(I'm really sorry today, something happened.) The author's bank card for receiving the manuscript fee was stolen, and all the little manuscript fee he got was gone...... It took me a long time to call the bank, anyway...... Sorry, it's late for the update, there may be more typos, forgive me. ）

By the time Gan left Andy's Bar, Portland had already fallen into darkness, and it was already early in the morning.

Midnight Portland was so cold, but Gan Guoyang, who was sitting in Kenny Carr's car, was hot in his heart, first, Carl's words made him feel a lot, and now was really the time to be active, and second, he looked at Carl who was drunk driving next to him, and couldn't help but tremble.

Don't try to figure out some problems, but end up ruining yourself because of an accident, this is the biggest tragedy in the world.

Thankfully, there were almost no cars on Portland Street at midnight, and Carl had a lot of alcohol, but it was all beer, so he had no problem driving with his drinking amount.

"Portland, beautiful Portland, I love it here, the fans here, and I love the beer here!" While driving, Carl kept talking, and he said enough tonight.

Portland is known as the beer capital, and the climate here is perfect for brewing good beer, so as soon as it was traded here, Carl fell in love with the place.

He has decided that no matter where he is traded in the future, he will return to Portland to settle down and work and open his construction company after retiring.

"Gan, Portland is a really great place, trust me, if you win a championship here...... Oh my God, I can't imagine ......."

"I can't imagine it...... Can you look ahead......"

Among all the players of the Trail Blazers, only Gan Guoyang can't drive yet, and everyone else, even the water cooler administrator, has his own car, so Gan Guoyang can only let Karl take him home.

Along the way, there was finally no danger, and Carl sent Gan Guoyang home.

"Goodbye Mr. Karl, I learned a lot talking to you." Gan Guoyang breathed a sigh of relief, and thanked Carl goodbye after getting out of the car.

At the Trailblazers, apart from the coaches and staff, Gan Guoyang never addressed anyone else as Mr.

"Goodbye, Gan, do a good job, I'm sure you'll make a big difference, and don't forget Kenny Carr who drove you home by then!" Carl did not forget to emphasize: "Gou Fugui doesn't want to forget." ”

"No problem, Mr. Carl, you'll have a share of the championship...... It's reversed! It's over there! Go back ......"

After Gan Guoyang returned home, he lay on the bed alone and carefully sorted out the communication with Carl tonight, and he decided to make some changes.

Of course, how to change it is not something that can be realized with one or two ideas, but needs to be put into practice and action, and this will be a long process.

After drinking some wine, Gan Guoyang, who was a little dizzy, lay on the bed, but couldn't sleep.

So he turned on the TV to see if there was anything basketball-related on the TV station at midnight.

As a person from later generations, Gan Guoyang was really a million dissatisfied with TV, the main entertainment facility at that time.

Not to mention the small screen, the programs of those TV stations also reveal a local flavor everywhere.

Especially those advertisements, in Gan Guoyang's eyes, are all turtles and can't be broken ideas, which are 108,000 miles worse than CCTV-5's sports advertisements - he didn't think that CCTV-5 now has no ads.

After flipping through a few stations, I finally saw a preview of tomorrow's game on the local Portland TV channel.

Gan Guoyang has a bad habit of never looking at his team's schedule, in his own words, "keeping the opponent mysterious, to keep his hunger for the game." ”

So Gan Guoyang stopped the button to see which team the Portland Trail Blazers would play next (local channels broadcast their own team's games), and generally speaking, the TV stations are willing to broadcast more jīng lottery games.

At that time, the NBA's television promotion was developing rapidly, but it had not yet reached the point where every game in later generations had a broadcast signal, so only some strong confrontations would get broadcast opportunities.

And those most high-profile Mars collision battles can get the opportunity to broadcast live in the United States.

"This evening, at 7 p.m. PT, we will broadcast the Portland Trail Blazers' home game against the San Antonio Spurs, and viewers are welcome to tune in on time......"

"Spurs? Spurs must be great, right? But who are the Spurs? Certainly not Duncan... Will there be a ** Vicky......" Hearing the name Spurs, Gan Guoyang subconsciously thought that this was a strong team.

