The Golden Age of Basketball

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

But this time, Stockton is no longer alone. He has a good partner in the future, the strong man that the Jazz picked up with the No.13 pick-Karl Malone.

Before the game, Gan Guoyang had a phone call with Stockton. During the phone call, Gan Guoyang naturally chatted with Stockton about Malone. To Gan Guoyang's surprise, in Stockton's evaluation, Malone turned out to be a "love". Cry ghost".

"Yeah, this big guy calls his mom every day and tells her how bad Salt Lake City is, okay I admit, it's a really bad place, but it's not enough to cry? "Stockton said to Gan Guoyang on the phone like this.

Gan Guoyang also knows that Stockton is not a mean person, he is very frank and honest, he has said so, it can only prove that Karl Malone may really be a crybaby, this is not the same as the future tough guy superstar in Gan Guoyang's impression, It is quite different.

However, superstars are not made in a day. Maybe Karl Malone has not really become a professional player at this time. He is just a young man who just graduated from college and comes from rural Louisiana.

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

"Damn guy, he may not miss a game for more than ten years in the future. This **** has just played four games, and he is absent here? Then I can only teach him next time." Gan Guoyang said before the game Thinking about it, he originally wanted to teach Malone a lesson during the game.

This is Gan Guoyang's current mentality. He is no longer the transmigrator who will feel guilty when he sees the superstars of the future, and will look at them like idols with the mentality of a fan. [

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

Before the official start of the game, Gan Guoyang met Yinman, the team's general manager, outside the locker room. Inman seldom 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 controlled by the coach. Only the coach is qualified and authoritative to lead and command the players in the locker room, instead of letting the manager or boss interfere with the coach.

The last time Inman appeared in the locker room was during the Paxson incident in the playoffs. This time it was just an ordinary regular season. Gan Guoyang didn't quite understand the purpose of Inman's coming here.

When the players gathered together to give encouragement, Inman also stayed by and watched, but the head coach Ramsey came on the field early, and seemed unwilling to stand with Inman.

From this point, Gan Guoyang can see that there seems to be some problems between Ramsey and Inman, and there is also an undercurrent in the entire Blazers. Every player can feel that something will happen to the team, but everyone pretends I don't know, just keep playing.

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

"Good evening, everyone. Another exciting night. Tonight brings us the Portland Trail Blazers vs. Utah Jazz. The season has just started, and the Blazers have won their first three games, while the Jazz It's two wins and two losses, let's see if the Jazz can get away with it at our home court, wait and see."

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

"Okay, the game is about to start. Gan and Eaton are standing in the middle circle. I will introduce the starting lineups of the two sides later. Let's look at the jump ball first! Neither of them touched the ball, but Gan was in the middle circle. I hit the ball when it was falling, and the ball flew to Drexler! After Drexler took the ball, he made a fast break and made a layup! Beautiful fast break, the Blazers went first!"

Gan Guoyang and Eaton jumped the ball, collided and squeezed each other, but neither of them touched the ball, but Gan Guoyang reacted quickly and stabbed the ball when it fell. Drexler directly launched a quick attack after receiving the ball. The player quickly scored two points.

Some problems in the team have not had a big impact on the players. After all, we are all professional players. We know that the most important thing for us is to rely on our skills and on-court performance. , Everyone can work together to play the game when they are on the court.

Compared with last season, the Jazz have rejuvenated their lineup, starting with three young people, that is, Stockton, Karl Malone, and the Jazz shooting guard who invited Gan Guoyang to his home farm during the offseason. Bo Hansen.

Malone didn't play because of the flu, so he could only sit on the court in casual clothes and watch his teammates play, so Bailey, also a second-year rookie, started instead of Malone.

Last season, relying on the twin towers of Eaton and Bailey, they even killed the Rockets' twin towers in the playoffs and successfully reached the second round, and then they were at the feet of the Lakers. power. [

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

In the first quarter of the game, Gan Guoyang did not need to worry about Eaton at all on the defensive end, so Ramsey handed over the task of defending Eaton to Sampson. As long as he is not allowed to receive the ball three feet below the basket, the offense Threat is approximately equal to zero.

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

Gan Guoyang's flanking always came as scheduled, which made Dantley very uncomfortable. The flanking came too fast, and it was difficult for Dantley to even think about how to transfer the ball, and he was not good at passing the ball.

Although this kind of defense allowed Bailey to pick up a few gaps, the Blazers undoubtedly restrained the performance of Dantley, the core of the Jazz's tactics, in the first quarter.

At the same time, the Blazers showed their offensive advantages to the fullest. Their fast break was still so sharp and domineering. As Drexler's injury gradually improved, the quick counterattack instigated by him was almost invincible.

The shortcomings of the Jazz's twin towers have been revealed. Their two inside defenses are a bit slow, and the defenses of Stockton, Hansen and Dantley are indeed not good enough.

"Drexler took off the backcourt rebound, and he is going to start again! I can feel that when he lowers his head and rushes forward, the temperature in the Memorial Stadium will rise by one or two degrees Celsius. This comes from the fans" Their blood is gradually boiling... two-on-two in the frontcourt, only Stockton and Hansen were there, Drexler passed the ball, and passed it to Gan who followed later! Gan gliding and dunking! The ball went in ! Caused a Stockton foul!"

Along with Xiao Enli's commentary, Drexler used a beautiful back pass to send the ball to Gan Guoyang, who was keeping up with him. At the back of the head, it looks like it is resting with its head propped up.

This move was learned by Gan Guoyang and Ma Long, but the original creator was plagiarized and sat on the sidelines watching the game without knowing it.

With the other hand, he slammed the ball into the basket. Stockton wanted to cause Gan Guoyang's offensive foul, but he was whistled for blocking, and Gan Guoyang had to add a penalty.

"Why do you want to stop me?" Gan Guoyang reached out to help Stockton up, but Stockton didn't hold Gan Guoyang's hand to stand up, but got up by himself.

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

Gan Guoyang nodded with a smile. He knew that Stockton was right. They were friends off the court, but rivals on the court. They might have to fight to the death in the playoffs.

With Gan Guoyang's additional free throw, the Blazers led the Jazz by 30 points 20:10 in the first quarter, and then entered the lineup rotation period, and it was the turn of the substitutes to play.

"Come on, Colter, stop messing around, do something, buddy!" Gan Guoyang came to the court and patted Steve Colter, who was about to play, after being frozen by Ramsey in the last game. , Ramsey gave him another chance to play this game.

Gan Guoyang also hopes that Colter can get out of the shadow of drugs and get back on the right track.

But when the game restarted, Colter immediately used a mistake to give Gan Guoyang a "dismissal".

"Coulter, was intercepted by Stockton, Stockton layup with the ball, defended an empty basket, scored two points, and rewritten the score to 30:22. Colter's recent state is terrible. , Can he average one point per game? I think I can go up now, and with the help of the Blazers' strong fast break system, I can average two points per game." Even Seanley began to tease Colter.

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

After the start of the second quarter, the Blazers played against the Jazz with Sampson as the core, and the defensive quality of both sides declined as the speed increased.

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

However, the Blazers did not appear to be oppressive on both ends of the offense and defense. Everyone is doing their job seriously, but they lack some necessary passion.

Colter, who got the opportunity to perform, was as bad as the previous games. He played 3 minutes in the second quarter and still made no contribution. He was about to be replaced by Ramsey again.

In contrast, the state of the Jazz is actually not good. Too many young players make their state of playing away games very unstable, and soon, with the development of the Jazz's two new stars beyond expectations, they will also face and develop. or similar issues.

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