The Nuggets also made personnel rotation after the timeout. The Nuggets head coach made a bold substitution. Instead of using veteran Wayne Cooper, the team's rookie Rasmusen replaced Calvin Knight, hoping that the rookie can compete with Gan Guoyang to a certain extent.

"Hi, Blair, long time no see." Gan Guoyang saw Blair Rasmusen appearing and said hello to him "friendly".

In the regular season, Blair, as a rookie at the end of the bench, did not get any chance to play when playing against the Trail Blazers, so Gan Guoyang naturally didn't remember this counterattack center he had met in college - and the two only fought once during college.

Because Rasmusen had an amazing performance in the first round, the Trail Blazers coaching staff noticed him and was wary of him when making tactical preparations. Only then did Gan Guoyang remember that there was such a person.

Blair Rasmusen is a "notorious" who has long heard of Gan Guoyang. He knows that this guy is a trash talker like the "big bird" Bird. The result of easily answering him on the court is that he often gets miserable.

So Rasmusen just smiled friendly to Gan Guoyang, and did not say more, and went into the game.

After Rasmusen came on the court, the Nuggets were actually even more weak on the offensive end. Rasmusen and Shayce were both players who lacked independent offensive ability. In addition to finding bargains on the offensive end, their greatest significance was to provide pick-and-roll covers for the Nuggets' outside players.

The effect of two white men was quite good when they made screens. Leaf relied on a double cover from the inside to run to the basket. This time, facing Jones's backup defense, Leaf scored the ball with a change of hand layup, stabilizing the situation on the court.

Soon on the defensive end, Rasmusen's single defense against Gan Guoyang had an effect. Gan Guoyang missed the hook after receiving the ball, Sheais controlled the backcourt rebound, and the Nuggets launched a counterattack.

In the counterattack, Inglish received the ball and broke through the middle, avoiding Gan Guoyang's block. He made a small throw and the Nuggets turned the score again.

"The Nuggets' timeout has worked, and the double-high inside of Shays and Rasmusen has played a certain role in both defense and offensive ends. Let's see how the Trail Blazers will deal with it."

At this time, the disadvantages of Jones on the Trail Blazers showed that Jones did not have the attack power of Mitchell Sampson at all. On the offensive end, the Trail Blazers lacked a single point. It was unrealistic to rely solely on Gan Guoyang's inside score. After scoring 12 points in a row in the first quarter, Gan Guoyang needed a buffer.

Ramsey can't call a timeout anymore, it depends on the players' ability to adjust themselves on the court.

At this time, Van dervich's value is reflected. With excellent offensive ability, he can stand up and use singles to extend his life to the team when the team's offensive system is not running smoothly.

"Van der Van der Vaness singled against England, turned around and threw! The ball entered with the same trick as England just now."

Van dervich "returned his body to the other side" and tried to hit English in the waist position on the back, turning inside and turning to the middle, making a difficult left-hand throw shot, giving his former teammate a warning.

The first quarter ended soon. After a scheming, both sides took advantage of each other, so the score remained anxious. The Trail Blazers only maintained a slight lead with a 28:27 advantage, one point.

In the second quarter, Gan Guoyang scored 13 points and 4 rebounds in the first quarter, sat on the bench and started to rest. Sampson replaced Jones and Kenny Carl replaced Gan Guoyang.

The Trail Blazers began to play with all their strength in the second quarter, and Ramsey also replaced the substitutes Jerome Cauchy and Terry Porter on the outside, and began to defend with high-intensity compression defense without any effort.

This is the experience strategy that Ramsey learned when playing against the Nuggets last year. He must build an advantage in the first half and strive to take away the opponent in the third quarter without leaving the decisive battle until the last moment. This is the winning rhythm that the Trail Blazers are most familiar and good at.

In last year's semi-finals, Ramsey needed to get Gan Guoyang to invest in this high-pressure defense. At that time, he almost played the first half in the first game.

One of the great improvements for the Trail Blazers this season is the growth of several young players on the outside, especially Cauchy, whose energy on the defensive end is what the Trail Blazers have always been eager for on the outside.

"Causey's defense is like a mad dog. Inglish was guarded by airtight and beautiful defense." The Nuggets dared not let Inglish rest for too long. They took two minutes to rest in the last quarter, and then returned to the court in the second quarter to face Cauchy's entanglement.

The Trail Blazers' substitutes' life-threatening defense and full-strength rushing offense played a role in both offense and defense. They gradually opened the score. When Porter hit a quick stop jump shot in the counterattack, the Trail Blazers' substitutes changed the score to 37:31, and the score difference became 6 points.

The Nuggets called a timeout, and this timeout was what Ramsey wanted, because the Trail Blazers players were actually a little tired. If the Nuggets head coach held on and played for a while, it might be able to drag down the Trail Blazers and let Ramsey call a timeout on his own.

"Don't give them a chance. Break them in this period, let us lead into the second half, set the pace, do you understand? Don't worry too much in the defense, focus on the offense! Kill them with one punch!" Ramsey shouted at Gan Guoyang on the bench.

