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Chapter 273 Difficult to win

The third quarter game became the nightmare for the Trail Blazers. At the beginning of the third quarter, the Clippers quickly smoothed the gap between the two sides' 5-pointers in the first half with an 11:0 shock wave, and by the way, they also surpassed 6 points.

Everything happened very quickly and suddenly, and the Trail Blazers didn't know how to attack.

Gan Guoyang felt that he had returned to his rookie season all of a sudden, and he started running back and forth on the court again, unable to even touch a ball.

The Clippers strengthened their protection of backcourt rebounds, and the entire defense line contracted. The whole nation grabbed rebounds, and Gan Guoyang could no longer find an opportunity to pick up frontcourt rebounds.

The Clippers' defense is also very simple, which is to defend one, make a shot without a sudden shot, put the outside without an inside, and the Trail Blazers shoot outside casually.

As a result, the Trail Blazers' shooting percentage from the third quarter was so low that they didn't score a single goal.

The Clippers seized the opportunity to fight back continuously. Ren Gan Guoyang had three heads and six arms, but he could not stop his opponent's attack.

After a while, the Clippers rewritten the score to 68:63 from the fourth minute of the third quarter. If Drexler had not invested a lucky three-pointer, the Trail Blazers would not have a single point until the first four minutes of the second half until the official timeout.

What's worse is that when the Trail Blazers were crushed by the Clippers, Ramsey seemed to have no intention of calling a pause at all, and waited until the official pause arrived.

"Clam-down...(Calm down)" This is the first sentence Ramsey said during the timeout. It is awkward to listen to it. I don't know whether he said it to himself or the players. Gan Guoyang doesn't feel that he is not calm. The team is just not in the form.

"Accelerate the speed, quickly chase points, and fight back. We have to play our own rhythm instead of being led by the nose. This is bad..." After saying a few words, Ramsey stopped talking, but just drew two tactics on the tactical board, one of which was to adjust the defense to Gan Guoyang to pass the ball, and the other of which was to Paxson's inward cutting and moving tactics.

The Trail Blazers players returned to the field early, waiting for the end of the official timeout. On the Clippers, their head coach Don Chaney was still making arrangements for the players, as if the Trail Blazers were not behind but the Clippers.

"What the hell is this?" Gan Guoyang kept beating in his heart. He didn't know what was wrong with Ramsey and what was wrong with the Trail Blazers.

The team in Portland in the first two games were fine. Although the opponent was a weak team, the team's tactical effect was very good and they both won the game. Everything was so beautiful.

But since Gan Guoyang discovered that Corte was taking drugs, he seemed to have pulled open a hole in an embroidered pillow, and the rag jacket inside was exposed little by little.

This made Gan Guoyang extremely angry. He wanted to run to Ramsey immediately and yell at the old man, asking him what he was thinking about in his bald head.

Gan Guoyang was not overwhelmed by this anger, but he vented this on the court.

"Scatter it! Don't squeeze it to the left! Give me the ball." Gan Guoyang directed his teammates to stack it to the right, freeing the left, and then he ran to the horn position to ask Valentine for the ball.

Valentine handed the ball to Gan Guoyang, who faced the defender in front of the basket - the seven-foot-two giant James Donaldson. He was 4 feet short of his opponent in height. Even if he relied solely on his strength in the interior, Gan Guoyang would have trouble dealing with Donaldson.

In the first half, Gan Guoyang and Valentine cooperated very well. In addition, the Clippers did not double-team, Gan Guoyang got several easy-ball opportunities and easily put the ball in.

In the second half, Donaldson began to keep pace with the Clippers also began to shrink double-team.

"Damn(Damn)." Gan Guoyang lowered his center of gravity and held the ball in the horn position. Looking at Donaldson who covered him in front of him, he found that the inside was blocked quite dead. Once he broke through from the front, he would definitely be attacked.

But without hesitation, Gan Guoyang immediately made a choice. He made a tentative step, and suddenly he swung his arm and moved the ball from the right to the left. He chose to break through from the side with his left hand!

Donaldson was caught off guard, and he was tall and had a high center of gravity, so he could not keep up with Gan Guoyang's pace and could only pounce from behind.

In the inside of the Clippers, Maxwell, who was originally guarding Sampson, immediately came to the basket to block Gan Guoyang.

There is no turning back when the arrow is drawn. Once Gan Guoyang starts, no matter who blocks it, he can't stop!

Gan Guoyang faced Maxwell's wall and suddenly accelerated and jumped. Maxwell did not move at the basket, waiting for Gan Guoyang to install it.

"Bang!" Maxwell was completely knocked away by Gan Guoyang and slid out of the baseline, and Gan Guoyang also put the ball into the basket in the air.

"Does it count?" Gan Guoyang's first reaction after the ball entered was to look at the referee, whether the referee's gesture was to look at whether the ball entered or not.

