Chapter 61: Beat-it II.
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In 1982, the United States, or the world, was in a transitional phase.
The war, the anti-war, the Beat Generation, the colorful bohemian headbands and bright plaid shirts, the lazy black blues, the intoxicating gin, and the glowing and dimly toned images of the NBA television broadcasts make up Americans' memories of the seventies.
And in the 80s, the whole world seemed to be freed from that gray and obscure tone, and it suddenly brightened.
ET began to spark a frenzy of films about aliens, Britain and Argentina fought a war that did not look like a war in the South Atlantic, Ronald Reagan recovered from the assassination and began to lead the United States to reverse the decline of the Cold War in the Cold War, and Olivia John's "Physical" topped the music album sales charts.
Everything is going in a good direction, and everything is in the mood to mean that this will be a golden age in American history, including the NBA.
The arrival of Big Bird Bird and Magic Johnson in 1979 instantly changed the NBA's declining decline, bringing their great rivalry to the NBA and saving the league.
In three years, the two have won two and one championship each, a rookie of the year and two Finals MVPs, leading the Lakers and Celtics, two traditional powerhouses, to a revival.
At the same time, other giants are not far behind, and the most shocking big news is the 1982 regular season MVP Moshe Malone, who joined the super team and the defending champion of the East, the Philadelphia 76ers.
The golden age of the NBA has begun.
At this time, Gan Guoyang, a Chinese who has traveled through time for thirty years and crossed the ocean to this land, is experiencing the darkest moment of his short basketball career.
It was the end of November 1982, late autumn, California was no longer warm, and Gan Guoyang's basketball team at UCLA had entered the cold winter.
In the nearly three months since he entered UCLA, he has found himself unable to fit into the school or the basketball team.
UCLA was too big for him, and he had to walk a long way from his dorm to the gymnasium every time he trained.
The learning course here is also extremely dense and difficult, Gan Guoyang is not afraid of learning, but after all, he is not a learning maniac, not to mention that he has more important things to do.
He's going to play basketball.
However, he also has no sense of belonging in the basketball team, even though he has shown his outstanding talent and skills in countless training sessions, as well as a basketball IQ that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.
Kam, the only player Abdul-Jabbar has been praised for returning to UCLA in these years, and other players don't even deserve his criticism.
Because Coach Famar doesn't like Gan Guoyang, doesn't like this prick, doesn't like this yellow skin who always opposes him, and always likes to make some vulgar jokes - he doesn't think these jokes are funny at all.
And Gan Guoyang doesn't like this coach who always has a straight face, elongated nose and eyes like an octopus;
Famar felt that Gan Guoyang had no sense of discipline, did not know how to respect his predecessors, and was a hairy boy who always liked to be in the limelight with his talent.
Gan Guoyang believes that Famal is old-fashioned and inflexible, always likes to oppress people with his identity, does not like to adopt the opinions of the players, and most importantly, does not recognize his talent and efforts.
This is the case with some people in the world, living under the same blue sky, but as if they exist in different worlds.
It's the same head, two eyes, a nose and a mouth, but it can't pee in a pot.
Not only the coach, Gan Guoyang thinks that other teammates are also like this, especially those veteran players in the first team, in their opinion, seniority is ranked according to who is the first team, no matter how good you are, newcomers have to buy lunch boxes for veteran players.
Gan Guoyang is the only one who has not bought a boxed lunch for a veteran player.
College life at UCLA is far from being as good as Gan Guoyang imagined, and it may even be hell, and the only angel in this hell is Wang Fuxi... By the way, there are also two little ghosts, Gan Guohui and Chen Xing.
Only when he is with them can Gan Guoyang feel some warmth and not have so many troubles.
Now he misses the days in San Francisco, in Palo Alto, and in the Vikings; He misses Diepenbrock, he misses Williams, he misses Virgin, he misses Bellman.
On Tuesday, November 30, 1982, Gan returned to his dormitory after a yoga class.
He found that the guy Qian Mos was not there, and according to the relationship with Qian Mos during this time, there was a chance that he went somewhere to pick up girls.
Money's father owned several warehouse companies in Los Angeles and was a wealthy businessman, so Moneymoss was also a well-known playboy, and his girlfriend changed almost every week.
The girl who did good things with him in the dormitory that day was caught on the first day he came to school, and it turned out to be a cheerleader of the UCLA basketball team.
