The Golden Age of Basketball

() (Sorry, I'm too busy today, the update is over. And I wrote it in a hurry, maybe it's a bit watery, don't blame it. The official ncaa national competition is coming soon.)

The game was interrupted and stagnant because of Gan Guoyang's wonderful dunk.Gan Guoyang originally wanted to use one or two dunks to change the momentum on the court, but he didn't expect that the momentum didn't change, and the process of the game was disrupted all of a sudden.

In that era when there was no Internet, not every family had a video recorder, and not everyone had the time to record all the exciting scenes in the game.

Therefore, the wonderful performance has passed and can only be passed. If you want to relive it again, you must either recall it slowly, or you have to wait for the new performance to appear in the game.

In the finals that just passed in 1983, Dr. J's rock-the-baby shocked all the basketball audience in front of the TV.

But no one expected that at the scene of Creighton University, a college player would repeat this classic scene.

For those spectators watching the excitement, it doesn't matter who wins or loses. They just want to watch the dunk of No. 11 on the court, even if it is on the head of the home team.

Gan Guoyang was still in a daze at this moment, because the whole audience was cheering for him, and when the timeout ended and he returned to the court, the cheers reached their peak.

It was only at this time that Gan Guoyang understood somewhat how influential a basketball player's brilliant dunk would be in such an era of scarce video resources.

Looking at the fans on the scene showing signs of defecting to the away team, Gan Guoyang also had to feel the great charm of dunking in basketball games.

However, a dunk still only counts as two points, and the madness and enthusiasm of the audience will gradually cool down.

Back on the court, the game that was interrupted by a dunk continued.

Now, Gan Guoyang has calmed down, and he is touched by the enthusiasm of the audience for basketball, but this does not mean that he will show mercy to the Blue Jays.

The best respect for an opponent on the court is to go all out.

Returning to the defense again, the Blue Jays, who were a little dizzy after being hit by two dunks, seemed to have not yet come to their senses. Facing the Bulldogs' continued strengthening of their oppressive defense, they had a big problem in passing the ball outside.

If you face an oppressive defense during a game, the most important thing is to "overcome rigidity with softness" and use tactics and patience to wear down the opponent's defensive enthusiasm.

In this case, once the oppressive defense that consumes a lot of physical strength fails to achieve results, it will naturally fail.

But once the oppressive defense works, the defensive side will become more aggressive, and the stronger the intensity, it will enter a virtuous cycle, and the attacking side will have problems.

The Blue Jays are a team with center Benjamin as the core. Benjamin is an important tactical starting point for the Blue Jays at any time, but now this starting point is strangled by Gan Guoyang, and the Blue Jays' tactics are immediately reduced by half.

The sluggish conduction of the outside line makes the Blue Jays' running positions often useless, because people can't reach the ball.

After many attempts, the Blue Jays still couldn't find a good chance, and Benjamin still couldn't get the ball.

In this case, the outside players can only throw it themselves.

The personal ability of college players is not as good as that of professional players, and the ability to force shots is even worse. The result of forceful shots from outside can only be that the rebounds are pocketed by the Bulldogs.

The Bulldogs, under the leadership of the engine Stockton, began to launch a quick counterattack. During the timeout, Behrman not only let the players "clam-down" accidents, but also asked to seize the opportunity to gain momentum on the court and strive to score quickly and continuously. Take the lead.

Relatively speaking, the fast break is not the Bulldogs' strong suit, because they lack strong and fast forward players.

But their third-line fast-break cooperation is quite good, and with Stockton, a reliable point guard, to distribute the ball, the Bulldogs of the whole team have nothing to do against the Blue Jays.

Matthews, who quickly plugged in, succeeded in an empty basket after receiving a pass from his teammate, making the score 13:6, and the Bulldogs made a 7:0.

However, the Blue Jays at home are not completely helpless.

Compared with the Bulldogs, the advantage of the Blue Jays lies in their front line, their frontcourt.

With two powerful forwards - Gregory Brandon and Kenny Evans, the Blue Jays began to use these two fast and strong players to attack the Bulldogs inside.

The Bulldogs used to have two very good forwards and guards. Unfortunately, they were both forced to quit the team because of academic problems.

In this way, the striker has become the weakest link of the bulldog, and the loopholes formed can only be filled by Gan Guoyang alone.

Benjamin, Brandon, and Evans, the three dark frontcourt strongmen, even if Gan Guoyang has three heads and six arms, he may not be able to completely contain them, let alone two fists are hard to beat four hands now.

