"Good evening everybody, and welcome to tonight's primetime tuning in to our NBA televised broadcast, I'm your old friend Dick Stockton, and today we're bringing you Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals in Denver, Colorado, where the Denver Nuggets host the Portland Trail Blazers. The Nuggets are currently trailing the Portland Trail Blazers 2-0 in the aggregate, which is a very bad situation for them, and this home game will also determine whether the Nuggets have a chance to continue in the playoffs, and if they lose this home court, then I would say that no team in NBA history has successfully turned the tables from 3-0 down. Okay, the game is about to start, let's turn the camera to the scene, and CBS TV reporter Rick Barry will be bringing you live coverage. ”

With a familiar voice and fluent broadcasting, on the night of May 4, 1985, Dick Stockton began broadcasting another of his NBA games.

Since 1960, Stockton has worked for CBS Sports, where he also works part-time as a sports commentator for local television.

In 1978, he was still working full-time for CBS TV, he not only commented on NBA games, but also as a commentator for the NFL and MLB.

This season, he has commented on the Portland Trail Blazers' games, and it should be said that he still knows the Trail Blazers team and Gan Guoyang very well, and he can often feel his preference for the Portland Trail Blazers from his commentary.

But the other commentator, the reporter who is currently reporting on the scene, the famous forward of the Warriors, Rick Barry, is different, he doesn't really like the Portland Trail Blazers - or rather, there are almost no teams in the NBA that he likes, and he always stinks like that.

"Hi, I'm Rick Barry, and now I'm in Denver to bring you live coverage of the Western Conference semifinals. We can see that both sides have started to warm up on the field and the game is about to start. Judging from the first two games, this is a round of games that make people feel more inexplicable, the first game, the Trail Blazers and Nuggets played against each other, they had a big lead, but they were almost overturned, and finally relied on Gan's critical performance to win the game; In the second game, the Trail Blazers took another big lead, and this time the Nuggets did not turn over. I don't think the big score really reflects the strength of the two teams, especially the strength of the Nuggets, in fact, the Nuggets still have a lot of room to play, and now it's their home court, and I'm sure they'll bounce back. Barry did not hesitate to side with the Nuggets in his pre-game predictions, and while many people called Vanderwich Rick Barry second, for Rick Barry, "Lao Tzu is the number one in the world, who can be the second?" ”

However, as a former superstar and Finals MVP, Barry's words are definitely not fabricated without grounds, as an experienced basketball player and commentator, he has experienced countless games, and has watched countless games, and he can indeed have a very deep grasp of the trend of a series.

Trail Blazers head coach Ramsey is also deeply concerned about this, and in his conversation with the Trail Blazers players last night, he sensed that the players seemed to be a little too relaxed.

It must be very, very dangerous to play a tough away game with such a mentality, especially when they face opponents who are no worse than the Trail Blazers.

"The game is about to start, the Trail Blazers' center No. 11 Gan and the Nuggets' center No. 42 Wayne Cooper are already in the center circle ready to jump the ball, and tonight's referees are John Fanaco and Hume Evans. The referee threw the ball into the air and the game began! ”

The ball was hanging in mid-air, and Gan Guoyang jumped high as always, but this time, his attention didn't seem to be so focused, and Wayne Cooper touched the ball first.

Fatleaf got the ball, the Nuggets' possession!

Leaf made a quick push past the half, and on his home court, Leaf seemed to even look powerful on the dribble.

He dribbled on the right side and quickly passed the ball to Calvin Knight, who was on the line, and Knight received the ball without any pause and broke straight inside from the middle.

Knight's breakthrough was so sudden that Kenny Karl didn't feel like he was very prepared, and the Trail Blazers players felt like the defense hadn't been deployed yet, and Knight had already rushed in.

"Knight breaks through with the ball, jumps in the air and throws a master! The ball hits the board and goes into the basket! The Nuggets quickly scored their first opening points. After Knight broke through to the inside line, Gan Guoyang quickly made up for the defense, but Knight was not afraid, and threw a high throw in the face of Gan Guoyang's slap, and the ball hit the board high and went into the basket.

Knight also made physical contact with Gan Guoyang in the air and fell heavily to the ground, but Gan Guoyang did not foul, he picked up the ball and immediately returned to the baseline to serve, at this time Knight was trying to get up from the ground.

"The Trail Blazers attacked quickly with their serves, Valentin pushed forward quickly, and there didn't seem to be much of a chance, and the Trail Blazers began to reorganize their positional offense. Gan, he quickly went down to the low post, Valentine fed the ball to Gan, and Valentin was going inside. Gan didn't pass the ball, he was ...... inside Left hand hook! Covered by Cooper! ”

Gan Guoyang's hook hand was taken down by Cooper!

