For an NBA playoff team, how to win on the road in the playoffs is a question that all teams must consider.

The home team, occupying the right time and place, in addition to the strength itself, various factors are dominant, and it is bound to be more advantageous in the game.

On the contrary, the away team is tired of traveling and playing at the opponent's venue, and the entire stadium except for the dozen or so people on the bench, the rest of the tens of thousands of people are all booing you, and there is no reaction when you enter, and you don't cheer if you don't enter, which is a big test for the players.

Of course, professional players have long been accustomed to this, but the difference between the playoffs and the regular season is that the more intense the game, the greater the impact of some non-strength factors on the course of the game, and any small incident will have an impact on the outcome of the game.

On the final day of April, the Trail Blazers beat the Denver Nuggets again at home, just like in last year's playoffs, with a 2-0 lead, and then they headed to attack the Nuggets' McNichols Sports Complex.

In the NBA, 2:0 and 3:0 are only one game apart, but they are completely different, although 2:0 is a huge advantage, but in the history of the NBA 2:0 is not many examples of overturning, in the past, in the future there will be many teams to complete the big comeback.

3:0 is different, 3:0 often means a death sentence for the team that is behind, and no team can turn the tables around when they are down 0:3, even if the Knicks pulled 3:3 when they were down 0:3 in 1954 and still lost the series.

Until 1986, no team could fight back from 3-0 down, and in fact that this result will not change for another 20 years.

So, the third game at Denver Plateau was the one that decided the trend of the series, and last year the Trail Blazers lost the third game and inexplicably infighting, which directly led to being pulled three games in a row in a 2-0 lead, and almost died in the semifinals.

You can't fall in front of the same pit at the same time, so on the plane to Denver, Ramsey began to yeer at all the players, asking them to go all out and not give the Nuggets a chance to salvage the playoffs.

Ramsey knows that this is difficult, the current Denver is a trapped beast, especially with the experience of last year's comeback, they must have made extremely adequate preparations, if they want to fight this crucial game at Denver's home court, it is very difficult to rely on the whole team to break out and bloom more, on the contrary, Ramsey must be ready to guard against the Nuggets' more blossoms.

As the head coach who directed the first 2-0 Finals comeback in NBA history, Ramsey understands how important momentum and confidence are in a series, and it is absolutely not good to be pressed from the start.

Considering the above two points, the most important thing for the Trail Blazers is that there must be a surprise player, and there must be players on the bench who stand up, because Gan Guoyang on the inside and Vanderwich on the outside will definitely be taken care of by the Nuggets.

Ramsey set his sights on Clyde Drexler.

In the first two games, Drexler didn't score much, 19 points in one game and 15 points in one game, because he played more of a playmaker role in the game, and Colter, as the starting point guard, was a little less playmaking experience and needed Drexler's help.

As a scoring guard, Drexler has practiced mid- and long-range jumpers for three years, and he still has the same time as Duan Yu's six-vein sword, and he can practice scoring when he steps on the spot, and Ramsey stands on the sidelines to watch him shoot, so he wants to throw the tactical board and stone him.

Due to the presence of Gan Guoyang and Vanderwicki, as well as injuries, Drexler has mainly played a third scoring point and versatile role in the team this season, he is very proficient in assists, rebounds, and steals, and his defense should be said to be good, at least compared to the two white outsiders, his physical fitness has an advantage.

Such a jack-of-all-trades player is often easily ignored in the offense and becomes a fish that slips through the net on the opponent's defensive line, but in fact, as a new generation of scoring guards, Drexler is actually very explosive in terms of scoring in addition to shooting, but under the light of Gan Guoyang, he looks a little bleak.

After much deliberation, Ramsey decided to put the winner of the third game on Drexler, so that the talented but stubborn young man could surprise his opponent as the leader of the team.

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“…… We took the time back to last year's Western Conference semifinals, where the second-placed Trail Blazers took a 2-0 lead after two home games, but when they arrived at the Rainbow's home court, the Denver Nuggets scored twice in a row to make the score 2-2, and then in the crucial fifth game, the Nuggets overturned the Trail Blazers on the road and won the match point. That said, the Nuggets were one step away from the Western Conference Finals, but the Trail Blazers stubbornly salvaged the match point in Game 6, dragged the game into a do-or-die battle, and won the series ......"

Before the game, CBS TV was looking back at last year's Western Conference semifinals, and the Nuggets faced the exact same situation as last year, and it was clear that Denver fans wanted the team to regain last year's momentum and get back the lost game at home.

The game was about to start, and many fans at the scene played the "2:2" sign, and it seemed that they were not worried at all in the face of the home team's 0:2 down, and they were full of confidence in the Nuggets.

