On February 18, 1971, the Portland Trail Blazers faced the Los Angeles Lakers at the home memorial gymnasium. This was a game without any suspense. The new league team of the Trail Blazers lost without any suspense against the Lakers who had Chamberlain and West.

However, this ordinary game left a slogan for the Trail Blazers, "Rip-City".

At that time, Jim Barnett, the No. 2 scorer in the Trail Blazers, made a shocking long shot in the game, with such a long shooting distance and such a high shooting arc.

It was a bad shooting choice, and it was a bad game for the Trail Blazers, but Barnet hit this super long shot!

The moment the basketball was hollowed into the net, the team's commentator Seanley felt that the team had hope of defeating the powerful Lakers. He was extremely excited and shouted, "RipCity! Good!"

Of course, the Trail Blazers still lost the game, and Seanley couldn't tell how he thought of this slogan at that time and what it meant.

But for some reason, this phrase has been passed down and has since become synonymous with Trail Blazers basketball.

In the broadcast of the game after S Seanley, whenever the Trail Blazers make an exciting good goal or hit a key shot, he will yell "RipCity!".

Now, RipCity has become the symbol and synonym for the only important professional sports league team in Portland, almost as famous as the previous city's nickname The RoseCity.

In this game, Gan Guoyang's opening steal dunk instantly triggered the memorial gymnasium, and the slogan of "Rip-City" resounded throughout the stadium.

After Gan Guoyang drew the ball, he ran to Aquili and said, "You-are-Welcome! (No need to thank you!)"

Aquili is not a player who is easy to mess with. His best friend in the league is Isiah Thomas. The two were rookies in the same year in 1981. Aquili was the No. 1 pick and Thomas was the No. 2 pick.

Like Thomas, Aquili was vindictive when facing the opponent's provocation. He quickly got to the low position on the left, Davis dribbled the ball through half and passed the ball to Aquili.

It was not small forward Van der Van verge on defense against Aquili, but power forward Kenny Carr.

Like his contemporary powerful small forward Danteley and Worthy, Aquili also has outstanding low-post singles skills. Even though he is only about 6-foot-4, his strong physique can always win him enough room to attack.

Sure enough, Aquili received the pass steadily at the low post, twisted his butt, turned over and jumped directly into the inside!

"Swish!" The ball was hollow into the basket!

Although Kenny Carl has an absolute advantage in height and wingspan, Aquili won quickly, and Aquili has a very strong position and is calm in his shooting, so he can naturally hit the ball, 2:2.

"Run-Run-Run!" As soon as Aquili scored, Ramsey began to urge the players to run quickly, and Drexler, who was in charge of the ball, also ran wildly with the ball.

Since Drexler became the starter, he and Valentine often take turns controlling the ball, which is very similar to the Celtics.

Drexler is fast and has a strong impact. He often uses fast counterattacks when he controls the ball.

"Drexler, he rushed into the three-second zone with the ball and made a layup! The ball didn't make a splash! The ball was in! The foul caused Bryant to foul!"

Gan Guoyang's other dunk! This time he also scored a frontcourt rebound!

Before the game, Ramsey asked to play a shock, increase breakthroughs, and not give up the rush of frontcourt rebounds.

For Drexler, breaking through in positional battles is his weakness. He is not skilled in changing directions and low-speed dribbling, but his straight dribbling speed is extremely fast and almost unstoppable.

After he rushed to the Mavericks' three-second zone, three Mavericks immediately surrounded him to prevent Drexler from scoring easily in the inside.

Drexler's layup was disturbed by the opponent and failed to put it in, but the Mavericks also missed Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang jumped and grabbed the ball in the air with one hand and stuffed the ball into the basket!

Bryant pushed Gan Guoyang in vain and was called a foul.

"Two consecutive dunks, Gan looks full of fighting spirit! Let's see his free throw... hitting 5:2, and the Trail Blazers lead by 3 points."

"Keep-Move, Keep-Move (move!)" Gan Guoyang returned to the defensive end and shouted loudly. He only knew the Blazers' defensive line, and they used a tight man-marking defense at the opening.

The Mavericks are a team that relies heavily on outside attacks. Their two major scoring points are Aquili and Blackman. In the last game, it was because Paxson could not keep up with Blackman that he was beaten by the Mavericks in the backcourt.

After conducting several times, the Mavericks found that there was no chance. The Trail Blazers' defense was extremely strict and added a lot of physical contact, which was completely different from the defense in the previous game.

Seeing that he couldn't open, Aquili made a cross-swap with Perkins and suddenly got stuck at a very deep position on the right low. Davis stuffed the ball in again.

