Chapter 114 Old friends meet
(As I was writing, I found that there were many more memes buried. The four or five volumes of the relevant content will be added in a few days.)
Gan Guoyang had just escaped from the shadow of his failure against the Lakers, but found that he was going to play against the Lakers again.
In the NCAA, a battle of revenge may take a whole year to prepare for, and there will never be a chance of revenge, because so many teams have very few opportunities to meet in the NCAA national games.
But in the NBA, teams in the same division have to play 5 to 6 games with each other every season, such as this season, where there are 6 regular season games between the Trail Blazers and the Lakers.
In the playoffs, it is possible to usher in a seven-game battle in a row. The saying "I will repay you sooner or later when I come out" is fulfilled every year in the NBA.
For example, after returning from Los Angeles, the opponent the Trail Blazers had to face at home was the Phoenix Suns who had played three overtimes with them.
After returning to Portland in the early morning of November 5, Gan Guoyang returned home and ran on the treadmill at home for three hours to punish himself for his "mistake" of missing all three shots in the game against the Lakers.
In the afternoon, he was the first to arrive at the training hall and performed basic hook and jump shot practice in the hall.
Drexler, who followed closely behind, arrived at the stadium more than an hour later.
On the morning of November 6, the team conducted another team offensive and defensive training to prepare for the evening game against the Suns.
On November 1, the three-overtime game was a huge battle of attrition. In that game, the Trail Blazers' inside line was broken by Larry Nance, leaving him alone to score 44 points.
Gan Guoyang did not get much chance to play in regular time, but he repeatedly hit the ball in overtime and hit the key goal in the third overtime, which allowed the Trail Blazers to narrowly defeat the Suns with one point of 140:139 and steal a victory from Phoenix City.
After experiencing two Los Angeles battles, Gan Guoyang has gained Ramsey's trust and is no longer a pseudo-starter, but has become the main force of the team.
Before the game, Gan Guoyang even volunteered to defend Larry Nans and prevent him from traveling back and forth in the Trail Blazers penalty area.
Larry Nance is most well-known because he used a one-arm loop to dunk in the 1984 All-Star Competition, and became the first dunk king.
Nansi is very similar to Gan Guoyang in terms of figure. Both are 6-foot-10, have broad shoulders, and long arms, but the two are indeed completely different types of players.
Gan Guoyang is a center forward. He has power beyond imagination and solid low-post skills. He always seems to be one number smaller than others in the center position, but anyone who dares to ignore him will pay a heavy price.
Larry Nancy is a power forward, but has the speed and agility that ordinary power forwards do not have. People remember his dunk more. In fact, he is also an excellent blocker and mid-range pitcher.
In the game against the Trail Blazers on November 1, he used a block-down-dunk to hit the Trail Blazers again and again, allowing Drexler to see what a fucking fast break is.
He made 18 of 29 shots in the game and scored 44 points. No other Suns scored more than 20 points, and almost led the Suns to defeat the Trail Blazers alone.
But in the overtime, Gan Guoyang was the main defense of Nansi, and he could no longer fly around the Trail Blazers' basket without any restraint. Even if Gan Guoyang made a foul, he had to pull the flying Nansi down face to face.
He also used his fatal hook to give the Suns a heavy blow, causing the Suns to lose at home with one point.
Five days later, the Suns visited Portland. Both teams happened to have four wins and one loss, tied for the first place in the West. In this game on November 6, a team was destined to have a second defeat.
Nansbon thought of avenging the loss of overtime away from home, but Sir should not be treated with admiration for three days. He did not expect that after two games, Gan Guoyang was no longer the naughty young man who was almost sent off for five fouls in overtime.
From the first offense and defense of the game, Gan Guoyang's center started to misalign the defense Larry Nans. Larry Nans' arms were long, Gan Guoyang's arms were longer; Larry Nans could jump, but Gan Guoyang was so crowded that he couldn't let you jump.
Gan Guoyang no longer competes for every goal. He will follow the goals that Nans must score and will not foul it casually.
But it is even more difficult for Nance to find such an easy opportunity to score.
Gan Guoyang ran to high positions more during the offense, always retreating and defending as soon as possible, and delaying the Suns' fast attack advancement as soon as possible.
Nans was like a wild horse covered with reins, and he could no longer indulge in the game. He only scored 12 points in this game, and his shooting percentage was 40%.
