The Golden Age of Basketball

Just when Falk and You felt a bit distressed by the lingering haze above their heads, Gan Guoyang, the instigator, was sweating profusely in the training hall in Portland.

This season, the Trail Blazers' opening season schedule is extremely easy. After playing back-to-back games against the Sacramento Kings at home on November 11, the Blazers actually got a 5-day break. Their next game will not be until 5. It just started, and it was an away game against the Denver Nuggets.

5 days is a bit too long. In the second game of the season, Gan Guoyang seemed to know that there would be a long rest period, so in the game against the Sacramento Kings, Gan Guoyang went all out and won Won the first big double-double of the season, 40+20.

Then, he resumed his normal training life as if nothing had happened.

"Gan, how on earth did you catch so many rebounds?" In the Jewish Community Training Center, Gan Guoyang was practicing back and forth with Sabonis. Sabonis' physical fitness needs to be further strengthened, and Gan Guoyang led Sabonis Run together, as long as Gan Guoyang runs, Sabonis will run as long.

"Prediction, you need to understand the shooting habits of each opponent and teammate, and then your reaction must be fast enough. After predicting the landing point of the ball, the body must act and run to the landing point. The last thing is to watch Can you try to reach that damn ball!" Gan Guoyang has never been stingy with imparting knowledge and experience to Sabonis.

Looking at Sabonis still half-understanding, Gan Guoyang knew that Sabonis played too many FIBA ​​games and stood under the basket all the year round. With his height and wingspan, he could almost catch rebounds with his hands. In the nba, if you don't pay attention to the judgment of the landing point, a center may not be able to beat a point guard.

"Let me give you an example. Look at Clyde who is practicing shooting over there. Have you seen that?" Gan Guoyang pointed to Drexler who was practicing shooting on the other half of the field.

Sabonis turned his head and saw that Drexler made a mid-range shot after receiving the pass.

"Look at Clyde's shot, the release point is high, but the arc is very flat. If such a ball is not scored, it will usually bounce to a position about 10 feet away from the basket, and it will not bounce very high. So Ke Ryder, and players who shoot like Clyde, can't catch the ball by jumping alone. You have to judge whether it is missed when he shoots. If it is missed, it must be in the direction of the deflection Run the position to determine the landing point, then the ball will automatically come to your hands... Oh, by the way, let me tell you, if Clyde forces a jump shot, he must be ready to grab a rebound in advance! Also, if he takes the first two balls No goal, then there is a 90.00% chance that the third goal will not be scored. Then there will be no fourth goal."

When Gan Guoyang guided Sabonis to grab rebounds, he did not forget to discredit Drexler. Drexler seemed to sense something. After scoring several goals in a row, he immediately hit three irons. This is in training.

After hacking Drexler, Gan Guoyang "blacked" the jump shots of all the players in the Trail Blazers by the way, in order to remind Sabonis that when different players shoot, if they hit the iron, the ball's landing point will be different. What kind of rules are presented.

This is the rich experience that Gan Guoyang has summed up in the past few years, and it is also the reason why he can take the top spot in the rebounding list. For this reason, Gan Guoyang does not know how many videotapes he has studied and how many technical analyzes of other players he has watched.

By the time Gan Guoyang finished speaking, Sabonis was already running out of breath, and Gan Guoyang was still eloquent. In this kind of back and forth running, it is easy to get distracted by talking a lot, but this kind of running is very difficult for Gan Guoyang. like walking.

"Okay, that's all for running. Your current physical strength can only maintain high-intensity games for 10 minutes. If you want to be a main player and be able to stay on the court at the last moment of the game, you need to continue to strengthen your strength." Physical strength and confrontation ability." Gan Guoyang stopped and said to Sabonis who was panting.

Afterwards, the Blazers team conducted offensive and defensive training again. This time, Adelman chose to put Sabonis in the starting lineup, cooperate with Gan Guoyang, Cauchy, and Drexler, and at the same time try the feasibility of the twin towers. sex.

In the second game, Sabonis still didn't get a chance to play, which made Sabonis a little anxious, because his performance in the preseason was pretty good. I don't know why Adelman didn't give it a chance in the regular season. up.

But Sabonis still maintained his patience and participated in the training seriously. In fact, he also felt during the training that the gap between himself and Gan Guoyang cannot be counted. Gan Guoyang has run too far, and Sabonis feels that even if he flies, he cannot catch up .

