The Golden Age of Basketball

()(It is necessary to solve the problem of the character of the protagonist and the relationship between teammates. Maybe this paragraph was written a bit early. I originally planned to write it when the season was deeper, but the description of the consecutive games is too monotonous; and the protagonist should also have some growth. After all, he is also a time traveler.)

For the first time, Gan Guoyang did not go home after the game, but stayed in Andy's wine with his teammates until the early hours of the morning.

Of course, Gan Guoyang didn't drink too much alcohol, he didn't abstain from alcohol like a Puritan, but he didn't drink a lot during the season either.

In contrast, Kenny Karl is unscrupulous, drinking freely in the wine. The continuous road trip has already made Karl hungry and thirsty. In those cities in the east, he has no time to drink at all.

Carl's capacity for alcohol is excellent, Gan Guoyang watched him drink several bottles by himself, and his thinking was still quite clear.

"Sampson is not a guy, yeah, he always looks like he's on top, because he's the No. [-] pick, because he's been in the Blazers for the longest time... God, the Blazers have the No. [-] pick. This stinks." Carl took another sip as he spoke.

Bill Walton, another No. [-] pick in the Blazers, is also an eccentric stinky rock. He is well-known in the league in this regard, so although Carl has never played with Walton, he has heard of it.

Gan Guoyang also took a sip of the beer in his glass, but he didn't speak. He didn't feel refreshed because of Carl's criticism of Sampson, but he was a little panicked.

Because Gan Guoyang thought about it carefully, he didn't seem to be any better than Sampson.

Since coming to the Trail Blazers, he has had quarrels with the two veterans of the team, and the conflict with the team's nominal boss Sampson has deepened.

This is still in the case of the team's excellent record. Once the team's performance fluctuates, it is not known what will happen inside the team.

"What's the matter, Gan, don't talk anymore? Do you think you are similar to Sampson? Hahaha, you high-ranking geniuses just don't like each other. You look down on me and I look down on you. No one will agree." Give in." Carl said meaningfully.

Gan Guoyang lowered his head and smiled, he found that this was indeed the case, and he had a faint feeling of looking down on Sampson in his heart.

At that time, when he entered the Trail Blazers, he only knew Drexler. The two met on the first day of training. Drexler angered Gan Guoyang with a slam dunk, but he also won the championship. Thanks to Gan Guoyang's respect, the two became good friends.

Later, he got to know Vandeweghe, and the two had a shooting match after training. Vandeweghe's almost perfect mid-range jump shot aroused Gan Guoyang's determination to contact CIC. He competed with Vandeweghe every day, and the two became good friends.

It can be seen that anyone with strength, or a player who works hard in training, will be respected by Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang is such a "snobbish" guy.

As for Sampson, Gan Guoyang didn't know that he was the champion at first, because Gan Guoyang had never heard of his name in later generations.

He just found that this guy always came and left on time during training, never arrived early, and never practiced more. This made Gan Guoyang, a training madman, feel uncomfortable and felt that he didn't work hard at all.

It was later that Gan Guoyang learned that this person was the No. 1978 pick in [-], full of talent, and his skills and experience at the basket were indeed quite outstanding.

But the two had a small conflict because of a bag-carrying incident, and because of the personalities of both parties, the rift in the conflict became bigger and bigger.

Sampson couldn't understand that the team had another big man with yellow skin who was arrogant and liked to show off—Sampson felt that Gan Guoyang liked to attack with the ball in the low post so much for the sake of showing off.

Gan Guoyang didn't like Sampson's mediocre training and game attitude-Gan Guoyang always felt that Sampson didn't do his best, otherwise he would not be famous in history as a No. [-] pick.

However, Kenny Karl could see very clearly that these two guys were basically the same type of people, they were both the bosses since high school, and they were the proud sons of heaven who entered the NBA with thousands of brilliance.

When this kind of people meet together, they will never succumb to the other party, and the final result is often a loss for both sides.

But Karl also understands that the two are different. Although Sampson is the No. [-] pick and performed quite well in the NBA, he has never had any earth-shattering achievements.

Compared with the last Blazers champion Bill Wharton, Sampson is indeed a bit far behind.

And Kenny Carr, who entered the NBA a year earlier than Sampson, can also understand that the current Sampson should enter the age where his ambitions have been polished, and he just wants to play well with peace of mind and treat basketball as a job. up.

In Gan Guoyang, Karl saw most of the young players when they first entered the NBA. They had a fiery enthusiasm for training and competition, and they were tireless on the court. They wished that the coach would put him on the court forever.

The difference is that Gan Guoyang is one of the few people with extremely high talent. Carl felt it in the game against the Lakers. Gan Guoyang's calmness and stability when he blasted the Lakers inside in the low post is by no means an occasional touch. Outburst, but true basketball talent.

Compared with Sampson, this talent is even worse. Coach Ramsey should also see this, so he tolerates Gan Guoyang like that on weekdays.

Kenny Karl had known for a long time that conflicts would always erupt between Sampson and Gan Guoyang, but he did not expect such conflicts to erupt so quickly. Only one month later, the two seemed to be on the verge of irreconcilability.

Carl thought of this, took another sip of wine, and looked at Gan Guoyang who was silent beside him.

"This yellow boy is really not a worry-free guy. However, maybe I can help him, and he may really achieve great things in the future." Karl is not what he looks like on the court, but A blue-collar worker doing dirty work.

On the contrary, his mind is very flexible. For him, the NBA is a very good job with a high salary, and he also likes to play. However, the competition in this industry is fierce, and the elimination rate is very high, especially for non-star players like him. SE players are easily substituted.

