Chapter 41: Touchstone

```

The fourth quarter didn't turn into garbage time, as the home team, in order to do right by their fans, often rallied in the final period.

Coach McLeod was quite flexible with his strategy adjustments. Knowing they couldn't compete in the paint and were too sluggish for confrontation in the first three quarters, he relied heavily on Maxi and Humphries in the fourth.

True enough, the Suns spurred a comeback, closing the gap once again, reducing the difference to just 4 points at one stage, prompting Coach Jack Ramsey to call a timeout and harshly criticize the team's perimeter defense as a pile of shit.

Actually, if it weren't for Gan Guoyang, Ramsay wouldn't have thought so poorly of the perimeter defense; it was Guoyang's presence that highlighted its shortcomings.

The imbalance in defensive performance put considerable pressure on Guoyang inside, but fortunately, he was used to it from his high school days, and didn't feel his teammates were too weak.