Gan Guoyang can't remember how many times he has been to Los Angeles, and for the foreseeable future, this will be the place he often visits.

Before coming to Los Angeles, Gan Guoyang wanted to pay a visit to Michael Jackson, but the back-to-back schedule made it impossible for him to spare time.

And Jackson is also making preliminary preparations for the new album, and the whole person is very busy, so Gan Guoyang can only give up this idea - he originally wanted to ask Michael for a signed album, because Wang Fuxi is a die-hard fan of Jackson.

The Trail Blazers, who arrived in Los Angeles late at night, immediately drove to their hotel and went to bed early, with the game set to start at 5 p.m. the next day, less than 24 hours after their last game ended.

Compared to the Portland Trail Blazers, who are destined to have little rest, the Lakers' players are really tired of resting.

Their last game was on December 29, 1984, and it was a local derby against the Los Angeles Clippers.

After a poor start to the season, the Lakers gradually recovered, and finally returned to normal by the middle of the season, improving their record to 22-10 and regaining the first place in the West.

It's just that they have gradually felt the huge threat posed by the Portland Trail Blazers, although the Lakers have maintained a complete victory in the first two games.

And this third game is extremely crucial for both sides, the Trail Blazers and Lakers are only half a win apart, as long as they win this game, the Trail Blazers will regain the low position in the West.

For the Lakers, who have dominated the West since the 80s, any rising threat will have to be strangled in the cradle to maintain the rule of their Purple and Gold dynasty.

So during this five-day break, Pat Riley and the entire Lakers coaching staff have been carefully studying the strengths and weaknesses of the Trail Blazers this season, and they have also watched the live broadcast of the game between the Trail Blazers and the 76ers.

This game should be said to have given Riley and the Lakers coaching staff a great sense of crisis, because they found that the No. 11 center, who was originally a little out of touch with the whole team and had immature game experience, was becoming more and more mature on the court, and the integration with the entire Trail Blazers was getting better and better.

Riley was originally looking at the Houston Rockets with their twin towers as the number one threat target, and now he's ready to put the Trail Blazers at the top of that list.

So this game is destined to be dangerous for the Trail Blazers.

However, the Trail Blazers are not unprepared, and Ramsey, as an experienced coach, has more than a decade of experience against the Lakers, allowing him to find a reasonable way to deal with it without taking too much time.

It's just an important regular season game anyway, not a do-or-die playoff game.

The next day, the Trail Blazers arrived at the Great Western Forum Arena for an hour of acclimatization, and they were all too familiar with the venue.

Gan Guoyang was interviewed by the Los Angeles media before the game, and now Gan Guoyang has received more and more attention, and people have begun to abandon the prejudice against his skin color, but it is his outstanding performance on the court.

Many NBA critics agree that Gan Guoyang will undoubtedly be one of the most shining jewels of the year's golden rookie.

"How do you feel about Los Angeles? As far as I know, you've been here in high school and college, and your first university was UCLA. A reporter asked.

Ordinary reporters rarely ask Gan Guoyang such questions, especially about UCLA, which is not a good memory for Gan Guoyang.

But there are always exceptions, such as the reporter is a beautiful blonde beauty, in which case any player will relax his tolerance.

"There are good and bad, here I met some interesting things and interesting people, which gave me a lot of good memories; And in basketball, there are also a lot of interesting things and of course some painful memories. Overall, it's a city that's half angels and half devils. Gan Guoyang recalled his experience in Los Angeles and couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

"The Trail Blazers have changed a lot of rosters after the summer trade and draft, and you've had impressive results, what do you think about that?" Another reporter asked.

"Uh... Vanderwicki's arrival is definitely a big deal for the team, the scoring, the playmaking and the assists he provides have helped the team a lot, and I'm doing my best to learn and adapt to the league, so we've been doing well so far. "Gan Guoyang has learned to use clichés to deal with these boring questions.

"What do you think of this game with the Lakers......" The beautiful reporter still wanted to ask, and Gan Guoyang finally became a little impatient.

