The Golden Age of Basketball

On May 1985, 5, the Eastern and Western semifinals of the nb playoffs were drawing to a close. In the Western Conference, the Los Angeles Lakers did not give the Utah Jazz any chance. With an absolute advantage of 9:4, they swept the Jazz and entered the Western Conference Finals first. Empty seats are waiting.

In the East, the Philadelphia 76ers also easily defeated the Milwaukee Bucks with a score of 4:1. Since the Bucks were divided into the East in 1981, this is the fourth time they have fallen at the feet of the 76ers in five years. , I have to say that this is a huge tragedy.

Compared with these two series without suspense, Boston encountered tenacious resistance when facing Detroit.

The Celtics defeated the Pistons in Boston in the first two games without bloodshed, but in Detroit, the Pistons even pulled two games in a row by virtue of their home court, rewriting the total score to 2:2.

The Celtics encountered the same predicament as the Trail Blazers, but the Celtics are the defending champions after all. They have a wealth of experience and a stable psychological quality. In the crucial battle of Tianwangshan, Larry Bird broke out completely. With 43 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assists, the Celtics won the match point.

In the sixth game on May 5, the Celtics had no one to play the seventh game of life and death in the series. Even Isiah Thomas had 5 points, 37 rebounds and 12 assists, and almost got a triple-double. , But it couldn't stop the Boston Celtics from stepping on the dead body of the Pistons 9:123, meeting the Philadelphia 113ers in the Eastern Conference Finals for the fourth time in six years.

The only ones that didn't decide the outcome were the Denver Nuggets and Portland Trail Blazers.

The Blazers suffered the same adversity as the Celtics, but their situation was significantly worse. They lost the important fifth game, and even worse, the sixth game will be played in Denver. Questioning whether the Blazers can win in Denver.

Before the game, as the final suspense of the semi-finals, all the media focused on this game, and according to pre-match predictions and surveys, most experts and fans believed that the Trail Blazers this season It's the end of the road, and they'll lose Game [-] in Denver and pack up and go home. [

Some newspapers have even begun to summarize the season for the Blazers. As long as the Blazers lose the game, the manuscript will be sent out.

"Guess what will be written in the newspapers at that time? 'The Blazers have been pulled by the Nuggets in four games, they are not yet mature'." Gan's rookie season is over, as a Chinese, his performance has been very good, but maybe Not enough.''The Blazers are obviously just a regular-season team. They failed to show the toughness they should have in the brutal playoffs~'Oh my god, I feel like vomiting when I see these after-the-fact comments. I'll bet something like that is already forming in the editors' pens by now, just waiting to be sent out tonight, after we lose this game, to rub salt in our wounds." At Denver Mac Inside the visiting team's locker room at Nichols Stadium, Gan Guoyang was eloquently expressing his opinions to his teammates.

When a group is in a state of "chaos", the first person to stand up is often regarded as a spiritual support by those in the group.

After the Portland Trail Blazers experienced a three-game losing streak, especially after losing the fifth game at home to the Nuggets, the morale and morale of the players reached the bottom. At this time, their head coach, the team really The spiritual leader, but because of the conflict with Paxon, he also lost his fighting spirit.

At this time, Gan Guoyang stood up bravely like a so-called bulldog.

At the beginning, everyone was moved by what he said, but gradually, Gan Guoyang began to show his unparalleled talent for eloquence. As he continued to mobilize his emotions, everyone felt that his blood was running Slowly thaw out of the ice.

Finally, in the interview with reporters after the game, Gan Guoyang loudly promised in front of all the reporters that "the Portland Trail Blazers will definitely win the sixth game and bring the suspense back to Portland". , All the media are like sharks smelling blood, swimming over this topic one after another.

Not only Gan Guoyang was interviewed, but also other Blazers players. When they were asked about Gan Guoyang’s promise, all the Blazers players said, “Our thoughts are the same as Gan’s!”

Yeah, under these circumstances, can players say "The Blazers will lose Game [-] in Denver"?

It's just that in such a situation, there are very few people who dare to be the first to say such words. You must know that many Blazers players feel that they probably won't be able to win the sixth game. It's even ready for fishing.

But now, everyone was "kidnapped" by Gan Guoyang.

"You are so happy, if we lose this game, it will be a big joke!" Kenny Karl shook his head while listening to Gan Guoyang's words in the locker room, thinking that he was also forced to make a promise.

"You are wrong Karl, whether we have made a commitment or not, we will be a big joke if we lose this game!" Gan Guoyang looked at Kenny Karl and said seriously.

