The Golden Age of Basketball

(The paragraph about Donaghy has just been exposed. Even if he is needed, I probably have to wait until I write the third part, so let’s bury it first. The off-site writing is almost done, and the playoffs of the playoffs are about to begin .)

On April Fool's Day, for Patrick Ewing, God made another joke for him.

Ewing, known as the representative of tragic figures in history, actually had a glorious history before entering nb.

The giant from Jamaica was discovered by coach John Thompson. In the harsh training, coach Thompson trained Ewing to be a near-perfect team player, a shot-blocking machine that devoured everything on the defensive end.

After entering Georgetown, the taciturn center created the tradition of Georgetown's iron-blooded center. He led the team to the national finals three times in the four years of college, and defeated the strongest opponent Olajuwon in 1984. Win the championship, the limelight is momentary.

If he participated in the nb draft in 1984, it is still unknown who he or Olajuwon can become the No. [-] pick that year.

But the arrival of Gan Guoyang ruined everything. In the 1984 N16-to-8 competition, Gan Guoyang and Stockton led Gonzaga to destroy Georgetown, changed history, and deprived Ewing of the championship that should have belonged to him.

For this reason, Ewing stayed in the university without hesitation. He had to finish his studies for four years, and he must win the n championship once.

However, Gan Guoyang subsequently participated in the nb draft, and did not give Ewing a chance to avenge him in college. He also participated in the draft together with Michael Jordan, who beat Georgetown in the 1982 finals. [

In 1985, nb also underwent major changes like nb. First of all, the attack time limit was introduced into the game. The team must shoot within 35 seconds, otherwise the ball will be deprived.

At the same time, the number of people participating in the N National Competition has increased to 64. Gonzaga will no longer have to play in the qualifying rounds like last year, and will directly enter the finals of the National Competition.

There are more teams, and the competition is naturally more intense, but in the end, among the four teams that entered the fnl-four, three are from the same division!

That is Georgetown University, St. John's University in New York, and Villanova University. They all come from the powerful bg-est Big East alliance.

The final final became a civil war in the Big East League, with the champion of the Big East League against the Big East and the Villanova Wildcats, the lowest-ranked team in the National Championship. (There are so many teams called Wildcats.)

In the eyes of most people, this is a game without any suspense. In the game in the Big East, Georgetown maintained a complete victory over Villanova, which also made Georgetown's calls for winning the championship extremely high before the game. .

Among the few people who think that Villanova will win this championship, some analyze it from a technical point of view, because Georgetown’s victory over Villanova is a narrow victory and does not have an absolute advantage; some are purely from sympathy From the perspective of the weak, they think that if Villanova can beat Georgetown, it will undoubtedly be a legendary story; some of them are naturally from the emotional point of view, and they are all students of Villanova.

Only Gan Guoyang, he felt that the reason why Georgetown could not win the championship was very simple, because he felt that Georgetown should not have won this championship in history.

Gan Guoyang's knowledge of basketball history is not qualified, but he knows the joke that Ewing defeated Olajuwon to win the nb championship in 1984, and then Ewing did not win the championship in 1985, and then he entered nb.

As for who Georgetown lost to and how, Gan Guoyang didn't know at all.

If history is still running on the track of inertia and has not been derailed by the many changes before, then poor Ewing will miss the championship again.

Sure enough, as Gan Guoyang expected, in the suffocating Rapp Stadium, Villanova, who reached the final as a dark horse, burst out with great energy. With a slight advantage of 66:64, he defeated the mighty of Georgetown.

At the end of the game, the Villanova players embraced like crazy, celebrating the miracle champion.

Among these players, none of them will be able to achieve even a little bit of Ewing's achievements in the future, but they used the power of the team to defeat their opponents in a place where n is a miracle, and won what may be the most glorious in their lives. Achievement.

When Gan Guoyang saw the Villanova players, he couldn't help but think of his classmates at Gonzaga University. Some of them have begun to live ordinary lives, but those good memories will never be forgotten. [

But what made Gan Guoyang even more unforgettable was Patrick Ewing, who covered his face with his hands and couldn't sit still on the bench.

In the two finals in freshman and senior year, the lost points added up to three points, but it was these three points that ruined Ewing's championship dream.

Gan Guoyang looked at the sad Ewing on the bench, and thought in his heart: "The championship you should have was taken away by me..."

