The Golden Age of Basketball

() The disastrous defeat against "Cancer" at the Binhai Stadium made Gan Guoyang, who returned to Gan's restaurant, a little dejected.Although he has made up his mind to strengthen his strength and become an outstanding insider, how should he accomplish it?

It is not enough to just play on the court. What is accumulated in actual combat is experience, and basic skills and basic physical fitness require a lot of training.

It is impossible to find a personal trainer. If you want to join the basketball team, you have to wait until the high school you transferred to starts. The only thing you can do is to strengthen your body and make yourself stronger!

"Guoyang, how are you playing today? Why don't you look very happy?" Gan Youwei, who has been promoted to master ladle before dinner, saw his son come back with a depressed face, and asked with concern. road.

"I lost the game today. The loss was so miserable that I didn't even score a goal." Gan Guoyang said with a sigh. Thinking of this, he felt panicked.

"Victory or defeat is a common thing in military affairs. If you lose miserably, it means that you are not strong enough! But in this way you have a goal, so go and catch up." Gan Youwei is also a person who has experienced setbacks. After several accidents, he came to the United States to start a new life. Life.So he hopes that his son can also turn his heart into strength when facing such a small setback, and move on.

"Well, I know dad." After coming to the past and merging the memories of the two lives, Gan Guoyang found that his affection for this father was getting deeper and deeper. This was probably to make up for the regret of having no father or mother in "later generations".

"Let's eat first. I have to work after eating. It's almost time for dinner. The business is very busy recently." With Gan Youwei at the helm, Gan's Restaurant has richer dishes and more authentic tastes, and the business will naturally increase. come better.

Gan Guoyang's appetite is not particularly good, and he felt unable to eat after taking a few mouthfuls of rice.After everyone finished eating, he cleaned up the dishes and washed them, and went back to the room upstairs to rest.

Lying on the bed, he still felt very depressed. Gan Guoyang is not a person who is easily overwhelmed by setbacks.Whether it is the original Gan Guoyang or the later Dang Lei, because of life reasons, they all have a tenacious character and an optimistic spirit.

But in the matter of winning or losing in basketball, Gan Guoyang felt an extremely strong desire to win in his heart. He hadn't noticed it before this game, but he just felt that he liked basketball and the feeling of winning.

But this competition made Gan Guoyang feel such deep hatred for failure for the first time. He felt that it was a shame, and this shame deeply hurt his self-esteem and pride.

Unable to lie on the bed anymore, he started doing push-ups in the room.The conditions here are limited, and we can only use some simple methods to pass the time.

After doing forty, he couldn't hold on any longer, so he lay down on the bed out of breath, staring at the ceiling in a daze.

"What should I do?" Gan Guoyang asked himself.

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The next day, Gan Guoyang still got up early and went downstairs to have breakfast, and then prepared to wait for Gan Guohui to come and play together.Although I lost badly yesterday, I still have to fight, otherwise there will be no progress.

However, Gan Guoyang's porridge was almost finished, and Gan Guohui still didn't show up.

"Uncle Cousin, isn't Guohui coming today?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"Oh, Guohui won't come today. His mother asked him to participate in community activities, so he won't be able to play with you these days." Gan Bingguang replied.

In the United States, high school students have to participate in various community and social activities during the summer vacation, so that they have enough bargaining chips when applying for various universities.Otherwise, relying on test scores alone will not be able to apply for a good university.

After the summer vacation, Gan Guohui will be in the 12th grade (senior year of high school), and will soon graduate from high school and enter university, so this internship is also very important, so he has to let basketball go.

"Guoyang, today you're going to take a look around downtown San Francisco. You've been here for so many days to play basketball, and you haven't been to the United States to take a good look." Gan Youtang suggested.

Gan Guoyang thinks this suggestion is good. He tossed and tossed for a long time last night, but he didn't come up with any tricks. Why don't he go out to relax today, and the training can be solved slowly later.

After dinner, Gan Youwei gave his son fifty dollars and let him go out alone.

"If you can't find your way, remember to take a taxi! Don't spend the fifty dollars all at once, save some money for the ride!" In the voice of Gan Youwei's instructions, Gan Guoyang left Chinatown alone and walked on the streets of San Francisco .

Because of the short history of the United States, all cities were developed in the past hundred years, so they are well planned.Especially San Francisco, the city is very neat and clean.

Gan Guoyang walked on the streets of the United States in the 80s, feeling like China today.It's just that the transportation on the street is older and there are many trams.At that time, American cars were also like matchboxes, unlike today's beautiful and streamlined cars.