"The NBA has played so many seasons, more than 1,000 games a season, and for us there is one game after one game, and we only played one game yesterday, so I don't know what to look at the game, work or play, I can't tell, just like you write a manuscript, write one and write one until you die. So I treat the game, I just want to win, just like you just want your newspaper to sell more, so don't ask such boring questions, for the sake of you're still a beautiful guy, I'm talking to you about this, thank you, ma'am. ”

Gan Guoyang spewed out a lot of words like a cannon, and the flow of words made those American reporters stunned, and after saying this, Gan Guoyang turned around and left to continue training.

Sometimes NBA players, as half entertainers, have to pretend in front of the camera, and Gan Guoyang is extremely tired of this, but he has to cooperate.

This time he finally seized a chance to vent a little, of course, he didn't know that his words would cause a big storm after the game.

After a brief training session, at 5 p.m., the regular season game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Portland Trail Blazers was finally about to begin, and the scene was already crowded.

Due to the Trail Blazers' highlight performance this season, this game can be said to have received a lot of attention, CBS, Espn, ABC TV stations have all chosen to broadcast this game in the United States.

But the commentator who is really loved by the local Los Angeles audience is still the Lakers' royal commentator, Mr. Zike Hearn, I don't know how many fans in front of the TV, have turned on the TV, then turned off the sound, and then turned on the live sports channel on the radio.

"The Trail Blazers players stood in a sea of yellow, like little red mice in a golden cornfield, ready to steal some corn cobs and go back to the winter reserves, but obviously, it wasn't that easy to break the cobs in the cornfields of the Great Western Forum...... Oh my god, let's see, the Trail Blazers' No. 11 Gan, what kind of shoes he's wearing, the bells and whistles are like a circus clown, black, red, you just can't see much white. This should be Nike's new shoe for him, and trust me, it shouldn't affect Gan's three-point shooting percentage. ”

Zike Hearn, as a hardcore Lakers commentator, will certainly not miss any opportunity to taunt his opponents, and if the Celtics come to the Great Western Forum, then they will be even worse in Zike Hearn's mouth.

Gan Guoyang can get Hearn's ridicule, this is not a humiliation but an honor, because it shows that Gan Guoyang has begun to occupy an important hostile position in the hearts of Lakers fans, after all, his first performance in the Great Western Forum really made all fans break out in a cold sweat.

Now, it's a bit weird to be standing in the middle of the field in the new shoes that Nike has customized for him that haven't yet been fully developed.

Magic Johnson thought Gan Guoyang's shoes were good, so he took the initiative to shake hands with Gan Guoyang and said, "Your shoes are good, I think I'll buy a pair." ”

Of course, the Magicians have always been so friendly to everyone before the game, but after the game started, it was a different story.

"Scrum, Abdul-Jabbar won the scrum! It seems that the new shoes did have some effect on Gan, and it was indeed a bit ugly. Zike Hearn still refuses to let go of Gan Guoyang's poor Nike shoes.

At that time, most of the players wore Converse basketball shoes, which looked like the cricket shoes that people often wear now, and the Nike worn by Gan Guoyang was the prototype of today's basketball shoes, and it was normal for people in the 80s to feel strange when they first saw this kind of shoes.

In the opening of the Lakers' first offense, Magic Johnson put the ball in the hands of Worthy, who received the ball with his back to the basket on the left side.

Obviously, the whole league knows about the Trail Blazers' poor defensive line, and Patrick Riley certainly knows better, and he also has a big killer at the small forward position, James Worthy.

So Riley wanted to rely on Worthy from the beginning to beat the Trail Blazers' weakest link to death.

But after the treatment of Gan Guoyang's personal doctor Shui Miao, Van Dewicki's back injury is still relieved a lot, and Van Dewick's defensive awareness is not bad, many times he is really more than enough and not enough.

In the first goal, Worthy wanted to score easily against Van der Verwig, and it was not as simple as he thought.

"Worthy, baseline turnaround jumper! didn't score, Gan got the rebound, and the Lakers' offense was blocked. Worthy missed, and Zike Hearn's voice couldn't help but be an octave lower.

