For the three coaches Gan Guoyang encountered, Bellman was undoubtedly the most important one.

Larry Famal doesn't need to talk about him. He is still criticized by many people. Because of his mistakes, UCLA has lost the opportunity to return to the top.

Jack Ramsey is a good coach. He is dedicated to the training of Gan Guoyang, but his ideas are not always fully recognized by Gan Guoyang. Even though Gan Guoyang's assists have steadily increased in recent games, Gan Guoyang always feels that it is a very unhappy thing for him to play for twenty minutes occasionally.

Not to mention the various small conflicts between Gan Guoyang and Ramsey caused by playing habits and playing time at the beginning of the season.

Only Bellman is a true professional basketball enlightenment mentor in Gan Guoyang. He regarded Gan Guoyang as the most important core from the beginning. He taught Gan Guoyang the basic qualities that a basketball player should have, and he also gave Gan Guoyang the best environment for growth.

More importantly, he and Gan Guoyang reached the highest peak, and this memory is destined to be engraved in the heart forever.

But now, for Gan Guoyang, this brilliant past has become a step toward a higher peak, but for Bellman, it has become an unbearable weight of life.

When Bellman looked at the Bulldogs lineup without Gan Guoyang on the court and watched the team lose games again and again, he felt that his enthusiasm for basketball was as if he was naked in the snow and ice - quickly losing.

The only thing he felt relieved now was that Gan Guoyang and Stockton performed very well in the NBA, especially Gan Guoyang even made the All-Star, which was also a shiny face for Bellman.

But the glory of the past cannot change the reality that the current defending champion Bulldogs cannot even enter the NCAA national championship. They do not even have the qualification to be invited to participate in the NIT (National-Invitation-Tournament, the "Little NCAA Championship").

This means that by mid-March, Bellman would have nothing to do and could no longer lead the team to play. In fact, when Gan Guoyang and Stockton came to Spokane, the Bulldogs' match this season had ended early, and they would definitely not be able to participate in the national competition.

This situation finally made Bellman reveal his thoughts in front of his two beloved disciples. He didn't want to continue doing it anymore. Although it was only a year's failure, which was not considered a slightest for many university coaches, Bellman still could not accept the gap between the front and the back and the huge pressure brought by it.

Gan Guoyang and Stockton looked at Bellman's somewhat lonely expression, and didn't know what to say. They all knew that the Bulldogs could not return to the top level in a short period of time - the Bulldogs would have to wait almost twenty years later to rejoin the strong team.

Gan Guoyang and Stockton can't take off the NBA team's jersey and come back to play for the Bulldogs.

Moreover, Gan Guoyang also knew that without him and without him coming from the future, Bellmann would not know where no one was interested in doing ordinary coaching jobs.

Of course, Gan Guoyang would not think that he was Bellman's savior, but he knew that Bellman's fate had a turning point because of him, and now may be the time to return to the right path.

"I might be going back to high school to be a physical education teacher, who can teach basketball, running, long jump, volleyball, and baseball. Actually, I still like baseball more when I was a child." Bellman began to describe his plans for the future.

"Maybe you can still stay in college, in Gonzaga, everyone respects you." Stockton said while eating macaroni.

"Oh no, I don't think everyone respects me. I'm just a...a defensive coach with pretty good luck - that's what they say about me." Bellman said self-deprecatingly. It seems that he has received a lot of criticism at Gonzaga University.

"This is not fair! You are the best and most passionate coach I have ever seen. Your defensive strategy amazed me. Did you know that we don't practice defense much in the NBA training because the NBA does not have joint defense, and the Trail Blazers are an offensive team." Gan Guoyang said the truth. In the NBA without joint defense, defense mainly depends on personal ability. For coaches, strengthening defense is more important to instill in players the belief of "don't let the opponent score easily", rather than laying out a set of precise defensive strategies.

"The difference between the NBA and the NCAA is that coaches who teach well in the NCAA may not be popular when they go to the NBA, but I don't even want to stay in the NCAA." Bellman said.

The three of them chatted at home for a long time, and about many things about the past and present. When Gan Guoyang, Stockton and Wang Fuxi left the Bellman family, it was already dark.

"I will rush back to Salt Lake City tomorrow, what about you?" Stockton will have a game to play when he returns tomorrow.

"Me? I think, I looked at the schedule before coming... Tomorrow, tomorrow I will fly directly to Atlanta, against Atlanta, I hope I can catch the plane." This time, I came to Spokane and Gan Guoyang asked for leave from the team for the first time. He missed the team's training. And tomorrow morning he would fly to Atlanta to meet the team, and they would play against the Hawks away on the road in the evening.

Of course, this is also the first time Stockton has asked for leave from the team.

"I want to go to Atlanta with you too!" At this time, Wang Fuxi next to him spoke out, and she proposed to go to Atlanta with Gan Guoyang.

