Training with Gan Guoyang always makes you feel like you never arrive early enough, train hard enough, or eat enough.
The week-long rookie training camp saw Gan Guoyang taking everyone through seven solid days of training, which had everyone groaning with exhaustion.
Those fringe players, the third-round and fourth-round picks, thought that maybe they weren't cut out for the NBA after all, because it was simply too much to handle.
Dell Curry and Hornacek, who had found accounting work at a firm, were the ones who persevered. As training progressed, their adaptability grew stronger.
Hornacek, in particular, went from being too exhausted to stand straight on the first day to keeping up with the pace on the second day. By the time the camp was ending, he was able to shoot normally in the three-point drills after three-thirty.
Though he still wasn't shooting well, at least he wasn't airballing anymore.
