The Golden Age of Basketball

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When the score was fixed at 78:55, the stadium's buzzer made its final sound, like the mourning of surrender, echoing in the dead UC home stadium.

College basketball games are a little different from the NBA. If the NBA home team falls behind by a large score early and the game loses suspense, most of the spectators will choose to leave the game during garbage time.

At the end of the game, there will only be a sparse small number of spectators and lost home players left in the stadium, which is in stark contrast to the lively scene of the team's victory.

In college games, student fans tend to persevere to the end, no matter how poorly the team plays or how many points they fall behind, they will accompany the players from their school to the last moment.

Now, in the game between the Bulldogs and the Bruins, more than 6000 fans at the scene quietly stayed at the scene, watching the former basketball overlord being beaten all over the ground by the little-known Gonzaga University. When will revival come?

In fact, there was an opportunity to lose in front of them, that is, sitting on the bench in the second half of the game, leaving a wide back for the audience behind No. 11, but they did not cherish it.

Many people know that this guy used to be a student of UC, but finally left UC for unknown reasons and switched to other schools.

This former UC student swept the offensive and defensive ends with a stormy performance in the second half, making the game lose suspense early with 10 minutes left, and Gonzaga University also replaced the substitute player to finish the last garbage time.

Gan Guoyang sat off the court and spent the last 10 minutes of the game. He watched Reggie Miller, who was still struggling on the court, trying to save UC with one shot after another, and suddenly felt that Miller might be a very, very great player , but he is not the opponent he really wants to beat.

That high school league final and that lore were just a small hurdle in Gan Guoyang's basketball career. If he crosses it, he will cross it. There are still higher mountains waiting for him to climb.

Reggie Miller is good enough and aggressive enough to be an out-and-out fighter. He will become one of Gan Guoyang's most difficult opponents in his future basketball career.

However, since that high school championship, Reggie Miller has no championship in his life.

He's a real superstar, but not the top ones.

After the game, Gan Guoyang went on the field, the first thing he found was Reggie Miller, and Gan Guoyang gave the tough No. 31 a big hug.

"Good luck Reggie, I've got what I asked for."

"But now you owe it to me, and I will get it back one day."

The two players who played the best in this game are also two newcomers in the college arena. With a hug, they resolved the past hatred and opened a new chapter in the future confrontation.

Gan Guoyang's performance of 30 points, 19, 6 blocks and 2 assists shocked the entire ten-school league, and made this traditionally strong league have to pay attention to this team from the Northwest Minor League.

Reggie Miller scored 25 points off the bench to prove that it was a mistake for Larry Farmer to let him sit on the bench. Compared with the starting freshman Hatcher, he only scored a poor 5 point.

After that, Hatcher, a McDonald's All-Star high school player, was selected in an unknown position in the nba draft, and then was laid off without playing any games, and never entered the nba gate for his whole life.

A battle of revenge ended like this, and it seemed too fast, too simple, too easy for Gan Guoyang, and he didn't even have time to taste the joy of victory.

At the moment when he left the UC gymnasium, Gan Guoyang understood that his grievances with this school were over and had nothing to do with it.

"Big cousin!" Gan Guoyang was walking on the road, looking at the cold night sky, still reminiscing about the trace of sadness in his heart, when a familiar voice came from his ear.

It's Gan Guohui.

"Big cousin... No reporter came to interview you... Big cousin, hurry up, sign me, hurry up." Gan Guohui ran to Gan Guoyang's side, took out a notebook without saying a word, begging for nothing Let's sign.

Gan Guoyang is full of black lines. He knows that Gan Guohui likes to collect the signatures of various celebrities. He said that he will definitely be able to rely on these things to make a fortune in the future. Now he is eyeing Gan Guoyang.

"Guohui, where's your flag?" Gan Guoyang didn't know what to do, so he had to sign for him in the dark by the street lamp, and then asked about the flag Gan Guohui often wore when watching games.

"Oh, didn't I forget to bring it when I came out, otherwise I would have taken it out to advertise our family!" Gan Guohui said with a look of regret, and Gan Guoyang could only be thankful that he forgot.

"Hey, big cousin, that hook of yours is really awesome. Why didn't you use it when you were playing at home during the Chinese New Year?" Gan Guohui asked. It turned out that it was also the first time he saw Gan Guoyang use the hook.

