For Alex Inglish, scoring is the most important belief of his basketball career.

It has to be said that the Denver Nuggets in the 80s were a treasure trove of feng shui to bring out the best in players, and Inglish was drafted to the cold Milwaukee in 1976 with a low sixth pick in the second round.

The Bucks have always been on the defensive line, and a lanky, offensive shooting player like Inglish was not taken seriously by the Bucks, and after two years of his rookie season, he was traded to the Indiana Pacers in 1978.

In 1978, with the Pacers, a team that had just entered the NBA, Inglish began to show his scoring prowess, and the guy who was obsessed with the jump shot nearly doubled his average of 16 points per game from nine last season.

By the 1979-1980 season, Inglish's scoring continued to stabilize at around 16 points, but the Pacers were still not very optimistic about the thin forward who was not outstanding in everything but scoring, and finally traded him to the Denver Nuggets in the middle of the season.

At that time, it was none other than George McKinness, a former Indiana veteran and the number one superstar of the Pacers during the ABA era.

McInness joined the Philadelphia 76ers with Nets superstar Dr. J Irving in the 1976 season when ABA joined the NBA, and the two ABA superstars were eager to join forces to dominate the NBA.

But their dreams were shattered in the 1977 Finals, and it was none other than Bill Wharton's Portland Trail Blazers who ended them.

With the 76ers doing nothing in '78, they finally sent McQuinness, the king of turnovers, to the Denver Nuggets, and with the Nuggets, McQuinny's form began to decline, and by the 1979-1980 season, McQuinness's stats had shrunk by 40 percent.

At this time, his old club in ABA extended an olive branch to him, and the Pacers are hoping that the former ABA MVP Grand Slam (he won the ABA regular season MVP, All-Star Game MVP and playoff MVP in one season) can return to his hometown to rejuvenate himself.

It's a pity that this time the Pacers looked away, and some things were lost and they couldn't come back, and McKinness continued to decline in form for the next few years with the Pacers, and finally failed to lead his old club to a resurgence in the NBA.

On the contrary, the Nuggets have picked up a big bargain, they have seen a lot of potential in Inglish, and more importantly, Inglish's offensive style of play is in line with the tactics of the team's new head coach Donnie Walsh, who was the famous college coach before Walsh.

After coming to the Nuggets, Inglish was like a fish in water, and in the second half of the 79-80 season, his average points per game broke through the 20-point mark at once, and he became the league's new scorer.

In the 1980-1981 season, Inglish's first full season with the Nuggets, Donnie Walsh chose to step down from the head coach position and be replaced by Doug Mo.

Doug Mo is in the same vein as Donnie Walsh in terms of style, both focus on offensive style, and the system is more fluid and open, and Inglish is also a better scorer.

In the 1981-1982 season, Inglish finally ushered in the explosion of his career, averaging 25 points per game, and more importantly, he averaged 6.8 rebounds and 5.3 assists per game.

Since then, Inglish has become one of the league's leading scorers, joining two other scorers on the team who are averaging 20 points per game to form the Nuggets' "three musketeers" and begin shooting all over the league.

One of the three was the Nuggets power forward at the time, Kiki Vandewic.

Vanderwich and Inglis, one inside and the other outside, have perfect projection skills, and when they are on the field, one left and one right, one inside and one outside, it is a torture for the opponent's defenders to face them.

But the NBA game is not only about offense, although the Nuggets' lineup has unparalleled firepower, their defensive ability can always "improve" the opponent's offensive ability by two notches.

Such a flaw is fatal in the playoffs, and everyone knows how important playoff defense is.

In the 1983-1984 season, Vanderwich and Inglish both reached their peak in individual scoring, but the Nuggets did not have a good record in the regular season and were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

In the offseason, the Nuggets decided to make a change, and they hit it off with the Trail Blazers, who were also eliminated in the first round of the playoffs and were beaten by the Phoenix Suns.

In this way, good teammates who used to practice shooting together off the court and crazy points together on the court were traded in the business of the NBA.

Of course, this trade proved to be the best trade of the offseason, as the Nuggets were replenished with depth and depth while not losing offensive power.

The Trail Blazers, on the other hand, got the consistent outside scoring points they needed, and both teams skyrocketed to dominate two of the top three spots in the West.

