At halftime, Adelman was the only voice in the entire Trail Blazers locker room. He was very dissatisfied with the players' performance in the first half, but he also admitted that the Trail Blazers were not well prepared in tactical terms.

Sabonis was absent, and the advantages brought by Duckworth's starter were not played out in the first half of this game, but the disadvantage was completely shaken by the Suns.

Because there is a lack of a strong inside contact and pass point, the Trail Blazers' offensive routine has become relatively single, and the fluency of the positional offense has decreased. At this time, he relies on Gan Guoyang's singles score in the inside, but Gan Guoyang's condition in the first half was indeed not good in this game.

At the same time, Duckworth does not have the first pass ability of Sabonis. When he gets the backcourt rebound, it is difficult to launch a quick counterattack directly, which also makes the Trail Blazers' best fast break only 50%.

The advantage of this lineup lies in defense. Duckworth is better than Sabonis in single defense and assisted defense. More importantly, with Duckworth, Gan Guoyang's outside compression defense can be more unscrupulous. However, the Suns' offensive tactics today are very good, and the functions of Kevin Johnson, Tom Chambers and Hornersek are well allocated. Mark West and Corbyn, as well as Eddie Johnson on the bench have all played well. The Trail Blazers can maintain the score gap within 20 points, which is already considered a burning fragrance.

Adelman said a thousand words in the locker room. He knew in his heart that the most important thing was to see whether Gan Guoyang could recover. Otherwise, such a critical point in the inside line would be so passive at both ends of the offense and defense and the opponent was in such a good state, it would be difficult for the team to win.

Gan Guoyang sat there without saying a word. He was also trying hard to reflect on himself. In the first half, he felt like he couldn't do anything. Especially after being blocked from the offensive end, he began to become a little impatient on the defensive end. This was obviously not a good phenomenon.

"We completely lost our game rhythm. Look at our performance, singles, mistakes, and missed people. There are many small mistakes that should not have been made. As a result, it becomes the current situation. The first thing we have to do in the second half is to reduce mistakes, reduce mistakes, and reduce mistakes!" Adelman said three times in a row to reduce mistakes, because the number of mistakes in the first half of the Trail Blazers was an astonishing 15 times. Due to the psychological impatience of the score, the players were eager to use fast attacks to make points. As a result, the team made a large number of mistakes. Not only did they not make the points back, but they gave the opponent a chance to counterattack, and the score gap further widened.

Adelman believes that the team's problem is not tactical, but mentality. Compared with the last two games, the Trail Blazers' tactics have not changed much. Although the Suns have made adjustments, the players who play the ball will not have any huge changes. In the final analysis, the changes are still mentality.

The easy sweep of the opponent in five consecutive games made the Trail Blazers psychologically relax. They felt that a team like the Suns who had no defense played casually would probably sweep another 4:0. But they didn't know that the Suns burst out with huge energy at home, and the core of the Trail Blazers was in a quagmire again. It would be strange if they didn't fall behind.

The second half of the game is about to begin, and the players are going to return to the court to start the second half. This is Gan Guoyang who stood up first and walked to the center of the locker room and said to everyone: "I really hope to go home, but I hope that the next time we stand in the memorial gymnasium is in the Western Conference Finals. Absolutely, never give the enemy any chance. Giving the enemy a chance is to dig a grave for ourselves. We must recover it one by one, because we are the best in history!"

After saying that, Gan Guoyang raised his hand high, and the others stood up, gathered around Gan Guoyang, and put their hands on Gan Guoyang's hands.

“Come-on!Blazers!”

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If a team wants to win, it is of course useless to just shout slogans. In this backward adversity, I don’t know how many teams shouted slogans to cheer for a turnaround, but the pits they dug were so easy to fill in.

The second half of the game started soon, and when the Suns fans started to wave the white towels in their hands again, the atmosphere here was no worse than Portland at all.

