The Golden Age of Basketball

The next day, Gan Guoyang came to the training ground of the New York Knicks again, but this time he did not come to participate in the training match of the Chinese team, but to watch the friendly match between the Chinese team and the New York Knicks while training.

In yesterday's game, Gan Guoyang had a good time practicing the turnaround jumper. He hardly used his good hook, but seized this opportunity to hone his jumper skills in actual combat.

Therefore, when the Knicks players arrived late and saw that besides some skinny Chinese players, there was actually a guy they were familiar with practicing turnaround jump shots, some players couldn't help short-circuiting their brains.

"Hey look, isn't that guy Gan? Damn this guy is also a member of the Chinese team," Knicks shooting guard Butch Carter said to Pete Cummins who was beside him after seeing Gan Guoyang.

"Oh my God, playing with this guy is really not fun at all." As the center of the Knicks, Cummins was often abused by Gan Guoyang in the team's visit to Portland.

And Gan Guoyang also saw the Knicks players in blue sportswear walking in, and Butch Carter was the one walking in the front.

This time the Knicks players did not come together, Bernard King needless to say, most of the other players are also on vacation, and the relationship between the players and the team is that of part-time workers and owners, and there is no affiliation relationship, so this time the team was called The players, mainly in the name of the training camp.

"Hey, dear Miss Butch, nice to meet you." Gan Guoyang walked up to Carter with the ball and said hello to him.

Butch (buth) means lesbian in English. During the game against the Knicks, Gan Guoyang often used this to mock Butch Carter. [

After hearing this, Carter could only smile. Now most players in the entire NB league have more or less experienced Gan Guoyang's trash talk, and most of the time they can only swallow their anger.

"Hi Gan, what, are you going to represent your country in the warm-up match?" Cummins also came forward and shook hands with Gan Guoyang.

"No, I'm just here for fun, and to practice my new skills by the way." After Gan Guoyang finished speaking, the Knicks players were obviously relieved. They were mainly substitutes this time, and they might be caught by Gan Guoyang. I was abused.

"So you don't have to worry, especially you Cummins... By the way, make good use of your strengths and don't save face for my compatriots. I think they need to appreciate the gap with nb."

Gan Guoyang didn't want to see the Chinese team make a fool of himself, but he knew that Chinese players need to feel the gap with the world's top teams.

Although Gan Guoyang taught them some lessons yesterday, no matter how good Gan Guoyang is, he is only one person. Afterwards, the Chinese team's outside operation was quite smooth.

In fact, a very big problem for the Chinese team is the lack of body, strength, and pressure resistance of the back line. Although the Knicks are not a strong team, and the perimeter defense is not good, it is enough for the Chinese team's guards to have a good drink. Pot up.

In addition to the Knicks players, NB also sent Chicago Bulls assistant coach Ed Badger and former Nets head coach Bill Bull to serve as technical guides for this training camp.

These two people are not famous people in the history of nb, but as basketball workers who can gain a foothold in nb, they must have two brushes, and they also represent the most advanced basketball training concept.

Unlike yesterday, many reporters came to the training hall today with cameras to promote the training camp.

Gan Guoyang naturally became the biggest star in the training hall, and the reporters turned their spotlights and microphones on him, and began to ask endless questions.

The most frequently asked question is whether Gan Guoyang will represent the Chinese team in international competitions.

Gan Guoyang was really too lazy to answer this kind of idiotic question, and finally he couldn't help but throw out a sentence: "I won't consider playing for the national team until I win the championship... and now international competitions are not allowed. The players participated."

However, the last half of Gan Guoyang's sentence is a waste of time, and tomorrow's newspaper headlines will focus on his first half of the sentence.

After the friendly match started, the reporters finally began to focus on the game, but after a while, they lost interest in the game again. [

Because the game is so one-sided.

When there was only one Gan Guoyang yesterday, the Chinese team could still rely on passing the ball to build a local advantage, but facing a whole team composed of nb players, it was like a herd of sheep meeting a pack of wolves, and they didn't even have the ability to defend in groups , was completely broken by each.

When the Knicks were defending with all their strength, it was very difficult for the Chinese team to even dribble across half court. Sun Fengwu, who is a top-ranking point guard in China, is almost like a high school student in front of American professional players.

Director Qian Chenghai looked at it and shook his head. At this time, Director Qian also understood that even if Gan Guoyang came to play for the Chinese team, China Blue Flag still had a long way to go before it could enter the forefront of the world.