But for Gan Guoyang, this level of prosperity still can't scare him. He has lived in a big city in the 21st century anyway.

So instead of looking left and right like a redneck entering town, he focused on his basketball.

When he came to San Francisco, Gan Guoyang wanted his father to buy him a basketball, and Gan Youwei quickly fulfilled his promise and bought Gan Guoyang an authentic Spalding basketball.

He also took this basketball when he went out, dribbling while walking.No matter crossing the road or going up the steps, never hold the basketball with your hands.A few times the ball fell and rolled to the side. He ran to pick it up and was almost hit by a car, and was treated rudely by the driver as "**".

However, there are still many people on the street, so he can't do all kinds of actions unscrupulously, so he can only try his best to maintain stability.Sometimes when you come across a trash can or a utility pole, treat them as defensive players and practice turning around.Although doing so always attracts strange eyes from passers-by, thinking it is a neurosis.

Slowly, leaving the street, there are fewer cars and people on the road.He can finally run down the road dribbling the ball.

San Francisco is a hill city with lots of inclines, some of them very steep.Gan Guoyang practiced dribbling and sprinting when going uphill, and practiced changing direction when going downhill.

Sometimes the ball will roll all the way down if it is accidentally dropped, causing Gan Guoyang to chase after the ball.Accelerating and decelerating like this, going uphill and downhill is of course very tiring.

But Gan Guoyang enjoyed it, because he found that through this kind of training, his dribbling skills, which were not very proficient at first, began to gradually improve, and he gradually developed a sense of basketball, which is the so-called sense of the ball.

If a person wants to control the ball in his hand well, he should establish a special feeling with the ball, so that it can be tied in your hand like an obedient puppy.

In this way, Gan Guoyang started from Chinatown, dribbled the ball all the way south, passed through Union Square, passed Market Street, and arrived at the South District of the Market, where he dribbled and ran back and forth for a whole morning.

"Phew -- I seem to be a little hungry." Gan Guoyang, who had been running all morning, stopped, and immediately felt hungry, and there was a gurgling sound in his stomach.

At this time, he thought about finding a restaurant to fill his stomach.Because the Gan's restaurant must be very busy now, and going back by himself will only cause trouble for the store, so he decided to settle his lunch nearby.

He looked at the street sign and realized that he had reached a place called Folsom Road.

"Where is this? Is there a restaurant here?" Gan Guoyang was muttering to himself as he walked, and he was always paying attention to the signs of the houses on the side of the road to see if there was a sign with "".

At this time, he saw a sign that said barbecue.

"Barbecue?" Seeing the barbecue, Gan Guoyang couldn't help thinking of the days when he had barbecue with his classmates at the gate of the university in his later life.And after arriving in the United States, I ate the Chinese food in Gan's Restaurant every day. Although it was exquisite and delicious, I sometimes felt that it was not very satisfying.

"It just so happens that I want to gain weight and build muscle. Eating barbecue is the best!" Gan Guoyang is still thinking about building muscle for himself.To grow muscle and build strength, three points depend on training and seven points depend on eating. Eating without training is feeding pigs, and training without eating is weight loss.

So, Gan Guoyang walked into this barbecue restaurant with a basketball.

"Hello! Would you like to have a meal? How many people are there?" The waiter in the restaurant asked enthusiastically when he saw someone coming in.The waiter was a black girl.

"Uh, yes, I'm the only one." Gan Guoyang looked inside the restaurant, he was the first customer today.It's not time for dinner yet, he came a little early.

"Okay, you can sit down, there is a menu on the table."

After Gan Guoyang sat down, he ordered a beef set meal. He wanted to have a good meal.In 80s America, fifty bucks was pretty darn good to eat.

Because he came early, the meat was served quickly. The waiter asked if he wanted to roast it for him, but Gan Guoyang had to do it himself. He liked the fun of eating by himself.

The quality of the meat is very good and fresh, and it is not thinly sliced ​​like the roast meat he ate in later generations. The beef here is thick and cube-shaped, and it takes a little longer to roast, but it is also very fragrant.

Just as Gan Guoyang was eating happily, the door of the restaurant opened again, did any guests come again?

"Good afternoon, boss, why are you here today? There is no one in the restaurant yet." The waiter saw someone coming to talk, but she called "boss".

"Boss? Is he the owner of the restaurant here?" Gan Guoyang swallowed the beef when he heard the voice, and looked up to see the owner of the barbecue restaurant.

It doesn't matter at this point, Gan Guoyang was taken aback.

He saw that standing at the door was a huge black tower!A real giant tower, compared with him, "Cancer"'s long legs and George have become small black beans.

