The Golden Age of Basketball

"Gan, here is the technical statistics table you want. Take a look. I have more detailed statistics here, but players don't always like to read them."

"Don't worry, one day they will fall in love with these statistics and be forced to deal with these numbers every day."

On December 1984, 12, the last day of the year, just after Christmas, the world will usher in a new year.

Gan Guoyang stayed in the video room of the Trail Blazers training center, watching the video of the last few games, holding the statistics sheet that Karp handed him in his hand.

The table above counts the 31 games Gan Guoyang participated in this season, the detailed data obtained, and the overall league data ranking of the entire Trail Blazers.

On the TV in front of Gan Guoyang, the game between the Trail Blazers and the Rockets in Houston was still playing a few days ago.

The Blazers relied on Ramsey's change of tactics in the first half to establish a weak advantage over the Rockets and maintained this advantage until the end of the half.

Throughout the first half, Gan Guoyang only scored 6 points, 4 points in the first quarter and 2 points in the second quarter.

After the start of the second half, Gan Guoyang wanted to score more points, but was tightly double-teamed by the Rockets outside. Gan Guoyang, who was poor at moving the ball, completely lost his offensive touch after being double-teamed. [

His long-distance hook was inaccurate under the interference of Olajuwon and Ralph Sampson, and he missed his shots repeatedly. Ramsey also decisively asked Gan Guoyang not to attack again, and asked him to focus on defense middle.

Fortunately, in this game, the Blazers opened up the perimeter from the very beginning, coupled with Ramsey's tactical changes, the Rockets' expanded defense ended in failure.

The three guns of Vandeweghe, Paxson and Drexler fired in turn, establishing an advantage of more than 10 points for the Blazers in the second half of the third quarter and the first half of the fourth quarter.

Gan Guoyang "died together" with Olajuwon on the defensive end, and fought with Olajuwon with all his strength

Entanglement, neither of them scored more than 15 points in the whole game.

However, the two grabbed 18 rebounds and 17 rebounds respectively, and contributed 4 blocks each, supporting the team's inside defense.

Ralph Sampson, another member of the Rockets Twin Towers, is full of firepower and scored a game-high 31 points, but he can't do it alone. Without the cooperation of Olajuwon, the Rockets' inside line did not take advantage of the slightest advantage.

In the end, the Blazers kept their lead until the end of the game, without giving the Rockets a chance to turn around, and broke through the home court of Aerospace City 107:95, avenging the loss of the last home game.

甘国阳全场11投3中，拿下可怜的12分，外加18个篮板球和4次盖帽。

Immediately afterwards, the Blazers came to Arizona to challenge their old rival Phoenix Suns.

Maurice Lucas, the former Trail Blazers champion of the Suns, worked hard to recover from injury, and taught Gan Guoyang a good lesson. He scored 24 points and 11 rebounds, and his shooting percentage was as high as 60%.

Gan Guoyang, on the other hand, seemed to have lost his touch in the desert of Arizona. He once again surrendered a low shooting percentage of 10 of 2 shots and scored only 5 points in the game, setting a new low in scoring in the season.

The Blazers also narrowly lost to the Suns by two points in Phoenix, which made Gan Guoyang extremely annoyed.

Fortunately, then back to Portland, the Trail Blazers ushered in the Golden State Warriors.

The Warriors star Shao Te was injured in the last game against the Trail Blazers, but it was not a big problem. In this game, he recovered from his injury and used 38 points to beat the weakness of the Blazers' forward defense. [

It's just that the weakness of the Warriors inside was even more obvious. Gan Guoyang, who had suffered two games, vented all his anger on the Warriors. He made 22 of 15 shots and 13 of 10 free throws. He smashed the Warriors' inside with 40 points.

The Blazers also beat the Golden State Warriors 116:96 at home, improving their record to 21 wins and 10 losses, continuing to rank first in the Pacific and Western Divisions.

However, the Lakers, who are chasing after them, have narrowed the win gap to half.

After the Warriors game, hey, the Blazers got a three-day rest. Their 1984 game has all ended, and the next game will be played in the new year of 1985.

