Good luck is always alone, while bad luck often comes together.

The 1:2 backwardness reversed the situation in the series, but for the Trail Blazers, it was not that bad. If you win the fourth game, you can draw back to your home court to fight the Tianwang Mountain.

But before the fourth game, Drexler sprained his left ankle during training. After examination, the team doctor confirmed that Drexler would miss at least two games, which means that Drexler had to wait until the sixth game before he could play.

At that time, it was still a question whether the Trail Blazers could return to Houston.

Injuries are inevitable during the playoff journey. Throughout the season, Drexler has been troubled by foot injuries, and his attendance rate is sometimes good and sometimes bad. No one wants to have such a situation in the high-intensity playoffs, but it happened after all.

Now the situation of the Trail Blazers has become extremely bad. Drexler is the key point of the team's outside tactics and is a very important core player. Without Drexler, the Trail Blazers have suffered at least in fast break, breakthrough, rebound protection and other aspects.

The Trail Blazers, who already lack athletic ability, lacked the strongest assault points on the outside, which can be said to be a step further.

On May 17, the fourth game started at the Peak Arena.

In order to deal with Drexler's sudden injury, Ramsey pushed Jerome Cauchy to the starter after some consideration, and Jim Paxson continued to be the sixth man.

Cauchy has athletic ability that is no less than Drexler and has better defense, but he does not have Drexler's offensive talent at all, and the burden of offense is more pressing on Gan Guoyang and Van dervich.

As in the last game, the Rockets let Ralph Sampson play against Gan Guoyang, with the front and back cover, and at all costs, preventing Gan Guoyang from getting high scores.

Gan Guoyang made a desperate bet and attacked the inside with the ball throughout the game. He scored 25 points in the first half, allowing the Trail Blazers to lead into the second half.

But the crazy scoring in the first half cost Gan Guoyang a lot of energy. He spent a lot of energy on every attack on the offensive end, and his tasks on the defensive end were also extremely heavy. Mitchell Sampson was unlikely to deal with Ralph alone, because Ralph Sampson began to use more jump shots in the face basket against Mitchell. He and Olajuwon no longer used double low posts, but used high and low posts to increase the flexibility of the offensive.

Gan Guoyang won double forty in the last playoffs, facing veteran Jill Moore. He felt very tired after the game. Now, against Olajuwon and Sampson, no matter how physically he is, he shot 18 times in the half, and most of them are singles, and he feels unbearable. This is the Western Conference Finals.

In the second half, Gan Guoyang's physical strength problems began to be exposed. He could still support it in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, he finally couldn't hold on. His offensive shooting rate plummeted. The Rockets' high-intensity defense that the Rockets fought for a game finally had an effect.

Without Drexler, the Trail Blazers' offense lacked a link to the inside and outside lines. Gan Guoyang and Van dervich all showed 120% offensive ability in the first three quarters, but in the fourth quarter, the fatigue caused by too many singles and the poor performance of the role players made the Trail Blazers thunder.

Just like the first game between the two teams, the Rockets resisted three quarters and collapsed in the last quarter. The Trail Blazers, who had resisted for 35 minutes in this game, were finally defeated. The Rockets suddenly had a 12:0 climax, widening the gap between the two sides to 11 points.

The Trail Blazers, who had originally maintained the lead in the first half, were then eroded by the advantage a little bit, fell in the Rockets' fatal wave of attacks - they could not resist the Rockets' continuous impact, and they were all taken over the outside line in one step. Even if it was Thousand-Armed Guanyin in Gan Guoyang, there were two big Buddhas on the opposite side!

I am powerless to turn the world back!

The Trail Blazers, who lacked the generals, finally lost 107:119 in the fourth away game. After winning the first stop of the Western Conference Finals, they encountered the same situation as the Lakers and lost three consecutive times.

It's only a game away from being eliminated.

Gan Guoyang scored 41 points, 17 rebounds, 3 blocks, Van dervic scored 29 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, but the other players were in no state, and their overall performance was not as good as the Rockets, so they could only swallow the bitter fruit of failure.

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"The Trail Blazers are about to encounter the fate of the Lakers, and the Rockets' two towers are unstoppable."

"The Trail Blazers lost the general, and the Rockets won three consecutive games."

"The semi-finals repeat? Can the Trail Blazers regain their confidence?"

………

After the game, the media focused on the Western Conference Finals. After all, the Eastern Conference Finals were really not interesting on the other side, and it was only a matter of time before the Celtics entered the finals.

Now it seems that the Rockets are close to the finals. Many newspaper editors have begun to write articles to recall the finals in 1981. The Rockets also defeated the Lakers and led a super center.

