The Golden Age of Basketball

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On March 1982, 3, the California State High School Basketball Championship officially opened.

Among them, in the second-level competition where Palo Alto High School is located, except for the top 8 teams with the best record in the division, the other 48 teams will fight against each other today.

The playoffs of the high school league are different from the nba. There is no series of home and away games, but a life-and-death battle to determine the outcome in a neutral school.This is the same as the NCAA game, either win or go home, which fully reflects the cruelty of competitive games, and is therefore full of unknowns and excitement.

Because of this, the most important thing in the high school league and NCAA is upset, so no matter which popular team, you must carefully prepare for each round of the game, otherwise you don't know when you will become a victim of upset.

The venue of the competition is mainly selected in various universities, and the distance between the two sides of the competition must be taken into account.The schools in Northern California will be concentrated in San Jose to compete among several universities in San Jose.

The Southern California schools will arrive in Los Angeles together, where the winner will be decided.

Ultimately, the North-South division champions of this year's California secondary team will compete for the eventual title in Los Angeles.

Early in the morning on the 17th, twelve Vikings players, led by their teachers and coaches, took the school bus to San Jose.

The distance from Palo Alto to San Jose is closer than San Francisco, so they can leave on the 17th, instead of the school near Sacramento, which has to fly on the 16th.

The shuttle soon arrived in San Jose. Gan Guoyang sat in the car and looked at the city outside the window, thinking that all cities in the United States are fucking the same, and they are all planned.

When Gan Guoyang first arrived in the United States, he still felt that the cities in the United States were clean and tidy, with well-organized planning and good greenery.

Later, he felt more and more that every place looked the same, repetitive and monotonous. In contrast, although Chinese cities were much messier and messier, they all had very strong characteristics, especially some ancient cities.

Thinking of this, Gan Guoyang couldn't help but miss the motherland on the other side. It has been more than half a year since he traveled to the past and came to the United States, and now he still occasionally feels like dreaming.

The car stopped in front of a hotel in San Jose, where the organizing committee arranged for the players to live. This year, one fifth of the basketball elites in Northern California will gather here.

And it is rumored that some of the strongest players in California this year are students of secondary league schools.

This naturally includes Gan Guoyang, who led Palo Alto to a sudden rise and won the championship in the division—although the Palo Alto division is not strong.

And this guy is a yellow race, and a transfer student!

Not only in California, but even across the United States, Gan Guoyang began to attract the attention of the basketball world, especially some Chinese groups began to pay attention to this magical Chinese kid.

Because the yellow race in the United States has always been considered as the weak in sports, the popular sports in the United States such as rugby, basketball, and baseball do not have a place for the yellow race.

But now, all the other high schools are also staring at Palo Alto High School, staring at Gan Guoyang, they want to try this Chinese kid in the tournament to see if he lives up to his reputation.

Every high school player, especially the center forward, also wants to compete with Gan Guoyang. Some of them want to beat famous opponents purely out of competition.

Others were less so, with the smell of race pervading the pre-match calm.

Gan Guoyang didn't know anything about it, and he wasn't interested or in the mood to find out about it.

Once in the hotel room he packed up his things and lay down on the bed.After sitting in the car for a long time, I want to relax.

"Gan, are you not nervous at all?" Dippenbrok, who lived in the same room as Gan Guoyang, asked.

"Fortunately, since I scored the first goal in the first game, I knew that I would never be nervous again in the high school league." Gan Guoyang remembered his embarrassment in the first game .

Looking at Gan Guoyang lying on the extended bed, Dippenbroek thought of how confident and indifferent he seemed when he first met him in the gymnasium.

Today, he is still the same, but Dippenbrock knows that Gan Guoyang's self-confidence is not without roots, but stems from his strong strength and firm belief.

Thinking of this, Dippenbrock also felt full of confidence, and the anxiety in his heart before coming to San Jose was much less.

In the afternoon, after having lunch, Bellman took the players to their game venue, the gymnasium of San Jose State University, to learn about the situation on the spot.

A college gym is just different than a high school gym.The venues for high school games are all small arenas, only one side has auditoriums, and the other three sides are walls.Such a large venue can seat 500 spectators, while a small one can only seat 2 people.

The university's gymnasium is a formal gymnasium, and the auditorium surrounds the stadium, and a venue can seat thousands of spectators.

The gymnasium of San Jose State University can accommodate more than 2000 spectators to watch the game. Such a venue is full of spectators, and the atmosphere brought by it is not comparable to the previous regular season.

When the Vikings arrived at the stadium, they found that there were already teams on the field for shooting drills.

"It's a player from the Crusaders of Notre Dame High School. Their school is in San Jose, and this is half of their home court." Dippenbrook said, he has always been a know-it-all in the team.

"The majority of their players seem to be white." Gan Guoyang found that most of the players in the Crusaders were white.

"Notre Dame High School is a relatively high-end school, so most of the students are white."

