(This chapter has been cut over and over again, so it's been delayed for a long time.) The games that will decide the regular season are largely no longer depicted, and many teams that are not detailed will be highlighted next season, such as the Bucks, Hawks, including the Pistons. The following will mainly describe the playoffs and the growth of the protagonist, and lay some foreshadowing for next season. ）

Time stood still, and as the hustle and bustle of the All-Star Game ended, the calendar had flipped to March 1985, a very important day for American basketball.

And the Trail Blazers did pretty well in February.

The game between the Trail Blazers and the Boston Celtics on Feb. 12 did not disappoint Portland fans, and the whole game was turned around after Gan Guoyang scored that unexpected two-and-one.

The whole momentum of the Trail Blazers was invigorated, and then all the players let go of their hands and feet, and with the support of the home fans, they played more and more smoothly, Drexler, Paxson, and Sampson all exerted their might, and did not give the Celtics a chance to turn the tables around.

Although Bird tried to ride the savior alone, Jerome Cauchy's full-game kraft defense finally worked in the fourth quarter, and Bird's physical strength suffered, and finally the Celtics lost 103-115 on the road.

Gan Guoyang got a big double-double of 24 points and 17 rebounds, but he only had two assists in the whole game, which did not meet Ramsey's requirements.

Ramsey has always walked the talk, although he knows that Gan Guoyang played a huge role in this important victory, especially his seemingly "mistaken" sneak attack, which halted the Trail Blazers' decline and allowed the Trail Blazers to maintain their advantage until the end.

But in the upcoming game against the Washington Bullets, Ramsey decided to cut back on Gan's playing time – even after the team's key substitute Kenny Carr was injured and Vanderwich still failed to return.

The game against the Bullets on February 14 is actually the game that Gan Guoyang has been looking forward to, because Sam Bowe, the center who was originally selected by the Trail Blazers in history, is now being picked into the camp of the Bullets.

When the draft results just came out, there were still some people who questioned the choice of the Trail Blazers, and many felt that even if Gan Guoyang blew up the twin tower combination of Bowe and Tepin in the semifinals, it did not mean that the Chinese could adapt to the NBA game.

And after most of the season, Gan Guoyang has used his performance to hit back all the doubters, unless history is along the route of "Gan Guoyang died in a car accident", no one thinks that Gan Guoyang is a bad choice for Bisam Bowe.

And Bow's days with the Washington Bullets were better than his time with the Trail Blazers in history, and the Washington Bullets were naturally a treasure to pick up Bowe with the sixth pick.

So Bowe has become a core player in Washington's development, and Bowe has not had a major injury outbreak this season, averaging 15 plus 10 per game is very good, and the combination of him and Jeff Malone has given Washington bullets hope.

It's just that in this game in Portland, Bowe's encounter with Gan Guoyang seems to be like meeting a hit nemesis, Gan Guoyang only played 20 minutes, but he couldn't find Bowe.

Bowe only scored 9 points on 4-of-14 shooting, while Gan Guoyang only scored 12 points and 11 rebounds because of insufficient playing time, but Gan Guoyang's shooting percentage was 6-of-7.

The entire Trail Blazers uncharacteristically fought positional and defensive battles with unorganized personnel, limiting the bullet score to 88 points, and finally they won 93-88.

However, Gan Guoyang's worst fear still happened, he didn't get 3 assists! In the game against the Celtics, he played 39 minutes without 3 assists, and this 20 minutes of play is even worse!

After the game, Ramsey also praised Gan Guoyang's "assist efficiency" for improving, but in the next game against the Kansas Kings, Gan Guoyang once again only got 20 minutes of playing time.

Gan Guoyang knows that he can't go on like this, there is only so much time in every game, and it will only get harder and harder to get 3 assists.

So Gan Guoyang colluded with Sampson, Drexler, and Cauchy before the game, and at the beginning of the game, when the defense was the most lax, he seized every opportunity to help Gan Guoyang brush assists!

This trick really worked, and in the game with the king, Gan Guoyang brushed three assists in the first quarter, completed the task early, and then let go of his feet to play the next game.

Unexpectedly, Gan Guoyang's deliberate method of brushing data really brought great help to Gan Guoyang's passing skills and vision.

Because Gan Guoyang wants to collude with Sampson and Drexler, he needs to understand Sampson and Drexler's offensive habits and tactical positioning, which is a process of learning and memorization for Gan Guoyang.

In this process, Gan Guoyang gradually discovered the mystery of passing, and he finally began to understand why those point guards can always pass the ball to the right player at the right time, because in their minds there is always a picture of teammates running and attacking, simulating various situations that may occur in the offense, and all this is based on understanding teammates and the whole team.

Ramsey's three-assist plan really worked, and Gan Guoyang, who had opened up his knack for passing, finally began to love this advanced basketball skill, although he is still in the beginner stage.

Finally, the Trail Blazers ushered in a hot March with a 13-game, 9-4 record and a farewell in February.

In the team, Gan Guoyang continued his simple life of "training - playing", and at the same time, he was also paying attention to all the major developments in the NCAA in March this year.

