"What do you think of your performance with Jordan in this game? Do you think you will become opponents on the court in the future?"

"I was amazed by Jordan's performance. When he rushed to the basket, I could hardly stop him. He was so fast. Of course, my performance was not bad. The Bulls' inside line made me feel uncomfortable, maybe because it is the East. Fortunately, my teammates were even better and allowed us to win this game. I am very looking forward to the next game against Jordan, and I will welcome him in Portland."

This is a conversation between reporters and Gan Guoyang at the post-match press conference.

Since entering the NBA, the routine task at the end of each game is to accept media interviews.

Not only after the game, but after the training, before the game, the media has the right to go to the team's locker room to interview players and coaches.

Gan Guoyang is not a bad person, but he still doesn't like being asked around by a stranger before and after the competition. Until now, Gan Guoyang has no friends in the media circle.

However, the continuous victory made Gan Guoyang feel good. In addition, he is still a rookie and speaks beautifully, so media reporters are willing to interview him.

"The Trail Blazers' road trip has been held for two games, and you both won. What do you think about the next few games?"

"Uh... this is only my first year. I don't know many teams, especially the Eastern Conference teams. But I still have confidence. I think our team is very good. We have only lost two games so far." Gan Guoyang's answer is getting more and more smooth, and he doesn't easily catch the reporter's talk.

So far, the Trail Blazers have achieved a record of 13 wins and 2 losses, ranking first in the West and second in the league, second only to the defending champion Celtics.

The Trail Blazers were the third in the West last season, but they performed poorly in the playoffs and were eliminated by the Phoenix Suns in the first round and suffered a bad match.

Therefore, in the summer they had a major operation, which was exchanged for Van dervich, took Gan Guoyang in the draft, and reorganized the team's lineup.

At present, the players lost to Van der Vic have suffered a certain loss in the depth of the Trail Blazers, especially the thickness of the backcourt and defensive ability.

But Van dervic also brought strong offensive firepower, and the backcourt formed by him and Paxson made it inevitable that any team would lose sight of one or the other in defense.

Gan Guoyang, the second-tier player, has integrated into the team well and has become a member of this team. His scoring explosive power in the offense. In defense, he has gradually become the defensive gate in Ramsey's hands.

His biggest problem in the team at present is perhaps the issue of ball rights with Sampson, although the current position has been covered up due to his record.

After a day in Chicago, the Trail Blazers embarked on another journey to the next central city, Cleveland, Ohio.

However, after arriving in Cleveland, it happened to be a big American festival, Thanksgiving, so the competition was a day off in the Cleveland Trail Blazers.

In the hotel where I stayed, the Trail Blazers borrowed a lobby of the hotel to organize a team dinner to celebrate this important American festival.

"Come on, have a bite, the turkey is great."

"No, I don't like eating these fat and big guys who look like ostrich." Gan Guoyang hated eating turkey for some reason because he rejected Drexler's suggestion.

"Then try some of the famous marinated beef in Cleveland. This beef is amazing." Ramsey next to him recommended Cleveland's specialties to Gan Guoyang.

This is a good dinner. For NBA players, their diet must be controlled. In order to maintain good physical shape and athletic ability, a reasonable diet is necessary.

And rationality is often linked to unpalatable.

Fortunately, the drug tests in the NBA are not strict, so sometimes it doesn’t matter if you eat and drink too much.

In order to improve his football skills, Gan Guoyang has always lived a life like an ascetic, but when necessary, he will indulge his desires and eat a lot of money.

After the dinner, the players separated and most of them chose to go back to their rooms to rest. At this time, Cleveland was snowing, and there was nothing fun in this heavy industrial city.

Gan Guoyang did not go back to his room, but went to the only gym in the hotel to do some digestive exercises after meals.

There was no one else in the gym. Gan Guoyang took the key from the front desk, turned on the heating in the construction room, and started warm-up exercises.

