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The 1984-1985 NBA regular season kicks off in October, and in mid-October, the NBA preseason season kicks off, giving every player plenty of time to get used to the arena and in-game matchups.

Gan Guoyang has already completed two weeks of intense training at the Jewish Community Center Training Center in Portland.

In the past two weeks, he and the whole Trail Blazers team carried out joint exercises, including tactical training, half-court offensive and defensive confrontation, fast offensive and defensive drills, full-court five-on-five confrontation and other projects.

Although the training time is not long, due to the good foundation laid by the previous two months of non-stop training, Gan Guoyang's overall state is quite good.

It's just that Gan Guoyang feels like he hasn't learned anything new in the past two weeks, because Ramsey has been practicing some of the most basic techniques and tactics;

Dribbling, shooting, and passing are the basic skills of thunder and immobility, and the simplest tactics of blocking, inside-out, and fast break are the main content of the Trail Blazers' training.

Sometimes Gan Guoyang also wonders, is this just the training content of the pioneers?

The only thing that made Gan Guoyang feel that he had some gains was the team's confrontation game, the Trail Blazers' champion in 1978, Mitchell Sampson let Gan Guoyang experience what NBA-style offense and defense are.

Of course, this is not a big deal for Gan Guoyang, who has been ravaged by Jabbar.

Therefore, during the two-week training, Gan Guoyang cared about the most thing to compete with the No. 55 player in the shooting competition after the training.

It's a pity that from the first day of the camp to two days before the start of the preseason, Gan Guoyang has invited the other party to lunch for 14 consecutive days.

“KiKi！ Let's get started, I think I'm in great shape tonight and I can beat you. At the end of the day's training, Gan Guoyang headed for No. 55, and Kichi Van der Wijk said.

Gan Guoyang didn't know at first that this No. 55 was the protagonist of the big trade this summer, and was traded from the Nuggets to the Trail Blazers' small forward, Kiki Vanderwic.

In fact, Gan Guoyang should know this player, because when he returned to UCLA and started his first official NCAA game, Gan Guoyang saw the NBA scoring record in the hotel, the Nuggets vs. Pistons, Vanderwich was one of the protagonists.

Vanderwig scored a game-high 51 points in that game, but in the end, the Nuggets lost to the Pistons.

At that time, Gan Guoyang's mind was all about the game with UCLA, so he naturally didn't notice the brightest star in the audience.

Last season, the 1983-1984 season, Vanderwich shot 56% from the field for the Nuggets, which has something to do with the Nuggets' style of play, but it is terrible for a white perimeter player who mainly shoots shè to achieve such a shooting rate.

If Gan Guoyang knew this, he probably wouldn't easily agree to Van Dewych's bet, although the food money for two weeks is not a large amount, it is really not a glorious thing to lose all the time.

But Gan Guoyang also benefited a lot from it, from the beginning of 15 shots of 7, slowly to 8, 9, 10, the best one can reach 15 shots and 13 shots.

It's just that Vanderwig has always maintained about 14 shots in the middle, and he always pulls the shooting point farther and farther, and even pulls it 2 steps outside the three-point line.

"Okay, Gan, the preseason is going to start the day after tomorrow, and you'd better find a nice restaurant in Phoenix and treat me to dinner." Vanderwig is still confident that the Trail Blazers will travel to Arizona the day after tomorrow in the preseason.

"Then let's get started." Gan Guoyang is also in the chest.

Vanderwig took the ball and took the lead from inside the three-point line in the bottom corner, and the first shot, a steady hit, was as easy as a layup.

And Gan Guoyang also hit a shot in the same position, and his shooting posture was a little strange, it felt like his right hand was pushed out.

However, the rotation of the ball in the air is very strong, because Gan Guoyang's hand is big, so he is purely fingertip force, so the ball spins very fast.

After that, Vanderwig began to pick more tricky angles to shoot from farther away, such as negative angles, such as two steps beyond the three-point line.

Tonight, Van Dewig's hand is as good as ever, but Gan Guoyang does not fall behind, and Van Dewicki can score one when he gets one.

In this way, the two of them each threw 14 balls, and they didn't miss any shots.

"Well, the last one, if we tie, then you win." Vanderwig felt Gan Guoyang's progress and said that as long as there was a draw, Gan Guoyang would win.

