While Falke and You were feeling a little distressed by the lingering gloom above their heads, the initiator, Gan Guoyang, was sweating in the training gym in Portland.

This season, the Trail Blazers started the season unusually easy, after back-to-back home games against the Sacramento Kings on November 5, the Trail Blazers actually got five days off, and their next game will not start until the 10th, when they take on the Denver Nuggets on the road.

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

Then, he began to go about his training life as if nothing had happened.

"Gan, how the hell did you get so many rebounds?" At the Jewish Community Training Center, Gan Guoyang was practicing switchback running with Sabonis, Sabonis's physical fitness needed to be further strengthened, and Gan Guoyang was running with Sabonis, and Sabonis was running as long as Gan Guoyang ran.

"Anticipation, you need to understand the shooting habits of each opponent and teammate, and then you have to react quickly enough to predict where the ball will land, and then your body has to move and run to the landing point. In the end, it's up to you to try to get to that damn ball! "Gan has never been shy about imparting Sabonis' knowledge and experience.

Looking at Sabonis still a little bit of a seeming understanding, Gan Guoyang knew that Sabonis had played a lot in FIBA games, standing under the basket all the year round, with his height and arm span, the rebounding ball was almost hand-to-hand, but in the NBA, if you don't pay attention to the judgment of the landing point, a center may not be able to grab a point guard.

"I'll give you an example, you see Clyde practicing shooting over there, do you see?" Gan Guoyang pointed to Drexler, who was shooting on the other half of the court.

Sabonis turned his head to see Drexler receive a pass and hit a mid-range shot.

"You look at his Clyde's shots, the shot is high, but the arc is very flat, and if you don't go in, it usually bounces to about 10 feet from the basket, and it doesn't bounce very high. So Clyde, and the ball thrown by a player who shoots like Clyde, you can't grab it just by jumping, you have to judge whether it is deflected when he shoots, and if it is deflected, you have to run in the direction of the deflection to determine the landing point, so that the ball will automatically come to you...... Oh yes, I also want to tell you, if Clyde forces a jump shot, be prepared to grab the rebound in advance! Also, if he doesn't score the first two goals, then the chance of not scoring the third goal is 90 percent. And then there will be no fourth ball. ”

When Gan Guoyang was guiding Sabonis to grab rebounds, he didn't forget to smear Drexler, who seemed to sense something, and immediately hit three irons after scoring several goals in a row, which was in training.

After blackening Drexler, Gan Guoyang "blacked" the jump shots of all the players on the Trail Blazers by the way, in order to remind Sabonis that when different players shoot, if they hit the iron, what kind of rules will the ball fall on.

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 dominate the rebounding list, for which Gan Guoyang does not know how many videos he has studied and how many other players' technical analysis he has watched.

By the time Gan Guoyang finished speaking, Sabonis was already running a little out of breath, and Gan Guoyang was still talking endlessly, in such a turnaround run, it was easy to diverge a lot of talking, but this kind of running was like walking for Gan Guoyang.

"Okay, that's it for running, you can only maintain your stamina for 30 minutes of high-intensity play, if you want to be a main player and stay on the court in the last moments of the game, you need to continue to improve your physical strength and confrontation ability." Gan Guoyang stopped and said to Sabonis, who was gasping for breath.

Subsequently, the Trail Blazers team once again conducted offensive and defensive drills, and this time Adelman chose to put Sabonis in the starting lineup, cooperate with Gan Guoyang, Cauchy, Drexler, and try the feasibility of the twin towers.

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

But Sabonis still maintained patience and participated in the training seriously, in fact, in the training, he also felt that the gap between himself and Gan Guoyang could not be calculated, Gan Guoyang had run too far, Sabonis felt that even if he flew, he would not be able to catch up with him.

"Hurry Avidath! Be quick to get back on guard! Settle down, pay attention to your position, pay attention to your position! It's too outlier! Gan Guoyang was defending himself, and at the same time, he could also remind Sabonis loudly.

