The Golden Age of Basketball

The enthusiasm of Miami people for basketball seems to be rather strange. When Gan Guoyang came to the Heat's home stadium, the Miami Stadium, fans had already started to enter the stadium sparsely, which indicated that there should be a lot of fans tonight.

But at the same time, many people are obviously more interested in the Trail Blazers. Gan Guoyang signed autographs for fans on the sidelines before warming up. The excitement of those Miami fans made him feel that he was in Portland instead of South Coast.

But it’s no wonder that the biggest player on the opposing Miami Heat team is Rory Sparrow, a 6-foot-2 point guard who has played in New Jersey, Atlanta and New York, averaging 10 points and 6 assists per game. He turned out to be the number one star of the Heat!

Gan Guoyang still has a little impression of Sparoki. For Gan Guoyang, he has an impression of either a big-name star in the league or a difficult role player. The rest are players who have been slapped by him on the field. Paro clearly falls into the third category.

In addition to Sparrow, the eight-year veteran, and a few old players such as Pat Cummins and Joe Sandwald, the other nine players of the Heat are all recruits. It is also a record.

It is reasonable to say that although such a team lacks immediate combat power, it should be full of talent and potential, but the bad thing is that the draft results of the newly established Heat management draft are not ideal. The team's highest overall pick, the ninth pick, selected Ronnie Sekeli, a Lebanese center from Syracuse University, who was also the first Lebanese to land in the NBA.

Perhaps Gan Guoyang's success has given the NBA team the confidence to choose foreign players, but not every foreign center has the talent of Gan Guoyang. Sekeli has shown good talent and learning ability in the game. As an inside player, his The basic skills are very solid, the offensive and defensive skills have a good foundation, and the rebounding ability is also very good.

In the first dozen games, Sekeli can get 10 points and 7 rebounds, which is a qualified performance.

But for a team like Miami, what they need most is not a mediocre player like Sekeli. What they need most is talent and potential.

Of course, the quality of the draft in 1988 was really mediocre. For the Miami Heat without much experience, it was even more difficult to find a baby without a high-ranking pick. In the next two rounds of the draft, Miami Still holding multiple draft picks, but missed rookies with real potential such as Vernon Maxwell, Steve Kerr, and Anthony Mason.

In this way, the Miami Heat embarked on the journey of the NBA with nine rookies. To make matters worse, they were assigned to the West Division on the south coast, and the San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets and The Dallas Mavericks were assigned together, which was a disaster for the Heat.

Such a new fledgling team had to often fly to the highlands of the Midwest or the prairie iron triangle of Texas to face the ravages of some of the most difficult teams in the West. The 13-game losing streak after the start of the game No surprise.

Before the start of the game, Gan Guoyang heard Bellman tell him about the tragic history of the Miami Heat after the start of the season. For example, he went to Texas to play the Texas Triangle at the beginning of the season, but was slaughtered by the Spurs for 24 points and by the Rockets for 21 points.

Immediately afterwards, they scored an ultra-low score of 65 points in the game against Boston. It is said that Larry Bird couldn't bear to attack in that game, and he shot 6 shots in the game. The Celtics relied purely on defense to beat the Heat. To strangle.

Hearing these tragic stories about the Heat, Gan Guoyang couldn't help feeling sorry for him. He usually doesn't pay much attention to the situation of these weak teams. He either trains every day or only watches the games of the Lakers, Celtics and Bulls. There are teams that are so miserable.

The rookie Charlotte Hornets, who entered the league at the same time as the Heat, won their first victory in their history in the third game, and defeated the Heat in the meeting between the two teams on November 11, winning the third victory.

In contrast, the Heat's first victory seems to be in the foreseeable future. Anyway, against Portland tonight, they are in danger.

"Then shall we bring some warmth to the cold south coast? Anyway, we always lose. It's okay to lose to such a bad team. Are you right, Mr. Behrman?" Gan Guoyang seemed to be angry with the Heat. A touch of sympathy.

"No, kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself. Think about it, if we lose home court advantage in the playoffs because of a win or loss in a regular season, there will be no place to make up games." Bellman looked at the game His attitude has always been serious and rigorous, and he has been in the nba for a few years, and he also knows that every detail must be paid attention to on the road to winning the championship.

"Okay, let's play hard and beat them...By the way, Mr. Behrman, do you know what is the biggest point difference in a single game in NBA history?"

