For Bellman, the new assistant coach of the Trail Blazers, the big problem he has to face is, in addition to the NBA professional players who are not NCAA college students, another challenge is the huge difference between the NBA's defensive rules and college basketball.

In addition to the differences in the referee's dictation standards, the biggest difference between the NBA's defensive rules and NCAA's rules is that the NCAA allows joint defense, while the NBA cannot.

Moreover, the NBA's defensive rules are not as simple as not being able to defend against each other. The core definition of the "illegal defense" rules formulated by the league is: double-teaming cannot be implemented on people without the ball.

In other words, the only defensive method that can be used by defense on the court is man-to-people, double-teaming the ball holder and switches defense. Once two players double-teaming against an unballed player, or one player on the defense cannot find an offensive player who matches him, the defense will be judged to be illegally defending, and the offensive party will throw one free throw.

This is a huge difficulty for Bellman, who is good at using joint defense and adapting to college and high school rules.

In order to resolve this contradiction, before going to the Trail Blazers for an interview, Bellman did a lot of preparations, studied a lot of tactical books, and watched a lot of videos of NBA game-related games.

After conducting a detailed analysis, Bellman believes that in today's NBA, although joint defense is prohibited, the judgement is the referee after all, the referee is a man or not a machine, and the judgment about illegal defense is itself vague.

Therefore, Bellman proposed that when the Trail Blazers' overall individual defense ability is not strong, they play the rule-to-edge ball and use "illegal defense" secretly to improve the team's defensive efficiency.

His idea was also recognized by the Trail Blazers management. They believe that it is indeed difficult to wrestle with the Lakers without making some tactical innovations and using some wrong moves.

Later, during the team's training, Bellman began to emphasize that when players are defending, they should always pay attention to the opponent's arrows in the absence of the ball while keeping on guard against the opponent's opponent.

Of course, this transformation process is very difficult. Sometimes, if you accidentally lose the person you guard against, you don’t have the arrowheads who are not optimistic about the ball; or you simply pay too much attention to it, and the referee finds that he calls for illegal defense.

This is the case with Sampson's goal. After he switched to Gan Guoyang, he wanted to defend Adams, but he saw Sanders cutting inward, so he wanted to delay the obstacle slightly and interfere with Sanders' running position according to Bellman's instructions.

But his movement was too obvious, just for Sanders, so he was caught by the referee and blew up an illegal defense.

Obviously, for an old player like Sampson, it is indeed difficult to adapt to such a defensive strategy. After all, he has been playing in the NBA for so many years and has long been adapting to the simple way of man-to-man defense.

Not only Sampson, but other players are also gradually learning and adapting to such defensive methods. Perhaps they don’t need to defend too tightly against teams like the Suns, but the regular season is just a place to experiment and run-in. I believe that such defense will come in handy in the future.

With the Suns hitting a free throw, they turned the score to 14:9, only 5 points behind.

The effect after Edwards came on the court was indeed obvious. Gan Guoyang returned to the basket, and the Suns' outside transmission was much smoother. Sanders cut the basket and made a layup, but was disturbed by Gan Guoyang and missed the layup. Drexler won the rebound.

This time Ramsey did not call Run-Run-Run again, and Drexler began dribbling over halftime to organize the offense.

"Drexler dribbles and organizes the offense. He and Gan made a pick-and-roll at the high position. Gan received the ball at the free throw line and made a jump shot! The ball didn't go in... But Gan grabbed the frontcourt rebound, shook Edwards away, and dunked! A beautiful powerful dunk, the basket was a little shaken."

Gan Guoyang was indeed quite relaxed in playing. His hard training in Houston and a complete training camp after arriving in Portland made Gan Guoyang very in good condition.

It can also be seen from his mid-range shot that Gan Guoyang's mentality of playing basketball is still very relaxed, and he began to try various offensive methods.

Although the ball did not score, it collapsed far away. Gan Guoyang also picked up a frontcourt rebound and scored the ball.

Gradually, the Trail Blazers began to slowly return to the familiar game mode last season. Gan Guoyang guarded the basket, and each of them defended the entire outside with all their strength.

The Suns' hit rate quickly increased, especially at Sanders, and Van dervich still couldn't suppress him.

But Sanders could not suppress Van derwich, who also showed good competitive state. His shooting still had strong killing ability. For the entire Trail Blazers, Van derwich itself is a tactic and a very efficient tactic.

