The Trail Blazers' first opponent in November was the Jazz from Utah Snow Mountain. Naturally, the friend Stockton from Gan Guoyang was visiting the team.

But this time, Stockton was no longer alone. He had a good partner in the future, the strong man named Carl Malone, the Jazz in the thirteenth pick.

Before the competition, Gan Guoyang spoke with Stockton on the phone, and Gan Guoyang naturally talked about Ma Long with Stockton. What surprised Gan Guoyang was that in Stockton's evaluation, Ma Long turned out to be a "crying guy".

"Yes, this guy calls his mother every day and tells her how bad Salt Lake City is. Well, I admit, this place is really bad, but it doesn't mean that she burst into tears as she talks, right?" Stockton preached to Gan Guoyang on the phone.

Gan Guoyang also knew that Stockton was not a mean person. He was very honest. He said so, which only proved that Carl Malone might be a crying person. This is really different from the future tough guy superstar in Gan Guoyang's impression.

However, superstars are not achieved in one day. Perhaps Carl Malone has not really become a professional player at this time. He is just a young man who has just graduated from college and is from rural Louisiana.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang can understand such a Malone, but what makes him regret is that in this game, Carl Malone failed to enter the team's roster due to the flu, so he could only sit off the court to watch the game.

"Damn guy, he may not miss one game if he plays for more than ten years. He just played four games, and he missed it when he got to me? Then I can only teach him a lesson next time." Gan Guoyang thought before the game. He originally wanted to teach Ma Long in the game.

This is Gan Guoyang's current mentality. He is no longer the time traveler who will be afraid of seeing the future superstar. He will look at their idols with the mentality of fans.

Standing on the basketball court, he is a member of the league's competitors. No matter who he comes to the Memorial Stadium, he will compete with him.

Before the game officially started, Gan Guoyang met the team's general manager Yinman outside the locker room. Yinman rarely appears in the locker room and other places. He likes to find an ordinary position in the stands to watch the game.

In Inman's view, the locker room should be a place controlled by the coach, so that the coach can be qualified and authorized to lead and direct players in the locker room, rather than letting the manager or boss interfere with the coach.

The last time Inman appeared in the locker room was in the playoffs when Paxson was in the playoffs. This time it was just an ordinary regular season game. Gan Guoyang didn't quite understand what Inman came here for.

When the players gathered together to encourage the game, Inman also stayed by the side and watched. However, head coach Ramsey played early and seemed unwilling to stand with Inman.

From this point of view, Gan Guoyang Energy shows that there seems to be some problems between Ramsey and Inman, and the entire Trail Blazers are also undercurrents. Every player can feel that something will happen to the team, but everyone pretends not to know and continue playing.

Gan Guoyang no longer thinks about these issues. He just wants to play well and play this game well. What he has to face is Mark Eaton's defense.

"Good evening everyone, another exciting night. Tonight we will bring us the Portland Trail Blazers against the Utah Jazz. The season has just begun, and the Trail Blazers have won all the first three games, while the Jazz have two wins and two losses. Let's see if the Jazz can escape from our home court and wait and see."

Seanley's voice sounded again, broadcasting the live game to thousands of households in Portland.

"Okay, the game is about to begin. Gan and Eaton stand in the middle circle. I will introduce the starting lineup of both sides to you later. Let's watch the jump ball first! Neither of them touched the ball, but Gan hit the ball when he fell, and the ball flew towards Drexler! Drexler took the ball and then directly made a fast break and made a layup! With a beautiful fast break, the Trail Blazers won the first goal!"

Gan Guoyang and Eaton jumped the ball and collided and squeezed each other, but neither of them touched the ball. However, Gan Guoyang reacted quickly and poked the ball out when he fell. After Drexler received the ball, he launched a fast attack and quickly scored two points for the Trail Blazers.

Some problems in the team have not had much impact on the players. After all, everyone is a professional player. The most important thing to know that the most important thing for you to make a living is to rely on your skills and performance on the court. So no matter what problems you have off the court, everyone can play together on the court.

Compared with last season, the Jazz have become younger in their lineup, with three young men stuffed into the starting lineup, namely Stockton, Carl Malone, and the Jazz shooting guard who invited Gan Guoyang to his home farm in the offseason, Bob Hansen.

Because Malone did not play in the flu, she could only sit off the court in casual outfit and watch her teammates play. So the starter of Malone was Bailey, also a second-year rookie.

