When entering the gymnasium and seeing No. 22 on the jersey of the stadium, plus his incredible bounce, Gan Guoyang would have guessed that this person was the future legendary star, Drexler.

Gan Guoyang didn't care if his warm greeting was ignored by the other party. He knew that Drexler's indifference was a reason.

Because Drexler is a student at the University of Houston and is a good friend of Olajuwon, in this year's NCAA Finals, Gan Guoyang led the Gonzaga Bulldogs to shatter the Houston Cougar's dream of winning.

As a player who graduated from the University of Houston, Drex naturally won’t have much favorable feelings for Gan Guoyang, the “enemy of his alma mater”, even if they will become teammates who fight side by side.

Drexler's invitation to fight can also be seen as his revenge for the University of Houston. In the NCAA finals that day, when he saw Gan Guoyang shoot the final shot at the free throw line, he almost had the urge to smash the TV.

Afterwards, he received the news that Gan Guoyang would be selected by the Trail Blazers. Since then, he has been planning to find an opportunity to compete with the Chinese on the court to compensate for the pain of being killed by his alma mater.

On the first day of training camp, Drex arrived at the University of Portland early, began to warm up and train his shooting skills, because the coach always thought his shooting was not up to standard.

After practicing for a while, he felt a little bored and had a sudden idea. He wanted to jump from the free throw line and dunk.

At the All-Star Game last season, Drexler was shocked by Julius Irving's signature free throw line jumping and dunking.

So in his usual training, he began to try this difficult movement, with success and failure.

Drexler's bounce was fine, but his palms were not as huge as Irving. This extremely long-distance dunk jumped hard, and his arms and body stretched out particularly, so his control over the basketball would be poor.

The attempt was not controlled properly, and I took off my hand during gliding and hit the basket, but failed to try.

But after he landed, he saw the figure who often appeared in newspapers and TV on the sidelines, and the person Olajuwon called and told him that he "must defeat".

When the guy saw that he was just saying hello to him as if nothing had happened, Drexler was angry and asked for a one-on-one challenge.

A year of NBA experience has greatly improved Drexler's football skills. His various skills, game experience and college comparison are no longer the same level.

So facing Gan Guoyang, the main NCAA champion, and the second-place finisher in the draft, and the center who is 4 inches taller than him, he is also confident of defeating his opponent.

He has always been so confident.

In the first two balls, everything was as Drexler expected. Gan Guoyang was too careless in the attack. He lacked the awareness of protecting his ball and was cut off by Drexler, who was good at stealing.

In the second goal, Gan Guoyang underestimated the ability of NBA players to confront each other and was attacked by a surprise attack. Drexler taught the rookie a lesson with a dunk that struck the head.

But the next goal was unexpected by Drexler.

He did not expect Gan Guoyang to make a defender move like a large cross-step, and he was even more expected to turn so quickly and unstoppable.

When Drexler tried to hold back Gan Guoyang's back and blocked his turn, he found that Gan Guoyang was amazingly powerful. He was stuck behind him with no room for resistance.

Gan Guoyang used a quick and neat dunk to return Drexler one, tied the bullfighting score between the two sides to a 1:1 draw.

However, the duel between the two sides did not continue, because other players of the Trail Blazers, coaching staff and staff arrived at the stadium one after another. This was also the first time Gan Guoyang met with members of the Trail Blazers.

The first person to visit the stadium after Gan Guoyang was the head coach of the Trail Blazers and the team's meritorious coach, Jack Ramsey.

As soon as Ramsey arrived at the stadium, he saw two of the most talented players in the team staying on the court, as if fighting a bull. He shouted: "Put off your duel sword and get ready to meet new friends."

Ramsey is a typical white academy coach. He can be seen from his vulture-like face and eyes, and his vulture-like hairstyle. This is a rigorous and stern guy.

However, his outfit surprised Gan Guoyang. It was a pink and green suit and brown and yellow plaid pants, which looked very cool.

In the United States in the 1970s and 1980s, with the flood of various thoughts, the clothing industry began to free itself from the dull and seriousness of the 1950s and 1960s, and various colorful and fancy clothes, hairstyles, and decorations began to become popular.

