Wilkins' biggest trouble was that he wanted to have an offensive duel with Gan Guoyang, but found that he didn't feel so good, and Jerome Cauchy's attrition on him was effective.

And soon, Adelman sent Sabonis, Gan Guoyang came to the power forward position, he expanded his defensive range, and began to focus on helping Wilkins, which made Wilkins' offense dumb.

At this time, Wilkins exposed his biggest flaw, which was that he had no other way to help the team, and when he couldn't score, his role on the court was no different from that of an ordinary small forward.

Defense, passing, rebounding, he doesn't have the ability to switch and adjust himself, at the end of the day he's a chargeaway, and when his spear breaks, he loses his way and doesn't know where to go.

It was Moses Malone, who began to play the role of veteran experience after Sabonis came on the court, although Sabonis was unusually tall and strong, but he lacked defensive experience, and his feet and positions were not flexible enough, and he was deceived by Malone into making five free throws in a row, including a 2-plus-1.

"He's full of feints, I always subconsciously try to block him, and he's so strong that I find it a bit hard to top him." Sabonis, who was teased by Ma Long three times, complained to Gan Guoyang, when he sat on the bench, he watched Gan Guoyang lock Ma Long to death, thinking that this slow old man was just like this, and Gan Guoyang's training so hard yesterday was all in vain.

How did he know that when he really came to the arena, he realized that this slow-looking old man was still so terrible to him, and his rich offensive experience teased Sabonis like a circus monkey.

"Watch your position, anticipate in advance, and think you'll be able to cling to Moses and follow him? Don't jump, take advantage of your height, lift your arms up, don't press down, don't think about capping. Gan Guoyang reminded Sabonis.

Sabonis is in the FIBA basketball system, the Soviet team or CSKA Moscow are all playing joint defense, and he stands in the three-second zone as the core of the joint defense, like swatting flies, and he shoots one when he comes.

But in the NBA, he has to play one-on-one against the opposing center, and he didn't have an advantage in defending the young David Robinson in the Olympics, and now he is facing the old and spicy Moses Malone, and it is natural to suffer.

Gan Guoyang has always taught Sabonis, especially defensive skills, and Gan Guoyang knows that defense is the foundation of an interior player who can gain a foothold in the NBA.

"You go and solve Malone by yourself, I won't help you defend, no matter how bad the fight is, I won't help you." Gan Guoyang then said to Sabonis.

At this time, the game has entered the fourth quarter, and the Trail Blazers have always maintained a lead of more than 15 points, and Gan Guoyang has scored 31 points and 22 rebounds, a big double-double.

The Eagles made the final struggle, Moses Malone hit Sabonis and even played a feeling, in the second half of the game he hit a series of shots, both turn-over jumpers, and the signature "Guanyin sitting on the lotus-dry land pulling onions", and there was a faint feeling of peak on his body.

Sabonis is also miserable enough, completely beaten by Ma Long, Gan Guoyang did not help Sabonis from beginning to end, but every time Ma Long scores a goal, Gan Guoyang will immediately maintain a point difference on the offensive end, and time is slowly running out.

In the end, the Trail Blazers scored another relatively comfortable victory, something that the Trail Blazers players had not expected before the game, and they thought they would face a tough battle in Atlanta.

Atlanta fans are disappointed, and Atlanta had high hopes for the Hawks before the season began, as they caught big fish in the free market.

But the big fish seem to be a bit uncomfortable, Wilkins as the leader of the team did not glue these veterans together, and Moses Malone is not a player who is good at uniting his teammates, this wandering old man is purely playing for his own life to support his family.

In tonight's game, although Moses Malone abused Sabonis in the final stage, showing a hint of the past, he was completely defeated in a direct conversation with Gan Guoyang, showing his old age.

Reggie Toyes has always been incompatible with Wilkins' style of play since coming to the Hawks, and the relationship between the two on and off the court is average, and there is not enough chemistry between Tois, and Tois is getting older, and like Malone, he is also in a declining period.

Veterans in the declining period once they don't have enough mental motivation, they will fall into a state of doing odd jobs, earning pension and milk powder money, and they are the opposite of Buck Williams, although his data has shrunk after coming to the Trail Blazers, he has become extremely positive because of the hope of winning the championship, and he has integrated well with the team and has become Gan Guoyang's right-hand man on the inside.