"What? Are you going with me? Don't go to class anymore?"

"There aren't many classes recently, so what's wrong with escaping a few classes! I just want to go to Atlanta with you!"

Gan Guoyang knew that once Wang Fuxi's stubborn temper came up, no one could hold back. Gan Guoyang himself was a stubborn person, but he was defeated in several confrontations with Wang Fuxi.

Now Wang Fuxin would rather skip classes than go to Atlanta with Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang knew that he would definitely not be able to leave this follower.

"Okay, then you go back to Portland with us. You can drive back soon. I will book the tickets in the evening." Gan Guoyang also knew that it is easy to cause problems when they separated for a long time. Wang Fuxi wanted to go with him because he missed him.

So Stockton drove from Spokane back to Portland in Gan Guoyang's car.

The next day, on March 5, Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi flew to Atlanta, the "crime city" in eastern Georgia early in the morning.

As a large commercial city with more than half of the black population, Atlanta is also famous in the United States for its high crime rate. Of course, it is also known for its black civil rights movement, and Martin Luther King has emerged here.

When Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi hurried to Atlanta and settled down, it was already 4 pm when Gan Guoyang contacted the team staff.

Gan Guoyang did not procrastinate and immediately took a taxi to the Atlanta Hawks' home court, Omney Stadium.

In the taxi, the driver immediately recognized Gan Guoyang. You should know that Gan Guoyang is almost everyone in the United States now. Anyone who watches basketball games will definitely know him. Even if he doesn't watch basketball, the Nike advertisements that are broadcast on TV every day are also promoting this Asian face to Americans.

Fortunately, although the driver was an Eagles fan, he still had professional ethics. He did not take Gan Guoyang to the suburbs, but instead sent Gan Guoyang to Omni Stadium on time.

"Sorry, I'm late!" Gan Guoyang's first thing after rushing into the locker room was to apologize. Now there is only more than an hour left before the start of the game.

"Very good, I finally heard good news." Ramsey nodded and said when he saw Gan Guoyang rushing over.

Before this, the bad news that Ramsey heard was that the team's main shooting guard Jim Paxson's leg injury worsened and he would not be able to participate in the game against the Atlas Hawks, and the return date was not yet determined.

This made Ramsey, who had not much hair, even more worried. Van derwich had just returned to the team after recovering from injury, and the backcourt general injured another one. Now he began to doubt whether there was really something wrong with Portland's medical team.

Immediately after coming to Atlanta, the team's main point guard Valentine pulled her thighs up during training. It was really a mess. If Gan Guoyang could not arrive in time, there would be only two people left in the starting lineup.

Fortunately, Gan Guoyang arrived in time, and he and his teammates came to the court to prepare for the game against Atlanta tonight.

The Trail Blazers' starting lineup naturally also made adjustments. Drexler was finally arranged to be the starting position, and Colte, who has always performed relatively stably, naturally became the starting point guard.

However, this also means that the Trail Blazers will be short of substitutes in the backcourt rotation. The only thing Ramsey can use is the No. 19 pick they selected in this year's draft, Bernard Sampson. (There are too many Sampsons!)

Bernard Sampson, the second highest draft pick this season, was originally expected to be high.

But unfortunately, there are too many outstanding players in the backcourt position. Even geniuses like Drexler are trying hard to compete for playing time. In comparison, Bernard Sampson naturally can only stand aside.

At the same time, in terms of training efforts, he is still not as good as Jerome Cauchy, who is at a lower pick, so he can only get a certain amount of playing time when the team suffers from large injuries in the backcourt.

This game is the first time the Trail Blazers have played against each other this season. In addition to Dominic Wilkins, an old friend in the dunk contest, there is also an interesting guy, who is Gan Guoyang's rookie of the same year - Kevin Willis.

Kevin Willis should have been directly selected by the Atlanta Hawks in the draft, but he fell to the 16th pick and was selected by the Jazz. Then the Jazz used Willis to bring Stockton back from Atlanta.

All this circle was thanks to Gan Guoyang at that time. Gan Guoyang made Stockton the point guard of the championship team, and Stockton's pick naturally rose.

So the Hawks knew that the Jazz wanted Stockton very much, so they chose it in advance to exchange for more chips in the Jazz's hands.

There is another reason why Willis fell to 16th place, and this reason appears in the scouts' assessment - "As an inside player, his wingspan is too short, especially compared to Gan."

It is 7 feet tall and has a wingspan of only 6 feet 10 to 6 feet 11. The arms look like the short hand of Tyrannosaurus Rex. This looks a bit ridiculous when compared with the figure of Gan Guoyang Gibbon.

He also got a nickname for this, "Short-armed Eagle" - a nickname from Gan Guoyang after the end of this game.
Chapter completed!