John Stockton finally made a substitute near the end of the first quarter.

However, this is just a normal rotation, and Stockton's appearance did not change the situation where the Jazz was at a disadvantage.

The Jazz at that time had a relatively heavy overall style of play, and they had a set of positional battles, and they had insufficient impact.

The Trail Blazers come and go like the wind, driving the Jazz all over the field with all their strength, minimizing the impact of the Jazz double towers on the team as much as possible.

"Why don't you shoot John?" Gan Guoyang said to Stockton.

Just now, the Trail Blazers defended, and Drexler hit the ball out of the baseline, causing a dead ball.

Gan Guoyang took this opportunity to tell Stockton that because Stockton actually had the opportunity to fire a shot from the outside, he still chose to pass the ball.

"That's not the coach's request." Stockton replied, and the two were still communicating like teammates on the court.

In the NBA at that time, the tactical status of point guards was at a relatively low position among the five positions. In the eyes of most coaches, the first responsibility of point guards was to organize offenses.

The point guard cannot take action at will unless it is absolutely necessary, even Magic Johnson.

Stockton was the team's second scoring point when he was in Gonzaga, and he was a very stable outside finisher. In the NBA, he could only be a ball transfer station.

"Beep!" The referee whistled and the Jazz served from the outside.

Stockton received the ball, but no longer organized the team's offense like before, but handed the ball to the 45-degree Danteley, who was the absolute core of the offense in Jazz Danteley.

In the first quarter, the Jazz mainly relied on Dantley's singles to firmly grasp the score.

Dantley is nicknamed "Single King". His singles ability is really not a big hit. From the three-point line to the three-second zone, he has extremely efficient attacks with the ball.

He threw it as soon as he put it on, and when he pressed it on, he used his back to squeeze in. He really didn't have the chance to commit a foul.

After the timeout, Ramsey replaced Drexler and asked him to defend Dantley.

Drexler has advantages in strength, speed, height, and defensive enthusiasm, but he still lacks experience.

After Dantley took the ball at 45 degrees, he suddenly turned inside and cut into the middle.

At this time, Mark Eaton had already pulled to the outside and cleared the space for the inside. Gan Guoyang could not completely empty Eaton.

Dantley took advantage of this opportunity and leaned against Drexler and squeezed in. At the same time, he pushed Drexler away with his left hand, and actually used a hook hand with a light hook, and the ball was shot.

Gan Guoyang rushed to the basket and was about to grab the rebound, but saw the basketball collapsed a few times on the basket and still fell in.

"It's not only you who can hook up?" Dantley said to Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang also felt that this 6-foot-4 strong small forward is an offensive kaleidoscope and can do anything.

If he had to say that he didn't know anything, it was probably passing the ball. As long as he got the ball in the first quarter, it would never pass it.

"But I think you should learn to pass the ball." Gan Guoyang hit back.

Before he finished speaking, Gan Guoyang took the ball and stood behind the baseline to serve. Instead of sending the ball to Valentine, he swung his arm and threw the ball to the frontcourt with a super long pass.

This pass caught the Jazz off guard and even failed to react to the Trail Blazers players.

Fortunately, the Trail Blazers have Drexler. He has excellent running and jumping ability and got the ball after jumping in the pinch of two Jazz players.

As soon as it landed, Drexler turned over and broke from the bottom line to the basket. This time Mark Eaton had arrived.

Drexler did not retreat, and he jumped directly toward Eaton's huge palm and rushed towards the basket.

The terrible thing about Eaton is that his shoulders are extremely wide, which makes his horizontal control equally large. If Drexler is hard, he will suffer a loss.

But Drexler did not choose to dunk, but instead pulled the basket, glided from the right side of the basket to the left, avoided Eaton's block, took a counter-skirt, and scored the ball!

"Yeah~~" The Memorial Stadium was boiling again, and the Trail Blazers contributed two wonderful goals in the first quarter.

"Calendar is beautiful." Gan Guoyang and Drexler who ran back celebrated with high fives.

"If you pass such a ball again in the future, I can't guarantee that I will always catch it." Drexler said. Gan Guoyang's pass was too sudden.

"If I pass such a ball again, Ramsey will kill me." Gan Guoyang said.

But Ramsey next to the fact that he couldn't hold back and roared, but fortunately the goal was scored in the end.

At this time, the Trail Blazers had already led the Jazz by 13 points with 29:16. The Jazz still had no good way in the offense. Their external touch was average, and the inside lacked strong ability to play.

Bailey did nothing under Sampson's defense, and Eaton was almost emptied by Gan Guoyang.

The Jazz's main attack point now is their number one scorer Dantley.

Gan Guoyang decided to help Drexler and strangle Dantley to death.

Sure enough, Stockton passed the ball to Dantley again, and Gan Guoyang immediately stepped forward to double-team, not giving Dantley a chance to start.

Once Dantley, a small armored forward, is activated, it is likely to cause a foul by the defensive player, and Gan Guoyang is also the first to take action.

But Dantley did not play hard this time, but passed the ball back to Stockton.

This was Stockton stood at the top of the arc and received the ball. Gan Guoyang immediately gave up the double-teaming against Dantley. He knew that the ball was passed back to the outside point guard and he would definitely find the loophole caused by the double-teaming.

But Gan Guoyang's return was over, or Stockton's pass was too fast. He did not pause after receiving the ball at the top of the arc and directly passed the ball with one hand. The ball tore the Blazers' defense and passed it to Mark Eaton in the inside.