Last season, relying on the double towers of Eaton and Pele, they even defeated the Rockets' double towers in the playoffs and successfully entered the second round, and then the Lakers were at the feet of the Lakers. Such a result is enough to show the power of the double towers on the defensive end.

However, Gan Guoyang has never been afraid of the twin towers.

In the first quarter, Gan Guoyang didn't need to be afraid of Eaton at all on the defensive end, so Ramsey handed over the task of defending Eaton to Sampson. As long as he was not allowed to receive the ball three feet below the basket, the offensive threat of this big mammoth was about zero.

Gan Guoyang, on the other hand, entered the center of defense, near the free throw line, and began to cooperate with outside players to solve the huge threat from Adrian Dantley at the low post.

Gan Guoyang always came as scheduled, which made Dantely very uncomfortable. The attack came too quickly, and Dantely even had difficulty thinking about how to transfer the ball, and he was not good at passing the ball at all.

Although such a defense allowed Bailey to pick up several gaps, the Trail Blazers undoubtedly stopped Dantley's performance in the first quarter.

At the same time, the Trail Blazers fully demonstrated their offensive advantages. Their fast attack was still so sharp and domineering. As Drexler's injury gradually improved, the rapid counterattack instigated by him was almost invincible.

The disadvantages of the Jazz's double towers were revealed. Their two inside players were really slow to retreat, while Stockton, Hansen and Dantley's defense was indeed not enough.

"Drexler took off the backcourt rebound and he was about to start again! I could feel that when he lowered his head and rushed forward, the temperature in the Memorial Stadium would rise by one to two degrees Celsius, which came from the gradually boiling blood of the fans... Two-on-two in the frontcourt, only Stockton and Hansen were there, Drexler passed the ball, passing it to Gan who followed later! Gan glided and dunked! The ball entered! It caused Stockton's foul!"

With Seanley's commentary, Drexler used a beautiful back pass to send the ball to Gan Guoyang who was following. Gan Guoyang did not dribble, so he jumped and dunked directly after receiving the ball. When he dunked, he put his left hand behind his head, looking like he was resting with his head on his back.

This action was learned by Gan Guoyang and Ma Long, and the original creator was plagiarized and still sat off the court to watch the game without knowing anything.

His other hand hit the ball into the basket. Stockton wanted to cause Gan Guoyang's offensive foul, but he was called to block it. Gan Guoyang also had to be punished.

"How could you want to stop me?" Gan Guoyang reached out and tried to help Stockton up, but Stockton did not hold Gan Guoyang's hand and stood up, but climbed up by himself.

"We are opponents now, Gan." Stockton said coldly.

Gan Guoyang nodded with a smile. He knew that Stockton was right. They were friends off the court, but they were opponents on the court. Maybe they would fight to the death in the playoffs in the future.

With Gan Guoyang making extra free throws, the Trail Blazers led the Jazz 10 points 30:20 in the first quarter, and then entered the lineup rotation period, and it was the substitutes' turn to play.

"Come on, Colt, stop being confused, what can I do, guys!" Gan Guoyang came off the court and photographed Steve Colt who was about to play. After being frozen by Ramsey in the last game, Ramsey gave him another chance to play in this game.

Gan Guoyang also hopes that Corte can get out of the shadow of drugs and return to the right track.

But when the game started again, Colte immediately gave Gan Guoyang a "warning" with a mistake.

"Corte was intercepted by Stockton. Stockton took the ball and made a layup with the ball. The unguarded empty basket scored two points, rewriting the score to 30:22. Colte has been in a bad state recently. Can he average one point per game? I think I can average two points per game with the help of the Blazers' powerful fast break system." Even Seanley began to tease Corte.

When the first quarter ended, the score between the two sides became 34:25, and the Trail Blazers still maintained their advantage. Sampson still used two inside goals on the court to stabilize the morale of the army.

After the start of the second quarter, the Trail Blazers took Sampson as the core and fought against the Jazz, and the defensive quality of both sides declined with the acceleration of speed.

This is beneficial to the Trail Blazers, which can maintain the advantage of the score and gain more rest time for the main players.

However, the Trail Blazers seem to be not oppressive on both sides of the offense and defense. Everyone is doing their job seriously, but lacks some necessary passion.

Colte, who got the opportunity to perform, was as bad as the previous few games. He played for three minutes in the second quarter, but still made no contributions. He was about to be replaced by Ramsey again.
Chapter completed!