Gan Guoyang, like Bird, despised those who were late to the training camp.
Being able to arrive at the training ground on time is the most basic display of a team's unity.
He still remembers when he first joined the Trail Blazers in 1984, on the first day of official training, Drexler was late.
Drexler was frequently late during his rookie season, which made head coach Jack Ramsey very dissatisfied.
Gan Guoyang immediately shut down Drexler during the scrimmage, and in the end, he even hit a mid-range shot to clinch victory for the starting team.
Gan Guoyang explicitly told Adelman that he targeted Drexler because he was late, and as long as he continued being late, he would keep targeting him.
Since then, Drexler never arrived much earlier, but he was no longer late. He genuinely feared Ah Gan.
