For an NBA playoff team, how to win away games in the playoffs is a problem that all teams must consider.

The home team has the right time, place, and people. In addition to the strength itself, all kinds of factors have advantages, which will inevitably be more beneficial in the game.

On the contrary, the away team is exhausted and they go to the opponent's field to play. Except for the dozens of people on the bench, the rest of tens of thousands of people are booing at you. If you enter, you will not respond and you will cheer if you don't enter. This is a big test for the players.

Of course, professional players have long been accustomed to this, but the difference between the playoffs and the regular season is that the more intense the game is, the greater the impact of some non-strength factors on the game progress, and any small events will have an impact on the game results.

On the last day of April, the Trail Blazers once again beat the Denver Nuggets with a big score at home, just like last year's playoffs, and then they were heading to the away game to attack the Nuggets' McNichols Sports Center.

In the NBA, although there is only one game between 2:0 and 3:0, it is completely different. Although the advantage is huge, there are no examples of being reversed 2:0 in NBA history. In the past, there will be many teams that have completed major reversals in the future.

3:0 is different. 3:0 often means that the team that is behind is sentenced to death. No team can turn the tables when they are behind 0:3. Even if the Knicks scored 3:3 when they were behind 0:3 in 1954, they still lost the series.

Until 1986, no team could make a comeback when it was behind 0:3. In fact, this result would not change in another twenty years.

Therefore, the third game at Denver Plateau was a game that determined the trend of the series. Last year, the Trail Blazers lost the third game and inexplicably had internal strife, which directly led to three consecutive games being won in a good situation of 2:0 and almost died in the semi-finals.

People cannot fall in front of the same pit at the same time, so on the plane to Denver, Ramsey began to talk to all the players, asking them to win with all their might and not give the Nuggets a chance to save the playoffs.

Ramsey knew it was difficult. Denver is now a trapped beast, especially since he had the experience of turning the tables last year. They must have made extremely well prepared. If they want to compete for this critical game at Denver's home court, it is very difficult to rely on the team to explode and bloom more. On the contrary, Ramsey must be prepared for the Nuggets' multi-point blooming at any time.

As the head coach who once directed the first NBA finals 0:2 behind the big comeback, Ramsey understood how important momentum and confidence are in a round of series, and it would never be possible to be suppressed from the beginning.

Based on the above two points, for the Trail Blazers, the most important thing is that there must be surprises, and players must stand up on the bench, because Gan Guoyang, the inside and Van Devich, the outside, will definitely be given the Nuggets' focus.

Ramsey set his sights on Clyde Drexler.

In the first two games, Drexler did not score much, one game, one game was 19 points and the other game was 15 points, because he played more as the organizer in the game. As the starting point guard, Cort lacked some organizational experience and needed Drexler's help.

As a shooting guard, Drexler has been practicing mid- and long-distance jump shots for three years, but he still has the same six-mechanism sword as Duan Yu's six-mechanism sword. When the rhythm is accurate, he can practice scoring points. If he is not allowed to get up, Ramsey stood on the sidelines and watched him shoot, and wanted to throw the tactical board up and smash him to death.

With the existence of Gan Guoyang and Van dervich, coupled with the trouble of injury, Drexler mainly plays a third-point scoring point and a versatile role in the team this season. He is very proficient in assists, rebounds, and steals, and his defense should be said to be pretty good. At least he has an advantage in his physical fitness compared to the two white outsiders.

Such a panacea player is often easily overlooked during the offense and becomes a leaker on the opponent's defense line. In fact, as a new generation of shooting guards, Drexler is actually very explosive in scoring, but under the light of Gan Guoyang, he seems a little dim.

After thinking about it, Ramsey decided to put the winner of the third game on Drexler, so that this talented but stubborn young man, as the leader of the team, would bring some surprises to his opponents.

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"...We brought the time back to last year's Western Conference semi-finals. The second-ranked Trail Blazers took a 2:0 lead after two home games, but after coming to Rainbow home games, the Denver Nuggets scored two consecutive games, changing the score to 2:2. Then in the critical fifth game, the Nuggets beat the Trail Blazers away and won the match point. In other words, the Nuggets are only one step away from the Western Conference finals, but the Trail Blazers tenaciously recovered the match point in Game 6, dragging the game into a life-and-death battle, and winning the series..."

Before the game, the CBS TV station was looking back at last year's Western Conference semi-finals. The Nuggets faced the same situation as last year. Obviously, Denver fans hope that the team can recreate last year's momentum and retrieve the lost field at home.

The game is about to begin, and many fans at the scene played the "2:2" brand. It seems that they are not worried at all when the home team is lagging behind 0:2 and are full of confidence in the Nuggets.