In the past few years in the West, it seems that the Rockets are the biggest hard-working for the Lakers.

For the Trail Blazers? Sorry, I'm here again next year, or Gan has tried his best, but he is not good enough, or the Trail Blazers are just a regular season team, etc...

Of course, this is just the part of criticism. No matter whether you win or lose, there will always be criticism voices, so there are naturally also optimists of the pioneers.

The media in Portland agreed this time that Portland still has hope, and the Trail Blazers have not been eliminated, and there are also examples of people who have fallen behind 1:3 and are taking over again, such as the Lakers in 1970.

Chamberlain is also paying attention to this series. In an interview with a media outlet in San Francisco, he said that he believes the Trail Blazers will enter the finals and that he will go to the scene to watch Gan Guoyang's game.

Gan Guoyang had no idea about all this, because after the fourth game, he entered the state of preparing for the next game with all his might and began to study the video carefully, and communicated with Ramsey and Bellman how to crack the Rockets' defense.

Yes, negative and indulging is meaningless. If you lose, you lose. As long as the series is not over, you must continue to fight. This is what Gan Guoyang thinks.

In fact, if Drexler is there in the fourth game, the Trail Blazers will have a great chance to win, because Gan Guoyang and Van derwich are in good shape, and what they lack is the third attack point and the ball-holding breakthrough player. Drexler can do both.

However, Drexler has to pay in Game 6, and whether the Trail Blazers can survive Game 5 is a question. The Lakers' painful lesson was bloody.

Gan Guoyang is very calm, but some people are not calm, such as Gan Youyi.

Starting from the playoffs, the Gan Family Restaurant closed on time at 7 o'clock every night, and the whole family gathered around the TV to watch the Trail Blazers' game - although everyone in the Gan Family is a basketball fan, as long as Gan Guoyang is on the court, the whole family will cheer for him.

They naturally watched the Western Conference Finals. The family was excited after the end of the first game, but a week later, watching the Trail Blazers lose one after another until they fall 1:3. Gan Youwei was most worried about not the winner of the Trail Blazers, but about Gan Guoyang, like he did in high school, fell into a low point because of the loss.

So, when the game ended and Gan Guoyang returned to Portland with the team, Gan Youwei's phone call came to Gan Guoyang's Portland residence in Portland at night.

"Guoyang, have you eaten?"

"I've eaten it a long time ago. It's almost time for me. I'm still calling here so late."

"Where is it late? I'm just off work now. Many people come to have midnight snacks at night."

"What are you doing? Get off early? My cousin said you can rest and eat shares and play mahjong, and you don't lack money. Don't get tired of yourself!"

"It's okay, we'll close the door when you have a game. After these two days, we'll get back the business... This is the business, there are losses and wins, so we have to fight for a little profit. If you lose, you can make money again next time you do business. If you make money, you have to make more money. Well, anyway, you must have a good attitude. Remember to keep a normal mind!"

Gan Youwei talks about the principle of doing business from closing hotels, but in fact he wants to tell Gan Guoyang that victory or defeat is common in military affairs. If you lose, you will lose. Come again next time, but don’t bother yourself.

However, Gan Youwei didn't know how to speak directly. He was afraid of touching the pain of Gan Guoyang, so he went around in circles, which made Gan Guoyang feel a little amused and laughed. He talked to him about doing business.

But after hearing Gan Youwei's words, Gan Guoyang felt warm. He suddenly thought of the scene when Gan Youwei called to ask about it after losing the California championship in high school, and his nose became a little sore again.

"Okay, Dad, I'm fine. I'm not a child anymore. I didn't lose the final last year. Winning and defeat are common in military affairs. I understand. And the game is not over yet, don't give me a vaccination."

"Yes, the game is not over yet, come on!" Gan Youwei also encouraged Gan Guoyang and hung up the phone at Gan Guoyang's urging.

After making the call, Gan Guoyang lay down heavily on the sofa. Although he said it was okay and was preparing for the fifth game after the game, Gan Guoyang also admitted in his heart that the other Trail Blazers players were almost distracted. If they were slightly hit in the next game, such as 10 points behind in the half, the team would be as disbanded as last year.

So, if you want to win tomorrow, you must have a big victory to turn the momentum around. Otherwise, it will be really difficult to fight in a staggering battle without Drexler's Trail Blazers.

But if you want a team that is behind 1:3, it is not easy to defeat your opponent.

Until now, Gan Guoyang has no idea how to crack the Rockets' defensive strategy against him.

At this time, the phone at home rang again.

"Hey, Forrest Gump." It was Wang Fuxi's voice.

"What's wrong, Fuxi."
Chapter completed!