(Originally, the game between the Rockets and the Trail Blazers was written well, and the information was well prepared, but before I started writing, 82 games, four months of regular season, this was only a month, and the pace was too slow.) And the two young teams of the Rockets and the Trail Blazers are on the right track, and there will definitely be a lot of opportunities to write well in the future, so I still pass it by and write more about the growth of the protagonist. ）

"Beep!" The referee's whistle sounded in the boiling Portland Memorial Coliseum, and the fans at the scene could no longer remember how many times the referee had blown the whistle, and the frequent whistles made the players and fans look upset.

"Foul on Ralph Sampson! Sixth foul! He was sent off for the second time after Olajuwon! The Rocket Twin Towers have all been beaten down! But the Trail Blazers are still eight points behind and Gan is about to step up to the free-throw line. In the sports broadcast of the local radio station in Portland, Bill Shaanley's calm and deep voice conveys the situation on the field to every Portland fan.

On December 8, 1984, the Portland Trail Blazers hosted the Houston Rockets, and Gan Guoyang welcomed the Rockets' twin towers - Hakim Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson on this day.

In the fourth quarter of the game, with 3 minutes to go, Gan Guoyang grabbed a rebound in the front court under the basket and made a strong layup, causing Sampson to foul, and Sampson was fouled for six fouls.

And Olajuwon had already made an offensive foul by Gan Guoyang in the previous minute and graduated with a foul.

Gan Guoyang has never been afraid of the Twin Towers, even in the face of the most talented Rocket Twin Towers - one of them is the champion of '83 and the other is the champion of '84.

The duo was amazingly tall and talented, and before the two were sent off, Sampson scored 22 points and 13 rebounds, and Olajuwon had 21 points, 11 rebounds and 4 blocks.

Gan Guoyang has scored 23 points and 13 rebounds after hitting a free throw, but the Trail Blazers still trailed the Rockets by six points at 116-122.

The Rockets immediately called a timeout and were fouled on the two major interior lines, and they must set up offensive tactics and play success rate to consolidate the team's advantage.

"How's Gan? Are you feeling okay? Ramsey asked Gan Guoyang when the player left the game.

At this time, Gan Guoyang was not only sweating profusely, he looked obviously very tired, because he was trembling with the two big inside lines of the rocket throughout the game until he got these two guys off the court.

Olajuwon is Gan Guoyang's old rival, and after the NCAA Finals, the two have not met again except for the draft.

When they met again this time, the two were riveted at the beginning, and they even ate a technical foul because of their excessive movements.

Compared with Gan Guoyang, Olajuwon has also made great progress, Gan Guoyang can feel that Olajuwon's body is stronger, and his footsteps, shooting skills, and block prediction are more mature.

Compared to playing NCAA, he has more opportunities to play singles in the low post and fight Gan Guoyang one-on-one.

Gan Guoyang felt that once he mastered the rhythm of some of his turnover jumpers after receiving the ball, it was really difficult to defend, and he also had a good helper - Ralph Sampson, who is 7-foot-3 tall.

Ralph Sampson is tall, lanky, runs and jumps, has excellent physical coordination, fine technique, and is equally good at jumpers.

Sampson of the Trail Blazers - Mitchell Sampson does not suffer in offense against Ralph, and can always use skill and experience to play the time gap.

But when defending, there is really no way to take Ralph Sampson, the height gap is really a bit big, and Gan Guoyang sometimes has to spare energy to help defend.

Dealing with Olajuwon was enough to make Gan Guoyang difficult, and he also had to deal with Sampson, but with the help and cooperation of his teammates, he still knocked the two towers alive.

However, the Trail Blazers remained passive in the situation and still trailed a lot until the final moments of the game.

Because the Rockets' play is more balanced and comprehensive, they have blossomed more, with a total of 5 players scoring more than 15, while on the Trail Blazers' side, Vanderwich played well and scored 30 points, Gan Guoyang scored 23 points, Sampson scored 21 points, and the three scored close to 80 points, but the contributions of others were pitiful.

"The Rockets played a much more balanced game today, they scored on every point, they had a very strong individual ability on every point, and this is a team that is not mature but very talented. In the entire West, except for the Lakers, I think the Rockets have the most outstanding talent. "Bill Shawnley took advantage of the timeout to do some analysis of the overall situation of the game.