Although Ramsey always yells at the players, it is usually the time when the players make mistakes. It is rare to ask Gan Guoyang to "kill them with one punch" like now. This shows that it is the semi-finals of the division after all, and Ramsey has also begun to find his own state.

Gan Guoyang also took off his sportswear and prepared to play after four minutes of rest.

On the other hand, the Nuggets also expected that the Trail Blazers would replace Gan Guoyang and immediately replaced Rasmusen.

"The Nuggets replaced Rasmusen. After Rasmusen came to play against Gan Guoyang in the first quarter, Gan Guoyang did not score any more. It seems that the Nuggets believe that Rasmusen can deal with Gan."

"Yes, someone said before the game that Rasmusen might be the 'Gan Terminator'."

Rasmusen was obviously inspired by his performance in the first quarter. As soon as he came on the court, he looked very positive, his knees bent slightly, his hands were placed on Gan Guoyang's back, and he began to carefully guard.

"Don't do useless work. Do you think you can defend me? Blair? Do you remember you came to our school to play the game?" Gan Guoyang said to Rasmusen.

Gan Guoyang just said halfway through the dialect. The referee had already whistled the Trail Blazers and sent the sideline ball. Gan Guoyang suddenly started and gently pushed Rasmusen away, and ran to the sideline to receive the ball.

Terry Porter passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and then Gan Guoyang made a fake pass cooperation with Porter. After Porter took away the defender, the left side was cleared, and Gan Guoyang wanted to single against Rasmusen.

"Gannen Busch broke through the middle with the ball, Rasmusen could not push Gan, and Gan made a layup!"

Gan Guoyang broke through directly from the middle, and Rasmusen could not withstand Gan Guoyang, who was like a bulldozer, and was quickly squeezed away. Gan Guoyang was able to easily make a layup. This move is particularly effective against some weak defenders.

"I haven't finished talking yet. You come to our school to play. I only played for 15 minutes. Do you know why?" Gan Guoyang returned to his own half after scoring the goal and continued to say to Rasmusen.

"Dunn's jump shot, if he missed the ball, he would be willing to take a rebound. If he had the ball, he would be hard to make a second attack as long as he didn't score." After Gan Guoyang took the rebound, the Trail Blazers did not launch a quick counterattack, and the players also needed to slow down and attack the position.

This time, Gan Guoyang wanted the ball in the familiar 45-degree waist position, and the ball was not deep. However, after receiving the ball, Gan Guoyang began to stick his butt and arched inward, then suddenly turned out and hit the bottom line with a small hook!

"The pretty little hook, straightforward, Rasmusen was completely suppressed."

"I haven't finished talking yet, I only played for 15 minutes, because I had a bad stomach before the game. My stomach was very uncomfortable, so I went to the toilet five or six times." Gan Guoyang continued to say to Rasmusen. Rasmusen's face was obviously a little about to collapse.

"Hey! Blair, focus!" Inglish saw that Rasmusson seemed a little dazed and loudly reminded the newcomer on the court.

After saying that, after the pick-and-roll, Inglish made a hit pass to Rasmusen, but Rasmusen failed to catch it. Gan Guoyang took off the ball from behind. In the chaos of falling to the ground, Gan Guoyang firmly held the basketball with his big hand like a pliers and controlled the ball.

"Stay steady, hit another one!" Ramsey was afraid that Gan Guoyang would throw the ball out, so he shouted on the sidelines.

Gan Guoyang handed the ball to Drexler, who dribbled the ball slowly over the half-court to organize a position attack.

Gan Guoyang went to the top of the arc and made a pick-and-roll cover for Drexler. Gan Guoyang quickly cut inside. Drexler broke through and seized the opportunity to pass the ball with a high hanging ball to Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang jumped high to catch the ball. He did not choose to be relayed in the air, but instead swung a shot after landing, dribbled past Rasmusen and Wayne Cooper, dribbled the ball to the other side of the basket, turned around and slashed with one hand!

"Bang!" A left-hand dunk that broke through thousands of troops, Gan Guoyang scored three goals in a row, and the commemorative gymnasium was filled with joy.

"So, when I was playing that day, like now, I kept scoring and scoring. I was just thinking about pulling the gap apart as soon as possible so that I could get out of the bathroom. That's how it is, do you understand, Blair?"

After deducting the blue, Gan Guoyang finally finished what he wanted to say, and at this time Blair Rasmusen finally collapsed. The young man looked helpless and looked almost crying.

The Nuggets head coach had to call another 20-second pause. He saw that Rasmusen could not defend against Gan Guoyang at all. If he allowed him to stay on the court, he would only lose his confidence in playing by Gan Guoyang.

"The Nuggets called another timeout. It seems that it is too difficult for Rasmusen to defend Gan."

"Yes, although Gan is just a sophomore, he is said to have a mouth as smelly as Larry Bird on the court. I guess Rasmusen suffered double torture both physically and mentally, poor guy."
Chapter completed!