The Trail Blazers' road to Detroit is full of thorns.

After the game in Cleveland, heavy snow began to fall throughout the Great Lakes region of the United States, and the side flights from Cleveland to Detroit were also cancelled.

Since Cleveland is not far from Detroit, the entire Trail Blazers took a bus around Lake Erie to the northwest Motor City.

Leaving the warm and comfortable hotel, riding on the road in the wind and snow is not as romantic as you imagine.

The cold weather and freezing roads have to slow down the driving speed, otherwise the entire Trail Blazers will be ruined if there is a car accident.

"I think we should take a plane and wait for the blizzard to pass, rather than take a car on this damn road. If we accidentally flip it, oh my god, then we will be headlines tomorrow." Colt, sitting in his seat, complained at the vast snow outside the window.

"Shut up your stinky mouth, you'd better think about how to deal with Thomas at night. You were beaten badly by Davis yesterday." Gan Guoyang, who was sitting next to Cort, didn't want to hear those unlucky words.

Since the competition with Detroit is back-to-back, the heavy snow will not stop for a while according to the weather forecast, so the Trail Blazers choose to take a car, and the competition will be held tonight.

It was already afternoon when the Trail Blazers arrived in downtown Detroit, and the heavy snow still did not stop.

After arriving in the city, the entire city was congested due to snow, and the Trail Blazer's bus was put on the way and could not move.

Even worse, the car, which had been driving on the road for more than three hours, broke down two kilometers away from the hotel, and his engine seemed to have been damaged by the cold weather.

So the Trail Blazers players had to get off the car and walk to the hotel. In fact, this might be faster.

"Fortunately, we only come to the Great Lakes area once a year, otherwise we will definitely go crazy. But I wonder if we can choose a better time next year and not on this damn snowy day." Van dervech walked in front of the team with his luggage in front of the team, carrying his luggage.

"Luckily we are not football players, but basketball players." Drexler, who was walking with Van derwich, quipped.

"I want to be a table tennis player, so I should be able to win a world champion." Gan Guoyang's joke was colder than the weather here.

Soon, the group finally arrived at the hotel where they were staying. Everyone hurried to the room to settle themselves, and then took a comfortable and hot shower.

By the time everything was arranged, night had already arrived at this car city. The Trail Blazers had no time to concentrate on training and had to go to the Allen County War Memorial Stadium to prepare for the evening game.

In the NBA at that time, "Memorial-Coliseum" was a common stadium name, for example, the home stadium where the Trail Blazers were located was called the Memorial Stadium.

Because commercialization was not yet popular in the NBA at that time, many sports centers belonged to public utilities and were commemorative in their naming, most of which were war memorials or veteran memorials.

Starting from the 1984-85 season, many stadium naming rights will be sold to commercial companies.

As soon as he entered the venue of the Allen County War Memorial Stadium, Gan Guoyang felt that the atmosphere here was obviously different from that of Cleveland.

With the same huge stands, Cleveland was empty, while Detroit was full. It was still early before the game started, but the audience had already sat there early.

Gan Guoyang often sees this situation in Portland, but unexpectedly, the Detroit audience's enthusiasm for watching football is no worse than Portland.

What impressed Gan Guoyang the most about the Detroit Pistons was naturally the battle with the highest score in history. One of the protagonists of that battle was already a teammate of Gan Guoyang at this time.

The Pistons were very firepower that year. They averaged 117 points per game, ranking third in the league, second only to the Denver Nuggets. It was these two teams that could play 186:184 games.

But their defense is a mess. In the regular season, they can still rely on offense to make up for their defensive shortcomings and enter the playoffs with the fourth place in the Eastern Conference.

But in the playoffs where the confrontation was fierce and more targeted, they were eliminated by the Knicks in the first round. In the series, they averaged 42 points per game by Bernard King and were beaten into a sieve by Kim alone.

By this season, their style has not changed, and they are still running on the road of bombardment, which has also led to their unstable state, with great fluctuations in losses, losses, and losses.

