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Chapter 187 Star Week

(Group number: 321941893, flock of sheep)

"No, no, your dunks are so ugly! Do you know the cooked lobster? You wear this red dress, then jump, and dunk in the air, like a cooked lobster! Oh my God, I bet you can't even enter the second round."

In a training hall in Indianapolis, Gan Guoyang was scoring Drexler's dunk moves designed by him. According to Gan Guoyang's evaluation standards, if the score is 10, Drexler's moves have a maximum score of only 6 points.

"Then I really don't know what other actions can be used. If it really doesn't work, you're going to try it." Drexler was so angry that he was blown away by Gan Guoyang. He really wanted to say to Gan Guoyang, "You can do it, you can go."

"If it is useful to say to the judges during the game, 'If it doesn't work, try', then you can just participate in the game like this. You have to know that you are not the only one who can dunk. Okay, let me help you, give up your lobster-like dunking moves, let us have something fresh. This is an entertainment! As long as you listen to me and win the championship of this dunk competition, I don't think it's a big problem."

After thinking about it, Gan Guoyang decided to help Drexler well. Even after Drexler won the dunk competition, Gan Guoyang immediately suffered a heart attack and died. He didn't think it was too much. Anyway, he was considered a person who had died once.

In 1985, the second dunk contest was just held. At that time, the players' dunk movements were not rich and there were not many tricks. It was just that the ball was turning in the air, or twisting and twisting, and finally called the ball into the basket with the last rod.

As a time traveler, Gan Guoyang has rich experience in watching slam dunk competitions and has a variety of postures in his mind. Although he doesn't know anything about it, his teammate Drexler wants to complete these movements. With Gan Guoyang, the creative director and action guide, there should be no big problem.

Gan Guoyang knew that Drexler had very good physical fitness, fast speed, excellent vertical and vertical bounces, and his ability to stagnate the air was particularly powerful, otherwise he would not have received the nickname of "glider".

However, after playing with Drexler for a long time, Gan Guoyang also knew that Drexler had two weaknesses in physical fitness. The first was his flexibility. Drexler's flexibility was very good, but it was not top-notch.

As a technical action that emphasizes beauty, the dunker's body flexibility and stretch are very important. At this point, Gan Guoyang himself and Dr. J. Julius Irving are both outstanding, especially Irving. Although he rarely does some complicated dunking actions, his dunking can give people absolute artistic enjoyment.

The second point is Drexler's waist and abdomen explosive power. Drexler's waist and abdomen strength is not a problem, otherwise he would not have such good air stagnation, but his waist and abdomen explosive power is relatively average, which makes his dunk lack explosive power and beauty.

In this regard, Dominic Wilkins is a representative figure of violent slam dunks. His arm span, stretching and flexibility are average, but his dunks are full of violence, explosiveness and strong impact.

In Gan Guoyang's view, only Michael Jordan can do it at present.

Gan Guoyang saw Drexler's dunk and found that he had neither the beauty of stretching nor the explosiveness of impact. He just jumped in the air to do a few moves and dunk the ball. Of course, this would not be favored by the judges or the audience's favorite. It was too mediocre.

"Okay Clyde, let's start the first move, let's try to cross the basket..."

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February 9th, Saturday, the day before the All-Star Game, today is the All-Star Weekend, which is also a new concept launched by Stern after he came to power.

Stern does not want the All-Star Game to be just a game, but to shape it into a fan culture, an activity in which stars come to life and enjoy happy activities with fans.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang and a group of stars from the east and west went to the stadium to participate in fan activities, including meetings, autograph meetings, and interacting with fans about basketball.

This is really very new to Gan Guoyang. This is the first time he has had such a close and direct contact with fans. In the past, he did not get along with fans in Portland. On the contrary, he maintained the usual image of an "lonely giant" player as an NBA center player.

And this time, Gan Guoyang finally realized the great enthusiasm from the fans. He did not expect that there were so many fans in Indianapolis, many of which were small fans, and of course, local Chinese fans were indispensable.

Many young fans wore Nike's "Skyscraper" sneakers to the Indiana Citizen Plaza Stadium, found Gan Guoyang to sign, and their parents took a photo with their cameras.

Of course, Gan Guoyang is not the most popular. Among all the All-Star players, the most popular one is the Celtic "big bird" Larry Bird, because he is a native of Indiana and the pride of the entire state.

During the entire event, Gan Guoyang was busy all the time. He found that signing autographs to these little fans was more tiring than defending in the three-second zone, because he was too tall and had to bend down to sign these little guys.

