The Trail Blazers' big win in Los Angeles took their winning streak to eight, and only the Detroit Pistons in the league are as unbeaten in their first eight games as the Trail Blazers.

Soon, of course, the Trail Blazers were left undefeated in the league since the start of the season, and the Pistons lost to the Houston Rockets in the next game, ending their eight-game winning streak.

This also made the Trail Blazers the target of the whole league, but whenever they encountered the Trail Blazers, they were thinking about beating the Trail Blazers with all their might and breaking the Trail Blazers' undefeated golden body.

After an eight-game winning streak, the Trail Blazers left Los Angeles and returned to Portland, and the New Jersey Nets took on the Trail Blazers on the road on Nov. 20, the only game of the day on the 20th.

The only highlight of this game is that Buck Williams faced his old master for the first time in the new season, and Sabonis, who performed well in the last game, did not get too many opportunities to perform, because Williams exploded with huge energy in the face of the Nets, and he got 16 points and 16 rebounds in the whole game.

Jerome Cauchy also broke out in this game, he and Drexler formed a fast break double, and the two combined to score 50 points, so Gan Guoyang ended up idle in this game, shot a few piecemeal, scored 15 points and 14 rebounds, and went off the court early in the fourth quarter.

With nine straight wins, the Trail Blazers' momentum to start the season has reached a small peak.

However, Gan Guoyang and his teammates know that for a team, as the winning streak continues to increase, the psychological pressure will also increase.

On the 22nd, the Trail Blazers flew to Seattle to challenge the SuperSonics, who lost to the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals in 987 and failed to impact the Finals, so they sent away Tom Chambers in the offseason and completely entered a rebuilding period.

But the SuperSonics, who entered a rebuilding period, drafted a promising rookie with the No. 5 pick in the 1987 draft, Scott Pippen, only to send him to the Chicago Bulls instead.

In 1988, they only got a No. 16 pick, and they took a mediocre player like Gray Grant, who didn't even get a chance to sit on the bench when the new season began.

But it is such a supersonic speed, but it made the Trail Blazers suffer at home, and Cauchy, who was still in a hot game in the last game, was blocked by "X-man" McDaniel in this game, and he did not play very well in the whole game.

The shooting touch of the outside players is even more messy, after all, they have played a stable game for 9 games, and it is normal for there to be a fluctuation.

This is bitter Gan Guoyang, Adelman still wants to ensure the team's winning streak, and Gan Guoyang doesn't want the winning streak to end at 9 games, so Gan Guoyang, who had rested for more than ten minutes in each game before, rested for 2 minutes in this game, played 46 minutes, shot 17 of 31, made 8 of 12 free throws, scored 42 points on the supersonic interior without Jack Sikma, and grabbed 20 rebounds.

In the whole game, the Trail Blazers had a full 20 more rebounds than the SuperSonics, but after the game, the Trail Blazers only won the SuperSonics by five points, and the two sides fought until the last minute of the game, and the Trail Blazers sealed the victory with a three-point shot and a key backcourt rebound from Gan Guoyang.

After the game, the focus of the interview was on Gan Guoyang, Sabonis, who received media attention on the court, had a mediocre performance in this game, because the whole team's offensive feeling was not good, and Sabonis's passing and strategy could not change the situation of repeated missed shots from the outside, and only superstars stood up to solve the battle at this time.

In terms of attitude towards the media, Gan Guoyang has not changed much from the past, and generally still maintains his dislike for the media, sometimes he likes to tease reporters from time to time, and sometimes he speaks very seriously and seriously, anyway, he doesn't let those who hold the pen have traces to follow.

At the reception, Gan Guoyang "seriously" believed that the supersonic will be the most powerful contender for the Trail Blazers in the West this season, because after ten games, the score difference between the Trail Blazers and the SuperSonics is the smallest.

After playing against the "best contender in the West," the Trail Blazers quickly rushed back to Portland, and the Houston Rockets would be their next opponent.

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Since Seattle is not far from Portland, the Trail Blazers returned to Portland the night after the game against the SuperSonics.

Because the game against the Rockets will be played in two days, Adelman gave the whole team a holiday, and the players have a good rest, and winning ten games in a row is a big burden, and everyone needs to relax.

On the 25th, the Houston Rockets flew from Salt Lake City to Portland with a loss, and Olajuwon scored 31 points, 14 rebounds and 7 blocks in that game, but still failed to bring the Rockets a victory.

Before the start of the game, Gan Guoyang called the hotel where the Rockets were staying and invited Olajuwon, Thorpe, and Drexler to the hotel for lunch.

This is the first time Gan Guoyang has seen Olajuwon in the new season, and in the offseason, the two were still honing their skills at the University of Houston.

The amazingly talented and fiery interior prodigy has become worse and worse after his unhappy spell with Ralph Sampson and the team's decline due to drug prohibitions, while at the same time demanding his basketball skills to the point of being demanding.