Fortunately, the referee signaled that the goal was valid and at the same time decided that Maxwell was blocking a foul.

"Oh, beautiful goal... Hey Max, how does it feel to come to Los Angeles?" Gan Guoyang did not forget to tease Boston's former player Maxwell during the free throw, and then made the free throw. 66:68, the difference became two points again.

Gan Guoyang played this ball very smartly. First of all, he did not choose to play Donaldson from the low post. After all, Donaldson was tall there, and he broke through with the face basket, and took advantage of the foot speed to obviously have better results.

At the same time, he found that Maxwell was very close to the basket. If he broke from the front, he would most likely be caused by Maxwell to an offensive foul. However, if he broke from the side, Maxwell wanted to make a foul, he had to move a longer distance, so he would naturally be easily blocked by blows.

Gan Guoyang's goal greatly improved the morale of the Trail Blazers. At the same time, Ramsey also replaced Paxson, who was substitute. Paxson was in good condition tonight. His running injected some vitality into the slightly lifeless Trail Blazers and mobilized the Clippers' defense.

The Trail Blazers finally began to slowly recover, and the internal and external attacks were playing very vividly. Both sides entered a state of chasing each other with chasing each other. The Trail Blazers also maintained a certain advantage.

Gan Guoyang saw that his teammates performed unsatisfactorily and strengthened his offense again and began to continuously attack the Clippers' inside line. He scored another 13 points in the third quarter.

In the fourth quarter, the Trail Blazers always maintained an advantage of about four points and led the Clippers by the nose.

The game continued until one minute and five seconds left in the fourth quarter, and the Trail Blazers still led the Clippers by 3 points with 113:110. Marquis Johnson's mid-range shot stopped the Trail Blazers.

"Gan, expand the defense and strengthen the pressure on the outside, and don't give them a chance. But remember, don't miss people, don't miss the inside, if it doesn't work, just foul and send the opponent to the free throw line." Ramsey made a calm arrangement, and he asked the team to use an oppressive defense.

Then Ramsey asked to focus on Derek Smith. He caused huge trouble to the Trail Blazers tonight, and he has scored 26 points so far.

After the timeout, the game continues.

Gan Guoyang stood near the free throw line and was in the pass. The radius of 10 feet was all under his jurisdiction. It was completely impossible for the Clippers to directly lob the ball to the inside.

With the referee's whistle, the Clippers serve, and the Clippers' outside player went around the three-point line twice, attracting the defense of the two. The result was Ben Onette Benjamin who came forward to catch the ball.

But Gan Guoyang made a mistake. Benjamin had no offensive ability outside the three-point line. Although he could not attack other players at this time, it was illegal defense, and he should also focus on the person who was most likely to catch the ball.

However, Gan Guoyang's attention was on Benjamin. After receiving the ball, Benjamin paused for a moment, turned around, and passed the baller to Marquis Johnson who served the ball. At this time, he had already run to the top of the arc.

Benjamin took advantage of the situation to give Johnson a pick-and-roll screen, and Johnson directly accelerated the ball and broke through!

At this time, Gan Guoyang must come forward to make up for defense. He followed Johnson and stared at him until he entered the inside.

In order to avoid Gan Guoyang's big hand blocking, Johnson had to use a very difficult move to make a layup, so he was not blocked by Gan Guoyang's hot pot.

The ball still made a move, a high throw hit the board, but the ball did not control the strength, so it bounced on the basket and was about to fall out.

At this time, Benjamin, who was behind the cover, was vacant!

Benjamin took off and tapped the ball gently.

"Swish!" The ball stumbled into the basket, and Benjamin successfully made a tip-in! The rookie who came on the bench hit a key tip-in!

"Yeah! Yeah!" Benjamin looked like a final shot after a successful tip-in, but in fact the Clippers were still one point behind.

"Idiot!" Gan Guoyang couldn't help but say as he looked at Benjamin.

Then Gan Guoyang turned to Van derwich again. The ball was probably Van derwich to switch defense, but Benjamin was completely empty: "What did you do with KiKi! I'll defend Johnson, then you must get Benjamin a good card! How can he make a tip-in so easily?"

Gan Guoyang originally wanted to remind Van derwich, but Van derwich ignored him at all and walked back to the bench silently.

The two have always had a good relationship. They practiced shooting together yesterday. Gan Guoyang wondered if there was something wrong with his tone.

Fortunately, in the subsequent key attack, Gan Guoyang hit a big hook at 45 degrees on the right!

The gap between the two sides was widened to 3 points again, stabilizing the situation.

With the Clippers choosing to take the risk of three-point shooting in the last attack, the Trail Blazers narrowly defeated the Clippers with a 115:112 three-point advantage on the road, achieving a three-game winning streak at the opening season.

Gan Guoyang was elected the best player of the game. He scored 41 points and 13 rebounds in the game and hit an extremely critical hook, which was a great contribution.
Chapter completed!
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