The Portland Trail Blazers have been on a blander run throughout March, with their losses remaining below 10 games, and after a one-point loss to the Boston Celtics on March 29, the Trail Blazers continued to run 59-10 and hold on to 70 wins.

Entering April, the Trail Blazers will continue to welcome strong opponents, the Trail Blazers' schedule throughout the season is easy and then difficult, and now at the end of the season, the opponent is still strong, but as the playoffs approach, the strong teams are adjusting their state, which gives the Trail Blazers the opportunity to continue to steal victories.

Gan Guoyang didn't make it to the NCAA finals, and after rushing back to Portland, he immediately put on a tough opponent against the Detroit Pistons, who were racing all the way in the second half.

After trading for Aquili, the Pistons, who had a mixed first half, beat the Trail Blazers at home on February 22 as they went on to 20-2 in 22 games, and that high win percentage quickly allowed them to leapfrog the Cleveland Cavaliers and regain the top spot in the West.

The chemistry brought about by the trade between Pistons Aquilli and Dantley is truly incomparable, Aquilli is willing to play as a substitute in the Pistons, starting from defense, and at the same time, he can also contribute about 20 points of firepower per game, which is a perfect fit for the Pistons.

However, although such a Pistons lineup is very strong, the nine cadres composed of starters and bench nine will make the whole league fearful, but Dantley's departure also gave the Pistons a fatal weakness, that is, when it comes to the time, the Pistons only have Isaiah Thomas, a superstar scoring point, Aquili is not as good as before after all, and he can't provide Dantley's unreasonable scoring, especially low-post scoring.

The Pistons as a whole relied heavily on their backcourt scoring, and the front, especially in the low post, was severely lacking in scoring ability, which made them suffer a big loss against the Trail Blazers on April 4.

After Gan Guoyang returned to Portland, he participated in the game directly in the evening without participating in training, facing the Pistons' iron bucket interior defense, the last time Gan Guoyang, who was gray-faced in Auburn Hills, did not give the Pistons a chance to wrap him again, he limited his position to a fan area of 60 degrees in the front, constantly blocking and dismantling, jumpers, or suddenly going down to the low post to receive the ball and attack, Bill Lambir and John Sully couldn't take Gan Guoyang at all, with a strong revenge mentality, Gan Guoyang scored 41 points again on the Pistons' interior head, This is his 26th 40-point performance this season, and his shooting percentage is amazing, and the Pistons are quite uncomfortable with his style of play, which is up and down, high and low.

Bill Lambier tried to provoke Gan Guoyang many times, but Gan Guoyang didn't bother to pay attention to him at all, and gave him two dunks on his head, Ranbier was basically honest, because the point difference has become wider and wider, and the Pistons have fallen into a scoring drought in several offenses.

In the end, to the boos of the audience, Bill Lambier went off the court with six fouls, of course, the old man did not forget to bow and thank the fans "politely" before leaving the court and sitting on the bench.

The big win over the Pistons brought the confidence of the Trail Blazers players to a peak, and the whole team was united before the playoffs, and they were ready to make a big splash in the playoffs.

In the next game, the Trail Blazers swept all the way, against the Los Angeles Clippers on April 6, Drexler scored 36 points, Gan Guoyang 33 points and 11 rebounds, and the duo continued to maintain their terrifying firepower.

On April 7th, the home team welcomed the Celtics, poor Celtics, Bird, McHale were all injured and absent, Len Baias replaced McHale to play the position of power forward, the result can be imagined, this player who picked up a life because of the arrival of Gan Guoyang is not Gan Guoyang's opponent on the field at all, although he is an excellent player, but it can be seen from his drug that his lack of willpower is his biggest problem, and for superstars, willpower sometimes plays a more decisive role than talent.

At the same time, it can be seen that the Celtics are a little disheartened, and this season due to the injury of the main players, the Celtics' record has ranked eighth in the East, and they have to struggle for a playoff spot, which is really difficult to accept for the Green Shirts who were extremely brilliant last season.

Without Bird, Gan Guoyang is also less on the field and his opponent who is trash-talking, the game is instantly boring a lot, after scoring 33 points in the third quarter, Gan Guoyang sat down and rested, at this time the Trailblazers have entered the state of automatic navigation, and there is no need for the captain's command and helm.

In the next five days, the Trail Blazers defeated the Heat, Clippers and Utah Jazz at home in a row, and their record has reached 68-10, only one win away from the NBA's all-time best of 69-13.

However, the game with the Jazz was still quite hard, and the Jazz's defense was also done to the extreme, so that the Trail Blazers fell into the quagmire of low shots, Gan Guoyang was subjected to Ma Long's revenge-style crazy defense, but he didn't dare to elbow Gan Guoyang, and in the end, Gan Guoyang was still able to use two layups at a critical moment to crush the Jazz's hopes of defeating the Trail Blazers on the road, and won the 68th win by 4 points.

After the game, Gan Guoyang also invited Stockton to Mr. Bellman's house together, and the two most proud disciples of Bellman never forgot this teacher, although the most important influence of this teacher on the two was trash talk and small actions......

At Bellman's home, the two talked about the past and their views on the future as if they were in college, and Bellman even hoped that the two would have the opportunity to play together again, but from the current situation, it is basically unlikely.

"Honey, come and see, there's news on TV, there's a trailblazer report." At this time, Mrs. Bellman, who was watching TV in the living room, suddenly said that Bellman and Stockton felt that the news related to the Trail Blazers was nothing more than a report on how good they were this season, and there was still one game to go before the best record.

Only Gan Guoyang was nervous in his heart, he remembered Allen's words, and always felt that something was going to happen.

Gan Guoyang and Bellman came to the living room together, and then saw the CBS TV report: "The NBA official received an anonymous tape, according to the official release, which recorded the conversation between Portland Trail Blazers owner Larry Weinberg and Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, which mentioned their opinions on the players under them, and they unanimously expressed their dislike for colored people on the team, among which Larry Weinberg said that the team's top card turned out to be a Chinese, It made him feel unacceptable, 'If he didn't bring me that much income, I would sell him right away'. ”

This news was like a blow to the head, and the four people who listened to the news stood in the living room in a daze, with complicated expressions on everyone's faces, but Gan Guoyang seemed relatively calm and seemed to have been prepared for this.

"Gan, everything should still be under investigation, and even if the boss has an opinion about you, the players and coaches are all supporting you......" Bellman looked at Gan Guoyang's calm appearance and wanted to say something, but Gan Guoyang raised his hand to stop him.

"It's okay Mr. Bellman, I'm fine, but right now, the Trail Blazers are going to have problems, so get ready to get through this."