As the bell rings on New Year's Day, the 1985 calendar finally turns the last page and comes to 1986.

History is full of striking coincidences and similarities, and on January 1, 1985, exactly one year ago, the Portland Trail Blazers hosted the Philadelphia 76ers in a game that marked a turning point in their season, transforming them from a young team that was still a little chaotic to a tactically rigorous and dynamic league powerhouse.

In that game, Gan Guoyang faced Moses Malone and Charles Barkley for the first time, and collided with them with fierce sparks - of course, Barkley was slightly miserable by Gan Guoyang.

A year later, on New Year's Day 1986, the Trail Blazers hosted the Philadelphia 76ers again for the first time this season.

As time goes by, young players are growing and maturing, and the young team is growing stronger day by day, and the Trail Blazers are typical, although the team has experienced chaos at the beginning of the season, and the future of the key players and the head coach is also unknown, but at least so far, the Trail Blazers have shown a strong fighting ability.

Their offense is one of the best in the league under Ramsay's leadership, their defence has begun to show great potential under Bellman's tutelage, they are starting to have their own superstars, and their bench has plenty of depth and energy.

It's no wonder that many media outlets are asserting that there is a good chance of a new "Trail Blazers mania" this season.

Of course, the team also had fatal flaws, as last year, on December 30, 1985, the Trail Blazers hosted the last opponent of the year, the San Antonio Spurs, who comfortably defeated the disintegrating Spurs 125-110.

But during the game, CBS TV commentators pointed out more than once, "If Alvin Robertson can come to the Trail Blazers, I bet the Trail Blazers will win at least two championships in the next five years." ”

Alvin Robertson, the 1984 Golden Generation of Gan Guoyang, has been a year of full explosion of young people in the Golden Generation, except for Jordan, who missed most of the games due to injury (but he will burst into the playoffs like a god of God), the other high-pick rookies have quickly become the mainstay of the team.

In November, Gan Guoyang ruled the NBA, and in December, the title of Player of the Month went to the Spurs' No. 21 (at this time, this number has not yet become a monument to the Spurs), and No. 7 Robertson, the thief of the world.

Looking at his statistics this season, the steal hurdles, from the first game, were: 6, 7, 4, 2, 5, 3............ Amazing steals, so far, he has averaged a staggering 3.8 steals per game, a notch ahead of the rest.

In the game against the Trail Blazers, Robertson contributed 17 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals, extremely comprehensive statistics, showing the potential of a great outside wing all-round defender, compared to Vanderwicki, he scored more points, 23 points, but his rebounds were 2, steals and assists, all 0......

However, it is almost impossible for the Trail Blazers to get Alvin Robertson, and the Spurs will not be stupid enough to send away such a rising star, and even if they do, they will throw him to the East instead of staying in the West to cause themselves trouble.

There are young teams that have grown and grown, there are old overlords who are dying day by day, the two Tyrannosaurus Rex of the Lakers and Celtics look like they will survive for a long time, and the prehistoric monster of the Philadelphia 76ers is already crumbling.

Charles Barkley's strength is a little stronger, at this time the fat man has not yet reached the point of madness with his sweet tooth and McDonald's Big Mac, and he was able to practice like crazy at his alma mater Auburn University in the summer, just as he practiced bouncing on the spiky wall when he was a child, this guy who was born with a fat physique is shaping himself into an air tank.

He also had a breakout in his second season, becoming the team's leading rebounder, surpassing Moses Malone, and sharing the pressure of Irving's aging in scoring, averaging 20 points per game and being the second leading scorer.

Although Barkley didn't want to admit it, in his heart, Gan Guoyang has always been the number one opponent he set, this slightly arrogant, but strong amazing yellow skin, Barkley has a strong desire to kick his ass hard.

But Barkley's growth can't make up for the overall decline in the 76ers' outside form - Irving, Cheeks, Bobby Jones - and their 83-year championship hero Andrew Toney, who has been out for the season due to injury, which is even worse for the 76ers.

Needless to say, we also know that the 76ers have no way to dominate the East anymore, and the glory of the 4 finals can no longer be reproduced, and it is only a matter of time before the team falls apart.

However, this game is still exciting, as a revolutionary sentence said, all "reactionaries" will not be willing to automatically withdraw from the stage of history, and the 76ers will never easily give up the dignity of the former hegemon, they still played an excellent record of 19-10 this season, and won 7 consecutive games before this game.

The Trail Blazers have also won 7 in a row, so after this game, there must be one team with a winning streak of 7 and the other will continue.

As a result of Andrew Toney's reimbursement, the 76ers' former lead bench, Bobby Jones, became the team's starter.

Gan Guoyang didn't have too much impression of this thin white player before, in that game a year ago, Jones on the 24th didn't have a prominent performance, and the 76ers also lost the game, Gan Guoyang just felt that this guy was very ghostly on the court and could always appear in the right place.