In the 1980s, the physical fitness of NBA players was becoming more and more excellent. In the early 1980s, many players looked relatively weak, but in the middle and late stages, their muscles and sticks began to gradually increase.

At this time, Gan Guoyang was at the inflection point of time.

When setting the NBA 2004 value, Gan Guoyang set the power value of 83. This level has far exceeded the level of the times in the 1980s.

Gan Guoyang himself could also feel that his strength training was particularly effective, and the growth rate of muscle mass was not significant, but the bench press data rose sharply.

Gan Guoyang also knew in his heart that the talent of strength should be easier to discover. As long as he is willing to practice, his level will rise rapidly.

Logically speaking, Gan Guoyang's power has almost no opponents in the current NBA, and his skin color and body shape often deceive the opponent, making the opponent underestimate his power.

Jabbar, Sikma, and Walton have suffered losses in him. They did not expect that this kid would be unable to hold on if he wanted to bulldozer.

However, Gan Guoyang has always been striving for excellence. He felt that he had to develop all his strength and talent. From the game against the Bulls, he felt that the NBA confrontation was really very, very intense. Without the strength to be the foundation, no matter how good the skills were, it would be in vain.

Gan Guoyang looked at his increasingly sturdy arm, and there were blood marks left on it that were cut when he was playing against the Bulls.

Since he was the only one, Gan Guoyang did not do some heavy equipment practices, but started with yoga and relaxed his body.

Since he took a yoga class at UCLA, Gan Guoyang's yoga practice has not been lost. When he arrived at Gonzaga University, he still enrolled in a yoga class to increase his body flexibility.

Gan Guoyang has long limbs, but is not rigid, but soft and coordinated. Among them, the practice of yoga is indispensable.

All Gan Guoyang can practice Tiangou because of his coordination and flexibility. He can stretch and smooth movements in high confrontation, and match his good feel to achieve such an effect.

He found a mat from somewhere, and after warming up the room, he started to do yoga on the mat.

Yoga can not only exercise his body, but also exercise his mind and allow him to have a peaceful and calm mind, which is very important for players to perform at critical moments.

Just as Gan Guoyang closed his eyes and was sitting on the mat and breathing and relaxing, the sound of the door coming from the gym was the sound of opening the door.

Gan Guoyang's heart moved and thought that there must be a player coming in to do strength training like him. I don't know if it was Clyde or Cauchy. These two people were the Trail Blazers who stayed the most time in the gym except Gan Guoyang.

"Hello, Gan." Gan Guoyang did not open his eyes, but he heard the man greeting him. It was not Drexler, nor Cauchy, nor Van dervich.

"Hello, Sampson." Gan Guoyang opened his eyes and saw Mitchell Sampson in sportswear coming in from the door.

One of the differences between professional and college teams is that you can never have a good relationship with everyone on the team.

Gan Guoyang has a good relationship with several rookies in the same class. He is a good friend of Drexler who has been high for one year and has a good relationship with Van derwich.

Mitchell Sampson is one of the two people who are most unfavorable to Gan Guoyang - the other is Jim Parkson.

From the first day of the team's training, there was a little unhappy between Gan Guoyang and Sampson.

In NBA teams, whether you are the No. 1 pick or the last round pick, you are just a rookie. In senior teams, rookies mean serving veterans.

Carrying bags after training is the most common, but Gan Guoyang is unwilling to carry bags for anyone on the team, including Mitchell Sampson.

At the beginning of the season, half of the Trail Blazers' players were new players, so the old No. 1 pick Mitchell Sampson naturally became the nominal team leader.

But Gan Guoyang, the newcomer, completely ignored Sampson's request and left with his own things after the training, which made Sampson feel embarrassed.

When Drexler first arrived at the Trail Blazers last year, he also worked as a bag carry for a while.

Since then, there has been problems with the relationship between the two, and they don’t like each other.

As the season progressed, the two had deeper conflicts over the issue of ball rights.

Sampson can play in the center position just like Gan Guoyang. As the No. 1 pick in 1978, he has comprehensive basket skills, excellent defensive ability and rich game experience.