Because in Gan Guoyang's impression, since he started watching the NBA, the Spurs with Duncan have been as strong and stable as ever, and it seems that they will always be strong and stable.

So he thinks that the Spurs were probably a strong team in the 80s, otherwise how could they get a broadcast opportunity?

(PS: Don't think that NBA stars at the time were NBA jacks of all trades, Larry Bird couldn't even figure out how many championships Russell won when he entered the Celtics.) ）

Thinking about it like this, Gan Guoyang slowly fell asleep, which was one of the few times he slept late, but it was also a rare sleep in a state of complete relaxation.

The San Antonio Spurs certainly weren't as strong as Gan thought they were, and the team that merged out of the ABA reached its first peak in the late '70s and early '80s.

They reached the divisional finals in 1979, 1982 and 1983, and were one step away from the finals on several occasions, but ultimately fell short.

By the mid-eighties, at the start of the season, the Spurs were gradually entering a period of decline.

They signed veteran John Lucas last season to try to fight after losing the Western Conference Finals in 1983, but they didn't even make the playoffs.

This season, Lucas returned to Houston to find the place where his dream began, while the Spurs, who were a year older, slowly grew old in the knife of time.

However, they still managed a 50% win rate in their previous games and barely finished eighth in the West, on the fringes.

The next day, Gan Guoyang still got up early in the morning, and he had been getting up early for many years, and he had already formed a stubborn biological clock, and he would wake up on time no matter how late he slept it.

And Gan Guoyang didn't feel any discomfort, showing his strong physique, and that little wine jīng was not a problem at all.

Running to the training center as usual, Gan Guoyang thought that he would be the first again, but when he arrived at the center, he actually heard the sound of slapping the ball.

"Is it Clyde? He came before me? Gan Guoyang thought suspiciously, generally speaking, he was the first to arrive, and then the second to arrive was Drexler.

But when Gan Guoyang changed his clothes and came to the training ground, he found that it was Mitchell Sampson who was training on the field.

In Gan Guoyang's impression, Mitchell Sampson's participation in training is like a white-collar commute, not coming early or leaving a second early.

He always arrives on time for the assembly and leaves after a little strength training.

He did the same in the game, winning every game in 2010 and then his work seemed to be over.

He rarely hits the sky when other players don't play well, and he rarely plays particularly poorly, only scoring a few points and a few boards.

He's always been that steady.

The last game was one of the few games he didn't play well, and although the Trail Blazers won the game, he only had six points and four rebounds, and allowed opposing Larry Nance to score a game-high 26 points.

This is not the first time he has suffered in front of Nance.

What's more, he also lost to Gan Guoyang in the training heads-up the day before the game, and the game was out of order, which undoubtedly made Sampson, who has a strong self-esteem, feel disgraced.

So, before dawn today, Sampson came to the training center and sweated on the court alone.

It's been a long time since he came to the Trail Blazers.

In 1978, the Trail Blazers were lucky enough to get the No. 1 pick, having just won the NBA championship last season, and last season they reached the pinnacle of the team, topping the league in the regular season, and would have defended their title if it weren't for Wharton's injury.

The Trail Blazers took this No. 1 pick to acquire Sampson from the University of Minnesota, because in the Trail Blazers' view, the 6-foot-10 player has the function of 6-foot-11 Wharton and can replace Wharton during Wharton's injury.

At the same time, he has the ability of 6-foot-9 Maurice Lucas (the second contributor to the championship and the team's leading scorer) and can be used as a scorer at the power forward position when Wharton returns.

It seemed like a perfect and seamless choice, but Wharton ended up falling out with the Trail Blazers due to injury, requesting a trade and ending up with the Clippers.

And Sampson didn't show Wharton's amazing strength, maybe he was a little better than Morris Lucas, but he couldn't lead the Trail Blazers back to glory.

As the Trail Blazers' championship roster was gradually dismantled, Sampson eventually stayed and became the last veteran of the team other than Ramsey.

