The Golden Age of Basketball

In the 1989 season, the Detroit Pistons moved their home stadium to the newly built Palace of Auburn Hills, a stadium that will hold many moments of the Pistons in the future, and the temporarily used Silver Top Center has become history forever. , But this huge arena can no longer be erased in the history of the Detroit Pistons. They won the first championship in history here.

When Gan Guoyang walked into the newly built Palace of Auburn Hills, he was still a little uncomfortable with the new facilities here. In the past, he was used to the terrible away locker room at the Silver Top Center, the old facilities and the disgusting Pistons. Every time I come here it is a bad experience.

It’s just that when all these disappeared, Gan Guoyang still felt a little missing. The reason is very simple, because every time he came to the Yinding Center, Gan Guoyang always burst out with strong fighting power, which seemed to be an unfriendly counterattack to this place. Michael Jordan exploded at Madison Square Garden.

Now, facing the new arena, Gan Guoyang is a little uncomfortable, and what makes him even more uncomfortable is the Pistons' defense.

At yesterday's pre-match preparation meeting, Adelman made appropriate adjustments to the team's style of play in response to some problems that occurred in the last game against the Bulls. Due to the absence of Drexler, the Blazers' fast break The strength is seriously damaged.

The Blazers relied heavily on Drexler's fast break in the first quarter. When both sides were in the trial period, Drexler's fast break could always easily score points for the team. It can save energy, and the scoring efficiency is also very high. This is the opening rhythm that the Blazers are very accustomed to.

Without Drexler, relying on Cauchy and Porter alone, quick counterattacks must be discounted. Facing the strong defense of the Detroit Pistons, Adelman was very worried about whether he could play a good offense in the first quarter and lay a good foundation for the following games. Base.

The Trail Blazers' outside line is still facing a more severe test, that is, the Detroit Pistons' super offensive ability in the backcourt. The Pistons are a typical team that focuses on the outside line. Mars has two shots in the backcourt, starting with "Microwave" Johnson and Aguilar on the bench. They are all players with very strong personal offensive capabilities. They can completely attack by themselves regardless of tactics. Offensive ability, the pressure on Porter and Cauchy increased sharply.

Therefore, Adelman's idea is very clear, that is, to put the focus of offense on the inside at the beginning of the game, relying on the two inside axes of Gan Guoyang and Sabonis to open up the situation.

This kind of offensive routine and strategy is actually the tactical routine that Jack Ramsey liked to use in the past, but he failed to train Gan Guoyang to become Bill Walton. Gan Guoyang himself abducted a passing master from the Soviet Union.

Such an offensive strategy requires maximizing the role of Gan Guoyang's inside line from the first quarter, and running this route throughout, maintaining pressure on the Pistons' inside line from the beginning to the end.

There is no problem with Adelman's thinking. The problem is that Chuck Daly saw through his thinking and was restrained from the very beginning of the game.

Daly's strategy is very simple. He controlled Gan Guoyang's catch. He didn't let Bill Lambiel compete with Gan Guoyang, and he didn't let John Sally, a big spider, cover Gan Guoyang, a bigger spider. "Million old "Daddy" Daly sacrificed his little magic weapon and used Dennis Rodman to deal with Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang is very familiar with Rodman, but the current Rodman is not the Bulls No. 91 he is familiar with, that flower worm. At this time, he is still a small engineer under Daly, until a few games ago. Become the team's starting small forward.

After Rodman entered the league in 1986, Gan Guoyang missed the entire season, so the two missed the match. In the 1988 season, Rodman was still on the bench as a substitute. Gan Guoyang was a pure center that year. Can't carry him, Daly would never think of using Rodman to deal with Gan Guoyang.

Before the game, Daly carefully studied Gan Guoyang's game video. The coach who created the "Jordan Rule" also thought about how to deal with Gan Guoyang in his mind. He knew that what he needed to deal with Jordan was to control him. The space allows him to be surrounded at any time.

But this trick is not so useful to Gan Guoyang. Many teams have tried to double-team Gan Guoyang, and it has also worked, but in the end they all paid the price. Daly soon thought that dealing with Gan Guoyang is different from dealing with Jordan. place.