However, before facing the Portland Trail Blazers in this game, the Pistons had been resting for 4 days, but the Trail Blazers were busy all the way and rushed to the destination and started the game immediately.

Gan Guoyang was doing warm-up exercises on the court, and even he was always energetic, he felt a little tired. The continuous away games and travel fatigue made him feel that his competitive state was not particularly good.

The number of fans in the memorial arena is increasing, and the sounds are becoming noisier. Before the official starts, Gan Guoyang is almost unable to hear the sound of the ball hitting the basket.

If you are at home, this will feel great, but on the road, it is not a good feeling to think of so many people being hostile to you.

Soon, after the opening ceremony, the starters of both sides stood on the stadium, and the Trail Blazers' second consecutive back-to-back match was about to begin.

"Hi, Gan." Gan Guoyang had not stood in the middle circle yet, but heard someone greeting him.

When Gan Guoyang saw that it turned out to be the opponent's point guard, Isaiya Thomas, who had the same number as Gan Guoyang.

Regarding Thomas, Gan Guoyang is a famous artist for a long time. When he watched NBA games, he thought that this small point guard was one of the few guys who played more like a 21st century player.

The dribbling postures of the defenders at that time looked like an old lady with her butt bent over and holding a basket in her hands. Most of them dribble with one hand, and there were fewer changes in hand.

Thomas is one of the few guards who are extremely skilled in dribbling, changing directions, and turning extremely smoothly. He perfectly combines actual combat and performance, giving NBA audiences at that time great visual enjoyment.

Later, new defenders like Jordan began to have such dribbling skills, which also represents the innovative trend of NBA's outside technology.

In the game against the Nuggets, Thomas scored 47 points, the highest score in the team, and Gan Guoyang was also impressed by him.

"Hello." Gan Guoyang answered politely and smiled at Thomas.

Thomas also responded to Gan Guoyang with a standard smile. His smile was as sweet as a baby, and often made people feel that this guy must be a friendly person.

This is Gan Guoyang's first time playing against Thomas, so he naturally doesn't know the huge danger hidden behind this smile.

"Stop laughing, boy, you won't be able to laugh later." Another voice from Gan Guoyang came from Gan Guoyang's ears.

Gan Guoyang turned his head and found that the center of the Detroit Pistons was standing in the center circle and looking at him coldly. He was a tall and handsome blonde white man.

In the NBA, there are stars everywhere, but handsome guys are hard to find, because there is a gap between black people's appearance and mainstream aesthetics.

Van der Witz can be called a handsome guy in the Trail Blazers. Although Drexler is a black man, he has more white appearance characteristics.

Gan Guo’s masculine and square face has greatly improved the impression of many Americans of Chinese.

But none of them were handsome than this number 40 white man. He was a standard blonde handsome man with a tall nose, deep eyes, and a knife-like lips.

But what he said was a bit inconsistent with his appearance, just like a quiet and sweet girl shouting "Fuck your mom".

Gan Guoyang was still blinded by the appearance of this center and was in a confused state. If someone else was talking to him like this, he would have been greeted with trash words long ago.

The referee threw the ball into the air, and Gan Guoyang was still at the upper hand in the competition, easily overwhelming the white center No. 40, and won the offensive power for the Trail Blazers.

At the brief preparation meeting of the Trail Blazers before the start of the game, Ramsey's request was "Everything was in accordance with the rules and let go of the fight."

The meaning of this requirement is basically that there is no requirement, because the time is too hasty and there is no time to do pre-match analysis and preparation.

So after the opening, the entire Trail Blazers' offense seemed a bit messy and slow, and the players stood on the court and didn't know how to run.

Ramsey no longer stood on the sidelines and shouted like usual. This old man in his 60s was also a little depressed by the bumps of several hours of the journey.

This game is probably just about the weather, and the players' daily training accumulations are the players.

Seeing that there was no good way to attack, Van dervich naturally had to stand up. As the number one player of the Trail Blazers, he had the responsibility to be the first assaulter.

The Pistons' defense is really bad. The one who faces Van dervic in the small forward position is their No. 7 Kelly Tripka.