The Houston Rockets in the 1985 season were another three-round roster in addition to the Los Angeles Lakers, in addition to Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson, and their point guard John Lucas (the one last year with the Spurs) was the 1976 top pick.

And their small forward, Rodney McCree, was a 1983 robe — the Rockets could have used that pick for Drexler.

So it's a team full of great talent and at the same time very young, and their flaw is that they are inexperienced and not at their peak.

Unfortunately, tonight's Houston Rockets were in their clear-headedness, not making too many of the mistakes that young teams tend to make, but instead bringing out their athletic talents.

"The Trail Blazers' offense today wasn't bad and the pace was great, but obviously, the Rockets adapted very well to the pace of the Trail Blazers, or their tempo was stronger and faster than the Trail Blazers, and the Trail Blazers' fast offense didn't drag down the Rockets, it dragged themselves." Bill Seanley's words were full of helplessness.

The Trail Blazers are a team that relies on quick offense and fluid coordination to overwhelm opponents, while the Rockets are a tall, strong, and unbeatable giant.

The Rockets have a height advantage at every position, and they are not the Spurs, and the Trail Blazers can take it away with a wave of attacks.

The Rockets' physical pressure made the Trail Blazers' players extremely tired, and in the fourth quarter they began to make consecutive turnovers, and their shooting percentage dropped, allowing the score to be gradually pulled apart.

Even if Gan Guoyang relied on personal scramble and singles to cripple the rocket's inner line, it was already too late.

After the timeout, the Trail Blazers played an offensive **, but the Rockets' outside line was also able to continue to output, and the time was consumed little by little.

The score was settled at 127-122, and the Trail Blazers lost to the Houston Rockets by five points at home.

After the game, Gan Guoyang stood in the center of the court for a long time before he recovered, looking at the audience in the stands that gradually dispersed, he had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

Before the game, he was also looking forward to this game, looking forward to the fight with Olajuwon, looking forward to the dialogue with the Rocket Twin Towers, he tried his best in the game, and almost had to fight with the two black towers on the inside.

He took five fouls and then straightened out the opponent's two inside shots, but the final loss made it all meaningless.

'I don't know what's wrong, we were in good shape in the last game, but we played really well in this game, everyone gave their best and we still lost, which is a very bad feeling, terrible.' In the dressing room interview after the game, Gan Guoyang made no secret of his disappointment and sadness.

He didn't feel so sad when he lost to the Lakers, because it was really a lack of strength; The Rockets are now ranked fifth in the West, and their record is not as good as that of the Trail Blazers, and the opponent is still Olajuwon, so it feels very bad to do their best and lose.

The media naturally has room to play again, just as Gan Guoyang said before the game, "I don't know who the opponent is", and now they have lost again, although Gan Guoyang played well, he inevitably became the target of complaints.

The Houston Chronicle published a report on the same day, describing the grievances and grievances between Gan Guoyang, Olajuwon and Drexler, and then took out Gan Guoyang's pre-game remarks and twisted and ridiculed them.

This is already the usual measurement of the media, and Gan Guoyang, who is not yet a superstar, can only swallow his anger, and he has no time to care about those messy things now, because the Trail Blazers are about to start another road trip.

Unlike the last stinky and long road trip to the East, this time it is a four-game consecutive trip to the West, and the schedule is not dense, but more relaxed.

The Trailblazers will visit Denver, Los Angeles, Seattle and Gan's hometown of San Francisco in the United States over the course of a week.

After the loss to the Rockets, the Trail Blazers were relatively calm, after all, winning and losing are commonplace, and even the saddest Gan Guoyang quickly recovered and was ready to go to Denver to play against the Nuggets.

After a long conversation with Kenny Carr, Gan Guoyang made some changes, he began to become more submissive, began to take into account the thoughts and feelings of each of his teammates, and began to focus on the team.

In the game against the Spurs, Ramsey was eye-catching with these changes, and he saw Gan Guoyang's efforts to change himself.

But the Trail Blazers won the game against the Spurs, and in the losing game against the Rockets, Gan Guoyang couldn't help yelling at Colter in the game, or fell into a solo fight.

Obviously, Gan Guoyang's "maturity" performance is still unstable, once the team falls into a crisis, or some players are in a state of ups and downs, Gan Guoyang will still be in a hurry.

Of course, after the game, Gan Guoyang also took the initiative to apologize to Corte, hoping that he would not mind his recklessness.

