The Golden Age of Basketball

"I don't want to accuse you of kiki, but I think you should pay attention to Cooper on the outside for that ball. This is a player's responsibility. How can you give such a big gap to the outside shooter? Even if he didn't shoot the whole game Even if you hit the ball, you can’t let him relax at all! This ball is too fatal to us, and I reminded you before defending, I can feel that something is going to happen, I have the feeling, do you understand?”

"This is the coach's strategy. I can't go against the coach's arrangement. If I go to defend the ball, the magician may not pass the ball. He may directly break through to the inside and cause damage. This may hurt us even more. Big. And Cooper wasn't my man, that was Valentine's job."

In the locker room after the game, Gan Guoyang finally couldn't help arguing with Vandeweghe. Cooper's key three-pointer was the fatal blow to defeat the Blazers. It can be seen.

Gan Guoyang was worried about Vandeweghe's refusal to listen to his opinion and keep an eye on Cooper in time. In this game, the Blazers' outside line was penetrated again. Scored 30 points.

As for the Lakers' insiders, Kareem only scored 17 points when he was defended by Gan Guoyang, and new aid Maurice Lucas scored 5 points in one of the seven teams that Gan Guoyang made.

In this case, Gan Guoyang's dissatisfaction with the Blazers' ineffective defense on the outside line broke out completely.

"But we should adapt! In this case, there are already me and Sampson inside. We can completely stop the magician. If we can't stop it, it is our responsibility. Now if we don't have a supplementary defense in place, it is outside. Responsibility! I don’t know what the outside line is defending! I’m caught by the magician and I can pinch it as I want!”

"Hey hey Gan, no one feels bad when they lose. The Lakers are the strongest team in the league and the defending champions. It's pretty good that we can play like this. We all worked hard." Kenny Carr stepped up and spoke.

Kenny Carr's words still carry weight to Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang would listen to what he said, so Gan Guoyang also forced himself to calm down, but the locker room was terribly quiet at this time.

No one refuted or complained. Gan Guoyang's angry punch was like hitting cotton. Even the head coach Jack Ramsey didn't say anything. In the past, he had absolute authority in the locker room, but now he has nothing but Directing the game on the field, it seems that I don't want to care about anything.

This kind of silence made Gan Guoyang feel deeply helpless. He looked at Kenny Carr, and the old oily man shook his head slightly at him, as if reminding him not to say anything more.

Even Drexler didn't speak, everyone was doing their own things in silence, packing clothes, scrubbing shoes, listening to music with earphones, flipping through magazines, the reporter will come in for an interview after a while, how long will it take? players at the post-match press conference.

At this time, coach Behrman walked up to Gan Guoyang and patted the disciple on the shoulder. It seemed that he was the only one who could understand Gan Guoyang's feelings, his incomparable dedication to victory and his extreme aversion to failure.

"You-just-**ing-coward! (You bunch of cowards!)" Gan Guoyang yelled this sentence while the Blazers players were stunned, then opened the door of the locker room, and left the ball despite the reporters' siege Pavilion, post-match interviews and press conferences were not attended.

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Since there will be a game against the Clippers in Los Angeles tomorrow, the Trail Blazers will stay in Los Angeles tonight. For the players, this is another opportunity to indulge themselves in this fancy world.

Gan Guoyang also did not choose to be bored in the hotel, but chose to go out for a walk, but he refused the coquettish girls who were waiting at the door of the hotel to hand him his business card on the phone, and ran to the home of Wang Fuxi in Inglewood alone.

Wang Fuxi was still studying in Spokane at this time, so Gan Guoyang could only drink a few drinks with his future father-in-law at Wang Fuxi's house.

For Wang Fuxi's father, Gan Guoyang always thought that this gentleman-looking, somewhat bald uncle wearing glasses was quite mysterious.

Gan Guoyang still remembers that in April 1984, when he was playing in the ncaa finals, community riots broke out in Inglewood. Rob.

Wang Fuxi almost missed Gan Guoyang's finals that day because Wang Fuxi's father was shot and wounded by bandits during the robbery.

Later, Gan Guoyang learned that the price paid by these gangsters for injuring Wang Fuxi's father was three deaths and one injury, all of which were killed and injured by Wang Fuxi's father with a gun in self-defense.

From this, Gan Guoyang knew that this "old man" who looked like an ordinary middle-aged uncle was really "hidden".

Thinking of the middle-aged uncle sitting in front of him squinting his eyes and drinking a little wine, he once killed three people and seriously injured one, while he was only slightly injured, Gan Guoyang felt that "people should not be judged by their appearance".

