Gan Guoyang, who returned to Portland, was not idle, because Culp accompanied Gan Guoyang back, so Gan Guoyang went to the training center early the next morning and trained as usual during the days when the team was away.

Gan Guoyang is still running to the training center in the cold morning, although it is not as far away as the University of Portland, the Pioneer Training Center is a little far away from Gan Guoyang's home, but he can't drive, Gan Youwei is not around, Gan Guoyang can only use his own feet to go to the destination.

Gan Guoyang, who signed a two-year contract of 1 million with the Trailblazers and has a Nike endorsement, is already a little rich, but he did not spend money lavishly, did not buy a car or a house, but handed over the money to Gan Youwei to deal with.

Gan Guoyang ran on Portland Street in the early morning, when there were not many pedestrians on the street, but everyone could quickly recognize him when they saw him, and waved hello to Gan Guoyang.

“Come-on-Gump！” As he passed the Vista Bridge, a tightly wrapped little boy recognized Gan Guoyang and shouted at him.

Now that Gan Guoyang is a big star in Portland, the news of his ban is naturally known to fans all over the city, but the people in Portland support him, no matter what the circumstances.

Gan Guoyang, who was facing the cold wind, smiled at the little boy and couldn't help but speed up, he was now more and more fond of the city.

After arriving at the training center, Gan Guoyang was already sweating profusely, which also allowed him to skip the warm-up exercise, and went to the locker room to change his clothes and start training.

Culp had already driven to the training center early, set up the venue, and was ready to help Gan Guoyang carry out individual one-on-one training.

Culp is an experienced assistant trainer who is well placed to correct mistakes in training and help players refine their technical moves for the intense NBA game.

For a player with a solid foundation like Gan Guoyang, a trainer like Karp like a "improvement class" is very good, and in just over a month of events, Gan Guoyang has learned a lot from him and corrected some wrong habits in the past.

For example, when Gan Guoyang played in college, his heavy shoulders were more powerful when he broke through head-on, which was often whistled for fouls in NBA games, and Culp instructed Gan Guoyang on how to use his shoulders reasonably, and consciously improved Gan Guoyang's ability to take the first step, which further strengthened Gan Guoyang's ability to attack the basket head-on.

For another example, Gan Guoyang used to like to jump up and block in defense, and in high school and college, he could always send blocks; But in the NBA, it's impossible to average seven or eight blocks per game, and if you don't do it, you'll pay three or four fouls.

Culp carefully instructed Gan Guoyang on how to better judge and how to interfere with the opponent's shooting instead of simply trying to block, which is one of the reasons why Gan Guoyang has been plagued by fouls in recent games.

Gan Guoyang now trusts this middle-aged white man who is a little rich, and Karp is also surprised by Gan Guoyang's rapid progress, some details are basically a lesson, and how to apply it to the game is a matter of time.

"Gan, let's practice your left hand." After some basic training, Culp suggested that Gan Guoyang practice his left hand.

Gan Guoyang nodded, and now the technical movement practice of his left hand is a must-have item for his daily training.

As a professional player, if you want to achieve big things in attack, being able to shoot left and right is a must-have.

Especially for a center forward, if he only attacks with his right hand, it means that his next move can be predicted when attacking in the low post.

If he asks for the ball in the low post on the right side, then he will basically just go to the baseline; If you ask for the ball in the low post on the left, it's mostly going to the middle.

Once such a routine is figured out by the opponent and a targeted defense is launched, then the power of the center on the offensive end will be greatly reduced.

Gan Guoyang practiced his left hand in high school and college, but he did not train systematically, and he focused more on the technical training of the shooter, the right hand.

Now he's going to find time to practice his left hand, especially the left hook, which can be developed and then Gan's threat in the low post can be further increased.

"Let's do 200 flips and left-hand hooks." Culp brought in a large basket of basketballs and began to let Gan Guoyang start with an unguarded hook shot.

Gan Guoyang still clearly remembers how hard he worked every day when he practiced hook shooting at Gunzaga University.

