Chapter 364: A new look
The Portland Trail Blazers training camp has already started in September. This is the team's official training camp. With less than a month left before the start of the new season, this training camp will determine the state of the entire team after the start of the game.
Gan Guoyang delayed training for more than a week because he went to Seoul. On the first day after returning to Portland, Gan Guoyang arrived early as usual and left his home to the training place - they settled at the University of Portland.
As usual, Gan Guoyang must always ensure that he will be the first to arrive at the training hall, which is one of the important reasons why he can achieve today. Everyone in the entire Trail Blazers also knows that the team leader must be earlier than them.
Since he received the promise from Sabonis and Gomorsky in Seoul, he left Seoul and returned to the United States. He had originally considered whether to go back to China. He also met coach Qian Chenghai in Seoul.
However, after some consideration, Gan Guoyang gave up the idea of traveling to China. First of all, he didn't know where he should go. In China in 1988, he had not yet been born in later generations.
Secondly, he had been missing for a week and wanted to return to Portland to conduct systematic training earlier. As the NBA games became more and more intense, more and more scientific and scientific training methods were invested in NBA training.
After the playoffs, Gan Guoyang specially invited strength trainers to tailor the training plan for himself. Of course, Michael Jordan was also together. The two of them conducted two-week strength-strengthening practice in Chicago.
Of course, during training, Jordan felt Gan Guoyang's superb power for the first time, which led to Jordan's vow to make a huge breakthrough in power - he did not dare to vow to surpass Gan Guoyang in power.
Gan Guoyang has just returned to Portland. As soon as he got off the plane, news came from the Soviet Union that the Soviet Basketball Association had approved Sabonis' plan to travel to the United States, and now only the negotiations between the CSKA and the Portland Trail Blazers are left.
This made Gan Guoyang a little excited, so today he was not only the first to arrive, but also a little too early. He had already set off from home to the University of Portland at 4 a.m.
As usual, Gan Guoyang ran to the training hall. The difference was that Gan Guoyang no longer ran over alone, but someone drove along with him - he was his bodyguard, Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu.
Three years ago, due to Liu Yiliang's case, Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu's drug trafficking network was also exposed. However, when the two were arrested, the people in the circle responded quickly and destroyed all kinds of evidence and traces.
In this way, the big circle also cut off its livelihood and the market was immediately seized by other forces. The big circle was not tight in its organization, and it soon fell down and scattered after losing its source of wealth.
Both Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu are from military backgrounds. They really have different kung fu. They can't sell drugs and cannot integrate into local gang organizations, so they have to be a thug in a nightclub.
Just once, Gan Guoyang recognized the two brothers when he went to a nightclub with his teammates. At that time, Falk was planning to help Gan Guoyang find bodyguards, because Gan Guoyang is going to make more and more profitable business activities, and his value is getting higher and higher, and bodyguards are indispensable.
But Gan Guoyang chose these two brothers and wanted them to be bodyguards. Although they were strongly opposed by Falke, the Feng brothers finally wore suits and sunglasses and became Gan Guoyang's bodyguards.
"Brother, you said that Yang has millions in the first year, but you work so hard every day and get up before dawn. This is no different from the farmers who farm in our village!" Feng Guangyao sat on the Mercedes-Benz S400 bought by Gan Guoyang and said to his brother Feng Peiyu who was driving.
Originally, the bodyguards should have accompanied Gan Guoyang, but Gan Guoyang's long legs accelerated. Although Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu were born with good skills, they had not had endurance training for many years, so they could not keep up with Gan Guoyang, so they took the bus.
"Shut up! I said you have been following Yangtou for almost a year, why haven't you improved? If you don't work hard or struggle, you can shine your family with your little skills? Only by enduring hardships can you become the best. Many people know this principle and few people do it. Yangtou is one of the people who can do it. Look at the more than a year we follow Yangtou for more than a year, when will he not get up early to run? When will he not train?"
Feng Peiyu is the elder brother and has also been the leader of a large circle. Although she is only a nominal leader, her cultural level and speaking level are not high, it is absolutely fine to educate her younger brother.
Feng Guangyao has always been careless and has been living in the United States for so many years, but these temperaments have not changed, but he is quite content with the situation.
"Hehe, brother, not everyone is like a bulldog. If I play in the NBA, I can be a substitute among the substitutes, sit in the first row every day to watch the game, and then I can still get more than 100,000 or 200,000 a year, and I won't do it if I change to a god!"
This is Feng Guangyao’s idea, and it is actually the idea of many ordinary people.
Gan Guoyang didn't think so. When he arrived at the gymnasium, he arranged for Feng Guangyao and Feng Peiyu to let them go for free. He changed his clothes and began to warm up in the training hall alone.