"Hey, isn't that my secret weapon? What is a secret weapon, that is, no one who has nothing to do with it can know it! You have a big mouth..." Gan Guoyang couldn't help giving him a sideways glance when he thought of the power of Fatty's mouth.

"How could I reveal my cousin's secret? I'm... hehe." As soon as Gan Guohui saw Gan Guoyang's eyes, he immediately thought that Wang Fuxi's matter was revealed to his uncle by himself, so he smiled embarrassingly.

Fortunately, Gan Youwei took a good view of love and didn't ask Gan Guoyang Xingshi to question him, otherwise Gan Guoyang wanted him to look good.

"Big cousin, please do your best. Although I go to school in Southern California, I will always support you and will always be your fan! By the way, there is also Chen Xing, this guy has something to do today..." Gan Guohui smiled He told Gan Guoyang that the bus was already waiting for Gan Guoyang.

On this already somewhat cold night, Gan Guoyang felt warm in his heart. Although uc had nothing to do with him, his relatives and friends had been silently supporting him.

Back in the car, sitting in the seat, Gan Guoyang thought of his father again. Gan Guoyang trained desperately for a year. An important reason was to tell his father that choosing basketball by himself was not a useless and wrong decision. A golden champion to prove himself.

"Okay ladies, I think everyone is very happy at the banquet tonight, but this is the first step of the long march. In the next few days, we will also play against several other teams in the Ten Schools League. It is a huge challenge. Moreover, I just got the news today that we have taken on a 'big job' and will go to the central region to play games after a while, everyone be prepared."

As soon as Bellman said this, everyone started talking like an explosion, and ran to the middle to play?

Due to the vastness of the United States, so many universities in the United States are divided into small leagues. Teams belonging to the same league hold small leagues. These university teams are basically in one state or two adjacent states.

This can save a lot of time and money. After all, universities have limited funds and students have to attend classes.

Although there will be invitational tournaments between different leagues, the two leagues will not meet too far. For example, Washington State, where Gonzaga University is located, and California, where UC is located, are only separated by Oregon State.

Even so, it's a relatively long distance for a college team, requiring expensive transportation such as an airplane.

And go to the middle of the United States to play?This is simply an expedition. It is rare for a college team to travel so far to play a non-commercial invitational game at a school. Are you crazy?

"Are we going to go to that big ranch in Indiana and play in the cornfield?" Some players said loudly. Although Indiana is the state of basketball, Indiana is synonymous with corn for Americans in other states.

"I think it's better to eat potatoes in Idaho State. I don't like corn." Idaho State is next door to Washington State and is where Gonzaga University will play.

Behrman ignored the players' speculations. He has always been like this. He never interfered with the players' noisy discussions and let them go.

He walked to Gan Guoyang who was sitting in the back seat. Gan Guoyang didn't participate in the discussion. He sat with Stockton who was also quiet, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"Gan, you performed well today." Behrman leaned on the car seat and said.

"Thank you Mr. Behrman, but the feeling of revenge seems not as sweet as imagined." Gan Guoyang said.

"Yes, because you already have a greater goal to achieve." Behrman looked at his proud disciple and said gently.

Bellman seldom talked to Gan Guoyang in such a harmonious way, but Gan Guoyang felt a little uncomfortable and didn't know what to say, so he nodded.

The car continues to drive, and so does Gonzaga's ten-college journey.

In the next two games, they defeated the University of Oregon and Washington State University 72:52 and 70:61 respectively.

With a record of three victories in the ten-school league, Gan Guoyang averaged 25.4 points, 15.9 rebounds, and 4.1 blocks per game and became the focus of the major leagues on the west coast.

In particular, his sky hook stunt in the game can be said to have shocked the leagues and attracted the attention of scouts from all walks of life.

He is 6 feet 10 tall and weighs 230 pounds. In terms of physical fitness such as running and jumping strength, he can only be regarded as an upper-middle center. Other centers can be said to ask for anything.

Although he still has many weaknesses in attack range and technique, the talent he has shown is shocking enough, especially his sharp sense of defense on the defensive end, which makes people think of the terrible No. 6.

More importantly, this is a yellow man, a skin color that is the most marginal in the American sports world.

Some media in the West have already begun to report on this sophomore player with yellow skin. He never played an official game in his freshman year because he dropped out of UC and transferred.

This undoubtedly greatly increased his legend and mystery.