Indeed, although the Nuggets' ranking has declined this season, Leaf's rise, the enrichment of the inside and the continued peak state of England's Nuggets' strength has not declined. He lost 0:2 in the first two games. On the one hand, the strength of the Trail Blazers has naturally improved, and on the other hand,

It was the coach's strategy issue, and he placed his hopes on the two white centers, thinking that they could be a surprise attack to curb Gan Guoyang.

This is how you use surprise troops. If you succeed, you will get huge benefits. Once you fail, the losses will be difficult to recover.

So after Drexler was designated by Ramsey, he focused his attack at the beginning and found the scoring feeling, the "glider" was still a little nervous.

Because Drexler has such a personality, he is competitive, but he has not reached the level of Gan Guoyang, Jordan and others. He can fully accept it as a second-in-command and do a good job in assisting at critical moments.

Now he is really uncomfortable with letting him be a temporary leader.

Gan Guoyang had no objection to this. He also knew that as long as Drexler opened it, he could be less double-teamed and could survive inside and outside.

So at the beginning, Gan Guoyang jumped the ball and immediately started to cover Drexler from the outside.

"Drexler broke through from the right with Gan's cover, changed direction and passed Dunn, and successfully made a layup with his left hand! He got the first point at the opening!"

Drexler did not choose to jump shot in the first goal. He used a beautiful change of direction to pass the defender, and then made a layup with Shayce's left hand. Shayce's 6-foot-11 was completely pressed down by Drexler, and he jumped too high.

"In the NBA, except Michael Jordan, few players can break through like Drexler." commentator Brent Musberg said that this time the CBS commentary Trail Blazers game was finally not Dick Stockton.

Musberg was right. Before Drexler and Jordan, the shooting guards' breakthroughs were like old ladies with small foots, slowly squeezed in with small steps, and suddenly shot a shot that allowed the opponent to defend, but they could not rush into the basket like these two flying men, and then found a gap under the defense of three or four people to pass the ball into the basket.

Compared with Jordan, Drexler has fewer changes in breakthroughs and his movements in the air are not as good as Jordan, but as long as he can score a goal, the effect is the same.

But soon, the Nuggets showed the difference between them at home and away. After Drexler scored the first goal, Leaf immediately responded with a quick stop jump shot, and the shot was very decisive. It can be seen that the Nuggets had the momentum to defend the home court from the beginning.

"Drexler walked around and received a pass from Cort and shot directly! The ball didn't make it, and Inglish got the backcourt rebound and passed it to Leaf. The Nuggets' fast break, Gan had already returned to the basket, but Inglish turned over and jumped at the bottom line... The ball went in! 12:7, and the Nuggets led by 5 points."

"How did this guy score in such an ugly shooting posture?" Gan Guoyang was originally going back to the basket to prevent the Nuggets' fast break, but England took the ball from the bottom line and turned around and shot directly. England's shooting posture was quite weird. He stood up into a wire pole, put the ball on the target of the wire pole, and then shook his wrist and the ball flew out.

Like when he turned around and jumped this time, his body had not turned around yet. He just threw the ball out directly, but he even went in.

Gan Guoyang complained, but he had fought with England many times and knew that England's power on the offensive end was really huge.

On the defensive end, Gan Guoyang and Van derwich were indeed closely matched and assisted. Doug Mo made adjustments in the face, but Calvin Knight went to defend Van derwich and asked Inglish to defend Sampson.

The thin-skinned Inglish is certainly not Sampson's opponent, but now Sampson is no longer the team's main attack point, and Ramsey has not arranged singles tactics for him. As long as Inglish insists on going around and not letting Sampson catch the ball, he will be considered as completing his mission.

"Drexler held the ball at the top of the arc, and he hesitated a little, passing or shooting... The shot, missed the ball, collapsed very far, Knight got the rebound, the Nuggets counterattacked again, the Trail Blazers failed to return visit, Dunn successfully made a layup, and the score difference became 7 points."

Ramsey immediately called a timeout. Drexler missed the shot and the Trail Blazers. Because his shooting arc is very flat. Once he doesn't enter, he often collapses far away and falls directly near the three-point line. This gives the opponent a good opportunity to get a fast break and also creates difficulty for teammates to return to defense.

This is also one of the important reasons why Ramsey wanted to use a tactical board to smash Drexler when he saw him shooting randomly.

But during the timeout, Ramsey did not criticize Drexler, but encouraged him: "Clyde, enrich your choices, pass, shoot, layup, you have to find your own rhythm, not blindly shoot. Give yourself confidence... Jones, you come on the court, you are willing to play power forward, drag out, and go back to defense faster, don't let the Nuggets fight back easily."
Chapter completed!