(I've returned from a mental hospital and my ideas have suddenly become much broader.)

On the third day after returning to Portland, after the adjustments, signing and press conferences two days ago, Gan Guoyang finally started to enter Portland's training camp and began his first NBA training.

Since joining Palo Alto's high school basketball team in the fall of 1981, basketball training has never left even one day in Gan Guoyang's life.

Whether in Palo Alto, San Francisco, in training halls, or in Gan Family Restaurants, Gan Guoyang will use various methods to exercise his ball skills.

Even during the Olympics in Los Angeles, when he went shopping with Wang Fuxi at night, Gan Guoyang must wear a hat on his head and a basketball in his backpack. He will take it out in places where there are not many people to practice his sense of ball.

Basketball is like a part of his body, no longer able to be separated from his life.

Since his father bought him the first basketball, he no longer knew how many basketballs he had broken. It was not that the basketballs were of poor quality, but that their working hours were too long and too intensive.

In high school, Gan Guoyang began to receive more professional basketball training. Bellman is also a basketball coach with excellent professional skills and solid theoretical knowledge. After arriving in college, Gan Guoyang's coach was still Bellman, but there were assistant coaches in college, and they would share Bellman's work tasks to guide the players' training.

Now, Gan Guoyang is finally getting involved in the world's highest-level basketball training content, which will be a new challenge for him.

So at six o'clock in the morning, Gan Guoyang woke up from his sleep, looked at the slightly bright sky outside the window, and prepared to go to the Trail Blazers to report to start his first team training.

The venue for this training is not anywhere else, but in the University of Portland gym, where the Trail Blazers opened a summer training camp.

Gan Guoyang had been to the University of Portland before and played there, and he performed well, so his nervousness decreased a lot.

Before getting up in Gan Guoyang, Gan Youwei got up early and started to make a nutritious and delicious Chinese breakfast for Gan Guoyang.

After eating the hearty breakfast made by my father, Gan Guoyang rejected Gan Youwei's suggestion that he wanted to drive himself to train. Obviously, Gan Youwei was no longer just caring about his son, he was addicted to driving.

Gan Guoyang thought that he must learn to drive in the future, otherwise he would always let Gan Youwei give him what he would look like.

Fortunately, the University of Portland is also in the northwest district of the city, not far from where Gan Guoyang lives. Gan Guoyang had stepped on it a little yesterday, and he was about to run to the training hall early this morning.

Although it was summer August, Portland was still a little chilling in the early morning. Gan Guoyang wore a gray sportswear and began to run on the straight streets of Portland.

In the three years since I came to the United States, Gan Guoyang would run outside for 20 minutes every morning. The streets of Palo Alto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Spokane, Salt Lake City, and Seattle have all the steps left by Gan Guoyang.

For him, a 20-minute run was a piece of cake, and his physical fitness would not improve too much, but he liked this feeling and felt the fresh and cold air in the mist every morning.

Whenever he runs on the streets of various cities, Gan Guoyang feels like he is integrated with this time and space.

Until today, he still cannot completely get rid of the time and space of the future. When he walks in the United States in the 1980s, he still feels like he lives in a movie.

Fortunately, it is in the United States, which is quite modern. If he still stays in China, the sense of time travel will be even stronger.

It's six o'clock now, and many Portlanders are still immersed in their dreams, but many have already gotten up because the Northwest of Portland is an entertainment district with many hotels and restaurants. These shops opened the door early and prepared to start their day.

Along the way, someone began to notice a big yellow-skinned man running on the road. He stepped out like an ostrich and swept across people who had not yet reacted like a wind.

In that era, there were no mobile phones and no Internet. If there were any photos of Gan Guoyang running might have been circulated on the Internet long ago.

Even so, in the newspaper the next day, the news of Gan Guoyang running on the streets of Portland in the early morning would still be featured in the local newspaper.

