Chapter Ninety-Two: Sparks Fly

(When I came back from the Jīng Hospital, my mind was suddenly much broader.) )

On the third day back in Portland, after the first two days of adjustments, signings and press conferences, Gan Guoyang is finally going to start his first NBA training camp in Portland.

Since joining Palo Alto's high school basketball team in the fall of 1981, basketball training has never left even a single day from Gan's life.

Whether it's in Palo Alto, or in San Francisco, whether it's in the training gym or Gan's restaurant, Gan Guoyang will use a variety of methods to practice his skills.

Even when he was watching the Olympics in Los Angeles, when he went out shopping with Wang Fuxi at night, Gan Guoyang would bring a basketball in his backpack in addition to the hat on his head, and he would take it out in a place where there were not too many people to practice his ball sense.

Basketball is like a part of his body that can't be separated from his life.

Since his father bought him his first basketball, he doesn't know how many basketballs he has broken, not because the quality of the basketballs is not good, but because they work too long and intensively.

In high school, Gan Guoyang began to receive more professional basketball training, and Bellman is also a basketball coach with excellent professional skills and solid theoretical knowledge; After arriving at the university, Gan Guoyang's coach is still Bellman, but there are already assistant coaches in the university, who will share Bellman's work tasks to guide the players' training.

Now, Gan Guoyang is finally about to get in touch with the world's highest-level basketball training, which will be a new challenge for him.

So at six o'clock in the morning, Gan Guoyang woke up from his sleep, looked at the slightly bright sky outside the window, and prepared to report to the Trail Blazers and start his first team training.

And the venue for this training is nowhere else, in the University of Portland gymnasium, where the Trail Blazers have opened their summer camp.

Gan Guoyang had been to the University of Portland before, and he had played there, and he had played well, so the tension in his heart had decreased a lot.

Before Gan Guoyang got up, Gan Youwei got up early and began to cook a nutritious and delicious Chinese breakfast for Gan Guoyang.

After eating a hearty breakfast made by his father, Gan Guoyang rejected Gan Youwei's suggestion to drive him to training, obviously Gan Youwei didn't just care about his son, he was addicted to driving.

Gan Guoyang thought that he must learn to drive in the future, otherwise he would always let Gan Youwei look like him.

Fortunately, the University of Portland is also in the northwest of the city, not far from where Gan Guoyang lives, Gan Guoyang had stepped on it as early as yesterday, and he was ready to run to the training gym early this morning.

Although it was summer and August, it was still a little chilly in Portland in the early morning, and Gan Guoyang wore gray sportswear and began to run on the straight streets of Portland.

In the three years since he came to the United States, Gan Guoyang would run outside for 20 minutes every morning in the morning, and the streets of Palo Alto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Spokane, Salt Lake City, and Seattle have all left his footsteps.

A 20-minute run would have been a piece of cake for him, and his fitness would not have improved much, but he loved the feeling of being in the mist every morning, feeling the fresh, cold air.

Whenever he runs on the streets of various cities, Gan Guoyang will have a feeling of being one with this time and space.

To this day, he still can't completely get rid of the future time and space, walking in the United States in the 80s, he still has the feeling of living in a movie.

Fortunately, in the United States, it has been quite modernized, and if he still stays in the undeveloped China, the sense of crossing will be even stronger.

It's past six o'clock, and many Portlanders are still immersed in their dreams, but many are already up because Portland's Northwest Side is an entertainment district with plenty of hotels, restaurants, and restaurants that have opened their doors early to get their days started.

Along the way, someone had already begun to notice a large, yellow-skinned man running on the road, who was running on the road with long legs like an ostrich, and the wind swept over the people who had not yet reacted.

At that time, there were no mobile phones, no Internet, and if there were, the photos of Gan Guoyang running might have been uploaded to the Internet long ago.

Even so, in the next day's newspaper, the news of Gan Guoyang running through the streets of Portland early in the morning would still appear in the local newspaper.

Soon, Gan Guoyang ran to the University of Portland, when the school was still on vacation, and it was morning, and the campus was quiet, and only the sound of some birds could be heard.

"I don't know if the Portland players will train in it, but if they do, I'm going to have to give them a good meal." Gan Guoyang walked to the training ground familiarly, and thought evil in his heart.

In last year's West Coast Conference regular season, the University of Portland Pilots had a glorious 2-10 record, finishing at the bottom of the league.

Their starting center is Darren Jenkins, who is only 6'8 tall, and he is also the team's leading scorer.

With such a height, meeting Gan Guoyang is naturally a dead end, and Jenkins was about to be beaten and cried by Gan Guoyang in both games, and almost completely lost confidence.

In the summer, teams often train in the local university gymnasium, so that the university's players can also take the opportunity to compete against the best players of professional teams.

