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Chapter 253 The real opponent

The next day, Gan Guoyang came to the training ground of the New York Knicks again, but this time he did not come to participate in the training match of the Chinese team, but watched the friendly match between the Chinese team and the New York Knicks while training.

In yesterday's game, Gan Guoyang practiced his turnover jump shot with great pleasure. He hardly used the hook that he was good at, but seized this opportunity to hone his jump shot skills in actual combat.

So, when the Knicks players came late and saw that in addition to some thin Chinese players in the field, there was a familiar guy there practicing turnover jump shots, and some players couldn't help but have a short circuit in their minds.

"Hey look, isn't that guy Gan? Fuck this guy is also from the Chinese team?" Knicks' shooting guard Butch Carter said to Pat Cummins beside him after seeing Gan Guoyang.

"Oh my God, playing with this guy is really not fun at all." Cummins, as the Knicks' center, was often abused by Gan Guoyang during the team's game to Portland.

Gan Guoyang also saw the Knicks players wearing blue sportswear walking in. The one who walked in was Butch Carter.

The Knicks players did not come this time. Needless to say, Bernard King is most of the other players are also on vacation, and the players have a relationship with the team, and they have no affiliation. Therefore, the players who gathered the team this time are mainly in the name of training camp.

"Hey, dear Miss Butch, I'm glad to see you." Gan Guoyang walked to Carter with the ball and said hello to him.

Butch means lesbian in English. In the game against the Knicks, Gan Guoyang used this to mock Butch Carter.

After hearing this, Carter could only smile. Now most players in the NBA league have more or less experienced Gan Guoyang's trash talk, and most of the time they can only swallow their anger.

"You are so Gan, why? Do you want to play a warm-up match on behalf of your country?" Cummins also came forward and shook hands with Gan Guoyang.

"No, I'm just here to play and practice my new skills by the way." After Gan Guoyang finished speaking, the Knicks players were obviously relieved when they looked at the mountain. They were mainly substitutes this time, and maybe they were abused by Gan Guoyang.

"So you don't have to worry, especially you Cummins... By the way, use your strength well and don't give my compatriots face. I think they need to experience the gap with the NBA."

Gan Guoyang didn't want to see the Chinese team make a fool of themselves, but he knew that Chinese players need to feel the difference between them and the world's top teams.

Although Gan Guoyang taught them some lessons yesterday, no matter how powerful Gan Guoyang was, he was just a person. Later, the Chinese team's outside operation was still quite smooth.

In fact, a very big problem for the Chinese team is the lack of physical, strength and pressure resistance in the back line. Although the Knicks are not a strong team and the outside defense is also on the one hand, it is enough for the Chinese team's defender to have a good taste.

In addition to the Knicks' players, the NBA also sent Chicago Bulls' assistant coach Ed Badger and former Nets head coach Bill Boole as technical coach for this training camp.

These two people are not well-known in NBA history, but as basketball workers who can gain a foothold in the NBA, they must have two tricks, and they also represent the most advanced basketball training concepts at present.

Unlike yesterday, there were many reporters in the training hall today, and they came to promote the training camp with cameras.

Gan Guoyang naturally became the biggest star in the training hall. The reporters pointed the spotlights and microphones at him and began to ask some questions endlessly.

The most asked questions was whether Gan Guoyang would represent the Chinese team in international competitions.

Gan Guoyang was too lazy to answer this kind of idiotic question, and finally he couldn't help but say: "I will only consider playing for the national team after I win the championship... And NBA players are not allowed to participate in international games now."

However, the second half of Gan Guoyang is considered a waste of time, and the title of the newspaper tomorrow will be concentrated on his first half.

After the friendly match started, the reporters finally began to focus on the game, but after a while, they lost interest in the game again.

Because the game is so one-sided.

Yesterday, when there was only one Gan Guoyang, the Chinese team could still rely on conducting the ball to establish local advantages. However, facing a whole team composed of NBA players, it was really a flock of sheep that encountered a pack of wolves. They didn't even have the ability to resist in groups and were completely defeated by each one.

When the Knicks defended with all their might, it was very difficult for the Chinese team to even dribble through the half. Sun Fengwu, who is a top-ranked point guard in China, is similar to a high school student in front of American professional players.

Coach Qian Chenghai, who was standing by, shook his head when he saw it. At this time, Coach Qian also understood that even if Gan Guoyang came to play for the Chinese team, China Blue Flag still had a long way to go if he wanted to enter the forefront of the world.