Off-ball action training, non-confrontational hook shooting, confrontational hook shooting, hook shooting in the case of pinching, hook shooting in full-court confrontation practice; 5-foot hook, 10-foot hook, 15-foot hook.

In order to practice this stunt, Gan Guoyang spent nearly a year repeatedly tempering it, and constantly watched Abdul-Jabbar's game videos and early NBA center game videos to learn from it.

Eventually, he honed his hook shot into a proficient scoring technique, and he could shoot anytime and anywhere within 17 feet of the basket, making it difficult for opponents to guard against it.

If it weren't for Ramsey's deliberate reduction of Gan Guoyang's shots in tactical arrangements and cultivating his ability to respond in the high post and cover in the low post, Gan Guoyang's average points per game in the previous games would definitely be even more amazing.

In the battle with the Lakers and Bulls, Gan Guoyang has already shown his excellent low-post scoring ability and scoring explosiveness, and now what binds him is the team's tactical arrangement and coach's training plan.

Even so, the beast never stopped sharpening its minions and sharpening them.

"Go on, don't stop! Don't gasp! Be continuous, keep shooting! Carpp could only be heard yelling on the empty training ground, urging Gan Guoyang not to pause.

But there are no shortcuts to shooting practice, except for talent, what is needed is a lot of repetitive practice to form muscle memory in order to throw the ball in high-speed and high-intensity games.

The hook shot is a test of muscle memory, and he not only needs hand movements, but also the coordination of parts of the whole body.

One of the big differences between the sky hook and the ordinary hook hand is that the hand should be raised at the same time to ensure the balance of the body, which is the source of the stability of the day hook, and it is also a difficult place.

Gan Guoyang practiced the right hand hook hand is good, the right hand hook hand lifts the right leg, very coherent and smooth; But when it comes to using my left hand, I am not a shooter, so I am not used to it, and now I have to lift my left leg.

For right-handers, the left foot is often the jumping foot, and now if you want to lift the left leg, you can only use the right leg to jump, which makes Gan Guoyang quite unaccustomed, so the action is also deformed.

"Persistence, persistence, your leg and hand movements are not smooth enough, if you shoot like this in the game, the opponent will already slap you off!" Culp constantly pointed out Gan's shortcomings.

Obviously, if he wants his left-handed hook to be powerful in the game, Gan Guoyang still has a long way to go.

But now there is another thing that Gan Guoyang is more concerned about, that is, what is happening to the Trail Blazers, who are still far away on the East Coast.

After a day of sweaty training, Gan Guoyang called his personal doctor, Dr. Shui Miao, to do a full-body massage and relaxation in the physiotherapy center of the training hall, and did some simple examinations.

After Shui Miao became Gan Guoyang's personal doctor, she also found a job in a private clinic herself, so that she was more than enough to support herself in Portland alone.

Gan Guoyang wore a bathrobe, soaked in the large spa tank in the locker room, and while receiving the spa, he watched the game being broadcast on the TV set opposite, and it was the Portland Trail Blazers who challenged the Philadelphia 76ers on the road.

Since the time in the east came earlier than in the west, the game had already started in the afternoon Pacific time, and by the time Gan Guoyang turned on the TV after training, the game had already entered the second half.

At the end of the first half, the Trail Blazers trailed the 76ers by three points, 56-59.

By the third quarter, the 76ers' Moses Malone was starting to come into play, also standing at 6-foot-10, and Malone had a weight advantage against Sampson, who weighed 255 pounds and was on a rampage inside the Trail Blazers like a tank.

Sampson didn't suffer on offense, and his skillful basket skills continued to add points to the Trail Blazers, but he couldn't guard against Moses Malone, and at the same time he didn't have the destructive power of Malone.

Moses Malone relied on free throws and frontcourt rebounds to score back-to-back points in the third quarter, giving the 76ers the advantage in the third quarter.

VanderWiel's performance was poor, and with Bobby Jones' defense, his shooting percentage was just over 30 per cent and he couldn't give the team enough firepower.

However, Drexler shined in front of the old Flyer Dr. J, and the Trail Blazers relied on Drexler's play to withstand the 76ers' strong attack in the first half.