However, in addition to being lustful and fun-loving, Qian Moss still has no vices, and he is not bad, especially because he likes music very much, and always buys many music tapes to share with Gan Guoyang, which makes Gan Guoyang feel quite good.
"This guy has made a mess of the room again, and I don't know which girl has been ruined by him on this bed." Gan Guoyang looked at Carlos's messy bed and floor, and said to himself helplessly.
"Oh my God, this guy doesn't even know how to throw away condoms, can't stand him... What is this, the new album? Gan Guoyang actually found a used and unthrown set next to the bed, but on the sofa chair next to him, he saw a new box of music tapes, as if they had just been released.
“Thriller? Trembling, by Michael Jackson...... This guy's face looks so familiar... Michael... Michael? It's Michael! Gan Guoyang picked up the cassette tape and found out that the singer of this album was the musician Michael he knew when he was being treated for a back injury in Santa Barbara!
"He's really released an album, it's been a year, it's such a coincidence that I can find his album here." Where did Gan Guoyang know that this was not a "coincidence" at all.
Today, Michael Jackson released his second album "Thriller", which occupied the top positions of the major charts as soon as it was released, and swept the United States by storm.
Almost all pop music lovers bought this masterpiece by Michael Jackson, setting off a Jackson frenzy.
Gan Guoyang, on the other hand, opened the cassette case, took out the Walk-Man he bought from Wang Fuxi's store, and began to listen to the most famous album in the history of pop music.
Wanna-be-Stratin'Somethin'
Baby-be-mine
The-Girl-Is-Mine (My Girl)
Thriller............
Gan Guoyang listened to this unique Michael Jackson song and listened to his unique voice with the taste of children's voice, and it seemed that every cell in his body trembled and trembled.
In this exciting music, Gan Guoyang is like a person who has been stuffed in the water for a long time, suddenly floating on the water, gulping and greedily breathing in the fresh air.
When he hears the song Beat-It, hears You-better-run, you-better-do-what-you-can, Don't-wanna-see-no-blood, Don't-be-a-Macho-man............ So-beat-it… just-beat-it,beat-it…… (Avoid, avoid), I suddenly felt like I was sudden.
Yes, since you can't change Coach Famar, you can't change other players, you can't change UCLA, and you can't change yourself, so let's avoid it.
Avoid this place that does not belong to you, avoid those who hate you, avoid the overly heavy splendor here, avoid the overly lofty ideals here.
Find where you like, find a place where you can use your talents and talents, find a group of like-minded brothers, and carve out your own world on the basketball court.
Now, the warm-up tournament between schools is coming to an end, and UCLA's Pacific League competition is about to begin in earnest to qualify for the round of 48 of the 1983 NCAA National.
Gan Guoyang hasn't even played a warm-up game now, and Famar just wants him to sit on the bench. And he told Gan Guoyang that he would not let him play in his freshman year, and he would not wait until his sophomore year.
Freshmen are not allowed to play official competitions, and it's all a matter of the Year of the Monkey! If the freshmen don't play, there will only be six people at UCLA who can play.
There is no game to play, and the torture of Gan Guoyang is second only to the fact that he has never pushed down Wang Fuxi, and he can wait for the latter, but he has decided that he will no longer be patient.
Gan Guoyang tore off the headphones stuffed in his ears and began to pack his clothes and other luggage in the dormitory, anyway, he didn't have many things, and he didn't bring household appliances over, all these money Moss has.
Soon, he packed up his things, and Gan Guoyang decided to leave here.
It's inconceivable for someone else to drop out of college in their first year of college, especially at a prestigious university like UCLA.
But the stubborn Gan Guoyang knows that he can't stay here anymore, and if he stays here, he doesn't dare to guarantee that his basketball career will not be scrapped.
He remembers two months ago, when Abdul-Jabbar was leaving UCLA to report back to the Lakers after two weeks of practice.
In the last confrontation training session before leaving, Abdul-Jabbar said to him, "When you feel hopeless, you might as well leave." ”
Abdul-Jabbar used to play for the Milwaukee Bucks and won a championship; But six years later, he insisted on leaving, and was traded to the warmth of Los Angeles to restart another of his legacy.
Now, Gan Guoyang wants a strong man to break his wrist, leave this famous basketball school, and restart his college career...... As for how to turn it on, he hasn't figured it out yet.
Gan Guoyang looked at the dormitory where he had lived for three months, and still sat down to write a letter to Qian Moss, after all, the two were still very good friends in these three months.
But before leaving, he had one more important thing to do, he was going to meet someone - Wang Fuxi.