"The second half is about to begin. The Suns have a 19-point lead. They completely suppressed the Trail Blazers in the first half. The smooth offense and fighting spirit are being fought. The Trail Blazers are constantly making mistakes, making mistakes, and making mistakes. They have too many mistakes. And Gan only scored 6 points in the whole first half, which may be the worst first half of his performance this season." Don Patrick did not show mercy to him because Gan Guoyang is a shareholder of espn, because Gan Guoyang's performance is indeed very poor. The only thing worthy of praise is that his mistakes are still well controlled.

The Trail Blazers were still the starter of Duckworth in the second half, and their tactics did not change. Adelman firmly believed that it was very taboo to change the overall tactical ideas at will in a game. There was no big problem with their tactics in this game, and the problem lies in the mentality of the players.

But the progress after the start of the second half made Adelman realize that the team's mentality is indeed a problem, but the team's tactical configuration may be a bigger problem.

"Potter passed the ball to Cauchy, and Cauchy was double-teamed. Cauchy wanted to pass the ball to Gan, but... it was in chaos and the ball was out of bounds!"

In the first round, Porter transitioned the ball to Cauchy. Cauchy wanted to pass the ball to Gan Guoyang at 45 degrees. Gan Guoyang was on the right side, but the Suns did not double-team Gan Guoyang, but directly double-teamed Cauchy. Cauchy threw the ball to Gan Guoyang in a panic. The ball was very poor. Gan Guoyang and West squeezed together, and Hornacek on the side rushed over to grab the ball. As a result, he rushed out of the baseline with the ball, and the collision made the person overturned the horse.

"Beep!" The referee blew the whistle, hesitated for a while, communicated with another referee, and urged the Suns' ball.

Gan Guoyang was also very helpless. This guy Horacek was too exchanged. He was not for the ball, but for the people, and he was running Gan Guoyang to catch the ball firmly. As a result, the ball was out of bounds, and it was still something he touched by Gan Guoyang.

This looks honest, and you can't underestimate it at all. It's the same virtue as Stockton.

Horacek had just successfully interfered on the defensive end and immediately made another contribution on the offensive end.

After serving outside the boundary, Hornersek took the ball and advanced quickly, without giving the Trail Blazers a chance to return to the defense position. He passed the ball directly to Tom Chambers on the right. Chambers wanted to break through with the ball, but when Gan Guoyang blocked, he immediately had his legs weak and passed the ball to Corbyn who was inserted from the back. Corbyn took the ball and jumped directly, but did not make it. As a result, Hornersek came out of nowhere and actually picked up a frontcourt rebound.

Horacek did not make a layup. He knew that Gan Guoyang had returned and would definitely get a shot with a layup, so he passed by West who slid to the left bottom line. West received the ball at the base line and made a fixed-point jump shot from 12 feet.

"This cunning guy!" Gan Guoyang couldn't help but curse in his heart. In the NBA, Gan Guoyang has never been afraid of those big and thick muscles. Anyway, he is invincible in terms of strength, and he is not afraid of anyone coming. However, old fried dough sticks like Horacek have always been the type that Gan Guoyang hates the most. I remember that when he was a rookie, he was miserable by such old fried dough sticks inside.

The same type is Stockton, but the key is that he and Stockton are old teammates and are quite familiar with his style of playing style, so Gan Guoyang is very good at targeting Stockton. Although Hornersek, who looks more honest and innocent, has only entered the third year of the NBA, he is really an old fox and has a good control over the situation in the game. Kevin Johnson is just a assaulter, and Hornersek is really a general who dispatches the situation on the field.

The game soon returned to the first half, but the Trail Blazers' mistakes became less, and Gan Guoyang's touch began to recover. Mark West's method of putting Gan Guoyang's left hand in the first half was shocked by Gan Guoyang's two left hand hooks in the same position.

However, the Trail Blazers' own offense is normal, but they cannot defend against the Suns' offense. The defensive method in the first two games has been cracked by the Suns. The Suns players completely let go of their psychological constraints and let go of their hands, showing the strength of the league's second attack power. The score difference has remained at 15 points.

This was spent at the end of the third quarter. Adelman finally couldn't sit still. He pointed to the bench and said, "Prepare to play and give Duckworth a substitute."
Chapter completed!