For any NBA player, there is no way to walk by the river without getting his shoes wet, no matter how many blocks Gan Guoyang sends in the NBA, no matter how difficult his hook is to defend, there will be a time to be covered, even Abdul-Jabbar is the same.

And this ball, Gan Guoyang held the ball in the low post on the left side, Valentin took the defense inside, and then Gan Guoyang dribbled the ball inward and singled, to a very deep position, but he used his unskilled inside turn left hand hook.

In the last two games, Gan Guoyang tried to use the left hand hook for the first time in the official game, and it can be said that he tasted the sweetness, and he continued to want to use the left hand hook to get off to a good start in this game, but he was slapped by Cooper.

"Leaf got the ball and started to fight back... However, the Trail Blazers retreated very quickly and did not give the Nuggets a chance to fight back, and they began to play positional. Knight, the bottom line, has no chance...... Leaf gave the ball to Cooper, who was on the line, and Inglish came out to catch the ball from the inside, made a feint, didn't shoot, and passed back to Cooper, who made a jumper! Left 45 degrees...... The ball is in! Cooper hit a 13-foot mid-range shot to give the Nuggets a 4-0 run. ”

The Nuggets' opening offense can be said to be very patient, and it should be said that the reason why the Nuggets were able to average a league-high 120 points per game in the regular season is not only because of their fast pace of offense and defense.

Some teams are also fast-paced, but they concede more points than they score, and the Nuggets were able to score so many points, and the tacit tactical cooperation between the players definitely contributed to it.

If the Trail Blazers and Lakers have the best fast counter-attack in the league because they have the best engine in the league and the best fast-break finisher, then the Nuggets have the best team basketball system in the league.

As can be seen from the first two games, one of the major characteristics of the Nuggets is that the ball rarely pauses for more than two seconds in the hands of the players, unless there is no tactical opportunity at the end and can only rely on the star to play alone.

The rest of the time, the basketball is in the hands of five Nuggets players, and once it gets to one player, and the opponent's defense is leaky, that player will shoot.

Gan Guoyang thought that Wayne Cooper would not be able to attack much, because Cooper had almost no independent offense in the first two games, but he didn't expect Cooper to give him two consecutive dismounts at the beginning.

Is it tolerable or unbearable!

"Pass me Dennis." Gan Guoyang said to Valentine when he served, and he hadn't said "give me the ball" to his teammates for a long time.

Valentin nodded to Gan, who also felt that he should teach Wayne Cooper a good lesson on the inside, although the two were once teammates.

"The Trail Blazers, they opened up the space, on the right side of Gan to free up space, Valentine hoisted the ball to Gan, and Leaf stepped forward to shoot it...... No, he still went to defend Valentine, Gan was ready to single Cooper, Gan, dribble, and turn inside, but Knight, who was on the line, came up to make up for it, and he and Cooper sandwiched Gan in the middle, and Gan had no room to move. ”

Gan Guoyang took the ball on the right side he was familiar with, ready to turn inside and hook his hand directly, but he just turned halfway around, and Knight, who was originally on the line, immediately straightened up and made up for it.

Knight didn't stretch out his hand, and he kept the ball, he simply raised his hand straight and blocked Gan Guoyang's turning line, which blocked Gan Guoyang in a dilemma.

"Beep!" This is the referee's whistle, Gan Guoyang turned his head to look, and found that the referee's hand was pointing at him, and at the same time, the two hands were spinning like a small flywheel.

"Gan is walking...... Let's take a look at the slow-motion replay...... Oh, and indeed after being flanked, he moved his pivot foot a little as he turned. In the replay on CBS TV, Gan Guoyang was about to turn in the other direction after being pinched, but his leg was stuck by Wayne Cooper, so the pivotal foot involuntarily moved and was caught by the sharp-eyed referee.

Gan Guoyang had no choice but to shake his head and throw the ball to the referee and run back to the half-court defense.

"Cheer up, start defensively! Don't let up! I don't want to see you look downcast! The competition has just begun! Ramsey shouted from the sidelines, already sensing that the morale of the team was not quite right.

"The Nuggets serve the ball on the sideline, and Leaf continues to control the Nuggets' offense, and this season he has done a good job of playing the point guard role, making the Nuggets' offense more fluid...... Blocking, Leaf breaking, a wide range of transfers, the ball passed to Inglish on the right, Inglish jumped and shot, it was a three-pointer! The ball is in! ”

A three-pointer! The Nuggets fell into jubilation at home, and they beat the Trail Blazers a little dazed at once, 7:0 small **.

"Beep! Trail Blazers pause. ”

Just two minutes into the game, Ramsey had to call a timeout, and the Trail Blazers' form of the game was worrying.