This year, everyone knows how strong and at what level the Portland Trail Blazers are after playing against them.
77 wins and 5 losses? The Lakers see no chance of winning the series; winning even a single game would be considered a victory.
However, as people predicted before the series, no team this year could withstand the crushing power of the Portland Iron Cavalry.
The Lakers stand no hope; their lineup is well-structured but far from mature, unable to put up any effective resistance against the astonishingly powerful Trail Blazers.
In the two games in Portland, the Lakers were defeated by large margins, being fully dominated by the Trail Blazers.
On defense, they could not stop the sharp offense of the Blazers; on offense, even their strongest point, O'Neal, was completely restricted by Ah Gan.
Though O'Neal was guided in the first round, on the court, Gan Guoyang showed no mercy, guarding O'Neal one-on-one throughout the game.
