The Detroit Pistons' lack of low-post attackers was supposed to be covered up in history until 1991, but in this time, they met the Portland Trail Blazers, a team with the best low-post offensive ability in the league.

In 1988 against the Los Angeles Lakers, the Lakers' low-post offensive ability was strong enough, Abdul-Jabbar, who had not yet fully aged, and James Worthy, who was in excellent shape, but at that time they had Dantley, who was the Pistons' leading scorer in that Finals, and a scorer who could explode into 30 points in a single game, and his shooting rate was as high as 57 percent in the series, which was the most important and stable output point for the Pistons.

And the low post strength of the Trail Blazers is even more terrifying, Gan Guoyang has become the NBA's No. 1 interior low post attacker since 1987, reaching his peak in 1988, but this year, because of the change in his style of play, his percentage of low post offense has decreased, but when he needs it, he is still the monster that can devour everything in the low post.

In the second quarter, Gan Guoyang continued to stay on the court, and Chuck Daly sent John Sully and put Bill Lambier off the court, which is a very risky behavior, the entire league, Ranbier can be regarded as one of the few low-post defenders who can make Gan Guoyang uncomfortable, and Sully in the second and third games, harassed Gan Guoyang with Dennis Rodman, but still achieved good results, Daley wants to continue to try the effect of this defensive combination on Gan Guoyang.

John Sully, a 1986 rookie from Georgia Tech, was an 11th pick and the Pistons' last high pick, as the Pistons never dropped out of the Eastern Conference Finals since the 1987 playoffs.

Sully has a characteristic exactly the same as Gan Guoyang, that is, long arms, after Sully came to the Pistons, this cheerful and lively young man is a little out of place with the calm and spicy style inside the Pistons, and he also had a fight with the boss of the team's locker room, Bill Ranbier, but inside the Pistons, the fight shows that he has really entered the group, two seasons of training, and the experience of the finals, so that the 6-foot-11-inch tall Spider-Man quickly grew into an important player on the Pistons bench, A defensive stalwort.

Unlike the brutal and brutal defense of "Beef Guy" Rick Mahon, Sully takes the route of wide coverage and precise interference, which is the same as Gan Guoyang, with a huge defensive area, very tight marking and pressing of ball carriers, and considerable interference when shooting at the opponent, and at the same time, like his character, he is also a very positive and dedicated player, loved by teammates and coaches.

In tonight's crucial battle, he shouldered the heavy responsibility of resisting the explosives bag to block the most ferocious firepower of the Trailblazers, of course, Daley was not at ease, and also sent Rodman to help, both guys are long-handed and long-legged, it seems that they want to make a cage to frame Gan Guoyang.

However, Gan Guoyang soon proved that John Saliga Rodman could not prevent him at all.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Drexler and Porter were all out of the court to rest, and the backcourt partners were Paxson and Danny Young, Adelman's meaning was very clear, the backcourt organized and organized, the defense and defense were on the line, and the offense was left alone, Danny Young handed over the ball as soon as he passed the half, Gan Guoyang received the ball with his back in a relatively shallow position, and now playing with the Pistons, Gan Guoyang did not dare to receive the ball in too deep positions, because the Pistons' bag was too sharp and timely.

After Gan Guoyang received the ball, he knew that Rodman was going to pounce, so he directly took a Sigma step, turned his back to the basket, and made a straight arm dry jump shot before Rodman pounced.

Sully's arm is indeed long enough, and his reaction to this ball is also very fast, almost sealed on the ball, but the ball is still hollow into the net, Gan Guoyang is in this position, 45 degrees, 15 feet away from the basket, I don't know how many times I have practiced Sigma After stepping directly to jump shots, it doesn't matter if someone defends him at all.

After the goal, Gan Guoyang pointed at Rodman, as if to tell him not to run around.

The Pistons also have an offensive core on their side, that is, Isiah Thomas, as the number one star of this Pistons, Thomas's shine in the Pistons is not as dazzling as Gan Guoyang in the Trail Blazers, because the Pistons are still a team in nature, and the team's locker room is not completely led by Thomas, Bill Lambie is the real talker, and on the court, Joe Dumas bears similar responsibilities as Thomas, if there is any difference, That's Thomas the only scoring flashpoint for the Pistons at the moment.