For this ball, Ramsey knew that the Lakers would definitely play the point of small forward, but he didn't make any arrangements, but just let Vanderwich defend.

In the defense of the Trailblazers, it is one-on-one defense, and the number of times of packing, supplemental defense, assistant defense, and rotation is very small, which is the effect that Ramsey wants, and everyone solves problems alone in defense.

In this way, even if there are one or two points that are often blown up by the opponent, but I just don't change as a whole, if you have the ability, you can kill me with this move, otherwise I will get it back in the attack.

So, no matter what, Ramsey asked Vanderwig to solve the problem himself, whether he could prevent it or not.

And Ramsey also believes that opponents can't always score high on Van der Vickie.

“Run！ Run！ Run！ Ramsey roared on the sidelines again, he was much more demanding on offense than on defense, and in his eyes anyway, the Trail Blazers' players were lazy little donkeys.

Valentin received Gan Guoyang's pass and ran all the way forward, but the Lakers defended quite quickly, and the Trail Blazers did not have a chance to play a quick offense.

Gan Guoyang followed, received the ball at the top of the arc and made a transition, he looked at his teammate's running position and had no chance, so he passed the ball back to Valentin, and at the same time ran to the left side to cover for Van Dewig.

Van der Vercjew had already run to the bottom line on the left side, and as soon as he saw Gan Guoyang going down, he naturally lifted up, and with the help of Gan Guoyang's cover, he got rid of Worthy's defense and found space in the left corner position.

Valentin passed the ball directly to Van Dewig, who received the ball and threw it, hitting a two-point shot, 2:0.

"Beautiful fit, the Trail Blazers' positional offensive tactics have always been one of the best in the league, certainly worse than the Lakers." Zike Hearn is also well-informed, and the Trail Blazers' offensive tactics are indeed very skilled and fluent, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are in the top five in the league.

But he was right in the latter sentence, that is, the Lakers' offense is better than that of the Trail Blazers.

Magic Johnson advanced through the half court from the right, the ball went from right to left, passed through Worthy, Scott, and then to Abdul-Jabbar in the low post on the left.

Abdul-Jabbar hit Gan twice and didn't make a move, but instead passed the ball back to the magician at the free throw line in the middle.

Because the Trail Blazers' defense has always shrunk more sharply, Valentin immediately stepped forward to mark the ball as soon as he saw Johnson receiving the ball near the free throw line, and the attention of the other Trail Blazers players also returned to the Magic with the ball.

Countless experiences with magicians have long proven that focusing on magicians is always a huge mistake, and unfortunately no one has ever been able to learn this lesson.

The magician's hand had just touched the ball from Abdul-Jabbar, and he didn't stop at all in his hand, just like playing volleyball, and then racked the ball back to the inside!

No one could react, this time it was too fast, only the receiver, Lambis on the right side steadily caught the basketball flying at high speed, and turned directly to the basketball.

"Lambis layup...... Oh, and it's been covered by Gan! It's a pity to have a nice pass ......"

After all, Rambis's personal ability is insufficient, although Johnson's pass was unexpected to the extreme, but Rambis's turning speed was too slow, and the layup was slapped out by Gan Guoyang.

Valentin got the ball, Van Dewig and Paxson were already running left and right towards the front, Valentin thought of a long diagonal pass on the left side, and the ball flew to Vanderwicki.

But Valentin was too impatient for the ball, and he ignored Johnson's 6-foot-9 height.

“Magic-picks-his-pocket！ (The magician broke the ball!) Zike Hearn's characteristic commentary reappeared as Johnson cut off Valentin's pass in the air.

Johnson passed the ball to the basket again to Lambis, and this time Gan Guoyang was also out of reach, and could only watch Lambis make a left-handed layup.

2：2！

This kind of ball, only Johnson can turn a fast-break loss into a counter-attack score, which is really a stroke of genius.

Ramsey flipped out his little notebook, thinking that it was time to find a way to get the magician, otherwise this game would probably be enough to choke.

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