The Golden Age of Basketball

()(The high school paper has been written, and it will be sent out in the next few days. I am also a little tired of writing for continuous competitions, and I can expand my skills soon! Moreover, Gan’s college life will also begin, and a higher level of The basketball game awaits him.)

(ps You let my red ticket stay in 1111 for a long time!)

March 3th, Sunday.The United Kingdom's combined fleet is sailing on the ocean, heading towards the Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic, and the Falklands War is about to start.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's mood was like that of a British army on an expedition, waiting for the approach of the destination in apprehension and anticipation—the destination of the Vikings was Los Angeles in April.

And now standing in front of them is a giant dragon on the sea - Sacramento High School.

After the game on the 26th, the Vikings got 2 days of rest.

After the excitement of reaching the conference finals faded, the Vikings had set their sights even higher, and that was the California Division II championship.

But the Vikings now know nothing about their opponent, the Sacramento Dragons, except for the eight-for-four game on the 25th. The Vikings' intelligence work has always been as bad as Stanley's free throws.

"Remember, the game must be dominated by me, and we must play according to our rhythm! Don't fall into the opponent's adaptive offensive and defensive environment, delay and drag the opponent to death!" Bellman's roar filled the ears of the Vikings players.

By this time, Pepperdine University's gymnasium was full.In the 80s when entertainment means were relatively scarce, it was also a very good choice to go to the gymnasium to watch high school football games.

What's more, the two sides are still the two most eye-catching teams in Northern California so far, as well as two eye-catching players.

Bellman had to remind his players by shouting loudly on the sidelines in the noisy stadium, although he had said this confession more than 800 times.

Because he didn't know enough about the Dragons, Bellman had no choice but to use Gan Guoyang's rhetoric, "I'm the main player" and play at his own pace.

Wait until the actual game, and then make adjustments according to the situation on the field.

With five minutes to go, the Vikings and Dragons starters were on the wooden floor of Pepperdine University's gymnasium.

At this time, Gan Guoyang is no longer a rookie who would tremble nervously during the warm-up matches, but a star player standing in the middle of the court and enjoying the attention of everyone.

But his heart is very calm at this moment. Like the past games, he likes to lower his head, close his eyes, and stand on the court to meditate silently. No one knows what he is thinking at this time.

"Big cousin! Don't sleep! The game is about to start!"

Gan Guoyang, who was meditating before the game, heard a familiar voice from the stands, and all his thoughts were instantly disrupted.

This guy Gan Guohui was dancing around on the stage with that broken flag again. When he saw Gan Guoyang with his eyes closed, he thought he was sleeping.

But this time Gan Guohui didn't just bring a few people, but a large area of ​​green behind Gan Guohui. They were all student fans who came from Palo Alto to support the Vikings!

And not far from this piece of green, there is a piece of purple, which is a student of Sacramento High School who came from afar.

They are obviously smaller in number than the Palo Alto High School fans, but they are obviously more enthusiastic than the Palo Alto High School fans. Among the purple crowd with large and small slogans and flags waving, they are not like Palo Alto High School. On Ao Tu's side, only Gan Guohui was carrying the banner.

Gan Guoyang didn't have the heart to care about his hapless cousin anymore, and the game was about to start.

Today the Vikings are wearing a white jersey with a green border that symbolizes home, while the opponent Dragons are wearing purple jerseys.

Under the guidance of the referee, the starting players from both sides shook hands and greeted each other, and then the starting center came to the center circle, ready to jump the ball.

The basketball was thrown into the air by the referee, and the center forwards of both sides struggled to take off. In the fierce scramble for the ball, the North Division finals of the California Basketball Secondary Championship officially began!

Gan Guoyang showed a good state of play at the beginning of the game. Although his bounce is not as good as that of black players, he is unique in using his body and grasping strength-this is a talent bestowed on him by God.

He overwhelmed the 6-foot-10 center in the scrimmage, touched the ball in the air, and swiped in the direction of Wiggis and Diepenbrook.

But between the two white jerseys, a cloud of purple suddenly appeared!