During these three days, Gan Guoyang still devoted himself to the training, but the ups and downs in his statistics in the recent competition made Gan Guoyang a lot of thoughts in his mind, and he also became a little anxious about his sudden instability.

"40, 5, 12, 20, 15, 43... Oh my god, it's ups and downs, just like a woman's lines..." Gan Guoyang stared at the technical statistics Karp gave him, the score column, Gan Guoyang can get it in a while More than 40 points, but some games can only score more than a dozen points, or even single-digit points.

Especially in the last dozen or so games, Gan Guoyang's scoring fluctuated more and more, and Gan Guoyang himself couldn't figure out what was going on.

In some games, his touch has improved, and it is really useless for the opponent to defend. The 17-foot range around the basket is all his firing zone.

And once the hand feeling is not good, Gan Guoyang will be at a loss, especially after being double-teamed. In the current game, the opponents double-team him more and more.

For example, in the last game against the Suns, from the first quarter, Nance and Lucas often double-teamed and half-teamed Gan Guoyang, which made Gan Guoyang very uncomfortable, and the offensive rhythm was completely disrupted. very dependent on rhythm.

Gan Guoyang also asked Ramsey about this. Ramsey said that as the season progresses, the teams will get to know each other better.

Because Gan Guoyang is a rookie, many teams don't pay much attention to this Chinese boy, and they don't focus on defensive strategies. In addition, they mostly play in the West, so Gan Guoyang will feel that the defensive pressure is not particularly heavy.

And now the Blazers have played against every team, and some teams have played against some teams several times, such as the Suns, who suffered several losses from Gan Guoyang, so when they meet again now, they will definitely make special arrangements.

Among them, double-teaming is the most common and effective means of restraint, and this is also Gan Guoyang's most annoying defensive treatment.

"Why can't I see anyone over there?" Gan Guoyang stared at the video after reading the statistics.

In the game against the Rockets, Gan Guoyang tried several singles attacks at the beginning of the third quarter, but was double-teamed. As a result, he either made a mistake or missed a shot under the interference of the two.

Gan Guoyang watched the game from the perspective of the camera, only to find that when he was double-teamed, Vandeweghe had already cut to the right side of the basket. If Gan Guoyang shifted to the top of the outer arc, after another pass, the ball would be passed to Vandeweghe In the hands, a good offensive opportunity was formed.

It's a pity that Gan Guoyang, who was standing on the court, couldn't see it. He chose to walk the baseline and turn over to hook, but was interfered by the 7-foot-3 Ralph Sampson and missed the shot.

"What's the matter, my passing talent is not low, why can't I pass such a simple pass?" Gan Guoyang muttered angrily after seeing the mistake after being double-teamed.

Until now, Gan Guoyang still clearly remembers the data value set by the player he created in the nb2004 game.

In the item of pssng (passing), he gave a higher value of 75, which is already quite good in the interior. You must know that Webber of the Kings is only 69 in it.

"According to my current passing ability, it's probably in the 50s..." Gan Guoyang thought about his passing value and current passing ability, and began to estimate his current passing ability.

After coming to the United States through rebirth, Gan Guoyang's mysterious basketball talent can be said to have played a huge role in his basketball career for several years. Without these talents, no matter how much Gan Guoyang likes basketball, he can't have the current ability even if he works hard.

And in the past few years of basketball, Gan Guoyang has also figured out some secrets of his own ability value.

The first secret is what he discovered first. Before he came to the United States, at the airport in Shanghai, he used a height test to prove that his jumping did not improve because of his rebirth.

But after coming to the United States, Gan Guoyang found that his jumping ability was growing as fast as his height, but he didn't do much practice himself.

After that, Gan Guoyang discovered that physical talents such as strength, reaction speed, and physical strength will gradually increase with the passage of time. If he trains more, he will grow faster.

For example, Gan Guoyang's strength, the high-intensity strength training after coming to nb, made Gan Guoyang in his rookie period have already stepped into the top ranks in terms of strength.