In this way, the Blue Jays also found their own offensive rhythm. They did not go outside, nor did they pass inside, outside, outside, inside, but relied on their strikers to overwhelm the inside.

Similar situations have been encountered countless times since Bellman coached Gan Guoyang, using a dynamic striker to attack the team's inside pillars.

Because no matter in Palo Alto or Gonzaga, Gan Guoyang has never had an outstanding power forward to share the pressure on the inside for him.

When facing some teams with outstanding athletic talents, Gan Guoyang had to carry the inside defense alone, and endured repeated attacks from the opponent's heavy cavalry.

This point is very similar to Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets in the future. Gan Guoyang would not have thought that he and Yao Ming are really "sick and sympathetic" in this respect, and he will "fight alone" in the paint for a long time to come.

The first half of the game became more and more intense as the two teams gradually entered the state. The home fans also cooled down from Gan Guoyang's two dunks and devoted themselves to the current game, starting to cheer for the Blue Jays at home.

The game finally began to enter the formality, like a serious ncaa invitational game.

But in the first half, Gan Guoyang's performance was not on track, although the two dunks almost attracted everyone's attention and 80% of the cheers in the first half.

His touch is still cold. On the offensive end, facing Benjamin's "never give up" defense and the timely double-teaming of other players, Gan Guoyang has never formed a continuous firepower.

Moreover, most of his energy had to be allocated to the defensive end and entangled with opponents. In the first half, he only scored 9 points, 10 rebounds, and sent 7 blocked shots, which broke the record.

At the end of the half, the Bulldogs led the Blue Jays by 29 points 22:7, which was the same as the difference between the two sides after that skirmish.

"Gan, what's the matter with you today? Did you not sleep well last night? I think you have no passion on the court, even though you contributed two wonderful dunks." Bellman said to Gan Guoyang during the intermission.

Gan Guoyang also felt a little discouraged. Logically speaking, he gradually got used to Benjamin's defense. After all, his bug-like strength was there.

But his hand feeling never recovered.

A hook like Gan Guoyang’s can’t be blocked once the feel comes. No matter how much pressure or interference the defender exerts, as long as the movement is done completely, it’s all up to the shooter himself whether he can get in or not.

And once the feel is gone, it is not so easy to get the feel back for such a difficult hook movement.

"I don't know. I don't feel like attacking at all today. My wrist doesn't seem to be oiled. The feeling of dunking is very good. I hope it will be better in the second half." Gan Guoyang shrugged helplessly. He still prefers consecutive goals to dunks that pleasure.

"It doesn't matter Gan, we still took the lead in the first half, and the game is already under our control. And Gan, have you forgotten, I hope you can learn to control the game in more ways than just defending and scoring." Bellman said meaningfully.

Gan Guoyang heard Behrman's words and remembered that Behrman strictly controlled the number of shots he took in the warm-up match and team training for a while, asking him to use other ways to help the team in offense.

Including his first official match against UCLA, he hardly took any singles shots in the first half, but his performance didn't seem to meet Behrman's requirements, and he relied on his crazy scoring in the second half to settle the opponent.

"I understand Mr. Behrman, I will try my best!" Gan Guoyang nodded, he knew what Behrman meant.

"This kid struggled a bit in the first half of today's game. His hook is actually very powerful, but this time, for some reason, he has no touch at all. But he has a strong sense of presence in defense, you should be able to see that, If it wasn't for him, it would be (hot dog)!" Falk in the stands was still explaining Gan Guoyang's performance, for fear that Stu Erse felt that Gan Guoyang was not capable.

"Don't worry about Falk, I can understand basketball. And you have to know, I'm choosing the spokesperson instead of the core of the team's championship. I think his playing style and temperament are quite good, healthy and uplifting, which is very suitable for us. New strategy." Situ Erse said.

"Yes, this kid is really special. He has a super contagion. I still remember that time in Inglewood. He was a center but played point guard on the court, and finally completely dominated the court. " Falk mentioned the encounter in Inglewood again, and Falk already felt that the rewards of going to Inglewood were beyond his imagination. Anyway, he is very grateful to the fat black man on the sidelines .

However, in the official game, a center wants to play a point guard, but don't even think about it, let alone the Bulldogs and Stockton, a genuine point guard who can no longer be positive.

But Gan Guoyang will not let his passing talent go to waste.

The second half of the game had just begun, and the Bulldogs took the lead in attacking, but after falling into position, the Bulldogs put up a strange formation.

They adopt a 4-1 position. This position is often used when the inside lacks attack points, and the outside line is used to break through and use the outside line to shoot at fixed points to open up the offensive situation.

