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Volume 1 A New Beginning Chapter 479 Auburn Hill

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    "This is like a dream, but why don't I feel very at ease?" Gan Guoyang said to her after having sex with Wang Fuxiwen the night before leaving Portland.  "Before real success, no matter how sure one is, people's hearts are always uneasy." Wang Fuxi stroked Gan Guoyang's strong chest muscles and said to her gently.  Gan Guoyang slowly pulled out his arm from under Wang Fuxi's head, got out of bed and went to the bathroom to turn on the faucet and prepare to take a shower.  The first two games of the finals went unexpectedly smoothly, just like how they played the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals. The difference is that in many regular season games, Gan Guoyang and the Trail Blazers have already established enough psychological advantages over the Lakers.  The strength is comparable to that of 1988. The 4:1 score was completely within the team's expectations. The Lakers were not as scary as they looked.  But the Detroit Pistons are different. The two teams have wins and losses in the regular season, and to a certain extent, the Pistons' lineup restrains the Trail Blazers. The Pistons have strong internal defense and strong external firepower. Historically, the 1990 Pistons allowed a Rick-  Ma Hong (elected when the new team was established in 1990) also beat the Blazers to submission. Now the Blazers' biggest reliance is naturally Gan Guoyang.  Gan Guoyang was lying in the bathtub, recalling every detail of the game. One thing he could confirm was that the Blazers were definitely better than the Pistons in terms of strength. After the playoffs, the team had reached its best state in all aspects.  , although the Pistons are powerful, they face a head-on confrontation. Their lack of offensive power inside is the biggest flaw.  And without Dantley, although Aquili got along more harmoniously with his teammates, his condition was not as good as Dantley. In the first two games of the finals, when the two sides fought for key points, the Pistons lacked  The shortcomings of low-post attackers were greatly exposed. Facing Gan Guoyang's continuous scoring inside, the Pistons did not have reliable inside firepower.  Gan Guoyang took a shower and looked at his arm. It was full of scratches. Of course, these were not the blood marks left by Wang Fuxi's scratching on him, but the marks left by being pushed and fought by the Pistons players during the game.  It is conceivable that after arriving in Detroit, this kind of destruction will only intensify.  Gan Guoyang is fully prepared for this, but I don¡¯t know if other Blazers players are mentally prepared to deal with the bad boy team returning to the Palace of Auburn Hills.  ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ At noon the next day, Gan Guoyang and his teammates, coaches and staff of the Trail Blazers took a flight to Detroit, Michigan. However, the plane took off for two hours due to heavy rain. During the flight  We also encountered thunderstorms and turbulence, and everyone was almost worried that they would not be able to get back down after going up.  Fortunately, the plane finally arrived at the Detroit Airport safely. They were nearly three hours later than the scheduled arrival time, and they happened to catch up with the rush hour in Detroit. A large number of people who work in car companies drove their cars from  Rushing home in the city center, the highway was completely blocked and it was difficult for the pioneer bus to move on the road.  By the time they arrived at the designated hotel, it was already past 8 o'clock in the evening. The people in the car had not eaten dinner. In addition, they were all drowsy due to the travel. Adelman originally wanted to arrive in Detroit.  We will conduct some simple training in the future. Seeing the condition of the players, we have to cancel the training and let everyone have a good rest and prepare for the game at the Palace of Auburn Hills the next day.  In the evening, there was another thing that made the Blazers players very depressed, that is, the rooms they stayed in were all on the side of the road. As a result, the cars on the road at night seemed to have negotiated, and on the road passing the hotel  On the court, everyone honked their horns in "salute", which made the players restless.  "Detroiters and Bostonians have been fighting against each other for so many years, and I have really learned a lot." Gan Guoyang had to wear earplugs in the room to fall asleep. These little tricks were all invented by the Celtics' Cardinal. The Pistons are in these  They have suffered a lot in their methods, and now they are imitating them to harm their opponents.  No matter what, after waking up the next day, the Trail Blazers players were not in that good shape, at least not as good as they were in Portland, where everyone could sleep comfortably at home.  "Cheer up! We should be more energetic in the away game, because no one in the entire city will support us except ourselves. If we don't cheer up, we will have no choice but to be slaughtered." In the afternoon training  , Adelman repeatedly reminded players to encourage the ballThe team's morale is like this in away games. The visiting team is isolated and helpless, and must have a strong heart and spirit to overcome that sense of loneliness and even burst out with greater strength.  In the last round against the Lakers, in such a dangerous situation in the fourth game, it was the team members' tremendous mental strength and superb performance that allowed them to defeat their opponents and obtain a key victory.  However, Trail Blazers players have to go to the Great Western Forum many times every year to play games. Gan Guoyang has watched and played there for nearly ten years. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is half of his home court. The Palace Arena of Auburn Hills in Detroit can be  It's different. This new arena has just been put into use this year, replacing the renovated Silver Dome Center in the past. This brand new arena is not unfamiliar to Gan Guoyang. He knows that in the future, it will be the venue for the largest fight in history.  