The Golden Age of Basketball

() Recently, everything is going well for Gan Guoyang, and everything goes well.

The victories on the court made him more and more confident in his basketball skills.After returning to the classroom, he is not like some sports students who are proud of the competition and frustrated in the examination room.

When I returned to Palo Alto at the end of the weekend, the school held a midterm exam, and all cultural courses had an exam.

Gan Guoyang got A's in all courses except biology and history.Biology is indeed difficult, and Gan Guoyang's biological grades are not good, so he only has a B.

And American history is too fresh and natural for a Chinese who has long been accustomed to the smelly and long history of foot wraps.Gan Guoyang's Chinese-type historical thinking reflected in the exam answers forced the teacher to give him a B because he couldn't understand.

What made Gan Guoyang most proud was his English literature. Not only did he get an A, but he was also selected as an excellent article and published in the school magazine, which greatly impressed Gan Guohui.

Gan Guoyang felt that he had finally begun to understand what Bill Russell said, "control yourself".

Especially after the second season of the "Revenge War" with Pittman, he can realize that he is in control of himself, his teammates, his opponents, and finally the game.

He knew that Pittman would never come to Guns and Roses for revenge, because Pittman had lost confidence and felt fear.

And now, he also took control of his culture class.

Now that school is over, Gan Guoyang packed up his books, prepared to go to the locker to change clothes, and went to the basketball court for training as usual.

"What a fucking wonderful life." Gan Guoyang sighed.Influenced by Behrman, words starting with f appeared more and more frequently in his speech.

But no matter how good life is, there will be stains.

For Gan Guoyang now, the biggest stain in his good life in Palo Alto High School is Gary Halleck.

And this stain always reappears under Gan Guoyang's nose, because he is in the class next to Gan Guoyang, and every day after school, he has to go to the locker to change clothes and go to the football team to train.

"Hey, you sunshine idiot, I heard that you did well in the warm-up match last week?"

Normally, Gan Guoyang would try his best to avoid Halleck, that annoying bastard, but today he was in such a good mood and relaxed that he forgot to dodge it.

"Hello, booger." Gan Guoyang nicknamed Halleck "booger," to reflect his extremely annoying but always present characteristics, "how is the crawling practice on the playground? I see Are you going to practice again in this suit? Come on!"

In addition to shoulder pads and knee pads, Gan Guoyang naturally would not let go of this opportunity to mock him.

"Fuck you-damn Gan, don't think you can win the state championship by winning a warm-up match, you-you are still far from being fucked! Just waiting to be cao!"

Halleck's English literature course was obviously not very good, and he was sprayed all over his body in several quarrels with Gan Guoyang, leaving only one mouth intact.

"Whatever you say, booger~ Anyway, I can eject you at any time." Gan Guoyang pretended to be indifferent, changed his clothes and prepared to leave.

"By the way, Gan, there is a warm-up match for the rugby team this afternoon. I advise you to take a good look and see what a man's sport is." This is the main purpose of Halleck's approach to Gan Guoyang today. It's about to start too.

"No problem! I'll check it out and hope you're doing to my liking. Booger."

"Don't fucking call me booger!" Halleck was extremely displeased with this nickname, but Gan Guoyang had already left.

………………

After school, the basketball team's training was still the same as usual, strict, hard, and full of Bellman's roar.

"Vergis! Can you hurry up! Faster, faster! I-I can see you in a wheelchair when you're old!"

"Dippenbrook, if you act like an old nainai again, I'll send you to a nursing home tomorrow."

"Gam, you're an idiot! Can you pass the ball a little more fucking smoothly! Remember your teammates' running positions, remember their positions, like remembering where your home is! Damn San Francisco .”

However, for the players of the Vikings, such cursing has long been used to it, and there is no trace of unhappiness on their faces, only seriousness, concentration and hard work.

In addition to being used to spur players on, Bellman's trash talk also has an important role in teaching them to concentrate and not be disturbed by things other than basketball.

Of course, what Behrman didn't expect was that his tireless spitting would eventually water out a future nba trash talk king.

"Alright ladies! Assemble!" Bellman blew his whistle, making the players who were doing tactical running exercises stop and come to the sidelines to assemble.

"Your performance in training today is pretty good ladies, so I decided to end today's training early because I have an important training to attend."

The training only lasted for an hour and a half, and neither individual technical training nor full-field training was carried out.

For the players, it is of course a good thing to end training early. They can go home or go back to the dormitory early, and do whatever they want at night.

However, the faces of the players were expressionless and calm; some even showed a trace of pain, as if they were reluctant to end the training early.

"Okay, ladies, your acting skills are pretty good today, but I do have other things this time, and those who are willing to practice more can stay by themselves. Well, I'm leaving, you can figure it out."

