressed, we didn't play as well as we did in the first two games, our rhythm was shattered, we struggled the whole game, we kept solving problems, and then new problems came up, and it went on until the last minute, and we never managed to play Trail Blazers-style basketball, which couldn't have been worse."

At the post-game press conference, Adelman commented on the team's performance in Game 3, basically summarizing the predicament faced by the Trail Blazers in the game, Adelman was mentally prepared for such a situation, but when the real result came out, the tone was inevitably helpless and frustrated.

Gan Guoyang is the same, his swing in this game is actually quite good, but his teammates' swing has been greatly curbed, and he can't score more than 5o points in every game to turn the tide.

Gan Guoyang knew in his heart that after 2:o, the third game was a watershed, 3:o and 2:1 were completely two worlds, 3:o meant that the championship was in hand, and 2:1 showed that there were infinite possibilities.

In the history of the NBA Finals, the O:2 Finals comeback is the 1989 Finals, which was the 1977 Finals, when the protagonist was the Portland Trail Blazers.

Gan Guoyang, as a person who has experienced the history of later generations, of course knows that in the finals of 2oo5, the Pistons fought with the Spurs to the seventh game when they were behind O:2, and then the Heat completed the reversal in the case of O:2 behind in 2oo6.

The Trail Blazers didn't want history to play out 17 years in advance, and they didn't want the miracle of 12 years ago to be reported on them, and the whole team repeatedly summarized it in the locker room after the game.

This is a habit that the Trail Blazers have developed since the first game of the season, to make a post-game summary of the mistakes made by the team in the game and how to improve in the next game, and the team's data analysts will also post the data of the two teams in a prominent place for the players to compare to stimulate those who are not playing well.

"Ms. Jerome, you gave Rodman 18 points? What kind of player is Rodman? In addition to grabbing rebounds, fouls, and defense, what offensive means do you guess he has? Slam dunk? A layup under the basket? What else? Dear Jerome, no more! He didn't have any offensive means, and you gave him 18 points! was also played by him! Adelman and Gan were sent out for press briefings, while assistant coach Bellman was behind closed doors to teach the rest of the players a lesson.

After a few years with the Trail Blazers, Bellman has become an indispensable figure on the team's coaching staff, Adelman's number one brainchild, and can also act as head coach in part, and now he has long since lost the caution he had when he first entered the Trail Blazers, scolding players as much as he did when he was at Palo Alto High School.

Cauchy has become Bellman's first firepower target, Cauchy's role in the team is still very critical, and it can be said that Cauchy is the barometer of the state of the Trailblazers, when Cauchy is in good shape, it means that the whole team is in good shape and running well; Cauchy's form is poor, so the overall state of the Trail Blazers is definitely not much better.

The reason is very simple, the offensive end of Cauchy's autonomy is not strong, and he relies on the assists of his teammates and the overall tactical coordination, so Cauchy's good state shows that the offensive end of the Trail Blazers is running smoothly; On the defensive end, Cauchy is the number one gate on the outside, and if Cauchy is in a problem, then the Trail Blazers' outside defense will be torn apart.

This is the difference between a role player like him and Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang has always been as steady as Mount Tai and his output contribution is very stable, but because of this, the swing of a role player like this can often become a winner or loser.

In the third game of the contest with Rodman, Cauchy was disgraced by Rodman, a cunning little fox, and his playing emotions were completely controlled by Rodman, so it was strange that he could play well.

"Ms. Avidas, Edwards threw four goals over your head, yes, four, and you were playing against him on one defense and one by one, and then he hit him in a row! You see, you look at the beard on Edwards' face, he looks old enough to be your grandfather, and you just let him score easily? At this time, Bellman also turned on the video and tuned to the second half of the third quarter, when James Edwards came on the court and became the main point of attack inside, eating Sabonis three balls in a row, extinguishing the hope of the Trail Blazers to catch up.

These balls Bellman can be said to be impressed, specially called out for Sabonis to see, Sabonis made his face flushed, and his face was ashamed, Sabonis was not only bullied by Edwards tonight, but also fell behind in the confrontation with Bill Lambir, Ranbir's experience, cunning and dirty swing to the fullest, it can be said that in addition to failing to jam Gan Guoyang in scoring, Ranbir alone defeated all the other interior lines of the Trail Blazers.