"No, a draw is still counted as a loss, only if you score more than you, you can only win." Gan Guoyang has no "appreciation".

"Okay, then you're ready to have dinner tomorrow." Vanderwich shook his head.

In fact, at this time, Vanderwig only needs to run to the three-second zone and shoot at random, then he will be invincible, but this game will not be interesting.

A very important reason why Vanderwich wanted to trouble Gan Guoyang on the first day of training and proposed to shoot with him was that Van Dewych was a UCLA graduate student, and he naturally wanted to teach Gan Guoyang, a UCLA "traitor", a lesson.

But in the two weeks of contact, Van Dewig found that Gan Guoyang is a very good and very good team player, and he is very happy to play with him.

And Van Dewch and Drexler have a very good relationship, Drexler and Gan Guoyang are iron buddies, Gan Guoyang always brings Drexler to dinner when he invites Van Dewig, so Van Dewych naturally has no prejudice against Gan Guoyang.

What's more, it was Larry Brown who coached Van Dewic at that time, and Van Dewig had no feelings for Larry Farmar.

So, Vanderwig ran around the center circle with the ball and he was going to make a half-court shot!

"Phew!" Unfortunately, Vanderwig's throw in the center circle hit the basket on the neck, after all, it was too far away.

"Okay, look at me." Gan Guoyang took the ball to the same position and took a deep breath.

In the middle circle, Gan Guoyang jumped with the ball and shot in a normal shooting posture!

Generally speaking, due to the distance, all kinds of ultra-long-distance shots are thrown to the basket in the way of "chest push", which is not so much a shot as a basket.

But Gan Guoyang stood on the halfway line like standing at the free throw line, and threw the ball directly according to his normal posture.

"Oh my God, how strong is this guy's arm?" Vanderwich exclaimed on the side, he felt that Gan Guoyang's arms were not particularly thick.

In the past, Gan Guoyang lost his stable shooting due to the sudden increase in strength, but now he can finally send and receive freely, shooting in the middle circle, just to give full play to his strength.

The ball arcs high and you can see that the ball is still spinning very hard in the air.

After Gan Guoyang made a shot, he watched the ball fly to the basket, getting closer and closer, closer and closer......

"Huh!" Ball in!

"Yay~" Gan Guoyang jumped up suddenly, hugged Van Dewych on the side excitedly, and hugged him up.

"Okay, okay, Gan, take care of my feelings, I'm the losing side." Vanderwig, who was picked up, said helplessly.

Gan Guoyang put Vanderwig down, looked around, and found that there were only two of them on the court.

Others have either left to go home or are still working out in the gym and swimming pool inside.

"I'm here to thank you in advance for tomorrow's lunch, dear KiKi!" Gan Guoyang said proudly, two weeks of hard work was not in vain, tonight felt good plus good luck, and finally won once, which can be regarded as a raised eyebrow.

"I guess you practice every day, right?" Vanderwig asked.

"It's my secret." Gan Guoyang said as he put the ball back on the basket.

Gan Guoyang does have additional practice, and it is not an ordinary additional practice, but a crazy shooting practice.

At the end of the first day of training, Gan Guoyang installed a basket rack in his backyard, and then picked up a shovel and pickaxe by himself, and built a basketball court in the backyard with Gan Youwei.

Except for the basket, this basketball court has no three-point line, no three-second zone, no free throw line, only dots scattered on the court, which mark the distance from the basket.

It took Gan half a night to complete the project, and then when he returned every night, he began to practice 500 shots in the dim light.

Many times those shots were purely blind, because the light was too dim, Gan Guoyang deliberately only got a small light.

Fortunately, the surrounding residents are relatively sparsely inhabited, otherwise Gan Guoyang would definitely be reported for disturbing the people, because he often practiced late at night, and 500 times could not satisfy him.

"Alright, I think I should report the good news to Captain Jack." Gan Guoyang said and walked to the locker room.

"Captain Jack" is the nickname given by Gan Guoyang to Jack Ramsay, of course, everyone doesn't quite understand what this means, after all, there was no "Pirates of the Caribbean" at that time.

But in the locker room, Gan Guoyang did not meet Ramsay, but met another "acquaintance", Rick Adelman.

Adelman, like Drexler, came to the Trail Blazers last year as an assistant to Ramsay.

Adelman also played for the Trail Blazers in the past, but his career was really not worth mentioning, a pure corner player, and perhaps his most notable thing at the time was his imitation of Elvis Presley's hairstyle.