For any NBA player, as long as he has played in college and played in the college basketball league, the most important thing is of course the performance of his alma mater in the NCAA.

So the focus of the recent discussions about the Trail Blazers players has been about the NCAA.

Vandewich also returned in March, and his back was finally better treated, but he didn't seem to have fully recovered from a long break against the Cleveland Cavaliers, scoring just 17 points in the game.

Gan Guoyang only got 1 assist in the last game against the Golden State Warriors, and was frozen on the bench by Ramsey again, which led to the Trail Blazers' upset loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers at home.

But at this point in time, no one seems to be particularly concerned about losing to an underdog in the East, and the Trail Blazers are sitting very firmly in the third position right now.

So, in one practice, the Trail Blazers players debated about getting a better college team.

As a graduate of the NCAA elite school UCLA, Vanderwich is often full of confidence in the discussion of the NCAA among the players, anyway, in his eyes, UCLA is the best basketball school, and Larry Brown is the best basketball coach.

As a good friend of Van der Wywig, Drexler was the first to stand up and express his displeasure, he believes that UCLA has long been in the twilight of the mountains, and it has been worse every year since the end of the 70s, and it has not achieved anything in the 80s.

In his opinion, only the Houston Jaguars, especially those with it and Olajuwon, are the uncrowned kings of the NCAA.

But soon Drexler choked back on Kenny Carr's words, as Kenny Carr said, "It's incredible that a team with Clyde and Akim would lose to North Carolina State in the Finals." ”

North Carolina State isn't Jordan's team, it's North Carolina's public schools, a team with no superstars, downright civilians, but they took out Jaguars with Olajuwon and Drexler in the 1983 NCAA Finals.

And Kenny Carr is a graduate of North Carolina State University.

"But my team also killed them, so I think the Houston Jaguars are still eligible to compete." Gan spoke again, having also beaten the Houston in 1984 and, in his opinion, Gonzaga University that year was perfect.

"You see, the Gonzaga Bulldogs with me and Stockton are the best NCAA teams in history, and we haven't lost all season, gentlemen! Bird didn't do it, and neither did the magician! Also, I took Olajuwon and Ewing down, and by the way, Bowe, no one could stop me. In terms of university honors, Gan Guoyang can be said to be full of dry goods, and the god-like season of 1984 is still vivid, Gan Guoyang recalled this, and really wanted to shout "Who else!" ”

Gan Guoyang's remarks put an end to this topic at once, and people like Cauchy and Sampson did not participate in the discussion at all, because neither of them had played in the NCAA national tournament in college, so naturally there was nothing to say.

But soon, they had a new focus: the ownership of this season's NCAA championship.

Now Gan Guoyang has nothing to brag about, after losing Gan Guoyang and Stockton, plus a group of old players after graduation, Gonzaga bulldogs naturally missed the NCAA national competition.

But the discussion reminded Gan that he hadn't been back to Gunzaga University for a while.

On March 3, the Utah Jazz came to Portland, and Stockton also arrived with the team.

The game itself was unsuspenseful, and the Utah Jazz were slaughtered by the all-out Trail Blazers by 30 points on the road, losing 90-123.

However, Gan Guoyang can take this opportunity to go back to Spokane with Stockton to see his alma mater, and at the same time to visit Bellman, who may not have a good time.

Since reaching the peak of his life in the 1984 NCAA Finals, Bellman has never seen the slightest chance to return to the top.

Because he couldn't meet another Gan Guoyang again, and at the same time he didn't even have a Stockton, Gunzaga University had a serious talent gap.

For this non-basketball school, although they won the 84 championship as a dark horse, there are still not too many high school stars willing to come to this small school to replicate Gan Guoyang's legendary path.

Bellman had tried to recruit high school geniuses like Danny Manning and Dan Marley, but they all said they weren't interested in the Washington state's elementary school.

So, with the loss of two cores and the lack of fresh blood to add in, the results of the Gunzaga Bulldogs naturally plummeted, but fortunately, Bellman's defensive skills were still there, so as not to let the Bulldogs fall to the bottom - and the tail of the University of Portland crane.

However, the result that he could not even enter the NCAA national competition made it difficult for Bellman, who was still complacent and at the peak of his life the year before, to accept.

So, when Gan Guoyang met Bellman at Gunzaga's gymnasium, it was hard for him to believe that this was the ever-energetic Bobby Bellman who roared tirelessly on the sidelines.

"Mr. Bellman." Gan Guoyang looked at Bellman, who was a little vicissitudes and tired, and greeted in disbelief.

And Bellman was very excited when he saw Gan Guoyang and Stockton suddenly appear, and he was still on the sidelines to guide the players to practice, and he immediately rushed towards Gan Guoyang and Stockton, and gave each of them a hug.

This kind of hug makes Gan Guoyang feel unusually familiar and warm, and at the same time a little guilty, after he entered the NBA, although he occasionally called Bellman, he really hasn't been back to Gunzaga University for a long time, even if Wang Fuxi is in school, it is always Wang Fuxi who comes to Portland, not him to Spokane.

