Updated: 2013-10-19

(I don't have time for something today, so the two chapters were sent together.) ）

Gan Guoyang never thought that when he returned to UCLA again, he would stand in this beautiful campus in such an capacity.

However, it is now winter, and the lush grass and green trees on the campus have begun to turn yellow and lose their leaves, and the whole campus is cold in the wind.

Gan Guoyang sat on the bus, looking at the scenery that had not yet disappeared from his memory, and there was a trace of sigh in his heart, lamenting the impermanence of life.

Originally, he also wanted to create his own era in this school, and be able to write his own rich and colorful stroke in the glorious history of UCLA like Abdul-Jabbar and Wharton.

"Come to think of it, maybe I'm still too naïve, right?" Gan Guoyang leaned against the cold window glass, recalling the bits and pieces he experienced here.

Gan Guoyang is a person who insists on himself and never compromises easily, but at the same time, he is also a person who is good at reflection and is good at summarizing.

Because of his persistence and resentment, he left this university that many people yearn for; When he returned to this place, as an adversary, he did not hold hatred, but looked at this not-so-good memory with a more mature eye.

To this day, Gan Guoyang still doesn't like that coach Larry Famar, his face like Squidward is Gan Guoyang's eternal disgust, so that as long as Gan Guoyang sees a guy with a big long face, he will feel unhappy.

But he doesn't hate Famar now, the two of them belong to pure evil, and it does not involve character damage and hidden arrows to hurt people; On the contrary, although Famar did not allow Gan Guoyang to play, the guidance and training amount that should be given in training were not discounted, and more importantly, because of Famar's disappreciation, Gan Guoyang had the opportunity to be coached by Bellman again.

Seon lost his horse, but he didn't know if it was a blessing.

In Gan Guoyang's view, only Bellman can truly understand his own characteristics and personality, and can devote himself wholeheartedly to the work of carving Gan Guoyang without prejudice.

Gan Guoyang knows that in a college team, all the players are the elite in high school, and if you want to use a yellow-skinned transfer freshman as the tactical core in the team, how many difficulties and obstacles need to be overcome?

Luckily, as a new coach with no college coaching qualifications, Bellman withstood the pressure from the veteran players and the school authorities, risking losing his job as soon as he was employed, and insisted on establishing Gan Guoyang as a core in the team, even if he couldn't play a single official game in his first year.

And Gan Guoyang also used his tireless training, excellent performance in the team's training games and warm-up games to subdue those unconvinced veteran players one by one, including John Stockton - he was the first veteran player to support Gan Guoyang in the team.

After a dull season in 1982-1983, the Gonzaga Bulldogs finally ushered in the lifting of the ban on the main center Gan Guoyang in November 1983, and Bellman's carefully built lineup was finally inlaid with the last and most important piece of the puzzle, and this year's NCAA will not be peaceful.

"Whew, the air outside is really good, but UCLA's campus is still so big, I used to transfer to Gonzaga because it was so big!" The bus drove for a while before stopping at UCLA's main gymnasium. Gan Guoyang got out of the car, breathed in some cold air, and began to joke again.

"It's really big enough here, it's not like Gonzaga just spun around and walked away." Teammates talked.

"Yes, and it's beautiful, it's further south, and it's a Mediterranean climate with wet winters, and the trees haven't turned bare."

"Oh my god John, you should be a geography teacher, why do you have to come to school to play basketball?"

"Hey girls, we're not here to visit UCLA's campus, if you want to, then please let former UCLA players, Sunshine Fools, lead you on a UCLA day trip after the game. The premise is that tonight's game is a fucking win for me, and I don't want your visit to be a parade after you lose. Bellman also got out of the car and heard the players talking about the scenery there, and he was decisive to spray.

"Don't worry, Mrs. Bellman, I still have a little affection for this place, but I promise I won't bring him to the court, and I'll make them look good tonight." Gan Guoyang responded, thinking to himself that although he did not hate UCLA and Famal, he would never let go of this opportunity to take revenge on them, for which he had been waiting for a year.

