For the Trail Blazers, the Lakers are a mountain they have to face in the West, just as for Gan Guoyang, the Sky Hook is the object he must surpass.

But Tiangou has gradually grown old, even if his hook hand is still unstoppable, but Gan Guoyang is still able to gain a local advantage by relying on his youth and strength in the face of Jabbar, who is getting slower and slower and less good at confrontation.

The Lakers are not old at all, especially their core player Magic Johnson and the younger James Worthy, and the Purple and Gold's reasonable age structure has allowed them to smoothly transition from old to new, and their reign in the West looks like it will last another five years.

The Trail Blazers won 2-3 against the Lakers in the regular season last season, once relying on Gan Guoyang's magical stunner, and once in an inconsequential game at the end of the season.

In the Western Conference finals, the Trail Blazers' score of 1:4 was enough to see that they were beaten without temper, and the Lakers had an advantage over the Trail Blazers in almost every position, at least not falling behind.

The Lakers have remained extremely competitive this offseason with the addition of Morris Lucas, and their only goal this season is to defend their title, which no team has successfully defended in the NBA since the end of the Celtics dynasty in 1969.

Prior to the Nov. 14 game, the Lakers and Trail Blazers had lost just one game and tied for first place in the Pacific region.

Therefore, this game will be the battle for the top spot in the Pacific region, and the two sides will naturally attach great importance to it.

Needless to say, the Lakers' Pat Riley was prepared, but on the Trail Blazers' side, Ramsey didn't spend too much effort on pre-game preparation, and everything was the same for the Trail Blazers, and there was no special plan because the opponent was the Lakers.

After arriving in Los Angeles, Gan Guoyang wanted to exchange views with Ramsey several times, but in the end he decided to wait until after the match.

The pioneers are currently in a state of dispersion, and everyone will participate in the daily training and practice well; Every night, everyone will give their all and fight for victory.

But once the training and the competition are over, everyone will do their own thing as if they were off work, and they will clock in and go back to work tomorrow morning, and the cycle will start over and over again.

The team has no firm goals, no unified beliefs, and even has its own small calculations, everything is just covered up under the aura of winning.

Gan Guoyang instinctively felt that this situation was dangerous, and he could feel that the team was likely to fall into a predicament from which he could not extricate himself because of a small twist and turn, which was clearly seen from Ramsay.

Without the careful preparation before the game, the command during the game became more and more templated, and even his roar on the sidelines was much less, and the Trail Blazers' bench was suddenly much quieter.

The Trailblazer, an aircraft in an automatic cruise state, will definitely have an accident in case of special circumstances.

But when the Trail Blazers' players once again stood on the floor of the Great Western Forum, all the trivialities off the court were still forgotten by them, and defeating the powerful Lakers in front of them was their number one priority.

Before the start of the game, Gan Guoyang took the initiative to go to the audience on the sidelines to say hello to Lakers chief fan Jack Nicholson, the two quarreled a lot in games last season, and they missed each other a little bit after a holiday.

In the first quarter of the game, the Lakers quickly dominated the court, and they did not start from Abdul-Jabbar like other teams, but started with Worthy, and slammed into the weakest underbelly of the Trail Blazers' defense.

Gan Guoyang's main task on the defensive end is to take care of Abdul-Jabbar, and it is unlikely that he will be able to make up for the defense on a large scale in the face of the Lakers, and the defense will consume a lot of his strength.

Magic's clever transfer of the ball has made the Trail Blazers' new defensive system quite passive, and it is difficult for players to judge for themselves whether to pinch Worthy or Cooper early, and any mistakes they make in defensive footsteps will be caught by Magic, which will then translate into goals for the Lakers.

This made Bellman's defensive strategy ineffective, without Gan Guoyang's large-scale delay, the players lost a clear target of the pinch, so that the "fake joint defense" Trailblazers had many loopholes.

Soon, the Trail Blazers switched back to their normal one-on-one defense after a timeout and demanded a pinch from the perimeter against Worthy, and he had already scored eight points in five minutes to halt the streak of losing points.

In the first quarter, the Lakers took a 10-point lead.

In the second quarter, the Trail Blazers, who had regained their offensive feel, began to play against the Lakers, and the Trail Blazers reduced their defensive intensity and began to increase the pace of offense.

But the Lakers didn't play against the Trail Blazers, and they knew that the Trail Blazers were chasing distractions, so they lowered the tempo and started to play success, allowing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to put pressure on the Trail Blazers on the inside.

Gan Guoyang did a good job, he didn't let Abdul-Jabbar get what he wanted, effectively reducing the hit rate of Lao Tiangou, and at the same time giving a strong counterattack on the offensive end.

