The Golden Age of Basketball

() (There may be only one update today, and it's still late. I'm really sorry, I've been busy recently. And there are a lot of materials to prepare for the ncaa national competition, please forgive me.)

The progress of the game was just like Gan Guoyang's behind-the-back pass. Suddenly, the whole Bulldogs' offense seemed to be enlightened.

After the Princeton-style running position completely failed in the first attack, the Bulldogs' offense in the next attack began to flow smoothly.

It's not because their Princeton-style running positions are suddenly proficient, but Gan Guoyang began to drive the team with his unconstrained passing.

Leaving aside the iconic 20-yard long pass after a successful defense, Gan Guoyang passed it freely, unexpectedly, and with difficulty in the positional attack.

For example, he catches the ball at the top of the sideways arc, and before he turns around, he directly hits the ground with a no-look-pass and pushes the ball straight from the top of the arc to the basket. Williams, who is on the right side, catches the ball easily. A successful layup.

For example, when receiving the ball at 45 degrees in a quick counterattack, he turned his back to the basket 20 feet away from the basket, pouted his buttocks and arched inward, but suddenly passed the ball behind his head, and the ball went to the basket again, and was caught from the basket. Matthews, who went down the middle, received it and directly forced a layup.

Another example is grabbing an offensive rebound in front of the basket, pretending to make a hook shot, but suddenly taking the ball back, tricking the outside players who stepped forward to pinch, leading the ball to the outside, and Stockton firing from the outside hit.

Is this Behrman's tactic?No, Bellman has never taught Gan Guoyang to pass the ball like this, and Bellman has never been a good offensive coach.

The two teams under his control started out defensively, played a slow-paced and low-frequency offense, occasionally had some fast breaks, and relied heavily on the inside.

After arriving in Gonzaga, I don’t know where to learn some offensive tricks. It seems that what I learned is still a remnant. Fortunately, with Stockton, an underestimated commander, Gonzaga’s offense is barely passable.

And after getting Gan Guoyang, Behrman has always hoped to train him into an all-round center forward with both offensive and defensive skills and excellent passing skills.

Gan Guoyang's defense and scoring are fine, but his passing has always been a six-veined sword, and he never hits it. When he is good, he is amazing, but when he is bad, he is often double-teamed and can't score the ball.

Therefore, during the one-year training, Behrman deliberately asked Gan Guoyang to strengthen the practice of basic passing skills, and asked him to make fewer shots and more passes in the confrontation and warm-up matches.

For this reason, he often explained the Princeton tactics with Gan Guoyang, and analyzed some details and key points of this tactics with Gan Guoyang, because the center forward is the most important part of this tactical system.

But Behrman himself learned all the old ones, and he often messed up in the team drills, and was blocked by the defensive system he designed himself. He really didn't know whether to be happy or sad.

Under such circumstances, how could Gan Guoyang truly understand the essence of Princeton?How can it be possible to complete the important task of being the core axis of this tactical system?

So after only one such tactic, Gan Guoyang felt that the ball could not be played like this, and his teammates were not used to this tactic that required long-term training.

Then he didn't care about it. Anyway, Behrman had always been relatively lenient towards Gan Guoyang. As long as he didn't give a death order, he could figure out what to do on the field.

So there were those elegant and unimaginable passes one by one.

Although some passes will inevitably lead to mistakes, once they are successful, the defensive side will easily develop a sense of powerlessness. "How the hell to defend this" is the voice of many defensive players when faced with this kind of pass.

On the other hand, the attacking side tends to play more and more easily, thinking "this can also be passed", so one by one let go of their courage, how to do it, how to do it, how to pass it no matter how difficult it is.

The thick, calm, and down-to-earth Bulldogs team originally built by Behrman suddenly became the handsome "Pegasus Team" where everyone can pass the ball and everyone loves to pass the ball.

And the Creighton Blue Jays seemed to be unable to play all of a sudden. The team's tight and active defense was shattered by the opponent's sudden pass, and the offensive momentum was also bruised. This mistake completely ruined their hope of chasing points.

The Bulldogs played more and more smoothly. Even if their passing could not be as incredible as before, the advantages they had established ensured that they played more and more relaxed, and their hit rate was getting higher and higher.

In this way, an inexplicable game, because of two inexplicable dunks and an inexplicable pass in the second half, through an inexplicable process, there was an inexplicable result.

