The Golden Age of Basketball

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"Isiah Thomas breaks through! Goal in and it's even again!"

"Now it's up to the Nuggets, the Nuggets, it's just Vandeweghe and Inglesh. I don't think anyone else has the strength. English, dribbles, relies on a pick-and-roll, jumps, makes it again ! The Nuggets lead again!"

"Back to the Pistons, okay, let's see who else can squeeze the last bit of strength, I think they're all faltering. Who else, who else, oh, it's Rund, it's Rund again, He made a mid-range shot! My God, the score was tied again. How many times has this been tied? The number of ties in this game is like Chamberlain’s girlfriend, too many to count.”

"The Nuggets called a timeout, and oh my god, it's a horrible high score; are these guys going to defend? These guys are just doing a shooting drill, and I think all the Denver fans are going to see it later. After this game, the shooting level will go up a notch."

"Okay, the game goes on. Nuggets serve the ball on the sideline, Vandeweghe catches the ball, he has almost no interference from the Pistons, that's the defense, he scored 51 points, 51 points! A game in 1960 A team only scored 51 points in the game. He made a 45-degree, iconic Vandeweghe step-back shot~~ the ball didn't go in! At the last moment of the game, Vandeweghe finally lost his way, he was given by his own steps Shake fainted, and handed over the opportunity to the Pistons."

"Thomas, Thomas is dribbling, he's dribbling, it's like the ball is stuck in his hand, drive! Pull up jump shot! Go in! Go in! Pistons lead again! Time is running out, Nuggets There's no timeout, they're going straight to serve! No time! Oh, English's all-or-nothing . . . no goal! Sorry you're not Jerry West."

"The game is over, everything is over, the score is fixed at 184:186! God, 184:186, a total of 370 points. Three overtimes, 370 points, the Nuggets and Pistons made history, although I don't think it's anything A particularly glorious record, but it is also a record. In this game, the two teams dedicated a wonderful, unparalleled 'open war', 370 points? Oh, I have to repeat it again and again..."

"Oh, Gan, why did you turn off the TV? This is really a fucking amazing game. I haven't seen such a refreshing game in a long time."

"If this can also be called an NBA game, then I think the NBA is not far from the end. I can score 40 points in such a game. But the opponent will never get more than 100 points." Gan Guoyang held Holding a ham sausage, he said while chewing.

"Yes Gan, if you go to the nba, I think you can get at least 3 blocks per game, and 15 rebounds, plus 20 screams from the female fans and 30 from the opposing fans'** ’, so you get a triple-double!”

"**! Williams, if your shooting continues to improve as much as your one-liners, I think I'll give you the team's scoring title."

"No, Forrest Gump, bypass me, if I can get the same points as you, I think I can probably be selected in the fifth round of the draft. Fifth round, not bad, I think it's better to go to New York , play with bernard king and experience the good life in new york or just come to los angeles and play with the magician i think i can score like 10 points a game... oh no, 8 points, I'm very satisfied with 8 points..."

"Gan? What's the matter? How does it feel to be back in Los Angeles?"

At this time, Gan Guoyang was standing by the window of the hotel room, looking at the still brightly lit Los Angeles outside the window, it seemed that he had returned to the night that made his blood surge.

After that passionate night, he left Los Angeles, the city of angels where too many people were looking for their dreams. Gan Guoyang did not expect that it would be a year later for him to come back here.

After returning to San Francisco and calling David Falk, he received the very exciting news that his high school coach, Bobby Behrman, was dismissed because of his outstanding coaching performance in the high school league. Invited by Gonzaga University in Washington State, became a college coach.

Located in Spokane, Gonzaga University is a medium-sized university with more than 5000 students and enjoys a very good academic position, especially her law department.

But Gonzaga University's basketball is really not worth mentioning in the American college basketball world. In the history of ncaa, the Gonzaga Bulldogs have almost never attracted people's attention.

The league the school is in is also the little-known West Coast Athletic League, a small league that has never had a strong team.

Before 1983, no team in this league had won the NCAA championship, not even the final-four.

