Ramsey's No. 2 plan is actually not a "strange formation", in the Trail Blazers' playoff lineup, Valentine's most stable No. 1 position is originally missing, so in the game Drexler often partially assumes the responsibility of point guard, and he also has this ability.

However, letting Colter go off the court and completely put Drexler in the No. 1 position is still a big change for the Trail Blazers.

First of all, for De Luxler, although it is not difficult to organize the offense after half of the court, some of his usual habitual play will not be brought into play, such as his open cut in the positional attack, shooting after receiving the ball and direct breakthrough.

As a defender, Drexler's dribbling skills are not so superb, his ability to start a breakthrough with the ball is more than a notch worse than Jordan's, running without the ball occupies a very important position for Draxler's offense, and now he has to hold the ball more, it depends on his ability to adjust.

Van Devic moved down a position to the shooting guard, which is also Ramsey's complete functionalization of Van Devic - you don't do anything but shoot and score, pick up one rebound if you can, and run back to retreat or participate in the fast break if you can't pick it up.

Some of Van Dewic's singles tactics in the low post were temporarily waived by Ramsey to make more room for Mitchell Sampson and Corchy.

Sampson's performance in the first two rounds should be said to be very average, due to the existence of Gan Guoyang, Sampson did not have too many scoring requirements on the offensive end, so he just rubbed points piecemeal, and completed basic work such as card position, grabbing boards, and supplementing defense on the defensive end, which has been completely blue-collar.

But now, Ramsey thinks Mitchell Sampson has to take on more offensive tasks in order to put enough pressure on Ralph Sampson on the defensive end, and if Ralph Sampson is not put under pressure to drain his physical strength, Gan Guoyang will have too much trouble to withstand the twin towers alone.

As for Cauchy, putting him up is the last X-factor, jumping up and down to defend actively, rushing to grab rebounds to make up for leaks, Ramsey just hopes that this guy won't be too nervous to go on the court and admit the basket to the contrary.

"The timeout is over, the game continues, and we see the Trail Blazers make the decision to make a substitution, and Cauchy replaces Colter, is this going to play a lineup without a point guard like the Rockets?" Seanley saw the Trail Blazers' lineup, in fact, the Rockets were also like this, without a point guard, and let the scoring guard Lloyd play the No. 1 position.

"I don't know if such substitutions will have an effect, or if this adjustment is too fast." Sean Lee expressed his concern that it was true that such a big change of formation just after a slight rough start could be a blow to Colt, and it also showed the Trail Blazers' lack of confidence.

Of course, Ramsey has his plans, he has already started preparing for this set of "No. 2 plan", which was originally arranged to deal with Valentine's injury, and has been practiced in the regular season and playoffs, and there have been a lot of routine exercises in recent training, so Ramsey is still confident.

"Drexler and Gan made a block, Drexler broke through directly, passed back to Gan, Gan passed the ball to Sampson again, Sampson jumped! Ball in! The steady veteran came into play at this point. ”

On the first ball after the pause, the Trail Blazers used a simple tactic to tear apart the Rockets' defense, and when Drexler attacked with the ball, blocking and dismantling with Gan Guoyang was the most efficient cooperation, he used Gan Guoyang's high-quality blockers to easily find a breakthrough gap, and passed the ball to Gan Guoyang who went down the middle in the case of Olajuwon's defense.

Ralph Sampson on the right naturally came forward to make up for the defense at this time, and Gan Guoyang passed to Mitchell Sampson, of course, the ball was very suspenseful, because Lloyd lost his defender, and naturally went to make up for Sampson, who was in the air defense position, and almost cut off Gan Guoyang's pass.

Thankfully, Mitchell Sampson still got the pass and hit a jumper from a 45-degree position 13 feet from the basket.

"Pass it beautifully, Gan!" Mitchell Sampson pointed at Gan Guoyang and said, Gan Guoyang also nodded, the two have not had such a cooperation for a while.

Ramsey's adjustment was immediate, and the Trail Blazers' players did not feel uncomfortable with such a formation, and their offense quickly became smooth, and Vanderwich was full of sensation in this game, shooting and shooting on the outside, which made McGregory extremely helpless.

In the last round, McGree defended Worthy, Worthy is a small forward who likes to attack in the low post, and there is basically no jump shot, and Van Dewig in this game is a lethal jump shot, and he entered his own shooting rhythm in the first quarter, as long as Drexler and Gan Guoyang block and dismantle, the Rockets' defense will be porous, and the Trail Blazers pass three and two, and Vanderwig can often get a good shooting opportunity.

He seized all these opportunities, so the rocket was really helpless.

"Gan grabbed the rebound in the front court, passed it back to Van Dewig, and Van Devic shot again! The ball is in! With the sixth goal, Van Dewig has already scored 13 points in the first quarter! Vanderwig hit the 13th point of the first quarter to put the Trail Blazers up by five points at 22:17 to halt the Rockets.