But at this time, from another passage of the stadium, a group of players wearing blue jerseys walked in through the gate. Their formation was scattered, their footsteps were loose, and they showed a ruffian air from top to bottom.

And most of them are black.

"It's from Los Altos High School." Dippenbrock's voice was also much lower, as if he was afraid that those guys would hear him.

These vile-looking guys were players from the Los Altos High School Conquistadors. They also looked at the Vikings players, especially Gan Guoyang.

It seems like their next opponent is the Vikings, not Notre Dame.

"I'll go say hello to them." Gan Guoyang said suddenly, startling everyone else.

Saying hello to a possible opponent before a game is basically considered provocative, and it is likely to cause violent conflicts, not to mention that the players at Los Altos High School do not seem to be easy to mess with.

Bellman happened to go outside to make a phone call at this time, and no one could stop Gan Guoyang.

The Vikings players looked at Gan Guoyang alone, and walked to their side under the vigilant eyes of the Los Altos High School players.

"If the situation is not right, we will rush up immediately!" Williams said, he was afraid that Gan Guoyang would suffer.

However, Gan Guoyang stood there and chatted with the players from Los Altos High School. It seemed that there was nothing wrong with him, and he could even see the smiles on their faces.

Soon, Gan Guoyang came back, as if nothing happened, just chatted with some old friends.

"Gan, what did you tell them?" someone asked curiously.

"I told them I was going to kick their ass in the game." Gan Guoyang said with a smile, obviously he was joking.

At this time, Bellman just came back, because the Vikings game was the day after tomorrow, so he took the players back to the hotel, ready to watch the first round game tonight, Notre Dame High School Crusaders against Los Altos High School Conqueror .

Their winner will be a Viking opponent.

3月17ri晚上7点，加州高中篮球联赛正式开始，第一轮24支球队共12场比赛分别在圣荷西和洛杉矶的多所大学里拉开战幕。

San Jose State University's stadium is brightly lit tonight, and the stadium, which can accommodate 1500 spectators, is already full.

In addition to the current students of San Jose University, there were students from Notre Dame High School and some other teams including the Palo Alto Vikings.

"So many students from Notre Dame High School? It's like the home stadium of Notre Dame High School." Gan Guoyang looked at the large piece of navy blue in the auditorium, and felt that the school is close.

In comparison, Los Altos High School doesn't have many supporters, but they don't seem to care.

There were no gimmicks at an nba game in the 80s, let alone a high school game, so there was no gibberish show.

After the players are introduced and the American national anthem is played, the game officially begins.

The opening match was not as intense as Gan Guoyang had imagined. Both sides played a little nervously. After all, it was a knockout match that would determine the outcome, and they couldn't let go.

Both sides made some mistakes, and the tactics were not clear. Generally speaking, it was rather chaotic.

In this case, it depends either on the coach's ability to adjust, or on whether the ace in the team can stand up and use his personal ability to take the lead in suppressing the situation.

Sure enough, the No. 14 shooting guard of the Notre Dame High School Crusaders took the lead in carrying the banner of the team's offense.

When both sides' offenses were not going well and he made mistakes and practiced, he relied on his outstanding jumper ability to score with simple screen jumpers many times.

In such a chaotic situation, the simpler the coordination, the better. It can reduce mistakes and use effective offense to stabilize the situation.

In comparison, the players of the Conquistadors looked taller and stronger than the Crusaders, but under the entangled defense of the Crusaders, they failed to hit the basket many times, obviously they played a little impatiently.

Five minutes into the first half, the Notre Dame High School Crusaders led the Los Altos High School Conquistadors by 5 points 14:6, and the Conquerors had to call a timeout.

"It seems that the conquerors are not that scary, but the white guys from the Crusaders played well, especially the No. 14, who shot very accurately."

Los Alto High School didn't seem as scary as the Vikings players imagined. They were a little out of breath by the Crusaders' precise jump shots.

The timeout came soon, and the Conqueror served the frontcourt.They made some adjustments in personnel, but the conquerors still failed to make any achievements in this attack. Although they were taller and stronger, they had few ways to deal with the Crusaders' defense.

But when the Crusader player took the rebound and handed the ball to the point guard to quickly advance to launch a fast break, a figure suddenly blocked the Crusader point guard's forward path.

The two collided together at once, like a car crashing into a big truck, but both car and truck overturned to the ground.

The point guard of the Crusaders was observing the running positions of his teammates while quickly dribbling the ball across the half court, not even noticing that a person would appear halfway.

When he fell to the ground, he was still a little dazed.

And the person who bumped into him was a player who had just come on the field. He was tall and tall. Although he also fell to the ground, it was obvious that he belonged to the category of "put yourself down," and there was nothing wrong with it.

This ball naturally sentenced the Conqueror to a blocking foul, and the Crusaders still served.

