The Golden Age of Basketball

When a star enters the realm of "the-field", everything on the field will change in their eyes, and many things will become familiar and simple.

The opponent's defensive routine, the defensive position of the opposing player, the assisting defense intention of the assisting player, and the running and positioning of teammates will form a coherent picture in the player's mind. Positioned, free choice on the ball and his opponents will have a hard time stopping him.

"The-field" is the highest level of a player. It doesn't mean that a player can do whatever he wants, but it means that a player knows what to do, what not to do, when to do what is right, and how to do it. Do the best you can and help the team win.

This is the product of the combination of basketball experience and personal ability. When a player enters such a state, it means that he has a new experience of basketball and victory, and has his own philosophy of winning.

For Gan Guoyang, all of this came very suddenly, but he went with the flow. Before the start of the game against the Suns, he didn't realize that he would play so lightly and do whatever he wanted.

Everyone's movements seem to be half a beat slower, and the loopholes in the Suns' defense are clearly in his eyes. He feels that as long as he wants, he can go to the basket to score points at any time, just like picking something out of a pocket.

After losing weight, Gan Guoyang looks lighter and more flexible than last season, which makes his hooks and turnaround jump shots look more graceful and stretched, and the game has entered Gan Guoyang's rhythm unconsciously.

The Trail Blazers led the Suns by 25 points at halftime, and this gap lasted until the last moment of the game. The Blazers easily defeated the Suns by 129:104 with a 25-point advantage.

Gan Guoyang won the title of the best player in the game with 29 points and 16 rebounds. His shooting percentage was terrifying 15 of 14 shots. He only got one free throw in 27 minutes of playing, because he didn't need to go inside. kill the opponent.

Subsequently, a reporter from cbs conducted a post-match interview with Gan Guoyang.

"Hello, Gan, congratulations on winning the first game of the season. You played very easily. You only played 27 minutes, but your shooting percentage was as high as 90.00%. What makes you so good? "Even the reporters on the sidelines can feel that Gan Guoyang's performance on the court is really relaxed.

"I don't know, maybe it's because I've become lighter?" Gan Guoyang joked with the reporter, and continued: "I feel that everything has become very easy, which is inseparable from my hard training in the summer. This is a very important season for me, and I will give 120 percent to win what I deserve, so every game I will show my state."

Gan Guoyang still rarely speaks big words in front of the media, but this time, Gan Guoyang's words are to tell everyone that he will win everything that should belong to him this season.

Back in the locker room, all the Blazers players stepped forward to give Gan Guoyang a high five, which can be regarded as a kind of respect for the team's big brother.

When Gan Guoyang and Sabonis clapped their hands, Sabonis had a look of reverence in his eyes. He clapped his hands and asked Gan Guoyang, "How did you do it?"

"If you play hundreds of games in this league, you will play at this level in one or two games." Gan Guoyang said with a smile. His words were not sarcasm, but encouragement to Sabonis. The field did not get a chance to play.

Although the Blazers won the game at home, the Blazers played very easily from the first quarter, but Adelman insisted on the normal rotation, and finally did not send Sabonis to play in garbage time.

In Adelman's words, such a game has no training value for Sabonis.

I don't know what kind of game is worth training for Sabonis. If the score is anxious, will Adelman let Sabonis play?

Who knows, but Adelman also has his reasons for doing so. For a rookie, if he is not a lottery pick, then he must be on the bench for a while.

Gan Guoyang took a shower in the bathroom. At the same time, Culp had turned on the TV and video recorder in the locker room, and set up a large tactical whiteboard. The data.

Gan Guoyang quickly took a shower and came out of the bathroom. Everything was ready.

In the locker room, all the Blazers players were sitting around the TV and tactical whiteboards. The evening sports program had already started on the TV. At that time, the entire NBA game day was basically over.

In the opening game, the defending champion Detroit Pistons played against the Chicago Bulls at home. President Stern also presented the championship rings to the players at the appearance ceremony. Amid the cheers of the audience, the Pistons entered the defending journey ahead of schedule.