Thinking that Jenkins would be very happy if he saw himself in the arena, that shocked look would not only speed up his pace.

"Bang ~ Bang ~ Bang ~ Bang!" When Gan Guoyang approached the stadium, he heard the sound of the basketball touching the floor from inside, and there was indeed someone in the training hall.

However, judging from the sound of playing and footsteps, it seems that there is only one person.

Gan Guoyang ran into the stadium in three steps and two steps, wanting to see who came to the training hall earlier than himself.

When Gan Guoyang entered the arena and came to the sidelines, he saw a player wearing No. 22 red shorts and a vest, with a small explosive head on the ground, dribbling the ball to the basket from the middle line with his back to him.

I saw that he was very characteristic when he dribbled, with his head down like an angry bull, and with such a long dribble, he only used his right hand, like Magic Johnson.

"Is this guy going to dunk?" Gan Guoyang thought in his heart.

This guy was indeed going to dunk, but Gan Guoyang didn't expect him to jump so early and be so far away from the basket.

Jump from the free throw line!

Gan Guoyang saw this player's left foot, stepped on the free throw line and jumped directly with one foot, no, it should be more appropriate to fly.

In the air, his legs are bent back, his whole body is straight, and the hand holding the ball reaches forward and flies towards the basket.

Gan Guoyang was stunned, because he found that this person flew in the air almost in a straight line, rather than a parabola that rose first and then fell.

"Phew!"

However, this jump dunk from the free throw line, which was supposed to be perfect, failed because the ball was out of his hands, and the ball smashed and bounced off the basket, and the dunk man hung on the basket.

“Fuck!” The dunk man let go of the basket and cursed, apparently annoyed by the failure of the dunk.

And Gan Guoyang also took this opportunity to see the appearance of this black man, and he is a black man who is not like a black man.

In the United States, where mixed race is common, as long as there is a little black ancestry, it is classified as black, which makes many black people look nothing like their African ancestors.

And this person is the same, his tall nose bridge and broad face shape look like an Anglo no matter how you look at it, but his skin is really black, and he is irrefutable and has a sè race.

When Gan Guoyang saw his face, he knew who it was, a person he knew and was looking forward to becoming a teammate.

"Hello, Clyde!" Gan Guoyang greeted him with a smile.

And this person had obviously seen Gan Guoyang, but he turned a blind eye to Gan Guoyang's friendly greeting, he took back the basketball that jumped out of the way from the side, returned to the basket and began to shoot the basket.

Gan Guoyang, who had a hot face and a cold buttocks, didn't care, and he vaguely understood in his heart why this guy was so cold to him.

He took off his tracksuit and set it aside, ready to join the training.

"Want to have a bullfight?" The person who was still shooting suddenly said that Gan Guoyang had just taken off his sportswear at this time.

"No problem." Gan Guoyang has always been a comer for bullfighting, whether it is a 5-foot-11 small guard or a 7-foot big center who wants to play with him, he is confident to play one-on-one with the opponent on the basketball court.

The No. 22 in front of him should be around 6'6 to 6'7 tall, which is the standard guard or small forward figure. In such a heads-up, Gan Guoyang is obviously going to suffer a loss.

"Let me do it first, rookie." No. 22 threw the ball to Gan Guoyang and made a defensive posture in the three-second zone.

Gan Guoyang received the ball and smiled, but didn't say anything, he didn't want to have any conflicts with the other party in terms of language, and it was better to leave trash talk or something to teammates from other teams.

Gan Guoyang took the ball and began to skillfully dribble the ball near the three-point line, and in order to train for the NBA team, the three-point line had been drawn on the basketball court at the University of Portland, although the NCAA still did not introduce the three-point rule at this time.

The perennial dribbling training plus the ball sense practice on the street, as well as the heads-up of the street and street ball masters, make Gan Guoyang very confident in his dribbling.

He showed off his brilliant and slightly fancy dribbling skills in front of the No.22 while thinking seriously about how to pull off the attack.

Gan Guoyang decided to break through directly from the front, relying on his own strength to fight for space to throw shè, and if that didn't work, try to switch to a back-to-back attack.

As a result, Gan Guoyang accelerated violently, and from the familiar right side he directly rushed inward!

Gan Guoyang's height is 6-foot-10, and the opponent is 6-foot-6, which is obviously smaller and more agile than Gan Guoyang, but even so, Gan Guoyang is still very confident in his dribbling breakthrough, he is the one who has competed with "Hook" Mitchell on the streets of Oakland.

Sure enough, the opponent's strength is obviously inferior to Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang's dribbling skills and ball protection are very good, relying on strength and impact to open a bloody road.

