The Golden Age of Basketball

Kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself. Gan Guoyang has always kept in mind the principle of the lion fighting the rabbit, because there are too many things in the nba where Jingzhou was carelessly lost because of underestimating the enemy, past, present, and future, such things will happen repeatedly.

For spectators and fans, this is the charm of competitive sports, but for the team, these are traps that cannot be seen clearly, making people trembling and walking on thin ice.

During the regular season, Gan Guoyang would occasionally take a nap, and he would play more relaxed when encountering relatively easy games. Of course, after listening to Dr. J Owen's advice in Philadelphia, Gan Guoyang also wound up himself.

In the playoffs, the excited Gan Guoyang completely removed the energy limit bar on his body, entered the highest fighting state, and treated the Warriors. Although he provoked the Warriors many times before the game, in fact, he attached great importance to this opponent in his heart. Chris -The offensive power of the backcourt combination of Mullin and Richmond is considerable, and the head coach of the Warriors is Don Nelson. Gan Guoyang does not want the miracle of the 65-win team to be hacked 20 to happen [-] years in advance.

After the start of the game, the Blazers also focused on the inside. The playoffs are different from the regular season. The quick counterattack needs to be used with caution. It is easy to bring the rhythm and feel to the opponent at the beginning of the game. , the following games may not be easy to play.

Therefore, in the playoffs, the opening offense must be played inside and the success rate. At the same time, more energy should be put on the defensive end. Don't give the opponent an offensive feel, so that the opponent's scorer spends more time looking for the touch.

Therefore, as the most efficient low-post offensive point in the league, Gan Guoyang took on the heavy responsibility of scoring points at the beginning.

"The first offense on the field, Gan took the ball in the low post, left, where he is most familiar, Gan took a look, and pushed Ralph Sampson! Hook hit! Trail Blazers this season The first point of the game came from Gan's hook!"

On the first ball, Gan Guoyang hit an easy hook, and it was Ralph Sampson who was defending Gan Guoyang. But at this time, Sampson has long since lost his previous courage. Sampson has missed more than 20 games this season. In the game, the knee injury tormented this super power forward who used to fly to the sky and the ground. At this time, he has been reduced to an insider with an average of less than ten points and five rebounds per game, and he is not even an excellent insider. .

Moreover, even Ralph Sampson at his peak was not Gan Guoyang's opponent. In the 1986 Western Conference Finals, it was Olajuwon who really pushed the Blazers to the brink, and Sampson was always restricted. It's relatively dead, but its performance is average.

Now, Gan Guoyang's offensive skills are extremely mature. The Warriors' defense was a little hesitant at the beginning. The outside players were ready to move after Gan Guoyang got the ball, but they didn't really step forward to double-team. , Gan Guoyang was able to make an easy shot.

Soon, when Gan Guoyang started to score consecutively, Nelson couldn't sit still. He didn't expect Gan Guoyang's state to come so quickly. He thought that Gan Guoyang would wait until later to exert his strength, but Gan Guoyang was not polite at all. No mercy, hooks, turnaround jump shots, strong under the basket, the original Warriors' internal strength is weak, and they can't stand Gan Guoyang's toss.

And the Warriors have been unable to start the game on the offensive end. The Blazers have expanded their defense greatly and are very oppressive. Both of the Warriors' scorers rely on outside shots for food. A passer with strong ball penetration, facing the Blazers' high-pressure defense, the offensive rotation is quite difficult.

And Gan Guoyang's harassment range on the defensive end is also very large. He has returned to the state of the big spider again. You must know that in some games in the regular season, Gan Guoyang does not need to exert any strength on the defensive end. , but in the playoffs, Gan Guoyang once again showed the demeanor of the best defensive player. He has very strong control over people and the ball. His tireless running and filling will make people think he is a blue-collar coolie for the Blazers.

At 17:5, the Trail Blazers beat the Warriors at 17:5. Don Nelson couldn’t hold back and turned to the referee after seeing Gan Guoyang successfully steal the ball from outside the three-point line and pass the ball to Porter. Porter scored a one-stop layup. Made a gesture and asked for a timeout. This situation was expected by Don Nelson, but it seemed to come a little too fast.

