Chapter 195: The curtain has come to an end

(It was sent on time at seven o'clock, I don't know why it wasn't sent)

"Beep! Western Conference All-Stars Suspended! "The referee blew a timeout with three minutes left in the fourth quarter of the All-Star break, and Ramsey called a timeout.

At this time, the Western All-Stars did not lag behind, they led by 12 points, and in the last three minutes, as long as the stars of the Eastern All-Stars did not go crazy, everyone walked and played this entertainment game and it was over.

But Ramsey sat on the bench and couldn't stand Gan Guoyang's clumsy performance on the court.

In the 7 minutes of playing time in the first half, Gan Guoyang brushed up the data of scores, backcourt rebounds, blocks, and assists, and also got free throws, steals, and frontcourt rebounds in the second half, and even got a three-point shot.

And in the final moments of the fourth quarter, he began to brush up on turnovers and fouls.

He first sent Ranbir to the free-throw line with a foul on a beater, and at the same time slapped Ranbir in the arm.

Immediately after picking off the rebound, a long pass smashed the ball directly onto the rebound, and the ball bounced into the hands of the Eastern All-Star players, which was a turnover.

The Eastern All-Stars also took the opportunity to narrow the gap between the two sides to 12 points, which was originally a 15-point gap between the two sides.

For Gan Guoyang, a moth who specializes in sabotage and has no intention of contributing, Ramsey, as his head coach, decisively called a timeout and pressed Gan Guoyang to the bench.

And Gan Guoyang doesn't care, anyway, he is enough, played 15 minutes, got 5 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists, 1 steal, 1 block, 1 foul, 1 turnover, anyway, he came to all the data that can be counted on the table, it can really be said that he has complete merit, no desire.

Even more satisfying was the performance of Ralph Sampson, who played second only to Magic Johnson in 29 minutes of playing time, and he scored 22 points and 10 rebounds on 9-of-14 shooting.

In the final three minutes, he scored two more points, and finally Sampson became the top scorer in the West when the score was fixed at 140-129 and the Western All-Stars defeated the Eastern All-Stars.

While Magic Johnson's 21 points, 15 assists and 5 rebounds are just as impressive, the All-Star Game MVP award is traditionally given to the player with the highest points per game for the winning team.

"I announce that the All-Star Game MVP for this All-Star Game goes to Ralph Sampson from the Houston Rockets! You are, star of stars! ”

When David Stern handed the trophy to Sampson and said the famous "You-are-the-star-among-the-stars", the audience burst into the loudest applause.

Gan Guoyang can be regarded as letting go of a big stone in his heart, he thinks about saying that he didn't let the All-Star Game MVP change hands, and it shouldn't be a problem to change the champion of the slam dunk contest.

The 1985 All-Star Game ended at the Indianapolis Mountain People Dome Stadium, and it was a great success.

First of all, the location of the All-Star Game is very good, although Indianapolis is not a big city like Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, but the basketball atmosphere here is indeed one of the best in the United States.

So whether it's All-Star Weekend or All-Star Game, it has been strongly supported and welcomed by local fans, and fans who attended various events and watched games packed the stadium, which reflected the good audience base of the NBA.

Moreover, the venue of this All-Star Game is the football stadium of the superstar, which is larger than the ordinary basketball stadium and has a large number of spectators, which also sets a precedent that the NBA All-Star Game does not have to be held in a basketball stadium.

Secondly, this All-Star Game is also a symbol of the NBA's replacement of the old and the new, with three rookies selected in 1984 and the 1983 rookie winning the All-Star Game MVP and Slam Dunk Contest titles, which makes people see the hope that the new generation of stars will replace the older generation of stars to lead the NBA era.

Of course, Gan Guoyang's "shameless" swiping of comprehensive data in the All-Star Game will inevitably become an indelible "stain" on his career and be "spurned" by fans in later generations.

Finally, this All-Star Game also made the stars and the new president of the league, David Stern, more satisfied. David Steinberg, Jeffrey Osborne

Two of the league's biggest figures, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, both found this All-Star to be much more interesting than last year's Denver All-Star.

"Last year in Denver, the show they chose was boring, and this year Jeffrey Osborne's R&B rap made me completely high." Magic Johnson said in a post-star interview that the league invited David Steinberg to perform a comedy one-man show, and this year Stern brought in Osborne, an R&B singer who is loved by black players.