Kelly Tripka is very similar to Van der Witz in style, both are white shooter strikers. In the first two seasons, Tripka has always been the Pistons' scoring champion.

However, Van derwich is more powerful than Tripka in terms of body shape. Van derwich is stronger and has more comprehensive offensive methods. Especially his ability at low post is better than Tripka.

When Van dervich faced Tripka, he made two points with a back turn and turn jump shot, opening the Blazers first.

"The fucking good to stay away from me." Just as Van dervic scored, Gan Guoyang at the basket finally couldn't stand it and started swearing.

After the jump ball ended, the No. 40 player opposite was always sticking to Gan Guoyang, making physical contact while chatting and talking nonsense in his mouth.

Gan Guoyang's little affection for this guy had long disappeared, but he didn't expect that he was such an annoying guy.

Gan Guoyang was originally a bad temper on the court. If his opponent provoked him a little, he would fight back immediately. Whether in his mouth or playing, he rarely gave his opponent a chance to be presumptuous.

So when the No. 40 player secretly hit Gan Guoyang's ribs with his elbow when he was shooting, Gan Guoyang finally started to sputter at this guy.

On the 40th, he didn't care about Gan Guoyang's saliva and ran to the frontcourt with a confused look on his face, which made Gan Guoyang even more angry.

When it came to the defensive end, Gan Guoyang ran to the basket to guard his three-second zone.

However, No. 40 did not enter the three-second zone at all, but stood outside the three-point line to support it.

Gan Guoyang thought that I was waiting for you to come in in the three-second zone, but hesitated for a moment and shot directly!

The 84-85 season is the fifth season of the three-point line being introduced into the league. Three-pointers are often regarded as a forced scoring method or a secret weapon.

Like ordinary guards, forwards rarely shoot outside the three-point line. A shooting expert like Van dervich averages less than one three-pointer in each game.

And a center forward pulled out and made a three-pointer, which was like a sow climbing a tree.

For Gan Guoyang, who came from the 21st century, it was not a strange thing to shoot a three-pointer in the center, but he had long been used to the basketball environment in the 1980s, and he did not expect his opponent to use such a move.

"Swish!" This ball actually went in!

Gan Guoyang looked incredible and took the ball to the bottom line to serve.

It was also because of insufficient preparations before the game that Gan Guoyang did not expect that his opponent's center would actually shoot a three-pointer.

The audience was cheering. At that time, NBA players scored three-pointers, which was more precious than dunks.

Gan Guoyang noticed that many viewers at the scene held up big signs with the words "Come-on-Laimbeer!"

"Lanbier? This guy is called Lanbier." Gan Guoyang paid attention to the name printed behind the No. 40 player at this time and found that his name was Lanbier.

"The girls just pulled out to shoot. I'll let you see what the center is." Gan Guoyang continued to sputter at Lan Bill. Once Gan Guoyang started, he wouldn't be able to stop.

"Stop teasing me, yellow pig." Ranbir also began to fight back.

Gan Guoyang was angry now. He hated others talking about his skin color the most, let alone insulting it.

"You fucking wait to turn into a piece of bird shit!" Gan Guoyang said and pushed Lan Bill hard, preparing to get a position at the basket.

"Beep!" However, the referee's whistle sounded.

Gan Guoyang looked at the referee pointing at him and said that he had committed a foul. He instantly felt inexplicable.

Only then did he realize that Lan Bill, who had just been pushed by him, had fallen to the ground, as if Gan Guoyang had a thousand pounds of power just now.

"I just pushed him lightly! Isn't this a normal move?" Gan Guoyang defended to the referee.

The referee ignored him and picked up the ball to the Pistons' players and asked them to send the sideline ball.

"Go back to defend Gan! Don't argue with the referee!" Ramsey reminded on the sidelines.

Back on the defensive end, Gan Guoyang did not continue to stand in the three-second zone, but followed Ranbir, and he decided not to let him shoot three-pointers anymore.

Ranbill did not make another three-pointer, but the Trail Blazers' inside was also empty. Thomas made a change of direction and added a small throw to the Pistons.
Chapter completed!