Gan Guoyang's warm-up training started with a three-pointer on his left hand, which was the warm-up ceremony he still used after his injury to his right arm recovered.
Gan Guoyang believes that if he can use his left hand to make ten consecutive three-pointers, it means that his condition should be adjusted very well, but he has started to warm up.
Gan Guoyang was in great shape today. From the first goal, Gan Guoyang actually scored ten goals in a row. Gan Guoyang was surprised by his good condition.
From this point, it can be seen that Gan Guoyang was technically comprehensive at this time. He persisted in practicing three-pointers for a long time, making the three-pointer his conventional weapon; after his right hand was injured, he practiced his left hand hard so that Gan Guoyang could shoot the left and right.
There are also more hooking moves, more confident mid-range jump shots, ever-mature steps under the basket, various small skills, continuous accumulation of small experience, and continuous filling of leaks in the transfer ability. Everything indicates that from the 1988-1989 season, Gan Guoyang will reach the peak of his basketball career.
Gan Guoyang practiced alone in the stadium for nearly an hour and a half before the second Trail Blazers player arrived at the stadium, Terry Porter.
"Good morning, Potter, you're a little late."
In addition to Gan Guoyang, the first one to arrive at the training hall was either Porter or Drexler, and the two backcourt players were also very hard to train.
"It's you that you're too early. I think you'd better work part-time job as a newspaper delivery job, which will allow you to earn some extra money, and then you can come to train on time."
Porter and Gan Guoyang joked that Gan Guoyang liked to joke about people in private, but what he was very good about was that others could joke about him.
After Terry Porter's rookie season with a good performance, the Trail Blazers then decided to straighten Porter and trade the original real point guard Valentine.
However, the Trail Blazers then sent Steve Colt away and the Bulls, which made Gan Guoyang a little unhappy, but he still respected the management's choice.
Gan Guoyang is quite sure of this point. He will give advice to the management, but he never interferes in the final decision and expresses support and respect for the decisions he has made.
For example, the team sent Van derwich away. Although Gan Guoyang found Van derwich and the other two were drunk after the transaction was completed, Gan Guoyang also expressed his support for the team's transaction and welcomed Buck Williams.
Drexler soon arrived at the gymnasium, and then Cauchy, Duckworth, and Buck Williams all arrived at the Portland gymnasium, and of course, the team's current head coach, Rick Adelman.
After the finals in 1986, the Trail Blazers regretfully lost the championship, and Jack Ramsey also fulfilled his promise and stopped coaching, and chose to retire to Espn as a commentator.
In his words, “I have no regrets in my coaching career because I know that this Trail Blazers will eventually re-establish the top of the world.”
Adelman was originally just a temporary successor, but in the absence of Gan Guoyang in the 1987 season, Adelman still brought the Trail Blazers into the playoffs and reached the Western Conference Finals all the way, and finally lost to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Therefore, the Trail Blazers also chose Adelman to renew his contract, and he continued to serve as the Trail Blazers' head coach.
"Good morning, Head of State! I'm glad to see you again and be willing to serve the empire!" Gan Guoyang saw Adelman and started to joke about him looking like Hitler again.
Adelman has long been accustomed to this, and he started to gather the players with a stern face and prepare to start today's training.
Compared to two years ago, the Trail Blazers' lineup has changed a lot. Mitchell Sampson was traded last summer and the locker room's old slippery man Kenny Carr was also sent away.
Van derwich and Jim Paxson have declined severely in the past two years. Van derwich finally left this summer, leaving only Paxson to become the first player to enter the Trail Blazers.
Daniel Valentine and Steve Corte could no longer pass the ball to Gan Guoyang, and replaced it with Terry Porter and Danny Young, who was traded from Seattle.
The player who partnered with Gan Guoyang in the interior was replaced by the "Big Duck" Duckworth, the "Bucks" Bucks Williams, and the upcoming reports of Sabonis, the Trail Blazers' frontcourt strength has expanded dramatically.
Looking at the Trail Blazers player standing in front of him, Adelman also sighed in his heart that a few years ago, the lack of height and thickness in the interior was still a big problem facing the Trail Blazers, but now, the 7-foot-2 big center is coming soon, and the Trail Blazers' frontcourt will appear too large and crowded.
How to make good use of these experts in the frontcourt will be the biggest problem Adelman has to face.
After giving a simple opening speech, Adelman began to arrange the team's training. Unlike an orator-type coach like Pat Riley, Adelman, as an old academic, has never talked much and likes to think silently.
Today's training intensity is not high, it is all basic training content, including some technical and tactical practice.
Chapter completed!