"The cheerleaders at the Nuggets' home court show their beauty and sexiness on the court. I think the whole league may only be able to surpass them. If the Portland Trail Blazers want to see a more exciting cheerleading performance in Los Angeles, they have to work harder. The timeout ended and both sides returned to the court. Now there are still 3 minutes and 13 seconds left before the end of the first half. The Trail Blazers trailed the Nuggets by 14 points 45:59. Their attack in the first half was really bad."

The Trail Blazers and Nuggets' state in the first half was a slight loss compared to the previous game. The Trail Blazers were in no state on the offensive end, with a shooting percentage of less than 40% of the time, which was their lowest first half in this playoffs.

In comparison, the Nuggets did not perform well, but for such a pioneer, the Nuggets only need to perform normally. When they returned to their home court, they got rid of the cold touch of the last game and found the feeling of attack again amid the hot cheers of home fans.

At the end of the first half, Ramsey had to call a timeout, hoping that the players could be excited and close a good end for the first half so that the Blazers would have room to save in the second half.

"Patient, no matter what situation you encounter, you must be patient, don't attack, and ensure the success rate! Our current goal is not to let the score difference continue to widen..." The time-out has come, but Ramsey continued to instruct the players on the sidelines.

"Beebeebebeebebebe~ The timeout is over! Please come back on the court soon!" The referee began to urge the Trail Blazers on the sidelines.

"Go on! Show your true level! Don't be knocked down by your opponent!" Ramsey finally let the players go on the court.

Before the game, Ramsey was deeply worried that this would happen after coming to the Nuggets' home court. For any team that fell behind 0:2, it is very common to rebound back to the home court.

What Ramsey is most worried about is not losing this game. What he is most worried about is that the momentum of the Trail Blazers will be crushed by the team because of this away trip. If so, the progress of the series will likely be changed.

You know, when Ramsey led the Trail Blazers to win the championship in 1977, they won four games in a row. Now, Ramsey doesn't want the opposite to happen to the Trail Blazers.

The game continued, and the Trail Blazers served the sideline ball. At this time, Ramsey lined up the lineup he thought was the most stable, including Gan Guoyang, Sampson, Van derwich, Paxson and Valentine, which was the starting lineup that the Trail Blazers have always used in the regular season.

Paxson served on the outside, and Valentine began to organize the offense after receiving the ball. During the timeout, Ramsey asked Valentine to increase the breakthrough and damage to the inside, and at the same time, he was waiting for an opportunity to find teammates' opportunities to shoot at an open space.

This time, Ramsey's tactical conservativeness was reflected. He thought that he should try his best to maintain this point difference in the first half and see you again in the second half, rather than seizing all the time to catch up with one point.

Therefore, Valentine was slowly driving the ball on the outside to look for opportunities. Gan Guoyang has mentioned going online to provide single-block cover for Valentine.

The most commonly used positional offensive tactics by the Trail Blazers, relying on the cover of the center and point guard to open the gap in the opponent's defense when they go online, and then the shooting guard, small forward and power forward cooperate to find shooting opportunities.

"Valentin cut from the top of the arc, the Nuggets shrink the defense, he passes back to Gan, Gan passes the ball to Parkson, and Parkson catches the ball and jumps! The ball is in! The Trail Blazers finally scored, I think they haven't scored in the sports game for almost two minutes."

The Trail Blazers scored two points with a skilled cooperation. Paxson used CS after Sampson's screen to rewritten the score to 47:59, and the score gap narrowed to 12 points.

However, in this game, the Trail Blazers' other big problem is that they cannot stop the Nuggets' offense.

"Life passed the ball to Isel, who broke through the middle with the ball! The throwing shot! The ball entered! The referee's whistle also sounded. See who made a foul?"

A big change in the Nuggets on the offensive end today was to start reusing veteran Dan Isel. In previous games, Wien Cooper occupied most of the playing time, and Isel did not get much chance due to injury.

Although Yisel has old arms and legs, his consciousness and skills are still there. When he and Knight are on the court at the same time, although the Nuggets' inside height is insufficient, their victory is flexibility and wide attack range.

Gan Guoyang had to go out to defend Yiser often when he was on the court, but even if he followed him, Yiser had the first-class breakthrough ability among inside players, and his outstanding rhythm control ability made Gan Guoyang suffer a lot.

"I didn't touch him! My hand was just raised, why did you call me a foul?" Gan Guoyang looked at the referee pointing at him and said that he had a foul. Gan Guoyang looked helpless.

