Gan Guoyang's fist was also carefully considered, not a simple impulse. Of course, when he saw that Ramsey was still indifferent in the locker room while the Trail Blazers were behind, his fist was indeed filled with anger.

Perhaps Ramsey is missing his wife who was treated in the hospital, or perhaps he has no intention of fighting, and his performance looks like an ordinary staff member of the team - no, even the staff is inferior to the staff, and the staff will encourage the players with care.

Everyone saw this, but no one pointed it out, they were just waiting, waiting for Ramsey and the Trail Blazers to rot together, and then the management made an action to smooth everything out and start over.

Only Gan Guoyang did not compromise, and he could not watch the team that reached the Western Conference Finals last season fell into the abyss, so Gan Guoyang relied on his own to pull the Trail Blazers back from the edge of the cliff.

But this is not a long-term solution. Gan Guoyang cannot maintain such a scoring level throughout the season. Even if it can, the Trail Blazers' performance will not be much better.

After learning that Ramsey's wife had cancer, Gan Guoyang knew that the reason why Ramsey was so depressed was not only because he could no longer stay in the Trail Blazers next season to continue to give advice, but also because he lost passion for life.

Gan Guoyang wanted to inspire Ramsey's passion, but his method was a bit naive. He wanted to use his fists to make Ramsey angry, awaken him, and realize that even though he was sixty years old, he was still a real man.

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During the twenty minutes of the halftime break, the Trail Blazers' locker room was in chaos. After the rest, everyone hurried back to the arena and continued to start the second half.

Due to the conflict between Gan Guoyang and Ramsey, the Trail Blazers did not even have time to make tactical adjustments. They continued their routines in the first half and played from the inside to the outside.

In the first attack in the second half, Gan Guoyang took the ball on the right as usual. This time his position was not deep, and he almost took the ball near the three-point line.

For an inside player, it is very physically exhausting to be in a very deep low position. It is very tiring to have a deep low position for a center in a game that has ten times such as this. In most cases, they catch the ball at a distance from the three-second zone, which is easier.

The strength of Gan Guoyang lies in his ability to continuously and in low positions. His positioning ability is too strong and his physical strength is superb. As long as the opponent does not double-team, Gan Guoyang will basically score when he receives the ball in a very deep position. This is also the reason why Gan Guoyang's explosiveness in scoring is so strong.

However, in the first half, Gan Guoyang faced Sam Bowei and Washington's defense with many insiders, and his touch felt a bit bad. More importantly, Baowei and Norland also put huge pressure on Gan Guoyang on the offensive end, and Gan Guoyang consumed a lot of physical strength.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang changed his strategy. He no longer went deep into the inside and struggled to get the ball, but instead took the ball from the outside, then quickly turned the basket and directly pushed Bo Wei to the basket.

Bo Wei is tall and his arms are long, so his steps are not fast enough, at least he cannot keep up with Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang rushed to the basket with a hard rush, and then successfully made a counter-sack. (Howard's most common move against Lopez is often used for the smaller ones.)

52:63, the Trail Blazers are still 11 points behind the Bullets.

The reason why the Bullets were able to lead in the first half of today was that in addition to their strong defense, top defense in the inside and supplementary defense, Jeff Malone and Noland played an indispensable role in the offense.

Norland, an ordinary blue-collar power forward, seemed to have a suction cup on his hands tonight, grabbing offensive rebounds in the Trail Blazers' inside, creating second offensive opportunities many times, and causing fouls in the Trail Blazers' inside.

Jeff Malone took advantage of Drexler's absence to easily break through Paxson's defense, avoided Gan Guoyang's backup defense, and scored a layup at the basket.

Bellman's defensive system was not working well tonight, because both inside and outside were broken, and there was a situation where he was timid and fearful.

In the second half, Gan Guoyang no longer dared to run to the outside line to delay the obstacles easily. He lost too many rebounds in the first half, so he had to protect the team's penalty area.

It was the Trail Blazers' turn to attack, and Gan Guoyang continued to ask for the ball in a relatively shallow position. This time the bullet did not watch Gan Guoyang break through and score. Gus Williams from the outside immediately came up to attack and harass Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang was well prepared and transferred the ball on a large scale, throwing the ball to Paxson on the weak side. Paxson ran to the bottom line through Sampson's cover and received a pass from Gan Guoyang, and scored a jump shot from the middle distance of the zero-degree angle. 54:65, which was still a 11-point gap.

Drexler's absence is undoubtedly a huge loss for the Trail Blazers. Without this outside steal expert and the sharpest arrow in the fast break, the Trail Blazers' ability to grab points in a short period of time has greatly reduced.