The Gonzaga Bulldogs beat the Creighton Blue Jays 67:49 with 18 points in the away game. They sent 23 assists in the game, which means that more than half of the points were obtained through cooperation.

Usually the number is 16.

Gan Guoyang scored only 13 points, 19 rebounds as usual, 9 blocked shots, and even more surprisingly, he had 7 assists.

In the past, his average number of assists per game was generally kept at around 3. It depends on whether his long-distance passes lead to direct scoring, otherwise it is just a beautiful pass.

Of course, the Bulldogs' turnovers also reached an astonishing 15 in the second half. Fortunately, the Blue Jays' turnovers were not far behind, reaching 11.

According to Bellman's team building ideas, slow pace, low turnover, and strong inside play are the basic ideas they have always adhered to, and the resulting low assists and low scores are also inevitable.

This game was completely out of order, the bulldog didn't look like a bulldog, and Gan Guoyang's fight made people feel that he was not himself.

By the time the Bulldogs left Creighton on the bus and then flew out of Omaha, the team was in a daze.

Especially Behrman, he didn't even know how he won the game, and he didn't make a summary after the game.

For Gan Guoyang, when he recalled this expedition many years later, he felt a little strange in his heart, and he didn't feel excited at all.

From the beginning to the end, he didn't know who arranged the match.Although Falke has great powers, he is not rich enough to arrange a basketball game, including food, lodging and air tickets.

In fact, after that game ended, Buffett and Strasser left to discuss investment business at Buffett's old mansion in Omaha.

Falk did not arrange a meeting between Gan Guoyang and Strasser. After all, Gan Guoyang is still studying, and letting him get in touch with business prematurely is not conducive to his growth on the court.

Whether Gan Guoyang can bring hope to Nike is inseparable from his performance on the basketball court.Both Strasser and Falke understand the reason why we can't "pull the seedlings to encourage them to grow".

At the end of this unforgettable trip to the middle of the country, the Bulldogs can finally return to their old home in Spokane, Washington.

Here they will face the challenges of the Ten Schools League, Big Sky League and Eastern Sports League teams-after Christmas is over.

It feels good to be home for the Gonzaga Bulldogs, who have been adrift for four games on the road.And they returned home with a record of 4 wins and 4 losses, and had a wonderful Christmas.

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Time is so silent, and the clock of history has entered 1984.On the occasion of the New Year's Eve, Gan Guoyang put almost all his energy on basketball, and the only time he could allocate some was to accompany Wang Fuxi and her in the cold Spokane at Christmas. Have a warm Christmas.

"Forrest Gump, do you still like me?"

"Huh? Why do you ask that?"

"I always feel that you only have basketball in your heart. We haven't had a good talk together for a long time."

"Really... a little... But after all, I can't be married to basketball for the rest of my life?"

"Hey~ I think you are planning to spend your whole life with basketball, and then let basketball give you a volleyball."

"Yeah, so I can let my family's volleyball marry tennis, and then have a ping-pong ball!"

"You can really talk nonsense! Anyway, you just don't like me!"

"Fuxi, I..."

Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi walked hand in hand on the snow-covered campus amidst the snowflakes on Christmas Eve.After hearing what Wang Fuxi said, Gan Guoyang also felt a little guilty.

Other people are always inseparable in love, and her boyfriend is also caring for his girlfriend, but he is so busy with competitions and training that he doesn't even have time to talk to Wang Fuxi.

At this time, he really wanted to tell Wang Fuxi his secret, that he came from the future, and tell her that in this time and space that does not belong to him, he was afraid that one day he would suddenly wake up and realize that this was just a dream .

He is still Dang Lei, still in the dormitory of the school, still has congenital heart disease and cannot play basketball.

Here, only basketball can make him calm and indulge him. Besides, only Wang Fuxi is his most exciting affiliation.

But Gan Guoyang couldn't say it, he didn't know how to say it, and he also knew that Wang Fuxi wouldn't believe it.

But Wang Fuxi didn't ask Gan Guoyang what he wanted to say, but embraced Gan Guoyang and hugged him gently.

"Forrest Gump, I'm a little cold."

"I'm also a little cold, so we hug like this."

The two figures embraced each other in the snow at night. In this time and space that did not belong to Gan Guoyang, he found another sustenance.

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When January 1984 came, the basketball competitions of universities all over the country entered a fierce competition, and they went all out for the quota in March.