However, this ball obviously affected the judgment of the Crusaders point guard. He made a pass error when organizing the offense and was intercepted by the Conqueror.

The players of the Conqueror are all blacks who can run and jump. Of course, they will not miss the opportunity of fast break and end the attack with a dunk.

As the game continued, Gan Guoyang discovered that the Crusaders were very distinctive in their positional attack.

They don't have a strong inside line, and they don't engage in more complicated tactical moves. Instead, they shoot all people, relying on small cooperation to open up the shooting space, so that every player has a jump shot opportunity.

This trick worked wonders in the opening game, but after this timeout, when they still wanted to rely on this method to tear apart the Conqueror's defense, they found that it didn't work at all, because the ball couldn't be shot at all.

"Beep!" The referee's whistle sounded, and a Conqueror player fouled his hand before the Crusaders shot, and he simply raised his hand to express his obedience to the penalty.

"They fouled on purpose." Gan Guoyang could see that this kind of foul was not a forced foul when he couldn't prevent it, but deliberately pulled the opponent's hand.

"That's right, they want to use fouls to disrupt the rhythm of the Crusaders." Behrman, who was sitting next to Gan Guoyang, had already seen the conqueror's intentions.

Shooting depends on the feel and rhythm. If the feel is good and the rhythm is good, then you can shoot as much as you want.Once the feel is gone, the rhythm is also destroyed, and the shooting percentage will drop, followed by a drop in offensive confidence.

And once you don't have confidence in shooting, you will only get worse and worse, and you will fall into a vicious circle.

If the team has inside firepower, they can switch and adjust it, but the Crusaders do not have a strong inside line, so the Conquistadors sent substitutes to squander the number of fouls recklessly to destroy the Crusaders' outside feel.

Sure enough, in the next offensive of the Crusaders, the conquerors used fouls to cut off the opponent's attack, and were booed by the audience on the field.

The number of their fouls quickly reached the number of times, and the Vikings will be free throws if they foul again.

However, at this time the Conqueror no longer needed to foul, because the offense of the Crusaders had been completely disrupted.

This is not only because of the fouls committed by the Conqueror players, but also because these fouls are very violent, and every time they pounce, they give people a feeling of "deep hatred", which greatly affects the emotions of the Crusaders.

"Beep beep beep beep!" The referee blew a rapid and continuous whistle, obviously something special happened on the field.

It turned out that when a player of the Crusaders was laying up, he was pushed down by the substitute center of the Conquerors and fell heavily to the ground.

Although the guy who committed the foul immediately raised his hand to signal, it was obvious that his behavior was no longer a pure foul, but rather dangerous.

The Crusaders' anger towards the Conquistadors finally erupted. A substitute center rushed forward and pushed the Crusaders. The players on both sides immediately faced off at the basket, and the audience on the court began to boo.

The behavior of the Conquerors aroused dissatisfaction among the crowd.

Fortunately, under the stop of the referee and the coach, no violent conflict broke out and the game continued.

However, the Crusaders' offensive feeling has long been completely disrupted. The shooting has no touch, the breakthrough is also blocked, and the team fell into a scoring drought.

At the end of the first half, the Conquistadors, who were 8 points behind at the start, led their opponents by 33 points 27:6, although they paid the price of 9 fouls.

During the intermission, Gan Guoyang stood up from his seat and said to Behrman, "Mr. Behrman, I'm going to the bathroom."

After getting approval, Gan Guoyang left his seat to go to the toilet for convenience. At this time, there were still a few minutes before the start of the second half, but Gan Guoyang had no intention of watching the game anymore.

In his mind, the game was over.

This afternoon, when he went to greet the Conquistadors alone, he didn't say anything special, he just said that he hoped to meet them in the next game.

However, what the captain of the Conqueror team said surprised him. Not only did he know Gan Guoyang, but he was also very clear about Gan Guoyang's game statistics and playing characteristics.

At the same time, he doesn't seem to be ignorant of the characteristics of the Vikings. In comparison, Gan Guoyang really doesn't know anything about the Conquistadors.

Coupled with today's first half of the game, Gan Guoyang understands that Los Altos High School is well prepared and well prepared. It seems that they are determined to win this game.

"The next game doesn't look good." Gan Guoyang thought to himself while peeing.

After urinating, Gan Guoyang walked while thinking about the game the day after tomorrow.

As a result, when he was going out, he accidentally bumped into someone who came in.

"Oh, I'm sorry", "Sorry~" The two apologized to each other at the same time.

Gan Guoyang glanced at the person he bumped into. He was about 6 feet 1 in height, black, and not tall.

But the clothes on his body caught his attention. It was a purple sports jacket with the words of Sacramento High School printed on it.

"Sacramento High School? It seems that they are also here for the game."

Gan Guoyang didn't pay attention, apologized a few more words, and walked out of the toilet.However, he still looked back at the little man, feeling that his face was somewhat familiar.

"Sacramento High School? Sacramento..."