Mitchell Sampson's missed shot in the opening did not eliminate the Trail Blazers' determination to score the first goal on the inside, and the reason why Ramsey asked to take the lead from the south interior was not only to eliminate the psychological shock caused by the Rockets' twin towers to the players, but also to have tactical considerations.

In the last game lost to the Rockets, the Trail Blazers did not suffer a big loss on the inside, but on the outside, they were choked by the tall, strong and fast Rockets, and finally lost their home court.

In this game, Ramsey hopes that the interior line can put pressure on the Rockets' twin towers at the beginning, forcing the Rockets' outside line to devote their energy to taking care of the interior line.

The Rockets' perimeter players are tall and athletic, and their expansive pressing defense puts a lot of pressure on the Trail Blazers.

The Trail Blazers themselves are known for playing fast offense from the outside, and once that is restrained by the Rockets, it will be even more difficult to win the game.

The Rockets' lineup was originally built to restrain the Lakers, but the Trail Blazers are very similar to the Lakers in style, so they are easy to get deflated when they encounter the Rockets.

If you have a single round of interior line, the Rockets twin towers are certainly terrifying, and the Trail Blazers' interior strength is not bad, Ralph Sampson and Gan Guoyang are both good offensive and defensive players, and they are proper All-Star level, but they are a little shorter.

Therefore, Mitchell Sampson faced Ralph Sampson and tried his best to position under the basket, and he had to try to make the position deeper, otherwise this single could not be played.

Valentin once again passed the ball to Mitchell Sampson in the low post on the left, with the same singles tactics as the last attack.

Mitchell Sampson received the ball and stepped back, trying to cut deeper with his low center of gravity.

Ralph Sampson is tall, has a high center of gravity, and is still slender and long, and his defense in the low post is not as stable as Olajuwon.

He made a little trick, and as soon as Mitchell pushed back, he secretly ducked backwards, so that Mitchell couldn't find a place to stay.

This is really a loss, and the most hated thing for low-post singles players is this kind of unloading, and if one is not careful, he will fall.

Mitchell Sampson didn't expect Ralph to make this move because he was too strong, and his whole body lost his balance and fell to the ground at once.

"Beep!" The referee's whistle blew and he pointed at Ralph Sampson and blew him for a foul.

"I didn't do anything! I didn't do anything~ Why did I foul! Sampson complained to the referee with an innocent face, and the audience also burst into boos.

However, the referee's decision cannot be changed, and Mitchell Sampson still fell to the ground, which was not a light fall.

At this time, Gan Guoyang rarely stepped forward and stretched out his hand to Mitchell Sampson, meaning to help him up.

In a game, it is inevitable for players to fall, and basketball players are tall and can really have trouble standing up, so teammates usually go up and pull them.

Gan Guoyang and Mitchell Sampson have always been at odds, so the two never support each other, this time Gan Guoyang took the initiative to reach out to pull Mitchell Sampson, which made Sampson a little surprised.

“Thanks.” After Mitchell was pulled up, he said thank you to Gan Guoyang.

This is perhaps the most polite phrase the two have used since they became teammates, and it is clear that the relationship between the two is slowly easing.

The game continued, and the Trail Blazers served a sideline ball.

This time, the Trail Blazers' main attack shifted from left to right, and Vanderwig held the ball on the outside in search of opportunities.

Gan Guoyang mentioned the top of the arc and was ready to make a cover for his teammates, but the outside line of the rocket was very wide, and he stuck to blocking and dismantling without changing the defense, and he was very dead in one defense and one defense.

After passing a few times without a chance, the ball was handed over to Gan Guoyang for a transition, Gan Guoyang looked around with the ball and found that there was no good passing opportunity.

The only option was to get the ball back into Valentine's hands, but that would mean regrouping and running out of time.

"Go on your own!" Gan Guoyang heard the roar of Ramsey next to him, and Ramsey always emphasized in training that when tactics can't be played, they must solve the problem quickly and forcefully alone.

Gan Guoyang chose to break through from the front, dribbling directly from the top of the arc to the inside of the rocket!

Olajuwon didn't expect Gan Guoyang to make such a move, and the defense of the entire rocket was very wide, so the protection of the three-second zone was very bad, and Gan Guoyang rushed in one step.

I have to admit that the breakthrough is the simplest and most brutal weapon to break the opponent's defense on the basketball court, but it is also the most powerful weapon, even if it is a bulky center.

