The Golden Age of Basketball

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As a complex modern offensive and defensive sport, basketball has a history of more than 21 years in the 100st century.

Over the past 100 years, basketball players have continued to improve, becoming taller, faster, and stronger; technical movements related to basketball have also become richer and more complex.

And among the countless basketball technical moves from basic to complex, almost every one will be used to the extreme by some athletes, and become a legend in the basketball world.

For example, Michael Jordan's fadeaway jumper-although he was still in North Carolina in 1983. last one

Fight for a chance to compete for the ncaa championship;

For example, Magic Johnson’s no-look-pass—at this time he already had two championships and fmvp in his hands, but experienced a disastrous failure in 1983; still in Austria

The streets of Crane were taught by Gary Payton by precept and example.

But among all these stunts, there is only Abdul-Jabbar's skyhook. In the professional league, there are almost no ones before but no one after.

The hook is an essential attacking technique for all centers. It allows the center to use smaller preparations and shorter action time to complete a fatal blow with one hand near the basket.

But no player can hook like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, within 17 feet from the basket, from one side of the baseline to the other side of the baseline, within a 180-degree range, at any angle and any distance, with either left hand or right hand, both

Can throw the ball into the basket with the hook.

Not to mention the coordination, gracefulness, and coherence of movements like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, which is difficult to block, and is called a "sky-hook".

Neither can Gan Guoyang.

After a year of hard practice, when it comes to confrontation games, his hook is still limited to his right hand, so he is more likely to ask for the ball on the right side of the basket and turn to the baseline; his hook distance is already the limit at 15 feet. no matter how far away it will change

Very uncertain; his movement is not perfect, because of his height, he has to spend more energy to push the defender away with his non-shooting hand to get more space for the hook.

But in today's game, at UC's home court, his hook was already scary enough.

After making the 15-foot long-range hook, Gan Guoyang showed his power again on the defensive end, and directly gave up the inside line marking and rushed to the outside line, slapping Jackson's small floater with a slap.

The Bulldogs launched a fast break, Gan Guoyang went down quickly, and uc quickly retreated; but when he received a pass from his teammate at a position 8 feet away from the basket on the right, he didn't break into the basket, but hooked directly, "Boom", The ball goes into the basket.

In the 3rd minute of the second half, Gan Guoyang made a street ball on the right waist again, and Gray single-handedly defended. Gan Guoyang dribbled the ball with his left hand and pretended to cut in, but suddenly turned back, made a sliding step, and made a hook shot. "Shua", the ball scored.

In the 4th minute of the second half, Gan Guoyang grabbed an offensive rebound from a position 5 feet away from the basket, made a fake move that shook Gray and Fields, took a step to the right with the dribble, and hooked against Fields' body , the ball bounced two times over the basket

Next, score in the net.Fields fouled and was penalized.

At 4 minutes and 38 seconds into the second half, the Bulldogs launched a quick counterattack. Gan Guoyang received the ball at a zero-degree angle on the baseline and was attacked by Fields and Hatcher; left hand top

Fields, 15-foot hook shot, he didn't even look at the basket, Fields tried to stretch his arm to interfere, but the ball spun around the rim, fell into the net, and the ball went in.

UC's home court has become a silent grave, just like the Boston Garden Plaza in Game 1974 of the [-] Finals. In that game, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar faced Dave Cowens and Don Chaney in almost the same position. folder

, with an incredible 15-foot skyhook lore to beat the Boston Celtics, and the total score was tied at 3:3.

Now, at UC, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's former alma mater, Gan Guoyang sends the ball to the basket again and again in the way they were most familiar with. as cold

Cool, but what brings UC is not excitement but despair.

"Beep!" The referee's sharp whistle became the loudest voice on the field, breaking the silence.

The Bruins called a timeout. They couldn't let Gan Guoyang go on like this. After the second half, he scored 13 points in a row, taking all the Bulldogs' points.

The Bruins only relied on Jackson's breakthrough to score two points, and the Bulldogs opened the gap to 16 points.

Gan Guoyang deliberately walked to UC's bench when he was off the court. He looked at Larry Farmer's stinky face as always, and felt nothing but a little bit of relief.

He pointed to the opponent's bench with his finger, pointed to Reggie Miller who sat there and could only watch the team being beaten violently, nodded to him, and then turned and left to return to the Bulldogs' bench.

Simply defeating UC will not satisfy Gan Guoyang. Defeating UC with Reggie Miller is his real goal in order to get back what he lost.

