It's a Portland morning, a faint haze wafts across the Willamette River, and the weather is getting colder in November, and the city shrouded in tulle quietly waits for the morning sun to arrive.

It's still five o'clock in the morning, and it's still very quiet around the Willamette River, except for the post office postman who rides a "fixed-gear" (dead fly) through the streets to deliver newspapers and milk to households.

And on the bridge over the Willamette River, a tall figure ran through the hazy fog, just as he had on the first day in Portland.

"Good morning, Gan, running so early again!" A postman shouted loudly when he saw the figure of the runner in the car, the runner was Gan Guoyang, and his tall figure was familiar to every postman on the streets of Portland.

"Hello, sir, watch your brakes, I don't see you postmen fall on their heels." Gan Guoyang jogged on the bridge in the early morning, watched the postman ride the "death fly" and reminded him kindly.

On the way to the training ground every morning, Gan Guoyang saw the postman riding a dead flying wrestling, this kind of bicycle without a flywheel is really uncontrollable by ordinary people.

"Thanks for the reminder! But the Trail Blazers have been falling a lot lately, so you have to pay attention. The postman also reminded Gan Guoyang, and then waved his hand to speed up and leave.

The postman's words just spoke to Gan Guoyang's heart, and the pioneers had lost six in a row.

The team's cover-up during the winning streak has been exposed, with Ramsey getting weaker and weaker in control of the team and less and less contact between the players on and off the pitch.

Defeat was like a sharp blade, slicing through the Trail Blazers' robe that looked gorgeous and splendid at the beginning of the season, and it was crawling with filthy lice.

Thinking of this, Gan Guoyang sped up his running, as if he wanted to get rid of this bad feeling far away.

In six matches, Gan Guoyang tried hard to contribute to the victory, he tried to communicate with everyone, to encourage everyone, but the defeat after defeat made the situation worse and worse.

When Gan Guoyang arrived at the Jewish Community Training Center, he was still the first to arrive, looking at the empty arena, Gan Guoyang felt unusually lonely.

After ten minutes of shooting practice in the arena, a second player finally arrived, and it was Steve Colt.

"Good morning, Colter, you're here so early." When Gan Guoyang saw Colt coming, his mood suddenly improved a lot.

Since Colt quit marijuana, he has returned to his normal training, even harder than usual, and Gan Guoyang calls him every morning to get him up early.

This regular training allowed Colt to recover quickly, and he performed well in the next few games, and he was no longer as muddy as before.

Terry Porter then arrived at the gym for the third time, and he has been in a tight competition with Colter as a backup point guard lately, and while the team is not in good shape, it won't affect the competitive enthusiasm of the two youngsters.

"Good morning! You came so early that you didn't have to sleep every night, did you? "Jerome Cauchy is still that optimistic, he is the fourth to arrive.

For these young players who were drafted in the second round, they don't seem to care too much about the situation of the team, youth is capital, all they have to do is work hard, strive for better statistics, and fight for themselves to gain a foothold in the league and earn bigger contracts.

Drexler would normally arrive early, but he was put on injury watch for several games and will not be available for tomorrow's game due to the injury injury that he suffered in the offseason.

Gan Guoyang looked at these rookies who were about the same age as him, all of whom had just entered the league for a year or two, and they were optimistic about the team in the storm, only Gan Guoyang seemed to have a heavy burden on his shoulders.

Gan Guoyang only realized the meaning of the phrase "the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility" at this time, of course, the sentence "the greater the ambition" may be added later.

From half past five in the morning until ten o'clock in the afternoon, all the players of the Trail Blazers came together to start collective training, and Gan Guoyang had been practicing for four hours at this time.

In the morning, the Trail Blazers mainly did twice-weekly physical training, which is a more torturous training content for the veteran players, and it will definitely exhaust everyone.

Gan Guoyang, who has been training alone for four hours, is still full of energy, and in the past, when he was in physical training, Gan Guoyang always liked to nag endlessly, sarcastically and ridiculed every teammate who couldn't stand it, in fact, he was motivating them in disguise.

Gan Guoyang didn't have it today, he was unusually silent in training, he didn't communicate with anyone, and he didn't say sarcastic words to those old players who were quietly lazy in training, he just did his own thing silently.

After the training, everyone was quite tired, and at this time, the training instructor Carp walked up to Gan Guoyang and handed him a bottle of water and a towel.

"Thank you, Mr. Culp." Gan Guoyang took the water and towel and said.

"Gan, today you are different, you seem to be very silent, do you feel uncomfortable? Rest assured, we'll get out of the way. As an "old trailblazer", Culp has seen a lot of wind and waves, and he doesn't look at it with six consecutive defeats.