Besides, Gan Guoyang is not bulky, he dribbled straight to the basket, and Sampson on the other side had to step forward to make up for the defense, and if he didn't make up for it, Gan Guoyang would dunk directly.

Gan Guoyang remained very calm in the case of blocking and chasing soldiers in front of him, he took the lead in jumping, but observed in the air and found that Mitchell Sampson had been vacated.

So before Ralph Sampson's big hand fanned up, he made a clever split in the air and passed the ball to Mitchell Sampson.

Sampson caught the ball and dunked with a two-handed dunk to score the first point for the Trail Blazers. 2：2！

A simple and effective breakaway shot, the Trail Blazers successfully crossed the Rockets twin towers inside.

After the goal, Mitchell Sampson also extended his hand to Gan Guoyang, who stepped forward to high-five Sampson.

Seeing this scene, Ramzibi on the sidelines was still happy to see the goal, and he felt that these two inside lines were finally able to release their suspicions and work together!

For Ramsay, he spent a lot of effort in the previous month to reconcile the conflict between Gan Guoyang and Sampson, he had to take care of Sampson's feelings, and at the same time actively cultivate Gan Guoyang.

Several of the Trail Blazers' high-pick drafts were all high-minded and stinky tempers, starting with Bill Walton.

Before Ramsey, Lenny Wilkens, who was even more rigid than Ramsey, could not coordinate the contradictions of the talents in the team, so that the Trail Blazers could not produce results.

After Ramsey took office, he did a good job in this regard, but unfortunately he couldn't stop Wharton from leaving in the end.

Now he has encountered this problem again, one champion and one example, inexplicably he can't look at the right eye, and then the contradiction intensifies.

But the contradiction is inexplicable, and the resolution is inexplicable, once you hold up on the field, and you can see that the relationship between the two is no longer intolerable.

Ramsey naturally didn't know that Gan Guoyang had already thought about taking the initiative to show goodwill with Sampson and give him enough respect so that Sampson would no longer be hostile to him.

As Kenny Carr said, Sampson has no ambitions, he is like a senior gold collar in a big company, he does his job every day, plays well for the team and is OK, as for the rest, he doesn't particularly care.

As long as he gets a salary that matches his stats and gets the respect of his players, at least he has no problem playing at the same level.

Gan Guoyang's idea is that since Sampson has no ambition, but his qualifications and abilities are there, then I will provide him well, give him enough respect, resolve the conflict between the two, and even be able to get Sampson's support.

As long as Sampson doesn't steal the ball with him, at least on the inside, Gan Guoyang will become the real pillar of the Trail Blazers with his performance.

Gan Guoyang seems to be a little "far-sighted" at this time, but in fact, he just turned a corner and solved the problem in front of him in a more secure and friendly way, which is also a symbol of a person's gradual maturity.

However, facing opponents on the court, Gan Guoyang will not be safe and friendly.

After Mitchell Sampson scored, the Rockets quickly served in the backcourt, and Ralph Sampson made a long pass straight to the frontcourt.

The Trail Blazers' defensive formation hasn't been set up yet, the Rockets players have already rushed inside with the ball, and the Rockets are also good at playing quick offensive and defensive transitions.

The Rockets' No. 32 point guard, Lewis Lloyd, if you just look at his back, eight out of ten people will recognize him as Magic Johnson, the same No. 32, similar body shape, and that slightly hunched back.

But his level is really much worse than Magic Johnson, he held the ball and went directly to the inside, at this time Gan Guoyang had rushed back to the three-second zone, and saw that Lloyd wanted to go straight to the basket, so he went all out to block it.

If it's Maigc, Gan has to be careful with Magic's passes, you don't know when he's going to get the ball to which player who has a chance.

Then he hesitated whether to go up to the defense with all his strength or keep an eye on the other players next to him, and often ended up watching Magic score a layup.

Lloyd obviously does not have this level, he wanted to make Gan Guoyang's foul, but he didn't expect Gan Guoyang not to be fooled and not to make physical contact with him, but tried his best to use his long arm to interfere with Lloyd's layup.

As a result, Lloyd missed the layup, and the ball spun twice on the basket and fell out.

But the huge advantage of the Rockets' twin towers was revealed, and Ralph Sampson, who was keeping up, easily picked up this frontcourt rebound with his height and arm length, and then put the ball into the basket under the sandwich of three people. 4：2。

There is nothing Gan Guoyang can do about this, the other party is too tall, even if there is no Ralph Sampson, there is Olajuwon next to him.