The explosion head is just a pediatric, and the bohemian head wear is just an embellishment. The overall style exaggeration and mixing is the general trend in the fashion industry.

This is particularly obvious in the NBA. The images of those black players are affecting many people, and the coaches' diverse suits and jackets are also a highlight. Even Ramsey, who has always been known for his strictness, cannot escape the vulgarity.

Gan Guoyang looked at the old teacher who was a little sinister but fashionable, and he felt a little upset.

Since meeting a bad coach like Larry Famal at UCLA, Gan Guoyang is still very concerned about coaching issues, and this famous champion coach did not appear at his signing conference.

Inman said the old man was on vacation in California, but he didn't expect Ramsey to come back on the first day of training camp and came very early.

"You are so Gan, I'm very happy to see you. I never thought I would have the opportunity to coach a Chinese. I think your football skills must be as magical as Chinese Kung Fu." Ramsey said hello to Gan Guoyang very friendly and said in a joking tone.

Ramsey's words made Gan Guoyang relax a lot all of a sudden, and he also smiled and said hello to the old coach.

Afterwards, some other players arrived one after another, including the team's assistant coach Buck Buckwater, several team staff and auxiliary trainers. Everyone introduced themselves to each other, and the atmosphere was very friendly and harmonious.

The smell of gunpowder brought by Gan Guoyang's previous bullfight with Drexler quickly dissipated into the air in the arena.

But what surprised Gan Guoyang was that with Gan Guoyang, there were only 6 players present, while the Trail Blazers team had 12 players.

"Okay, dear friends, I'm glad that everyone can get together today and start our first training." Everyone stood on the court and started listening to the head coach's instructions.

"Of course you may be very surprised. The Trail Blazers, which has a total of 12 players, why are there only 6 players here and where are the others going? We know that this summer, the Trail Blazers underwent a major operation, many people were sent away, and many people came. Among them are 5 of you, the newcomers in the NBA."

At this time, Gan Guoyang understood that except for Drexler, the other 5 players present, including himself, were all rookies this year, and Drexler was only in the second grade and was also considered a newcomer.

So this training camp is a rookie training camp, and it is likely that the Trail Blazers will adapt so many rookies to NBA basketball games through this training camp.

"I think some people have guessed that this is indeed a rookie training camp. In the morning we will do some basic practices, and in the afternoon, there will be players from the University of Portland and some unselected free agents coming here to compete with you. I hope you can play your best performance as a Portland Trail Blazers player."

Ramsey's words confirmed Gan Guoyang's conjecture. There are too many new players in Portland this year, and they can all get a starting lineup.

In addition, the entire team is in a period of major changes, so it is necessary to teach these new players a lesson.

At the same time, the University of Portland players can take this opportunity to exercise - although it is likely to be a nightmare, and those who have lost the election can also show themselves through such training camps, so that the team can look at them in order to find a job and gain a foothold in the league.

This is really a training camp that wins three goals at one time.

However, Gan Guoyang still didn't understand. It would be enough to let the assistant coach take such a training camp, so why did Ramsey take the initiative to teach such a group of rookies?

In fact, there are only two reasons, one is for Gan Guoyang, and the other is for Drexler.

In the 1976-1977 season, Jack Ramsey took office as head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. The Trail Blazers won the championship that year. Ramsey made a big splash and reached its peak in his coaching rookie year.

The Trail Blazers are also different from the average experienced and calm championship team. The five starters are all young and the coaches are newcomers, and they are full of vitality.

Later, the Trail Blazers fell apart due to Walton's injury, and the team also went from being a contender for the league championship to a second-rate team.

In the process of continuous reconstruction, Ramsey was always looking for a new Bill Walton to reshape the glory of 1977.

The Trail Blazers in the original history got Sam Bowie. Unfortunately, he is as fragile and vulnerable as Walton, but he does not have the talent and strength of Walton.

Now, God has brought Gan Guoyang to the Trail Blazers and Ramsey. This old coach, who is nearly 60 years old, naturally has to come and inspect the goods himself to see if this is his second Walton.