Now, in 1984, he cut the most modest haircut, grew a mustache, and became an assistant coach for the Trail Blazers.

"Hello Führer, I have good news for you." Gan Guoyang, who couldn't find Ramsay, saw Adelman and raised his right hand to him.

Gan Guoyang has only been in the team for half a month, and he has already given everyone in the team a nickname, the most expressive and recognized of them is Adelman's "Thefuehrer".

Because Adelman, with his mustache, is very, very similar to Hitler, the Nazi leader in World War II.

"I'm sorry Marshal, but I have bad news for you." Adelman also called Gan Guoyang a marshal.

Gan Guoyang thought Adelman was joking, so he told Adelman about his victory over Vanderwich in the shooting competition, but Adelman's next words made Gan Guoyang stunned.

"The results of the morning physical examination have come out, and the team doctor said that you have some problems with your lumbar spine, which is not a big problem, but... I think you need to take a break for a while. ”

Gan Guoyang then remembered that because the preseason was about to start, the whole team had a physical examination, and Gan Guoyang did not expect that his lumbar spine would have problems.

"Gan? Don't worry, the team doctor said that you should only miss a few preseason games, and you will definitely be able to make it to the regular season by then. Adelman comforted Gan Guoyang.

"I understand...... But ......"

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"You have a slight protrusion in your lumbar spine, and there is a protrusion on this side and on the right, and if it continues to deform, it will compress the nerves, causing pain and immobility...... Have you ever done manual labor? As a rookie athlete, this is the case when you bend over for a long time, and you're that tall. ”

At this time, Gan Guoyang was lying on the hospital bed, just like he once had a back injury and was lying on the bed in Santa Barbara Hospital.

And the doctor with the X-ray and the diagnostic report is the doctor who once helped him heal his back injury, his cousin's friend, "old cat" Shui Miao.

"Old cat, when am I going to play?" Gan Guoyang lay on the bed and said weakly.

Today, the NBA preseason officially began, and the Trail Blazers traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, to start the first leg of their season, but Gan Guoyang had to stay in Portland.

Although it was only a small problem, the pioneer and Gan Guoyang did not dare to be careless at all, especially Gan Guoyang, who was stunned when he heard Adelman's words, thinking that the curse of the pioneer came too quickly.

Later, at Gan Guoyang's strong request, the team finally contacted Shui Miao, a kinesiologist at Santa Barbara Hospital, and asked her to treat Gan Guoyang in person.

Shui Miao received an invitation from Qian Hui very early on, hoping that he would go to Portland to work.

But she never wanted to leave the warmth of California and run north to Portland, and in the end, the Trail Blazers' salary and Qian Hui's persuasion moved her.

In addition, this time I went to be Gan Guoyang's personal doctor, which seemed to attract her inexplicably, recalling the time in the hospital, this interesting big boy left a deep impression on her.

Now Gan Guoyang has become a well-known NBA star in the United States, but he still has to obediently lie on the bed and listen to Shui Miao's command.

"Don't call me an old cat! Actually, you can play now, but there may be sequelae, and for athletes, the waist is very important. Shui Miao said seriously.

"For any man, the waist is important." Gan Guoyang remembered a sentence that Bellman had said to him.

Shui Miao listened, but her face turned red, but fortunately she was not seen by Gan Guoyang, who was lying on her stomach.

"Slight lumbar herniation mainly depends on recuperation and conditioning, and remember, you can't participate in manual labor in the future, you are too tall." Shui Miao reminded.

Gan Guoyang knew that in addition to training, he was mainly bent over the basketball court that night and worked for a long time, and he felt that his waist was unacceptable.

"It seems that the injury-resistant talent in the talent value really can't be used anywhere else except basketball." Gan Guoyang thought to himself, he had to be careful in everything he did in the future.

"Old cat, give me a massage!" Gan Guoyang said suddenly.

"Don't call me an old cat! Lie down, relax, I'll give you a massage every day in the future, and soon you should be able to play strength. But you must understand that destruction is easy and difficult to recover, and you must cherish your body. ”

"I see." Gan Guoyang nodded.

Feeling the warmth and softness of the old cat's palm at his waist, Gan Guoyang suddenly thought of Wang Fuxi, who was still studying in Spokane, and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat on his head.