Chapter 348: The Return of the King
"Good evening basketball fans, no matter where you are right now, tonight I'm going to bring you Game 7 of the Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets! I thought my work was over this season and I wouldn't be sitting here again until October, but I would say that they are back! On a night like this, I am honored to be able to sit here and witness the miracle happening and witness the glory that Portland's Trailblazers brought to this city! ”
On May 23, tickets were sold out at the Portland Memorial Coliseum, and many fans who could not get into the stadium had to stay outside the arena and listen to Bill Shanley's voice coming from the loudspeakers.
It was a do-or-die battle between the Trail Blazers and the Rockets, and before that, many Trail Blazers fans thought it was impossible for the team to return to their home court, but a miracle happened.
In Game 6, the Trail Blazers defeated the Houston Rockets with a 119-112, 7-point advantage, bringing the overall score to 3-3 and stubbornly dragging the series into a life-and-death battle.
It happened to be Friday, and the city of Portland was almost completely emptied except for the Memorial Coliseum, shops closed early, and people who got off work went home early to stay by the television.
Those who had to be stationed at their posts turned on their radios and listened to live commentary on Radio Portland.
Even Portland fishermen, who were crabbing in the Bering Sea, turned on the radio on their fishing boats and followed the course of the game in the wind and waves.
That's the motivation to play at home, but also the pressure.
Gan Guoyang, who withstood the huge pressure in the fifth and sixth games and pulled the team out of the quagmire in different ways, finally had a relaxed smile on his face before the game, instead of being so cold and silent.
Two games, four days, Gan Guoyang's weight is incalculable, and now, he can finally unload some, stand on the same running line with the Rockets and Olajuwon, and complete the final battle.
On the contrary, at this time, Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson stood in the position where Gan Guoyang once stood, leading 3:1, but were tied by the opponent, missing the opportunity to win at home, and had to play a life-and-death battle away from home.
Both men did not express their opinions on the outcome of the game, and Olajuwon no longer had the momentum to win the next game after the first game.
The momentum has returned to the side of the Trail Blazers.
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"Promising, come on, come on, the game is on! Your son is going to score, come here, come here! Stop chopping vegetables, hurry up! "At the Gan Family Restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown, it closed at 7 p.m., and the family closed the door and sat in the lobby to watch the live broadcast of the Western Conference Finals.
Gan Youwei is conscientious and responsible for his work, because he has to get up tomorrow morning to make breakfast, and he is preparing some ingredients in the kitchen, but after a long time, he forgets about the competition.
"Come now, come now...... Heck, it's okay to watch it for a while, there are four verses anyway. The game was stinky and long, it was always stopped in the middle, and the camera was so far away that I couldn't see my son clearly...... Wait a minute, I'll be here when I'm done. ”
Gan Youwei watched basketball games just to watch his son, and the playoffs started without falling, but as a "new fan", he also began to complain that the NBA games were too long.
By the time Gan Youwei got all the work in the kitchen right, the first quarter of the game between the Trail Blazers and Rockets was already halfway through.
"I'm coming, I'm coming...... Hey, hey, why is it pausing again! What about my country? Still on the field? Gan Youwei said while wiping his hands while looking at the TV, as soon as he sat down, he saw the two sides pause, and then everything on the TV screen turned into an advertisement.
"Yes, Guoyang has already scored 7 points in a row! The Trail Blazers are ahead, and I think the Trail Blazers are going to win this time. "Gan Youtang is also a ball blind, if Gan Guohui is next to him, he must be told not to lose his character.
Of course, Gan Guohui was also watching the game with his classmates in the school's dormitory at this time, bragging to everyone while watching.
After the commercial ended, the camera finally returned to the Memorial Stadium.
"It's back, it's back...... What about my son? ”
"Cousin, are you watching basketball, or are you watching your son, isn't your son on it, No. 11, the most conspicuous one, and the others are all black."
"I watched my son watch basketball again! Look at my son as the ...... for the Lord."
Just as Gan Youwei was speaking, Gan Guoyang blocked McGregory's layup in the middle of the defense, and the Trail Blazers took back the ball and launched a fast break.
"Good! Aggro! Rush! Several people were agitated at once, and Drexler dribbled the ball straight to the front court with his head down.
Gan Guoyang quickly followed, and the Rockets' return defense was obviously a beat slower, and their team's strategy of striving for frontcourt rebounds was destined to be untimely.
At this time, Drexler slowed down, saw the right time, threw the ball into the air, and Gan Guoyang, who was following behind, jumped high, caught the ball in the air and poured the basket with both hands!
Relay in the air!
