The Golden Age of Basketball

The All-Star game continued in such a relaxed and playful atmosphere. Gan Guoyang's actions undoubtedly aroused everyone's desire for performance, and the game became colorful.

But Pat Riley, coach of the Western Conference Stars on the sidelines, quickly saw through Gan Guoyang's "undercover" nature after watching a few rounds of back and forth. Come to play.

Don't look at Pat Riley's greasy hair and pink face. Every time he appears in public, he will always have the same big back and a handsome face with a bit of evil. In fact, Riley is an out-and-out The iron-blooded devil trainer.

In the NBA, every team and every coach has a different training style. Some are very loose, using games as a substitute for training, allowing players to give full play to their full potential; .

Although the Los Angeles Lakers play gorgeous offensive basketball, playing offensive basketball is generally much easier than defensive basketball, Gan Guoyang has experienced the training of the Lakers, which is completely suffocating and even cruel for a long time.

It is Riley's training method that makes the Lakers, who look like a show, are actually an invincible steel division. Riley, who looks like the godfather of the underworld, is definitely an out-and-out strongman in the league.

Such a strong man, even in the All-Star Game, couldn't tolerate Gan Guoyang's game. Soon after a timeout, Riley replaced Gan Guoyang and replaced him with the Lakers' own center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

In the following games, Gan Guoyang got very little playing time, and Gan Guoyang didn't care much about it. Basically, this little time was enough for him to clear all the statistics.

Moreover, sitting on the bench, Gan Guoyang was unwilling to communicate with Riley. It wasn’t that Gan Guoyang didn’t like Riley or that Riley couldn’t understand Gan Guoyang. In fact, when Gan Guoyang entered the league and went to Palm Springs to experience the Lakers training camp However, Riley admired Gan Guoyang's courageous drive very much, and Gan Guoyang gradually admired the coach.

But as the head coach of the strongest opponent, Gan Guoyang hopes to maintain a hostile relationship with Riley deliberately, not to mention hating Riley, but at least to wipe away the respect and admiration in his heart. Gan Guoyang knows that he has a heart of revenge Often times a huge motivator for basketball players.

Gan Guoyang still remembers last season’s Western Conference Finals. Pat Riley’s double-team defensive tactics made Gan Guoyang miserable, and his performance was almost discounted by half. In one game, Gan Guoyang even quarreled with Riley on the sidelines, although it disappeared afterwards. Both angry parties expressed that they would not mind, but Gan Guoyang still kept this in mind.

Gan Guoyang is not a person who holds grudges, but now he needs hatred.

If Ramsey is the coach of the Western All-Stars in this game, Gan Guoyang will basically not play the ticket like last season, at least he will play seriously, otherwise don't make the old man mad, then the Blazers will be bad up.

Since it was Riley, Gan Guoyang played around honestly. After the start of the second half, Gan Guoyang started again. Anyway, Riley couldn't put him on the bench at this time.

In the locker room at halftime, Gan Guoyang took out the goggles he won from Worthy in the slam dunk contest yesterday, put them on his eyes to participate in the competition, and also made a cobra.

Gan Guoyang not only made a cobra, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar also wore goggles, so Gan Guoyang played cosplay on the court and began to imitate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to play.

Gan Guoyang knew Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's hook, but the two's hook movements were still different. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's sky hook was not the most standard big hook, but the general standard big hook. It relies on the forearm, wrist and fingers to exert force in turn. The whole movement forms a circular hook shape, so it is called "". This hook is curved.

As for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's hook, Jiang Taigong used a straight hook for fishing. He straightened his entire arm and raised it high at the moment of the shot, and then used his wrist and fingers to exert force. The forearm did not exert force. This kind of hook More concise, more difficult to defend, but only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar can do it.

Gan Guoyang has always used the standard big hook, and his movements are more like George McCann, the first super charge in ancient times. Of course, Gan Guoyang has also learned the advantages of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and the whole movement is more coherent and smooth.

So in the second half, after Gan Guoyang began to imitate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, he completely changed his action to a straight-arm hook. He received a pass from the magician for the first ball, and then followed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's routine to hook Moses Malone's head. Hit a ball.

