The Golden Age of Basketball

Hearing Lewis' voice, both Gan Guoyang and Olajuwon stopped confrontation and watched Coach Lewis walk over.

Lewis took the ball from Gan Guoyang, and first said to Olajuwon: "Akeem, your defense is not a big problem, but your strength is a bit weak. I didn't expect that among the players of the same year, there are still others Strength and handling are better than yours."

Olajuwon only started to play basketball after junior high school, but he is extremely talented. During the few years at the University of Houston, he has perfect skills in all aspects

In the regular season of last season, when Gan Guoyang singled out Olajuwon, he mainly used the hook technique.

Since Gan Guoyang has an advantage in strength, once he pushes Olajuwon away and gains space to make a hook shot, then Olajuwon basically can only watch.

However, after the end of the season, Olajuwon further strengthened his strength training, and at the same time asked Moses Malone for defensive hook skills.

In several confrontations at the University of Houston, Gan Guoyang found that it was not so easy for him to block Olajuwon's hook hit, and other offensive methods were greatly reduced in the face of Olajuwon.

"As for you Gan, you are too obsessed with your sky-hook. You have to know that you are not Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In this world, there is only one skyhook. No matter how close your technical moves are, you don't have the physical condition and offense of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Experience. But you also have your advantages, so you have to use your advantages and have richer offensive methods." Lewis then said to Gan Guoyang.

Lewis is right. No matter how well Gan Guoyang's hook is practiced, he is always a 6-foot-10 center, and it is impossible for him to have the huge advantage brought by Kareem's 7-foot-2 height. [

In many cases, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar can use the skyhook depending on the opponent's defense. Facing the same situation, Gan Guoyang's difficulty is much greater.

Gan Guoyang also has a deep understanding of this. For example, against a 7-foot-2 giant like Jill Moore, Gan Guoyang's big hook is very limited, which is one of the reasons why he played so-so against the Spurs.

Gan Guoyang's other offensive methods are always ineffective. The mid-range shot didn't show its power until the playoffs against the Nuggets; strengthen.

Gan Guoyang's footsteps are very solid and excellent, but the situation of clearing the opponent in one step does not appear every time, and there is no era of three-second defense, relying on footsteps is the only way to break the opponent's double-team.

"Coach Lewis, what should I do? I think I can do a lot of things, and I can do well, but obviously I need further improvement, but I don't know where to start." Gan Guoyang asked suspiciously.

"The improvement of technology is slow. There is no one technology that can be achieved quickly. It needs to be learned, repeatedly tempered, put into actual combat, summed up experience, improved and improved, and then put into actual combat, over and over again. As far as you are concerned, I think you must be very Hope to be able to develop excellent shooting skills, like Akeem, to be able to make a beautiful turnaround jumper. I believe that this skill will be developed one day. But your problem now is that you can't summarize yourself you don't use your strengths. You just think, this technology looks great, I'm going to learn it, and then I can win games with it... I know, Akeem sometimes you I would think like this...but everyone has flaws and strengths, and it is more important to use strengths than to make up for weaknesses. Gan, what do you think your strengths are? Compared with Akim." Lewis explained his offensive skills attitude, and then asked Gan Guoyang.

"Me? I think...my strength, and...probably flexibility...and looks..."

"I'm a handsome guy among the blacks!" Olajuwon obviously expressed strong dissatisfaction with Gan Guoyang's answer.

Coach Lewis smiled and ignored Olajuwon's protest, nodded and said: "You are indeed slightly more handsome than Akeem, of course you are worse than me... But you are right, Akeem's Strength and flexibility are already excellent among basketball players, but you are stronger and more flexible than Akeem, which makes me feel incredible, because muscle mass often affects flexibility and flexibility, I don't know how you have both. Flexibility allows you to hook like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, which is really cool, but you neglect your strength, which seems to be only used for blocking, Once you have the ball and start attacking, you don't know how to use it properly."

Lewis can see from Gan Guoyang's offense that Gan Guoyang is very strong and his foot is extremely stable, so he can't get stuck in Olajuwon when he is stuck.

When Gan Guoyang was attacking with the ball, Gan Guoyang began to fight for space for the hook.

The advantage of the "skyhook" technique is that once a shot is made, it basically depends on the defense, and whether it goes in or not depends entirely on the feel of the hand; but its disadvantage is that the shot is slow and requires a calm shot space.

The Skyhook is not just a hand movement, but a set of coherent technical movements involving the whole body. It needs to turn around, raise the legs, swing the arms, and shake the wrists. The process is relatively complicated and the process is long.