It turned out that the players had been fooled by Behrman before.

Bellman lied to the players that he was going to a meeting and ended the training early. Many players cheered. As a result, the whole team practiced for an extra hour, and the players who cheered the loudest did an extra [-] push-ups.

From then on, as long as Bellman said to disband early, everyone should be careful, and if they wanted to be happy, they would keep it in their hearts and never show it.

Now, Behrman really left, and the players also heaved a sigh of relief, they scattered and went to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.

"Hey, Gan, don't you want to stay for extra training today?" Dippenbrok asked when he saw that Gan Guoyang seemed to be going to the locker room to change.

In the past, the two of them would stay and practice for half an hour to an hour every day, and nothing could be changed.

"Oh Peter, I thought I'd come back to practice later, and now I'm going to watch a game."

"Competition? I remembered that the rugby team from Crystal Springs Heights Middle School is visiting today, and they are going to play a warm-up match with our school's rugby team."

"That's right, I'm going to see how that guy Halleck is playing today." Gan Guoyang's eyes showed a trace of evil, he just wanted to see Halleck's jokes.

………………

The American professional football league nfl was established as early as 1920, nearly 30 years earlier than nba.In the 60s, football surpassed basketball and baseball, which has a longer history, and became the most watched sport in the United States.

So on high school and college campuses, football games get more attention than baseball and basketball games.

Although today is not Friday or the weekend, when Gan Guoyang and Dippenbrock arrived at the stadium, the entire stadium was already full of people.Except for the auditorium, the ground and all other free places are full of people.

Gan Guoyang also had to lament that in the United States, rugby is indeed the number one sport.

As for rugby, Gan Guoyang knows all of his seven orifices and knows nothing about it.He only knew that a group of people would chase a football-shaped ball around the world until they ran to someone else's house with the ball, which would count as a score.

So he came here just to watch the excitement, and he didn't even know that this time has reached the most intense moment of the competition.

The score was 19:24, with Palo Alto High behind Crystal Springs Heights by five points.The game has entered the fourth quarter, and there are 28 seconds before the end of the game. Palo Alto High School has the right to attack. This is their last chance.

Gan Guoyang saw a group of people wearing protective gear, who looked like ancient Roman gladiators, standing face to face on the grass field with many horizontal bars.

Everyone bent their knees, arched their backs, and stooped, looking like they were ready to go.

On the side wearing the dark green uniform (dark green is the main color of Palo Alto, as is the basketball team), there is a person standing behind the crowd, as if waiting for something.He also has some teammates next to him.

"Who is that person standing behind?" Gan Guoyang asked.

"It's the quarterback, the brain of the team." Dippenbrock looked at the field without blinking. This is indeed the most tense moment.

The referee blows his whistle, a ball is thrown through the crowd, and the quarterback who stays behind catches it.The gladiators standing in a row collided like bison in an instant.

A large number of Crystal Springs Heights players rushed to the quarterback's position.The Palo Alto High School players partly protected the quarterback and partly started running towards the opposing field.

"Damn it, that quarterback is so pitiful, everyone seems to want to kill him." Gan Guoyang shook his head in silence for the thinner-looking quarterback.

Sure enough, the quarterback's ball was killed before it was passed.

A black big man on the offensive and defensive line broke through the defense of Palo Alto High School, swooped down and knocked down the quarterback who was still watching, and his heavy body was still pressing on the poor quarterback.

Immediately afterwards, another group of people pressed up, like a small mountain of human flesh.

"Fuck, what kind of sport is this? Is it not a foul?" Gan Guoyang gasped, feeling incomprehensible to this brutal sport.

The whistle sounded, and the people on the human flesh hill separated one by one, but the poor quarterback who was pressed at the bottom couldn't stand up.

The coach off the field saw that the situation was not good, and immediately took the team doctor to the field to check the condition of the quarterback who fell there.

After a while, volunteers carried a stretcher to the field and carried the quarterback down.

"My God, this guy must have bruised his ribs," Dippenbrock said worriedly.

"Poor guy, I don't know which poorer guy will go up to replace him. But time seems to be running out." Gan Guoyang looked at the time on the scoreboard, and there were 17 seconds left.

But at this time, Palo Alto High School has no one to replace.

A professional football team, the number of the team will reach 50 people, divided into two groups, offensive group and defensive group.

But it is impossible for a high school team to recruit 30 people. Generally speaking, [-] people are enough.Among them, the quarterback position must have a substitute because it is irreplaceable.

However, the quarterback whose ribs were crushed just now is already a substitute. The starter is off because of a thigh sprain, and the Palo Alto coach has no one to replace.

"Fuck! Who's going to top this quarterback? Marco? Broto? Willis!"