Soon, Gan Guoyang ran to the University of Portland. The school was still on holiday. In addition, it was morning, and only the sound of birds could be heard quietly on the campus.

"I don't know if the players from the University of Portland will train in it. If they are there, they will have to do a good job." Gan Guoyang thought evilly while walking towards the training ground.

In last year's West Coast League routine, the University of Portland Pilots gloriously achieved a record of 2 wins and 10 losses, ranking last in the league.

Their starting center is Daren Jenkins, who is only 6-foot-8, and he is also the team's scoring champion.

With such a height, it is naturally a dead end to meet Gan Guoyang. In both games, Jenkins was almost beaten to tears by Gan Guoyang and almost completely lost confidence.

In the summer, some teams often go to local university gyms to train, so that the university players can also take this opportunity to compete with professional team masters.

Thinking that if Jenkins saw himself in the stadium, that shocking look would definitely make people very happy, Gan Guoyang not only accelerated his pace.

"Bang~bang~bang~bang~bang!" When Gan Guoyang approached the arena, he heard the sound of basketballs coming from inside and the floor. There was indeed someone in the training hall.

However, judging from the sound of playing ball and footsteps, it seems that there is only one person.

Gan Guoyang ran into the stadium in two steps in three steps, wanting to see who came to the training hall earlier than him.

When Gan Guoyang entered the stadium and came to the sidelines, he saw a player wearing No. 22 red shorts and vest with a fluffy little explosive head running from the center line to the basket.

I saw that he had a very distinctive feature when dribbling. He lowered his head like an angry bull, and for such a long dribbling distance, he only used his right hand, just like the magician Johnson.

"Does this guy want to dunk?" Gan Guoyang thought to himself.

This guy is indeed going to dunk, but Gan Guoyang didn't expect him to jump so early and so far from the basket.

Free throw line starts!

Gan Guoyang saw the player's left foot and jumped up with one foot on the free throw line. No, it should be more appropriate to use flying.

In the air, his legs were bent backwards, his whole body was straight, and his hand holding the ball stretched forward and flew towards the basket.

Gan Guoyang was stunned because he found that the man flew in the air almost straight forward, rather than a parabola rising first and then falling.

"Bang!"

However, this free throw line that should have been extremely perfect, dunked, but failed because of the ball's loss. The ball hit the basket and bounced off, while the dunker hung on the basket.

"Fuck!" The dunker let go and fell from the basket and cursed. It seemed that the failure of the dunk this time made him very upset.

Gan Guoyang also used this to see the appearance of this black man, another black man who didn't look like a black man.

In the United States, where mixed races are very common, as long as there is a little black bloodline, it will be classified as black, which also makes many black people not look like their ancestors in Africa at all.

This man is the same. His tall nose bridge and wide square face look like an Anglo person, but his skin is really black, and he is an irrefutable person of color.

When Gan Guoyang saw his face, he knew who this was. He was someone he knew and looked forward to becoming a teammate.

"Hello, Clyde!" Gan Guoyang greeted him with a smile.

This man obviously had seen Gan Guoyang, but he turned a blind eye to Gan Guoyang's friendly greetings. He took back the basketball that had jumped far away from the side and returned to the basket to start shooting practice.

Gan Guoyang, who had a hot face and a cold butt, didn't care. He also vaguely understood why this guy was so cold to him.

He took off his sportswear and put it aside, preparing to join the training.

"Do you want to come to a bullfight?" The person who was still shooting suddenly said, and Gan Guoyang had just taken off his sportswear.

"No problem." Gan Guoyang has always been a visitor to bullfighting. Whether he wants to play against him is a 5-foot-11 small guard or a 7-foot-big center, he has the confidence to go one-on-one with the opponent on the basketball court.

The 22nd in front of him should be around 6 feet 6 to 6 feet 7, and he is a standard defender or small forward figure. Gan Guoyang obviously suffers another loss in such a single challenge.

