The morning training was spent in Ramsey's constant stops, corrects, guides, stops, corrects, and guides.

This is a fragmented training process, because in Ramsey's eyes, these rookies have problems with almost every move, and there are loopholes in every running position, and even Drexler is not spared.

This is also inevitable for rookies to enter the NBA, not to mention that the Trail Blazers meet a stubborn academic coach.

Gan Guoyang felt that the morning training benefited him a lot. He knew the correct posture of running, how to improve his shooting, and when blocking people, he should pay attention to the angle of the position and hand movements when defending fast attacks, and how to occupy a favorable position when defending one and two.

Of course, Gan Guoyang did not understand all these things, such as the positioning skills during defensive fast attack, which requires a lot of accumulation of game experience, but at least Gan Guoyang has begun to get started.

Ramsey also found that this Chinese second-tier Chinese learning ability was amazing. He had already begun to improve in just one morning of training. Some of Ramsey's guidance can always have immediate results.

Therefore, some of Ramsey's previous concerns about Gan Guoyang are gradually eliminating.

Gan Guoyang only studied in college for two years, but in the first year he did not play formal games because of transfer, which means that Gan Guoyang only had one year of NCAA experience, which made Ramsey worried that Gan Guoyang was not good at basic skills and his basketball IQ was not enough.

Gan Guoyang spent a morning to let Ramsey's doubts go away.

As a result, what made Ramsey even more trouble was that he discovered that Gan Guoyang was actually the same type as Drexler. He had his own set of ideas for playing basketball. When facing the situation on the court, he always made unreasonable choices, although the final result was not necessarily bad.

One Drexler is enough to make Ramsey uncomfortable. Gan Guoyang is here again. Ramsey is now one and two big.

Ramsey originally wanted to find a player like this: he had been guided by famous coaches in college, and had rich experience in four years of NCAA games. He was a selfless team player on the court, familiar with every detail of coaching tactics, and had strong personal abilities, and could dominate both offense and defense when necessary.

Bill Walton undoubtedly meets every condition of Ramsey. During his four years at UCLA, he won two NCAA championships through the guidance of famous coach John Wooden. He is known as the most passing center. He is the undisputed core of the entire team. He can resolutely execute coaching tactics. At the same time, his defense and his offense can always save the team from water and fire.

Of course, Bill Walton never makes people worry-free. He likes to dress like a hippie when he has something to do and takes his hair to march on the street to demonstrate. As his coach, he will be called by the police to get people by phone. During the offseason, he also likes to climb and camp, without caring about the physical harm caused by this.

But as soon as you get on the court, Walton is Ramsey's stabilizing needle.

Let’s look at Gan Guoyang again. This 6-foot-10 talented player is still a Chinese. Ramsey’s only impression of Chinese people in the past was Bruce Lee.

Gan Guoyang graduated from Gonzaga, Spokane. Although not far from Portland, Ramsey had never heard of this broken school. It is said that this year was their first time to enter the NCAA national championship and then won the championship with a full victory. It is indeed amazing.

Gan Guoyang's coach is said to be his high school coach, an unknown young coach. I heard that he has two tricks on defense, but on offense, it seems that his best tactic is "leave the ball to Gan!"

While practicing conducting ball training, Ramsey found that Gan Guoyang's basic passing skills were not solid. Although his long passes through the whole game were shocking, some of his simple passes and transmissions were not beautiful.

And Ramsey also noticed that Gan Guoyang liked to solve problems on the court. When running tactics, he often made some incredible choices, such as suddenly passing the ball behind his head, which caught his teammates off guard.

For example, when making high-level support, a 17-foot hook suddenly came, which made people stunned.

In other words, this guy Gan Guoyang is good at playing "fairy balls". If he plays it, he will be wonderful. If he can't play it, he will be in a fever.

This is unbearable for Ramsey, who emphasizes stability, tactics first, and requires rigorous and reasonable playing styles.

Of course, Gan Guoyang didn't know this. He didn't expect that the old man Ramsey had so many thoughts in his mind. He almost analyzed all the various characteristics of Gan Guoyang in just one morning.

On the contrary, he felt very happy because he learned a lot and he thought these rookie teammates were very good, especially Drexler, which made him extremely excited.