This is not over yet. After the goal, Gan Guoyang imitated Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and celebrated with the magician. The two pointed at each other and then clapped their hands vigorously. This is also the classic way of celebration between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the magician. .

After this set was done, the magician was already laughing. The two discussed this in the locker room, but Jabbar himself didn't know it at all. Watching Gan Guoyang and the magician on the field In cosplay, Tiangou, who has never shown a smile very much, is also smiling, and even Moses Malone, who is more serious, shakes his head and laughs there.

Gan Guoyang and the Magician, the two players, completely became the protagonists on the field. The Western Stars launched a fast break, and Gan Guoyang quickly followed up, catching the ball and dunking successfully!

It's just that Gan Guoyang's dunk is no longer an elegant gliding dunk like Dr. J, but imitating Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to go straight up and down. The pace ran back to the backcourt.

The All-Star players off the field were laughing like crazy. Gan Guoyang imitated Kareem Abdul-Jabbar really vividly. If he could shave his head, it would be even more perfect.

Even Pat Riley shook his head helplessly off the court. Obviously, there was no player as entertaining as him before Gan Guoyang. All solitary giants who lived alone and played on the court just to show their height and strength to mortals, not for show.

Since then, the entertainment spirit that Gan Guoyang brought to the center has been gradually inherited by the "later" centers. They are no longer the Goliath that everyone fears.

However, the game will continue, Gan Guoyang's cosplay is just a small episode, and then Riley replaced Gan Guoyang, and put the real Kareem on the field, and Gan Guoyang was off. There was an extremely warm applause, which seemed to be given to the pair of "True and False Kareem Abdul-Jabbar".

Although Gan Guoyang has been "making trouble", the Western All-Star team still maintained a slight advantage at the end of the third quarter. When the game entered the fourth quarter, the two sides finally put aside the entertainment and finally began to play seriously. Come to think of it, entertainment games are also games after all, as long as it is a game, there will be winners and losers. As a basketball player, there is no game that you don't want to win.

After the start of the fourth quarter, the defenses on both sides began to strengthen. It is impossible for the center to easily get a position in the low post. The two sides fought fiercely for each ball. The referee finally began to whistle frequently. Joe Crowe Ford was touched by Gan Guoyang for a while in the first quarter, and his expression was always in a trance, until this time he was a little relieved.

Due to the presence of Magician in the Western All-Stars, several offenses are still very beautiful, but the biggest flaw of Magician is that he makes a lot of mistakes. In the Lakers, his mistakes often put the team in a disadvantageous situation. , In the finals in 84, his fatal mistake was also one of the important factors for the Lakers to lose the championship.

When it came to the All-Star Game, everyone didn't practice coordination much. It was purely based on feeling, and the Eastern players were already good at hand-to-hand defense. The Western All-Star team made several mistakes in a row, and these mistakes were all caught by the Eastern team. Yes, they used quick counterattacks to score consecutively.

Among them, Isiah Thomas played the most ruthlessly. At this time, his breakthrough and small throws, if a miracle, made consecutive hits and helped the Eastern All-Stars widen the score gap.

At the same time, although Larry Bird is not very popular in the All-Star Game, after all, his style of play is too simple, even more simple than Gan Guoyang, but his jump shot and dunk are both two points. Speaking of having a deadly jump shooter, the critical moment is really deadly.

Gan Guoyang did not get a chance to play at the last moment, but sat on the sidelines and watched the ten best players in the league fight on the field. Although they did not have much tactical cooperation, their super personal ability still made the scene exciting diverse.

Magician's pass, Bird's jumper, Thomas' breakthrough, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's hook, Moses Malone's offensive rebound, Sampson's dunk, Dr. J's big move, Worthy's low post, all Everyone showed their housekeeping skills and raised the intensity of the competition to the highest level.

The two sides continued to come and go, fighting until the last minute. The Western All-Stars were still 1 points behind the Eastern Conference. Basically, they had lost hope of winning, so the players in the Western Conference also gave up resistance. A wonderful All-Star game was about to begin. end.

In the end, the Eastern team defeated the Western team 141:133. Isiah Thomas scored a game-high 30 points, won the All-Star Game mvp, and became the star of the stars in 1986 in Stern's mouth.

But in the eyes of many viewers, this All-Star Weekend, Gan Guoyang is the brightest star.