The Golden Age of Basketball

Since Gan Guoyang chose to lose weight in the summer, his power to fight hard inside has actually declined.

After the end of the 1988 season, Gan Guoyang faced two choices. One was to continue to strengthen his power at the basket, further gain weight and strengthen his muscles, so that he could become Moses Malone in 1983 and become a giant under the basket.

This is also what the Blazers' trainers, including the head coach, hope, because this direction is basically the only way for all super centers. In Houston, Olajuwon has already begun to choose to increase his weight further, otherwise he will not be able to do so with his 230 pounds. Can't bear Gan Guoyang's strength.

But Gan Guoyang finally chose to lose weight, reducing his weight from 250 pounds to about 240 pounds. For this reason, Karp and Gan Guoyang had a long debate. Karp believes that the insiders of the entire league are now taking the heavy route. , A large number of strikers, such as Oakley, Thorpe, Williams, etc., began to weigh almost as much as the center forward. In this case, Gan Guoyang had to choose to lose weight. Culp felt that he was digging his own grave.

But Gan Guoyang doesn't think so.

First of all, he has absolute confidence in his own strength. Even if he loses ten pounds in weight, he can still fight against all the insiders in the league, not most of them, but all of them.

The second point is that Gan Guoyang really wants to take the new route of combining internal and external. He was double-teamed by the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals in 1988. The lesson of the Trail Blazers’ offense getting into a quagmire made Gan Guoyang believe that he must take the road of combining internal and external, because he has descendants. With his extensive experience, he knows that the versatility of inside players is the future trend and will be of great benefit to the team's tactics and strategy. He wants to bring this advanced benefit into the league in advance.

The last is to protect his own body. Until today, Gan Guoyang still has reservations about the Portland team doctor. Once he feels unwell, Gan Guoyang will first go to Shui Miao instead of Dr. Cook, and the higher weight is more frequent. Participating in high-intensity games will be an important cause of injuries for inside players. Gan Guoyang does not want to become the second Bill Walton, and he has not yet brought the Blazers a championship.

Gan Guoyang finally convinced Karp, Adelman and Inman, and finally launched his new training plan, and weight loss is just the most basic and simple step in all plans.

The first problem Gan Guoyang faces in training is his shooting. To become an all-round insider, shooting skills are essential.

After losing his shooting ability in college, Gan Guoyang finally recovered his shooting ability gradually after entering the NBA through unremitting hard training, extra training after daily training, and shooting games with Vandeweghe. Dividing the ball has become his secret weapon.

And in the offseason, if he wants to go further, he needs more than just open shots. Gan Guoyang must learn the ability to force shots when the opponent is defending.

For this reason, Gan Guoyang trained with Olajuwon in the summer, Gan Guoyang helped Olajuwon to gain weight in strength training, and Olajuwon taught him to shoot.

Although Olajuwon's shooting posture is ugly, his mid-range level is definitely the best among NBA inside players, even better than Ewing with standard posture, and Olajuwon's arms are also very long. The shooting posture of the shooting hand with the elbow slightly turned outwards, and then mainly relying on the fingers and wrists to exert force is actually very suitable for Gan Guoyang, who is also a gibbon.

It's just that Gan Guoyang really dislikes Olajuwon's shooting posture, so he still insists on standard shooting techniques, but learns Olajuwon's fingers, wrists, and Olajuwon's more important aerial skills during shooting. Balance ability - this comes from the core strength of Dameng Chaoqun.

As a result, Gan Guoyang became an insider who can make a pull-up jump shot. The game against the Heat was just a small test of Gan Guoyang's technology.

Long undoubtedly became a chicken killed by a bull's knife, just because he said "boo**" to Gan Guoyang's shot, which really came out of his mouth.

After making a jump shot, Gan Guoyang was out of control and began to tease Long with his shots in different ways.

Every time Gan Guoyang received the ball, he would pause for a moment, signaling Long to come up to defend him, and then Long would post it up. Gan Guoyang would either push Long with his strong body, and then easily hit a jumper, or he felt it coming, and asked Long directly to Pull it up and cast.

Finally, at the end of the game, after Gan Guoyang scored 12 points in a row, the head coach of the Heat also saw that Long should not be able to take it anymore. Let him keep defending like this and let Gan Guoyang continue to score, Long's self-confidence will be completely destroyed. The score between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger. The head coach can only call a timeout to replace Long and replace him with veteran Pat Cummins.