On the Trail Blazers, facing the Suns' relaxed defense, Van derwich fired shots again, making 13 of 18 shots, and efficiently scoring 29 points with a shooting percentage of 72%.
Relatively speaking, Drexler was much more depressed. Paxson was still the main starting player. He only got 15 minutes of playing time, and most of it was in garbage time.
The game lost its suspense in the third quarter. In the end, the Trail Blazers easily defeated the Suns with a 118:95 and 23 points at home, and their record of five wins and one loss continued to top the Western Conference.
Gan Guoyang scored 15 points and 15 rebounds in Double 15 statistics, and worked diligently to assist. In the interview after the game, "I think you don't need to take a shower after the game."
The unspeakable Nans said after the game, "Sunny-Gump, SuperStar." (Gan Guoyang, superstar.)
Before he could recall the joy after the big victory, the No. 7 Trail Blazers flew to the Denver Plateau in a plane, playing against Van derwich's old club, the Denver Nuggets at the McNichols Stadium.
This summer, the Trail Blazers and Denver completed a big deal. Van derwich, who traded to the Trail Blazers, shone in the start of the season, repeatedly hitting high scores.
The Denver Nuggets did not change their crazy playing style because they lost their number one scorer. They still adhere to the principle of offense first and use a never-stop and tide-like attack to destroy all the teams that block them.
On the day when the Trail Blazers and the Suns played, on November 6, the Denver Nuggets defeated the Los Angeles Lakers at 148:130 away, which was shocking.
Back at home, Denver fans welcomed their old friend Van derwich, who also received applause from Denver fans at the opening.
This is the second time Gan Guoyang has experienced the pain of plateau combat. When he was playing 32-to-16 in Salt Lake City and the miners at Texas El Paso, the two teams fought on the oxygen-deficient plateau, and the final score was 35:30.
This score is simply the first quarter score between the Nuggets and the Trail Blazers.
In this game, the two sides fought until the last moment. Gan Guoyang was in excellent condition and was almost not double-teamed by the Nuggets. He scored 15 points on 7 of 8 shots and scored 13 rebounds.
But the Trail Blazers' defense was terrible, especially when the guy Inglish shot 45 points with a dull forward master's shot, allowing him to score consecutively in the fourth quarter.
Gan Guoyang failed to get the ball at a critical moment, and Sampson took the main shot. He made 22 shots and 15 shots to score a game-high 32 points, but missed a key shot in the fourth quarter, which made the Trail Blazers lose to the Denver Nuggets 126:128 away.
After the game, Gan Guoyang was very dissatisfied with his failure to get more shots. He also hoped that Drexlerdo could play on the court to defend Inglish, rather than letting Van dervich, the colander to face his old teammates.
However, after the game with the Lakers, the relationship between Gan Guoyang and Ramsey became much closer. Gan Guoyang had more respect for the old coach, so he did not burst out his bad emotions.
After one win and one loss, the Trail Blazers will welcome the Los Angeles Lakers who come from afar at their home court.
Just one week passed in the last battle, and before Gan Guoyang's anger towards the Lakers had dissipated, the two teams met again.
Gan Guoyang, a guy who never looks at the schedule, did not expect to play against the Lakers again so soon, but he did not expect that he, who scored 39 points in the last game, could only score 19 points in the face of the Lakers a week later.
19 points, 8 of 22 shots, and scored 17 rebounds, which is a great enough data for a rookie.
However, he scored 20 points less than the previous game, shot only 36%, and only got 5 free throw opportunities. This performance, coupled with the Trail Blazers' 124:130 loss to the Lakers, is no less than a disaster for Gan Guoyang.
He felt extremely frustrated. In his heart, he had long regarded the Lakers, Jabbar and Magic Johnson as his biggest opponents, but he found that although the score of the game has always been close, the situation has always been controlled by the Lakers.
The Magic used 15 assists and 15 points on 6 of 7 shots to control the rhythm of the entire game in an understatement.
Riley's double-team against Gan Guoyang from beginning to end made Gan Guoyang extremely difficult every time he made Gan Guoyang's move, and he only gave two assists in the whole game.
After the game, Gan Guoyang locked himself in the locker room alone, refused to participate in the post-match press conference, and refused all interviews from reporters.
