The Golden Age of Basketball

What Gan Guoyang said was really beyond the expectations of many people, including the head coach Ramsey, after hearing what Gan Guoyang said, he privately criticized this "stab" for being too confident and not knowing how to speak in a low-key manner.

After all, this is the first game of the season. Speaking so full of words, it will inevitably give people a feeling of arrogance.

Gan Guoyang was quite cautious when he was interviewed by reporters last season, and his speech was always very smooth, but his remarks after the game did not fit his style.

The Portland-based "Oregonian" also "criticized" Gan Guoyang for saying that he was too inappropriate, but the media also praised the Blazers' performance this time, especially their defense was "out of the ordinary." The situation played an "unexpected" effect in disrupting the Sun's defense.

Of course, at the level of ordinary media practitioners, it is difficult to see the truth, but some experts who study basketball skills and tactics have seen some defensive skills of the Blazers, especially when the Blazers were blown up in this game. Several "illegal defense" technical fouls made them see the clues.

But after all, this is just an ordinary regular season, and soon it became a video and data, which was forgotten in the corner of memory.

For professional players, their eyes are always looking forward, staring at the next game.

For the Trail Blazers, the first week of the game is not too difficult, even a little simple, because their next two opponents are the Golden State Warriors and the Los Angeles Clippers in the same division.

But this does not mean that these two games can be taken lightly. After Gan Guoyang returned home with Behrman after the game, the first thing they did was to turn on the video recorder, take out the video tape of last season's game against the Warriors and start researching ——Bellman copied all the videotapes in the Blazers training hall and brought them to Gan Guoyang's home for the convenience of studying tactics.

"The Warriors seem to have the same lineup as the Suns. The inside line is relatively weak, and they are not very good overall. But their outside line is still quite offensive. I am really worried about Vandeweghe. Last season, all the young players who played against him The forwards have all played at the All-Star level." Bellman said while drinking beer and watching the video.

This is the game video of the Warriors last season. This season, the Warriors have undergone relatively large changes in the lineup. Last year's video may not explain any problems.

"The situation has changed, Mr. Behrman, let me see... The Warriors have new aid this season. A guy named Barry Carroll has entered the roster. This guy seems to have gone to Europe to play for a year, and then this year It’s back again.” Looking at the reports of other games today, Gan Guoyang said that it is reasonable for the Warriors to lose the game against the Nuggets today.

But Joe Barry Carroll in their team scored a double-double of 21 points and 14 rebounds. At the same time, his 7-foot height also attracted Gan Guoyang's attention. This is a pure high center forward.

"That's right, Barry Carroll, I heard that he went to Italy to play last year. He was the No. 1980 pick in [-] and was selected by the Warriors. He came back this year." Bellman also thought of it. The former No. [-] pick of the Warriors, he did not renew his contract with the Warriors due to contract issues, but went to Italy to pan for gold.

After playing overseas for a year, he returned to the NBA. It seems that only here is a good place for the No. [-] pick to develop. Judging from his performance in the first game, he is indeed worthy of the No. [-] pick.

"There is another one, and Short, a very good small forward, Vandeweghe has suffered. And Floyd, the name is really not a player. There is another one here, Chris Mullin , rookie... Mullin, I always feel like I heard his name somewhere? He also played well in the first game, with 15 points, but rebounds and assists are average, and overall he is not as good as Porter."

Gan Guoyang, a fake fan, basically knows Jordan, Ewing, and Barkley. He doesn’t even know the famous Chris Mullin. He just vaguely feels that he has heard of it. Number.

However, Mullin is only a rookie at this time, and he has not yet reached the point where Gan Guoyang should pay attention. Besides, the Blazers' own rookie Terry Porter also performed very well. In the first game, he scored 6 points and 6 assists. There was only one foul and no turnovers. Pretty good performance.

"It seems that we should deal with it well. I think it is necessary to reduce some of Vandeweghe's defensive pressure and not always expose him to the strongest firepower of the opponent." Bellman also racked his brains to improve the Blazers' defense.

"You should talk to Mr. Ramsey about this, or let me play small forward?" Gan Guoyang joked.

"No... Even if Drexler is allowed to come, it's not okay, it will limit Drexler's quick counterattack..." Bellman has been lost in thought, and he has been trying to find a way to make up for it a little bit. The Blazers' weak wing defense.