Sure enough, Farmar also realized that without an advantage on the inside, if there is no outstanding firepower on the outside, the game will not be able to be played.

As a result, the Bruins once again replaced Reggie Miller when the score fell behind and the situation was critical.

However, Miller replaced the team's small forward Marenka, so that he and Hatcher stay on the court at the same time, one inside and one outside, one shot and one shot, which can obviously increase UC's offensive options and enrich their tactical rotation .

The Bulldogs took starting shooting guard Mark Matthews and replaced Gan Guoyang's old teammate Mikary Williams.

Williams was able to enter Gonzaga University, not only because Bellman is Gonzaga's head coach, but also because of his excellent shooting skills.

And his tenacity in defense is also one of the reasons why he is valued, although his biggest shortcoming is that his physical fitness is too average, which will never be able to make up for it.

After some adjustments by both sides, the game continued.

The home fans seemed to have calmed down and started to cheer for the home team loudly again. The 16-point gap was not a natural moat that could not be filled. The time was still early, and there were still more than 15 minutes before the end of the game.

The Bruins serve, Jackson took a few deep breaths, thinking about how to face Stockton's defense, today's game he has been tortured enough by Stockton, spent 12 points, and must maintain Jing high concentration of force

But when he dribbled the ball across the half, he found that the Bulldogs, which were man-to-man defense, did not use Stockton to defend themselves at all, but used No. 25 Micary Williams who had just come off the bench.

Where is Stockton?Jackson glanced toward the court, only to realize that Stockton was like a policeman chasing a thief, stalking Reggie Miller who was constantly running.

Misplaced defense!

In a basketball game, the man-to-man defense generally corresponds to each position, center versus center, forward versus forward, and guard versus guard.

But sometimes the effect of direct matchup defense is not good, especially if the opponent has a star player in a certain position, and the defensive ability of the player in the same position is average, then it is very likely that in this position, the star player of the opponent will be blocked.

The staff opened and exploded.

In this way, in order to contain the opponent's arrow figures, the defensive pioneers of the side will be misplaced to defend the opponent and restrain the performance of star players.

For example, in this game, Gan Guoyang would sometimes defend UC's top scorer power forward Fields, suppressing his performance below the average level.

The biggest reliance of the Bruins in the first half was Reggie Miller, who played exceptionally well. It was because of his fiery touch that the Bruins not only overcame the scoring drought, but also drove the performance of other players, driving the entire team's outside offense.

Revitalize.

In the second half, facing the same predicament, Farmer once again assigned No. 31, hoping to rely on his miraculous performance to deal with the amazing performance of another star of the Bulldogs, Gan Guoyang.

But how could Bellman let Farmar succeed? The way he responded was to let the team's strongest perimeter defender-John Stockton to deal with Miller.

However, Stockton is a point guard after all, only 6 feet 1 in height, while Miller's height reaches 6 feet 6, the difference between the two is 5 inches, which is a bit big.

Stockton's only advantage when guarding Miller is that he is quicker and more mobile, can keep up with Miller's footsteps, and make his c&s difficult to play.

Jackson's pressure has been reduced a lot. Williams has tenacity but the oppression is too poor. Facing Jackson, he can only guarantee not to lose his position.

Once Jackson released the pressure, the Bruins' offense became smoother. They once again resorted to their usual telescopic tactics, using constant running and covering to find opportunities for breakthroughs and layups to break the Bulldogs' man-to-man defense.

After passing the ball three times at the top of the arc, at the right waist, and at the left horn, Miller relied on three full screens before finally barely getting rid of Stockton's entanglement and going straight to the basket!

The teammate immediately passed the ball to Miller with a through pass. Miller made a slight adjustment and made two fake moves in a row to shake off the two defenders of the Bulldogs, trying to force a layup directly.

"Bang!" There was a sound of hitting the backboard, but it was not the sound of the ball hitting the backboard and entering the basket, but the ball being pressed against the backboard by a big hand.

A large pegboard hat, presented by Gan Guoyang.

Miller didn't expect Gan Guoyang to chase the inside line at all, because when he was running, Gan Guoyang had been pulled to the outside line by Fields to prevent his mid-range shot, and only the opponent's power forward was in charge of the inside line.

He underestimated Gan Guoyang's ability to protect the inside and his reaction speed, and at the same time proved that he is not a good passer, otherwise he would pass the ball to Fields who was plugging in, and it would be an unguarded dunk.