No matter how awesome your center is, what's the use of a defender who can't even dribble the ball for half the court? Could it be possible to let Gan Guoyang play from the defender to the center?

Obviously, this is a one-sided massacre, a real "teaching and training game". Gan Guoyang felt a little bit unbearable to watch it. He thought that the Chinese team would play six more games like this, including Jordan. For the Bulls, he wondered if it would be a mistake for the Chinese team to come to the United States for training.

"Mr. Bull, what other teams are going to play against the Chinese team?" Gan Guoyang asked Bill Bull who was watching the game seriously.

"Oh, and the Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers, New Jersey Nets, Washington... well... yes, and the Philadelphia 76ers!" Bill Bull replied after thinking for a while.

"My God, there are also the Philadelphia 76ers. I don't know if Moses will tear the Chinese team apart... No, Moses still invites me to Houston for training. I don't know if he will come. Clyde is also there Houston, it seems that I should go to Texas in a few days." Gan Guoyang's mind has drifted to Houston in the south, where Moses Malone and Olajuwon are waiting for him.

The game ended quickly, and the Chinese team lost the game without any suspense.

However, coach Qian Chenghai is still quite calm. Perhaps Gan Guoyang's performance yesterday has given him a preventive shot. He kept dispatching troops during the game, not to save the situation, but to send his players on the field to experience the situation. Take a look at the intensity of nb's game.

In the next few days, Gan Guoyang returned to the training hall to train with the Chinese team every day. Of course, he mainly came to practice his turnaround jumper and adjust his physical condition by the way.

By the end of June, the second NBA team arrived, the Chicago Bulls led by Michael Jordan.

In fact, Jordan didn't really want to come here. He thought it would be nice to come here to play with the Chinese team, but when he heard that Gan Guoyang was also there, he still agreed to the league's invitation.

What disappointed him was that Gan Guoyang did not play on behalf of the Chinese team, which made Jordan feel a little downhearted when he played against the Chinese team.

Even so, Jordan gave the Chinese guards a good look at the strength of the flying man. No matter how hard Lu Jinqing tried to mark Jordan, he was always regarded as a crop by Jordan, and he was often easily passed by an acceleration-the gap in physical fitness was true. too big.

However, Lu Jinqing's desperation and unyielding temperament infected Jordan and made him correct his attitude to play this training game well.

The final outcome is naturally the same as the previous game, another game of "I haven't tried hard, you will fall down".

After the game, Chinese players all came forward to take photos with Jordan, which really made Gan Guoyang envious. It seems that he, a Chinese star, is not as famous as Jordan in China.

Lu Jinqing, who has been fighting against Jordan on the court, has also been respected by Jordan. Jordan gave Lu Jinqing his r-jorn generation sneakers as a commemorative gift.

The real highlight of the day's training was the training after the game. Jordan finally had the opportunity to face Gan Guoyang face to face. He challenged a guy who was also wearing Nike sneakers to a one-on-one bullfight.

This kind of drama naturally made the blood of the reporters on the scene spurt, and they all picked up the cameras in their hands and began to take pictures of the two people.

Gan Guoyang never refuses such a challenge, even if he suffers a loss in a one-on-one as a center, even if he faces Jordan, he is not afraid at all-he just likes this kind of duel.

The two most shining stars of the 1984 rookie class competed in the most direct way on the basketball court.

Of course, cameras and video recorders were not allowed in the training hall at that time, so apart from the reporter's photos, there was no video of the two one-on-one bullfighting.

But according to Song Tao's later recollection, "This is the most exciting one-on-one bullfight I have ever seen. I never thought that a player's basketball skills could be so superb, and I never thought that a center could be so good." play."

And there was no final result in this bullfight. Everyone watched and forgot to count the points. Jordan and Gan Guoyang no longer cared about the score, but simply wanted to keep fighting.

It wasn't until Coach Badger felt that the one-on-one fight could no longer continue, and that the others would stop training if the fight continued, did he stop the bullfight.

"Gan, next time we have a chance to decide the outcome, how about tonight?" Jordan said to Gan Guoyang while sitting on the bench beside the court, drinking water.

"There will be a chance, but it's not about winning or losing, but for you to understand that I'm the winner...but not tonight, I'm going back to Oregon tonight, and then I'll go to Houston, if you're interested, you can Come to Houston." Gan Guoyang said panting.

"I'm not interested in going to Houston. There will be a big training camp in Chicago in September. You are welcome to come."

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