Bill Lambier hasn't beaten Sabonis in the Finals jump ball, and this one is no exception.

Sabonis was the first to touch the ball, and in Gan's words, "Even if Sabonis doesn't jump, Ranbir can't touch the basketball, because that guy jumps and doesn't jump the same way." ”

Sabonis dialed the ball to Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang jumped up and took the ball into his arms, and at the same time looked at the Pistons players vigilantly after getting the ball, and after making sure that there would be no sneak attack, Gan Guoyang handed the ball to Terry Porter safely, which is enough to see his caution.

"You're cowardly like an ostrich, why don't you shove the ball in your ass and bring it over slowly." Bill Ranbier looked at Gan Guoyang so cautiously and said to him behind him.

"I'll screw your head off and load the ball in a minute." Gan Guoyang, of course, fought back decisively.

However, Gan Guoyang did not ask Potter for a single, and the focus of Adelman's attack in the opening game was not Gan Guoyang, but Drexler.

Drexler asked for a 45-degree waist position directly on the right side after halftime, defending him was Isiah Thomas, Drexler had an advantage in height, weight and strength, Porter was very decisive to hoist the ball to Drexler, Drexler was also very crisp, dribbled twice, turned his back to hit the board and shot into the basket.

Drexler's performances in the first three games of the Finals were mediocre, not particularly bad but not particularly impressive, making it impossible to feel that he was the team's No. 2 star.

Chuck Daley can be described as a torch, he quickly saw that there is no future in dealing with the Trailblazers and blocking Gan Guoyang, many teams have used living examples to prove that going all out to contain Gan Guoyang will only outweigh the losses, his style of play is too flexible, and the attack is too strong.

And the Trail Blazers' real No. 2 man in the playoffs is actually Terry Porter, whose strong shooting ability makes him the most threatening point on the outside, so Daley chose to pinch Terry Porter, and the last game was a good success story.

For this reason, Daley also specifically let Joe Dumas, the defensive big man in the team's back line, defend Porter alone, so that Thomas was also assigned to defend Drexler.

At the beginning of the game, Daley still maintained this arrangement, but he did so a little too underestimating Drexler.

Although Drexler's shooting is a hard injury, his breakthrough, especially his low-post offensive ability, is underestimated, because the team's low-post firepower is mainly contracted by Gan Guoyang, and he doesn't have too many opportunities to play, which doesn't mean that he doesn't.

As a result, Adelman focused his attack on Drexler in the opening stanza, hoping that he could open up the situation quickly.

Sure enough, Thomas's defense of Drexler did suffer too much, and he was hit two balls in a row, both of which were low-post back-to-back singles, Daley knew that Dumas could no longer be allowed to play against Portland, and Dumas had to be allowed to deal with Drexler, so that Porter would no longer have to be entangled by Dumas, and the backcourt shackles of the Trail Blazers would be untied.

In the last game, Drexler was not in much form, and today he played in form at the beginning, but Dumas came up to defend and it was useless, Drexler continued to score in the low post and scored the third in a row.

In contrast, the Pistons hit just one of their first three shots, and they are in dire need of scoring.

One glaring flaw for this Pistons is that they lack a powerful low-scoring point.

In 1988 they had Dantley, no matter how black Dantley was on the defensive end, how stingy he was, how a time bomb in the locker room, and he didn't have a good relationship with Daley, but as long as he came to the court, the coach needed him to score in the low post, and the 6-foot-5 forward could score and make free throws.

Now the team's small forward has been replaced by Aquili, if this was Aquili four years ago, then he would not be worse than Dantley, but now, he is far less than Dantley, he is still overweight, he has a thick knee pad wrapped around his knees, he no longer has the aggressiveness that he used to be in the low post.

However, such Aquili is already the Pistons' most reliable low-post offensive point, and Daley still has to rely on Aquili to score points in the low post, because the Trail Blazers' outside blocking is too strong, and they urgently need to break the scoring drought.