"Hurry up, Avidas! Return to defense quickly! Set up your position, pay attention to your position, pay attention to your position! It's too outside!" Gan Guoyang reminded Sabonis loudly while returning to defense by himself.

This is an offense-defense conversion training. The two sides are training for positioning and running. Players are required to stand in their defensive positions as quickly as possible. In this regard, Sabonis still has problems.

"If he plays against the Lakers, there will definitely be some problems in defense." Behrman on the sidelines said to Adelman.

According to the discussion between Adelman and the entire coaching staff, they believe that if Sabonis can liberate Gan Guoyang on both offense and defense, then they will have a greater chance of winning against the Lakers.

But the Lakers' fast break is the strongest in the league. If Sabonis can't go further in defense, it's hard to say whether his role on the court is positive or negative.

"However, Sabonis' progress is quite fast. I think his learning ability is very strong, and Gan is also a good teacher." Bellman continued, as Gan Guoyang's high school coach, he still knows Gan Guoyang very well.

"Hehe~ In fact, they are both the same age, but Gan really walked too far, too fast, and the others couldn't keep up with him."

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After the training, Gan Guoyang stayed in the training hall for extra training as usual. Today, his extra training was strength. After losing weight, Gan Guoyang continued to strengthen his strength training in order to ensure his aggressiveness in strength.

Gan Guoyang can feel that from the point of view of talent, his strength should soon reach the set value of 83, and Gan Guoyang also decided to continue training, striving to be as talented as dunking, overflowing with talent.

In the current league, the confrontation is becoming more and more fierce. The group of inside players who entered the league in the mid-80s had muscles growing rapidly on their arms, and the loose whistle made the game more and more brutal. The Detroit Pistons are a typical representative .

In order to compete with these black muscles, Gan Guoyang repeatedly forged his steel-like body.

And Sabonis is Gan Guoyang's follower in training. Gan Guoyang stays to practice strength, and he also stays to practice, and Sabonis has excellent strength talent. In time, the two will definitely be able to form the strongest inside combination in the league.

Just when the extra training was about to end, Feng Guangyao entered the weight room wearing a suit and sunglasses. Before he stepped in, he heard Gan Guoyang shout, "Take off your shoes! You have to take off your shoes when entering the weight room!"

Feng Guangyao quickly retracted his feet, bent down to take off the shoes, but soon put his hands back, smiled and said: "Yangtou, I still don't take them off, it will pollute the environment here even more... ...I'll tell you at the door that Mr. Falk is here and waiting for you in the car."

Gan Guoyang nodded, finished his strength training, went in, took a shower, got dressed, and went outside the training hall. David Falk opened the door and waited for him in the car.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Falk, you still like to come to me suddenly without saying hello." Gan Guoyang walked into the car, then took out two Cuban cigars from the small cigarette case on the car, and handed them to Falk. branch.

He lit the cigar in his mouth and took a deep puff. Gan Guoyang seldom smoked, but he would have one when he needed it, because whenever he lit the cigar, he would appear mysterious and unpredictable in the lingering smoke.

Such an effect always doubled the pressure on Falk.

This time Falk came here mainly to talk to Gan Guoyang about the issue of sneaker branding. Under the operation of Falk and Nike, "air-jordan" has made great progress, while "skyscraper" In terms of performance, it is a bit inferior, but with Gan Guoyang's mvp-level performance this season, the further appreciation of this brand is certain.

However, Gan Guoyang has recently tended to separate the "skyscraper" from the Nike brand and form a self-contained line. This is not good news for Falk, an intermediary agent, because it means that Gan Guoyang will no longer need him. This broker coordinates the business relationship with Nike, and Gan Guoyang can directly become a brand shareholder of Nike and participate in product decision-making.

Falk hopes to persuade Gan Guoyang to slow down the pace of the divestiture, because it is indeed risky.

However, while talking, Falke watched Gan Guoyang leisurely smoking a cigar, feeling more and more uncertain.

After Falk finished speaking, Gan Guoyang wiped out the Xuejiao in his hand, used a cigar cutter to cut the front neatly and put it back into the cigarette case, and said: "Mr. Falk, one day, 'air-jordan' will also leave Go this way, if you don't believe me, we'll see. As for my 'skyscraper', don't worry, it's not something you should worry about. Now I give you a problem to worry about, you should add another player to your team Now, he will be my first player under the 'skyscraper' brand, coach him well."

As he said that, Gan Guoyang took out a document from the storage box next to the car seat. It was a player's resume, and the name on it was exactly "Avedas Sabonis".