When he returned to the court after the timeout, the Trail Blazers did not make personnel changes, and Ramsey was relatively happy with the players' performance.

The big good news for the Trail Blazers today was that they had a pretty good shooting touch, which is why they were on par with the Rockets in the first five minutes, with both Paxson and Vanderwich hitting long-range shots from the outside, which forced the Rockets to pull apart and feel a little careless.

But after the timeout, the Rockets' defensive intensity was raised to a notch again, and Lloyd and McGray on the outside were relieved and bold to press and defend the Trail Blazers on the outside, and there were twin towers on the inside, so they didn't have to worry about assisting the interior defense.

The first offense after the timeout was a problem for the Trail Blazers, and they had a problem with the ball, which was also the biggest problem for the Trail Blazers during the six-game losing streak, and the cooperation between the players became worse and worse.

"Vanderwig stopped the ball, he was heavily defended by McGregory, and there was almost no time, Van Dewic forced a shot!"

Vanderwig was pressed by the Rockets' defense to the right sideline, and he couldn't pass it, and he couldn't shoot well, so he could only force his hand to fight.

But the ball didn't even touch the basket, and it was thrown across the bridge and flew from the right to the left.

Just as the ball crossed the basket and fell, the 24-second timer was almost up, but the basket stretched out a hand on the falling ball a little, changing the trajectory of the basketball, and the ball flew up again, grazed the rebound, and bounced into the basket.

Just then, the whistle of the 24-second timer sounded.

Gan's layup and put the ball in the basket! With a clever technique, Gan hit the ball in the gap between the twin towers and brought the dead back to life! Shaunley also thought the ball was incredible, the basket was almost filled by Olajuwon and Sampson, and Gan Guoyang could also use a very awkward posture to make up for the ball, and he simply turned his back to the basket when he made up the basket.

"Defend well!" After the goal, Gan Guoyang clapped his hands vigorously and quickly returned to the defense.

The Rockets' offense is still starting from the outside, and their head coach Bill Feige coached with the Boston Celtics, who led the Celtics to a championship in 1981 over the Rockets.

Now he has come to the Rockets, training the gifted Twin Towers, and his tactical thinking is very clear, reusing the Twin Towers but not relying on them, but paying great attention to the construction of the outside line.

Feige believes that in the case of having a super inside line, it is a reasonable way for a super team to use the advantages of the inside line to drive the outside line, and at the same time let the outside line support the inside line.

As Olajuwon and Sampson grow, the Rockets' perimeter line is also improving.

McGregory broke through the middle and passed the ball to Lucas from the back of his head, who received a 12-foot jumper and hit it to tie the ball.

The Rockets' outside line is very flexible, they use the two piles on the inside line to constantly go around as cover, and the old champion Lucas also seized the opportunity to hit a jumper.

Soon, Gan Guoyang immediately responded.

"Gan takes the ball low on the right, dribbles inside, turns! The feint dodged Olajuwon and made an easy layup! Nice footsteps. ”

Gan Guoyang successfully played a time difference, turned to push Olajuwon and feigned a layup, Olajuwon has lost his best position due to defense, he has to jump to block, but Gan Guoyang is dangling.

"Come on, Akim." Gan Guoyang said lightly to Olajuwon after scoring the goal.

Olajuwon was scored twice by Gan Guoyang, and he finally decided to return the favor to Gan Guoyang on the offensive end.

Olajuwon squeezed under the basket and gave him a through ball from the outside...... was pulled out by Gan, and both fell to the ground, scrambling for the ball! ”

Gan Guoyang played a cautious eye when defending, and when Olajuwon struggled to push back and wanted to grab the position under the basket in the middle, he gently took a step back, and as a result, Olajuwon's center of gravity fell back a little.

The outside Rockets player passed the ball too early, but Gan Guoyang took a step forward to knock the ball away, and then the two fell to the ground and grabbed together.

The referee awarded a scrum, Gan Guoyang won the ball again, Paxson got the ball, and the Trail Blazers immediately launched a quick attack.

Gan Guoyang rushed to the frontcourt, and at this time, the rocket had also quickly retreated, and it retreated quite deeply.

Gan Guoyang saw that the inside line was a little crowded, so he came out to make a cover for Paxson, Paxson used Gan Guoyang's cover to cut inside from the middle, and Gan Guoyang moved to the left after dismantling.

Paxson didn't break through quickly and obviously couldn't break through the Rockets' outside defense, but he hit the ground and passed to Gan Guoyang, who stepped on the three-point line and jumped!

Gan Guoyang's mid-range shooting has improved a lot this season, but it is not used much in the game, so the Rockets players are not guarded.

"Huh!" Gan Guoyang hits from a distance without interference! A very decisive shot!

"Accurate jump shot! It seems that Gan has not sweated less this summer, and he has changed from a relatively monotonous hook attack in his rookie season to a more abundant offensive means at present, which will obviously make Gan score more efficiently. "Shaunley has watched Gan Guoyang play from the first NBA game to the present, and Gan Guoyang's progress is really obvious.

