The Golden Age of Basketball

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After having dinner with Gan Guoyang, watching a movie, and riding a car that night, Chamberlain felt great satisfaction.However, this giant who is destined to be lonely but unwilling to be lonely has a new "mission" to complete, and that is to play volleyball!

Sometimes Gan Guoyang would think that the reason why Chamberlain's basketball career was so bumpy was not because of anything else, but because he knew too much.

In addition to basketball, Chamberlain has the potential of a world-class athlete in high jump, sprint, shot put, hurdles, volleyball, rugby, and boxing.It may be because he is good at too many things, which interferes with the energy he allocates to basketball.

Now that he has retired, he can finally pick up the sports he loved in the past, such as volleyball and boxing.

"If Ali dared to fight me that time, I would definitely beat his shit out!" Chamberlain boasted of his boxing skills in front of Gan Guoyang more than once.

"If your boxing skills are really that good, you won't break your hand with one fist." At this time, Thurmond will always stand up to tear Chamberlain down.

But now, the two old friends were about to part again, and there was no reluctance, no hugs to say goodbye, just a "goodbye", and Chamberlain drove away in his Lamborghini Seeker.

This is the friendship between real men, no nonsense, no long-winded.

Without the company of Chamberlain on the weekend, Gan Guoyang felt that the fun in life suddenly became much less. After all, Mr. Thurmond has his own family and business, and unlike Chamberlain, who can play around without any worries.

So he devoted more time to basketball training, because the regular season and invitational game of Palo Alto High School have ended, and finally they achieved an impressive record of 30 wins and 3 losses, and won the championship in this division. Maintained a complete victory in the regular season.

In the last game, Gan Guoyang was on the sidelines, but he was also assigned by Behrman to do team statistics.

Not only to count the basic data such as points, rebounds and assists of the team members, but also to calculate the usual shooting points and main activity areas of each teammate.

This exhausted Gan Guoyang. While adding data to his teammates, he also had to paint and change a board with the court line drawn on it. It was more tiring than playing a game.

Gan Guoyang didn't know what Bellman's intention was, but he vaguely felt in his mind that it was impossible for the head coach to torture him for nothing, and there must be some special reason behind it.

However, Gan Guoyang didn't think much about it. During the nearly half month of free time from the end of the regular season to the start of the championship, he devoted himself to training.

Especially the fadeaway jumper he learned from Chamberlain. He has mastered some basic movement essentials at present, but it is still very unstable to use in official games.

Gan Guoyang found that he still had a big defect in the strength of his waist and abdomen.

Unlike blacks, he is born with a strong body. Although he has a special talent, it needs a lot of exercise to develop it.

The lack of strength in the waist and abdomen and the ability to stay in the air are precisely the biggest shortcomings in his physical fitness at present.

"Hurry up, hurry up, don't relax! Squeeze your abdomen, speed up the frequency! You have to understand how important a good waist is for a man. Fast! Faster!" Palo Alto High School at night The gymnasium was still brightly lit, and Behrman's scolding voices continued to be heard.

In fact, since Gan Guoyang joined the Vikings, the lights in the gymnasium were often the last ones to go out in the school, and he always practiced late.

But now, not only Gan Guoyang, but the entire Vikings team has the habit of extra training.Because they are no longer the "Palo Alto Fishermen" (the nickname Gary Halleck used to give the basketball team) after the regular season and the team went back to class on vacation.

At this time, they are the champions of the Palo Alto Division of Northern California. They entered the California State Championship as a seeded team and received a first-round bye treatment, which means that they will have more rest and preparation time. .

Of course, among all the players, Gan Guoyang was the one who trained the hardest and the latest.

Just now, under Behrman's guidance and reprimand, and with the help of two teammates, he started a small strength training session, frantically training his waist and abdomen strength.

I saw Gan Guoyang lying flat on the floor with his legs bent into a bow, and Dippenbroek sat on his instep and pressed him down.This is the posture for doing sit-ups, but Behrman did not ask Gan Guoyang to simply do sit-ups.

Behrman and another player stood on the left and right sides of Gan Guoyang's feet, each holding a basketball.