"Ms. Buck, your frontcourt rebounds are o, o, o, o, and your backcourt rebounds are 1, 1, 1, 1, I think you should go and learn computers and do binary calculations." Buck Williams was also a victim of Ranbier, who grabbed 22 rebounds tonight, including 21 in the backcourt, to protect the Pistons' basket.

In comparison, although Gan Guoyang grabbed 15 rebounds, other players contributed too little, Dennis Rodman also scored 11 rebounds, and the huge gap in rebounds between the two sides tonight was also one of the reasons for the Trail Blazers' fiasco.

"Ms. Potter, I suspect your brain broke down after being elbowed by that Ranbir, and when you get back on the pitch, you should keep attacking the opponent instead of hurting your own team with one mistake after another!" Bellman's firepower quickly spread to Terry Porter, who had been playing a stumbling game tonight after being elbowed by Ranbir, scoring just 11 points, three assists and a staggering seven turnovers.

In fact, in this game, Chuck Daley has a very important decision, that is, in the defensive focus, where should be placed, Daley realized that blocking Gan Guoyang has long been proven to have no future, a pure waste of troops, and in the backcourt, Daley did not choose to block Drexler, but chose to strangle Terry Porter, because he keenly observed that in the key games of the playoffs, Porter's role is more important than Drexler.

In the Finals, it was Porter's consecutive three-point scoring to open the situation for the Trail Blazers and win the victory in one fell swoop, and after realizing this, the Pistons are familiar with dealing with outside ball-handling players, and they have already accumulated a wealth of experience on Jordan's side.

So in the game, the main defender of Potter became Joe Dumas, and the inside line of Rick Mahon and Bill Lambier came up to serve at any time, and the two carefully studied Potter's ball path, knowing that Potter's left-handed breakthrough ability was very strong, so he deliberately arranged an ambush on his left hand side, and coldly came up on his breakthrough route, and after Potter was hit a few times, the attack felt completely gone.

And Drexler's life is not easy, he is a player who needs team support very much, without the support of his teammates, he is like a glider without the wind blowing, there is no way to glide in the sky, he will just keep falling, he got 18 points on the court, tepid, and there is no decisive change in the situation.

Bellman was on fire in the locker room, combining data, video, and analysis to scold the Trail Blazers players, and the Trail Blazers players also knew that the performance was really poor, so they could only put their heads down and endure the training on the hellish side in the stuffy locker room.

After scolding for more than 20 minutes, Adelman and Gan Guoyang returned to the locker room, Gan Guoyang felt that the atmosphere was not right as soon as he pushed the door, and felt that the locker room was filled with an atmosphere of going to the grave on the Qingming Festival, and he knew that everyone must have been scolded, because in the past, in Palo Alto and Gonzaga, the team was often scolded like this by Bellman.

Gan Guoyang looked at his teammates who were a little sluggish, and knew that it was time to cheer everyone up. "Cheer up girls, we've got 82 wins this season, 69 regular season games, 13 playoff games, which is a terrific win, and if someone tells me they've got 82 wins in a season, my jaw drops. But is that enough? Not enough, 82 games is not enough, even if that number is as many games as some teams have played in a season, but we are still missing two wins, just two. Tonight I had to face the reporters who were holding the microphone and babbling in front of me asking me why the hell we were losing, and I wanted to fucking wonder, why the hell did we lose? But now, I don't want to know, because, I just want to know, next game, how are we going to win, in Detroit, in Auburn Hills! I don't want to lose two games in a row, go back to the same running line and play the Kings Mountain in Detroit, never! If we are stronger, we should win, at any time, anywhere, against any opponent! ”

In the entire playoffs, the Trail Blazers only lost two games, they never lost in a row, and they refused to lose in a row, for a strong team, losing is also inevitable, there is no team that will never be defeated, but how to solve the problem after losing, boost morale, and re-invest in the next game to win, instead of being dominated by the opponent, and losing consecutive games by themselves, is a must for a championship division.

Just like the fourth game of the Western Conference Finals, everyone thinks that the Trail Blazers will lose, and some people even think that they should take the initiative to give up the fourth game and return to the home court to play Tianwang Mountain, but Gan Guoyang disagrees, he desperately wants to win the fourth game, because he knows that failure cannot be made a habit, and the experience of failure must always be transformed into the motivation for victory immediately.

Therefore, the fourth game will become a life-and-death battle for the pioneers.