Compared with the Trail Blazers, the Rockets' interior offense did not open, Ralph Sampson faced Mitchell Sampson's single defense, and never able to play the advantage of the position, and Olajuwon was entangled by Gan Guoyang's full strength, only scoring 4 points on 2 of 5 shots, of course, Gan Guoyang has not opened in the first quarter, and the Rockets are also strict against him, and he grabbed several rebounds.

In the first quarter, Ramsey's thinking has been very clear, Gan Guoyang is fighting defense, Sampson is attacking and pressing, Drexler is scheduling, Vanderwich is scoring, Cauchy is messing up, a set of combination punches down, and the Rockets are a bit of a mess.

The head coach of the Rockets, Feige, is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he also saw Ramsey's set, and he decided to break the enemy with force.

Obviously, Ramsey has taken the technical route, and he has been such a clever coach since he won the championship in 1977, and the Rockets can reach the Western Conference Finals and trample the Lakers to death, relying on a brutal and domineering impact.

In the series with the Lakers, the common scene is that the Lakers are blocked by the Twin Towers on the defensive end, or are stealed, and then in the counterattack, Olajuwon and Sampson directly hold the ball and hit the basket, or other forward players hit the basket, and Olajuwon and Sampson come to grab the frontcourt rebounds to supplement the defense, and finally Rambis or Kubrick have to take a foul to let the Twin Towers play three points.

In five games, the Twin Towers grabbed a total of 40 frontcourt rebounds, an average of eight frontcourt rebounds per game, and 31 blocks on the defensive end, 10 more than the Lakers' entire team, which is not a matter of tactics at all, but a difference in playing style and player characteristics.

Bill Feige took the talent of the Rockets' athleticism to the extreme, dropping ten times with one force, and breaking fast with his strength, so that the Lakers' "show-time" could not be up.

Now, the Trail Blazers actually have a lot of similarities with the Lakers on the offensive end, strong interior scoring points, and fast, light cavalry-like outside lines, so Feige decided to repeat the old trick to clamp down on the Trail Blazers' offense, and at the same time take turns attacking the interior in the offense.

After the timeout, Feige first replaced Lloyd and brought Levi on the court, and the veteran point guard still has a good rhythm control, and without John Lucas, he is the only point guard for the Rockets.

"Ralph Sampson on the right side, Levy lobbed, Ralph squeezed past Mitchell and turned his back to shoot! The ball doesn't score! Rebounding, it's Gan... It was Olajuwon, who was grabbed by Red, who crossed to the inside and McRae received the ball and dunked. The basket was all empty. ”

A typical Rockets-style offense, starting with a single strike by Ralph Sampson, one of the twin towers, missed a turnaround jumper and Olajuwon rushed to grab the rebound.

But Gan Guoyang was not crooked as soon as Abdul-Jabbar hit, he withstood the impact of Olajuwon, and the ball was dialed into the air, and the two kept jumping up and down like monkeys picking peaches, but in the end, neither of them grabbed it, and the ball was picked up by Rhett, who rushed in from the outside.

At this time, the Trail Blazers' defensive formation had completely dispersed, McGree stole the rebound, received the ball and scored, and Cauchy was helpless.

This offense is a signal that the Rockets will go into hand-to-hand mode, which will be a huge test for the Trail Blazers players.

However, the first quarter ended quickly, Vanderwich failed to continue scoring, although the Rockets wanted to rush, but the two backcourt rebounds were controlled by Gan Guoyang, and they didn't rush up, plus the two sides began to enter the lineup rotation, so the real big battle was delayed for a while.

When two minutes into the second quarter, the two sides finally began to spark fiercely.

Paxson came on in place of Van der Vercki, and since being a substitute in the team, Paxson is now getting into form very quickly and is on the pitch to score.

His two jumpers allowed the Trail Blazers' lead to continue to expand.

The Rockets are a little lost in terms of shooting, and their shooting percentage from the outside isn't too good, but they don't seem to care.

McGregory used the cover to shoot directly and still missed...... Ralph Sampson makes a dunk! Pressed Mitchell Sampson, the referee blew the whistle, oh, there seems to be some conflict between the two sides! ”

McGregory missed a pull-up jump shot from the corner, but Ralph Sampson on the right jumped high and pressed Mitchell Sampson with his whole body to dunk the ball into the basket with one hand, but he hit Mitchell Sampson in the head with his left elbow.

The referee's foul was still blown to Mitchell, because he was also caught by the referee by the referee in the pulling action below, and one of the two Sampsons was pulled so that he almost fell, and the other was elbowed on the head, and the anger of the two naturally came up.

"You fucking look at the boy."

"Fuck you, you're foul."

The two of them sprayed in their mouths, and they began to push and shove on their hands, and players from both sides surrounded them, and the referee immediately stepped forward to stop them.

Fortunately, the game just started, and the anger had not yet accumulated, and as soon as the referee's whistle blew, the players dispersed.

Mitchell Sampson's foul couldn't be canceled, and Ralph Sampson hit a three-pointer.

At 35:31, the Rockets began to chase the score.

And with this ball as a watershed, the struggle between the two sides became more and more intense.