Moreover, in order to prevent his hook feeling from being too strong, Gan Guoyang has reduced his upper body strength exercises as much as possible to prevent himself from hooking directly behind the backboard.

In addition to these physical talents, other individual skills such as shooting, dribbling, blocking shots, steals, and rebounding will increase more slowly in terms of ability value.

Basically, these ability slots are gradually filled by Gan Guoyang relying on his hard work, especially for shooting and dribbling, Gan Guoyang is practicing hard every day without falling.

Only the talent of passing, he is not a single skill, it must be based on the tactics of the entire team and the cooperation of teammates in order to show its true meaning.

Therefore, there is no problem with Gan Guoyang's passing technique, the passing accuracy is quite good, and he can often pass such fairy balls as super long passes or passes behind his head.

But there can only be a few such balls in a game, and Gan Guoyang can pass the other balls, wide-range transfers, and hand-to-hand passes, but he doesn't know when to pass them, to whom, and where to pass them.

This is entirely a matter of experience and tactical understanding. These things cannot be given to Gan Guoyang, nor can hard training.

So Gan Guoyang was suffering from a headache, knowing that it would be impossible to be tough, so he began to watch the video tirelessly to see how the situation on the court changed.

The second secret, which Gan Guoyang discovered when he participated in the football game in high school, is that his talent can only be used in basketball, not in other sports.

In that rugby match, he made a great pass, but he was immediately crushed by his teammates and hurt his back muscles, and he was lying in the hospital for a month.

Later, Gan Guoyang discovered that as long as he participated in some relatively strenuous sports, especially ball games, his body would be inexplicably injured.

For example, he went to play tennis and sprained his foot. Although it was not serious, it also made him limping for a week.

Another example is that at Gonzaga University, he was pulled by the football team to serve as the offensive and defensive line, and he did not escape life and death. As a result, his ribs were slightly contused, and he was scolded by Behrman when he went back.

Since then, Gan Guoyang Gan Guoyang has never dared to participate in other strenuous sports. He mostly played table tennis and practiced yoga.

Even when playing table tennis, he was often hit in the face by small table tennis balls.

The third secret is that Gan Guoyang discovered through his own experiments that the talent value can be broken through.

In the game against the Sacramento Dragons in high school, Gan Guoyang sent a shocking dunk. The level of this dunk obviously surpassed Gan Guoyang's 50-point dunk ability value.

After that, Gan Guoyang began to practice his dunks crazily, and spent a lot of time on catching baskets every day.

During that time, his palms were always red and swollen, and then he gradually realized that the ability value can break the table.

Because the ability to dunk is directly related to the player's physical condition and is the result of combining multiple ability values, the value of 50 set by Gan Guoyang does not match his own physical condition.

Therefore, in some games, when Gan Guoyang is highly concentrated and in excellent physical condition, his dunk ability will overflow.

In normal conditions, Gan Guoyang still only has a dunk value of 50, no matter how high he jumps or how long his arms are.

Later, Gan Guoyang, through high-intensity training, allowed himself to dunk more vigorously in his daily state, and raised his dunk talent by ten points.

Gan Guoyang was very happy about this, and increased his practice of other skills.

But then he discovered that it was not that simple at all.

The ability of dunking is the earliest of all technical abilities, because this technique is the simplest, has no technical content, and does not require much training.

As for some other abilities, Gan Guoyang has not even reached his own set value, let alone broken the table.

It's just that this also gave Gan Guoyang a motivation to understand that there is no upper limit to his ability, as long as he works hard, there will be a day when he can surpass it!

"In the future, I will not only do what Wharton did, but also what he couldn't do!" Gan Guoyang recalled that the oath he made was based on his confidence in his talent and his unremitting efforts .

After figuring this out, Gan Guoyang watched the video for several hours in the video room until Karp came to the video room to find him.

"Gan, a call came from your home asking you to go back. It's almost 1985, do you want to watch the video for a year?"

Gan Guoyang looked up at the clock, only to realize that it was already late at night, and it was time to go home to spend the New Year's Eve.

Because Wang Fuxi rushed over from Spokane.

"Okay, I'll let her pick me up, I can't drive."