"That's right, everyone will laugh at us if we win two games and then lose four games in a row. I can't imagine what kind of difficulties I will encounter in the post-match interview if I lose this game." Vandeweghe also said.

"I think I will definitely hide in the locker after the game! After all the reporters are gone, I will sneak back to the hotel." The fast-talking Norris also said with a smile. [

Everyone laughed out loud after hearing what he said. The atmosphere in the locker room was completely different from the day before yesterday.

Ramsey, who used to talk the most in the locker room, didn't talk much, but watched Gan Guoyang re-mobilize the morale of the team.

"Okay lads, it's time to play, Gan is right, the battle is far from over! We have to prove that we can win in Denver! Come on!"

"Ome-on, guys! (Come on, guys!)" Gan Guoyang yelled, and was the first to open the door of the locker room and rushed out.

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"Welcome to bs television for Game 1985 of the Western Conference Semifinals of the 2 NBA Playoffs in Denver, Colorado, against the Portland Trail Blazers and the Denver Nuggets. Hello everyone , I'm Frank Graber, and I'll be explaining this game for you tonight. In the previous five games, the Portland Trail Blazers led 0-[-] and were pulled back by the Denver Nuggets Three games, and now they are on the verge of being eliminated. And the venue of the sixth game is Denver's home court. You must know that the Blazers have not won a ball at Denver's home court this season. It’s a huge psychological pressure. What do you think of this game?” Frank Graber was the commentator sent by BS for this game, and his partner was guest commentator James Brown.

"I think the whole series has been dominated by the Denver Nuggets, who overcame the huge difficulties of the first two road losses, tied the score at home, and then won the crucial fifth game, and now they You can use the last home game in hand to win this series. From the first five games, we can see that the Nuggets are obviously more mature, their style of play is smoother, and the performance of the star players in the team is also very stable. The Trail Blazers have extremely high talents, they have several players with great potential, and they also have All-Stars in their prime, but they seem to lack a real core around which to operate. The flaws brought about by this problem That is, the team has no way to get together, and it is said that some bad things happened in the Blazers locker room, which affected the state of the team.” James Brown is not a professional basketball commentator, his real expertise lies in Explain football.

But he also has his own unique understanding of sports games. He can see that in terms of team structure, the Nuggets undoubtedly have English as the core. This is one of the reasons why they sent Vandeweghe to the Blazers last year. .

And English's performance can also take on the responsibility of the boss. His strong scoring ability is the biggest guarantee for the Nuggets to score points.

In contrast, the Trail Blazers seem to really be unable to find a real core player. Such a team is generally a team team led by a coach, but Ramsey is not such a godfather coach.

At the same time, there is no impenetrable wall in the world, and the problem of the Blazers locker room was quickly caught by some sensitive media. Now this is a semi-open secret.

However, the current Trail Blazers players don't think so much, and everyone is concentrating on warm-up training on the court.

There is a detail that many people have not noticed, that is, when Gan Guoyang is standing under the basket to practice shooting or hooking, others will consciously stop shooting. Only when Gan Guoyang’s ball hits the basket or goes in Later, others will act.

"Hey! Let me dunk a basketball for you to see!" Gan Guoyang felt that he was not satisfied in the middle of the warm-up, and was about to dunk.

All the Blazers players stepped aside to make way for Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang stood outside the three-point line with the ball. This guy looked as if he was about to come to the free throw line to take off and shoot.

Of course, Gan Guoyang's jump is not enough to allow him to take off from the free throw line and reach the basket. The distance from the free throw line to the basket is a full 14 feet. For Gan Guoyang, this distance is too far.

But taking off at a position of 10 feet, that is, the position of the inner arc of the free throw line, Gan Guoyang is confident that there is no big problem.

"Get out of the way!" Gan Guoyang rushed to the basket with the ball in one hand. He adjusted his pace and took off on one foot with a big step inside the free throw line!

Ever since Gan Guoyang practiced dunking hard and broke through his own dunking ability, he never spent time on this ability, because he believed that dunking was useless after all.

But his day-to-day physical training has made his ability to stay in the air stronger.

Although he can't achieve the effect of "gliding in the air" like a glider, his elegant and stretched figure, coupled with Xin's long figure, still gives people great visual enjoyment.

"Bang!" Gan Guoyang successfully dunked the ball into the basket, and the fans who came to watch the game early also exclaimed for Gan Guoyang's beautiful dunk.

"Oh, Gan performed a slam dunk during the warm-up. It was very beautiful. The Blazers players seemed to be in a good mood. I don't know if this mood can be maintained until the end of the game."

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