In the NBA at that time, although wages were much higher than those in the 70s and 90s, they had not yet reached the point where they could earn a lifetime of money in a year after the [-]s.

Therefore, while many role players are playing, they also have to consider their life after retirement. After all, they have to support their families.

Carl is one of them who started preparing early. He has already planned. After retiring from the NBA, he will use the money he earned from playing in the NBA to set up a construction company to build and decorate stadiums for the NBA.

If you want to do business and build in the United States, you also need qualifications and contacts. Carl feels that if Gan Guoyang can succeed, he will be a tree worth relying on. NBA superstars are the core resources of the league. All kinds of opportunities.

As long as you have a good relationship with superstars, you can get to know more elite figures, which is beneficial to business expansion without any harm.

Thoughts flashed through his mind, and Kenny Karl decided to point out this frizzy genius kid, and bring the relationship between the two closer by the way.

"Gan, you said that you want to become famous in the entire league, so what method are you going to use to achieve this goal?" Carl, who seemed a little drunk, suddenly changed the topic back to the conversation between the two at the beginning.

Gan Guoyang thought for a while and said, "Beat everyone."

This is the answer Gan Guoyang has always believed in. As long as he defeats everyone, he is the strongest and the best.Just like Jordan did in another time and space.

"Beat everyone... hehe... including your teammates?" Carl asked.

"No...I will...I will beat other people with my teammates." Gan Guoyang added.

"If someone doesn't want to join you to defeat others, what should you do?" Carl didn't stop asking.

"Then I will beat him and let him understand that he should listen to me in the team." Gan Guoyang thought of his comprehensive suppression of other players' strength in high school and college, and everyone moved towards him step by step around him. victory.

"Gan, not everyone is like you. The purpose of playing is to defeat everyone. Some people have no ability, and some people don't have the heart. But it doesn't mean that they are enemies with you, and you must defeat them. They make them submit. Any basketball player wants to win and fears to lose. It's like a farmer wants a good harvest and a herdsman fears wolves. It's just that some people want to be the best and some people want to make life easier A little." Carl finished and took another sip.

"do you understand?"

"No... I know what you mean, but I don't understand what he means..."

"It means, you can be the best, but it doesn't mean that other people have to be the best. You beat Sampson in training, and then others will treat you as the boss, and then go for the championship together. Is it? No, you are wrong, other people will continue to play the basketball he wants according to his own life, bigger contract, more enjoyment, better life. This is not the Colosseum in Rome, kill the leader If you die, you can become the leader, no, you are nothing. If you want to defeat everyone one by one, then in the end, you will be defeated."

Karl said a lot more, but Gan Guoyang didn't expect that this big black man would have so many things in his mind.

At this time, he began to understand in his heart that a professional team does not fight purely for honor, but also has a lot of money and a high status.

Not everyone like Gan Guoyang just wants to win the game and win the championship. Everyone's life is not only about basketball, they also have many other things.

Gan Guoyang's goal is only victory, but he cannot achieve victory alone. If he wants others to help him achieve victory, he should let others achieve their goals and make them better.

Gan Guoyang suddenly thought of Williams in high school and Anderson in college.

Williams was originally just an ordinary high school player. After graduating from high school, he might go to a certain community to find a part-time job. In the end, like many blacks in the slums, he would suffer a lifetime of poverty and even commit crimes.

But because of Gan Guoyang's arrival, Palo Alto High School got better grades, which gave Williams more opportunities.

With the help of Behrman, Williams finally won some basketball scholarships from Gonzaga University and successfully entered the college team. More importantly, he is a college student, which is completely different from a high school student.

Williams' fate was changed in this way, and it was in a good direction.

Anderson in college, who eventually became a lawyer and worked in Spokane, was not favored by any professional team for winning the NCAA championship.

But he got the honor, the biggest pride of his basketball career, and he played a key role against Georgetown.

When he is old, he can tell his grandson that his grandpa once covered Ewing's risk and helped the team win the game.

Gan Guoyang failed to change his destiny, but gave him a beautiful wealth in life, which may be priceless.

Gan Guoyang didn't realize in the past that everything he did would help others, so others would work with him to achieve the goal. < Ren's world is no longer that simple. The person who fights with you on the court today may be traded to the rival team tomorrow.

The old opponents who used to be with you in the past may soon become teammates with you in training. Everything changes too fast.

In this alliance, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends, only permanent interests.

And everyone's interests are different, Gan Guoyang wants victory, Sampson wants respect, Carl wants connections, Drexler wants playing time, Cauchy wants recognition, and Ramsey wants to be respected. Now in 1977, everyone is playing hard on the court, but everyone's purpose is different.

Gan Guoyang is not stupid, nor is he a guy who doesn't know what to do. After all, he has the memory of two lives. As an orphan in later generations, he has also experienced the warmth and coldness of the world.

But the talent he got after rebirth made him start to ignore some things that are necessary to communicate with people, especially on the basketball court, he is used to using his own thinking to look at others.

Especially in his two lives, he actually lacked the role of mother, which made him often simple and rude when dealing with problems, and his character was straightforward, sometimes even stubborn and domineering.

After the old Carl made such a point, Gan Guoyang had some clarity in his mind. He thought of the words "control yourself" that Bill Russell and Nate Thurmond had said to him in the past.

He has never understood these words in depth, perhaps because these two old seniors are also famous big stars, and they can't explain them clearly; on the contrary, Kenny Carr, an old fritter on the street, has a more thorough understanding of these principles .

"Then... what should I do?" Gan Guoyang actually had the answer in his mind after repeated thinking, but he still asked Karl.

"Huh~~ It's very simple, make everyone around you better, so that everyone can help you become the best!"