In the flash of the camera, Gan Guoyang caught a glimpse of Michael Jordan standing in the distance watching the Pistons. Gan Guoyang remembered the scene when the two trained together in summer. Gan Guoyang knew that if he entered a field by himself, then Jordan would It must be not far from that kind of field.

Of course, Jordan's teammates are still a lot worse. Facing the Pistons, whose overall strength has reached the peak, Jordan has never been able to stand out from the encirclement.

107:94. Although Jordan scored 28 points, 7 assists, 5 steals, 4 rebounds, and 2 blocks with super comprehensive data, he still lost to the Pistons' multi-point blooming and full play, and finally lost.

After years of honing and development, the Detroit Pistons have become an army-like super strong team, and they are also the number one target opponent of the Blazers this season.

In the other games, the Boston Celtics defeated the New York Knicks, and the Los Angeles Lakers narrowly beat the Dallas Mavericks by three points. Apart from this, Gan Guoyang has no interest in other teams.

"Okay, let's start watching the video." After Gan Guoyang finished speaking, Karp stuffed the video tape of the game into the video recorder, and then pasted the prepared player data on the tactical whiteboard.

This is a new change for the Trail Blazers this season. After each game, spend half an hour to understand the situation of other teams' games, and then review the game and rate the players in all aspects.

This scoring system was jointly formulated by Culp and Bellman. The scoring not only depends on the data of the players, but also the performance of the team when they are on the court. It is still the role played by the data of the players in the entire team.

Everything will be weighted, and finally a more reasonable value will be obtained to evaluate a player's performance in this game.

"When Gan was on the court, we were able to outscore the opponent by 24 points and reduce the opponent's round scoring efficiency a lot. However, it can be seen from the video that the key point is that our strong offense disrupted the opponent's original arrangement. , Let their offense and defense fall into chaos. Personally, I think this is the performance of the team's lack of running-in, so the strength of the Suns is not as big as it seems, and the gap with me is so big."

Culp expresses his views on the game based on data and videos. Although the videos have not been edited, the experienced Culp can always choose the appropriate video images to support his views.

Bellman also added: "Our offense played very energetically, but the defense did not play its due role. The low scores of the Suns are more due to their unskilled cooperation and overbearing on the defensive end. The pressure, which means they didn't play their full strength, so we won relatively easy. I think our defense has not been tested enough."

As the team's defensive coach, Bellman has become popular in the league in recent years with some of his defensive ideas, such as his fake zone defense tactics, such as his defensive trap thinking, which made the league attack from the early and mid-80s. The main fast-paced game began to gradually develop towards a balanced offense and defense, and there was a tendency for the defense to be stronger than the offense.

Afterwards, Karp posted his ratings on each player on the tactical whiteboard, and another staff member also posted data from other games. This time it was Adelman's turn to speak. With the battle report quickly compiled by the staff, he quickly analyzed the general situation of all the games, and at the same time summarized the performance of the Blazers in this game, and put forward his opinions and requirements.

In the end, Adelman picked out the data of the two teams, the Lakers and the Pistons, and posted them in the most prominent places, telling everyone that these two teams will be the biggest enemies of the Blazers.

The half-hour post-match summary is over. This will become a new practice for the Blazers starting this season. Regardless of whether they win or lose, they must sum up experience, learn lessons, and pay close attention to the movements of other teams, so that players can always maintain a high degree of competition consciousness.

In this regard, the Trail Blazers in the 1989 season and the Trail Blazers in the 1986 season are completely different. Every employee and player on the team is contributing their own strength to the championship.

After the coach's analysis, Gan Guoyang stepped forward alone, singled out the data of the Chicago Bulls, carefully looked at Jordan's data performance, and then nailed the list on the door of his locker with a thumbtack.

Looking at the entire league, in terms of personal performance, except for Michael Jordan, no one is regarded by Gan Guoyang anymore.