His ambitions when he first entered the league have long been wiped out by the brutal competitive game, and all he wants is to enjoy basketball, enjoy his position with the Trail Blazers, and enjoy the professional league with his Youwo life.

However, the arrival of Gan Guoyang disrupted Sampson's "peaceful" basketball life.

This guy has to compete for the first place everywhere, he is competitive in everything, even if he runs to take a shower after the game, this guy has to fight for the first to wash and the first to wash.

Although he did not target Sampson, his competitive spirit made Sampson feel the crisis.

The yellow-skinned boy seemed to be challenging him all the time, not carrying his bag, fighting for the ball on the field, shouting and directing everyone in training, and in Sampson's impression, this guy didn't look like a Chinese at all - he heard that the Chinese were all very well-behaved.

He felt that one day he would be kicked out of the position of "nominal boss" of the Trailblazers by Gan Guoyang - this pioneer did not seem to have a boss.

It's just that Sampson didn't expect that this day would come so quickly, and Gan Guoyang would defeat him with a heads-up in training so directly.

Although in the world of Chéng Rén, this kind of heads-up is nothing at all, in the arena, such one-on-one heads-up is by no means meaningless.

Sampson was sure that others could not think that Gan Guoyang had become the boss just because he lost the heads-up, but his Sampson's "majesty and status" had been greatly damaged.

So, he is showing with his actions that he can also come early, and he can also be the first to start practicing on the training ground.

Gan Guoyang looked at Sampson, whose clothes had been soaked with sweat, and had already guessed a few points in his heart.

If Gan Guoyang hadn't talked to Carl last night, he would have felt that it was Sampson fighting back against him, and Gan Guoyang would definitely invite Sampson to go head-to-head again, and then beat him again.

But now Gan Guoyang knows that Sampson is not trying to fight back against Gan Guoyang, but more importantly, he wants to prove to everyone that he is also a hard-working and talented player, and that other people's respect for him is worthy.

"Good morning, Mitchell." Gan Guoyang shouted at Sampson.

Sampson, who was shooting, was obviously stunned, he had already sensed that Gan Guoyang was coming, but he didn't expect Gan Guoyang to take the initiative to greet him.

"Good morning, Gan." Sampson replied lightly.

The two said these two words to each other early in the morning, but this is already a huge improvement, because this is the first time that Gan Guoyang has greeted Sampson in the morning training after coming to the Trail Blazers.

This is a good start, it is impossible to expect Gan Guoyang to immediately change his attitude and call Sampson a brother, Gan Guoyang is also a very proud person.

At the very least, the two of them have returned to their previous state of not affecting each other.

Of course, the other players didn't see this little episode, they arrived one after another behind Gan Guoyang, and they were a little surprised when they saw Sampson, but they instantly understood something.

After Ramsey arrived at the arena, the training officially began, and for the next game, Ramsey did some more training for xìng.

"Run, run! I'll let you run! You're going to have to get through the half as fast as the defenders! I haven't played a few games, are your legs weak? Ramsay yelled.

Today he didn't practice any special offensive or defensive tactics, and he patronized and shouted "Run!" during training. Run！ Run！ "That's it.

"Dead old man, you know to shout and run, if the coach only needs to shout like this, I can also be a coach." Gan Guoyang, who was driven like a donkey, slandered in his heart, but he still gritted his teeth and participated in the practice of rapid attack on the field.

He knew that Ramsey must have a reason for practicing this way.

"Very good, Gan, I hope that your jīng power is as abundant as it is today. Remember, when you face Gilmore tomorrow, you have to run more and don't just run to the low post, where you will use more energy. Ramsey said to Gan Guoyang, who stopped.

"Gilmore? Who is Gilmore? Gan Guoyang looked puzzled.

"Oh my God, I can know the basic situation of all the players in a week of watching the NBA, and you don't even know Gilmore, I really don't know what your brain is for!"

"I just want to defeat the others, and I don't care who the others are." Gan Guoyang bragged that he didn't pay taxes anyway.

"In the afternoon, I will take you to take a good look at his video, so that you can have a basic understanding, so that you can be a little mentally prepared. Alright, keep running, don't stop! ”

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