After a season of blending, Gan Guoyang had reached a remarkable level of tacit understanding with his teammates regarding when and how to make solo plays.
He always managed to deliver lethal blows to the opponents with highly efficient one-on-one plays at exactly the right moments and crucial tempos.
Pat Riley once had such a two-point low-post scoring machine at his disposal, but now this machine had aged, and its energy contribution had significantly dwindled.
Meanwhile, Gan Guoyang was entering his peak, and with the addition of this season's rules, he was unstoppable, continually inflicting substantial damage on opponents.
During the timeout, Riley was at a loss for words. He kept scratching his forehead, drawing a strategy on the clipboard, erasing it, drawing again, then erasing it once more.