"Van dervich received a pass from Drexler and made a jump shot from the right wing! 22:16, the difference became 6 points again."

In the counterattack, Van derwich used a "Van derwich step" after receiving the ball on the right wing, easily shook Sanders away with a test, and then made an 18-foot jump shot.

"Buzz~" At this time, the buzzer on the sidelines rang. Since both sides did not stop dead balls, the official timeout period entered the first quarter, and there were still 2 minutes left before the end of the first quarter game.

"Gan, take a break from the court, Carl will play. Clyde will play, Parkson will play, KiKi, you can also take a break, Jerome, you will play." The Trail Blazers began their first personnel rotation, three up and three down.

Now Paxson has become Drexler's substitute. Although he is a little unwilling to give up, he is indeed far from Drexler in his personal ability, which is particularly obvious in the Western Conference Finals and the Lakers.

In the Western Conference Finals, Drexler is often the team's first defense point on the outside, and he is responsible for the defense of Magic Johnson. At the same time, he also has to shoulder the responsibility of fast attacks and organization of positional offenses on the offensive end. These are things that Paxson cannot do.

However, in the beginning of the season, the burden on Paxson's shoulders was not light. Due to a leg injury, Drexler's playing time in each game will not be too long, so Paxson still needs to be able to make continuous contributions on the court.

"How about Mr. Bellman, what do you think of our defense?" After Gan Guoyang got off the court, he drank water and asked about coach Bellman sitting next to him.

"It's very good, but when the opponent's offensive strategy suddenly changes, your adaptability is still insufficient, so you have returned to the familiar routine." Bellman also pointed out the main problem faced by the Trail Blazers in the past ten minutes - it's still not enough to get in.

The Trail Blazers have already been very skilled in their offensive end, but they still lack sufficient tacit understanding in the defensive end when it comes to switching defenses.

When the Suns change their offensive strategies, such as after replacing Edwards, Gan Guoyang and Sampson should be swapped in time.

Furthermore, if the opponent's inside players open up space in future games, players should come out in time to exchange defense with Gan Guoyang, so that Gan Guoyang can not only take care of his own defensive area, but also prevent the opponent's players from being completely empty or being called illegal defense.

"We still need to adapt slowly. To be honest, I almost forgot how to prevent joint defense. Standing on the court, we must think about where to go, and we must also be careful about our own people, otherwise we will be called a foul."

"Actually, I have watched many videos of games. The illegal defense is not so strict. If you don't believe it, you can try it in the future." Bellman leaned into Gan Guoyang's ear and said.

It seems that Gan Guoyang thought about it, because in the rapid offensive and defensive transition, there is often a situation where the opponent cannot be found. The first step for a center forward like Gan Guoyang is to rush straight to the basket to defend, and the opponent's center forward may still be in the backcourt slowly, and it is very difficult to judge illegal defense at this time.

Gan Guoyang nodded. He had already begun to think about how to use this system to deal with the Lakers' super strong outside line when he met the Lakers in the future.

But the situation on the field was tilting towards the sun.

After surviving the bad start, the Suns' offense gradually found a feeling, and Alwan Adams finally began to reflect his value.

After Gan Guoyang got out of the field, the Trail Blazers' inside defense intensity was reduced by a level. Adams used his outstanding skills to break through and layups in the middle twice in a row, and his steps were very clever. Kenny Carl was almost fooled by Adams.

The Trail Blazers' offensive efficiency has also begun to decline. Colt seems to have not made much progress compared to last season. I don't know that this guy has been there for a summer vacation all summer.

When training in the training camp, Ramsey felt that Colt was not in good condition. Although he was still in a proper manner, his personal ability did not improve much, and his physical condition even declined.

This is obviously the result of no physical training in the summer.

"Corte held the ball and broke through and layup! The ball was big, and the rebound was won by the Suns. The current score was 28:24. The Suns were only four points behind. There were 19 seconds left before the end of the first quarter. The Suns' last attack... Adams got the ball at a high position, Kenny Carr defended Adams, and Adams was observing... Adams broke through with the ball, Sampson made a backup defense, Adams passed the ball to Davis on the right, Davis made a mid-range shot! The ball went in! Two points were hit, Water Davis, 28:26, the Suns and the Trail Blazers were only two points away."

With Paxson missing a three-pointer from an extremely long distance, the Trail Blazers had only two points advantage against the Suns, and the first quarter ended.
Chapter completed!