Chapter 389: Sorrow Urges Heat
Miami's enthusiasm for basketball does seem strange, and when Gan Guoyang arrived at the Miami Coliseum, the home of the Heat, there were already fans who began to enter the stadium in a sparse manner, indicating that there should be a lot of fans tonight.
But at the same time, a lot of people were clearly more interested in the Trail Blazers, and Gan Guoyang signed autographs on the sidelines before warming up, and the excitement of those Miami fans made him feel like he was in Portland rather than on the South Coast.
But it's no wonder that the biggest player on the opposite side of the Miami Heat 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, and is the number one star of the Heat!
Gan Guoyang still has a little impression of Sparocchi, for Gan Guoyang, he has an impression of either the league's big-name stars, or difficult role players, and the rest are the players who were fanned by him on the field, Sparrow obviously belongs to the third type.
In addition to Sparrow, an eight-year veteran, as well as a few veteran players such as Pat Cummins and Joe Sandwald, the other nine players of the Heat are all recruits, which is also a record in the entire NBA history.
It stands to reason that such a team lacks immediate power but should be full of talent and potential, but the poor thing is that the draft results of the newly formed Heat management draft were not ideal, and in the 1988 draft, they used the team's highest ninth pick to select Ronnie Sekeley, a Lebanese center from Syracuse University who was also the first Lebanese to land in the NBA.
Perhaps Gan Guoyang's success has given NBA teams the confidence to choose foreign players, but not every foreign center has a talent like Gan Guoyang, Sekeley has shown good talent and learning ability in the game, as an interior player, his basic skills are very solid, offensive and defensive skills have a good foundation, and his rebounding ability is also very good.
In the first dozen games, Sekeley can get 10 points and 7 rebounds, and he has a qualified performance.
But for a team like Miami, what they need most is not a decent player like Sekeley, what they need most is talent, potential.
Of course, the quality of the 1988 draft is indeed average, which is even more difficult for the Miami Heat, who do not have much experience, to find a treasure without a high draft pick, in the next two rounds of the draft, Miami still has multiple draft picks, but missed out on real potential rookies such as Vernon Maxwell, Steve Cole, Anthony Mason and so on.
In this way, the Miami Heat embarked on the NBA journey with nine rookies, and to make matters worse, they were assigned to the West Division on the South Coast, along with the San Antonio Spurs, Houston Rockets, Utah Jazz, Denver Nuggets and Dallas Mavericks, which was a disaster for the Heat.
It's no surprise that such a new team of fledglings has to fly to the Midwestern Highlands or the Texas Prairie Triangle to face the ravages of some of the most difficult teams in the West.
Before the start of the game, Gan Guoyang listened to Bellman tell him about the tragic history of the Miami Heat after the start of this season, such as going to Texas to play the Texas triangle at the beginning of the season, and was slaughtered by the Spurs by 24 points and by the Rockets by 21 points.
Then they scored a 65-point low against Boston, and it is said that Larry Bird couldn't bear to attack in that game, and he shot six balls in the whole game, and the Celtics strangled the Heat purely on defense.
Gan Guoyang listened to these tragic stories of the Heat, and couldn't help but feel related, he usually doesn't pay much attention to the situation of these weak teams, and he either trains or only watches the Lakers, Celtics and Bulls every day, I really didn't expect the team to be so miserable.
The Charlotte Hornets, who entered the league at the same time as the Heat, won their first game in Game 3 and beat the Heat for their third win in a meeting between the two teams on Nov. 29.
In contrast, the Heat's first win looks like a distant prospect, and they are lucky enough to play Portland tonight.
"Shall we bring some warmth to this cold south coast? Anyway, you always have to lose, and it's actually nothing to lose to such a bad team, right, Mr. Bellman? Gan Guoyang seems to have a trace of sympathy for the heat.
"No, being merciful to the enemy is being cruel to yourself, and if you think about it, if we lose our home-court advantage in the playoffs because of a regular season win, there's nowhere to make up for it." Bellman's approach to the game has always been serious and rigorous, and he has been in the NBA for a few years, and he also knows that every detail on the road to winning the championship must be taken seriously.