Indeed, although the Nuggets' ranking has dropped this season, the rise of Leaf, the enrichment of the interior line and the continued peak state of Inglish, the Nuggets have not declined in strength, and they lost 0:2 in the first two games, on the one hand, the strength of the Trailblazers has improved, and on the other hand

It's a matter of strategy for the coach, pinning his hopes on the two white centers, thinking that the two of them can be a surprise soldier to contain Gan Guoyang.

Surprise soldiers are like this, if they succeed, the benefits are huge, and once they fail, the losses are difficult to recover.

So after Drexler was designated by Ramsey to start with all his strength and find the feeling of scoring, "Glider" was still a little nervous.

Because Drexler is such a personality, competitive and competitive, but he has not reached the point of Gan Guoyang, Jordan and others, he can accept it with peace of mind to be a second-in-command and do a good job of auxiliary work at critical moments.

Now let him be a temporary leader, he is really a little uncomfortable.

Gan Guoyang didn't have any opinion on this, he also knew that as long as Drexler was opened, he himself would be able to suffer a little less and be able to work inside and out.

So at the beginning, Gan Guoyang jumped the ball and won the ball, and immediately began to cover Drexler on the outside.

Drexler broke through from the right side with the help of Gan's cover, changed direction past Dunn, and switched left hands to make a layup! Got the first point of the opening game! ”

In the first shot, Drexler didn't choose a jumper, he used a nice change of direction to get past the defender, and then put Shays's left hand to the layup, Shays's 6-foot-11 was completely pressed under Drexler, and he jumped too high.

"In the NBA, apart from Michael Jordan, there are very few players who can break through like Drexler." Commentator Brent Musberg said that this time CBS's commentary on the Trail Blazers game was finally not Dick Stockton.

Musberg was right, before Drexler and Jordan, the breakthrough of the scoring guards was like an old lady with small feet, slowly squeezing in with small steps, and suddenly throwing a cold shot to make the opponent unguarded, but they couldn't stride into the basket like these two flyers, and then find a gap under the defense of three or four people to pass the ball to the basket.

Compared to Jordan, Drexler has fewer changes in the break, and his movements in the air are not as good as Jordan's, but as long as he can score, the effect is the same.

But soon, the Nuggets showed the difference between their home and away games, and after Drexler scored first, Leaf immediately responded with a pull-up jumper, which was very decisive, and it can be seen that the Nuggets showed the momentum to defend their home court from the beginning.

"Drexler came around, got a pass from Colter, and shot straight away! The ball didn't go in, Inglish got the backcourt rebound, passed to Leaf, the Nuggets' fast break, Gan had returned to the basket, but Inglish turned over and made a jumper at the baseline...... The ball is in! At 12:7, the Nuggets led by five points. ”

"How the fuck did this guy score goals with such an ugly shooting stance?" Gan Guoyang originally returned to the basket to prepare to prevent the Nuggets from breaking fast, but Inglish received the ball on the baseline and turned his back and shot directly, Inglish's shooting posture was quite weird, the whole person erected a telephone pole, put the ball on the pole, and then flicked his wrist, and the ball flew out.

Like this time, he turned around and jumped, but in fact, his body hadn't turned around at all, and he threw the ball out directly, but it went in.

Gan Guoyang complains and complains, and he also knows that Inglish's power on the offensive end is really huge.

On the defensive end, Gan Guoyang and Van Dewew were really tightly packed and assisted, and Doug Mo made adjustments in the alignment, but Calvin Knight went to defend Van Deweych and let Inglish defend Sampson.

The slender Inglish is certainly not Sampson's opponent one-on-one, but now Sampson is no longer the team's main point of attack, and Ramsey has not arranged a single strategy for him, as long as Inglish insists on going around the front and not letting Sampson catch the ball, he will complete his task.

"Drexler was holding the ball at the top of the arc, he was a little hesitant, and he still shot the ball...... Shot, the ball missed, collapsed far away, Knight got the rebound, the Nuggets counterattacked again, the Trail Blazers couldn't return in time, Dunn made a successful layup, and the difference became 7 points. ”

Ramsey immediately called a timeout, Drexler's missed shot did a lot of damage to the Trail Blazers, because the arc of his shot was very flat, and once he didn't score, he often collapsed all of a sudden, directly near the three-point line, which gave the opponent a good opportunity to break fast, and also made it difficult for teammates to return to defense.

This is one of the big reasons why Ramsey wants to smash Drexler with a tactical board when he sees him shooting randomly.

But at the timeout, Ramsey didn't criticize Drexler, but encouraged him: "Clyde, enrich your options, pass, shoot, layup, you have to find your own rhythm and not shoot blindly." Give yourself confidence...... Jones, you play, willing you to play power forward, drag it out, go faster when you return to defense, and don't let the Nuggets easily counterattack. ”

Ramsey continued to ask Drexler to get his groove on the offense, and he understood that tactics should be used firmly, and should not be easily shaken by momentary setbacks.