Before Wiggis and Dippenbrook could react, the group of purples had already intercepted the ball in mid-air, and dribbled towards the Vikings' half court for a fast break.

Is No. 7, Sacramento High School's "Lightning" - Kevin? Johnson!

"Damn it, it's like this again!" Gan Guoyang looked at No. 7's back after he landed, and chased after him with big strides, while muttering in his heart.

The last time they played against Tianji High School, they were intercepted by Peyton in the opening game, and they were one-stop. Now facing Kevin Johnson, they were intercepted again in the opening game.

This time Gan Guoyang is not going to let his opponent layup easily.

Except for Gan Guoyang, other Vikings players also returned to defense quickly. Obviously, their awareness and speed of returning to defense have greatly improved compared with the past.

Kevin Johnson saw that the Vikings retreated quickly, and some players had already entered the three-second zone, so he slowed down his speed. It seemed that he was going to give up the fast break and organize a position.

At this time, Gan Guoyang also followed, caught up with Kevin Johnson at the top of the arc, and quickly opened his big net in front of him.

The game had just started, and the top stars of both sides had their first direct dialogue!Although the positions of the two people are far apart by hundreds of thousands of miles.

Gan Guoyang stared at Kevin Johnson, who had stopped to look around, and looked around from the corner of his eye to prevent Johnson from passing the ball to his teammates.

Now the rest of the Vikings players have reached halftime and started to settle, but the formation has not yet formed, especially the matchup is very chaotic, the center defends the guard, and the point guard defends the power forward.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang must be careful of the people in front of him. He may play the ball at any time and pass the ball to the most threatening player.

But when Gan Guoyang rolled his eyes and glanced at the position in the three-second zone, Kevin Johnson, who had stopped in front of him, suddenly started again!

Gan Guoyang only felt a flash in front of his eyes, and Kevin Johnson had already passed by his left side!

No matter how fast he is, no matter how good his defensive awareness is, he is still a 6-foot-9 center after all. How can he keep up with a 6-foot-plus guard in terms of speed.

In addition, Johnson's breakthrough was completely unexpected. He saw that Gan Guoyang's attention was not fully focused on him, so he seized the moment when he was distracted and made another breakthrough.

After passing Gan Guoyang, the Vikings' three-second zone became undefended, because there was only Dippenbrook in their three-second zone.

Like a flash of lightning, Kevin Johnson came to the basket in an instant, and before Dippenbrook could react, he had already taken off and scored a layup!

"Dame! (Damn)" Gan Guoyang rushed to the basket, only to find that the ball had fallen from the net.

He took the ball, smashed it hard on the ground, and then walked to the bottom line to serve.

Dippenbroek felt that Gan Guoyang's reaction was a bit strange, and he was completely different from the previous game.

In the last game against the Tigers, Gan Guoyang was always calm no matter how the opponent performed.But today, Gan Guoyang looked extremely annoyed when he was just missed by the opponent.

"Does he have a problem with the No. 7 Johnson on the opposite side?" Dippenbrook thought that Gan Guoyang had made eye contact with the No. 7 player on the opposite side several times before, so he thought the two had a problem.

Of course, Gan Guoyang will not have a problem with Kevin Johnson. He knows Johnson, but Johnson doesn't know him.

As the core defender of the later Suns and the future mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson may not be comparable to Gary Payton, but he is undoubtedly an exciting player.

Although Gan Guoyang has never watched Kevin Johnson's game in later generations, because he retired from the Suns in 1998.

However, in 2000, when the core point guard Kidd of the Suns was injured and retired, he returned to the line of fire and played the last 6 games of the regular season and the playoffs.

Not only did he help the Suns successfully enter the playoffs, but he also led the team past the first round and reached the semifinals of the Western Conference!After losing to the Lakers, Johnson retired again.

Every time Gan Guoyang saw this record, he felt a sense of enthusiasm.

Even if he has come to the past, it is uncertain whether this period of history will still happen, but this does not affect Gan Guoyang's admiration for Johnson.

