The Golden Age of Basketball

Gan Guoyang can't remember how many times he has come to Los Angeles. In the foreseeable future, this place will be his frequent visit.

Before coming to Los Angeles, Gan Guoyang originally wanted to visit Michael Jackson, but the schedule of back-to-back matches made him unable to spare time.

Moreover, Jackson is also making preliminary preparations for the new album. He is very busy and does not need Gan Guoyang to be idle, so Gan Guoyang can only give up this idea-he originally wanted to ask Michael for an autographed album, because Wang Fuxi is a die-hard Jackson fan.

The Trail Blazers team arrived in Los Angeles late at night and immediately drove to the hotel where they were staying, and then fell asleep early. The game will start at 24 pm the next day, and it is less than [-] hours since their last game ended.

Compared to the Portland Trail Blazers, who are doomed to have insufficient rest time, the Lakers' players are really tired.

Their last game was on December 1984, 12. That game was a city derby against the Los Angeles Clippers, as easy as it could be.

After the poor performance at the beginning of the season, the Lakers gradually recovered, and finally returned to normal in the middle of the season, improving their record to 22 wins and 10 losses, regaining the first place in the Western Conference.

It's just that they also gradually felt the huge threat posed by the Portland Trail Blazers, although the Lakers maintained a complete victory in the first two games.

And this third game is extremely critical for both sides. There is only half a win gap between the Blazers and the Lakers. As long as they win this game, the Blazers will regain the low position in the West. [

For the Lakers who have dominated the West since the 80s, they have to kill any rising threat in the cradle to maintain their rule of the Zijin Dynasty.

So during the five-day break, Pat Riley and the entire Lakers coaching staff were carefully studying the pros and cons of the Blazers this season, and they all watched the live broadcast of the Blazers and 76ers.

This game should be said to have given Riley and the Lakers coaching staff a great sense of crisis, because they found that the No. 11 center, who was out of touch with the team and had immature game experience, was becoming more and more mature on the court. integration is getting better and better.

Riley originally studied the Houston Rockets with the twin towers as the number one threat target, and now he is ready to put the Blazers at the top of this list.

So this game is destined to be full of crises for the Blazers.

However, the Blazers are not unprepared. As an experienced coach, Ramsey has more than ten years of experience in confronting the Lakers so that he can find a reasonable way to deal with it without spending too much time.

Anyway, this is just an important regular season, not a life-and-death playoffs.

The next day, the whole Trail Blazers team arrived at the Great Western Forum Arena for an hour of adaptive training. They were all too familiar with the venue here.

Gan Guoyang was interviewed by the Los Angeles media before the game. At present, Gan Guoyang has received more and more attention. People are beginning to abandon their prejudice against his skin color, but it is his outstanding performance on the field.

Many nb critics believe that Gan Guoyang will undoubtedly be one of the most shining jewels among the golden rookies this year.

"How do you feel about Los Angeles? As far as I know, you played here in high school and college, and your first college was UL." A reporter asked.

Ordinary reporters seldom ask Gan Guoyang such a question, especially about ul, which is not a good memory for Gan Guoyang.

But there are always exceptions. For example, the reporter is a beautiful blonde. In this case, no matter what the player is, he will relax his tolerance.

"There are good and bad. Here I met some interesting things and interesting people, which gave me a lot of good memories; and in basketball, there are also many interesting things, and of course there are some painful memories. Overall For me, this is a city that is half angel and half devil." Gan Guoyang recalled his experience in Los Angeles, and couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional.

"After the Blazers went through the summer trade and the draft, the lineup has changed a lot, and you have also achieved impressive results. What do you think of this?" Another reporter asked. [

"Uh... The arrival of Vandeweghe is of great significance to the team. His scoring, support and assists have given the team a lot of help, and I am also doing my best to learn and adapt to this league. So far We are doing pretty well." Gan Guoyang has learned to use clichés to deal with these chatting problems.

"What do you think of the game against the Lakers..." The beautiful reporter wanted to ask questions, but Gan Guoyang finally got a little impatient.