"Pack up your things...... Gan, I have good news for you now, and I think you'll be very happy to hear it. At this time, Bellman walked next to Gan Guoyang, stretched out his arm to put his arm around Gan Guoyang, and said to him mysteriously.

"Unless you tell me that the night game will give me unlimited fire, I don't think it's good news." Gan Guoyang lowered his head and heard Bellman's words, smiled and said.

Unlike in high school, Bellman is now starting to tightly control Gan's shots, which in Bellman's words means that Gan must learn more ways to control the game in ways other than scoring, even though he has done a good job before.

"No, don't even think about that. I mean, have you ever looked at UCLA's roster? Bellman asked.

"Oh, I know all those guys at UCLA, Jackson, Gray, Knight, ah, and ......" Gan Guoyang reported a bunch of names, all of which were his former teammates.

"No, no, no, UCLA has a new batch of players this year, including a guy named to the McDonald's All-Star team named Montel Hatcher. But there's one more person you're definitely interested in. Bellman said.

Gan Guoyang then remembered that UCLA recruited another batch of freshmen this year, and I heard Bellman say that the quality of this batch of freshmen seems to be very good.

"Who the hell is it, Mr. Bellman?" Gan Guoyang seems to have some clues in his heart.

"Reggie Miller." Bellman's mouth spat out the name, the name that made Gan Guoyang depressed and tangled for a whole summer.

After graduating from high school in 1983, Reggie Miller came to UCLA University as he wished, becoming a member of this legendary school.

"Oh my God, that's a fucking joy. I think I'm going to have to celebrate with a win tonight. When Gan Guoyang heard this name, he had mixed feelings in his heart.

Gan Guoyang recalled that summer, also in Los Angeles, watching Miller, No. 31 throw a stunner in front of him, dashing his and the entire Vikings' hopes of winning the championship in an instant.

Now Reggie Miller is at UCLA! It's really a combination of new and old hatreds.

Gan Guoyang and Bellman said this side by side, and they had already walked to the main gymnasium, where Gan Guoyang had been here many times, but had never been on the field.

"It's still so grandiose, powder blue, gold, it's dazzling." Gan Guoyang entered the gymnasium and looked at the decoration of the stadium and said.

Powder blue and gold are the main colors of UCLA, which looks bright and luxurious. In comparison, the navy blue color of the Gunzaga Bulldog is much darker.

Back here, as an opponent, Gan Guoyang had a strange feeling.

Although the arena was still very empty at this time, he still remembered that when he played at UCLA, the tsunami-like cheering and cheering in this full stadium made him sigh at the warm atmosphere of basketball here.

Gan Guoyang once imagined that in this arena, like Abdul-Jabbar and Wharton, as the king of UCLA, he would accept the worship and cheers from thousands of fans, lead the Bruins to defeat one strong opponent after another, and lift the NCAA championship trophy in the rain of pink blue and gold colored flowers.

But now, he can no longer get the cheers of UCLA, and he may even be booed and cheered by countless cheers, because he has been defined as a "traitor" by the UCLA basketball team.

"Traitor? Hehe. Gan Guoyang thought of some of the words written in the postcard sent to him by Qian Moss, and the anger in his heart surged in this cold weather.

After Gan left UCLA, Chammos saw the letter that Gan Guoyang had left for him. Gan Guoyang did not expect that Qian Mos would be able to reconnect with him later, and often send a few postcards to introduce his current life.

Although in these postcards from various places in the United States, Chammos mainly recounts where he picks up girls, surfs or skies, but he occasionally mentions some UCLA things.

For example, after Gan Guoyang left school and dropped out of school, and quit the basketball team, the basketball team regarded Gan Guoyang as a negative example, and the players often ridiculed him in some on-campus interviews after the game, and called him a "traitor".

Gan Guoyang admitted that he did leave UCLA on his own initiative, but it was not so much that Gan Guoyang betrayed UCLA, but that the UCLA basketball team was always unwilling to accept Gan Guoyang, which led to his departure.

At least, this is just a "good gathering and good dispersion" caused by mutual inappropriateness, and neither side owes anyone.

