The final of the Olympic men's basketball team is scheduled to be held on the last day of the Olympic Games match day, with the final between two socialist countries, the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia.

However, the relationship between these two countries is not much better than that between the United States and the Soviet Union. The two basketball teams have been fighting for a long time in the European arena. In the first game of the Olympics, the Soviet Union was hit hard by Yugoslavia. He lost with a big score of 79:92 and only won the second place in the group. This is also the reason why the Soviet Union encountered the United States in the semi-finals.

But no one expected that the Soviet Union would advance to the finals on the body of the United States, which caught Yugoslavia, who was ready to fight against the United States, off guard before the game. In the final, he was hit by the Soviet Union with a strong agitated moment. 76:63, when the referee blew the whistle to the end of the game, the Soviets defeated their opponents.

In fact, the strength of this Yugoslavia is very strong. There are three people in it that even Gan Guoyang know, namely Divac, Kukoc and Petrovic. Among them, Petrovic is also one of the goals of the pioneers. Inman hopes that he can fill the vacancy left by Van dervich.

But Gomorsky is indeed too cunning. It can be said that fighting the United States in the semi-finals is one of Gomorsky's strategies. He hopes to pull the United States off when the United States is most likely to underestimate the enemy in the semi-finals. Otherwise, if it encounters the United States in the final, the United States will never be careless. It will not be so easy to defeat the United States at that time.

Now, his strategy is the most important and most difficult step. The Soviet Union, which entered the finals later, has completely overwhelmed Yugoslavia in its momentum, so even if Yugoslavia has so many talented young players, it cannot stop Sabonis from leading the Soviet Union to the throne of Olympic champion.

Gan Guoyang watched the Soviets standing on the podium and played the Soviet anthem "Unbreakable Alliance" in the stadium. He couldn't help but sigh that such a country will soon be destroyed in the dust of history, and as athletes, they will no longer be a close and united team as the country disintegrates.

In this regard, Gan Guoyang Energy can only watch coldly. People know that he is only focused on playing well now, and everything else is not under his consideration.

The next day, before the closing ceremony of the Olympics, the Soviet team held a small celebration for their championship. As the team's number one hero, Sabonis left the Olympic village after the celebration banquet and took a bus to their team's training hall.

In addition to Sabonis, Gomorsky also brought four other players, all of whom were the starters of the Soviet team, including the main defender Matthew Leonis. I don’t know what they were going to the training hall after the game.

When we arrived at the stadium, there were already people waiting for them.

"Hello, Mr. Gomorski, hello, Avidas..." Entering the training hall, he greeted Gan Guoyang, who was wearing sportswear. Compared with two years ago, his arms were much thicker, but his muscles did not look very exaggerated, but they were plain but full of strength.

Sabonis had been to Portland as early as 1986. At that time, Gan Guoyang was injured in the finals, so he also became the target of the Trail Blazers to go for a trial. However, Gan Guoyang had already gone to Santa Barbara for arm injury treatment at that time, and the two passed by like this.

Now, Sabonis, who is 7-foot-2 tall and has just won the highest honor of Olympic basketball and is one head taller than Gan Guoyang, stood in front of Gan Guoyang, but seemed a little restrained. He responded in less standard English: "Hello, Gan, I'm glad to see you."

You should know that in the European basketball world, Sabonis, wearing No. 11, can be said to be Caesar in the basketball world, but in everyone's mind, the No. 11, who often appears in TV and video, is the real Sun God in the basketball world.

This year, the NBA and European leagues held the "McDonald's Championship" championship challenge, and the competition was located in Europe. The Portland Trail Blazers represented the NBA to face the Israeli team Tel Aviv Maccabi.

Maccabi is not at a disadvantage in the history of playing against the NBA team. As early as 1978, they defeated the Washington Bullets and defeated the New York Knicks in 1984.

Although the NBA team did not give their all their strength was the main reason for their victory, Maccabi's performance is also worthy of pride.

However, this time, the NBA alliance issued an order, requiring the Trail Blazers to fight with all their strength, because Stern hopes that the gap between the two sides will be as big as possible, so that the European market can be opened and the audience will focus more on the NBA on the opposite side of the Atlantic.

So, after discussions before the game, the entire Trail Blazers team sent the ball to Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang felt hot and hot. He made 49 of 66 shots in the game, and slashed 113 points in the game against Maccabi - one more point than Petrovic scored in a league game in 1985.