"Let you do it first, rookie." No. 22 threw the ball to Gan Guoyang and set a defensive posture in the three-second zone.

Gan Guoyang smiled when he received the ball, but said nothing. He didn't want to have any conflicts with the other party in terms of language. It would be better to leave trash talk to other teammates.

Gan Guoyang skillfully started to move the ball near the three-point line with the ball with the ball. In order to train the NBA team, the three-point line had been drawn on the basketball court of the University of Portland, although the NCAA still did not introduce the three-point rule at this time.

The years of dribbling training, coupled with ball-sensing practice on the streets, and the one-on-one challenge with street ball experts on the streets made Gan Guoyang very confident in his dribbling.

He showed his outstanding and slightly fancy dribbling skills in front of No. 22, and at the same time he thought carefully about how to complete this attack.

Gan Guoyang decided to make a breakthrough from the front and rely on his own strength to gain space for projection. If it doesn't work, try to turn to a back-on attack.

So, Gan Guoyang accelerated suddenly, and broke directly from the familiar right side to the inside!

Gan Guoyang is 6-10 in height and the opponent is 6-6 in height, which is obviously smaller and flexible than Gan Guoyang. Even so, Gan Guoyang is still very confident in his dribbling breakthrough. He is a person who has competed with "hook" Mitchell on the streets of Auckland.

Sure enough, the opponent's strength is obviously not as strong as Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang's dribble is very skilled in supporting the ball, and he relies on his strength and impact to open a bloody road.

The other party was still close to him. Gan Guoyang knew that he could not shake the other party, but he already had room to make moves.

He pushed all the way to the three-second zone and was ready to directly hold the ball with both hands to make a layup!

When he got to the basket, as long as Gan Guoyang got up with the ball, an opponent's defender would definitely not be able to stop him.

The premise is that the ball is still in Gan Guoyang's hands.

When Gan Guoyang was halfway through, he found that the ball in his hand was hit hard. When he looked down, he found that the ball in his hand was gone.

It turned out that the other party knew it was difficult to fight against Gan Guoyang, so he deliberately did not fight against Gan Guoyang, but let him break into the basket. When he got up directly, he broke the ball.

Obviously, Gan Guoyang was too careless and thought that he would be his own world at the basket. As a result, he lacked the awareness of protecting the ball and was cut off by the opponent.

"You were too careless. The NBA and NCAA are completely different." No. 22 dribbled the ball to the outside line after intercepting the ball.

Gan Guoyang didn't expect that he would be defeated at the basket, so he also made a 12-pointer and wanted to give the other party some response.

Gan Guoyang had just calmed down and lowered his center of gravity to guard against one, but he found that the other party was rushing towards him with his head shut!

Gan Guoyang thought he would use his flexibility and speed to deal with him on the outside. He was ready for a sharp turn, but he didn't expect that the other party would accelerate in a straight line.

Gan Guoyang also encountered this situation when he was fighting with "hook" Mitchell. Mitchell wanted to force the attack with his own speed, but Gan Guoyang was very fast.

At the same time, Mitchell's strength gap with Gan Guoyang is too big, and he often cannot rush up and will be directly suppressed by the strong Gan Guoyang.

This time, facing the opponent's fierce rush like a locomotive, Gan Guoyang took a step back and began to adjust his pace, preparing to give the opponent a big hat and avenge the steal.

But Gan Guoyang thought of the beginning, but did not think of the process, nor did he think of the result.

The jump speed of No. 22 was so amazing. After a two-legged step, it bounced from the ground almost instantly. Gan Guoyang's bounce speed was not slow either, but as a defender, he was still a beat slower.

When he wanted to suppress the other party in the air and give the opponent a hot pot, he found that his body was actually falling backwards.

Gan Guoyang couldn't suppress the other party!

"Bang!"

The sound of the basket being slammed echoed in the empty gymnasium.

Gan Guoyang was still a little confused until he landed, and only the sound of dunking was echoing in his mind.
To be continued...