And the relationship between Gan Guoyang and Sampson, which Ramsay cares about the most, does not seem to have completely improved, but there is no intensification of contradictions, and everything has returned to the way the two of them were at the beginning of the season.

Ramsey also thinks it's good like this, it doesn't matter if you don't deal with it off the court, just play well on the court.

In this way, the Trail Blazers, who are still in good shape, embarked on a road trip to the West.

Of the 12 teams in the West, the Trail Blazers have played against 10 opponents, and the only ones left are the Golden State Warriors.

On this road trip, the other three teams are also familiar opponents with Gan Guoyang, and they have now rushed to the Denver Nuggets, the first place in the West, and the bad teams Seattle SuperSonics and Los Angeles Clippers.

The battle with the Nuggets will be the top two battle in the West, and the Trail Blazers have made sufficient preparations before the game.

In this plateau battle, the Trail Blazers successfully stifled the Nuggets' offense, and Gan Guoyang's four-sided defense made the Nuggets' outside gunman shooting rate greatly reduced, and firmly controlled the backcourt rebounds.

Facing his old owner, Vanderwig scored 30 points again, including 12 of 14 free throws; Mitchell Sampson scored 28 points on Wayne Cooper's head.

The Trail Blazers breached the Nuggets' plateau home court to regain the No. 1 spot in the West.

But the next two games surprised everyone.

In November, after the start of the season, the Trail Blazers faced the SuperSonics twice, both of which were completely out, and they also won comfortably against the Los Angeles Clippers.

In the away game against the Los Angeles Clippers on December 13, Gan Guoyang once again came to the dilapidated Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and was beaten to the cheers of the sparse home fans by Bill Wharton.

Wharton scored just 28 points on the game, but scored 20 points on 8-of-13 shooting, 4-of-6 free throws, and grabbed 13 rebounds.

Former Lakers championship-winning siege Norm Nixon also led the team with 10 points and 11 assists, and the Trail Blazers were beaten 15-0 by the opponent in the second quarter, and the score was pulled away at once.

The Trail Blazers, who were prone to losing as soon as they fell behind in the first half, even fought back in the third quarter, but were finally suppressed by the in-form Clippers and lost the game 100-106.

This made the Trail Blazers' newly acquired No. 1 throne in the West immediately surrendered to the Denver Nuggets.

Gan Guoyang played a depressed game this time, and Wharton, an old slippery head, let Gan Guoyang be replaced with two fouls at the beginning, and then teased Gan Guoyang with various beautiful tactics and passes on the offensive end.

Gan Guoyang was sleepwalking all over the court, playing without passion, and only got mediocre statistics of 10 points and 8 rebounds.

Even worse was to come, as the Trail Blazers immediately moved to Seattle after the game against the Clippers, where they played back-to-back road games on December 14.

This time, Gan Guoyang has to face another veteran center - Jack Sikma.

In the first two encounters, Sikma was trapped by injuries and played averagely, and was suppressed by the young and strong Gan Guoyang.

But no NBA star can be limited forever, whether it's from a game to a game or a season, sometimes they will be sluggish, more often they will explode.

Gan Guoyang is so good that he doesn't die, just in time for Sikma's Lao Ji to stay awake.

Sikma used a double-twenty performance of 27 points and 22 rebounds to make the Trail Blazers' interior dizzy.

The SuperSonics grabbed 17 more rebounds than the Trail Blazers, and the four scored 20 points, and they were at the Seattle Dome Arena, 109:96, sending the Trail Blazers to a two-game losing streak.

Gan Guoyang's performance in this game was a little better than the previous game, with 18 points and 10 rebounds, but he couldn't limit Sikma at all.

Sikma's flexible footsteps, agile and fast "Sikma step" and accurate jump shots made Gan Guoyang helpless.

After two games, Gan Guoyang suddenly felt that his brain was shaken by these two white centers, and it was quite easy to deal with them in the previous month, why is it like eating a rejuvenating pill at this time?

Because Gan Guoyang decided to pay more attention to the team and care more about the feelings of his teammates, he rarely forced the ball to be in the position.

In the previous case, he was beaten by the opponent several times in a row, and he must return a few in a row, even if he can't score, he has to fight for breath.

Now Gan Guoyang is facing this situation, as if he has hit a cotton wall, he can't use his strength, and he can't get angry.

But the NBA schedule did not give him any respite and adjustment, and the next stop, Gan Guoyang came to the starting point of the United States, San Francisco.

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