Gan Guoyang sits up first to the left, and the person on the left throws the ball to Gan Guoyang. After receiving the ball, Gan Guoyang immediately passes the ball back to the opponent, and then lies down; before his muscles relax, he immediately sits up to the right again. The person on the right passed the ball to him, and Gan Guoyang also received the ball and passed it back, and then lay down.

In this way, left and right, left and right repeatedly sit up, catch the ball, pass the ball, lie down, sit up, catch the ball, lie down...Gan Guoyang's speed is getting faster and faster under the urging of Behrman, and his abdomen is also fast. It was like wanting to be burned by fire, it became more and more unbearable, and the expression on his face became more and more painful.

"Ah!" Finally, Gan Guoyang couldn't hold it anymore, he let out a loud roar, and collapsed on the floor with his arms outstretched.He was sweating profusely, staring at the ceiling and wearing rough clothes.

Because Gan Guoyang realized his lack of strength in the waist and abdomen, he asked Behrman for guidance to help him practice the waist and abdomen.

Naturally, Bellman would not let go of this opportunity to "torture" his ace player. After the team training, he kept Gan Guoyang for special training, and the sit-ups he did just now were just part of the training content. That's all.

"Okay Gan, stop lying on the ground like a dead dog, the training has just begun."

Hearing Behrman's words, Gan Guoyang suddenly regretted asking the coach to cook him a small dish. This small dish doesn't taste good!

But thinking about it, Gan Guoyang stood up from the ground obediently, endured the burning sensation in his abdomen, and prepared to accept the next training content of Behrman.

In this way, from March 1982, 3 to the official opening of the California Championship on the 3th, Gan Guoyang hardly left the gymnasium except for sleeping and eating. He knew that this was the last chance to improve before the start of the competition.

The entire Vikings team is also in a state of excitement and tension, anticipation and worry, because it is the first time for everyone to enter the state championship, including their coach Behrman.This also showed in their training.

On the last day before the start of the competition, the training is still going on intensely.Because of the bye in the first round, the Vikings still have three days to rest even if the game officially starts, but the tension before the big game has permeated the team.

"Hey, Wiggis! Williams! Stop, stop!" Bellman stood on the sidelines and watched the team conduct a five-on-five tactical training. Bumped together while defending off the ball.

The two seemed to have some quarrels, but there were signs of a fight.

Bellman yelled and stopped, and rushed forward, while other players had already stepped forward to separate the two.

"What the hell are you guys doing? The tournament is about to start, and you're just playing me infighting like this?" Bellman looked at the two people who had calmed down, but didn't say anything - swearing, but asked them what was going on .

This is not the first time this has happened today. Behrman found that the entire team seemed very dull during training, and there was very little shouting and communication on the field, but the smell of gunpowder was a bit strong.

The clash between Virgis and Williams appeared to be an outburst of negativity in today's practice.

In fact, Behrman also knew in his heart that they felt uneasy and irritable because they were too nervous.

The same is true for Behrman himself. He hasn't had a good night's sleep for several days, so he didn't yell at Wiggis and Williams. What they need now is calmness.

But Behrman himself felt that he couldn't calm down. Everyone was looking at him, as if asking him what to do next, continue training?

Or punish these two guys who violated discipline?or something else.Bellman's mind was about to explode, and he couldn't help cursing "fu-ck-you".

"Mr. Behrman, why don't we go play billiards? I think it's time to relax a little bit. Everyone seems a little too nervous." At this time, Gan Guoyang, who was the first to run up to grab Wiggis, suggested.

This is really a bold suggestion, going to play pool when you are about to play a championship?In normal times, Bellman would have spat out Gan Guoyang's shit.

But Bellman looked at Gan Guoyang, his ace player.

Gan Guoyang looked very calm, as if he had forgotten that the coach in front of him had always been known for his bad temper and poisonous mouth. He was very calm and calm, as if he had come up with a brilliant idea and was waiting for his boss's approval.

"Okay, that's the end of today's training. I have the key to the billiard room. Let's go and relax together." Behrman seemed to think that this was a brilliant idea. Before Gan Guoyang made this suggestion, he almost gave up. Know what to do, how to solve the team's nervousness, because he also fell into this emotion and couldn't extricate himself.

From this moment, Bellman suddenly realized that perhaps Gan Guoyang was the real leader of the team.

