"Stockton, Stockton jumper...... The ball is in! The ball is in! Stockton scored the winning goal! Win by a goal! They beat Spurs on the road! Lore Spurs! "In the locker room at the Portland Memorial Coliseum, all the Trail Blazers players sat on their stools and watched the final game of the regular season being streamed as the Utah Jazz took on the San Antonio Spurs on the road.

"Oh my god, Stockton lore, I can't believe it...... Gan, Stockton and you are really good brothers, and they have managed to avoid us and avoid the 'brother showdown' with you. Kenny Carr said to Gan Guoyang after seeing Stockton score the crucial goal.

On April 14, the last day of the NBA regular season, the Trail Blazers hosted the Denver Nuggets at home, and after losing all the first three meetings, the Trail Blazers finally defeated the opponent 117-113 at home in the last game of the regular season, which also broke the embarrassing record of not winning against the Nuggets this season.

However, this game has no impact on the final ranking of the top three in the West, the Trail Blazers are firmly in second place in the West with a 55-27 record, and are in third place due to the divisional reasons, and in second place is the Denver Nuggets with a third-place record, they have a good record of 52-30.

Both teams are more concerned about which team they will face in the first round.

The three teams from fifth to seventh are quite competitive, with the Dallas Mavericks, Utah Jazz and San Antonio Spurs all separating each other by a fraction of a second.

In the last few games, the Trail Blazers first lost 103-145 to the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City, and then won the Dallas Mavericks in the following games, so that the Jazz directly smoothed the gap with the Mavericks.

With the Utah Jazz relying on Stockton to beat the Spurs in this game, the Utah Jazz also completely locked up the fifth place in the West, and they will face the fourth-ranked Houston Rockets in the first round.

"I don't want to go to Salt Lake City to play on the road, just let Mark Eaton play against the Rockets' twin towers." Gan Guoyang thought of the big defeat in Utah a few days ago, although that game was a strategic abandonment, but the big score behind and the noisy home stadium made Gan Guoyang quite uncomfortable.

For the Rockets, it is really uncomfortable to collide with the Utah Jazz, the biggest advantage of the Rockets is the twin towers of Sampson and Olajuwon on the inside, but the Jazz also have the black and white double height of Eaton and Bailly, which is bound to be a fierce battle.

On the contrary, the Trail Blazers played the Dallas Mavericks with relative ease, although the two sides were evenly matched in the regular season, but from the perspective of the lineup, the Trail Blazers were not afraid of the Mavericks, and more importantly, the Mavericks also played offensive basketball, and in this regard, the Trail Blazers were not afraid to play against the other side.

However, when Ramsey turned off the TV, the atmosphere in the entire Trail Blazers locker room suddenly became quiet and solemn, and it seemed that the result of the match against the Mavericks did not make the players feel more relaxed.

"We're going to have a game out of the game, we're going to fight the Dallas, remember, it's a playoff game, it's a completely different game than the regular season. We've got a good team, but we have a lot of young players, so maybe it's not going to be good in the playoffs, but I think it's the real battlefield that is the best place to grow, so get ready lads. Tomorrow is a day off, training resumes the day after tomorrow, and the schedule will be out soon. ”

Ramsey left the dressing room and the players packed up for their departure.

The long regular season is finally over.

When Gan Guoyang left the arena, he felt that his whole heart was relaxed all of a sudden, although he knew that the real challenge was still to come, but at the very least, the 82 regular season games were finally over.

From October last year to April this year, for nearly half a year, Gan Guoyang went back and forth with the team on more than 9 million square kilometers of land in the United States, fighting against those blacks and whites for 80 nights.

Thinking of these, Gan Guoyang felt a little incredible.

What surprised Gan Guoyang himself even more was that he only missed two games in 82 games, and he was banned for punching Ranbir, so Gan Guoyang can be said to have kept his body intact, which may be a greater achievement than MVP in the "center grave" Trail Blazers.

At the same time, in terms of personal performance, Gan Guoyang also did his best, averaging 19.5 points per game in the season, only one step away from averaging 20 points per game, and grabbing an average of 16.3 rebounds per game, which made Gan Guoyang the king of rebounds.

Adelman's average of 3.3 blocks and 2.1 steals per game does not fully reflect Gan's huge role on the defensive end, and Adelman said that Gan Guoyang has been nominated for the best defensive player.

Finally, the 1.9 assists show that Gan Guoyang still has a lot of potential to tap on the offensive end.

In any case, this is a memorable and memorable rookie season for Gan Guoyang, and after this season, it means that Gan Guoyang has finally passed the rookie stage and become a real NBA professional player.

