Chapter 253: A True Opponent

The next day, Gan Guoyang came to the New York Knicks' training venue again, but this time he did not come to participate in the training match of the Chinese team, but to watch the friendly match between the Chinese team and the New York Knicks while training.

In yesterday's game, Gan Guoyang practiced his turnaround jump shot, he almost didn't use the hook hand he was good at, but seized this opportunity to hone his jump shooting skills in actual combat.

Therefore, when the Knicks players arrived belatedly and saw that in addition to some skinny Chinese players in the court, there was a guy they were familiar with practicing turnaround jumpers there, and some players couldn't help but have a short circuit in their brains.

"Hey, look, isn't that guy Gan? Fuck this kid is on the Chinese team, too?" Knicks shooting guard Butch Carter said to Pete Cummins next to him after seeing Gan Guoyang.

"Oh my god, playing with this guy is really not fun at all." Cummins, as the center of the Knicks, was abused by Gan Guoyang in the game when the team visited Portland.

And Gan Guoyang also saw the Knicks players in blue tracksuits walk in, and it was Butch Carter who walked in the front.

This time, the Knicks players did not come, not to mention Bernard King, most of the other players are also on vacation, and the relationship between the players and the team is that of part-time jobs and owners, and there is no subordinate relationship, so the players of the team are called up this time, mainly in the name of training camp.

"Hey, dear Miss Butch, nice to meet you." Gan Guoyang walked up to Carter with the ball and "said hello" to him.

Butch means lesbian in English, and in the game against the Knicks, Gan Guoyang used this to mock Butch-Carter.

Carter could only laugh when he heard it, and now most players in the entire NBA league have more or less experienced Gan Guoyang's trash talk, and most of the time they can only swallow their anger.

"You're so Gan, what's the matter, are you going to represent your country in the warm-up game?" Cummins also stepped forward to shake Gan's hand.

"No, I'm just here to have fun and practice my new technique by the way." After Gan Guoyang finished speaking, the Knicks' players were obviously relieved, they came mainly as substitutes this time, and they might be abused by Gan Guoyang.

"So you don't have to worry, especially you Cummins...... By the way, make the most of your strengths, don't save face for my compatriots, I think they need to appreciate the gap with the NBA. ”

Gan Guoyang doesn't want to see the Chinese team make a fool of themselves, but he knows that the Chinese players need to feel the gap with the world's top teams.

Although Gan Guoyang gave them some lessons yesterday, no matter how powerful Gan Guoyang is, he is only one person, and the outside line of the Chinese team is still running smoothly.

In fact, a very big problem of the Chinese team is the lack of body, strength, and pressure resistance of the guard line, although the Knicks are not a strong team, and the outside defense is also on one side, but it is enough for the guards of the Chinese team to drink a good pot.

In addition to the Knicks' players, the NBA also sent Chicago Bulls assistant coach Ed Bagel and former Nets head coach Bill Bull to serve as technical guides for this training camp.

These two are not well-known in NBA history, but as basketball workers who can establish themselves in the NBA, they certainly have two brushes, and they also represent the most advanced basketball training philosophy at the moment.

Unlike yesterday, many reporters came to the training hall today, bringing cameras to promote the training camp.

Gan Guoyang naturally became the biggest star in the training hall, and reporters pointed their spotlights and microphones at him, and began to ask some questions endlessly.

Among them, the most asked question is whether Gan Guoyang will represent the Chinese team in international competitions.

Gan Guoyang was really too lazy to answer this kind of slightly idiotic question, and finally he couldn't help but throw out a sentence: "When I win the championship, I won't consider playing for the national team...... And now NBA players are not allowed to participate in international games. ”

However, the latter half of Gan Guoyang's sentence is added in vain, and tomorrow's newspaper headlines will focus on his first half of the sentence.

By the time the friendly match began, the reporters had finally started to focus on the game, but after a while, they lost interest in the game again.

Because the game was just too one-sided.

Yesterday, when there was only one Gan Guoyang, the Chinese team could still rely on passing the ball to establish a local advantage, but in the face of a whole team composed of NBA players, it was really a flock of sheep and wolves, and they didn't even have the ability to resist in a group, and they were completely broken by each one.

When the Knicks are defending with all their might, it is very difficult for the Chinese team to even dribble over half the court, and Sun Fengwu, who is a first-rate point guard in China, is almost like a high school student in front of professional players in the United States.

Director Qian Chenghai on the side also shook his head when he saw it, and at this time, Director Qian also understood a little that even if Gan Guoyang came to play for the Chinese team, China's blue flag still has a long way to go if it wants to enter the forefront of the world.

