Since the Bulls era, Jackson has always disliked Ah Gan, the two never got along on or off the court.
On the court, they battled in the finals; off the court, Gan Guoyang liked to occasionally undermine Jackson.
Phil Jackson was always the one on the losing side; his life's learning, skills, and cunning were useless against Ah Gan.
He was like a martial artist with eclectic knowledge, collecting secret techniques from everywhere—Buddhism today, Indian witchcraft tomorrow, motivational movies the day after, and then the Bible later; he could do a bit of everything and put on a decent show, and ordinary people couldn't withstand him.
But when he encountered Gan Guoyang, a direct and strong force like a righteous dragon who regrets, he punched through all your flashy tricks.
What made Phil Jackson even more uncomfortable was that, over time, he realized Ah Gan was not clueless about flashy stuff—in fact, he knew more than you did, and he really understood it, not just pretending.