But after the game, Gan Guoyang just felt that the most suitable place for this guy was the 76ers' bench, and he didn't like to see him standing on the court.

At the beginning of the game, everything went in the direction in favor of the Trail Blazers, Gan Guoyang played Charles Barkley out of the wrong position in the first quarter and fouled twice, Barkley complained to the referee, and at the same time listened to Gan Guoyang call him "little fat" in his ear, and he was grumpy and almost fought with Gan Guoyang.

Without Barkley's Moses Malone, the pressure on his shoulders increased sharply, and Sampson and Gan Guoyang took turns to attack the inside, and the Trail Blazers made twice as many free throws in the first and second quarters as the 76ers, and they also ended the first half with a 62-51 lead.

In the second half, Barkley and Moses Malone, who returned to the court, teamed up and began to rush for frontcourt rebounds non-stop, and now it began to be the turn of the Trail Blazers to increase the pressure on the inside.

There is a lot of pressure on the inside, and the outside line will inevitably come to help, which gives the 76ers another opportunity to practice hitting mid-range jumpers, and the score is constantly approaching.

Among them, Bobby Jones made three of three shots, his shooting selection was very cautious, and his passing was quite cunning, the defender did not dare to pounce easily, he did not know what kind of pass space was behind him.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Barkley grabbed a backcourt rebound and went down a fast break, and after the dunk was successful and caused Gan Guoyang's foul, the 76ers tied the score and hit free throws, and the 76ers overtook him.

The momentum was completely reversed, and the 76ers expanded the score advantage little by little, and they used a 15-5 shockwave to stop the Trail Blazers, and the difference was still 11 points, but the lead was replaced by the 76ers.

Of course, the Trail Blazers, who were fighting at home, would not give up, and Gan Guoyang, who had been scolding Barkley from the first quarter to the fourth quarter, finally closed his mouth and began to grab points with all his might.

This season, he has been able to eat Moses hard with his own power, and the cheers at the Memorial Coliseum reached its climax when he ran Moses from outside the three-second zone to the basket and turned to put his hands on the basket, which was crumbling.

The combination of Colt Draxler Cosey's outside black lightning set off a wave of Trail Blazers counterattacks, and the 11-point deficit was erased by three minutes, with less than a minute left before the end of the game.

In a key offense, Ramsey still sent Vanderwiczy, who had contributed 30 points and 3 rebounds, and rarely scored 4 steals, of course, he still didn't have an assist, and obviously he is a reliable scoring machine.

Sure enough, Vanderwig made a feint with the ball and burst into the basket and hit a small right-handed throw from 8 feet away, giving the Trail Blazers a 110-108 lead over the 76ers, with only 35 seconds left in the game.

It's the 76ers' turn to attack, Julius Irving is 36 years old this year, and his performance in this game is very average, shooting 6 of 16, low shooting percentage, he can still dunk, but he can no longer fly.

Cunningham still chose Dr. J as the key attacker, he received the ball in the middle outside the three-point line, and with the cover of Moses Malone, he went straight from the top of the arc, but he really couldn't fly, his fingertip basket was slapped off by Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang firmly controlled the ball, his fourth block of the game.

Everyone thought it was going to be over, and the 76ers had to resort to foul tactics, Gan Guoyang went to the free throw line, his free throw shooting rate was as high as 81 percent, and as long as one of the two free throws was scored, the 76ers were basically finished, and the three-point shooting rate was outrageously low at that time.

Just when Gan Guoyang was also thinking about 8 consecutive wins, the ball in his hand suddenly disappeared.

A moment of slackness will produce a fatal mistake, Gan Guoyang slack, the only second he slacked off in the whole game, the ball in his hand was taken away by Bobby Jones.

After taking the ball, Jones turned around sensitively and came to the basket to face the basket, Gan Guoyang reacted equally quickly, and when he made a mistake, he immediately jumped up and blocked to make up for his mistake.

But Jones is experienced, he used his left hand to make a rebound, Gan Guoyang's arm could not cover him, the ball scored, 110:110, drawn.

Bobby Jones made the fourth shot, he made four of four shots, every shot was so discreet, and every goal was so deadly.

Of course, the game wasn't over yet, and the Trail Blazers still had 6.9 seconds left to make their final attack, and they still had to go to overtime if they didn't make it.

It's a pity that Drexler's final layup missed, Gan Guoyang didn't make a basket, and in overtime, Moses Malone was powerful again, and he kept making fouls under the basket, which eventually led to Gan Guoyang's six fouls - Gan Guoyang made Barkley six fouls before he got off the court.

The 76ers also took revenge on the Trail Blazers by a 121-120, one-point advantage on January 1, 1986, a year later.

It's just that this game failed to change the trend of the two teams, and the rise and fall of glory and disgrace cannot be decided by one game.