"Beep!" The assistant coach blew the whistle at the end of the morning training, starting from 8 am to 11 am, a total of 3 hours of training. It seemed that the time was not long, but it gave the 6 rookies a preliminary experience of professional basketball.

"Gentlemen, I think the three-hour training should have made you feel the fun of the NBA. You all did a good job. Although you can't say it's perfect, I can see your progress. As our reward for using the venue, we will conduct some confrontational training with the University of Portland players in the afternoon. I hope you can apply what you learned in the morning to the court." Ramsey made a simple summary of the morning training and arranged the afternoon content.

"It's true that we have to compete with the guys from the University of Portland!" Gan Guoyang couldn't help but feel excited when he thought of this. It's not that the players from the University of Portland are so powerful; it's not that they have any deep hatred with Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang just simply wanted to play the game. Since the end of the NCAA finals, he has not played a good game of even the most ordinary 5-on-5 match for four or five months.

After deciding to participate in the draft, Falk suggested that he should not play on the street or participate in various invitational tournaments casually. If he is injured, it is not a joke.

For this reason, Gan Guoyang has been enduring it for a long time.

But before that, we must first solve the problem of eating.

Like many American schools, the University of Portland has no walls and is integrated with the surrounding residential areas. As soon as it comes out of the school’s training hall, it is a civic street, and there is no place to eat.

In the NBA, players' meal problems are solved by themselves during training and games. The team only provides dietary advice and meal subsidies, and is not responsible for hiring a chef to cook for the players.

The 5 rookies, except for Gan Guoyang, all four of them live in apartments provided by Trail Blazers, and only the second-tier show is eligible to live in an independent house.

Drexler lives in a separate apartment in Portland Mountain Park, which is 108,000 miles from the University of Portland, but is very close to the Trail Blazers' own training hall.

"Hey, Clyde, go to my house for dinner." Gan Guoyang looked at the other four people going back to their residence to solve the problem of eating, and suggested to Drexler.

Drexler was worried about where to eat, but he didn't expect that this Chinese boy would invite him to have dinner at home.

Although the first time the two met, they sparked sparks and I would pay you back one if you locked me, but that was just a sudden rise from the young man.

After one morning of training, Drexler not only did not hate this Chinese big man, but on the contrary, he had a lot of favorable impressions about him.

Especially when Gan Guoyang silently fought against Ramsey on the court, shaking the old man's head angrily, Drexler felt that he was sharing the same hatred with Gan Guoyang.

In fact, this is just Drexler's illusion. Gan Guoyang did not go against Ramsey. He was just used to playing basketball according to his own ideas. Moreover, this way of playing basketball is quite effective, which made Ramsey helpless.

From this point of view, Drexler and Gan Guoyang are indeed the same type of players. No wonder Drexler appreciates Gan Guoyang.

Now Gan Guoyang invites Drexler to have dinner at home. Only very good friends in the United States will be invited to have dinner at home, and Drexler also readily agreed.

"No problem, but what can I eat at your house? Can I call a McDonald's?" Drexler asked

"Don't worry, my dad has already prepared the meal and is waiting for me at home." With Gan Youwei here, Gan Guoyang doesn't have to worry about what to eat.

So, Gan Guoyang rode a blue Ford Mustang from Drexler to his residence in Gan Guoyang.

In a country like the United States, it is very common to have a car. Drexler's Mustang is also an old style from the 1970s. It was once popular and is now retired.

According to Deluxler's first-year contract salary and commercial endorsement, buying such a used car is a piece of cake.

After arriving at home, Gan Youwei had already cooked the food and waited for his son to come back, but he didn't expect another one to come.

The two basketball players who are more than two meters tall naturally have a huge appetite, so Gan Youwei cooked a large pot of rice and fryed a few more dishes at the same time.

Gan Youwei, who had lived in Portland for a while, would already drive to the hypermarket to buy groceries by himself.

Drexler was so excited about this meal that he always ate some nutritious and tasteless Western food. He suddenly ate the authentic Huaiyang cuisine made by Gan Youwei, and he wanted to swallow all the plates.

Moreover, Drexler quickly learned to use chopsticks, which made Gan Youwei highly appreciated.