The other party is still clinging to him, Gan Guoyang knows that he can't shake off the other party, but he already has room to make moves.

He went all the way to the three-second zone, ready to go straight to the basket with the ball in both hands!

When it comes to the basket, as long as Gan Guoyang gets up with the ball, a guard on the other side will definitely not be able to stop him.

The premise is that the ball is still in Gan Guoyang's hands.

When Gan Guoyang was halfway through, he found that the ball in his hand had been hit hard, and when he looked down, he found that the ball in his hand was gone.

It turned out that the other party knew that it was difficult to resist Gan Guoyang, so he deliberately did not fight with Gan Guoyang, but let him burst under the basket, and when he got up directly, he broke the ball all of a sudden.

Obviously, Gan Guoyang was too careless, thinking that it was his own world under the basket, but he lacked awareness of ball protection and was cut off by the opponent.

"You're so careless, the NBA and the NCAA are completely different." The No. 22 dribbled to the outside after breaking the ball, and his mouth was still muttering.

Gan Guoyang didn't expect that he would be deflated under the basket, and he also played 12 points to give the other party a little response.

Gan Guoyang had just settled down, lowered his center of gravity and was ready to guard against one, but he found that the other party was rushing directly towards him with his head down!

Gan Guoyang thought that he would use agility and speed on the outside to deal with him, and he was ready to make a sharp turn, but he didn't expect the other party to accelerate in a straight line and rush over.

Gan Guoyang also encountered such a situation when he was head-to-head with "Hook" Mitchell, Mitchell wanted to rely on his speed to force the impact, but Gan Guoyang's footsteps were fast.

At the same time, Mitchell has too much gap with Gan Guoyang in terms of strength, and he often can't rush up, and will be directly pressed down by the strong Gan Guoyang.

This time, in the face of the other party's lunging like a locomotive, Gan Guoyang took a step back, and at the same time began to adjust his pace, preparing to give the other party a big hat to avenge the steal.

But Gan Guoyang thought of the beginning, but he didn't think of the process, let alone the result.

The jump speed of No. 22 is so amazing, after a double foot step, it bounces off the ground almost instantly, Gan Guoyang's speed is not slow, but as a defender, he is still a beat slower.

When he wanted to press the opponent in the air and give the opponent a hot pot, he found that his body was falling backwards.

Gan Guoyang can't suppress the other party!

"Bang!"

The sound of baskets being smashed echoed through the empty gymnasium.

Gan Guoyang was still a little confused in his mind until he landed, and only the sound of a dunk echoed in his mind.

Gan Guoyang was deducted by his opponent!

The impact and power displayed by the number 22, as well as the control of the pace on the break, were significantly higher than those of the NCAA players.

"In-your-face, Sunny· Gump。 The opponent didn't seem to want to show mercy, he picked up the ball and threw it to Gan Guoyang, saying, "Are you still coming?" ”

"Of course, I haven't deducted you yet." How could Gan Guoyang, who suffered such a great humiliation, give up, it is normal to be deflated and fucked on the court, but Gan Guoyang must get it back after eating deflated, he has always been competitive, and he will never allow the other party to take advantage of him so lightly.

Restarting the attack, this time Gan Guoyang was much more cautious, he did not dribble on the outside, but clamped the basketball to his right wrist, bent over and stood at the top of the arc, ready to give the opponent a fatal blow at any time.

Gan Guoyang moved.

He didn't break through from the right side again, but dribbled to the left, turning his right hand to the left, he was not fast, but his step was so great that he almost immediately stepped past the opponent.

No. 22 reacted faster than Gan Guoyang, and of course he would not be crossed by such a cross step, and quickly moved to the left to block the line.

Like this kind of cross step, the load on the knee is very large, and the requirements for body coordination are also very high, and the general interior players will not use and dare not use such movements, but Gan Guoyang can.

But Gan Guoyang obviously didn't want to rely on cross-steps to break through, it was just his voice.

Gan Guoyang still has to rely on his strength, he wants to play to his advantages, after turning to the left side, Gan Guoyang takes his left foot as the axis, relying on the opponent to make a direct 180-degree turn!

Gan Guoyang went directly to the front left side of the basket, which was one-on-one, and there was no opponent's defensive player under the basket.

Gan Guoyang jumped directly after turning around, showing his excellent coherence of movements, and this time he learned the lesson that instead of holding the ball in both hands, he grabbed the basketball directly with his huge right hand and jumped.

"Bang!" A right-angled slam dunk! Gan's outstretched arms and vertical body to reach the basket form a right angle.

At this time, the opponent was still behind Gan Guoyang's buttocks, without the slightest reaction.

"In-my-back, Clyde Drexler." Gan Guoyang said after landing on the ground.