Without Dantley, the Pistons are the only ones who have the ability to take over the game on the offensive end.

Thomas carried out Riley's intentions, insisted on playing offensive and defensive transitions, reduced positional offense, and prevented grinding positional battles with the Trail Blazers, who lacked low-post offensive points, they couldn't grind the Trail Blazers, so the Pistons served quickly, Thomas held the ball directly, and suddenly accelerated past Danny Young with a change of direction, and then went straight to the basket.

Under the basket, Gan Guoyang and Buck-Williams were waiting for Thomas, Thomas was not afraid, jumped directly without slowing down, and went directly to the basket against Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang stretched out his arms, his whole body straightened, to prevent being blown into the cylinder, as much as possible to block Thomas's shooting space, but Thomas did not go directly to the basket, but a pull rod in the air, the ball passed between Buck Williams and Gan Guoyang, and then a low-handed pick-up, the ball spun around the basket and fell into the net.

A very wonderful goal, Gan Guoyang and Buck Williams have defended very well, but they still failed to organize Thomas to score in such a clever way.

Correspondingly, Thomas also pointed at Buck Williams, as if to tell him, it's okay not to run around to make up for it, it's useless.

The number one stars on both sides are beginning to see the opposing defense as nothing.

Dennis Rodman soon found that his motivation did not work, Rodman is actually a very smart player, he is not a strong one-man defender on the defensive end, he is difficult to lock the opponent's attack point alone, but he is very smart, knows how to use the reasonable positioning, and the chicken thief's attack, suddenly steal one, suddenly make the opponent an offensive foul, suddenly let the opponent turn, suddenly make the opponent thunderous and he is idle.

In the Eastern Conference finals, Rodman played with Scott Pippen in this way, and every time he made Pippen look dirty, Rodman would hold his head up with a look of contempt and run back to the other half with his trademark high-legged run.

But this time, Gan Guoyang is smarter than him, just like Larry Bird back then, Gan Guoyang is very good at observing, for Gan Guoyang, a John Sully is not worth his 100% energy to deal with, Sully's is a bit of an arm length covering a large area, much like Gan Guoyang, and the disadvantage is that the strength is not enough, this is not like Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang can push Sully away with half a buttocks, and then catch the ball, and then he can pinch the ball to observe the opponent's defense, Gan Guoyang pays the most attention to Rodman, Rodman's little movements were all under Gan Guoyang's observation.

Gan Guoyang wants to be shallow, he wants to wrap up, Gan Guoyang immediately turned around and attacked in the other direction, he wanted to stand on the offensive line to make fouls, Gan Guoyang directly chose to shoot, and did not give Rodman a chance to make fouls at all, and Gan Guoyang is now very fast, and the response is also very timely, he himself is a center with excellent error control, so Rodman was simply inactive in the second quarter, and was played by Gan Guoyang.

Rodman is a very emotional player, if he plays well, he will get better and better, if he plays badly, he will be frustrated, his emotions will be affected, he will start to lose, and even lose his temper, Chuck Daley is also well aware of this characteristic of Rodman, seeing that the expression on Rodman's face is getting worse and worse, and finally maliciously pulled Gan Guoyang down directly in an attack by Gan Guoyang, Daley immediately took the opportunity to replace Rodman and asked him to calm down on the bench.

Gan Guoyang stood at the free throw line, and after hitting both free throws, the Trail Blazers still maintained the lead, but their lead was only three points, for the simple reason that Sully and Rodman couldn't guard Gan, and Danny Young and Paxson couldn't guard Thomas.

Thomas obviously got into the groove in the second quarter, the offensive feeling was excellent, he won like an offensive guard, and entering the three-point line in the middle of the half means entering his attack range, he can stop the jump shot anytime and anywhere to finish the offense, and his breakthrough speed is too fast, Danny Young and Paxson can't keep up with his speed at all, and Gan Guoyang can't make up for every ball, which will be very costly.

The superstars of both sides are advancing against the team in this way, and the Trail Blazers still maintain a slight advantage in the score, but in Adelman's view, the advantage of the Trail Blazers is not just three points.