"He shot too fast, too fast, his shooting speed is too fast..." Long, who was off the court, muttered like hysterical, saying that Gan Guoyang's shooting speed was too fast.

Gan Guoyang's shooting speed is really fast, because as a player of yellow race, no matter how strong his core strength is, his ability to stay in the air cannot be compared with Olajuwon. Olajuwon will have an obvious hang in the air when he takes off in the air Pause, Jordan's stagnation in the air is even more obvious, and he often makes shots when the person blocking him falls.

Gan Guoyang couldn't achieve such a level, so he chose to increase his shooting point and speed up his shots to make his shots more difficult to defend. Facing Gan Guoyang's high-handed shop, Long quickly shot dry shots and couldn't defend at all.

Gan Guoyang's shooting performance made the Heat fans on the scene turn against each other. Every time Gan Guoyang scored a goal, the Heat fans cheered once, making the Blazers seem to be the home team.

Now the momentum of the two sides is completely different. The bigger the Blazers are, the easier it will be. The Heat have no backbone, and their defense has no system and strength. However, the situation quickly fell into a one-sided situation.

For a team like the Trail Blazers with strong firepower, especially a team with extremely sharp fast breaks, once the opponent disarms and surrenders, the consequences are often very serious. Gan Guoyang continued his shooting practice-yes, he seemed to be doing shooting practice.

The point difference between the two sides was getting bigger and bigger. In the third quarter, Gan Guoyang finally returned to the bench to rest early. Although Adelman promised Gan Guoyang to keep him on the court more, when the score difference between the two sides had become 40 When scoring, Gan Guoyang really didn't need to stay on the court anymore. During the three quarters, Gan Guoyang made 15 of 10 shots and 10 of 10 free throws, scoring 30 points.

Both sides began to send substitute players. The Heat's substitutes were a group of rookies, and Adelman decided to let Sabonis stay on the court for a while. Adrian Blanche, like a pack of wolves who have been unchained, entered the field one after another.

To be honest, if the Blazers had been playing off the bench, the point difference between the two sides would not have been too big, because the main players would have played on the bench, but it was different for the bench. The substitutes were all like wolves and tigers, and the 40-point difference was merciless.

The Heat completely collapsed.

The point difference between the two sides continued to widen, broke the 50-point mark, and then approached 60 points. At this time, Heat coach Ron Roshstein also began to worry.

This is Ron Rochstein's first coaching season, and he took over a new nba team composed of a bunch of rookies. , the team was hit with the largest point difference in history.

Finally, Rosh Stern called a timeout and began to encourage the players to persevere and get closer to the score. So far, the Heat have only scored 81 points, while the Blazers have scored 138 points.

On the other side, Adelman certainly has nothing to say, just ask the players not to get hurt, not to go too far.

In the last minute or so, both sides had two chances to attack, but the Heat players were no longer interested in fighting, the two sides played chaotically, and Rosh Stern's encouragement was useless.

The Blazers also gave up the offense, and the ball was directed back and forth in the hands of the players, and it was thrown randomly when it was almost 24 seconds.

There are only the last five seconds until the end of the game, neither side scored, and the game is about to end like this. At this time, Sabonis received a pass from the outside. He should have held the ball until the end of the game, but, Sitting off the court, Gan Guoyang saw Sabonis standing outside the three-point line, and subconsciously shouted: "Avidas, shoot one!"

As a result, Sabonis really made the shot, and really scored, a three-pointer.

141: 81!

The halftime whistle sounded, and the 60-point difference created a new NBA record for the largest difference!

After entering the league, the Miami Heat struggled, and their difficulties have just begun. Four years later, they will suffer a bigger massacre.

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At the same time, at an inconspicuous position in the Miami Stadium, a young fan in a baseball uniform watching the game was deeply shocked by Gan Guoyang's consecutive jump shots.

His head is as big and bald as a pumpkin, and his baseball uniform has the signature "sunny-gump". Although his basketball idol is Michael Jordan, Gan's jump shot gave him a different feeling.

After the game, he'll take off his baseball jersey, save it, and hit the basketball court to practice jump shots.

He vowed that his shooting would be like that No. 11, ignoring the defense, taking off, shooting, and scoring the ball.