Gan Guoyang received three fouls too early, and Ramsey had to put him on the bench and replaced with substitute center Cardiville Jones.

As a veteran, Jones' biggest advantage is his rich experience. He knows the scale of referees' calls on the court and knows that referees are adjusting the rhythm on the court, so he will carefully control his movements and prevent the referee from finding fault with him easily.

At the same time, Larry Bird also left the court for a break. He had been on the court for enough time. Today he felt very bad. He only scored 8 points so far, and he was unable to connect the Celtics' offense.

Jerome Cauchy is undoubtedly a great contribution. Although Bird's poor performance is more of a problem with his own condition, Cauchy's candy-like marking has undoubtedly also played a role.

And Cauchy's contributions are more than that.

"McHale received the ball from the waist again, and the Trail Blazers finally stepped forward to double-team. Cauchy's double-team, McHale made a mistake! Colt interrupted the pass, and the Trail Blazers counterattacked... Cauchy made a layup successfully."

McHale was not prepared enough to face Cauchy's timely and fierce double-team, so he hurriedly transferred the ball, but was cut off by Cort.

During the counterattack, no one in the Celtics could keep up with the speed of Corte and Cauchy. Cauchy easily made a layup after receiving the ball from Corte.

This sounded the horn for the Trail Blazers to continuously break fast breaks in the second half of the second quarter. Cort, Drexler and Cauchy were invincible in the fast break propulsion. Once the Celtics could not make a comeback, Jones steadily took the backcourt rebound, and the Trail Blazers could launch a counterattack and caught the Celtics off guard.

The Celtics are extremely rare in the NBA with white teams. After sending Maxwell away to get Bill Walton this season, their black players were missing, and the whites added another point.

Among the twelve players in the Celtics team, eight are white and only four black, namely Dennis Johnson, Robert Parish, Sam Vincent, and David Sergill.

Among them, only Parish and Johnson are the main players Vincent and Sergill, one is a rookie and the other is a water dispenser manager at the end of the bench, so the Celtics are an absolute white team.

This is closely related to Boston being the most serious racially discriminatory city in the United States. In the past, even Russell, the Lord of the Rings in their team, was discriminated against, which also led to black players being unwilling to go to Boston. At that time, the contract signed between the NBA and black players even specifically listed a clause that "not traded to go to Boston".

This situation also makes the Celtics a team with insufficient athletic ability. In defense, they rely very much on the system and cooperation, and what they are most afraid of is the opponent's fierce rushing and attacking.

The young Trail Blazers on the field seized the Celtics' weakness. The three young players seemed to be using up their strength and pushed the fast attack whenever they had the chance. Ramsey was still shouting "Run, Run, Run."

This forced KC Jones to quickly call a timeout and replace Bird, Dennis Johnson and Parish again. The score between the two sides has become 52:44, and the difference has become 8 points again.

"The Trail Blazers' offense is just like the Lakers. The Celtics must respond and stop the Trail Blazers' impact. We are very passive now." Most has already smelled a bad smell. The scenes of losing to the Lakers for the first time in the finals last season have flashed before him.

At that time, the Celtics were Bird's poor performance and could not drive the team's offense. At the same time, they were exhausted from the defensive end and were led by the Magicians to run all over the field. They could not control the backcourt rebounds, and were always beaten to attack twice during the position.

After the main player came on the court, Dennis Johnson immediately stabilized the situation with a jump shot. This guy's nerves were really big.

But Drexler immediately hit Johnson with a jump shot. Drexler's body was stiff and his legs were bent, which was a typical "zombie jump shot". Although it was sometimes effective, it felt that it was really accurate once it came up.

In the last three minutes of the second quarter, the Celtics brought the game back to their familiar rhythm, but still failed to tie the score. The Trail Blazers' youngsters performed so well, and the three players in the backcourt performed exceptionally, especially Corte and Cauchy. They became the tactical core of the Trail Blazers in the last three minutes.

At the end of the first half, the Celtics still trailed the Trail Blazers by 6 points at 52:58.

Due to the continuous fouls in the second quarter, Gan Guoyang had to sit on the bench and work on waving towels and handing water for most of the time throughout the game. At the same time, he was also carefully observing Old Jones' performance on the court, hoping to learn some experience from this veteran.

"We want to give the Celtics the most fatal blow in the third quarter, and we can't relax at all. The advantage of 6 points is fleeting. We must stick to our playing style. We did a good job in the first half, with speed, strength, and impact, but it is still not enough! We must give them a bigger blow and use our offense. Conservative defense has no future. Only by constantly rushing forward can we overthrow the rule of powerful enemies. Moreover, we do not have the capital to fight position, keep this in mind, I believe you."