"Keep-pas on, keep-pas on! (Keep alive, keep alive!)" Gan Guoyang did not forget to yell at everyone when the timeout came off the field. He knew that sometimes the team would slack off after a wave of attacks , He wants to remind everyone that no matter how many points they lead at any time, they must maintain passion and vitality.

The noise on the scene also reached the maximum. The players and coaches of both sides had to use the maximum decibel volume to arrange with their own players. The fanatical passion of the Blazers home fans not only infected the players, but also brought great pressure to the Warriors.

Don Nelson made adjustments after the timeout and used the tactics he had studied, which was to deploy Manute Ball at the center position, let Sampson play power forward, and then the two defended Gan Guoyang together.

Ball is 7 feet 7 and Sampson is 7 feet 3. The inside combination of the two may be the highest inside combination in NBA history, but the two are thin enough, especially Ball, who is so tall and only weighs 200 pounds .

"Nelson replaced Ball and formed a super twin tower with Sampson, but why do I always feel that this is futile? Doesn't Nelson know the power of Gan's outside shots?" Xiao Enli saw that Nelson replaced Ball. He could tell that Gan Guoyang was definitely not a player who could only score inside.

However, what the average commentator can see, Nelson will not see?

In fact, Nelson is of course aware of Gan Guoyang’s deterrent power on the outside, and that he has a glorious history of throwing himself at the opponent. However, Nelson is a coach who likes to take a slanted sword, which can be seen from his future coaching experience. As early as the Bucks period, he had piled up too many long men, and at that time, Nelson's Bucks had always been the nemesis of the Blazers.

However, the Bucks restrain the Blazers by relying on their strong perimeter defense to curb the Blazers' perimeter offensive group, while the Bucks rely on the accumulation of long men inside.

Nelson understands that dealing with players like Gan Guoyang and Jordan is like a goalkeeper trying to save a penalty kick. It is very difficult to really rely on the reaction to judge the penalty kick, so some goalkeepers are simply fooled and rush in one direction. As long as you get it right once, you are a victory.

For these super scorers, Nelson also decided to ignore them. He sent Ball and Sampson to block the inside line and make shots difficult, and then asked Gan Guoyang to choose to shoot from the outside. It's unlucky, it's lucky if you don't vote.

This defensive method seems passive, but it actually leads the opponent to a relatively inefficient offensive path. No matter how accurate Gan Guoyang's outside shots are, they are not accurate enough to attack under the basket, and the lethality is even worse. In the first quarter Among the Blazers' 17 points, Gan Guoyang scored eight points on 5 of 4 shots alone, and also caused two fouls for the Warriors.

Nelson had his wishful thinking. He felt that as long as Gan Guoyang was led to the outside line, unless he really turned into a shooting machine, the offensive efficiency would definitely drop, and then the Warriors would be able to find opportunities to slowly chase the score back and bite Live the score and decide the outcome in the last quarter.

However, Nelson made a miscalculation. After the timeout ended and the two sides returned to the field, Gan Guoyang had no intention of going to the high post to play pick-and-roll with Drexler and Porter. Three black eggs beat in and out!

"Gan got the ball in the low post again, caught the ball and turned it over for a jumper! The ball went in! A turnaround jump shot in one go! Gan shook his head, as if to say 'why am I feeling so good tonight'?"

Gan Guoyang's turnaround jump shot did not give Ball a chance to help defend. His turn was too fast, and Sampson, who had a broken knee, couldn't keep up at all, and couldn't jump up to block the shot. The ball goes in.

Nelson thought that the blocking of the inside line was not enough, so he yelled "block the inside line" on the sidelines, but then Gan Guoyang never went to the high post, he took root in the low post, and when he had the opportunity, he caught the ball and stormed the Warriors inside. Manute Ball and Sampson's two giants over 2 meters are not enough to watch. The gap in tonnage and strength is too large.

"Gump continued to score in the paint and made a layup under the blocks of two giants! He is like a quiet river, no matter what obstacles you put in the river, he will flow there quietly, because he is too So wide, so deep."