“Shit!Shit!Shit!Shit!”

In the Trail Blazers' locker room, Adelman's hoarse curse filled everyone's eardrums. In the team, Adelman's nickname was "First of the Year", which was given to him by Gan Guoyang, because the hairstyle and the beard of middle-aged Adelman were nothing short of Hitler.

Adelman, who was in the middle of the break, was also furious like Hitler. It was perfect for Adelman to use the three words "shit" to evaluate the Trail Blazers' performance in the first half.

As a younger head coach, Adelman has always been known for his calmness and even a bit slow in these two seasons. Even though the Trail Blazers lost four games in January, Adelman did not show such anger in any of the games.

In his opinion, it is natural for the team to lose, and there is no team that will win forever. The Trail Blazers are currently in a small low period, which every team will experience every season. All he has to do is to get out of this low period with the players and solve the problems faced by the team.

However, in this game, the Trail Blazers were full of mistakes, fouls, and were hit by the butt, with a low hit rate, poor basket protection, and unknown defense. In the last game against the Clippers, the Trail Blazers exposed their lack of concentration and low morale, but they finally won the game with Gan Guoyang's tip-off, covering up some of the team's problems. Now facing the much stronger Los Angeles Lakers, the problems have been completely exposed.

"Your fighting spirit, your desire to win, where is your desire for victory? When the season is just going to go, you are satisfied like this? Do you think you are already the champion? Or do you think you have met President Reagan and won the O'Brien Cup? No! Reagan is about to step down. Do you also want to be pulled from the first position like him?" Adelman's scolding did not stop. To be honest, the players were all a little scared.

They were not in good condition tonight. During the two days in Los Angeles, Cauchy, Porter and other players went to nightclubs to experience the world of Los Angeles, and Drexler went to Hollywood to participate in the premiere of the movie "Batman". Even Gan Guoyang, who has always been self-disciplined, took leave to Wang Zhengmin's house, which also led to the Trail Blazers canceling their day of training.

Even so, this is the first time that the Trail Blazers players have seen Adelman, who is usually not happy or angry, have such a big temper. Ramsey used to shout at the players when he was there. Adelman's advice style is obviously different from Ramsey. Now Adelman is anxious to get angry, which is enough to show how bad the Trail Blazers play.

"Potter, look at you, how many times did you make mistakes in the dribble in half? How many times? Five times! Oh my God, are you just graduated from high school? You are facing a magician, a person who is one head taller than you, and you will be stolen by him! Are you kidding me?" Terry Porter's performance was bad enough tonight.

"Clyde, I see you flying in the sky tonight as if you were fucking in Vietnam's military forbidden flight zone. Where is your fast attack??" Drexler's fast attack was not played at all tonight. He was blocked very much.

"Avidas, if you are hit by Kareem in a row on your head again, I will replace you immediately, immediately!" Sabonis did not have the ability to turn the situation around in this situation. It would be a big problem for him to deal with Kareem.

"Causey, look at your shots outside the three-point line, it's almost damn it's Larry Bird, but can you hit a little more than Manut Boer?" Cauchy made a net shot outside in the first half, and missed a three-pointer.

The four starting players were yelled at by Adelman one by one. Each of them had their bad performances in Adelman's eyes, and the four of them lowered their heads and had nothing to say.

At this time, Gan Guoyang was the only one left in the starting lineup. He was sitting at the bottom of everyone, silently listening to Adelman's hoarse voice, and every word hit his heart hard.

In fact, Gan Guoyang performed very well in the first half. Riley's double-teaming was different from other teams. It did not last, but changed a lot. A.C Green and Michael Cooper suddenly increased their double-teaming from time to time. Worthy occasionally came up to help. Riley just wanted to disrupt Gan Guoyang's offensive rhythm.

The effect of the first quarter was very good. Gan Guoyang made zero four shots. In the second quarter, Riley, who took the lead, appropriately relaxed the interference with Gan Guoyang, allowing the players to focus more on the offense to maintain their advantage. Gan Guoyang began to recover slowly and scored high-difficulty goals many times, slowly stabilizing the situation.

But the performance of teammates tonight was really a scumbag. Gan Guoyang tried to encourage his teammates, but the effect was not obvious in a short period of time. The Lakers still firmly suppressed the Trail Blazers and expanded the score advantage bit by bit.

Adelman walked to Gan Guoyang at this time, put away his previous tone, and said to Gan Guoyang: "Gan, you did a good job and performed normally. But you must remember that a leader is to get the most praise when the team wins, and to bear the most responsibility when the team fails. If your personal performance cannot bring the team's victory, everything will be in vain. You will not be the MVP. I believe you must understand this."

"You did a good job, but you could do better." Finally, Adelman said to Gan Guoyang again.

Adelman was not stupid at all. He deeply understood that this Trail Blazers, Gan Guoyang is the team's soul. If anyone in the team is in a bad state, Adelman can help him adjust it; if the entire team is in a bad state, then just adjust Gan Guoyang, he is the team's switch valve. If he controls it, he can control the team.

This is the tricks and shortcuts for Adelman as a young coach with no seniority - all of this is actually what Bellman taught him.

At this time, everyone looked at Gan Guoyang. After entering the locker room, he didn't say a word. In the whole month of January, Gan Guoyang still maintained his efficiency and tried his best to integrate into the offense and defense of the entire team. In other words, compared with November and December, Gan Guoyang has not changed, and has become a teammate and opponent.

Teammates are tired, their opponents find targeted tactics and are preparing more and more fully, and everything makes the Trail Blazers more and more difficult.

Adelman stubbornly stated that he would not make targeted improvements to the tactics, but would continue to respond to changes in the same way. He claimed that "if this difficulty cannot be solved, then the Trail Blazers are not worthy of a championship."

Soon, the halftime break was about to end. Gan Guoyang stood up from the chair, looked at Adelman, then walked to the door, and said to everyone without looking back: "Let's-Go" (Let's go).

The other Trail Blazers players did not say a word, stood up from their chairs, walked out of the locker room, and followed Gan Guoyang to re-enter the court.

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"Tom, the Trail Blazers played very badly in the first half. This is probably the worst first half of the Trail Blazers this season. Their performance doesn't look like a team that has always achieved 39 wins and 5 losses. Is the Trail Blazers in their poor condition or the Lakers' tactics are too successful? Tom, tell me your opinion." Just when the second half was about to die, Dick Stockton was still discussing the Trail Blazers with Tom Hidden.

"Oh, the Trail Blazers must have had some problems, which may be tactical or rotational. The Lakers have also made obvious targeted tactical adjustments. Their aggressiveness on the defensive end, frequent double-teaming Gan, and the strategies of using fast breaks and more positional battles and more mid-range shots are all effective means of attacking the Trail Blazers recently. However, I think the key problem lies in the morale of the team. The Lakers are very strong. I know that Riley is an absolute hair dryer; while Adelman of the Trail Blazers is a dull man. When the team needs encouragement, I don't know if he can do anything other than drawing tactical boards. However, we cannot forget that in the 1986 season, Gan created a tragedy in Boston Garden Plaza. I believe that if Riley missed this, he would definitely regret it."
Chapter completed!