[Wu Zhixiong: "In Game 4 of the 1991 NBA Finals, when the Bulls were trailing by a significant margin at halftime, you asked your teammates to hit you to release their negative emotions. Was this a carefully planned way to relieve stress, or was it a spur-of-the-moment decision?"
Gan Guoyang: "It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, because at the time, I really wanted to hit someone. That was the worst half we had played all season. It followed the terrible momentum from Game 3, which meant we had played one and a half bad games straight, 48+24, 72 minutes of poor basketball. We were losing control, and I couldn't stand it."
"The atmosphere in the locker room was awful, suffocating. No one said anything; it felt like we had already lost, as if nobody knew how to play basketball anymore. You know, when people sink into negative emotions, their performance on the court could be halved. When their minds are clouded, they can't make the right decisions."