Since Bill Walton was traded due to injury, he has been the core of the Trail Blazers' inside offense and defense.

According to his original idea, the Trail Blazers chose Gan Guoyang to prepare for the future, and they can only serve as his support for the time being.

But he did not expect that after a few games, Gan Guoyang gradually became an indispensable inside pillar for the team, showing great energy on both offense and defense.

As a team that focuses on offense from outside and has a fast offensive rhythm, the Trail Blazers only have so many mobile phones in the interior, and Gan Guoyang and Sampson are obviously not enough to score.

Ramsey had long been aware of this problem, so in some games he deliberately suppressed Gan Guoyang's number of shots. On the one hand, he trained Gan Guoyang's support ability, and on the other hand, he also took care of Sampson's feelings and gave Sampson more offensive action.

But gold always shines, Gan Guoyang's strong desire to attack cannot be suppressed, and the explosive power he showed in the offense made Sampson unable to admit that this young man really has potential.

But as an old minister of the pioneer, he naturally couldn't stand young people like Gan Guoyang who "do not know how to respect the old predecessors".

Gan Guoyang seemed to have never shown any sign of bowing to him, and he rarely communicated with Sampson during training and competitions.

"Are you playing gymnastics again? The gymnastics prince?" Sampson said sarcastically when he saw Gan Guoyang doing yoga on the cushion.

On the Trail Blazers, every time Gan Guoyang practices yoga alone there, his teammates will laugh at him as a gymnastics practitioner and give him a nickname "Prince of Gymnastics."

Gan Guoyang didn't care. Anyway, he felt that it would work, so he kept insisting on it.

When Sampson said this, Gan Guoyang couldn't tell whether it was ridicule or something else, so he ignored him and continued to close his eyes and do yoga on the cushion.

In Sampson's eyes, his attitude turned into contempt for himself, and his face suddenly looked bad, but unfortunately Gan Guoyang couldn't see it.

Gan Guoyang did not deliberately fight Sampson. In fact, he admired Sampson's skills, especially when he was on the court against the Nets.

At that time, Gan Guoyang faced the old fried dough stick Gominsky, so he was fooled by Gominsky and could not find North. After Sampson came on the court, he immediately managed Gominsky to obey.

In that game, sitting on the sidelines watching Sampson and Gominsky fight, Gan Guoyang learned a lot, such as how to foul when facing Lao Youzi's defense.

When facing Korzin in the last game, Gan Guoyang adapted a lot and took advantage of the situation to beat Korzin.

However, since high school, Gan Guoyang has always been the leader of the team. When he arrived at UCLA, he had a bad relationship with the old players and eventually ran away.

When he arrived in Gonzaga, he successfully became the boss of the team with the support of Bellman and Stockton.

But the Trail Blazers are not Gonzaga. Every player here is an elite in the university, and Sampson is even the No. 1 pick. It is almost impossible for Gan Guoyang to be the boss as soon as he comes.

Of course, Gan Guoyang, who is used to being a boss, is not used to being a younger brother. He himself doesn't like the style of bullying newcomers. In college, he never lets newcomers do this and that for himself.

When he arrived in the NBA, he still adhered to this habit, insisted on his own approach, and treated everyone equally.

Therefore, the contradiction between these two Trail Blazers insiders who could have cooperated with each other and passed on each other is getting deeper and deeper.

After Gan Guoyang finished yoga, he performed another hour of auxiliary strength exercises alone. During this period, Sampson had no communication with him, and the entire gym seemed extremely depressing.

An opportunity that could improve the relationship between the two was missed, and the misunderstanding between the two arrogant players would only deepen.

The one-day Thanksgiving Day passed soon, and Gan Guoyang called Gan Youwei, who was far away in Jinzhou and Wang Fuxi, who was still in school. Apart from that, there was nothing to do. As a Chinese, he only had feelings for traditional Chinese festivals.
Chapter completed!