In the historical 1983-1984 NCAA season, Gonzaga University failed to enter the NCAA National Championship. They ranked fourth in the league with a total score of 18 wins and 10 losses and a record of 6 wins and 6 losses in the West Coast League.

Except for the top-ranked University of San Diego, which entered the NCAA National Tournament, no other team qualified.

Moreover, the University of San Diego also had to participate in the qualifiers due to record reasons, was eliminated in the qualifiers, and did not enter the top 48 in the United States at all.

Now, the joining of Gan Guoyang is about to change the course of history, and the NCAA in the 1983-1984 season will have some variables because of his arrival.

The first thing they have to do is to win the West Coast League championship and be able to directly enter the top 48 with excellent results, instead of playing a qualifying game.

After experiencing the baptism of the away game, the Bulldogs who returned to the home court can be said to be full of spirit and high spirits. The four teams that came to challenge the University of Oregon, the University of Montana, Washington State University and Robert Morris University were all defeated by the Bulldogs. The dog fell off the horse.

In the game, Gan Guoyang once again returned to his true nature as a killer. He did not engage in dunks or passes. He focused on scoring and killing insiders in his offense. He averaged 30 points per game in four games, and scored 40 points in one fell swoop against Washington State. , leading the Gonzaga Bulldogs undefeated in their first eight games.

And the next four invitational games are basically home and away games with their previous opponents. Gonzaga University is getting better and better. The entire northwest coast region has no team that can stop this bullfight. The rampage of dogs.

Throughout January, Gonzaga University played against teams from other leagues. In 10 games, they maintained a complete victory and averaged 12 points per game to welcome the West Coast Conference in February with a 0-[-] record. championship.

The West Coast League is really a little-known small league among the more than 30 first-level leagues in the NCAA in the United States. If Gan Guoyang hadn't come to this time and space, no one in this league in history has entered the final-four, let alone the championship up.

Their best finish would be Gonzaga's 2005-for-32 loss to Texas in 32, when Gonzaga's core was Adam Morris.

It's different now, Gan Guoyang has changed the fate of Palo Alto High School, but the results of the state high school league are really not worth mentioning, but the history of NCAA has a profound impact.

To change history, start by changing the West Coast League.

The West Coast Conference Championship is a double round-robin home and away tournament played by seven teams in the West Coast Conference, with each team playing 7 games.

In the end, the results of these 12 games will be combined with the results of the previous 12 invitational games to form a regular-season-champ (regular season champion), which will automatically enter the ncaa national competition.

But if the record of the championship in this regular season is mediocre, then the team still needs to play a qualifying game to get a chance to enter the top 48 in the country.

If the team's record is particularly good, not only will it be able to enter the top 48 in the country, but it will also become a seeded team and receive a bye in the first round, which is equivalent to directly entering the top 32.

The top 32, this is the best result that Gonzaga University can achieve. If you can enter the top 32 without even playing a knockout match, how can you not let Gonzaga's players feel excited?

Therefore, in the 12 West Coast League Championship games, Gonzaga University almost tried their best to achieve a complete victory record with the wind sweeping the fallen leaves!

This makes Gonzaga University unbeaten in the entire regular season!

在ncaa的历史上，一共有十二个赛季有球队曾经整季不败，其中ucla占到了4个，分别是1963-64赛季、1966-67、1971-72赛季和1972-73赛季。

Since Indiana University in the 1975-1976 season, there has never been an undefeated team in the history of the entire ncaa.

Of course, these undefeated teams eventually won the NCAA championship, and staying undefeated in the regular season is just a small step in it.

Now, Gonzaga University will have the opportunity to create the No.13 unbeaten record.

They still haven't caught the national attention, though, because in this part of the Northwest Coast, an undefeated regular season isn't much of a feat. The West Coast Conference has only lost one or two games in its history, while remaining undefeated in the league's championship game. There are also many teams.

Therefore, when the confident Gonzaga players saw the NCAA National Championship schedule, they were all dumbfounded.

"Damn it, why aren't we in the top 32? We still have to play first-round?" Gan Guoyangman thought that the team would directly enter the top 32, with a bye in the first round.

"Because the West Coast League is too weak to enter the eyes of the NCAA organizing committee, so we still prepare for the first round." Bellman explained.

"Then who shall we fight in the first round?"

"I don't know. The results of the qualifiers haven't come out yet...Let me think about it...it's the winner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Princeton University."

"Princeton University?"