With the jump shot and small hook, Gan Guoyang has become more comfortable in the offense, and he can score in a relatively easier way, especially in the first quarter, because continuous single hooks in the low post are very physically demanding, and such singles cannot last the whole game.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang's scoring explosiveness in the rookie season is very strong, but the continuity is slightly insufficient, and the ability to score points in the first half needs to be strengthened, which is also one of the reasons why Gan Guoyang's scoring distribution in the new season is very unstable.

In the first quarter of the game, the Rockets' offense was mostly launched from the outside, and the inside never got too good opportunities, Olajuwon was defended to death by Gan Guoyang, and Ralph Sampson was completely locked by the veteran Mitchell Sampson, and after missing three consecutive shots, he gave up playing alone.

On the contrary, Gan Guoyang became the engine of the Trailblazers' offense, moving inside and outside, covering and responding for a while, and suddenly turning on the singles mode again.

This situation continued until the middle of the second quarter, when Gan Guoyang took the initiative to tell Ramsey that he didn't want to go off the court and wanted to stay on the court all the time.

Ramsey actually agreed to Gan Guoyang's proposal, which is enough to see that Ramsey really doesn't want to strengthen his control over the team anymore, and the players themselves can decide to get on and off the field, what authority can he, the coach, have?

"Go inside, Colt! Don't be stupid! ”

At this time, the substitute players had already played, but Gan Guoyang was still holding the ball in a high position to direct the attack, and the sweat had already soaked him all over, but his eyes were still extremely focused.

Gan Guoyang watched Colter cut inside but didn't get a chance, but he had taken away the defense of the Rockets' backcourt players and left the middle open.

In the face of the defense of Jim Petterson, the Rockets' bench insider, Gan Guoyang didn't pay attention to this white power forward at all, and suddenly rushed inside with the ball.

"Gan breaks through the middle and lays up! Knocked down McGregory, looked at the referee, blocked the foul, and was willing to make a free throw. ”

Gan Guoyang is very experienced in breaking through now, he knows that speed is not his advantage, so he will not try to get rid of the defender, on the contrary, he just sticks to the defender and squeezes in.

Olajuwon couldn't squeeze Gan Guoyang, how could Patterson be Gan Guoyang's opponent, he was pushed all the way to the basket by Gan Guoyang, and Rockets small forward McGregory could only step forward to make up for the defense.

But McGregory started too late, so Gan Guoyang bumped into it, but he was still sentenced to block.

After McGregory was pulled up by his teammates, he also touched his chest, which was really painful, Gan Guoyang didn't take it at all, and put him on his back.

Then Gan Guoyang hit both free throws, and the score has become 49:34, and the Trail Blazers lead the Rockets by 15 points.

Feige immediately called a timeout, he didn't expect Gan Guoyang to stay on the court all the time, and he was so energetic, he was thinking that this guy wasn't ready to play the second half?

Gan Guoyang has already scored 27 points and 9 rebounds on 11-of-15 shooting, which is only a quarter and a half of the game.

"Can you rest for a while now, Gan?" Ramsey said this to Gan Guoyang during the pause, in an inquiring tone.

"No problem, but I just need to rest for two minutes." Gan Guoyang took a sip of water and said.

So Ramsey replaced the veteran Jones on the field and let Gan Guoyang take a two-minute break.

On the other side, Olajuwon and Sampson are back on the field, I don't know if Gan Guoyang is not there, they can make some waves.

Sampson, in particular, was so poor today that he wasn't entirely limited by Gan Guoyang and Mitchell Sampson, and his overall form was quite bad.

"Gan finally came off the court, I don't know if the Trail Blazers adjusted their substitution strategy, Gan was on the court for quite a long time, and he used to be substituted at the end of the first quarter."

Sean Lee also found out about the Trail Blazers' changes in substitutions, and of course he didn't know that this was proposed by Gan Guoyang himself.

The effect was immediate when the Rockets Twin Towers returned to the court, with Olajuwon singled in the low post and caught up by Jones and Carl, who passed the ball to Sampson in the gap, and Sampson scored a powerful dunk.

"Oh, Gan has to wrap up Olajuwon and that gives Sampson a chance and he seems to have got the first point of the game."

That's right, this slam dunk was Ralph Sampson's first goal of the game.

But rookie point guard Terry Porter immediately returned a three-pointer! The first three-pointer of the game! It was also Terry Porter's first goal of the game – and the only one, in fact.

Potter's shot was very bold, and even Gan Guoyang, who was sitting on the sidelines, stood on end.

"This guy is really bold......" Gan Guoyang's deepest impression of Terry Porter, a rookie, is that he is bold and dares to make a move, which is also the biggest difference between him and Colter.

"Beep!" At this time, the referee's whistle blew and Kenny Karl fouled while defending Sampson, and it seems that Sampson's self-confidence has recovered somewhat after scoring the first goal, and it is a foul on Carl's batter.

"Let me go, Coach!" As soon as Gan Guoyang saw Carl's foul, he knew that Carl's rotation time had come.

Ramsey glanced at Gan Guoyang and nodded.

In this way, Gan Guoyang, who had only rested for less than two minutes, once again put on the battle, and he was already tireless.

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