Admiration is nothing but admiration. On the field, Gan Guoyang has long been gearing up to compete with the California high school league scoring champion!

"Peter, pass the ball to me later." Gan Guoyang said to Dipenbrook while sending the ball from the baseline to Dippenbrook.

Dippenbroek nodded knowingly. He knew that when Gan Guoyang was serious, once the other party slapped him in the face, he would definitely hit him back.

Sure enough, after Gan Guoyang came to the frontcourt, he immediately screened for Dipenbrook at the top of the arc. He wanted to make a simple and effective pick-and-roll with Dipenbrook.

Dippenbrook and Gan Guoyang's pick-and-roll is not only perfect, but they are also extremely proficient in conventional tactics.

Dippenbrook first used Gan Guoyang's cover and pretended to cut in from the left, but when the opposing Johnson wanted to squeeze past Gan Guoyang to keep up with Dippenbrook, he suddenly changed direction and turned to the right!

Gan Guoyang gave Dipenbrock the technique of breaking through and changing directions, because Gan Guoyang found that the backcourt players in the 80s didn't like to change direction drastically, so he "encouraged" Dipenbrock to practice in extra training every day. A big shift towards technology.

And Dippenbrock also realized that this is a good move for him to make up for his lack of speed.

Kevin Johnson couldn't react in time, and was stunned by the slow-moving Dippenbrook!

The dragon center facing Gan Guoyang naturally asked to defend Dippenbrook, but the other players of the Vikings were wide open, and the dragon players could not release people to block the inside.

In this way, Gan Guoyang shook off the defender, went down towards the basket, and at the same time raised his left hand high to ask for the ball.

Dipenbrook naturally arrived at the ball, and Gan Guoyang successfully received Dipenbrook's lob pass.

But Gan Guoyang didn't hit the basket directly, because the pick-and-roll just now didn't completely throw off the opponent's center. Now he has let Dipenbrook go to defend the basket.

The dragon's white center is taller than Gan Guoyang, but looks thinner.

He raised his hands under the basket and made a "surrender" gesture. In fact, he was blocking Gan Guoyang's movement space and at the same time trying to make a foul.

However, he saw that Gan Guoyang didn't go straight to the basket after receiving the ball.

I saw Gan Guoyang patted the ball after receiving the ball, the basketball moved from his left hand to his right hand, and then turned around suddenly at an incredible speed, and the whole person disappeared in front of the dragon center.

When the Dragons center looked back, he saw Gan Guoyang jumping into the air, grabbing the ball with his left hand, and hitting the basket.

"Bah!" A sound of metal rubbing against each other was heard by everyone along with the shaking of the basket.

Gan Guoyang broke free with a heel spin learned from Bernard King, and finished the attack with a powerful split dunk, and he used his left hand.

"Have you always used your butt to defend? Then you have to be careful with your chrysanthemum." Gan Guoyang said to the giant dragon center after landing.

Before the other party could react, he ran away expressionlessly, leaving the other party standing there in a daze.

And other Vikings players who heard him know that Gan Guoyang has already started the "devil mode" early, and it seems that he is determined to win this game.

The score came to 2:2, and the star players of both sides used their outstanding performance to add 2 points to the team at the beginning of the game, and the atmosphere in the stadium instantly became hot.

"Big cousin! Well done! Come on!" The loudest roar in the audience was Gan Guohui, who was waving the banner of "Gan's Restaurant" in the stands.

Gan Guoyang was helpless when he heard this voice.

Opponents yelling at him that he can reciprocate with trash talking and scoring, and his own people yelling at him like killing pigs, he really can't do anything.

But soon, Gan Guoyang had no time to care about the fat cousin in the stands.

Kevin Johnson has already killed the half court with the ball. After the two quick attacks at the beginning of the attack, the two sides still have to do a real battle in the positional battle. < ren man to man defense.

Even against a team with poor outside shooting like the Los Altos Conquistadors in the first game, Bellman still used man-to-man more than zone defense.