Ramsey was mobilizing in the locker room. Since Van derwich was unable to play in this game, the most important tactical starting point was missing on the outside. Ramsey also decisively sought change and did not play position tactics with the Celtics, which meant he would use fierce rushing and punching to kill the master.

Of course, this strategy is also very dangerous. Once three fists fail to hit the key point in the second half, the Celtics' counterattack momentum will inevitably be extremely rapid. Ramsey is betting on the Celtics' state.

When a team with weaker strength faces a stronger team, they should make a big splash with small splendor and win by surprise. Ramsey did it in the first half, and the Trail Blazers performed well. In the second half, who would become the Trail Blazers' surprise?

When the third quarter started, the Trail Blazers relied on Paxson's performance to withstand the Celtics' counterattack momentum at the beginning.

"Sampson missed the shot, Bird got the rebound and passed the ball... Oh, it was cut off by Paxson. Paxson suddenly jumped and the ball went in! A decisive shot." Most was a little helpless.

Before this ball, the score difference between the Celtics and the Trail Blazers had been narrowed to only two points. As Sampson missed the shot, the Celtics, who won the backcourt rebound, had a good opportunity to counterattack and equalize the score, but Bird, who was in poor form, was careless. He thought that a over-top pass could pass over Paxson, but he didn't expect that Paxson would jump and intercept the ball.

Paxson intercepted the pass 45 degrees on the right. He observed it for a moment and did not stop and wait for the Celtics player to land again. Instead, he dribbled forward and jumped directly.

After the ball hit, the score difference became 4 points again, and the Trail Blazers finally took a breath.

But soon, the Celtics' counterattack momentum came again, and the frontcourt trident began to exert its power. The continuous internal pass and internal cooperation, and the exquisite man-to-ball transfer made Gan Guoyang and Sampson lose one's attention.

In the third quarter, the Trail Blazers insisted on defending by man, and the one that people feared the most was super strong individual singles, and the other was the cooperation of various fast passes after cover. Because there were few rotations, everyone had to try their best to find their own defender, and they were all in chaos after running in a few seconds.

"Byder, pass the ball to McHale. McHale faked it and passed it to Parish in the middle. Parish jumped and hit! Only one point away! Only one point away! 64:65, the Celtics narrowed the gap to 1 point."

Parish's simple 10-foot jump shot climaxed Boston Garden Plaza, and the Celtics' home court was like this, always climaxed.

Ramsey immediately called for a timeout to stop the bleeding for the Trail Blazers. So far, Gan Guoyang's performance has been very average. His domineering aura at the beginning of the first quarter was blown away by several whistles. He only scored 8 points and 4 rebounds, and all scored in the first half of the first quarter.

And at the beginning of the third quarter, Parrish had already thrown three mid-range shots into Gan Guoyang's shot, and Gan Guoyang was tortured by their passes.

Gan Guoyang, who had disappeared for almost a quarter and a half, drank water off the court. He was extremely depressed. His other teammates performed well, but now he has become a drag.

"Hey Gan, don't be angry. Do your job well. We need your defense. Don't be disturbed by their dazzling passes." Ramsey looked at Gan Guoyang's angry look and knew that this guy was about to start getting on.

"Don't worry, I know what to do, believe me, Mr. Ramsey." Gan Guoyang said with a confident look on his face.

At the end of the timeout, the Celtics players came on the court in the cheers of the fans and were ready to work harder to completely regain the momentum.

But they didn't know that what awaited them was a disaster.

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When people talked about this game in the days that followed, two points were mentioned most often. One was that the game was the only one that lost in the 41 home games of the Celtics in the 1985-1986 season. That year, their record at Boston Garden Plaza was an astonishing 40 wins and 1 loss.

The second point is that Gan Guoyang broke out without warning in the third quarter. He was blocked by many parties before, and he seemed to have suddenly broken free from the constraints and started to score continuously at the basket. When he scored 10 goals in a row, the Celtics woke up and double-teamed him, but it was too late.

This sudden outbreak in Gan Guoyang was like an earthquake, tsunami or landslide, but later people were still used to calling it a "solar storm", which caused Boston Garden Plaza to fail.

31 points in a single quarter, only one goal away from George Gerwen's 33 points in a single quarter, but as a center, this score is also terrible enough that he completely destroyed the Celtics' intention to regain the situation in the third quarter.

After the game, someone interviewed Gan Guoyang and asked him why he suddenly broke out. When he made so many shots, Gan Guoyang's answer was very simple.
Chapter completed!