When everyone was tense and out of control, only he was still so calm. He has been normal throughout the training, and other players have been normal when facing him. No one wants to conflict with him.

"The-king." This was a word that popped up in Bellman's mind. From Gan Guoyang's body, Bellman could vaguely feel the breath of a king.

In the United States, in California, there are many talented high school students, and Gan Guoyang is only one of them at present, but Bellman feels that Gan Guoyang will be the real king among them, and he is also a Chinese.

As a result, the Vikings' training ended early today, and Bellman took the whole team to the billiard room to play billiards.

Billiards is basically the safest ball game. If you can get injured playing billiards, then God is joking with you. You have to laugh if you don’t laugh.So using billiards to relax your emotions is really a good idea.

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"By the way, ladies, I forgot. I should show you the schedule map. I think it is necessary for us to do an early silence for the teams that will fall at our feet." Bellman in the billiard room Suddenly remembered about the schedule, he even forgot such an important thing.

The familiar address of "ladies" made the players who were playing billiards stop their cue sticks and gathered around Behrman, wanting to see who their next opponent would be.

Bellman took out a large poster paper from his purse, with the race schedule drawn on it.As the top player in the division, the Vikings have no opponents in the first round and have a bye.

Next to them are the Los Altos Conquistadors and Notre Dame High School Crusaders, the winners of these two high schools will be the Vikings' first opponents.

"Los Altos High School? I know, my cousin goes to school there, and I heard they play very black." Stanley said while seeing the high school.

"I've also heard that they play really savagely, so no team is willing to play invitational games with them, and they go to other people's sites to play."

"Even if they go to other people's territory, they have never restrained themselves."

"We played against them in the invitational match three years ago. At that time, they were so virtuous. At that time, their center hit me in the chest with elbows several times, but the referee didn't see it. I was going crazy." Si, he joined the basketball team in the ninth grade and is now a freshman in the 12th grade.

"They are still so virtuous! I heard that several players have been injured on their hands. Although it was not a serious injury, they couldn't play in the game at that time." Williams also has friends who go to school in other places .

"But Los Altos High School may not be able to beat Notre Dame High School. Notre Dame High School is still very good." Dipenbrock added on the side, indeed, Notre Dame High School is not easy to bully.

"Yeah! Notre Dame High School is pretty good too... Anyway, it's not easy to beat anyone..."

Everyone discussed it with each other.Because the first few rounds of the high school tournament were arranged according to the principle of proximity, Los Altos High School and Notre Dame High School were not far from Palo Alto, and the Vikings knew about these two schools.

Behrman didn't stop the team members from chattering. He would have called them "ladies" before, but this time he looked at Gan Guoyang.

"No matter who it is, we will definitely win anyway." Gan Guoyang understood, and a firm voice came, interrupting other people's discussions, "So everyone should prepare well for the next game, and there is no need to worry about who will play in the next round. . I think it's time for us to think about our final opponents."

Bellman originally wanted Gan Guoyang to stand up and say a few words at this time to improve the confidence of the players, and at the same time further establish Gan Guoyang's leadership in the team.

But he didn't expect that Gan Guoyang dared to speak so full of words. If it sounds good, it's self-confidence, but if it sounds bad, it's arrogance.

In competitions like the high school championship, the chances of being unpopular are very high, and dark horses will appear every year.

In fact, Palo Alto High School is a dark horse in this competition, and they haven't made it to the state championship in a long time.

"Where is Tianji High School?" Gan Guoyang became concerned about Tianji High School at this moment.

"They are not in the same half as us, and they will not meet before the final."

"Hope to meet them in the final."

In Gan Guoyang's view, Tianji High School should be the strongest opponent he has encountered so far. He doesn't know or care about other teams.

Up to now, he is still adhering to the principle of playing whatever game is arranged, and everything is based on the principle of me, and he is too lazy to learn about the opponent's information.

So in his eyes, Tianji High School is the strongest team besides Palo Alto High School.

Obviously, Gan Guoyang's self-confidence is not without reason. He is not arrogant, but comes from a full understanding of himself and the team; of course, he is also fully prepared to meet the challenges of other teams.

The fierce battle is about to begin