"Clyde, did you think about what your career would hold when you finished your rookie season?" Gan Guoyang sat in Drexler's car and Drexler took him home, and since that accident, Gan Guoyang has never dared to drive himself.

"Me? The rookie season was a bit bad, I thought I was going to Houston, but it ended up in Portland; I missed most of the training camp, and at the beginning of the season I wasn't comfortable with the NBA at all; Also, I have three competitors at the point guard position! A lot of times I don't get playing time, even if I play well in the first game, I'll sit on the bench in the next game. It's really tough...... When I played all season, including the playoffs, I thought, I'm finally fucking free. As for what will happen in the future, I really didn't think about it at the time. Probably the most I think about it is that I'm going to get more playing time next season! Drexler has a stomach full of things to say when he thinks about his rough rookie season.

"But you've come here, you're a big star of the Trailblazers now, and I'm sure you're going to be great." Gan Guoyang looked at Drexler, his best friend after coming to the Trail Blazers was a glider, and the two of them now hardly talked.

"Haha, this season is really different, I didn't expect you to be such a fun guy, everyone didn't expect it, I think you're the one who brought us the biggest change this season, really Gan, I think you have a chance to win the MVP." Drexler wasn't entirely joking when he said that, as Gan Guoyang is third in the MVP rankings behind Bird and Magic Johnson. And behind him are Moses Malone and Abdul-Jabbar.

"No kidding, even without me, I think you'd have won the championship." Gan Guoyang thought of Chris's tape saying that the Trail Blazers would win the championship in 1990, and I don't know if it was because Gan Guoyang's death gave the Trail Blazers a huge spiritual motivation to let the Trail Blazers, who originally failed to win the championship, reverse history.

"Don't say that...... You know, because of you, the team has the hope of winning the championship, you haven't been through last season, so you don't know how Coach Ramsay changed last year and this year, trust me, come on, Gan.

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The next day, when the whole team rested, Gan Guoyang still got up early and ran to the training center as usual.

On the streets of Portland in the early morning, Gan Guoyang could already see some huge promotional posters about the playoffs, in which Gan Guoyang became the center of the posters, hanging from tall buildings.

In some of the narrower streets, there were also banners about the playoffs that read "Portland-Uprise."

For Portland, a city with only one professional team, the Trail Blazers, supporting the Trail Blazers is the most consistent choice for all sports fans, and the Trail Blazers are the symbol of the city.

When Gan Guoyang came to the training hall, he found that someone on the court had already arrived first.

"Who was earlier than me? Sampson? Or Clyde? "Gan Guoyang is a little strange, generally speaking, in the whole season, the number of times Gan Guoyang arrived at the training ground for the second time, can be counted on one hand.

When Gan Guoyang entered the field, he found that the one step ahead of him was the team's head coach Jack Ramsay.

"Hey, Mr. Ramsay, why are you here?" Ramsey, as the team's manager, always arrives on time on training days and there is no need for him to come early.

And on his days off, the elderly gentleman will have a good rest at home.

"You still come to Gan, the days of rest, you should have a good rest, rest is as important as exercise."

"It doesn't matter, for me, going to the gym and the gym to practice alone is the best rest. But why are you here, Mr. Ramsay? ”

"Hehehe, hard worker." Ramsey smiled and said briefly.

The relationship between Gan Guoyang and Ramsey is actually strange, they are not the same in terms of their concept of basketball, Gan Guoyang feels that Ramsay is conservative, Ramsay thinks Gan Guoyang is too selfish, and the two often have some small contradictions and frictions throughout the season.

However, Gan Guoyang admired Ramsay's rigor and solidity in tactics and training, and he was happy to accept Ramsay's opinion; And Ramsey saw infinite talent from Gan Guoyang, and his regrets in Wharton are expected to be made up for here in Gan Guoyang.

In general, the relationship between the two is not bad, but it is not so good, and the two rarely intersect off the court, so hearing Ramsay's praise, Gan Guoyang didn't know how to answer.

'Let's train, I'm here because I'm a little bit more flexible on the pitch. When it comes to the playoffs, you have to give your all and make a detailed plan for every game. "It seems that Ramsey came to the training gym to open up ideas.

"Okay, let's do a solo workout, and I'll beat the Mavericks in the playoffs!" Gan Guoyang is still full of confidence in the upcoming playoffs.

"I hope so, but I still have to tell you that the playoffs and the regular season are two worlds...... Let's start with physical exercises......"

(There is a second update, the time is uncertain)