Moreover, the Blazers' defensive intensity in the third quarter was never up, and the shooting felt improved a lot, and the two sides started a tug-of-war with one goal and one goal.

The Blazers were still 11 points behind at 76:87, which was no different from the beginning of the third quarter.

"Mr. Ramsey, do we want to give a timeout?" Adelman, who was sitting on the bench, reminded Ramsey. The Trail Blazers did not even call a timeout in the third quarter. Adelman thought Ramsey was still angry with Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang's punch was indeed a bit too messy.

"Wait a little longer, the time is not yet." Ramsey said lightly on the bench, his eyes continuing to stare at the game on the court.

When Jeff Malone relied on Bowie to cover a single block and made a two-step jump shot inside the 45-degree three-point line on the right, Ramsey finally stood up and asked the referee for a timeout.

The Trail Blazers players all seemed a little discouraged. Their attack in the third quarter was actually OK, but they could not defend against bullet attacks. One by one, it was very harmful to the Trail Blazers who were chasing points. If they could not reach orgasm, they would only be dragged down and weaker.

At this time, Ramsey walked forward with a tactical board as if he had changed. He said to the players who were in the game: "Play the energy, the game is still long!"

Then Ramsey continued: "Let's adjust, Porter and Cauchy are ready to play, KiKi and Valentine are on the court, you have a break. Strength! We need strength! I want you to play a simpler attack, do you understand what I mean? Simpler, use less passes and cooperate with the offense, because we want to grab points, play offense and defense, and strive to achieve a climax at the end of the third quarter. But the premise is that we have to make strong points! By the way, Paxson, you also get off the court, Cort, you play double point guard. You can stand on the inside for a while

, Remember, shrink and get stuck in the middle, this is what we always emphasize in our daily training. Carl, you must cooperate with Gan, close the middle, and don’t let Jeff Malone and Gus Williams easily enter our penalty area from the middle! Flank, Cauchy, I want you to give them a sense of oppression! Porter, you and Corte are responsible for the rotation of the outside line, and the double point guard is present, which is to ask you to attack the opponent more and not be lazy! Try to catch the score within 10 points before the end of the third quarter, so that we still have a great chance in the fourth quarter!"

Ramsey hasn't really set up the Trail Blazers' tactical style in such a serious way for a long time. He has just been perfunctory for many games, encouraging the players to say a few words, and then let the players play according to their usual training routines or play freely.

I have to admit that if a team has a coach who is driving you to run with a whip in the back, the players' performance level is different.

Especially when the team is behind, whether you can continue to play in a correct and effective way is very important for chasing points.

The players who received Ramsey's guidance suddenly seemed much calmer. It can be seen from the adjustment of the lineup that Ramsey replaced all the starting lineup backcourts and replaced more energetic young people to let them go on the court to catch up with points.

The suspension ended and both sides returned to the court. At this time, Gan Guoyang walked to Ramsey and said softly: "I hope you are resurrected."

"I was almost beaten to death by you." Ramsey glanced at Gan Guoyang and said.

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With three minutes left before the end of the third quarter, the Trail Blazers are still 13 points behind the Bullets. They are now replaced with a group of substitute backcourt players, and the Bullets also replaced the main outside, leaving only Jeff Malone to continue to play with the substitute players.

Bullets obviously made a big mistake. Although the Trail Blazers replaced the main force and replaced it with the substitute, their purpose was not to keep the main force in the fourth quarter to chase points, but to chase it hard in the last period of the third quarter.

In the first attack after the timeout, Corte made a sudden cold arrow from outside the three-point line and made a three-pointer!

A ball that was extremely bold, the Trail Blazers made such a three-pointer in the whole game. It was Corte who used Carl's cover to shoot after dribbling through half the game.

The gap becomes 10 points, and this shot gives people a completely different feeling. 10 points and 13 points are really different.

However, there was a problem with the bullet attack, which was replaced by substitutes. The Blazers' precise and fierce double-teaming made them mess up and began to attack randomly from the outside.

The result was that Gan Guoyang caught a backcourt rebound, and then the young people of the Trail Blazers began to fight a fast break.

In just two and a half minutes, the Trail Blazers made three quick counterattacks in a row, scoring 6 points in a row, narrowing the gap between the two sides to only six points!

The Bullets only relied on Jeff Malone's two free throws to score two points, 85:91, and the momentum began to change.

When Gan Guoyang grabbed the frontcourt rebound and made a throw, the Trail Blazers had already chased the score to only 4 points away!

Bullets' head coach Gene Shu finally couldn't sit still and could only use a short pause to arrange the last attack in the third quarter. The 13-point difference was about to be smoothed out by the Trail Blazers in the blink of an eye.
Chapter completed!