Competitive sports have a warm side, but competitive sports show more about its cruel side. No matter how enthusiastic and touching the pre-match ceremony is, how warm the embrace is, when players take off their sportswear and stand on the field, everything will change, fans will become crazy, players will become rough, and coaches will start roaring.

After losing three home games, the Lakers' enthusiasm for facing the Trail Blazers has been wiped out. The Magician is still a Magician. No one in the Trail Blazers can stop him, and Gan Guoyang cannot do it either. His skills are so proficient and superb. He has reached his peak and is unstoppable on the back line.

However, the Lakers' old frontcourt turned into decay in the face of the vigorous Trail Blazers' inside. The experience and skills they could have relied on were not displayed in this game. Gan Guoyang did not match Jabbar in the game, and Adelman continued to let Sabonis "level up" on Jabbar.

If Jabbar is younger, there is no need to be more. As long as he is 5 years old, he will not dare to let Sabonis fight against Jabbar easily. His experience, footsteps and unstoppable sky hook will make Sabonis understand what is the most difficult offensive technique on earth. But Jabbar is 42 years old and the second oldest player in NBA history (the first is the head coach of a team, who temporarily joined the team for a few minutes. At that time, he was already fifty or sixty). Every technical move of his work looks like he is doing slow motion. The young Sabonis is like a moving city gate always stuck in front of Jabbar. He also learned a set of single defense skills from Gan Guoyang, blocking, pushing, and pushing. He didn't care at all that he was a veteran who had been fighting for 20 years.

"Jabbar hooked up and was blocked by Sabonis! Gan got the ball and passed it to Cauchy for a long time. Cauchy handed it to Porter. Porter successfully made a layup. Oh, Jabbar was still on the ground and did not get up." The anchor Seanley, who was on the scene, saw Sabonis giving Jabbar a big hat on the defensive end. Because the ball was too powerful, he knocked Jabbar to the ground, and Gan Guoyang used this to launch a fast attack.

When Porter hit the ball, Gan Guoyang stepped forward and tried to help Jabbar up, but Jabbar did not hold Gan Guoyang back, but shook his hand at him, then he stood on the floor and got up from the ground and started to attack again.

At this time, Jabbar was still so arrogant. In fact, at every away ceremony, Jabbar mostly had serious expressions. This taciturn giant always retained his inner persistence for victory and his love for basketball.

"Jabbar got the ball in the three-second zone again, turned around and deceived Sabonis, hit with his left hand, and Jabbar returned one!" Jabbar, who had just been blocked, immediately turned around and returned one on Sabonis' head. After scoring the goal, he raised his head high and ran back to the backcourt with big steps.

This is a goal in the third quarter of the game. The Lakers were already 12 points behind the Trail Blazers at this time. From the second quarter, they were about ten behind the Trail Blazers, and then they chased after them. The Lakers never could use offensive attack waves to smooth out or narrow the score difference. The Magicians can always create good scoring conditions for their teammates, but they could not defend against the Trail Blazers' offense.

The Trail Blazers' offensive end switches reasonably between team offense and "Drexler-Gan Guoyang Duoman". Whenever the Lakers have a momentum, Gan Guoyang and Drexler will use their personal abilities and double-player cooperation to suppress this momentum, which keeps the Lakers in a state of being suppressed.

In the final stage of the fourth quarter, the Lakers launched the final counterattack. The Magic finally began to take the ball and attack by himself. The Drexler, who was facing him, could not limit the Magic's breakthrough at all. The Magic scored two consecutive three-pointers, causing fouls between Drexler and Gan Guoyang respectively.

With the Magician's extra penalty hit, the difference between the two sides suddenly narrowed to 6 points.

The pressure of the Trail Blazers increased. Adelman called for a timeout to adjust the offensive strategy. Just when everyone thought Gan Guoyang was going to take over the game, Riley also defended Gan Guoyang. However, after Gan Guoyang returned to the court, he now transferred the ball in a large range. The ball passed through the basket and flew to the bottom line on the right. There was Terry Porter waiting for the run. Porter took the ball and took action directly outside the three-point line. The ball was hollowed into the net, and a simple and straightforward cooperation stabilized the situation.