The second reason is for Drexler.

In Ramsey's view, Drexler is a talented and creative player, and his progress in his first season is gratifying.

But Ramsey didn't like this player very much. His ego was as high as his talent. He was unwilling to follow some of Ramsey's suggestions. More importantly, there were no players like Drexler in the 1977 Trail Blazers.

That said, Drexler was out of Ramsey's plan, this was not the type of player he wanted.

He hopes that through his training and training, Drexler can be better and more "orthodox".

Of course, Ramsey didn't know that players like Drexler were representing the style of a new generation of shooting guards. Scoring guards are no longer outside shooters who run empty-handed and set-point shooting, they will play a more important role.

This former new coach did not realize that he had begun to lag behind the trend of the times.

But at least, this is a very excellent coach. Many of his suggestions and experiences will benefit the young players of the Trail Blazers, which Gan Guoyang soon felt.

The training of NBA teams is obviously more professional than that of college, and the preparations before training are as long as an hour.

Since Gan Guoyang came early, he saw how the training assistants prepared the various facilities, equipment and documents needed during the training, and everything was for the players like them to practice better.

Before the formal training began, a doctor among the team doctors once again conducted some simple examinations on the players' physical condition. These rookies had undergone several physical examinations before being selected.

Gan Guoyang looked at the doctor who was seriously examining him, thinking that he was almost fired because of him, and he couldn't help feeling strange.

Afterwards, the team doctor did some treatments for each player's injured area, such as bandaging with bandages to prevent the injury from recurring or aggravating.

Gan Guoyang also had thick gauze wrapped around his ankles. Basically, any player would have been following him from the first day he entered the training hall.

Then, all six players started the morning training.

The first event was basic warm-up training. Under the leadership of a physical coach, they started running, marching exercises and on-site stretching exercises.

These exercises started in high school. They were nothing to him, and of course they were a piece of cake for the other people.

But after running for a while, Gan Guoyang heard Coach Ramsey shouting next to him: "Gan! Stop, stop, come to my side!"

Gan Guoyang had to stop, ran to Ramsey and asked, "What's wrong, Mr. Ramsey."

"Gan, let me see how many times you do the back run. Don't run too fast, just the back run at ordinary speeds." Ramsey said.

Gan Guoyang was a little strange. Could it be that his running would have problems? But he still did it and did a few short-range back-running runs on the sidelines.

"No, no, no, Gan, you shouldn't run like this. Your posture is harmful." Ramsey said, shook his head.

Gan Guoyang is even more strange. Are there any special postures for running? Are you all the same?

Ramsey saw Gan Guoyang's doubts and continued: "The center of gravity of your upper body is too far behind, so your knees will have to bear more force in order to maintain body balance. In the 82 regular season games in a season, your knees will not be able to bear it."

After hearing this, Gan Guoyang ran a few more steps aside and realized that he was indeed not leaning forward enough when he was running. He liked to run straight.

In this way, his upper body's center of gravity is backward, and his lower body is running forward, with the center of gravity forward. In order to balance the position, his thighs have to exert force to stabilize the upper body, and the pressure on his knees comes.

"Then what should I do?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"It's very simple. The body leans forward amplitude, and you should appropriately reduce the span of your pace. Your steps are very large. This is the advantage, but if it is always like this, you will become Willis Reed's one day." Ramsey said.

Willis Reed has only played for eight seasons due to injury, and he has always been known for his great strides and flexible steps.

After listening to Ramsey's advice, Gan Guoyang began to try to reduce his pace and lean his upper body forward.

In the past, he never cared about running postures. He ran as fast as he could, and never considered the injuries that could be caused by incorrect running postures. He has always been healthy and has the guarantee of talent.

But after improving his running posture, he obviously felt that the pressure on his knees had decreased and he ran smoother.

"Wow, is this the NBA training? I suddenly realized that maybe even my hairstyle needs to be improved." Gan Guoyang said incredibly after trying it.

"Yes, sparse hair helps reduce the resistance caused by the wind. Go back and pay more attention. You still have a lot to learn." Ramsey touched his bare forehead and said with a sense of humor.
Chapter completed!