The game was thus delayed for about 15 minutes, giving players from both sides a chance to rest.
However, sometimes rest isn't necessarily a good thing. The state and feel that players have worked hard to maintain can easily be worn down and cooled off during rest.
Sure enough, as the game continued, both sides started to miss shots. Gan Guoyang missed two consecutive turnaround jump shots, and the Nuggets seized the opportunity to counterattack and tie the score.
Gan Guoyang once again called for the ball in the low post. After a fake move, Petrović didn't pass but instead drove to the basket, laying up against Mutombo's help defense!
The ball brushed past Mutombo's fingertips, bounced off the backboard, but failed to go in, hitting the front rim and bouncing out.
Gan Guoyang charged in from the back side, leaped up to dunk the rebound, scoring as Mutombo went to help on defense, leaving no one to guard Gan Guoyang.