This game caused great controversy, because looking at the scene, the Trail Blazers player passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang hooked up, and made the Trail Blazers player passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and made the jump shot to Gan Guoyang; the Trail Blazers player passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang made the three-pointer, and made the score.

Some people think this is not a basketball game, it is a massacre, an insult to basketball. Even Stern called afterwards to tell Gan Guoyang, saying, "You are too much."

But the shock brought by this game was unparalleled, allowing Europeans to truly experience the gap with the top NBA team. You should know that Maccabi is not a weak team in the Yugoslav domestic league, but a European team that has defeated the NBA team. But in front of the Trail Blazers, they look similar to a high school team.

Gan Guoyang's name has also spread throughout the European basketball world. This game even went on the CCTV News Network in China at that time. Gan Guoyang's name began to be well-known to the people of his own country.

Because of this, Sabonis felt a little restrained and nervous when he saw Gan Guoyang. Several other players from the Soviet Union were also cautiously shook hands with Gan Guoyang.

"First of all, I want to congratulate you on winning the Olympic championship. This honor may be a bit difficult for me. I envy you very much." Gan Guoyang said to these Soviet players with the ball.

These players are all in good English, especially Sabonis has been to the United States for a while and has practiced English well, so they can basically understand what Gan Guoyang said.

Gan Guoyang's half-joking words quickly broke the tense and awkward atmosphere between each other.

Then Gan Guoyang explained the meaning of bringing them here, just to let everyone "experience the fun of high-level basketball."

The so-called "the joy of high-level basketball" is actually Gan Guoyang and they played a three-on-three half-match game. Five people in the Soviet Union started, plus Gan Guoyang exactly six people.

Although the fierce final just ended yesterday, the Soviet players were very excited when they thought of the opportunity to compete with Gan Guoyang, even if it was a three-on-three in the half, Sabonis seemed a little nervous.

Because Sabonis knew that he would definitely not be in the first team with Gan Guoyang, and he would definitely be Gan Guoyang's opponent.

Sabonis is called "Roof of the World" and "Aerial Architect" on the court, which reflects his proud height and creative way of playing. In the Soviet team, the point guard who organizes the offense is often not the point guard, but the center forward of Sabonis.

Because of this, Sabonis is very different from Gan Guoyang in his playing style. Sabonis is good at supporting and seizing opportunities. He has excellent singles skills but is not strong. In the game against the United States, he is not Robinson's opponent in one-on-one dialogue. In defense, he relies on his height, weight and consciousness and is the best guardian of the penalty area.

Gan Guoyang is completely the opposite. He has a strong style of play, excellent scoring ability, and is proficient in all offensive methods. Scoring in offense is always his first task. He is tall in defense. However, his huge defense range, flexible position and outstanding ability to cover defense are his huge advantages.

Gan Guoyang's style makes him dare to challenge all opponents in the game, while Sabonis is relatively softer, and the atmosphere in European basketball also makes him always put the team first. This time, the reason why he has doubts about going to the NBA is that he is not very confident about his ability and feels that he cannot gain a foothold in the NBA.

When Gomorsky heard Gan Guoyang's proposal yesterday, he was also a little hesitant when he asked to play a confrontation with the Soviet starting player. He was very worried that Sabonis's originally unconfident mentality would be even less confident in himself under the attack of Gan Guoyang.

After all, Sabonis is only 24 years old this year, and if that is the opposite, it would be counterproductive.

But Gan Guoyang was full of confidence. He said that using a confrontation to experience the level of the NBA center will be beneficial to Sabonis in any case.

In fact, this year, when Sabonis was in the CSKA, he had already played against the visiting Atlanta Hawks. CSKA defeated the Hawks 135:126, and Sabonis performed well.

But everyone knows that the Eagles didn't do their best at all. This game was not even as good as a warm-up match, and it can only be said to be an exhibition match.

During the game, Kevin Willis, the short-armed Hawks, did not show the level that the NBA center should have. In the NBA league, he could at least compete with Gan Guoyang.

"Hey, Avidas, let me group, I'll be with you. You know, we can become teammates next season. I think we'd better practice together first and develop some tacit understanding."

What surprised Sabonis was that Gan Guoyang did not choose to be a confrontation group with Sabonis, but wanted to be in the same team as Sabonis, because the two would soon become teammates.

Other Soviet players did not protest against the act of separating the two centers, Gan Guoyang and Sabonis. On the contrary, they all wanted to join another team to fight against the tower combination, so that the game would be interesting.
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