"Nb has played so many seasons, each season has more than 1000 games, for us, there is another game after one game, and we only played one game yesterday, so I don't know how to look at the game, Work or entertainment, I can't tell, just like you write manuscripts, after you finish one article, there will be another one until you die. So I treat competitions, I only want to win, just like you only want your newspaper to sell Go out more, then stop asking such chatty questions, and for the sake of what a beautiful fellow you are, I'm telling you this, thank you ma'am."

Gan Guoyang spewed out a lot of words like a cannonball, and the flow of words made the American reporters stunned. After saying this, Gan Guoyang turned and left to continue training.

Sometimes NB players, as half entertainers, have to put on a show in front of the camera. Gan Guoyang is extremely annoyed by this, but he has to cooperate.

This time he finally got a chance to vent a little. Of course, he didn't know that his words would cause a moderate disturbance after the game.

After a brief training session, at five o'clock in the afternoon, the regular season between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers was finally about to start, and the scene was already crowded with people.

Due to the high-profile performance of the Blazers this season, this game can be said to have attracted much attention. BS, ESPN, and B TV stations all chose to broadcast this game across the United States.

But the commentator who is really loved by the local Los Angeles audience is still the Queen's commentator of the Lakers. Mr. Zeke Hearn, I don't know how many fans in front of the TV have turned on the TV, then turned off the sound, and then turned on the radio live sports channel.

"The Trail Blazers players stood in the yellow ocean, they were like little red mice in the golden cornfield, ready to steal some corn cobs and go back to store food for the winter, but obviously , It's not that easy to break the stick in the cornfield of the Great Western Forum... Oh my god, let's see, the No. 11 player Gan of the Blazers, what kind of shoes is he wearing, it looks like a clown in a circus, black Color, red, just don’t see too much white. This should be a new shoe made by Nike for him, and trust me, it shouldn’t affect Gan’s three-point shooting.”

As a die-hard Lakers commentator, Zeke Hearn will certainly not let go of any opportunity to taunt opponents. If the Celtics come to the Great Western Forum, then they will be even worse in Zeke Hearn's mouth.

Gan Guoyang was ridiculed by Hearn. This is not a humiliation but an honor, because it shows that Gan Guoyang has begun to occupy an important hostile position in the hearts of Lakers fans. After all, his first performance in the Western Conference Forum is really impressive. Let all the fans break out in a cold sweat.

Now, he's standing in the middle of the field wearing a new custom shoe from Nike that hasn't fully developed yet.

Magician Johnson thought Gan Guoyang's shoes were good, so he shook hands with Gan Guoyang and said, "Your shoes are good, I think I will buy a pair."

Of course, the magician has always been so friendly to everyone before the game, but after the game started, it was different.

"The scramble, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar won the scrimmage! It seems that the new shoes have some influence on Gan, and they are really ugly." Zeke Hearn still refused to let go of Gan Guoyang's poor Nike shoes.

At that time, most of the players were wearing Converse basketball shoes. This kind of sneakers looked like the sneakers that people often wear now, and the Nike worn by Gan Guoyang was the prototype of today’s basketball shoes. People in the 80s just saw this kind of shoes and found it strange. is very normal.

On the Lakers' first possession of the opening game, Magic Johnson put the ball into Worthy's hands, and Worthy received it on the left with his back to the basket.

Obviously, the entire league knows that the Blazers' defense is poor. Of course, Patric Riley knows it better, and he also has a big killer at the small forward position, James Worthy.

So Riley wanted to rely on Worthy from the very beginning to beat the Blazers' weakest link to death.

However, after Vandeweghe was treated by Gan Guoyang's personal doctor Shui Miao, his back injury still eased a lot, and Vandeweghe's defensive awareness is not bad.

Worthy wanted to easily score points on Vandeweghe in the first goal, but it was not as simple as he thought.