"No coach, I haven't practiced passing at all."

"Coach, why don't you find a pitcher from the baseball team or someone from the basketball team, anyway, they practice passing every day."

"Where the hell do you want me to find someone from the basketball team? Is basketball the same as football?"

"Coach, I saw Forrest Gump in our class. He's on the basketball team. He's right there!"

Gan Guoyang was waiting for the timeout to end and the game to continue on the open space not far from the coach's bench.

Although he saw that the school team was about to lose, he was also very anxious.But he is also looking forward to the opportunity to spit on Halleck after the game, and he is almost ready to laugh at his lines.

"Hey Gan! Come here."

Suddenly someone called him, and Gan Guoyang was taken aback, only to realize that it was John Parry in his class. He was the running back of the rugby team, a nimble and fast black guy.

"What's the matter John?"

"Come here, come here quickly! Our coach told you to go there, hurry up!" John Parry didn't care about Gan Guoyang's confusion, and pulled him to the coach's bench.

"Are you the Forrest Gump of the basketball team?" The coach of the football team is a dignified old white man with silver hair.

"No...that's right..."

"Take off your clothes!"

Now Gan Guoyang is stupid, take off his clothes?What is this for?It's still in the game.

"Hurry up! Others cover him!" A group of tall men from the rugby team surrounded Gan Guoyang.

"Take your clothes off, put on this uniform, go up and be our quarterback. Remember, you just throw the ball forward and try to get it in the hands of your teammates."

While the coach was talking, he had already helped Gan Guoyang undress.

Only then did Gan Guoyang understand that he was going to play as a quarterback!It turned out that I was the fucking quarterback who was even more unlucky!

This time I was shot while lying down.

But Gan Guoyang did not hesitate. Surrounded by a group of burly men, he was already fully armed and put on a football uniform, which fit him fairly well, but was a little too small.

At this time, the timeout is up, and the last 17 seconds of the game will begin.

In this way, Gan Guoyang was kicked out and became the quarterback of the football team.As he walked, he pulled his buttocks, because the pants were too small, which made him uncomfortable.

"My God, how did I end up in such a situation, let a layman be the brain of the team." The coach of the football team looked at Gan Guoyang, who was playing with his butt twisted, and felt that it was too much for a basketball player to be the quarterback. It's unbelievable, but he is also in a hurry to go to the doctor.

Gan Guoyang stood at the position assigned to him by Parry, while his heart was beating wildly.

He wasn't afraid of losing the ball because he couldn't pass the ball, but he was worried that he would be knocked down by the big black man on the opposite side, and he would end up in the same end as the previous quarterback.

But I've already boarded the thief ship, and I can't get off!

"Beep!"

With the whistle of the referee, Palo Alto High School's final attack began, but their hopes were pinned on a layman.

As before, the players on the offensive and defensive lines passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and a hand-to-hand fight with the opponent's offensive and defensive lines began.The players around Gan Guoyang are also trying their best to protect Gan Guoyang from the opponent's attack.

At this time, Gan Guoyang calmed down instead.Although he doesn't understand the rules of rugby, he knows that the ball must not be dropped, and then he must pass the ball to the receiver running towards the opponent's position as the coach said.

Gan Guoyang's 6-foot-8 height played a role. He could see the wide receiver wearing a dark green jersey running towards the field and looking back. He was followed by two opposing players defending him.

It's now!Gan Guoyang thought of the long pass he sent across the field in the last warm-up match.But the basketball court is only 30 yards (about 28 meters), and his pass is only about 20 yards.

Now he is at least 50 yards away from the receiver!twice as much.

There is no choice!Gan Guoyang exhausted all his strength and passed the ball out before the opponent's defensive player pounced.

As for himself, he was thrown to the ground by the other party, and there was a burst of pain in his back. He didn't know if he was injured.

However, after only three or four seconds, there was a tsunami of cheers, as if they were going to overturn the stadium, making Gan Guoyang who was lying on the ground feel dazed for a while.

"Success?"

Before he had time to think about it, he was suddenly pushed up by his own team, and more and more people pushed him up, Gan Guoyang felt that he was about to suffocate.

"Damn it, I'll be crushed even after the game is over!"

After a while, the teammates climbed up again, lifted Gan Guoyang high, and began to throw him into the sky.Gan Guoyang, who had just endured the pressure of Mount Tai, experienced a trapeze again.

"It's too fucking tormenting, I won't play rugby until I die!" This is what Gan Guoyang was thinking at this time.

Little did he know, from this moment on, he had become a true dual star at Palo Alto High.

(Football is just an episode, and the protagonist will not be able to step on two boats like Iverson or James. He plays both rugby and basketball.)