And notorious.  The Trail Blazers only played one game here during the regular season, and they lost the game. Game 3 of the Finals was their second game here. The facilities in the arena were quite advanced and full of 89-year-olds.  It has a sense of technology from the 1900s, unlike some old arenas that retain the flavor of the 1950s and 1960s.  Such advancement brings a sense of strangeness. The environment in the visiting team's locker room is still relatively harsh, the space is narrow, and the air-conditioning is not particularly powerful. From yesterday to now, the Blazers have basically encountered nothing good along the way, so  Everyone in the locker room felt a little trapped.  Adelman and Gan Guoyang took turns to cheer everyone up, but with a 2:0 lead, everyone didn't feel that they shared the same hatred. When everyone came out of the tunnel and onto the court, the huge noise immediately drowned their ears.  The focus here is clearly very good.  Unlike Portland, most of the fans watching games in Portland are white-collar workers in the city, which is very similar to Los Angeles. So if you look around, you can see that the audience is full of well-dressed middle-aged fans.  In the summer, they all wear various colored shirts or collared casual clothes. Of course, their enthusiasm for watching football is quite crazy; and Detroit is a blue-collar city, so the fans here are also full of blue-collar atmosphere. In summer, most people  They were all wearing T-shirts, white T-shirts with various slogans written on them. Some were wearing black T-shirts with skulls and "BAD-BOY" written on them.  Therefore, compared with the equally enthusiastic Portland fans, the Detroit fans are a little more crazy. When Gan Guoyang came on the stage, he could clearly hear fans shouting "murderers", "Nazis", and "Nazis" at him.  "Executioner" There is no doubt that Gan Guoyang, who has become the focus of everyone's attention because of the political turmoil, has not yet been completely freed from his troubles. People in Portland still love him, but this is not necessarily true in other places, especially in Detroit.  People are doing their best to mock him and interfere with him.  Compared with the Trail Blazers, the Pistons' players have obviously undergone sufficient adjustments. During the two-day rest period, Daly and the players conducted a profound summary and reflection.  Heavy blow.  Such a blow is all-round and comes extremely quickly.  The game started soon, and the players were still stretching their muscles on the court to prepare for the upcoming fierce battle. The ones who jumped the ball were Sabonis and Laimbeer.  This time, Sabonis once again encountered the ball with his height and wingspan advantages, and passed the ball to Terry Porter. Porter jumped to catch the ball, preparing to take the ball to launch the first attack, but he jumped in the air.  He suddenly collided with Rick Mahorn. Mahorn did not knock Porter down, but "hugged" Porter and threw them to the ground together, and then pressed Porter underneath him.  .  The referee's whistle naturally sounded immediately, but Ma Hong still opened his hands and looked around with an innocent face, refusing to get up, and Porter was pinned under him.  "Get up the fuck!" Seeing Porter being bullied like this, Kexi was the first to be unable to hold back. However, Gan Guoyang pulled him up from behind, and Ma Hong was also pulled up by his teammates. Naturally, the referee  Ma Hong was sentenced to a foul and it was the Blazers' ball, but Ma Hong kept claiming to the referee that he accidentally tripped.  And this is just the beginning.  Later, the Trail Blazers finally realized the meaning of "BAD-BOY". At the fifth minute of the first quarter, Porter received the ball outside the three-point line and prepared for a jump shot. Laimbeer pounced to interfere, and Porter made a fake move to prepare for a breakthrough.  , but Ranbir's elbow "just happened" to pass by Porter's head, and Porter fell directly to the ground.  When the referee's whistle sounded, Laimbeer still raised his hands with a "what's wrong with me" expression on his face. He was subsequently sentenced to a flagrant foul, but Porter also left the field and received treatment.  At the beginning of the second quarter, when Cosey was grabbing a backcourt rebound, he landed on one foot and was a little unsteady. Dennis Rodman nudged him with his butt, causing Cosey to fall directly out of the baseline.He threw the ball out before, but it was thrown into Rodman's hands, and Rodman dunked directly.  In a game with similar strength, it is often a few small details that determine the trend of the game, and often at such critical moments, Pistons players will use some non-rules means to make profits, which makes the Blazers players emotionally  getting worse.  The first one who couldn't help it was Kesi. In the second half, when the Trail Blazers were lagging behind, one of his forced breakthrough layups was knocked away by Laimbeer. After getting up, Kesi rushed directly towards Laimbeer.  The conflict lasted for 5 minutes and ended with the persuasion of the referee and teammates.  The only player in the entire Trail Blazers who performed normally was Gan Guoyang. He was always as stable as a mountain. No matter how the Pistons players fouled him, he remained calm and only punished them with goals.  However, the impatience and abnormal performance of his teammates made it difficult for Gan Guoyang to stand alone. On the contrary, the Pistons were very adaptable to such a game atmosphere. Amid the crazy cheers of the fans, they got louder and smoother. In the fourth quarter, they launched a 25:10 offensive frenzy and defeated them in one fell swoop.  Trail Blazers, the final score was 119:101, and the Pistons got back a big score.  The Palace Arena of Auburn Hills revealed his ferocious face.
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