However, history has changed because of the arrival of Gan Guoyang. With his arrival, Bellman's talent can be displayed, and Bellman has realized his ideal to coach a college team.

The entry of Bellman has injected infinite possibilities into the future of the Gonzaga basketball team, because Bellman received a call from a scout named David Falk.

When he learned on the phone that his favorite student had left UC and wanted to find a suitable school, Behrman was so excited that he could barely hold the phone receiver.

Gan Guoyang is the most talented and promising player Bellman has encountered in his coaching career, although he is a Chinese.

Because of this, Bellman didn't want to delay Gan Guoyang's future. He felt that Gan Guoyang should go to a bigger and broader stage, so he didn't tell Gan Guoyang that he would become the coach of Gonzaga University.

But Bellman also has deep regrets for Gan Guoyang, because he failed to lead the Vikings to win the second-tier league championship. He knew that Gan Guoyang had been depressed for a summer, and he was not like that.

If he has the opportunity to coach Gan Guoyang again, how can he not be tempted when he can form a championship team around him?How can you not be excited?

Bellman agreed to Falk's request without hesitation, and immediately began to communicate with the school to prepare for the formalities of Gan Guoyang's transfer.

When he saw Gan Guoyang who came with Qian Hui in Spokane, he couldn't help but rushed forward and gave the tall man a big hug.

This hug made Gan Guoyang feel the incomparable warmth, which he had never felt during the three months in UC.

Without any words, without any pleasantries, Gan Guoyang was convinced that Bellman was the one who could really discover his great horse.

Everything went very smoothly afterwards. Qian Hui completed all the legal procedures and transferred Gan Guoyang's student status to Gonzaga University. In this beautiful university, Gan Guoyang started his new university life.

Among other things, at least he no longer has to go to the gymnasium to train, because his dormitory is next to the gymnasium.

After entering the basketball team, there was another surprise waiting for him, that is, his high school teammate, shooting guard Micary Williams, followed Bellman to Gonzaga University.

Because Williams played well in the high school league, he also changed his destiny and won a college basketball scholarship.

But then, there was a thunderbolt from the blue.

Gan Guoyang, who just came to Gonzaga University, devoted himself to the team's training with [-] points of enthusiasm, and showed his superior basketball skills and super high basketball IQ in the training, which made Bellman have to be in the team again. Put him on the bench during confrontation training.

Just when Gan Guoyang was full of confidence and was about to participate in this year's West Coast Athletic League basketball league and fight hard for the team to enter the NCAA National Championships, Behrman told him that the transfer students could not participate in the official competition in the first year.

Gan Guoyang didn't expect that there were such rules in American college games, but when he thought about the various complicated rules of the American Basketball League, he felt a little more balanced in his mind.

This means that if Gan Guoyang wants to participate in the official competition, he has to wait until 1983, which will take a whole year.

Before that, Gan Guoyang could only play some warm-up games on behalf of Gonzaga University, so during this year, Gan Guoyang ravaged all the teams from various universities in Washington State in various warm-up games, and prepared for a year later. preparations for the official competition.

The summer of 1983 is finally over. In this June, the Philadelphia 76ers with Moses Malone swept the league like a storm. Under Malone's slogan of "fo, fo, fo", they only lost one game in the playoffs , and swept the enemy Los Angeles Lakers in the finals, avenged last season.

In the fourth finals in nearly seven years, the 7ers finally won a championship trophy.

The storm of the 76ers has passed, and in another autumn, Wang Fuxi chose to go to Spokane, and chose Gonzaga University where Gan Guoyang is, to become an undergraduate student of sports medicine.

The separation between the two places for more than a year not only did not dilute the relationship between the two, but it became more and more intense because of the never-ending letters and phone calls.

On December 1983, 12, the games of the NCAA leagues had already started. After several rounds of regular games in the league, the Gonzaga Bulldogs came to the southwest coast, where they would compete with the mighty Pacific Ten The team launched an invitational tournament.