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Gan Guoyang has always been known in the NBA for turning his face and denying others. Before the game, he can often mingle with opponent players, talking and laughing. When he is on the court, his enemies will be jealous when they meet each other. deal a heavy blow to the opponent.

Gan Guoyang was still thinking about giving warmth to the Miami Heat on the front foot, but on the court with his back foot, Gan Guoyang was already thinking about whether to come and create the biggest point difference in NBA history.

在1989赛季之前，nba常规赛历史最大分差是雄鹿在1985年对阵国王时创造的，当时雄鹿140：82屠了国王58分。

To defeat an opponent with such a large score, not only does one need to be in a very good state and the opponent is in a bad state, but more importantly, one needs a sense of cruelty. After all, the meaning of competitive games has been lost by scoring such a score, and it is just a pure massacre. .

Although Gan Guoyang asked Behrman about "the largest single-game point difference in history", he didn't really want to create such a massacre, but the progress of the game was beyond Gan Guoyang's expectations.

In the first quarter of the game, the Miami Heat were able to fight against the Blazers. Relying on the momentum at home, they withstood the Blazers' fast break, and began to entangle with the Blazers relying on the momentum of young players.

Gan Guoyang has been playing tepidly, facing the Heat, he is really not very energetic, facing this group of recruits, Gan Guoyang doesn't even have the desire to spout trash talk, and the Lebanese center Sekeli who is facing him is not the same Noisy guy, Gan Guoyang didn't bother to teach him a lesson.

So Gan Guoyang began to try to practice mid-range shots from the outside. He threw two three-pointers and two mid-range shots in the first quarter, but only made one mid-range shot and scored only two points.

But then, in the second quarter, Miami's rookie power forward Grant Long said "boo**" to Gan Guoyang after Gan Guoyang missed another mid-range shot, which caused a bloodbath.

"What-**-you-said? (What the fuck did you say?)" Gan Guoyang said to Long when he returned to the backcourt. bit.

"Your shooting is a piece of shit!" Long was young and energetic, directly confronting Gan Guoyang like this.

Gan Guoyang didn't say much, but he knew that he finally had a small goal in this game.

"Holy-**(damn)... Long, this kid is going to die." Sparrow saw the dispute between Gan Guoyang and Long. As a veteran who has played in the NBA for many years, he knows that there are several players who, if You don't have enough strength or need, so don't provoke them casually. One is Bird, one is Jordan, one is Lambir, and the other is Gan Guoyang.

Of course, there is another exception is Charles Barkley. If you don’t provoke him, he will come to provoke you. Among the most difficult players to provoke in the league, other players are ranked first, and Charles Barkley must be ranked alone. .

Long's lesson came quickly. He tried to go outside to set a pick-and-roll for his teammates. Sparrow relied on Long's pick-and-roll to cut 45 degrees from the side roll, but Sparrow didn't dare to pass back to Long because he knew the ball passed It will be bad.

Long tried to cut in after the pick-and-roll, but he found that he was completely blocked by Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang pushed his butt and put his hands back, just like this, Long stuck in the horn position.

Long also tried to compete with Gan Guoyang, trying to push Gan Guoyang away. Who knew that Gan Guoyang would stay there motionless, no matter how crowded Ren Long was, Gan Guoyang's position was as firm as a rock.

As the Heat missed a jumper from the outside, Gan Guoyang took a step forward and easily grabbed the rebound.

After Gan Guoyang got the rebound, he did not launch a fast break, but slowly handed the ball to Porter. Porter understood, and he knew that Gan Guoyang wanted to teach the rookie a lesson.

However, Gan Guoyang did not go to the low position. Perhaps it is meaningless for him to crush Long in the low position. It happened that Sabonis was on the court. Inside made a wide-range run along the bottom line, running from the left to the bottom corner on the right.

Porter had already seen Gan Guoyang's running position and passed the ball directly to Gan Guoyang. After Gan Guoyang took the ball, he ran out a big space in front of him, because the Heat's defense was so disorganized that a simple slip to the baseline began to miss people.

But Gan Guoyang did not shoot, but paused for a while, waiting for Long to fill in, and then said: "This is a meeting gift for you."

After talking about Gan Guoyang's direct pull-up jumper in front of Long, after adjusting the feel in the first quarter, Gan Guoyang's aim came back, and the ball hit the net hollow.