With this foul, Gan Guoyang had already made three fouls in the first half. In fact, his performance in the first half was not bad, with 11 points and 9 rebounds, but the help to the team did not seem to be as great as in the past.

"The Trail Blazers have to substitution. Isel's performance in this game played a key role. When Gan was not on the court, the Trail Blazers' defense level would be reduced by a level, and in this game, their defense was already bad enough."

"Fuck!" Gan Guoyang, who returned to the bench, threw a towel hard. Since entering the second half of the season, until the playoffs, Gan Guoyang has rarely been troubled by fouls.

On the one hand, it is due to the rigorous technical training he had undergone in high school and college, which made his defensive movements very standard and he was not prone to excessive fouls; on the other hand, it is because he has gradually learned to control his fouls, and he has already understood that staying on the court is the best help to the team.

But in this game, as the Nuggets' offensive waves grew higher and higher, Gan Guoyang, as the defensive core of the inside, tried his best to suppress any Nuggets player who tried to launch an attack in the three-second zone from beginning to end. His block data in the first half were three.

But because of this, his foul got out of control, and Ramsey had to replace him with Kenny Carl.

"You're doing well in Gan, but you know that this guy Yisel is an old fox. When I was playing in the NBA, this guy was already in the league. Now I am an assistant coach, and he is still playing." Rick Adelman, who was sitting next to Gan Guoyang, comforting Gan Guoyang like this, that Gan Guoyang suffered a lot of losses in Isel this season.

Since the first match between the two sides in the regular season, Nuggets head coach Doug Mo often let Yiser play to defend Gan Guoyang, or play Gan Guoyang alone in the offensive end. Gan Guoyang has been played with technology several times by this old guy.

In the playoffs, Yiser's playing time began to decrease, but Gan Guoyang's dazzling performance made Doug Mo quickly remember the veteran in his hand. As expected, once the veteran took action, no matter how talented Gan Guoyang is, he still has to suffer some losses.

"I have to teach him a lesson in this series, or I think I will have no chance." Gan Guoyang said to Adelman as he looked at Iser's free throw shot from the free throw line.

Iser is about to retire after playing this season. This series is obviously the last time the two of them have fought on the court.

If Ramsey heard Gan Guoyang say this, he would definitely tell Gan Guoyang that he should put the team's victory or loss first and win the game is the most important thing, and don't always think about fighting with the opponent's players.

But Adelman is different from Ramsey. When he heard Gan Guoyang's words, he responded: "Then you better think about how to improve your single defense skills. Your skill in defending the basket is not as good as your back-to-back defense."

Adelman's words made Gan Guoyang think. Indeed, when it comes to defense against the outside world, Gan Guoyang is not afraid of any NBA center, including Jabbar.

This is thanks to his superhuman strength and solid training.

But once the opponent carries a basket and turns the basket, Gan Guoyang will sometimes be more blind. Facing some inside players with very strong baskets, such as Ralph Sampson, Jack Sikma, Dan Iser, Larry Nance, and Gan Guoyang will suffer.

So Gan Guoyang hates these in-basket type insiders very much, especially they will add a little mid-range shot skill, which makes Gan Guoyang, who is responsible for guarding the three-second zone, feels very embarrassed - whether to make up for it or not?

"Then I have to train myself to be a Transformer who can change his voice at any time..."

Before Gan Guoyang could finish his words, the home fans interrupted the conversation between the two with huge sounds.

"Dan Isel! He made a three-pointer on the right 45 degrees! Three-pointer! Oh my god, this will be Yisel's last season. After playing this season, he will end his 15-year professional basketball career. The seven-time All-Star has left his last ten years in Denver. Now, he is contributing his last strength to the team. He made this three-pointer, and the audience gave him warm applause... You know, he only made a total of one three-pointer this season."

It really made things worse. Isel sprinkled a handful of salt on the Trail Blazers' wound with a three-pointer that no one expected.

47:65, the gap between the two sides has widened to 18 points, close to 20 points.

"I can't believe it. Did these two teams change a soul in two days?" Dick Stockton couldn't help but sigh as he saw that the performance of both sides was very different from the day before yesterday.

At the end of the first half, with Van dervic missing his last shot, the score was frozen at a gap of 47:65 and 18 points, and the Trail Blazers lag behind the Nuggets in a big score.
Chapter completed!