Obviously, his performance will soon be criticized by the media. The local media in Portland are quite gentle and friendly, while the newspapers in Los Angeles will not be polite.
These newspapers that are accustomed to turning black and white have begun to portray Gan Guoyang as a cancerous image of "only entering but not leaving", which is also their old trick.
However, the schedule of the professional competition made Gan Guoyang no time to soothe his unwillingness and sadness. He would never lose a game like in high school. He would take a week to recover, and lose a championship and heal him for a month.
He was forced to build himself into Prometheus on the Caucasus Mountains. No matter how the evil eagle pecked at his organs, he had to recover as quickly as possible.
And he knew that the most important thing he should do was to refuse to fail, shoot the Eagle, and turn himself into Heracles!
In the next game against the Golden State Warriors and the Dallas Mavericks, Gan Guoyang scored 25 points in two consecutive games and had a high shooting percentage.
But the Trail Blazers still cannot solve the defensive problem in the small forward position. In the game against the Warriors, Warriors small forward Prous Sauter scored 48 points, making Van derwich a scumbag.
The Trail Blazers won the game at home with the performance of Gan Guoyang and Paxson.
Another problem arose when playing against the Dallas Mavericks, that is, the contradiction between Drexler and Ramsey.
Drexler could no longer bear Ramsey's use of himself for more than ten minutes every game, and had a verbal conflict with Ramsey. Gan Guoyang was caught in the middle and was not a human being.
In this game, starting shooting guard Jim Paxson performed well again, scoring 27 points to help the Trail Blazers win this victory, and his starting position was once again consolidated.
Drexler was pressed on the bench and did not get a minute of playing time, and the conflict between Drexler and Ramsey further intensified.
After nearly half a month of the new season, Gan Guoyang began to discover in the Trail Blazers that professional basketball teams and college basketball teams are really different.
The university basketball team is a student sports team. The coach is equivalent to the teacher of the players. It is natural for students to listen to the teacher. If there are disobedient students, the teacher can punish him.
Professional teams are like a big company, with players and coaches working for their bosses, but the salary of the coach, a tactical commander, is much lower than that of the players.
Coaches often need to establish their own authority and require that players can obey their commands; while players receive higher salaries and will have opinions if they do not get enough opportunities.
There are countless conflicts between coaches and players, not to mention the conflicts and frictions between players.
Gan Guoyang thought that he would play well like in college and help the team win the game, but now it seems that it is too simple for him to think so.
However, the team still achieved an excellent record of 8 wins and 2 losses, and all contradictions and conflicts can be covered up under victory.
Next is the game that Gan Guoyang is most looking forward to but least looking forward to. On November 15, 1984, the Trail Blazers will face the Utah Jazz at home.
Gan Guoyang will play against his old teammate in college for the first time, John Stockton.
Stockton in history was selected by the Jazz in the 16th pick in 1984, and Gan Guoyang's arrival pushed Stockton to the NCAA national stage and also raised his draft prediction ranking a lot.
But Stockton still couldn't escape the fate of getting rid of the Jazz, because of Gan Guoyang.
Michigan State Center Kevin Willis, who was originally expected to get a relatively high pick, fell to 16th place before being picked up by the Jazz due to his arm span problem.
At that time, Gan Guoyang's huge power in the NCAA arena made the arm span an important factor in the draft that year. Willis's arm span was tragic to the same height as his, so the market naturally fell all the way.
The Hawks wanted to get Kevin Willis at the time, but they knew that the Jazz wanted Stockton, so they took the point guard early, then exchanged with the Jazz, and got some more chips.
Unfortunately, Jazz fans' reactions are still the same as in history. Even though Stockton had a wonderful performance in Salt Lake City, it still cannot stop fans from questioning him, a white point guard who cannot run fast and jump high.
In fact, Stockton's performance in the first ten games of the season did fulfill the doubts of fans. He did not get too many opportunities to play and could only contribute sporadic data in each game.
His performance is really too ordinary, not like a professional player.
So when Gan Guoyang saw Stock wearing ordinary clothes in the hotel where Jazz was staying, he felt that he was no different from a salesperson who sold a house in a real estate company.
"Hello, John."
“Good evening, sweet.”
"Why go to my house, it's not convenient to eat in public."
Chapter completed!