For a giant like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, it doesn't matter whether you seal it or not, so he needs less hook space.

And Gan Guoyang is only 6 feet 10, and a shot-blocking maniac like Olajuwon still interferes with him greatly, so he needs more shooting space. [

Gan Guoyang's strength played an important role in the fight for shooting space, but now Lewis said that he did not make good use of his strength advantage.

"It seems that I still need to do more strength exercises. I haven't improved my strength systematically for a month..." Gan Guoyang thought that Lewis was saying that his strength had regressed.

Lewis shook his head and said, "No, no, no, Gan, that's not what I mean. I mean, you don't need to make such a big effort, but in the end you just use a big hook. Why don't you try A normal hook, instead of shooting a skyhook out of Akeem when you get the space, you go right at Akeem, over his head, and put the ball in the hoop, you know what I mean?"

"You mean, use a small hook?" Gan Guoyang understood what Lewis meant after hearing this, and asked him to use a small hook instead of a big one.

The main difference between the small hook and the big hook is that two of the original four movements—turning around, raising the legs, swinging the arms, and shaking the wrist—were removed from two of them—lifting the legs and swinging the arms. At the same time, raise the ball with both hands, and after turning around, raise your hand and shake your wrist, and throw the ball.

After omitting the two steps of the small hook, the movement is simpler and faster, and there is no need to squeeze out more room for movement. The disadvantage is that the shooting range is short, and the opponent is easily interfered by confrontation.

"That's right, it's a small hook. Since your strength has the upper hand, you have to make the most of your strength. From blocking, to occupying space, to making moves, to completing shots, you must maintain confrontation. , instead of getting the space and then throwing a big hook, which doesn’t necessarily work well for you, remember, you’re not Kareem.”

After Lewis finished speaking, Gan Guoyang also felt that it made sense. He decided to try what Lewis said. He thought that since he could do sky hooks, he should be able to do small hooks as well.

After speaking, Lewis retreated to the sidelines, while Gan Guoyang and Olajuwon began to block under the basket.

Olajuwon knew that Gan Guoyang was going to make a small hook this time, but he still couldn't influence Gan Guoyang's positioning. Gan Guoyang's positioning skills were too solid, as if he had taken root on the edge of the three-second zone.

Lewis saw the timing and lobbed the ball to Gan Guoyang, who received the ball smoothly.

"I know what you want to do, come and try Gan." Olajuwon said, he gained a lot of confidence in this training, and he believed that he could surpass Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang didn't speak, he began to think about the movement route in his mind, because he seldom practiced the small hook before, unlike the big hook, all the movements have long been engraved in his mind, and he needs to think about it specially.

"Make good use of your strength!" Lewis shouted from the side, it seemed that Gan Guoyang was his disciple at this time.

So, Gan Guoyang began to go in like an earth machine. His strength is so abundant, which is not only due to his "talent", but also due to the hard training the day after tomorrow.

When Gan Guoyang was fighting against Olajuwon before, he mainly wanted to squeeze out space for a big hook, so his force was inconsistent, because he had to pull back at any time to make a hook.

But it's different now, Gan Guoyang just squeezed in with all his heart, and now Olajuwon is a little immobile, and it can be said that he is retreating steadily.

"Turn around!" Lewis yelled, at this time Gan Guoyang had squeezed into the basket.

Gan Guoyang took advantage of the situation and turned around holding the ball with his elbows, jumped with both feet, raised the ball over his head, and shot with a straight arm hook in front of the basket!

At this time, Gan Guoyang could feel that although Olajuwon did not take off, but in order to prevent Olajuwon from getting up, Gan Guoyang was leaning hard on Olajuwon, which affected the balance of his shooting hand. Influence.

If he uses a big hook, he should squeeze out Olajuwon, take a big stride to the middle, and then complete the hook. Zhu Wang resisted.

"Boom!" The ball hit the neck of the basket, obviously Gan Guoyang's shot was still affected.

But the ball went from the neck of the basket to the front of the basket, bumped a few more times, and finally stumbled into the net.

"You know what I'm going to do, and you can't stop me, Akeem." After the goal was scored, Gan Guoyang immediately hit back at Olajuwon with a regretful look on his face.

Olajuwon stood there with his hips crossed and was depressed for a long time. He still didn't understand how the power of this yellow man could be so tyrannical.

Until he met that monster in 1992, Olajuwon never met a guy more terrifying than Gan Guoyang Lidao.

Now, his offensive methods are more abundant.