The reason is that the zone defense does not require high players' physical fitness and defensive level, but it has high requirements on their defensive awareness and basketball IQ, and the players must have a very good coordination.

Bellman knew that what high school players, especially black players, lack most is physical fitness and physical strength, and what they lack most is consciousness and brains.

His zone defense system can be said to be invincible against some weak teams around Palo Alto, and can abuse the opponent to shit.

Once faced with a strong team, especially a team with a strong breakthrough player, the Vikings' zone defense will often lose sight of one another.

Sometimes this kind of regional defense not only failed to share the pressure and defend together, but also caused Gan Guoyang on the inside to keep busy wiping his ass.

This point was reflected in the game against Skyrim High School. The 3-2 zone defense's perimeter defense simply couldn't stop Gary Payton, who had treacherous footsteps.

But now facing Kevin Johnson who defeated Gary Payton, Bellman naturally dare not use zone defense anymore.

I saw that Dippenbrook began to entangle Johnson as soon as halftime passed, and it can be said that he was inseparable.

Kevin Johnson, on the other hand, was dribbling the ball while observing the situation on the field. Obviously, for him, Dipenbrook's defense was simply drizzle.

At this time, the Dragons power forward stepped forward to set up a pick-and-roll for Johnson. The pick-and-roll is indeed the best weapon in any level of basketball league.

Johnson used the cover of his teammates to easily get rid of Dipenbrook's entanglement, but he did not choose to continue to break through when he faced Wiggis who was coming up from the defense, but stopped at a 45-degree jumper.

"Swipe!" The ball was scored, a simple and efficient attack, and the Vikings' defense didn't even have time to respond.

For a slow-paced, defensive team like the Vikings, the most annoying thing is this simple and rough style of play.

It's like a martial arts master, who has set up a dragon gate formation and waits for the opponent to challenge, but the opponent takes out his pocket and takes out a gun to collapse the martial arts master!

"Damn it, why did you encounter such a team with no technical content!" Bellman cursed on the coach's bench when he saw the Dragon's offense.

He has always dismissed teams that simply rely on player talent as unskilled, although high school basketball games are all about talent.

Just when Behrman slandered the Dragons for their lack of skill, Gan Guoyang asked for the ball from the weak side waist, and Dippenbrook easily lobbed the ball to Gan Guoyang.

After receiving the ball, Gan Guoyang dribbled the ball to the inside, facing the opponent's forward who came up to pinch and forced a jump shot.

"Boom!" Gan Guoyang took advantage of his height and arm length to easily hit the board into the frame.

"This is fucking technology!" Bellman praised in his heart when he saw his proud disciple score a goal.I didn't expect that I was just saying that the opponent's attack was unskilled...

The game was unexpectedly smooth, both sides played very well, there were not many mistakes and fouls, and the rhythm of the whole game was very smooth.

The shooting rate of the two sides was even more terrifying. In just 10 minutes, the score had come to 26:27, and the Vikings were one point behind.

In high school games with no shot clock, such scores tend to be half-court scores for both sides.

Gan Guoyang was invincible in these 10 minutes. Not only did he rely on his favorite skill to turn over and score consecutive jump shots, but he also threw off the opponent's center for several times and dunked vigorously, winning the applause of the audience.

On the contrary, Kevin Johnson of the Dragons, except for the two opening scores, mostly relied on his own breakthrough points to create opportunities for his teammates at other times.

The other players of the Dragons are also in good condition. Facing the Vikings' not-so-strong one-on-one defense, they blossomed a lot and led the Vikings by one point in score.

However, when Gan Guoyang picked up an offensive rebound and dunked the basket vigorously with both hands, the Vikings successfully overtook the score, 28:27.

"Beep beep", at this time, the Dragons called a timeout, and there were still 9 minutes before the end of the first half.

"Hey guys, we played well, but I think we can play better!" Bellman clapped his hands to encourage the players, while thinking about whether to adjust his tactics.

Because although the Vikings played smoothly, he found that this was not a familiar rhythm for the Vikings.

Bellman sensed a sense of crisis in his heart.