Now, the Western Conference semifinals meet in a narrow way, so Vanderwich and English must win.

But unlike Inglish's scoring streak in the game, Vanderwig didn't shoot much today and scored more than he could, shooting 6-of-12 from the field and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line, and with eight minutes left at the end of the fourth quarter, he had already scored 17 points, which was not bad.

It's just that compared with Inglish's 36 points and the performance of crazy chasing points in the fourth quarter, Vanderwig's performance was indeed a little flat.

"I think you should have responded." Ramsey said to Van der Veric, who was sitting on the bench, that for Ramsey, the current situation on the field was beyond his control.

For a coach, you can't stop the outbreak of the opponent's superstar, and what the coach can do is hope that the superstar in his hand can also explode - if he has it.

For Ramsey, Van der Verkie is the most consistent and reliable scoring point on his hands.

Although Gan Guoyang and Drexler have infinite potential, Gan Guoyang even scored 49 points in the last round, but for now, they are still not stable enough, and they still need Van Dewycki, the anchor of the sea, to stabilize the situation.

"No problem, please leave it to me." Vanderwig took off his long-sleeved tracksuit and did a few warm-up exercises to get back on the court after a timeout.

“are-you-ok？ (Okay?) Also on the court with Van Dewig are Gan Guoyang and Drexler, Gan Guoyang and Van Dewecki have always had a good relationship, so there has always been no taboo in talking.

“of-course-im-ok！ (Absolutely!) Van de Wywig said with a smile.

Gan Guoyang felt quite relieved when he saw Van Dewych's smile, this tall and cold German, his willpower at a critical moment was definitely tenacious enough.

"The timeout is over, the game continues, the Trail Blazers have changed to the main lineup, Vanderwig, Gan and Drexler have all returned to the court, the gap in the score has been narrowed to within 10 points, and there are still 8 minutes before the end of the game, the Trail Blazers want to win the game, it is not as easy as imagined."

Indeed, 8 minutes is a long enough time, and no one knows what will happen.

Now the Trail Blazers urgently need to score a goal to stretch the difference between the two sides to 10 points, you must know that 10 points is also a hurdle, maintain a double-digit lead, and you will have the bottom in your heart.

"The Trail Blazers serve in the backcourt, Valentin passes the ball to Van Dewig, Van Dewig holds the ball at the top of the arc, tentatively, breaks! Successful layup! Nice break! ”

Van Dewjk's effect was immediate, as Valentin handed the ball past half-court and immediately handed the ball to Van Dewig, who faced the English defence and burst straight into the left side with a tentative step.

The Nuggets' interior defense was too late to make up for it, and Vanderwich made a successful layup with his left hand, 110:100, and the gap came to double digits again!

“kiki~vvandeeghe!” The DJ at the scene dragged Van de Vicky's name in a long note, accompanied by cheers from the crowd, and such an average should be the most common at the Memorial Stadium this season.

In defense, Van Dewych no longer plays against Inglish, but Drexler is defending this hot "blade". (English nicknamed 'blade')

Inglish's offensive approach has always been unpretentious, his shooting is like a blade gently slashing through the throat of his opponent, and he doesn't have too fancy moves, but it kills people.

"Inglish had the ball on the right side and he was facing Drexler...... Drex's strangled to Inglish, Inglish dribbled, leaning on Draxler to go inside, but he was oppressed and had no room to move, and Inglish shot ......"

"Beep!" At this time, the referee O'Donnell's whistle blew, and he pointed his finger at Drexler, signaling that Drexler had committed a foul.

"I fouled? I didn't move at all, did I? I didn't move at all! Drexler thought about O'Donnell and explained that the ball just now was as close to Inglish as he could, constantly squeezing Inglish out with his body.

It should be said that this ball is on the verge of being awarded or not, but O'Donnell has always been known for being strict, and he still awarded Drexler a foul on this ball.

With Inglish getting two free throws and Drexler having already committed three fouls, Ramsey demanded that he stay in charge of Inglish and the pressure must be high.

The gap was again eight points, with Van de Vicky and English each relying on a single strike to score two points for their teams.

The game began to enter the period of dueling between these two super scorers.