In this regard, the Rockets are different from the Trail Blazers, who are "Unless the ball falls into your hands, don't grab the frontcourt board and quickly return to defense," because the Trail Blazers' overall height and speed are not good, and they must give up the frontcourt rebound to defend against the opponent and play a quick offensive and defensive transition.

The Rockets, on the other hand, are "even if the ball is grabbed by the opponent, they must take the ball off the opponent's hand and attack it a second time!" "Because the Rockets have an absolute advantage in height and speed in the whole league.

So this game is also a huge test for the Trail Blazers' backcourt rebounding protection.

And in the offense, the outside line of the Trail Blazers also opened first, and the Rockets just scored the ball, and the Trail Blazers also served quickly.

Unlike the Rockets, the Trail Blazers' fast offense was good at wing shooting, and they passed the ball to Paxson, who reached the left baseline, with three passes and two leads.

Paxson didn't hesitate and shot directly from an 18-foot angle in the face of Lloyd, who pounced.

"Huh!" The ball went in, the hollow went into the net, and it seems that Paxson has a good hand in this game. 4：4。

After scoring two more goals each, the two teams that are good at playing fast attacks began to face off.

Since the game had just started, everyone was full of energy, and the consecutive goals of both sides set the tone of the game, and everyone hit a high percentage of shots.

Soon, you played smoothly on both sides, there were no fouls or mistakes, and the coach didn't need to call a timeout.

The two sides played so united and friendly until the sixth minute of the first quarter, when McGregory of the Rockets made a layup with the ball, but was slapped out of the bottom line by Gan Guoyang, resulting in a dead ball.

The buzzer sounded on the sidelines, the referee signaled, and the official timeout, at this time, the score on the court was 16:15, and the Trail Blazers led by one point.

The official timeout, which is a new thing that Stern has done since he took office this season, is that if no team takes the initiative to take a timeout after 6 minutes of each quarter, then the referee will blow the official timeout on the next dead ball, and this timeout will be counted on the head of the home team.

Because Stern had signed an agreement with major TV stations and advertisers to give them enough advertising time, he invented the "official suspension", an anti-human mandatory suspension.

Ramsey didn't have much to say about that on the bench, because the players played well, he was basically satisfied, and there was nothing to adjust.

In this game, Ramsey's preparation is still quite sufficient, and his goal in the first quarter is to open both the inside and outside, and the outside line can shoot out the feel, play against the Rockets, and not fall behind in the first quarter.

Then in the second quarter, when the second lineup of both sides came on the court, it was time for Ramsey to release his killer weapon and fight for a one-shot advantage.

"Keep our form, we can play a little bit more on offense, increase our breaks, and don't rely too much on shooting." Ramsey said something casually, mainly hoping that the players would break through more, because in the face of the Rockets' defense, breaking through is a better way to crack.

However, it is unrealistic to expect Paxson and Van der Vercz to rely on breakthroughs to tear apart the Rockets' defense, and Gan Guoyang cannot always break through from the top of the arc, and now Olajuwon has stepped up his defense against Gan Guoyang.

The Trail Blazers players didn't pay attention to Ramsey either, and Gan Guoyang sat on the bench sipping this year's NBA's new drink, Gatorade.

In later generations, this drink can be described as thunderous, and it is the Nike of sports drinks.

But like Nike, Gatorade was just a small rural brand in Florida at the time, and when Stern came to power, he went around soliciting sponsorships, and as a result, some big companies didn't want him.

Later, Stern received an invitation to cooperate with Gatorade, an obscure ordinary beverage factory, and the two sides formed a partnership.

Later, Gatorade naturally relied on the NBA platform to grow bigger and bigger, and became famous all over the world.

Gan Guoyang looked at the Gatorade drink that is still unknown in his hand, and many players were still complaining that the drink was too strong for athletes, but in the end, he would perform the miracle of a crow turning into a phoenix with the NBA.

"Buzz!" The 100-second official timeout was over, and Gan Guoyang put down the Gatorade drink and returned to the court.

He couldn't help but get a little excited at the thought that he was working a miracle with all of this.

"Bang!" "Yay!!"

"Don't be in a daze, Gan! Defend well! Where have you gotten your mind! Forbidden City! ”

Gan Guoyang was in a fugue, but the Rockets served from the bottom line, Olajuwon scored with a basket under the basket, and the Rockets overtook by one point!

Ramsey looked at Gan Guoyang in a daze and scolded anxiously.

"I'm grass, make a surprise attack! See if I don't kill you! The depressed Gan Guoyang secretly cursed in Chinese in his heart.

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