Eaton took the ball at the basket, and no one could stop him from taking it. Eaton scored a one-handed dunk.

A very nice pass, a great strong side turn weak side transfer.

Dantley took the ball at 45 degrees to attract the Trail Blazers defense, and played pick-and-rolls on the weak side Eaton and Stockton. After Stockton got the ball, Eaton happened to go down, and Gan Guoyang was pulled to the strong side to double-team and could not go back to visit.

Gan Guoyang did not see this, did not see the Jazz's tactical arrangements clearly, and he also ignored the ability of Stockton, an old teammate, to seize opportunities.

"Beep!" The referee whistled, and the Trail Blazers requested a pause.

"Don't double-team at will! As a center, how can you give up the protection of the three-second zone to double-team the outside players! You must protect the penalty area! From the first second to the end of the game, you must protect the penalty area!" When you returned to the bench, Gan Guoyang was squirted by Ramsey.

Gan Guoyang could only lower his head to listen to the training. Now that he made any small mistakes on the court, Ramsey would find out and criticize him, but Gan Guoyang knew that Ramsey was doing his own good.

So at this time, he always obediently listened to Ramsey squirting at him and learned from it.

Ramsey did not re-arrange his tactics, but just asked a timeout to slow down the players. The success of continuous offense made the players' defense relax again, and it was time to substitution.

"Also, Gan, it's better not to make such a stupid long pass again, especially in the last quarter, I can still bear it in the first quarter." Ramsey mentioned Gan Guoyang's pass again. Although he asked the team to play fast, he couldn't be so fast.

Fortunately, it was still the first quarter. If Gan Guoyang came like this at the critical moment in the fourth quarter, Ramsey would definitely have a heart attack.

"I just don't want to run away." Gan Guoyang stood beside him with his waist on his back.

What Gan Guoyang said almost made Ramsey angry to death, "Then sit on the bench!" Ramsey yelled at him.

Ramsey sat on the bench obediently. Anyway, he was going to be replaced, and Van dervich was also replaced.

"How are you? KiKi?" Gan Guoyang looked at Vanderwich next to him and found that he didn't seem very comfortable.

"It's okay, but my back is not very comfortable. Your pass is amazing." Van dervich said with a smile.

"Worry, Ramsey will be crazy when he hears it." Gan Guoyang glanced at Ramsey who was standing on the sidelines and closely monitored the situation on the court.

"Ramsey really values ​​you. Sometimes his timeout is just for you," Van dervich said.

Gan Guoyang smiled after hearing this, and he also felt that Ramsey was becoming more and more harsh on him, but in fact he was paying more and more attention to his cultivation.

"I understand, I will try to make him less angry in the future."

The game continued, and the Trail Blazers were still controlling the situation on the field.

Gan Guoyang sat off the court and watched Stockton's performance, feeling that he was too restricted and he basically had to hand over the ball in the half.

Although Stockton's ability is not top-notch and his passing awareness also needs to be tempered for a long time in the NBA, the Jazz's coach obviously did not discover the talent that Stockton possessed, but just regarded him as an ordinary point guard who dribbled through the half-court.

If Stockton wants to be completely developed, he needs a mentor who knows him, and this mentor is sitting on the jazz bench at this time.

Gan Guoyang couldn't help but feel a little lucky. He met a coach like Ramsey who could appreciate him. Although when he first came into contact with him, he thought this guy was an ignorant old-fashioned man.

There was no big suspense in the whole game. Although the Jazz relied on Dantley and Griffith to support it, they could not withstand the strong firepower of the Trail Blazers and still lost.

Danteley made 14 of 19 shots and scored 39 points efficiently, which still exposed the Trail Blazers' weakness in front defense; but Van dervic also scored 30 points, Gan Guoyang scored 19 points, 18 rebounds and 4 assists, and his control of the backcourt rebounds was amazingly good.

The Trail Blazers defeated the Utah Jazz 130:119 and started with a good record of 7 wins and 3 losses.

Gan Guoyang felt that his condition was getting better and better, and he had already begun to adapt to NBA life.

In the first week of the NBA season, Gan Guoyang even received a nomination for his amazing performance against the Lakers.

After the competition, Gan Guoyang took Stockton to a famous French restaurant in Portland for dinner, and Mark Eaton was also accompanied by Mark Eaton.

Because Gan Guoyang is already a famous person in Portland, the restaurant owner decided to give Gan Guoyang a free gift today.

It takes a lot of courage to give some basketball players, especially giants like Eaton and Gan Guoyang.

But between the results of the game tonight, the boss is still happy to offer a free late-night snack to Portland's new idol and today's failed challengers.

"I performed so badly today, I only got one point." While eating, Stockton was still recalling the evening game.

He played for 14 minutes in the whole game, but he only relied on free throws to get one point, but he still had 4 assists.

"You've done a good job, don't be so worried, John." Eaton next to him said while stuffing food into his mouth.

Gan Guoyang also comforted him in this way. Stockton's personality was like his appearance, restrained and depressed. His drooping eyebrows and introverted lips made people feel that he was always sad.

"I don't know how long I can stay in this league." Stockton still didn't get out of his inner self-doubt.

"For 20 years, I bet you will stay in that ghost place for 20 years until you can't fight." Gan Guoyang once again predicted based on his later experience.

Even Eaton didn't believe this, but Stockton was a little moved because he remembered that Gan Guoyang had told him before that he might have to stay in Salt Lake City in the future.
To be continued...