Gan Guoyang still remembers that in the summer, he often spent time alone in the training hall finely polishing his basket footsteps, like a paranoid craftsman repeatedly sharpening the sword in his hand.

Gan Guoyang thinks that he has achieved great success in technology, and his use of offensive and defensive skills and control of the game have gradually reached the peak, but purely in terms of the delicacy of internal technology, Gan Guoyang asked himself that he could not reach the level of Olajuwon.

However, Gan Guoyang felt that Olajuwon was on the wrong path, and he behaved not like a leader, but like a wanton child king.

It's just that he also knows that Olajuwon will have his own glory in the future, and will go to his own mature path, as his opponent, he doesn't need to correct him at will.

Thorpe, on the other hand, became a good partner for Olajuwon after being traded to the Rockets, and grew up with Olajuwon, but unfortunately he couldn't fill the vacancy of Sampson.

Gan Guoyang once suggested that the management should best recruit Thorpe to the team to partner with him, but after the Trail Blazers tried to ask for the price, the Sacramentos were not interested in the Trail Blazers' chips, and now that the Trail Blazers have Buck Williams, Gan Guoyang and Thorpe are estimated to be teammates.

The four of them sat in the restaurant and slowly enjoyed Portland's food, three 84-year-old rookies, two students at the University of Houston, reminiscing about some interesting things in the past, but they didn't talk about the future, they never thought of playing together, Gan Guoyang will always be Olajuwon's number one target, and Gan Guoyang also sees Olajuwon as the strongest competitor in the center position.

It's just that in comparison, Gan Guoyang and Drexler are vibrant, and Olajuwon's face has a trace of sadness, and the four of them chatted and chatted unconsciously about Colt's body, Gan Guoyang suddenly remembered that he was arrested by mistake because he dissuaded Colt from buying drugs.

At the mention of drugs, Olajuwon suddenly became a little excited, put the tableware on the table and said: "At that time, many people in the whole alliance were taking drugs, and the source of all drug abuse incidents was in Baias, but in the end, it was our rockets who suffered the most losses!" If it weren't for that, Sampson wouldn't have been so badly injured and we wouldn't have played so badly in '88! ”

In 1986, Baias was hospitalized for drug use, and was finally rescued, and was also banned by the league, which led to a major investigation of drugs in the league.

As a result, in the 1987-1988 season, the Houston Rockets' two big men, Lloyd and Mitchell Wiggins, were heavily banned for the whole season, and the suspension of players not only caused the Rockets to lose their books, but other players were also frequently injured due to increased playing time, and finally the Twin Tower Rockets, which eliminated the Los Angeles Lakers in 1986, disintegrated.

Olajuwon is angry every time he mentions it, and he always thinks that the league is targeting the Rockets and wants the Lakers to dominate the West.

"Don't be like this, Akeem, even if they do, the Lakers will no longer want to dominate the West, their rule is over." Gan Guoyang said.

"Yes, you beat the Lakers by a big beat, but don't forget, you haven't beaten the Lakers in the playoffs, and we did. It's like in the East, if you don't beat the Celtics, you can't make it to the Finals, and the Pistons did it. ”

Olajuwon's words also stimulated Gan Guoyang, indeed, the Trail Blazers died at the hands of the Lakers in the two playoffs, the first time they lost cleanly, and the second time they lost, the Lakers will be the biggest opponent of the Trail Blazers this year, because other teams in the West really have no threat.

After lunch, the four of them went back to the training hall to train and prepare for tonight's game.

In the past, the Trail Blazers' game against the Rockets, Gan Guoyang against the Twin Towers has always been the biggest gimmick, and now, Sampson is injured and left, and the theme of the game has become "34vs11".

It's a pity that tonight's game disappointed all the spectators who were eagerly waiting for Gan Guoyang and Olajuwon to hit the earth with Mars.

At the beginning of this game, the Trail Blazers implemented the tactics of harassment and fake joint defense in advance, which completely disrupted Olajuwon's offensive rhythm, and he couldn't even receive the ball at all.

The Rockets used to be proud not only of the twin towers, but also of tall and strong outside players who could provide strong help to the interior at any time, but now except for McGregory, everyone else is walking, declining and declining, and can never return to peak condition.

In the one-on-one conversation between Gan Guoyang and Olajuwon on the offensive end, he was hidden at first, and then completely let go after Sabonis came up, using Sabonis as a covering wall, and hit four mid-range jumpers at the top of the arc, and he also shot seven mid-range jumpers for the first time in the whole game, and shot Olajuwon alive.

94:122, the Trail Blazers beat the Rockets at home, Olajuwon only scored 10 points and 4 rebounds in the game, compared with Gan Guoyang's 20 points and 13 rebounds, the gap is obvious.

After the game, Olajuwon left the stadium early, leaving only a lonely back for the audience, while on the other side, Gan Guoyang greeted the cheers of the audience with open arms.

The era of big dreams is far from coming.