"No, I'm fine, Culp, I just figured something out. I used to want to inspire everyone around me to go with me, but now I'm not going to do that, I want to run as fast as I can, throw everyone out of the way, and see who catches up and run with them. I don't want to drag my family along with me, I need to lead by example. Gan Guoyang said to Carp.

"Oh~ sounds good, but the game of basketball is five people, and I'm sure you'll be a good leader...... However, the team is doing a bit bad right now, and Mr. Ramsay is getting more and more careless. Culp said, looking at Ramsey standing on the sidelines in a daze, the decorated coach now looked like a retired old man.

"I can't help him, but I'm going to win, and if I can win, everything will be easy to say."

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The next day, Nov. 24, the Trail Blazers hosted the Houston Rockets after a six-game losing streak.

"Will the Trail Blazers be on a seven-game losing streak or a long-awaited victory? Let's cheer on the Trailblazers at the Memorial Stadium. Before the start of the game, Sean Lee looked at the warm-up sides and expressed his concern.

The Trail Blazers, who were still surging and firmly occupying the top spot in the West, suddenly fell into a losing streak, which made Portland fans anxious, so even the postman reminded Gan Guoyang to work harder.

"We didn't have Drexler in this game, which made it even more difficult for the Trail Blazers, and the Trail Blazers' already poor perimeter defense will only make it worse." Shaunley is also very worried about Drexler's absence, the Trail Blazers' outside defense is not very good, and without Drexler, it is even more flawed.

"Paxson, let them in, I'll take care of them." Gan Guoyang, who was warming up, suddenly walked up to Jim Paxson and said to him, "Start.

Paxson was stunned for a moment, Gan Guoyang walked away immediately after speaking, he knew that Gan Guoyang meant that he would let the outside of the rocket break through casually, and he would wipe his ass inside.

"The game is about to start, and the Houston Rockets take on the Portland Trail Blazers away! The duel between Olajuwon and Gan, I hope Gan can be ashamed! ”

The game began, Gan Guoyang tried his best to win the ball in the jump ball, and the Trailblazers attacked.

Gan Guoyang showed a strong attack from the beginning, he took the lead in the low post on the left side, and Valentin also decisively handed the ball to Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang's steel-like lower game, even Olajuwon can't shake it, Olajuwon can feel Gan Guoyang's unusually firmness, he is sure that Gan Guoyang will definitely play alone and not pass.

"Gan catches the ball, pushes Olajuwon, and the small hook hits! Crisp goal, I haven't seen Gan attack so neatly in the opening game in several games. Shaunley lamented that during the losing streak, Gan Guoyang seemed a little hesitant because he always wanted to warm up his teammates first.

"You're not making any progress, Akim." Gan Guoyang said coldly to Olajuwon.

Olajuwon has certainly improved in the summer, and his progress this season can be described as huge, but Gan Guoyang used the new hook hand of the two to take two points on Olajuwon's head with a small hook hand when the two faced off in the offseason, which is undoubtedly humiliating Olajuwon - because Olajuwon just can't resist Gan Guoyang all summer one-on-one.

But the Rockets' counterattack came quickly, and their overall height has reached terrifying heights this year, with the intensity of the outside players increasing even more.

The Trail Blazers' perimeter was easily torn apart like paper, and Lewis Lloyd scored on a breakaway layup to make it 2-2.

Immediately after that, the Rockets made another steal and scored two points on the counterattack, and their outside pressing defense began to have the style of the Los Angeles Lakers.

"The Trail Blazers have to be careful, the Trail Blazers lose to the Rockets, mostly on the outside, especially defensively, not on the inside, although they have twin towers." Sean Li is also to the point, Gan Guoyang has never been afraid of the twin towers, but the Trail Blazers' outside defense has been criticized since last season, and there is still no sign of improvement.

"Vanderwig hit a two-point jumper from the outside, and the two sides were tied." The Trail Blazers' offense from the outside was no problem.

The first five minutes of the first quarter were uneventful, with the two sides going back and forth to tie the game at 12:12 and usher in the first timeout.

Sitting on the bench, Gan Guoyang did not listen to Ramsay's arrangement, but had his own ideas.

Back on the court at the end of the timeout, the Trail Blazers serve in the front court.

"Valentine...... Throw the ball directly to the basket, jump up and catch the ball, and pour the basket vigorously with both hands! He bypassed the defense of the Twin Towers! A beautiful fit! On the first shot at the end of the timeout, Gan Guoyang gave the Rockets a dismissal.

He's decided to let go of the limit and pour all his firepower into his opponent, a choice that any superstar on a losing streak would make.

They want to help the team out of this situation with their individual strength.

It's just that I don't know what the difference is between Gan Guoyang and those scoring masters, and what different results will there be.