When the event was approaching its end and most people began to leave, there were fewer fans in Gan Guoyang. There were too many fan activities in the Citizen Plaza Stadium.

"Hello...Hello...Can you sign me? Hello?" At this time, Gan Guoyang felt someone pulling his pants, and at the same time, an inaudible sound came from his ears.

Gan Guoyang turned around and found that it was a fat black man holding a broken notebook in his hand, staring at Gan Guoyang with his lower lip, and his eyes showed a ray of hope.

"No problem." Gan Guoyang naturally would not refuse this. He squatted down, took out a signing pen from his pocket, and signed the words "Sunny-Gump" on the fat man's notebook.

"Where is your father or mother? They should have come here too. Let them take a photo of us." Gan Guoyang saw that this little fat man was only about four or five years old, so he should have come with his parents.

"No, my mother is very busy, she has to do a few jobs. I came here secretly with the Sherf family next door. If my mother knew about it, she would definitely beat me to death." The fat man secretly said to Gan Guoyang, with a look of aura.

"Okay, then you have to be careful. I hope you can play in the NBA in the future so that your mother will not have to work so hard. And then you can sign your fans at that time." Gan Guoyang also felt very warm in his heart for such a young fan.

After saying that, Gan Guoyang left with other stars, and they had other activities to participate in, and the All-Star Weekend Dunk Contest will also be held in the evening.

The fat black man took out a small pencil from his pocket. It seemed that he was preparing to practice signatures in his laptop to prepare for becoming an NBA star in the future.

"Z-a-c-h, R-a-n-d-o-l-p-h, Zach-Randolph!" The little fat man signed his name in a crooked manner. This is also the only phrase he can spell now, his name, Zach-Randolph.

From then on, Randolph made a volunteer when he was a child to become a NBA star. At the same time, he wanted to follow Gan Guoyang and play for the Portland Trail Blazers.

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The day's event ended quickly. The stars not only participated in various fan activities, but the league also arranged special projects for these big names.

Since most of these players are black stars, they don’t like some of the comedy talk show actors invited by the league in the past, so Stern specifically asked the black singer to come and perform for them.

This kind of performance made the stars feel very good. Even Gan Guoyang, who participated in this kind of event for the first time, felt that such a performance was indeed quite interesting.

Then, Stern invited these players to attend a large dinner buffet party. Some family-owned stars brought their wives and children. This warm gathering made the stars feel very good.

Of course, young men like Gan Guoyang, Jordan, Olajuwon, and Drexler, naturally they can only form a small team of kids, rushing around in the restaurant and talking about some messy things.

Due to Drexler's relationship, Olajuwon and Gan Guoyang have a good relationship, although they are still life-and-death opponents on the court.

However, Jordan seems that except for Gan Guoyang, most players, including old and rookie stars, do not like this very high-profile and arrogant shooting guard.

So Michael Jordan can only be with Gan Guoyang, at least he can have a companion.

"Hey Gan, do you know the actions of Clyde's slam dunk contest?" Jordan suddenly came to Gan Guoyang to inquire about the Drexler slam dunk contest.

"Of course I know, because all his actions were designed for him." Gan Guoyang said mysteriously.

"Oh...then...can I understand?" Jordan asked again.

Gan Guoyang didn't expect Jordan to come to spy on military information, but he realized it as soon as he thought about it. Jordan is a man who is so competitive. Of course he wants to win a game like a dunk contest that tests strength and increases face.

In his opinion, Drexler should be his strong competitor. If he can understand Drexler's situation, he will be more at ease.

"If it weren't for me, Clyde wouldn't be worth mentioning at all. He probably wouldn't even pass the first round. But now with me, you are no match, including you, Jordan." Gan Guoyang thought to himself, of course he would definitely not say anything, but just gave Jordan a mysterious smile, and then continued to look for the food he liked.

At this time, a small man walked from the other side. He saw Jordan walking very close to Gan Guoyang, so he brought the plate to Jordan and said intentionally or unintentionally: "A star in the east, don't always get along with people from the west."

When Gan Guoyang saw that it turned out to be the smiling assassin Isia Thomas, his face still maintained the most intimate smile.

But Gan Guoyang knew in his heart that the person who disliked Jordan the most was Isiah Thomas. Thomas had not talked to Jordan since the banquet. Now he saw that Jordan had a good relationship with several rookies in the West, but he came to fan the flames again.
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