In this game, Gan Guoyang grabbed more rebounds in the front court than other teammates combined, and his second offense made the Lakers' defense futile several times.

At halftime, the Trail Blazers narrowed the gap to five points, leaving the second half in suspense.

In the third quarter, the two sides were still inseparable, the shooting percentage on both sides began to decline, and the role of the interior line became more and more prominent.

The effect of the Lakers' pinching is quite good, Gan Guoyang's fear of pinching is still not solved, and Cooper's pinching is really fierce.

The Trail Blazers' pinch effect is also very good, because of Bellman's adjustment, the Blazers' pinch always comes in time with the edge of the illegal defense, and Abdul-Jabbar's action is slightly slow, so he can't directly attack the basket at all.

The two teams were tied in the third quarter and entered the fourth quarter by a margin of 5 points.

In the middle of the fourth quarter, Magic Johnson began to score consecutive goals, Drexs defended the Magic for most of the half, and finally his physical strength was a little unable to keep up, knowing that he was still the main breakthrough player on the outside in the offense.

The Magic began to push Draxler inside with his big ass, making two foul free throws, and one turned and hit a small throw, and the gap between the two sides widened to nine points.

Then Gan Guoyang made another effort, a block, a frontcourt rebound, two offensive successes, and a three-point success, and the gap between the two sides became 4 points.

With two minutes left in the game, the Lakers called a timeout.

"Shrink, don't give the Lakers two points easily, let them shoot from a distance, we have to fight back and recover the points as quickly as possible." Ramsey said during the timeout that he asked his players to shrink the line and bet that the Lakers would miss an outside shot to fight back.

This strategy is still very risky, but once successful, it can indeed recover the score as quickly as possible.

Gan Guoyang didn't agree with Ramsey's strategy in his heart, he felt that it was not impossible to defend one solidly, and such a gambling defense was not Ramsey's specialty, I don't know what he thought.

The timeout ended quickly, the two sides resumed playing, and the Great Western Forum had reached a boiling point with the fierce fighting between the two sides, and Gan Guoyang could feel as if the huge arena was completely filled with something.

"Kiki, pay a little attention to the outside line, give me the inside line, I'm afraid the Lakers will shoot far away." Gan Guoyang said to Vanderwich.

"But Coach Ramsay asked for a contraction." Van Dewic looked at Gan Guoyang and said that Van Dewecki's defense was still terrible tonight, and he had already scored 30 points on the head by Worthy.

"Believe me, I can cover the inside line!"

Vanderwig didn't talk, but he shook his head slightly, and Gan Guoyang felt a little helpless.

The Lakers served the sideline, Johnson received the ball in the middle, and Morris Lucas came out to make a block for the Magic, who suddenly got rid of Drexler's defense and cut straight into the three-second zone from the right side.

Sampson decisively changed the guard and clinged to the magician, and Gan Guoyang also paid attention to Abdul-Jabbar while preparing to go to the inside line to help block the magician's route.

Everyone's attention is on the magician, but the reason a magician is a magician is that you never know when he will pass the ball and to whom.

The defender is used to staring at the Magic's head, but the Magician doesn't need to look at the ball with his eyes, his head didn't move, and with a wave of his left arm, the ball passed to the 45-degree angle of the wing, and Michael Cooper was ambushed outside the three-point line!

At this time, Vanderwich was still shrunk around the left three-second zone, and he was too far away from Cooper!

Cooper made a three-point shot with no defender.

"Huh!" Three-point shot, the first three-pointer on both sides of the game, detonated the Great Western Forum.

The goal was quite deadly, and the difference between the two sides suddenly became 7 points, and it was only a little more than a minute before the end of the game.

"Why don't you go and make up for it! I'm on the inside, you should be keeping an eye on Cooper! Seeing that this ball was going to break the Trail Blazers' hopes of winning, Gan Guoyang couldn't control himself and yelled at Van der Vercki.

"Take care of yourself." Van Dewig, who usually has a good relationship with Gan Guoyang, also lowered his face and said coldly to Gan Guoyang.

After being hit in the heart by a three-point shot, Ramsey also called a timeout, but it was useless, although the subsequent offensive Valentin scored a goal, but Magic Johnson also hit a three-pointer from the outside, and the difference became 8 points!

This is the case in the competition between strong teams, where the majority of the confrontation is played in the first half, and one attack and one defense can determine the success or failure of the game at the critical moment, and this critical moment is the time to test the ability of coaches and players.

At 114:106, the Trail Blazers lost the battle for the top spot in the Pacific region on the road and dropped to second place.