After the game, the audience left the court with a disappointed mood, and Gan Guoyang, who scored 37 points and 24 rebounds in the game, walked to Moses Malone's side and hugged him.

"It's a pleasure to see you, Moses, and I hope I can teach juniors on the field when I'm your age." Gan Guoyang and Ma Long have always had a good relationship, Ma Long is a taciturn person, and he has a very strong temperament, and he has a cold relationship with many NBA players, including his teammates.

But for Gan Guoyang, the two have a similar temperament, Ma Long likes Gan Guoyang's arrogance very much, as well as his fierce and tenacious style of play on the field, but tonight, Gan Guoyang is not fierce at all, and the old Ma Long can't hold on.

"Keep it up, it will be your time soon." Ma Long also gave Gan Guoyang a big bear hug, said to Gan Guoyang in a slurred Virginia accent, and then left with his back hunched and his head down.

Looking at Ma Long's back, Gan Guoyang understood that his era was over.

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On a 16-game winning streak, the Trail Blazers moved to New Jersey, their penultimate stop for six straight road trips, where the Nets were the next blockers.

This is the second time Buck Williams has faced his old boss this season, and in the last game against the Nets, Williams was a great player, helping the Trail Blazers tear up the power Nets, and it seems that he has no nostalgia for the Nets on the court.

But when Buck Williams appeared at the Brenda Bairy Stadium in New Jersey and the DJ shouted "Buck" at the ceremony, the audience still burst into applause and cheers from the fans.

After all, Williams has been fighting for the New Jerseys on this court for 7 years, 7 years, it should be said that the most golden time for a player, the Bucks dedicated his youth and strength to the Nets, and he deserves these applause and cheers.

I don't know if the enthusiasm of the fans affected Williams because of this, Williams's play in this game was quite "moderate", and he didn't seem to play his best at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.

This gave Sabonis more playing time, and unlike the last game against Moses Malone, where Sabonis mainly faced the Nets' top center, Joe Barry Carroll.

After being traded from the Warriors to the Rockets and not working so happily with Olajuwon, Carroll moved to the Nets this season and became the main center here.

Years of wandering and injuries have gradually lost Carroll's talent, and he is no longer the top player in the league when he entered the league, but an ordinary interior scorer, sometimes when he is in good shape, he can still score 20 or 30 points, but he is no longer powerless to change a game.

Sabonis learned the lessons of the last game, on the way to New Jersey, he watched the video of the Nets game with Gan Guoyang and Culp, studied Carroll's offensive characteristics, and listened carefully to Gan Guoyang's opinion.

The Nets, who were already star-dim, surrendered in the face of the powerful Trail Blazers and fought hard at home for a whole game.

Gan Guoyang shined again in this game, continuing his good form since the game against the Philadelphia 76ers, he shot 15 of 19 in the whole game, and the shooting rate reached more than 70 percent.

And he once again got 21 rebounds, and his average rebounds per game in the season has reached 18.5, far ahead of the second place, and the rebounding king has undoubtedly been included in Gan Guoyang's bag.

In the subsequent NBA Weekly and Monthly Awards, Gan Guoyang was also named two best of both the best for his undisputed individual performance and team record, and his photo was also printed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, the most influential sports magazine in the United States.

This is the fifth time that Gan's photo has been published in Sports Illustrated, the first time it was taken with Olajuwon when he reached the NCAA Finals; The second time was when he entered the NBA and was selected by the Trail Blazers as the top player, and that time, it was Jordan who was in the pictorial with him; The third time was when Gan Guoyang led the Portland Trail Blazers to the finals, and that time was the cover that really belonged to him; The fourth time, when he returned in 1988, when he played the best game in January and scored 51 points in a single game, the photo of him slamming two people under the basket appeared in the pictorial again.

The annual pictorial cover is already a high accolade, but this year's Gan Guoyang is clearly not satisfied with one time, and he knows that as long as he gets that trophy in June, he will definitely make headlines again.

"My goal is to be on the cover of Time Magazine!" Gan Guoyang said when he joked with his teammates, although everyone didn't think it was a joke.

And just when Gan Guoyang and the Trailblazers were complacent, at their next stop, which was also the last battle of the six consecutive visitors, Indiana, an old acquaintance was training hard in the gymnasium when he saw Gan Guoyang's infinite scenery, ready to deliver a fatal blow to the would-be MVP.