However, the third quarter failed to limit Moses Malone, and the rebounds were blown up, and the Trail Blazers still lost 116-126 in the fourth quarter.

Moses Malone scored a game-high 30 points, plus a similarly high 15 rebounds, and Irving had 28 points and 11 rebounds.

On the Trail Blazers' side, Drexler scored 26 points, Sampson scored 22 points, but the whole team did not have a double-double, they grabbed 17 fewer rebounds than the 76ers, and one alone means that the Trail Blazers may have 10 points less than the 76ers.

"Forrest Gump, that No. 2 is really powerful, if you get on, can you beat him?" Shui Miao, who was watching the game with Gan Guoyang, asked.

Shui Miao naturally doesn't know anything about basketball, but she is now also the personal doctor of NBA players, so she needs to know something.

"I don't know, but I guess I can still get by...... Anyway, I'm going to be there, and our team won't lose so many rebounds. Gan Guoyang thought that he missed the game with the 76ers, and he still felt extremely regretful.

"Then don't hit people in the future, just play basketball well, why do you beat people." Shui Miao muttered on the side.

Gan Guoyang looked at this doctor who was not young, but spoke like a child, and he didn't know what to say.

"You don't understand a woman's business!" Gan Guoyang had no choice but to say so.

"What a man or a woman, you're just a kid who didn't graduate from college!" Shui Miao heard him say this, and replied unconvinced.

"What's the use of you graduating from college, and you're still not married!" As soon as Gan Guoyang said this, he regretted it a little, for fear of touching Shui Miao's heart.

"Alas~ I don't know what to do, I can't find someone I like." Shui Miao was not angry, but was still alone there and felt sorry for herself.

Gan Guoyang didn't expect her to think about it seriously, I really don't know where she has read so many books, maybe she hasn't even talked about love.

In an open and developed country like the United States, it is not uncommon for a woman not to get married, and it is simply incredible for a college girl not to fall in love.

Gan Guoyang wanted to ask Shui Miao more than once if she had ever been in love or if she was not a virgin, but in the end he held back.

Sometimes, Gan Guoyang feels that there is such a simple good doctor, and it is quite good to joke with her occasionally.

In the next two days, Gan Guoyang came to the training center every day to train with Carp, and after the training, Shui Miao came to give him relaxation treatment to prevent him from getting injured, and by the way, he watched the day's games.

On December 1, in the new month, Gan Guoyang lay in the spa tank and watched the game between the Utah Jazz and the Denver Nuggets.

It's gold that always shines, and Stockton is getting better and better with the Jazz, scoring 13 points and a game-high 12 assists in this game against the Nuggets.

While the Jazz ultimately failed to stop the Nuggets' strong offense, Stockton's performance has begun to attract the league's attention.

On December 2, Gan Guoyang watched the game between the New York Knicks and the Trail Blazers on the treadmill.

Gan Guoyang has to sigh that in just a few years, NBA broadcasting in the United States has developed very rapidly.

He still remembers that when he first arrived in the United States, he thought that every game could be broadcast, only to find out later that even the NBA finals may not be broadcast, and Gan Guoyang knew that in the United States at that time, the NBA was also in a period of development.

Only three years later, with Stern's arrival, the promotion of the NBA is getting better and better, and more and more TV stations have begun to broadcast NBA games.

It also allows Gan to watch his teammates on the East Coast on pay TV in Portland.

The Trail Blazers, who lost to the 76ers in their last game and suffered their first consecutive defeat of the season, seemed to have found a punching bag when playing against the injured Knicks.

In addition to being beaten 26-23 by the Knicks in the first quarter, in the second and third quarters, the Trail Blazers tore the Knicks to shreds with a stormy offense.

Drexler added a game-high 25 points and 12 rebounds to lead the Trail Blazers to the Knicks 115-93 on the road, following his 26 points in the previous game.

On the Knicks' side, several of their main players were absent due to injury, and they lost as many as 26 rebounds to the Trail Blazers in the whole game, and a big rout was inevitable.

"I wanted to meet him, but I didn't expect him to miss the game as well." Gan Guoyang looked at this boring one-sided game and muttered to himself.