And after being released by the Portland Police Department, Gan Guoyang also heard from his cousin Qian Hui that one of the reasons why the fbi wanted to investigate Gan Guoyang was that Wang Fuxi's father had inextricable connections with the Taiwanese community in the United States. .

"Forrest Gump, I feel bad after losing today? It's okay, losing to the Lakers is nothing! Although I don't watch the game very much, I also know that the Lakers are very good. Fuxi has been a Lakers fan before. Ever since you entered After entering the NBA, he became a Trail Blazers fan." Wang Fuxi's father said.

Mentioning Wang Fuxi, Gan Guoyang's heart couldn't help warming up. Then he took a sip of wine and said to Wang Fuxi's father: "Uncle, I am not afraid of losing. There is no team that does not lose. But The most fearful thing is that if people lose their minds, the team will be difficult to lead, and the number of games they lose will only increase."

Gan Guoyang's words "It's hard to lead the team when people's hearts are broken" seemed to have entered into Wang Fuxi's father's heart all of a sudden. It’s not easy to lead a team. Then how do you think about leading a team? How to gather people’s hearts together? Everyone’s thoughts are different, and they have their own plans. This kind of thing is the most complicated, and no one can guess it. But If you are the boss, the simplest thing is to take the lead in everything, do everything the best, and go forward against the team, I don't think anyone will be unconvinced?"

When Gan Guoyang heard it, he knew it was true. Kenny Carr also told him back then that everyone has their own little calculations. Not everyone only has victory and championships in their eyes like Gan Guoyang. This is the situation now Obviously more serious.

But it's not easy to hold the team on your shoulders.

"Playing basketball is like being in the underworld. When you play games, it's like taking people to fight. If you are the boss, you don't rush to the front and fight with others. Why should the younger brother work hard for you? Of course, some people want to be e( Vito Corleone, the godfather of a generation) At the beginning, it was different to kill people in person... Ah, haha, I have too many examples, and the examples are not proper, anyway, this is the truth~ hahahaha..." Wang Fuxi's father called Haha, continue to drink.

Because Wang Fuxi's mother was a doctor on duty at night, the two of them could drink until very late. Seeing that the time was about the same, Gan Guoyang also got up to leave.

When leaving Wang Fuxi's electrical appliance store, Gan Guoyang looked up at the store sign of her home again. It was reinstalled after being smashed and robbed, and it was still the original store name - Zhengmin Electric Appliances.

This name is taken from Wang Fuxi's father's name, Wang Zhengmin, a very common name.

Of course, Gan Guoyang didn't know that there was a famous artist in Taiwan named Wang Zhengquan, whose name was only one letter away from Wang Zhengmin.

Wang Zhengquan's stage name is Wang Yu. He was a famous Kung Fu actor in the 70s. He has appeared in a large number of Kung Fu martial arts films, such as "One Armed Swordsman" and "Blood Droplet".

And Wang Yu has another identity, that is, a key member of the Taiwan Bamboo Union Gang, and Wang Yu, who participated in Taiwan's "three major murders" in the 80s, is still a core member.

This Wang Yu Wang Zhengquan is the cousin of Wang Fuxi's father, Wang Zhengmin, and also the Bamboo Union Gang that his cousin recommended Wang Yujin as a sponsor!

It's just that Wang Zhengmin immigrated to the United States early, away from the disputes of the underworld in Taiwan, and opened an electrical store here to live an ordinary life. Those pasts have long been deeply buried in his heart.

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The next day, the Trail Blazers trained in Los Angeles for a day, and the dull atmosphere remained. This negative emotion directly affected the game against the Clippers the next night. 21 turnovers, and finally lost to the Clippers 113:120, suffered a two-game losing streak.

However, the Blazers' bad luck has only just begun.

On November 11, the Trail Blazers visited Utah and challenged the Jazz away. This time Karl Malone finally started, but he was taught a little by Gan Guoyang and only scored six points.

But Dantley once again ravaged the Blazers' flank defense. He scored 41 points and led the Jazz to a 133:120 victory over the Blazers. The Blazers lost three games in a row.

On November 11th, the Trail Blazers played against the Milwaukee Bucks at home. Their offense was greatly weakened by the Bucks' defense. They only shot 19% of the field.

On November 11, the Blazers' home court was broken by the Nets with a score of 21:102, a five-game losing streak.

On November 11, the Lakers visited. They defeated the Blazers 23:125 without any suspense, giving the Blazers a six-game losing streak!

Victory seemed to be insulated from the Blazers all of a sudden.