At the same time, Gan Guoyang thought that if the inertia of history would really continue to play a role, then Ewing's future nb career would undoubtedly be just as tragic.

Gan Guoyang is now extremely sensitive to history. He racked his brains to dig out the memories of future generations in his brain, hoping that he can follow the general trend. At the same time, he also compared it with the recording of the blind Chris, hoping to find some clues.

It's a pity that he can't remember many things clearly, and he can only remember a rough idea of ​​the fate of other players. Gan Guoyang knows that as time goes by, more and more things will be changed, and his situation will become worse at that time. more and more dangerous.

Thinking of this, Gan Guoyang lost all sympathy for Ewing. He is a superstar, even if he can't win the championship, life must be very good, unlike Gan Guoyang, who might just slap him when the great history god is unhappy Call him dead.

"Let's go Gan, I don't think you can understand Ewing's mood, I can understand, at this time in 1983, I was similar to him." Drexler stepped forward and said to Gan Guoyang.

"I'm not always successful, and I've had miserable failures too... But there are some things you can't understand, Clyde." Gan Guoyang said with a slight smile.

"Don't be hypocritical and bully us for not making it to the finals? Let's go, it will be more troublesome if there are too many people." Sampson said that his University of Minnesota can only play in the secondary league like nt.

Gan Guoyang didn't watch the award ceremony at Villanova, and Gan Guoyang left early with a few teammates as soon as the game was over. Gan Guoyang didn't want to meet Georgetown fans, and he was also on the blacklist of Georgetown fans.

"Hey, Gan! Gan!" As soon as he left the gymnasium, Gan Guoyang heard someone calling him. When he saw it, it was Donaghy.

"Don't call me a kid, the fans here basically don't love me." Gan Guoyang said to Donaghy.

"Wow! The main players of the Trail Blazers are here! Sign me!" Donaghy saw several other Trail Blazers players, and stepped forward to take out a signing pen.

After his wish was fulfilled, Donaghy said to Gan Guoyang: "I didn't expect you to win! No...it should be Villanova who won! I owe you a bet! However, there will be no one in this game." Manipulation? Look, Villanova got so many free throws, and Georgetown got fours!"

In this game, Villanova was able to win the game and made a great contribution to free throws. They made 14 of 11 free throws in the game, which is a very high number of free throws and free throw percentage.

On the Georgetown side, there were three players with four fouls, including Ewing, which also greatly affected their performance.

Looking at Donaghy's words, Gan Guoyang immediately felt a great sense of irony. Although Gan Guoyang was not sure that the Donaghy in front of him was the future Donaghy who was blowing the whistle in nb, but if it was really him, then He said such words, it really makes people feel that this world is absurd - even in Gan Guoyang's view, this world is already absurd enough.

"For n, I still maintain full trust. For nb... I have reservations... I hope I won't be fined." Gan Guoyang played in n for a season, and felt that n's penalty is still very fair. After all, this is not a business The league, and nb sometimes has some inexplicable penalties that make people uncomfortable.

"My dad thinks so too! He's n's referee!" Donaghy continued.

At this moment, Gan Guoyang felt that maybe this Donaghy was really the Donaghy who was whistled because of gambling in the later generations, and inheriting his father's career is also applicable in the refereeing world!

Gan Guoyang looked at the horse-faced Tim Donaghy in front of him, and the more he looked at him, the more he looked like the black whistle referee who was locked up for 15 months in later generations. This was a sudden idea in Gan Guoyang's mind.

"Hey Tim, I think you can inherit your father's career and be a referee. In this way, if you can enter the nb in the future, you may be able to help me. You still owe me a bet." Will lead Donaghy to do other careers, he just wants to lead him to the refereeing career.

"I won't blow the whistle on you! And when I become an nb referee, you may retire." Donaghy said "righteous words".

"I didn't ask you to blow the whistle on me, but I hope that if you blow the whistle, you'd better show me some sympathy..." Gan Guoyang explained carefully, and he didn't know what "show some sympathy" meant. What's the meaning.

"I won't blow the whistle! I want to be a just and impartial referee, just like my father."

"Oh no no no, maybe you can't blow the black whistle, but if your partner does, you can...you can correct him!"

"I will report him directly!"

"Hey Gan, what are you talking about with this kid, let's go back quickly!"

"Okay, here I come! Goodbye Tim, I hope you can really stick to your original belief, goodbye."