The reunion of teachers and students was naturally very excited, and even more excited were the players in the stadium, some of whom were Gan Guoyang's teammates last season, such as Williams, who naturally surrounded them when they saw the two legends of the school team on the field.

"Let's have a game with us, Gan!" This is a request made by Williams, and as a classmate of Gan's high school and college classmates, he is obviously more open than other players.

Gan Guoyang hesitated, then looked at Stockton and Bellman, and finally decided to play a pit bulldog team training match with them.

In order to have the effect of practice, Stockton and Gan Guoyang were divided into two groups, leading a group of substitutes and the starting team of pit bulls to fight.

Of course, this is obviously not fair, with the backup team of Gan Guoyang and Stockton, the strength instantly rose to the level of an NCAA strong team, which is basically abusing the starters to death.

However, the game was very happy, and Gan Guoyang also heard the long-lost Bellman-style scolding on the sidelines.

"If you girls don't try hard to keep your chrysanthemums, I'll let you know what it means to regret it right away!" Seeing that the inside line of the starting team was beaten by Gan Guoyang alone, Bellman's big voice sounded again, but it didn't seem that he was very angry.

After training, Bellman invited Gan Guoyang and Stockton to his home for dinner, and Gan Guoyang had one more important person he didn't see - that was Wang Fuxi.

In Gan Guoyang's view, Wang Fuxi's temper has been getting bigger and bigger recently, although the two will meet once a week, but Wang Fuxi is more and more dissatisfied with this kind of situation where they can only see each other once a week, and occasionally Gan Guoyang has to fly out for a week.

So the two also began to have some small quarrels, Gan Guoyang suggested that Wang Fuxi give up his studies and move to Portland, but Wang Fuxi insisted on finishing college and becoming a doctor.

At the same time, Wang Fuxi thinks that basketball is the first in Gan Guoyang's heart, and she Wang Fuxi is only the second, or even lower.

Gan Guoyang always tries to defend this, but sometimes he also asks himself, in his mind, is basketball the most important, and everything else is not important?

Fame, money, beauty, Gan Guoyang admits that he will be tempted by these things, but once he gets them, he feels very boring.

As the only Chinese in the NBA, he is famous enough, and it is said that in China, in that era of gradual opening up, people have begun to pay attention to basketball superstars on the other side of the ocean.

There is no shortage of money Gan Guoyang, the Trail Blazers have promised to give him a bigger contract in the future, and Gan Guoyang also knows that the contract of NBA stars will only get bigger and bigger in the future.

Beauty, Wang Fuxi has killed many female stars in Gan Guoyang's opinion, and Gan Guoyang has always kept a distance from the entertainment industry in the United States, and his good friend in the entertainment industry is only one person - Michael Jackson.

For Gan Guoyang, only basketball can make him feel that this is his lifelong pursuit, and he must stand at the peak of the NBA - even if it costs his life.

Therefore, when he saw Wang Fuxi's sullen face at school, Gan Guoyang knew that he must have caused trouble again.

"I... Mr. Bellman wanted to invite us to dinner. ”

"When did you come to Spokane?"

"I ...... In the afternoon, I just arrived for a while......"

"Then why did Mr. Bellman invite us to dinner and he called you to let you know?"

"I didn't ...... I met Mr. Bellman first, and then came to you at once. ”

"You're lying to me again! You've been playing a game at school before you came to see me! You play practice matches at school, and almost everyone knows about it! ”

Where did Gan Guoyang know that he was now a celebrity, and he went back to his alma mater to play a training match, which quickly spread, and Wang Fuxi, as Gan Guoyang's official girlfriend, would not know.

And she felt that the first thing Gan Guoyang did when he came to Gonzaga was to play basketball instead of coming to herself, which made Wang Fuxi, who had given up the invitation to a good university in Los Angeles and just came to Gangzaga with Gan Guoyang, extremely sad, so sad that he left tears when he spoke.

Gan Guoyang panicked when he saw Wang Fuxi shed tears, he also knew that what he did was wrong, he didn't say a word in advance, and he didn't come to Wang Fuxi first, so he had to go all the way to coax all the way, until he arrived at Bellman's house, Wang Fuxi reluctantly stopped crying, wiped away his tears and went to dinner with Gan Guoyang.

The dinner at Bellman's house was very pleasant, and Bellman's wife and Wang Fuxi chatted very well, and the two had a high degree of unanimity of opinion and endless topics about who was with whom in the TV series "Eagle Crown Manor".

And Gan Guoyang, Stockton and Bellman naturally talked about basketball, NCAA and NBA.

Stockton should be said to be the most stable of the three so far, and sometimes Gan Guoyang also sighs at Stockton's always calm and slightly shy face, which doesn't look like a sports person at all.

But Gan Guoyang knows that in Stockton's small body, there is a huge amount of energy, and Gan Guoyang is now beginning to ask Stockton for advice on how to assist.

However, Bellman's situation surprised both Gan Guoyang and Stockton, and both found that Bellman's state in all aspects did not seem to be very good.

At the end of the day, they had a good understanding of what Bellman really thought.

"I think it's time for me to leave basketball."