I was about to leave Los Angeles and leave UCLA, and this decision was so sudden that even Gan Guoyang himself felt that his brain was convulsive.
So he was going to see Wang Fuxi.
After all, if Gan Guoyang really leaves Los Angeles, he will not necessarily go back to Los Angeles to go to school in the future, which means that the two will be separated.
After more than three months of getting along, Gan Guoyang felt that he could no longer leave this cute girl who was a little rude, a little gentle, a little wise and a little naïve.
He fell deeply in love with her, in this time and space that did not belong to him, he fell in love with this destined girl.
When Gan Guoyang took his big bag and money and took a taxi to Inglewood High School, the school had just finished school.
Gan Guoyang just poked at the school gate like a telephone pole with a bunch of things, and Wang Fuxi thought it was a wage earner when he saw him.
Wang Fuxi has now retired from the basketball team, which is a difficult decision for her because she is so competitive, loves basketball so much, and wants to win the championship so much.
But in comparison, he prefers Gan Guoyang, and women's basketball does not have college scholarships, so she quits the team and has to spend more time studying and accumulating her resume to try to apply to UCLA.
Of course, there is a more important reason, that is, Wang Fuxi is afraid that his legs will become thicker and muscular if he plays too much basketball, which will not look good, and Gan Guoyang will not like it.
"Forrest Gump, why are you here!" Seeing Gan Guoyang's sudden arrival, Wang Fuxi was still very happy and immediately greeted him.
"Forrest Gump, why don't you speak? Your face doesn't seem to look good, what's going on? Wang Fuxi looked at Gan Guoyang's face and didn't seem to be very good.
"Fuxi, would you like to be with me forever?" Gan Guoyang asked suddenly.
"Of course I do, I always will." Wang Fuxi didn't know what was going on, but she still replied without hesitation.
"Well, so am I; Fuxi, we... Let's really be in this together! ”
"Really together? What does it mean......"
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When Gan Guoyang took off Wang Fuxi's hat in a hotel in Inglewood, he realized why she always wore this low-pitched cap.
Because she is so beautiful, when she takes off her hat, she shows her hair, and the feeling of being carved into jade is not something that can be experienced with a hat barrier.
And when Gan Guoyang gently unfastened Fuxi's turquoise cover button, the slightly small cover was slightly stuck*, and then fell to the bed with Gan Guoyang's caresses, and the restraints were gone, revealing a pair of round and full jade rabbits.
In an instant, Gan Guoyang's gaze, attracted by Wang Fuxi's face, shifted to the pair of beautiful objects.
Their shapes are so beautiful and beautiful, like two teardrop-shaped pearls, shining in the dim light.
That touch of light, white and slightly transparent, reflects a heavy texture; The bulge was small and round, standing on a red halo the size of two coins, like a red bean in a small saucer.
"Won't you get tired of playing basketball with these two things?" It seems that it is because it is too beautiful, but the first thing that comes to Gan Guoyang's mind at this time is this matter.
And Wang Fuxi looked at Gan Guoyang, who was stupidly looking at his chest, and immediately felt extremely shy, and her mind was still confused.
After making a phone call with his family, he somehow followed him into the hotel.
So, she used two white jade bibs to cover her chest, trying to hide the unstoppable spring color.
However, Wang Fuxi's perennial exercise arm not only does not have bulging muscles or thickening, but is more compact and smooth, without a trace of fat; Covering the chest to strangle a trace of delicate *, it looks even more tempting.
Gan Guoyang gently stroked Wang Fuxi's face, and saw that she had a snow-white neck as pink as a pond lotus, and two plump cherry lips that were as delicious as candied fruit, and couldn't help but bow her head and kiss it.
"Huh~" Wang Fuxi let out a hint of nonsension, which reached Gan Guoyang's ears, but it instantly aroused the heat in his heart, and pushed Fuxi down on the white bed.
At this point, the lights in the room went out; In late autumn, it will soon be dark.
In the bright lights of Los Angeles, the black sky is not lonely, and there is often a touch of brilliance piercing into the deep black sky, or light or stiff, falling or sweeping; Sometimes there are some flashes, it's red, and it's supposed to be a flight from the airport.
When the night came, the splendor of Los Angeles reached its peak, and all the light bloomed in the night, as if ecstasy illuminated the corners of the sky, leaving behind a milky white light.
Everything is fixed, the night is still the same night, but the person is no longer the same person.