His clothes are very ordinary, with a plaid short-sleeved shirt on his upper body, a pair of old-fashioned tan corduroy trousers underneath, and a pair of large black leather sandals on his feet.

He has a thick beard around his face, but his forehead and front are bald and shiny.The cheekbones are high, the nose is big and flat, and the eyebrows are thick. The whole face looks serious, but with a touch of kindness.

But what surprised Gan Guoyang even more was the arm exposed under the cuffs of the giant's short-sleeved shirt.Gan Guoyang felt for the first time that "his arms are thicker than your thighs".

Moreover, this giant's arm is not fat and thick, but like an ancient vine, covered with powerful muscles, coupled with his black skin, it seems to be shining like steel.

Gan Guoyang looked at this giant, and a word flashed into his mind, "Devil Muscular Man"!

He stared blankly at this devilish muscular man, he even forgot to turn over the roasted beef. He thought that if he was as strong as this boss, why wouldn't he be able to play with long legs and George?

And the boss also noticed Gan Guoyang, because there is only one customer in the store now, and this customer is still a yellow boy, and he is staring at him.

"Hey, hello, your meat needs to be turned over, or it will burn." The boss said, reminding Gan Guoyang that his beef was already smoking on the iron plate.

"Ah? Oh..." Gan Guoyang came to his senses now, and immediately turned the beef over, but one side was already a little burnt.

At this time, the boss walked up to Gan Guoyang.Gan Guoyang immediately felt a huge sense of oppression, as if the sun was covered by dark clouds in the sky.

"The barbecue in my shop still tastes alright?" the boss asked, and sat opposite Gan Guoyang.

"Well, it's very good, it feels great." The boss sat down, and Gan Guoyang felt a lot less pressure in an instant.

"Have you been here before?" the boss asked again.

"No, I just arrived in the United States last month and live in Chinatown. This is the first time I have eaten at a restaurant outside."

"Oh! It turns out that I am a friend from China. I am so welcome. I like Chinese food very much." The boss is very enthusiastic. In the United States, if you see two people talking happily, they are not necessarily friends, maybe they are just strangers .

"My dad is a chef. If you want, you can go to Gan's Restaurant in Chinatown to try his dishes."

"Haha, Gan's Restaurant, I've heard that there seems to be a new chef there, and it is said that the dishes are very good."

"Yes, that's my dad."

"Oh! Then I will try it when I have time."

"By the way, you brought a basketball. Do you like basketball very much?" The boss noticed the basketball under Gan Guoyang's feet.

"Yes, I came here today from playing ball all the way from Chinatown, that's why I ate here."

"Oh, what a hard-working kid. I used to be like you, carrying a basketball everywhere I go."

"Can you play basketball?" Gan Guoyang's eyes lit up after hearing what the boss said.

"A little bit." The boss smiled and nodded.

"Then you must be very good!" Gan Guoyang looked at the boss's thick arms and said, "How did you become so strong?"

"Haha, only rely on unremitting efforts and reasonable diet."

Sure enough, there are no shortcuts to strength training.

Soon, Gan Guoyang finished eating the barbecue and patted his stomach contentedly, "I'm full!"

"Finish? Do you want to play basketball in the afternoon?"

"Yes. But two of my friends have gone to participate in community activities, and I can only practice shooting and dribbling by myself." Gan Guoyang thought about going to the old place in Union Square to practice alone in the afternoon.

"How about playing here? There is an open space behind my store, and there is a basket there." The boss made this suggestion.

"Yes!" Gan Guoyang readily accepted the proposal, thinking that he might be able to ask the boss for advice.

So Gan Guoyang followed the boss out of the restaurant after paying the bill, turned left and walked a few steps, and saw a wire door.Walking in, there is a concrete open space with a basketball hoop erected inside.Like the field in Union Square, there are no lines, it's not a formal field.

"Okay, young man, how do we play? Oh, I'll take off my shirt first." The boss unbuttoned his shirt, took off his clothes, and only wore a small vest inside.

Only then did Gan Guoyang discover that this boss not only had thick arms, but his entire torso was like an ancient Greek sculpture, with explosive muscles.Although some fat can be seen in some parts, after all, the boss should be 40 years old, but it does not affect the perfection of the overall figure.

Gan Guoyang was stunned again, shocked by the strong body of the boss.But he immediately came back to his senses, and secretly determined that he must work hard and try to practice like this boss!

"I want to practice inside skills! Please teach me post-ups and inside defense!"

In this way, Gan Guoyang's special training in the barbecue restaurant officially started today.