The Golden Age of Basketball

The training camp of the Portland Trail Blazers has already started in September. This is the official training camp of the team. With less than a month before the start of the new season, this training camp will determine the overall situation after the start of the game. The state of the team.

Gan Guoyang was delayed for more than a week of training because he went to Seoul, so on the first day after returning to Portland, Gan Guoyang arrived early as usual and left home to go to the training place—they were scheduled to be at the University of Portland.

As usual, Gan Guoyang must always be the first to arrive at the training hall. This is one of the important reasons why he can achieve today's achievements. Everyone in the entire Trail Blazers also knows that the team boss must be earlier than them.

After getting the promise from Sabonis and Gomolsky in Seoul, he left Seoul and returned to the United States. He also considered whether to go back to China. In Seoul, he also met coach Qian Chenghai.

However, after some consideration, Gan Guoyang gave up the idea of ​​going to China. First of all, he didn't know where he should go. In China in 1988, he had not yet been born in later generations.

Secondly, he was absent for a week, and he also wanted to return to Portland earlier for systematic training. With the increasingly fierce nba competition, more and more scientific techniques and scientific training methods were put into nba training .

After the playoffs, Gan Guoyang specially invited a strength trainer to tailor a training plan for himself. Of course, Michael Jordan was with him, and the two of them conducted a two-week strength strengthening exercise in Chicago.

Of course, during the training, Jordan felt Gan Guoyang's superior strength up close for the first time, which led Jordan to vow to make a huge breakthrough in strength—he did not dare to vow to surpass Gan Guoyang in strength.

Gan Guoyang has just returned to Portland. When he got off the plane, news came from the Soviet Union that the Soviet Basketball Association had approved Sabonis' plan to travel to the United States. Now there is only a gap between CSKA Moscow and the Portland Trail Blazers. of negotiations.

This made Gan Guoyang a little excited, so not only was he the first to arrive today, but he was a little too early, arriving at the University of Portland from home at four o'clock in the morning.

As usual, Gan Guoyang arrived at the training hall by running. The difference was that Gan Guoyang no longer ran over alone, but was followed by a car—his bodyguards, Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu.

Three years ago, because of Liu Yiliang's case, the drug trafficking network of Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu was also exposed. However, when the two were arrested, people in the big circle responded quickly and destroyed all evidence and traces.

In this way, the big circle also lost its livelihood, and the market was immediately seized by other forces. The organization of the big circle was not strict in the first place, and it would soon collapse and disperse without financial resources.

Brothers Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu were both soldiers. They were really good at kung fu. They couldn't sell drugs and couldn't integrate into local gangs, so they had to work as thugs in nightclubs.

It happened that Gan Guoyang recognized the two brothers when he went to a nightclub with his teammates. At that time, Falke was planning to help Gan Guoyang find bodyguards, because Gan Guoyang wanted to engage in more and more business activities, and his net worth was getting higher and higher. indispensable.

However, Gan Guoyang chose these two brothers and wanted them to be bodyguards. Although Falke strongly opposed them, the Feng brothers finally put on suits and sunglasses and became Gan Guoyang's bodyguards.

"Brother, you said that Yangtou holds several million dollars a year, but works so hard every day, and wakes up before dawn. This is no different from the farmers in our village!" Feng Guangyao sat in the Mercedes-Benz S400 that Gan Guoyang bought. Come on, said to Feng Peiyu, the older brother who was driving.

Originally, the bodyguards were supposed to run with Gan Guoyang, but Gan Guoyang's long legs accelerated. Although Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu were born in the army and had good skills, they hadn't done endurance training for many years. They couldn't keep up with Gan Guoyang, so they took the car up.

"Shut up! I said you have been with Yangtou for more than a year, why haven't you made any progress? You don't work hard, don't struggle, and you can shine in the family with just your little ability? You can be a man through hardships Venerable Master, there are many people who know this truth, but few people practice it, and Yangtou is one of them. You see, we have followed Yangtou for more than a year. When does he not get up early for a run? When does he not train? "

Feng Peiyu's elder brother was once the leader of the big circle - even though he was only the leader in name, even if his education level and speaking level were not high, it would be absolutely no problem to educate his younger brother.

Feng Guangyao has always been carefree and muddling along. After all these years in the United States, these tempers have not changed, but he is quite easy-going.

"Hey, big brother, not everyone is like Yang Tou. If I play in the NBA, I can be a substitute among the substitutes, sit in the first row every day to watch the game, and then earn more than 20 million a year. I wouldn't do it for another god!"

This is Feng Guangyao's thinking, and it is actually the thinking of many ordinary people.

Gan Guoyang didn't think so. When he arrived at the gymnasium, he arranged for Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu to let them move freely, while he changed his clothes and began to warm up in the training hall alone.