Then, the Magician once again attacked the inside line, and no one in the Trail Blazers could stop the Magician from moving the ball up. His rhythm control was too good, and Gan Guoyang could not accurately measure his pace and the center of gravity was shook over. The Magician cleverly picked up the basket with a backhand.

Since the 1987 season, Johnson has taken on more scoring responsibilities as Jabbar ages. In 1987, he also increased his personal score to 23 points per game, up by 5 points from last season. He began to use his score more in the game to take over the game.

His speed, strength, and explosive power are not top among black players, but each one is excellent, while his dribbling feeling, fake movements, rhythm control and hand skills are amazing. Coupled with his huge pass threat and body advantage, it is difficult for his opponent to stop him when he wants to control the game at the last moment.

Tonight is no exception. The Magician has scored 10 points in the fourth quarter, which makes the hearts of all the fans of the Memorial Stadium hang up.

The score difference reached 7 points, and there were more than three minutes left in the end of the game. The Trail Blazers had to score another goal. This time, Gan Guoyang was seriously double-teamed, with three double-teaming, and the Lakers also began to roam on the brink of illegal defense.

This time, facing multiple double-teams, the Trail Blazers players showed a different reaction from the past. Whenever Gan Guoyang encountered double-teams in January, the Trail Blazers players would fall into a state of hesitation. Tactics, responses, and personal attacks would be slower. Now they have successfully adjusted. Once Gan Guoyang is double-teamed, the other four people will immediately enter the strong offensive mode. Gan Guoyang throws the ball to anyone who is under the hands of the hand, attacks by himself, not passing the ball, not cooperating, and not giving the opponent's defender the opportunity to rotate and adjust.

This time, Cauchy got the ball and rushed straight to the basket from the right side. AC Green came back to make up for the defense and wanted to make Cauchy an offensive foul, but he was one step slower. The referee blew up and blocked AC, and Cauchy went to the free throw line.

In the first free throw, Cauchy made a steady shot, and the difference reached eight points.

In the second free throw, Cauchy knew it was going to be bad as the attack was too small.

"Rebound!" Cauchy shouted at the free throw line.

Drexler suddenly came out and jumped before everyone. Everyone below looked up and saw a figure flying in the air. He happened to catch the basketball that bounced from the basket and dunked the ball into the basket with one hand!

The Memorial Stadium was in a huge hustle and bustle. Drexler's goal declared the Lakers' death penalty in this game, 10 points and two minutes, unless a miracle happens, the Trail Blazers do not allow the miracle to happen here.

The game ended with Porter's delay time, at 122:112, the Trail Blazers beat the Los Angeles Lakers for the fourth time this season with a 10-year advantage. This has never been encountered by the Lakers since 1980. The Lakers' era of dominance in the West may really end. Of course, everything will not be truly decided until three months later in the playoffs.

Gan Guoyang scored 25 points, 15 rebounds, 5 blocks, 5 steals and 5 assists in the whole game, and of course, there were 5 fouls in the end.

After a few games, the Trail Blazers slowly solved several problems, and the team's confidence was improved under the leadership of Gan Guoyang; Gan Guoyang encountered the problem of double-teaming, and other players used more resolute personal attacks to make any team's double-teaming cost; in the problem of three-point defense, Adelman remained unchanged, betting on the feel, and counterattacked, and few teams could really kill the Trail Blazers with three-pointers.

Now, the Trail Blazers are facing the last problem, which is the problem of the sixth man leading the second team. After many sixth man games, Buck Williams performed well in all aspects, defense, second-line leader, and inside attack points. The only problem is that as a sixth man, his firepower is still insufficient, and Drexler or Porter must be on the field to cooperate. There is no third attack point on the back line that can provide enough points.

As a substitute point guard, Danny Young has a good ability to dispatch on the court, shoot at an open space, and has poor independent offense. Substitute shooting guard Jim Paxson has been injured and has not played for many games, and his performance this season is also average, no longer the style of the past All-Star.

In addition, looking around, there is no more reliable backcourt player on the Trail Blazers' bench, which is in sharp contrast to the Trail Blazers' extremely powerful frontcourt. In fact, one of the reasons why the Trail Blazers are afraid of three-pointers is that there are too few talents available in the backcourt. Drexler and Porter are only running around the outside, so they will definitely not be able to stand it.
Chapter completed!