At the end of September, the Trail Blazers held their rookie training camp as usual at Willamette University.
Gan Guoyang, Petrović, and Sabonis all participated in this training camp with the purpose of recovering from the Olympic pace and regaining the feeling of playing in the NBA through the camp.
The Olympic battles were undoubtedly exhausting, and both Petrović and Sabonis suffered varying degrees of injuries, with Sabonis's knee feeling increasingly burdensome.
The 1991-1992 season, combined with two weeks of the Olympics' schedule, took a great toll on the players' bodies. They urgently needed to find a balance between health and good form.
Participating in the rookie training camp was a good way to achieve this. As veterans, they didn't have the same pressure as the newcomers and could train more lightly, maintaining a state of half training and half recovery.