After a big block, the ball is once again controlled by the Bulldogs. Gan Guoyang’s block is like this. He doesn’t like to fan the ball far away and return it to the opponent like playing volleyball. Instead, he wants to firmly control the ball in his own hands. .

"This is my territory, you'd better stay away before shooting." Of course Gan Guoyang would not let go of such an opportunity to taunt, and said to Miller with a livid face.

After handing over the ball to Stockton, the Bulldogs began to see-saw the slow-paced offense again, and now the big tree of UC has been sawed to pieces.

As soon as Gan Guoyang ran to the opponent's half, he immediately drilled inside and began to get a position at the familiar right waist.

When Farmar on the sidelines and the audience at the home court saw Gan Guoyang's posture, they immediately tensed up, thinking that this guy would hook again as soon as he got the ball, and everyone was already scared.

But the Bruins also made adjustments in defense, that is, pinching Gan Guoyang.

Before Gan Guoyang got the ball, he started to pinch. Gray pushed from the back and Fields blocked from the front. The two sandwiched Gan Guoyang like two pieces of bread to form a sandwich.

In this case, Stockton naturally had no way to pass the ball to Gan Guoyang.

Just as Williams passed the cover of power forward Anderson, he circled from the left to the front of the top of the arc. Stockton passed a lob to Williams. Williams wanted to break through after receiving the ball.

As a result, the defender he faced was the strong Hatcher, and Williams, who had no speed and strength, couldn't break in at all.

Gan Guoyang, who can't get the ball at the waist, moved up to the left corner to cover Williams. The two old teammates have always been in harmony. Williams cleverly pretended to use the screen to break to the right, but Hatcher hit Gan Guoyang

First, when Gray stepped forward to defend, he suddenly turned to the left, bypassing Hatcher who was in the wrong direction, and went straight to the basket from the left!

This trick was used by Dipenbrook and Gan Guoyang when they were in Palo Alto High School, and Williams followed suit.

Seeing the opponent rushing towards the three-second zone, Hatcher and Gray just reacted and left to sandwich Williams.

But before the double-team was formed, Williams had already thrown the ball to Gan Guoyang who cut inside after the screen, another tacit pick-and-roll.

Gray's reaction was quite fast. He also knew that after the pick-and-roll, he should always pay attention to the movement of the screener, so when he saw the ball passed back to Gan Guoyang, he immediately turned his attention back to Gan Guoyang.

However, no matter how fast a person moves, he is not as fast as a ball.

When the ball reached Gan Guoyang's hands, it didn't stop at all, just like playing volleyball, he clapped his hands and bounced back to Williams!

Gan Guoyang was like a moving wall. He first covered Williams, and then bounced the ball back. It was too late for Gray to react quickly, and Williams successfully attacked the empty basket. , layup

Score!

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. Gan Guoyang, a center forward with a mediocre passing foundation but extremely talented, can always show his magic in passing the ball as a guard.

There were shouts from the entire home court, mixed with surprise and disappointment, because such a pass had also appeared in UC's home court before, and it came from another super center of theirs.

In the 1973 NCAA Finals, Bill Walton made 22 of 21 shots, 44 points and 14 rebounds with the best performance in the NCAA Finals, achieving UC's seven consecutive championships.

During the game, the center forward who is known as the best passer in history, used such a wonderful wall-hitting pass to add two points to UC.

Now Gan Guoyang's pass is like "yesterday" (yesterday reappearance), bringing them back to 1973.

Gan Guoyang was still expressionless, and ran back to halftime silently. He suddenly felt that the game had lost its meaning, as if after each hero killed the biggest villain, he stood in front of the enemy's corpse, looking at the bloody sword tip,

Full of bewilderment.

People are always like this, when the goal is achieved, they start to feel empty and look for the next goal.

Although the game is not over yet, uc still has a chance, but the two sides have already shown a huge gap in strength.

And in fact, in 1983 in history, uc didn't even enter the national competition.

Gan Guoyang used his performance to let everyone see the shadows of the two greatest players in UC history, but he, who used to be from UC, has already switched to his team.

What kind of irony is this?

At this time, Larry Farmer, the culprit who forced Gan Guoyang away, should feel the deepest. He watched Gan Guoyang's dominant performance in the second half with mixed feelings.

The game is still going on, of course Farmar will not give up lightly, he is still trying to find a strategy to help uc come back, but he suddenly feels that maybe he won't even stay in uc for too long.

A year later, Gan Guoyang used his actions to clarify what it means to "return the other's way with the other's way."

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