Cauchy defended Aquilli on the field, although Aquilli's ability declined, but the foundation was still there, he did not choose to resist Cauchy, but suddenly ran back in the waist position and cut directly into the inside line.

Thomas, who was on the outside, dropped the ball directly to Aquili, who received the ball without dribbling and went straight to the basket.

But Aquili was a little anxious about the ball, and his knee was destined for him to have no way to jump with all his strength, but this ball was suddenly dropped by Sabonis, who stepped forward to make up for the defense, the ball fell to the ground, and the two sides scrambled, and finally the referee still ruled that Aquili touched the ball out of the bottom line, the ball of the Trail Blazers.

At this point, Daley knew that the pistons should be in some trouble.

In the first quarter, the Trail Blazers played very patiently, not at all like the Portland Trail Blazers this season, in the past, they have always been in the first quarter in line with the idea of "taking advantage of the slack defense to get more points", crazy to speed up the offensive tempo, quickly establish an advantage.

But after the third game, Adelman knows that the Pistons are now accustomed to the Trail Blazers' "first-quarter offense", and are very good at destroying the Trail Blazers' offensive feel, if the Trail Blazers are the league's rhythm masters, then the Pistons are the rhythm breakers, they are not rough defense and careless fouls, plus the one-sided atmosphere of Auburn Hills Palace Arena, minutes can make Trail Blazers players who want to easily break to the basket and score on the floor to look at the ceiling.

Therefore, Adelman chose to play steadily and steadily, making full use of the advantages of the Trail Blazers' low-post offense, Drexler opened the situation, Gan Guoyang made up the knife appropriately, and other players looked for opportunities and took the most stable offensive route.

The Pistons, on the contrary, wanted to speed up, and after observing it for a few minutes, Daley thought that the success rate of such an offensive fight was quite unfavorable for a team like the Pistons, which mainly relied on outside scoring, so he decisively replaced Vinnie Johnson, replaced Aquili and began to play three guards, intending to score more points to close the score gap.

Daley's thinking is also correct, the power of the three shots in the backcourt is really powerful, Dumas, Thomas, Johnson three consecutive breakthroughs, mid-range jumpers, and repeatedly and Bill Lambir blocking and dismantling, the Pistons' scoring drought was quickly broken.

But the Pistons have never been able to catch up with the Trail Blazers in the score, and the Trail Blazers have maintained a lead of about 4 points until the end of the first quarter, when Thomas hit a three-point shot from the outside, which suddenly narrowed the gap between the two sides to 1 point, and the fans in the audience were also cheering wildly, thinking that the situation had been reversed, because the Trail Blazers made the last shot, Porter missed outside the three-point line.

But back on the bench, Adelman said he was pleased with the performance of his players.

"It's good, we're doing well, we're in control, the Pistons are starting to disrupt their lineup, we're going to keep it that way, we've won one point in this quarter, and we're going to win a little bit in each quarter."

This is Adelman's philosophy of victory, although the strength and talent of the Trail Blazers are so strong that they sometimes don't need to care about the details, and in the regular season they often beat each other to death with a single punch, but in the finals, Wang Baquan can't deal with the Pistons, and if you are not careful, the entire series will be lost.

The second quarter of the game was about to begin, and before the players came on the court, Adelman patted Gan Guoyang on the shoulder, and Gan Guoyang put down the towel in his hand and nodded to Adelman.

According to the rotation of the first three games, Gan Guoyang was to sit on the court and rest at the beginning of the second quarter, but this time Adelman did not let Gan Guoyang rest, he asked Gan Guoyang to continue to stay on the court and provide continuous firepower, while Drexler was replaced by Jim Paxson off the court, and in the first quarter Drexler contributed 11 points and 4 rebounds, which was his best first quarter since the beginning of the Finals.

In this game, Adelman set the tone to make the game a two-man turn between Drexler and Gan Guoyang, and continued to use their low-post offensive ability to put pressure on the Pistons, and maintained this pressure until the end of the game.

Gan Guoyang clenched his fists before coming on the court, and he thought to himself: "We must completely kill the Detroit Pistons." ”