Gan Guoyang thought of the veterans of the first team, who had never looked at him, but he didn't know if some of them had graduated, if they graduated, count them lucky, if not, they should be good-looking.

"Oh, look who's here? It's our UCLA hero, Sunshine Idiot! Just as the Bulldogs were warming up on the field and preparing to start pre-game training, their opponents, the owners of the arena, the UCLA Bruins, also arrived, accompanied by a sneer.

"Hello, Gan, in such a cold winter day, the sunshine and warmth you have brought us, I hope you can bring us a victory, it will be better. Hahahaha~"

The one who spoke was Gray who saw Gan Guoyang as soon as he entered the door, this guy had the deepest grudge with Gan Guoyang, and at the same time he was in the same position, and when he saw this yellow-skinned boy again, he naturally wanted to say hello in his mouth.

"Shut up and save some strength and wait for the night to be abused." Gan Guoyang replied coldly, for a miscellaneous fish like Gray, he didn't even have the enthusiasm to spew two more words of trash talk.

Gan Guoyang's gaze and attention were all locked on an inconspicuous thin pole, wearing No. 31, an inconspicuous Reggie Miller in the crowd of the Bruins.

So much so that when Famar came to greet him, he didn't react immediately.

"Gan, Gan?"

"Huh? It's Mr. Famar, hello, long time no see. Gan Guoyang heard someone shouting about himself, and it took him a long time to react and find that it was Larry Famar, a big-faced octopus goth.

"Hello Gan, I don't know how you are in Gonzaga, I hope tonight's game is exciting enough." Famar is very polite, after all, he is a coach, not an impulsive stunned boy.

"No problem, Mr. Famar, I don't think I'll let you down." Gan Guoyang replied with a smile, his words still made people feel that there was something in the words.

Sure enough, there were two types of people who couldn't pee in a pot, and Famal was choked by Gan Guoyang's words again, so he naturally didn't want to say anything more to him, so he walked to Bellman and exchanged a few words with Bellman.

The cross-league invitational tournament does not affect the records of the two sides in their respective leagues, so the atmosphere between the two teams is relatively friendly.

Second-team players like Knight, who had a good relationship with Gan Guoyang in the past, also came over from time to time to exchange and joke with Gan Guoyang, of course, they are now considered first-team players.

From Knight's mouth, Gan Guoyang learned some about the recent situation of UCLA, such as if their results do not break through this season, then Coach Larry Farmar is very likely to leave.

In last year's NCAA competition, UCLA finally made it to the top 48 of the country and received a first-round bye to enter the round of 32.

But in the 32-16 game, he lost to the University of Utah 67-61 and was eliminated in the first game.

Although Famar had a pretty good run in the regular season, UCLA's lack of superstars and the lack of on-the-spot coaches were exposed in the brutal knockout rounds. This also puts Famar's position in jeopardy.

Another piece of news that intrigued Gan was that Kevin Johnson had joined the University of Southern California.

In this year's California High School League, Johnson led the Sacramento Dragons to the state championship and won the title of California High School League Scoring Champion and California High School Basketball Man.

However, there is little interest in this "underdog" Gan Guoyang, although USC is also a team in the Pacific 10 League and is also in Los Angeles, but it is not in the planned ranks of the Gonzaga University Invitational Tournament.

At this time, what Gan Guoyang wanted to find most was Reggie Miller. So, he took the ball and swayed around the half-court middle circle, where Miller was practicing his shooting from the perimeter.

"Reggie! Long time no see. Gan Guoyang shouted.

"Long time no see, Gan." Miller looked back.

After a few words of greeting between the two players who only had one game but were impressed by each other, Gan Guoyang suddenly approached Miller and whispered to him:

"I never forgot that loss."

"I know, I know you won't forget, but so what?"

"What I lost, I'm going to get back someday."

"How? Drop out of school and go back to high school for another year and play in the high school league again? ”

"No, it's not the championship that I'm losing, it's the confidence and the dignity, so today I'm going to get them back completely. You'd better wash your ass and wait for me. ”

"I will, but not necessarily who kicks whom's ass."

"Good luck, Hemp Pole Reggie."

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