This time, Kenny Carl fought hard as if she was playing sumo wrestling and wanted to destroy Aquili's balance. After Aquili took the ball, her face almost touched Carl's chest.

But after shaking and adjusting for a few times, Aquili still threw the ball out.

The ball drew a high arc. Gan Guoyang, who came to repair the defense behind Carl, jumped up and wanted to cover the ball, but the basketball still slashed through Gan Guoyang's fingertips and flew towards the basket.

"Swish!" The ball scored again! Like Gan Guoyang, Aquili also scored two goals in a row!

"Dame! (Damn it!)" Gan Guoyang took the ball and slapped hard.

In the last game, Aquili and Gan Guoyang were both treated with special treatment. In this game, Ramsey decided not to double-team Aquili, so Aquili succeeded in two singles.

The Mavericks seem to have not changed their defensive strategy against Gan Guoyang. When Gan Guoyang came to the offense and asked for the ball at a low post, the Mavericks' outside defenders were ready to move. Once Gan Guoyang received the ball, they would definitely go forward to double-team.

But Gan Guoyang was still extremely determined to ask for the ball, and Valentine also hung the ball to Gan Guoyang. As soon as Gan Guoyang got the ball, Davis, who was defending Valentine, immediately came to harass the double team.

Gan Guoyang did not hesitate and threw the ball back to Valentine with one hand. Valentine took the ball and took a step in, came to the three-point line to make a move to shoot, and Davis came back to make up for defense.

But Valentin did not shoot, but passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, who was stuck deeper. After the ball was in and out, it was stuffed inside.

This time, Gan Guoyang will not pass the ball again. Bryant, who was defending him, had been squeezed by Gan Guoyang and lost his defensive position. After Gan Guoyang received the ball, he turned around quickly and completely threw Bryant away!

There is no defense at the Mavericks' basket! At the same time, no one dares to lay down to make up for defense, because when you go up to make up for defense, it will only give away points.

"Bang!" Another one-handed dunk! The entire basket was bent, and a painful moan was made, Gan Guoyang's third dunk!

"Good-move! (Beautiful footsteps!) Gan scored 7 points in a row after the opening game, and he only scored 8 points in the last game. Gan's heart was undoubtedly burning with a raging flame, and he was using a dunk to vent his anger."

However, Gan Guoyang was not angry. He was extremely calm and focused at the same time, and nothing outside the game could interfere with him.

So Gan Guoyang did not notice that Wang Fuxi was sitting near the bench and cheering for Gan Guoyang's goal with the audience around him!

Gan Guoyang's continuous dunks after the opening game quickly made the temperature of the Memorial Stadium hot. The failure of the previous game did not disappoint the fans. They still poured into the stadium to cheer for the Trail Blazers.

"The enthusiasm of the fans on the scene made me feel extremely stressed. When I sat in this position, I could feel the huge sound from the back. From the first ball, the sound waves never stopped... Ao! Gan, covered Blackman's layup! He nailed the ball to the rebound!"

This time, Aquili was no longer able to attack at a low post because Gan Guoyang began to expand his defense to the outside, blocking the Mavericks' pass line inward.

In this way, the Trail Blazers' inside line became empty. In the last game, Blackman, who was powerful, seized the opportunity to rush inward and directly attacked the basket.

But he bumped into Gan Guoyang, who was in good shape. In the preparations for yesterday's game, the whole team carefully studied the Mavericks' offense.

The Mavericks have two powerful outside singles players, Blackman and Aquili, both of whom are proficient in jump shots, Aquili is stronger at low posts, and Blackman's breakthrough is more sharp.

How to limit the two people to the greatest extent has become a key factor in whether the Trail Blazers can suppress the Mavericks.

Gan Guoyang's nail-board blocking undoubtedly announced to the Mavericks' players: "The Trail Blazers' penalty area is not so easy to enter!"

However, Gan's performance did not end there. He took the rebound and observed it. He had seen Drexler running towards the front court!

"Gan's long pass! The whole game across the domain came to Drexler. Drexler made a quick break, the glider took off, and the dunk! The ball entered! Unstoppable! Unstoppable!"

Drexler's quick counterattack can make all opponents desperate. Once he lowers his head and starts to rush to the opponent's half, the opponent should lose points. When fans see it, they know that the "glider" is about to take off!

"Well-done! (Beautiful!)" Gan Guoyang stepped forward and slapped Drexler hard. The cooperation of the two young players made people see the hope of Portland in the future.

"Bee!" The head coach of the Mavericks immediately called a timeout. Although the score difference was only five points, the Blazers were too imposing and had to pause and adjust it.
Chapter completed!