According to some "informed sources", this No. 11 player named "Gump" once trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for a week when he was in UC, and it is said that he got Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's true biography.

Where the "informed person" comes from is always a mystery that people can't figure out, but it is true that Gan Guoyang once trained with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and many UC students have seen it.

However, no one knows whether Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's true biography has been obtained.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has faced countless opponents in his life, and there are countless center forwards who have been hooked by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's hook to become unconscious, but no one has ever been able to obtain the stunt of the sky hook in the process of being abused by the sky hook.

Gan Guoyang's practice of the sky hook was indeed inspired by the sky hook, and he got some pointers from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, but there is another compelling reason for him to practice the sky hook.

During more than a year of training in Gonzaga, the first thing Gan Guoyang has to do is to gain weight.

At 6 feet 10, playing center is already a disadvantage. If he is too light, he will not be able to play, and power forward is not the position Gan Guoyang wants.

Therefore, Behrman specially arranged for a physical coach to carry out strength training for Gan Guoyang, and by the way, increase his weight from about 210 pounds to 230 pounds.

Body weight is the foundation of strength, strength without muscle is purely a castle in the air.

Gan Guoyang also practiced hard, ate a reasonable diet and was restrained, and successfully increased his weight to 230 pounds, the weight of a qualified college center.

Moreover, the trainer found that Gan Guoyang's strength was beyond his imagination. Even though Gan Guoyang had increased to 230 pounds, he was still a tall and thin center in terms of size.

However, Gan Guoyang's strength is greater than some players who look thicker than him, and it is surprisingly large, which is really incredible.

Only Gan Guoyang knew that this was brought to him by his "talent". At that time, he did not consider the body shape when setting the strength value, and the value of 83 was far beyond the level of basketball players in the 80s.

Gan Guoyang estimated that his strength value should reach 65 at this time, which is not far from Duncan in nbalive2004, and Duncan's weight is 260 pounds!

This makes Gan Guoyang's power a big bug.

But the troubles caused by it also appeared, that is, Gan Guoyang's mid-range shooting began to have problems.

Since the first time he came to the United States to play basketball, Gan Guoyang has shown outstanding shooting talent, and with continuous practice, he has also developed a good mid-range shot without special shooting training.

This is the result of his 85 shooting ability and 75 three-point ability. Gan Guoyang also wants to become a comprehensive center who can play both inside and outside in the future.

However, after several months of comprehensive and high-intensity strength and weight training, Gan Guoyang found that his shooting accuracy began to decline significantly.

In fact, after Gan Guoyang grew to 6 feet 10 and his wingspan grew to a terrifying 7 feet 6, his long-range shots had already begun to be inaccurate, and this increase in strength and weight made him worse, almost causing him to lose his long-range shots. ability.

Big hands, long arms, strong strength, these are the advantages of playing basketball, but they are the disadvantages of shooting. It has to be said that it is a great irony.

As a result, Gan Guoyang not only did not have a COSCO shot, but even his former stunt turnaround jumper was also discounted.

This also allowed Gan Guoyang to discover the third secret about his talent, which gave him a deeper understanding of his basketball ability.

How to regain the most basic skill of shooting has been a problem that Gan Guoyang has been troubled for a whole year, and there is no other way except to practice and practice.

But in the process of confrontation training, Gan Guoyang found that the hooks he occasionally used had a very high hit rate, and it was difficult to be disturbed, because big hands, long arms, and strong strength are the advantages of hooks!

People should maximize their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

So Gan Guoyang didn't stop shooting practice, but also started hook practice.

Unexpectedly, this practice was out of control. Gan Guoyang fell in love with this elegant, unique and powerful technique, and the more he practiced, the more confident he became, and the more he practiced, the smoother he became.

Finally, in the first official competition in 1983, Gan Guoyang's Skyhook officially appeared, showing great power.

At the same time, Gan Guoyang's turnaround jumper and fadeaway jumper, which he was once best at, were naturally put aside first to make way for the hook.

There is still a long way to go, Gan Guoyang has decided to re-sharpen these skills bit by bit, and truly become his own weapon to defeat the enemy.

Naturally, the media and "insiders" would not know about these things, and Gan Guoyang didn't have the time and mood to pay attention to the reports of these media.

Because, the Gonzaga Bulldogs' expedition is about to begin, and they will go to Nebraska, the hometown of the bison.

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