Gan Guoyang's warm-up training starts with the three-pointer with his left hand. This is the warm-up ritual he still uses after recovering from his right arm injury.

Gan Guoyang believes that if he can make ten consecutive three-pointers with his left hand, it means that his state should be adjusted very well, but he has started to warm up.

Gan Guoyang's condition is really good today. From the first goal, Gan Guoyang scored ten goals in a row. Gan Guoyang himself was surprised by the good condition.

From this point, it can also be seen that at this time, Gan Guoyang has already mastered all aspects of technology. He has been practicing three-pointers for a long time, making three-pointers his regular weapon; after his right hand was injured, he worked hard on his left hand, so that Gan Guoyang can shoot left and right.

There are also more and more freehand hooks, more and more confident mid-range jump shots, increasingly mature footwork around the basket, continuous accumulation of various small skills and small experiences, and continuous improvement in the ability to transfer the ball. Everything indicates that , starting from the 1988-1989 season, Gan Guoyang will enter the pinnacle of his basketball career.

Gan Guoyang practiced alone in the arena for nearly an hour and a half before the second Blazers player arrived at the gymnasium, Terry Porter.

"Good morning, Potter, you're a bit late."

Except for Gan Guoyang, Porter or Drexler were the first to arrive at the training hall, and the two backcourt players trained very hard.

"It's because you are too early. I think you'd better take a part-time job delivering newspapers, which will allow you to earn some extra money, and then you can come to training on time."

Potter and Gan Guoyang joked that Gan Guoyang likes to make fun of people in private, but his good point is that others can make fun of him too.

After Terry Porter experienced a good rookie season, the Blazers also decided to strengthen Porter and trade away the original genuine point guard Valentine.

But then, the Blazers also sent Steve Colter away to the Bulls, which made Gan Guoyang a little unhappy, but he still respected the management's choice.

Gan Guoyang has a good sense of proportion on this point. He will give opinions to the management, but he never intervenes in the final decision-making, and expresses support and respect for the decisions that have already been made.

For example, the team sent Vandeweghe away. Although after the transaction was completed, Gan Guoyang found Vandeweghe and the two of them drunk, but afterwards Gan Guoyang also expressed his support for the team's transaction and welcomed Buck Williams.

Drexler soon arrived at the stadium, followed by Cauchy, Duckworth, Buck Williams, and of course, the team's current head coach, Rick - Adelman.

After the 1986 finals, the Blazers regrettably lost the championship, and Jack Ramsey also fulfilled his promise, no longer continued to coach, and chose to retire to ESPN as a commentator.

In his words, "I have no regrets in my coaching career, because I know that this Trail Blazers will eventually stand on top of the world again."

Adelman was originally only a temporary successor, but in the absence of Gan Guoyang in the 1987 season, Adelman still brought the Blazers into the playoffs, and reached the Western Conference Finals all the way, before losing to the Los Angeles Lakers .

Therefore, the Blazers also chose Adelman to renew his contract, and he will continue to serve as the head coach of the Blazers.

"Good morning, Führer! I'm glad to see you again, and I am willing to serve the empire!" Gan Guoyang saw Adelman, and began to joke that he looked like Hitler again.

Adelman has long been familiar with this, and began to gather the players with a straight face, ready to start today's training.

Compared with two years ago, the Blazers' lineup has undergone many changes. Mitchell Sampson was traded last summer, and the old slippery Kenny Karl in the locker room was also sent away.

Vandeweghe and Jim Paxson have declined seriously in the past two years. Vandeweghe finally left this summer, leaving only Paxson to become the first player to enter the Trail Blazers.

Daniel Valentine and Steve Colter were no longer able to pass the ball to Gan Guoyang. Instead, Terry Porter and Danny Young were traded from Seattle.

The players who partnered with Gan Guoyang on the inside were replaced by "Big Duck" Duckworth, "Buck" Buck Williams, and Sabonis, who will be reported in the future, the Blazers' frontcourt strength has expanded dramatically.

Looking at the taller Blazers standing in front of him, Adelman also sighed in his heart. A few years ago, the lack of height and thickness in the interior was still a big problem for the Blazers, but now, the 7-foot-2 big center immediately Arriving, the Blazers' frontcourt will appear too large and crowded.

How to make good use of these frontcourt experts will be the biggest problem Adelman has to face.

After giving a simple opening speech, Adelman began to arrange the team's training. Unlike Pat Riley, an orator-type coach, Adelman, as an old school, has never talked much. Thinking in silence.

Today's training is not very intense, it is all about basic training content, and also includes some technical and tactical exercises.

Although the team didn't open a training camp in the summer, the players will train together with each other. Now is the time to show the training results of each player and integrate the results together.