Jordan is an outside player. The best time to defend Jordan is to use defensive traps to surround him when he is attacking after holding the ball, causing him to make mistakes, not to score, or simply foul him.

Gan Guoyang is an inside player. Numerous games since 1986 have proved that when he gets the ball inside or starts to rush, it is useless for many people. Let Gan Guoyang get the ball within 17 feet, and he can Throw the ball in the hoop, and if he gets the touch, he'll hit the ball.

Therefore, to deal with Gan Guoyang, you must prevent him from catching the ball and pinch his catching route when he is not catching the ball. Especially, you must not let him find the feeling of hooking the ball, otherwise Gan Guoyang will feel it when he is near the horn. Even the gods can't touch him.

The Pistons are also a team proficient in illegal defense, but no matter how proficient in illegal defense, fake zone defense, such as Gan Guoyang this season, the inside line with a huge attack range will really find no way to prevent him from receiving the ball. Finally, Daly decided , sent Rodman up to entangle Gan Guoyang.

At that time, Rodman was not as tall as Gan Guoyang in terms of height, weight, strength, and talent, but he just highlighted the word "wrap". From the first quarter of the game, he was like an octopus clinging to Gan Guoyang. , Going forward, hitting the man, hitting Gan Guoyang with his butt, at the same time John Sally stepped forward to block the passing line at any time, and Bill Lambiel was ready to smack the man behind.

Substitute Rick Mahon would occasionally come up to replace Rodman. The forward with the biggest ass in the league had no other choice but to play dirty tricks. Anyway, he would fix whatever made Gan Guoyang uncomfortable.

As a result, from the first quarter onwards, Adelman's offensive strategy could not be carried out at all. Although the other players gained more space to attack, the ball could not be passed to Gan Guoyang. Even if it did, Gan Guoyang would suffer immediately. Three-team.

Another insider of the Blazers, Sabonis, was completely dumbfounded. He was confused by Lambiers. Sabonis is definitely not a good boy when he plays, but Lambirs has too much experience. Sabonis took a good class as a center, and taught him what is small moves, what is trash talking, what is fanning the flames, what is backstabbing, and what is kung fu basketball.

In fact, the excessive exaggeration of the teammates about the "dirty" of the Pistons last night caused the players, especially the young players, to be timid and timid before fighting, and suffered psychologically.

After a whole set of packages, with the cooperation of Mahon and Sally, Sabonis had several bloodstains on his arms. Even so, Sabonis still sent 5 assists in the game. And the third quarter drove the Blazers' offense.

In comparison, Gan Guoyang struggled very much. This is the most difficult game he has played this season. Not to mention that he was taken care of, his hand feeling is quite bad tonight. All of them are used up.

In the whole game at the Palace Arena in Auburn Hills, Gan Guoyang made zero three-pointers, made 17 of 5 two-pointers, and made 7 of 7 free throws. Gan Guoyang, who averaged 30.5 points per game this season, only scored a little more than half of the game tonight , 17 points.

Gan Guoyang did not catch rebounds well, the reason is very simple, even if Gan Guoyang grabs rebounds, Dennis Rodman sticks to him. Not afraid of Rodman, he taught him to be a man every minute, but the problem was that with the cooperation of the Pistons' entire defensive system, Gan Guoyang didn't have a good shot at all, and naturally he couldn't find a good offensive feeling.

The Blazers, who were in a mess offensively, failed to hold up on the defensive end. Mark Aguirile played his best game since joining the Pistons. He came off the bench and scored 24 points on 14 of 7 shots in 16 minutes. Pooh -Johnson scored 16 points on 9 of 19 shots, Dumars scored 15 points on 8 of 19 shots, three shots in the backcourt, shooting more than 50.00%, and the Blazers were beaten outside.

Finally, the Trail Blazers experienced the worst defeat of the season. On the road, the brand new Palace of Auburn Hills, 90:110, 20 points, became a stepping stone for the new lineup of the Detroit Pistons.