The NCAA competition is also due to the vast territory of the United States, and college students have academic tasks in addition to the competition, and school funds do not allow it, so it is divided into four levels, large and small, composed of nearly a hundred leagues.The complexity of its composition made Gan Guoyang dizzy for a while.

Teams in the first-level leagues can participate in the national NCAA competition. Fortunately, the West Coast Athletic League is among the more than 20 leagues-the number has expanded to 21 in the 32st century.

Each league will have its own regular games and championships, and the champions of the championships will be directly eligible to participate in the ncaa national competition.

But in 1983, the number of places in the NCAA National Championships had reached 48, so in addition to the champions of each league, other participating teams will be selected by the committee.

The selection criteria are the team's reputation, strength and performance.

And the best reference to reflect the strength of a non-championship team in the league is the result of its games against teams in other leagues.

Therefore, cross-league competitions are also an essential part of the National College Basketball Tournament.

The Pacific Ten Schools Alliance that Gonzaga University has to face is one of the most powerful alliances in the United States.

Among these ten universities, UC need not talk about it. Others such as the University of Arizona, University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and University of Southern California are frequent visitors to the NCAA, among which Oregon won the NCAA championship in the distant 1939.

Moreover, the schools in the Big Ten are not too far from Gonzaga University, and they are all on the West Coast, so it would be great to come here for an invitational game.

Different from the games in high school, each league of the ncaa starts with invitational tournaments first, both to accumulate records and to hone the teams, and then to start the regular season within the league, competing for the league championship and qualification for the ncaa national championship.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang followed the team and came to Los Angeles, where the first opponent they had to face was UC.

In the hotel room, Gan Guoyang and Williams watched the three-overtime game between the Pistons and the Nuggets, which created an NBA history scoring record, and became a historical witness.

Gan Guoyang was still looking out of the window at this time, looking at the night scene outside through the glass that reflected his impression, he withdrew his thoughts.

More than a year has passed in such a hurry, and everything I experienced at UC is still vivid in my mind.

Tomorrow will be the day when he returns to UC. He doesn't hate UC. On the contrary, he still has a yearning and respect for this legendary school.

But he loathed those who had ignored him, belittled him, and disrespected him; he also missed some wonderful friends and classmates he met during the three months, such as Chalmers.

Of course, there are also Gan Guohui and Chen Xing who are also in Los Angeles. They have already agreed that they will go to the scene to watch tomorrow's game.

"Unfortunately, Fuxi can't come." Gan Guoyang sighed, he is now used to Wang Fuxi quietly watching his games from the sidelines, no matter good or bad, she is always there.

"Dong dong dong..." Just as Gan Guoyang was thinking about things and the two people in the room fell silent, there was a knock on the door.

Gan Guoyang walked over to open the door and saw that it was his teammate.

"Hello, John, why are you here?" Gan Guoyang said.

"I want to come and talk to you about tomorrow's game, I know, you used to be at uc... oh of course, I don't want to reveal anything, we all know you have a bad memory there, but I think these Maybe it can help us prepare for tomorrow’s game.” The person who came in was not tall and was a white man, but he didn’t look like an athlete at all, nor did he speak like that, he was more like a team manager or team leader .

"It's okay John, I know you are not malicious. Uh... To be honest, I really don't think the UC team has anything to fear. I mean they are now, they used to be very brilliant, but now according to my understanding, they The gap with the past is not a star and a half."

"But we should still be cautious. They performed well in last year's competition."

"Good John, I know you are like this, so let's discuss how to deal with this big brown bear." The team name of UC is the Brown Bears.

So Gan Guoyang began to discuss the clear game with this serious-looking teammate, which is what a coach should do in other teams.

But these two people who also have extraordinary basketball IQ can always summarize and sort out a set of coping methods in the discussion before the game, which often makes Bellman's preparation work become repetitive work.

Now, Gan Guoyang finally feels that he is no longer the only pillar in the team, and someone can share the pressure for him.

That man was John Stockton.

(Historically, Gonzaga University did not play an invitational tournament with UC in 1983, purely for plot needs)

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