No matter how awesome your center is, what is the use of the defender who can't even dribble the ball in half the court, is it difficult to let Gan Guoyang play from the guard to the center?

Obviously, this is a one-sided torture, it is a real "teaching and training game", Gan Guoyang felt a little unbearable to look at it, he thought that the Chinese team would play six more games like this later, including the Bulls team with Jordan, he felt that the Chinese team would not be a mistake to come to the United States to train this time.

"Mr. Bull, which other teams are going to play against the Chinese team in the future?" Gan Guoyang asked Bill Boerdaw, who was standing next to him and watching the game carefully.

"Oh, and the Chicago Bulls, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Indiana Pacers, the New Jersey Nets, the Washington Bullets...... Well...... By the way, and the Philadelphia 76ers! Bill Bull thought for a moment and replied.

"Oh my God, there's still the Philadelphia 76ers, I don't know if Moses will tear the Chinese team apart...... No, Moses is going to ask me to train in Houston, I don't know if he will come, Clyde is also in Houston, it seems that I should go to Texas in a few days. Gan's mind has drifted to Houston in the south, where Moses Malone and Olajuwon are waiting for him.

The game was over quickly, and the Chinese team lost the game without any suspense.

However, Coach Qian Chenghai is still quite calm, maybe Gan Guoyang's performance yesterday has given him a preventive shot, and he continues to deploy troops in the game, not to save the situation, but to send the players on the court to feel the intensity of the NBA game.

In the next few days, Gan Guoyang returned to the training gym every day to train with the Chinese team, of course, he mainly came to practice his turnaround jumper, and by the way, adjusted his physical condition.

By the end of June, the second NBA team arrived, and it was none other than the Chicago Bulls led by Michael Jordan.

In fact, Jordan didn't really want to come, he thought it was boring to run here to play against the Chinese team, but when he heard that Gan Guoyang was also there, he still agreed to the league's invitation.

It's just that what disappointed him was that Gan Guoyang didn't play for the Chinese team, which made Jordan a little listless when playing against the Chinese team.

Even so, Jordan also gave the Chinese guards a good look at the strength of the Flyers, no matter how hard Lu Jinqing tried to keep an eye on Jordan, he was always regarded as nothing by Jordan, and often passed easily with an acceleration - the gap in physical fitness is indeed too big.

However, Lu Jinqing's desperate Sanlang and his temperament of never admitting defeat infected Jordan, so that Jordan also had a correct attitude and came to play this training match well.

The final ending is naturally the same as the previous game, another "I haven't tried my strength yet, and you fall" game.

After the game, the Chinese players came forward to take photos with Jordan, which really made Gan Guoyang envious, it seems that he, a Chinese star, is not as famous as Jordan in China.

Lu Jinqing, who has been working against Jordan on the court, has also been respected by Jordan, and Jordan gave his Air-Jordan generation sneakers to Lu Jinqing as a commemorative gift.

And the real show of this day's training was in the training after the game, Jordan finally had the opportunity to meet Gan Guoyang head-on, and he launched a one-on-one bullfight challenge against the guy who was also wearing Nike sneakers.

This kind of drama naturally made the reporters at the scene blood gushing, and they picked up the cameras in their hands and began to take pictures of the two people.

Gan Guoyang will never refuse such a challenge, even if he suffers a loss as a center heads-up, even if he faces Jordan, he is not afraid at all - he just likes this kind of duel.

Two of the brightest stars of the class of 1984 rookies used the most direct way on the basketball court to score a point.

Of course, since cameras and video recorders were not allowed to enter the training hall at that time, there was no video of the two-person one-on-one bullfight except for the reporter's photo.

But according to Song Tao's later recollection, "This is the most exciting one-on-one bullfight I have ever seen, and I never thought that a player's basketball skills could be so superb, let alone that a center can play like this." ”

And there was no final result in this bullfight, everyone forgot to score when they watched it, and Jordan and Gan Guoyang no longer cared about the score, they just wanted to keep fighting.

It wasn't until Coach Bagel felt that he couldn't go on in such a heads-up anymore, and if he continued to fight, the others would not want to train, so he stopped the bullfight.

"Gan, next time we find a chance to split the winner, how about tonight?" Jordan sat on the bench on the sidelines, drank water and said to Gan Guoyang.

"There will be a chance, but not to win or lose, but to let you understand that I am the winner...... But not tonight, I'm going back to Oregon in the evening, and then I'm going to Houston, if you're interested, you can come to Houston. Gan Guoyang gasped and said.

"I'm not interested in going to Houston, there's going to be a big bootcamp in Chicago in September, and you're welcome."