"I love the kind of family-like gatherings, which are much better than the big ones." Larry Bird also gave the All-Star Game a positive review, saying that he didn't like the big, noisy banquets, and this year's buffet with his family in a smaller restaurant made all the players feel at home.

All of these changes came from the new president, Stern, who hadn't fully taken over the league at last year's All-Star Game, so when he watched Steinberg on stage perform a one-man show about "artificial insemination" while he sat down with Donald Carter, the league's famous devout Christian and Maverick owner, Stern almost ducked under his chair in shame.

So this time, the Indianapolis All-Star Game, which Stern was solely responsible for, was as big as the All-Star Game process and the napkin decoration of the small banquet, and Stern had to ask about it, and he did his best to package this fan feast from the perspective of a marketer, and achieved unexpectedly good results.

For Gan Guoyang, it is really good to be able to help his good friend Drexler win the dunk king, make up for the regrets in history, and at the same time not take away Sampson's All-Star Game MVP, and he also completed his small goal.

After all the games were over, all the players and the owners and staff of each team had a big party together, and then they went back to their homes on the 11th to find their mothers.

For fans, the All-Star Game is a feast of entertainment, for the stars, the All-Star Game is a big basketball show, and for the teams in the league, the All-Star Game is a watershed moment of the regular season.

Once the All-Star Game is over, it means that the entire league is in the final fight before the playoffs.

First, within a week of the All-Star break, the league's trade deadline will come up, and it's the last chance for all teams to bolster their rosters through trades.

Strong teams such as the Lakers, Celtics, and Trail Blazers are naturally holding their ground, maintaining their existing lineups, and preparing for the playoffs.

And the Cavaliers and Pacers are basically broken and broken, it doesn't matter if they are traded or not, even if there is a trade, they are all preparing for the future and trying to stock up on high-quality draft picks.

Only those teams on the verge of the playoffs want to add more weight to the playoff impact through trades, and even do not rule out the idea and possibility of making the team soar through trades.

But in general, the NBA trade market before and after the All-Star in 1985 didn't have any big moves, it was all tinkering, so everyone still focused on preparing for the playoffs.

After Gan Guoyang returned to Portland, he began to pack up his mood and devote himself to the team's training.

Coach Ramsey has not forgotten the agreement of "three assists", and Gan Guoyang also knows that Ramsey, an old stubborn, has always done what he says, and if he really can't complete the target of three assists, he will be pressed to the bench if he doesn't do well.

At that time, even if the team's owner Weinberg or general manager Inman intervenes, it is estimated that it will be difficult to shake Ramsey's belief.

Three assists, which doesn't seem like a big number, just pass the ball to a teammate in a game and then throw the ball into the basket and it becomes an assist.

This season, Gan Guoyang's highest number of assists in a single game was 6, which was a game against the Spurs, and in that game he was very uncomfortable by Gilmore, so he began to pass the ball in various ways, and he really brushed 6 assists.

However, his average assists per game this season is only a pitiful 1.2, and in several games, his assist stats are 0, and no matter how he passes, either his teammates don't shoot, or his teammates can't shoot.

Gan Guoyang is also very puzzled, his passing skills are not bad, and the timing of the pass should be good, anyway, he just throws it to whoever he sees is vacant, but the assist data is still so poor.

At this point, he specifically consulted the team's assist king Valentine, as well as his good friend, Drexler, who is very good at dividing the ball and assisting, and the answer he got was more practice, which is basically the same as not saying it.

And Ramsey added an extra sentence to his guidance, "Observe more", and after listening to it, Gan Guoyang couldn't wait to make these guys all abrupt.

"Is it really that hard to practice passing? Can't I bring out my talents? Gan Guoyang thought, why can't he get his passing talent that is okay.

It's just that when he saw Olajuwon's 1.3 average assists per game, he felt a little better in his heart, and it seems that even if a talented guy like Olajuwon wants to achieve something in passing ability, it can't be polished without time.

But Ramsey just asked Gan Guoyang to immediately come up with an average of 3 assists per game, isn't this a seedling pulling?

In fact, Ramsey has seen that Gan Guoyang's passing skills are definitely very good, but Gan Guoyang still lacks awareness and a sense of the overall situation.

Ramsey believes that Gan Guoyang's play is still stuck in high school and college, "fighting violence with violence", and you will win with a stick.

Therefore, he wants to force Gan Guoyang and force him to calm down and carefully observe how a team's offense unfolds.

Soon, Gan's first subject of study and experimentation after the All-Star break came - the Boston Celtics from the East Coast.

(There is a second shift in the evening, half past ten)