"Worthy, the baseline turnaround jumper! Didn't make it, Gan got the rebound, and the Lakers' offense was blocked." Worthy missed the shot, and Zeke Hearn's voice couldn't help but lowered an octave.

For this ball, Ramsey knew that the Lakers would definitely play small forward, but he did not make any arrangements, but let Vandeweghe defend.

In the Blazers' defense, it is a one-on-one defense. The number of double-teams, supplementary defenses, assist defenses, and rotations is very small. This is the effect Ramsey wants. Everyone solves the problem alone in the defense.

In this way, even if one or two points are often exploded by the opponent, I will not change as a whole. If you have the ability, you can kill me with this move, otherwise I will get it back in the attack.

Therefore, no matter what, Ramsey asked Vandeweghe to solve the problem by himself, no matter how it could be prevented, it could not be prevented.

And Ramsey also believes that opponents can't always score high on Vandeweghe.

"Run! Run! Run!" Ramsey yelled again from the sidelines. Compared with defense, he has much stricter requirements on offense. Anyway, in his eyes, the Blazers players are all lazy little ones. donkey.

Valentine received a pass from Gan Guoyang and ran all the way in, but the Lakers returned to defense very quickly, and the Blazers did not have a chance to play a fast attack.

Gan Guoyang kept up, caught the ball at the top of the arc and made a transition. He looked at the running position of his teammates and saw that there was no chance, so he passed the ball back to Valentine. as a cover.

Vandeweghe had already run to the bottom line on the left. Seeing Gan Guoyang going down, he naturally lifted up. With the help of Gan Guoyang's cover, he got rid of Worthy's defense and found space on the left corner.

Valentine passed the ball directly to Vandeweghe, and Vandeweghe hit the ball and made a two-pointer, 2:0.

"Beautiful cooperation, the Blazers' offensive tactics have always been one of the best in the league, of course they are worse than the Lakers." Zeke Hearn is also well-informed, and the Blazers' offensive tactics are indeed very skilled and Fluency, the top five in the league is not an exaggeration.

But what he said in the last sentence is very correct, that is, the Lakers' offense is better than that of the Blazers.

Magic Johnson entered the half court from the right side, the ball went from right to left, passed Worthy, Scott, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in the low post on the left.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar hit Gan Guoyang twice, but instead of making a shot, he passed the ball back to the magician at the free throw line in the middle.

Because the Blazers' defensive line has always shrunk considerably, as soon as Valentine saw Johnson catch the ball near the free throw line, he immediately stepped forward to mark, and the attention of the other Blazers players followed the ball back to the Magician.

The experience of playing against the magician has long proved that it is always a huge mistake to focus on the magician. Unfortunately, no one has ever been able to learn this lesson.

The magician's hand just touched the ball from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and he didn't stop at all, just like playing volleyball, he slapped the ball back to the inside!

No one could react, this was too fast, only the receiver, Rambis on the right, steadily caught the high-speed flying basketball, turned around and layup.

"Rambis made a layup... Oh, it was blocked by Gan! It's a pity that a beautiful pass..."

After all, Rambis lacked personal ability. Although Johnson's pass was extremely unexpected, Rambis's turn rate was too slow, and Gan Guoyang slapped him for the layup.

Valentin got the ball, Vandeweghe and Paxson were already rushing towards the frontcourt from left to right, Valentine's backcourt directly thought of a long diagonal pass from the left, and the ball flew towards Vandeweghe.

But Valentine was too impatient with the ball, and he ignored Johnson's 6-foot-9 height.

"mg-pks-hs-poket! (The Magician steals the ball!)" Zeke Hearn's characteristic commentary appeared again, and Johnson blocked Valentine's pass in the air.

Johnson passed the ball to the basket again to Rambis. This time Gan Guoyang was beyond his reach, so he could only watch Rambis succeed in a layup with his left hand.

2: 2!

With this kind of ball, only Johnson can turn a fast break loss into a counterattack score, which is really a stroke of magic.

Ramsey dug out his little books, thinking that it was time to find a way to deal with the magician, otherwise the game would probably be too much.

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