After dinner, Gan Guoyang had a chance to have a good chat with Drexler, the senior, about the NBA.

After coming to the United States, Gan Guoyang met many NBA superstars, and some people who will become famous in the future have become Gan Guoyang's opponents.

Now he is able to get along with or even compete with these future basketball idols with a normal attitude because he knows that he is one of them.

Drexler talked about many interesting NBA stories that Gan Guoyang didn't know, and also talked about the difficulties he encountered in his rookie season. Of course, complaints about Coach Ramsey are indispensable.

After hearing Drexler's words, Gan Guoyang began to understand that perhaps his own way of playing ball was also not liked by Ramsey.

"No matter how hard he can win, it will be useless no matter how much the coach doesn't like it, right? And I think Mr. Ramsey is a great guy and can learn a lot from him." Gan Guoyang said.

"Yes, Ramsey is indeed a great coach, but maybe he is not suitable for me, I still miss Coach Lewis even more." Drexler had a headache when he thought of the coaching problem. He was very worried that he would be traded this season.

When talking about Lewis, Gan Guoyang remembered the big nose and big face standing on the opponent's bench in the NCAA Finals, like a Slavs head coach.

By the way, Gan Guoyang also remembered Bobby Bellman, his mentor, and his godfather.

The reason why Drexler and Gan Guoyang formed the current playing habit is closely related to the way these two coaches teach.

Coach Lewis likes to play "open-court" on the court, that is, open-court attack, which fully develops the scoring ability and creativity of the team's outside players, and also makes Drexler accustomed to making offensive choices based on the situation on the court.

Coach Bellman gave Gan Guoyang enough power on the offensive end. When necessary, Gonzaga University's offensive choice is in Gan Guoyang's hands rather than Stockton's hands. This also trained Gan Guoyang's ability to solve problems alone, because Bellman's offensive routines are really pitiful.

Two players with different positions but similar basketball styles talked together. Gan Guoyang found that although Drexler was passionate and unrestrained on the court, he spoke appropriately and behaved gentlemen off the court.

Even complaining makes people sound more like suggestions.

Drexler also felt that although Gan Guoyang was a foreigner, he spoke humorously and had a lot of witty words. His views on many issues even exceeded his scope of understanding, making him wonder whether this guy was a basketball player or a newspaper commentator.

This pleasant dining and conversation completely broke the gap and conflict between the two when they met, and they quickly became a very good friend.

After a while, the two arrived at the University of Portland in a car together. The two of them, who had a lot of conversations along the way, looked like friends who had been dating for many years.

As Ramsey said, the afternoon training was a game against the University of Portland players. In addition to the college players, some NBA undrafters came here to try their luck.

Gan Guoyang indeed saw Portland's number one player Hawkins on the court, and Hawkins could only smile bitterly when he saw him.

Hawkins was already abused by Gan Guoyang in the previous West Coast League games. I thought this guy would breathe a sigh of relief after going to the NBA, but I didn't expect him to come to Portland!

The two sides warmed up a little and quickly got the group together to start a simple 5-on-5 match.

Coach Ramsey did not make specific arrangements for these six rookies, but said that he hoped that the players could use some of the things they learned in the morning to the game.

There was no suspense in the game process. The Portland rookie team with Gan Guoyang and Drexler made the Portland University pilot team unable to find the North, and they didn't need tactics at all.

Later, Gan Guoyang and Drexler began to give up their attacks and kept passing the balls on the court. They didn't seem to be playing basketball, but instead played table tennis.

No one wants to attack after getting the ball, and they always pass the ball to others. In addition, they pass the ball in the back of their heads. Drexler even passes the ball under his crotch.

Ramsey, who stood aside and watched the two perform like monkeys, could no longer bear it and shouted at the field: "You two damn guys will throw that ball around and randomly, and I will throw you out of the stadium and into the trash can!"

The people on the court were stunned for a moment, because Coach Ramsey was a harsh but rigorous old-school coach, and trash talk never existed in his basketball dictionary.

Obviously, the performance of these two guys was about to drive the old man crazy. Gan Guoyang, who was also shocked, was still holding the ball in his hand and was about to pass it back to Deluxler on the outside.
Chapter completed!