This is an offensive and defensive transition drill, and the two sides are training on the landing and running positions, requiring the players to be able to stand up in their defensive positions as quickly as possible, and Sabonis still has problems in this regard.

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

Based on discussions between Adelman and the entire coaching staff, they believe that if Sabonis can free Gan on both ends of the floor, then they will have a better chance of winning against the Lakers.

But the Lakers' fast-break is the best in the league, and if Sabonis can't go one step further defensively, it's hard to say whether his role on the court will be positive or negative.

"However, Sabonis is still improving quite quickly, I think he is a very good learner, and Gan is also a good teacher." Bellman continued, as Gan's high school coach, he still knows Gan Guoyang very well.

"Hehe~ Actually, the two of them are the same age, but Gan did go too far, too fast, and the others couldn't keep up with him."

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After the end of the training, Gan Guoyang stayed in the training hall as usual to practice, today he added the item of strength training, after losing weight, Gan Guoyang in order to ensure his aggressiveness in strength, continue to strengthen the strength exercises.

Gan Guoyang can feel that from the perspective of talent value, his strength should be about to reach the set value of 83, and Gan Guoyang also decided to continue training, striving to overflow talent like dunk talent.

In the current league, the confrontation is becoming more and more fierce, and the group of interior players who entered the league in the mid-eighties have muscles growing rapidly in their arms, and the loose whistle has also made the game more and more brutal, and the Detroit Pistons are typical representatives.

In order to compete with these black muscle sticks, Gan Guoyang also repeatedly forged his already steel-like body.

And Sabonis is Gan Guoyang's henchman in training, Gan Guoyang stayed to practice strength, and he also stayed to practice, and Sabonis's strength talent is excellent, and the two will definitely be able to form the strongest inside combination in the alliance over time.

Just when the training was about to end, Feng Guangyao entered the power room wearing a suit and sunglasses, and before his feet stepped in, he heard Gan Guoyang shouting, "Take off your shoes!" Take off your shoes when you enter the power room! ”

Feng Guangyao hurriedly withdrew his feet, bent down and wanted to take off his shoes, but soon he put his hand back again, smiled and said, "Yangtou, I still don't take it off, taking it off will pollute the environment here even more...... I'll tell you at the door, that Mr. Falck is coming, waiting for you in the car. ”

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

"Good afternoon, Mr. Falck, 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 one to Falck.

Lighting the cigar in his mouth and inhaling hard, Gan Guoyang rarely smokes, but he will bring one when he needs it, because whenever he lights a cigar, in the smoke of the smoke, his whole person will look mysterious.

Such an effect always makes Falck more stressed.

This time, Falke came, mainly to talk to Gan Guoyang about the issue of sneaker branding, "Air-Jordan" has made great progress under the operation of Falck and Nike, and "Skyscraper" is slightly inferior in comparison, but with Gan Guoyang's MVP-level performance this season, the brand will further appreciate is certain.

However, Gan Guoyang has recently had a tendency to spin off "Skyscraper" from the Nike brand to form its own system, which is not good news for Falck, an intermediary broker, because it means that Gan Guoyang will no longer need his agent to coordinate the business relationship with Nike, and Gan Guoyang can directly become Nike's brand shareholder and participate in product decisions.

Falck hopes to be able to move Gan Guoyang and slow down the pace of such divestment, because it is indeed risky.

However, as he spoke, Falke watched Gan Guoyang smoking a cigar leisurely, and his heart became more and more bottomless.

After Falck finished speaking, Gan Guoyang extinguished the snow in his hand, used a cigar cutter to cut the front neatly and put it back into the cigarette case, and then said: "Mr. Falck, one day, 'Air-Jordan' will also take this path, if you don't believe it, we'll see." As for my 'Skyscraper', you don't have to worry, it's not something you should worry about. Now I'm going to give you a question to worry about, you should add a player to your team, he will be the first player under my 'Skyscraper' brand, and I will coach him well. ”

As he spoke, Gan Guoyang pulled out a document from the reserve box next to the saddle, which was a player's resume, and the name on it was "Avidas Sabonis".