But now, Gan Guoyang has become one of the 4, standing at a 45-degree position on the right, echoing Stockton who is in possession of the ball.

At this time, Stockton passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and then rolled inward to start the bulldog's tactical movement.

For those who are familiar with various tactics of American college basketball, it is obvious that this is the position of Princeton tactics that Princeton University is best at.

The task of supporting and directing the offense is handed over to the center, and other players use tactical moves to stretch space and create opportunities for teammates.

Bellman didn't know where he got the tactical system from, but he used it in this game, and let Gan Guoyang, who has outstanding passing talent but not solid basic skills, play the tactical core. Is this reliable?

Bellman didn't know what to do, and he didn't know that Gan Guoyang would not be able to play the central role of tactics with such a tactic, but he firmly believed that if Gan Guoyang wanted to become a superstar, he had to develop his talent in this area.

Passing is a skill that is difficult to hone in training. It must be in actual games, through continuous reading of defense and accumulation of experience, in order to become a qualified passer.

During the one-year training, Gan Guoyang has worked hard to practice the basic passing skills and reduce his passing error rate. Now, he will combine the basic passing skills with his talent in the game.

Gan Guoyang held the ball and stood outside the right corner, watching the changes and running of the players on the field, his brain was running like a machine.

Different from street games, the defensive players here don't stand casually, and the attackers can run out of space after a few random runs.

The core idea of ​​Princeton's tactics is the so-called "back door". This tactic is based on the fact that the opponent's defense must have a defensive blind spot, which is the back of their heads!

No matter how strong a defender is, how outstanding his defensive skills are, and how strong his physical fitness is, if he wants to defend a player, he must at least be able to see and stare at the opponent.

But a person's eyes can only see the piece in front of him, unless he has a heart Gan Guoyang, then the direction his back is facing is defenseless to the opponent.

Therefore, all the moves in Princeton's tactics are to stare at the back of the defenders, run behind them, and run where they cannot see.

As long as this point is mastered, then the remaining specific running routes and tactical routines can adapt to the situation and exert their power according to the opponent's defense.

Because the bulldog's overall physical fitness is very average, its height, speed, and strength are relatively average, so Bellman has been experimenting with this "weakness wins the strong" tactic, and this time it is the first experiment on the blue jay.

Gan Guoyang looked at it for a while, but found that his teammates' running positions began to become chaotic, and his mind also became a little chaotic.

It's over, this chaos, the Bulldogs' three players on the right wing have problems with their screens and cuts under the defensive pressure of the Blue Jays, and Princeton seems to be self-defeating before it even starts.

Gan Guoyang saw that he couldn't do it, and if he stayed in a high position, his opponent would come up and attack him.

He hurriedly dribbled a step inward, passed the ball to the small forward Matthews who outflanked to the top of the arc, and he sank inward.

Behrman shook his head on the sidelines. He thought that this experiment had failed. He usually ran well in training, but he was caught blind when it came to the game.

In fact, this is also very normal. Princeton tactics require a high degree of tacit understanding and a coordination system that combines the ball and the ball. It is the first time to use it in a game, and mistakes are inevitable.

As soon as Gan Guoyang sank to the low position, he immediately got stuck on the right waist. At this time, the inside line of the Blue Jays was extremely crowded. Because of the error of the Bulldog's running position, several players all ran to the three-second zone.

Therefore, when Matthews passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, the Blue Jay's double-teaming was extremely easy, forcing Gan Guoyang to the bottom line on the right.

Gan Guoyang fell into the siege of the blue jays, shrunk to the bottom line, couldn't shoot, and couldn't pass the ball because he couldn't lift his hands at all.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's long arm played a role again. He seemed to have eyes in the back of his head. He swung the ball from outside the baseline, hit the ball behind his back, and passed the ball back to the three-second zone from outside the bounds!

Unlike football, as long as the basketball does not press the line, even if the ball is out of bounds, as long as it is thrown back before it hits the ground, it will not be considered out of bounds!

In this way, Gan Guoyang passed the ball back into the bounds from the out-of-bounds direction without double-teaming, and it happened to fall into the hands of Stockton who cut into the basket. Stockton, who was unguarded under the basket, made an easy layup.

"Wow, it's really dangerous. You almost blocked me, but unfortunately I can still pass the ball." Gan Guoyang, who "survived a catastrophe", said to the Blue Jays players "without shame".

But Behrman off the court thought, maybe for a player like Gan Guoyang, he should not be restrained by the tactical system, but should be allowed to play freely!