No matter how awesome your center forward is, what's the use of the defender who can't even play the ball in half? Could it be that Gan Guoyang will even play from defender to center forward?

Obviously, this is a one-sided torture and a real "teaching training match". Gan Guoyang felt a little unbearable to see it. When he thought that the Chinese team would play six such games later, including the Bulls with Jordan, he thought that the Chinese team would be a mistake in training in the United States this time.

"Mr. Boole, which teams behind will play against the Chinese team?" Gan Guoyang asked Bill Boole, who was standing next to watch the game seriously.

"Oh, there are the Chicago Bulls, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Indiana Pacers, the New Jersey Net, the Washington Bullet... Well... By the way, there are the Philadelphia 76ers!" Bill Bull thought for a while and replied.

"Oh my God, there are Philadelphia 76ers. I wonder if Moses will tear the Chinese team apart... No, Moses will also invite me to Houston for training. I wonder if he will come. Clyde is also in Houston. It seems that I should go to Texas in a few days." Gan Guoyang's thoughts have already floated to Houston in the south, where Moses Malone and Olajuwon are waiting for him.

The game ended soon, and the Chinese team lost the game without any suspense.

However, coach Qian Chenghai was still quite calm. Perhaps Gan Guoyang's performance had already given him a vaccination yesterday. He continued to dispatch troops during the game, not to save the situation, but to send all the players to the court to experience the intensity of the NBA game.

In the next few days, Gan Guoyang returned to the training hall every day to train with the Chinese team. Of course, he mainly practiced his turnover jump shot and adjusted his physical condition by the way.

By the end of June, the second NBA team arrived, and it was the Chicago Bulls led by Michael Jordan.

In fact, Jordan didn't really want to come. He felt it was boring to go here to play against the Chinese team, but when he heard that Gan Guoyang was also there, he still agreed to the league's invitation.

But what disappointed him was that Gan Guoyang did not play on behalf of the Chinese team, which made Jordan a little listless when playing against the Chinese team.

Even so, Jordan also allowed the Chinese defenders to see the strength of the Flying Man. No matter how hard Lu Jinqing tried to guard against Jordan, he was always regarded as nothing by Jordan, and he often passed easily with an acceleration - the gap in physical fitness is indeed too big.

However, Lu Jinqing's desperate and never admits defeat, has infected Jordan and made Jordan correct his attitude and play this training match well.

The final outcome is naturally the same as in the last game, and another "I didn't use my strength, you fell down" game.

After the game, Chinese players all stepped forward to take photos with Jordan, which really made Gan Guoyang envious. It seems that he, a Chinese star, is not as famous as Jordan in China.

Lu Jinqing, who had been fighting against Jordan on the court, also received Jordan's respect. Jordan gave his Air-Jordan sneakers as a souvenir gift.

The real good thing about training that day was in the training after the game. Jordan finally had the opportunity to face Gan Guoyang head-on. He launched a one-on-one bullfighting challenge to the guy who was also wearing Nike sneakers.

Such a scene naturally made the reporters on the scene burst into blood, and they picked up the cameras in their hands and started taking pictures of the two of them.

Gan Guoyang never refuses such a challenge. Even if he suffers a loss in a single challenge as a center, even if he faces Jordan, he is not afraid at all - he just likes such a showdown.

The two most shining stars of the 1984 rookies use the most direct way on the basketball court to get a point.

Of course, since you could not bring a camera or a video recorder when you entered the training hall at that time, except for the reporter's photos, there was no video of two people fighting one-on-one bullfighting.

But according to Song Tao's later recollection, "This is the most exciting and exciting one-on-one bullfight I have ever seen. I never thought that a player's basketball skills could be so superb, let alone that a center can play like this."

And this bullfight had no final result. Everyone forgot to score as they watched. Jordan and Gan Guoyang no longer care about the scores, but simply wanted to continue fighting.

It was not until Coach Badger felt that he could not continue to fight like this, and if he continued to fight, he would stop training for others.

"Gan, next time we find an opportunity to decide the winner. How about tonight?" Jordan sat on the bench on the sidelines and said to Gan Guoyang while drinking water.

"There will be a chance, but it's not a winner, but it's a chance to understand that I'm the winner... But it won't work tonight. I'm going back to Oregon tonight. Next I will go to Houston. If you are interested, you can come to Houston." Gan Guoyang said gasping.
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