"Okay, okay, let's play well and beat them down...... By the way, Mr. Bellman, do you know what the largest single-game margin in NBA history is? ”
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Gan Guoyang has always been known in the NBA for turning his face and not recognizing people, before the game he can often mingle with the opponent players, talking and laughing, and when he arrives on the court, the enemy is very red when he sees each other, not only to defeat the opponent in terms of ball skills, but also to give the opponent a heavy blow mentally.
Gan Guoyang on the front foot was still thinking about sending warmth to the Miami Heat, and when the back foot arrived on the court, Gan Guoyang had already begun to think about whether to create the largest point difference in NBA history.
Prior to the 1989 season, the largest margin of point difference in NBA regular-season history was set by the Bucks against the Kings in 1985, when the Bucks slaughtered the Kings by 58 points at 140-82.
If you want to defeat your opponent by such a big score, you not only need to be in a good state and the opponent is in a bad state, but also need a cruel atmosphere, after all, with such a score, the meaning of the competitive game that has been lost is just pure slaughter.
Although Gan Guoyang asked Bellman about "the largest single-game point difference in history", he didn't really want to create such a massacre, but the process of the game was beyond Gan Guoyang's expectations.
In the first quarter of the game, the Miami Heat was able to compete with the Trail Blazers, relying on the momentum of the home court, they withstood the fast break of the Trail Blazers, and relied on the momentum of young players to begin to entangle with the Trail Blazers.
Gan Guoyang has been playing tepidly, he really can't lift his spirits in the face of the heat, in the face of this group of recruits Gan Guoyang doesn't even have the desire to spew trash talk, and the Lebanese center Sekeli opposite him is not a noisy guy, and Gan Guoyang is too lazy to teach him a lesson.
So Gan Guoyang began to try to practice long-range shooting from the outside, and 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 "Booshit" to Gan Guoyang after Gan Guoyang missed another shot, which caused a bloody storm.
“What-fuck-you-said? (What the fuck are you talking about?) Gan Guoyang said to Long when he returned to the backcourt, and Sabonis had already played at this time, and Gan Guoyang came to the position of power forward to face Long.
"Your shot is a piece of!" Long is young and vigorous, so he directly rushes with Gan Guoyang.
Gan Guoyang didn't say much, but he knew that he was finally a little bit of a target in this game.
"Holy-Shit (fuck) ...... This kid is going to be finished. 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, if you don't have enough strength or necessity, don't provoke casually, one is Bird, one is Jordan, one is Ranbir, and the other is Gan Guoyang.
Of course, there is an exception to Charles Barkley, if you don't provoke him, he will also come and provoke you, among the most difficult players in the league, the others are counted as one bracket, and Charles Barkley has to be listed in a separate bracket.
Long's lesson came quickly, he tried to go to the outside to make a block for his teammates, Sparrow relied on Long's block to cut 45 degrees from the side, but Sparrow didn't dare to pass back to Long, because he knew that the pass would be bad.
Long tried to cut inside after blocking and dismantling, but he found that he was completely blocked by Gan Guoyang, who pushed his ass and put his hands back, just like that, stuck Long in the horn position.
Long also tried to compete with Gan Guoyang and pushed Gan Guoyang away, who knew that Gan Guoyang was fixed there motionless, Ren Long couldn't squeeze it out, Gan Guoyang's card position was as solid as a rock.
As the Heat missed the outside jumper, Gan Guoyang took a step forward and easily grabbed the rebound.
Gan Guoyang did not launch a fast break after getting the rebound, but slowly handed the ball to Porter, who understood that Gan Guoyang wanted to teach this newcomer a lesson.
However, Gan Guoyang did not go to the low post position, maybe it was really not interesting for him to crush Long in the low position, just when Sabonis was present, Gan Guoyang was in the left 45 degree position, relying on the cover of Sabonis and Cauchy, and made a wide range of runs inward along the bottom line, running from left to the bottom corner of the right.
Porter had already seen Gan Guoyang's running position, and passed the ball directly to Gan Guoyang, and after Gan Guoyang took the ball, a big empty space ran in front of him, because the Heat's defense was too unsystematic, and a simple slippery bottom line began to leak people.
But Gan Guoyang didn't shoot, but paused, waited for Long to fill in the position, and then said, "This is a meeting gift for you." ”
After saying that, Gan Guoyang directly pulled out the jump shot in front of Long, and after the first quarter of the hand adjustment, Gan Guoyang's crosshair returned, and the ball went into the net hollow.