"What a ball!" Gan Youwei, who has always been calm, shouted and jumped up, if Gan Guoyang knew that his father was so excited every time he scored, it is estimated that he would deliberately lower his score to prevent Gan Youwei from having a heart attack.
"Oh no, Guoyang seems to have been hit." Gan Youtang on the side reminded Gan Youwei.
At this time, Gan Youwei came back to his senses and quickly stared at the TV carefully, only to find that the camera gave a close-up of Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang did hold his right arm with a painful look.
"It's... What's going on? Yes? It's going to be okay, right? Gan Youwei's heart plucked up suddenly, what he was most worried about was Gan Guoyang's injury on the field, he would rather Gan Guoyang lose than his son be tortured by the injury.
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At the same time, the hearts of more than 20,000 fans at the scene were also pinched, this was just the first quarter, if Gan Guoyang did it, it would be tantamount to a bolt from the blue to the team.
When relaying in the air just now, Sampson and Gan Guoyang collided together, and the referee also blew a foul after the goal, and Sampson violated Gan Guoyang's cylinder.
Now, whether Gan Guoyang can stand on the free throw line is a question.
"How's it going, Gan? Don't move, don't move. The team doctor had already run to Gan Guoyang's side to inquire about the situation.
"It looks like my right arm is torn... It hurts...... "It's the triceps muscle, which has been a little injured for a long time, and it just got hit by Sampsonwang and it seems to be a more serious injury.
Gan Guoyang endured the pain and stood on the free throw line, then scored the ball with his left hand, and went off the court early to the locker room.
"If it's a torn muscle, then you can't compete anymore." Dr. Cook said to Gan Guoyang in the locker room that the muscle tear is a season-reimbursed injury, not to mention that this one can't be played, and Gan Guoyang may not be able to participate in training for two months.
"No, it shouldn't be a muscle tear, I can feel it, maybe it's a strain, he hit me while my hand was still on the basket, and my arm was strained." Gan Guoyang felt that the pain had eased a little, and it was not as painful as it was at the beginning.
"It's not the best with a tear, but it's hard to play with a strain......
"Spray me with some ethyl chloride and tie my arms a bit, and I'm going to play." Gan asked Cook to spray himself with some cryogen.
"Gan, this is not good for the muscles, you are old and injured here......"
"Quick, Cook, you know, there's no way I'm going to sit on the sidelines and watch this game, even if my hand is broken, quick."
Cook knew that it was impossible for Gan Guoyang to give up this game, no one wanted to play to this point, and he gave up easily.
"Okay, but there are still three quarters left in the game, and I'm afraid it's hard for you to hold on until the end of the game."
"A minute is a minute!"
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Gan Guoyang's accidental injury hit the morale of the Trail Blazers, and what was even more fatal was that their interior line was empty all of a sudden, and Olajuwon and Sampson would not let go of such an opportunity, they respectively hit a single shot in the low post to help the Rockets close the score.
The situation of the Trailblazers suddenly became critical, and they lost their generals in the first quarter, and the seventh battle of life and death could not tolerate any mistakes.
Drexler jumped, missed, Olajuwon got the rebound, the Rockets counterattacked, McGray made a layup, only one point away, the Trail Blazers only led by one point, and Gan's departure hit the Trail Blazers hard. But...... We see, Gan came out of the tunnel and he came back to the court, and after three minutes and fifty seconds away from the field, he was back! ”
Gan Guoyang slowly ran out of the player tunnel in sportswear, and the memorial stadium immediately erupted in enthusiastic cheers, and the eyes of the fans who were originally a little lost and worried regained their brilliance.
Gan Guoyang ran to the bench, high-fived all the players, and then said to Ramsay: "I'm back." )”
Ramsey understood and immediately called a 20-second timeout, which was to replace Gan Guoyang on the court.
Soon, Gan Guoyang took off his sportswear and returned to the field, at which time the applause of the fans had lasted for half a minute.
"Gan is back, our sun god, can he dispel the haze, can he bring light!"
However, unlike the previous game, Gan Guoyang's right arm has been wrapped around the arm guard, and it is still a big question whether he can continue to attack with his right hand as the shooter.
"Gan was in the low post, Olajuwon was defending in front of him, and he didn't let his guard down in the slightest...... Gan's counterrun, Colt passes, and Gan is another aerial relay! ”
Olajuwon's defense around the front achieved Gan Guoyang's counter-run plus aerial relay, which was a surprise, and Colter's pass was very bold.
After scoring the goal, Gan Guoyang raised his left hand and stretched out a finger, as if to tell everyone that he was the real owner of this stadium.
The return of the king, even if he can't charge into battle, can make the morale of the soldiers a hundred times greater.
The Trailblazers regained hope.