"Okay, don't think about Mr. Behrman, these problems can't be solved overnight. We should go to bed earlier, I will get up early tomorrow and be the first to go to the training hall, and now that kid Potter is also up very early. "

In the past, Gan Guoyang was always the first person to arrive at the Blazers training hall, but now Terry Porter has become a strong challenger for Gan Guoyang. Although he is often the second, he is often just a little later than Gan Guoyang. It put a lot of pressure on Gan Guoyang, and he had to set his alarm clock earlier.

The next day, Gan Guoyang got up from the bed at five o'clock, while Behrman was still fast asleep. As an assistant coach, he was mentally exhausted, so Behrman needed enough sleep.

So Gan Guoyang ate his breakfast lightly and went out. When he ran to the training hall, the genius of Portland in October was bright.

When Gan Guoyang walked into the training hall, he was surprised to find that someone was already in the locker room.

"Damn it, Potter came earlier than me?" Gan Guoyang thought that Terry Porter got up earlier than him.

But Gan Guoyang took a closer look and found that the one sitting in the locker room with his back facing him was not Terry Porter, but another backup point guard of the team, Steve Colter.

"Hey, Colter? What are you doing?" Gan Guoyang found something strange about Colter sitting there with his head down.

When he yelled, Colt was obviously frightened and his whole body trembled. He hurriedly looked back and found that it was Gan Guoyang.

"No...no...yes...I'm just, I'm just changing clothes, I also want to come to training early, my performance last night was really bad, too bad..." Colt said, as if Hiding something in a hurry.

Immediately after Gan Guoyang entered the locker room, he smelled something strange. It seemed to be the smell of smoke, but it was not the same as the smell of cigarettes.

"What the hell are you doing?" Gan Guoyang immediately felt that something was wrong, why did this guy Colter come to the training hall so early and sneaky.

But soon, Colter returned to normal, smiled at Gan Guoyang and said: "My performance yesterday was really bad, so I have to go early today, I don't want to be snatched by the kid on the 30th as the first substitute." s position."

Colter's performance yesterday was indeed quite poor. He only played for 3 minutes, and all the statistics were 0. Because he played too badly on the court, he was directly pushed on the bench.

Compared with Porter's remarkable performance, Colter's is really a bit disheartened.

So his explanation is still somewhat credible. Although Gan Guoyang was full of doubts, he didn't ask any more questions. After all, both of them were rookies last year, and their relationship was quite good.

Colter is also very convinced of Gan Guoyang, and the two have a good tacit understanding on the court. Compared with Valentine, Colter still pays great attention to playing for Gan Guoyang.

So the two changed their clothes, took the ball to the court and started practicing.

While training on the field, Gan Guoyang discovered some problems again. Colter seemed to be much more lively all of a sudden, and he was very excited, even chattering.

This is really different from Colter's usual performance. You must know that Colter was very mature in his rookie season, which is why he can gain Ramsey's new trust.

Gan Guoyang knew that there must be a problem.

Then the third person to come to the training hall was indeed Terry Porter. He was also very surprised when he saw Colter, but he didn't doubt Colter. He thought Colter must have come to practice hard.

Now Porter has also taken Colter as his competitor to fight for the position of the team's first backup point guard.

This is a very good phenomenon for the Blazers. The competition among young players is good for the cultivation of talents and the exploration of internal potential.

When the team arrived and started the team training, Gan Guoyang found that Colter had a problem again. Compared with the excitement in the morning, he seemed to be sleepwalking in the group training, often losing his defense and messing up his offense.

An angry Ramsey yelled on the sidelines, scolding Colter bloody, and Colter didn't seem to respond, as if his nerves were sluggish.

"This guy is not normal." Vandeweghe looked at Colter and said to Gan Guoyang, who was practicing shooting with him next to him.

"Yes, he came earlier than me today."

"Earlier than you? Has he taken medicine?" Vandeweghe was obviously more surprised by this.

And Vandeweghe's words seemed to hit Gan Guoyang all of a sudden. He turned his head to look at Colter who was being educated by Ramsey on the sidelines, and couldn't help thinking: "Maybe this guy...maybe really took medicine."

A black shadow hangs over the Trail Blazers.