Chapter 257 New Technology
Hearing Lewis' voice, Gan Guoyang and Olajuwon both stopped to confront each other and watched Coach Lewis come over.
Lewis took the ball from Gan Guoyang and said to Olajuwon first: "Akim, your defense is not a big problem, but your strength is at a disadvantage. I didn't expect that among the players of the same year, there are still people who are better than you in the lower set."
Olajuwon only started playing basketball after junior high school, but he was extremely talented and had a very complete skill in all aspects during his years at the University of Houston.
In the regular season last season, Gan Guoyang mainly used hooking skills when he singled Olajuwon.
Since Gan Guoyang has the advantage in power, once he pushes Olajuwon away and gets space to take action, Olajuwon basically has to watch it.
However, after the end of the season, Olajuwon further strengthened his strength training and asked Moses Malone for his defensive hooking skills.
During several confrontations at the University of Houston, Gan Guoyang found that it was not so easy for him to push Olajuwon's hook and hit, and other offensive methods were greatly reduced when facing Olajuwon.
"And Gan, you are too obsessed with your Sky-hook. You have to know that you are not Kareem. There is only one Sky hook in this world. No matter how close you are to your technical movements, you do not have the physical conditions and offensive experience like Kareem. But you also have your advantages, so you have to use your advantages to have richer offensive methods." Lewis said to Gan Guoyang immediately.
Lewis is right. No matter how pure Gan Guoyang's hooking is, he is always a center forward with a height of 6-foot-10, and it is impossible to have the huge advantage brought by Jabbar's 7-foot-2 height.
Many times, Jabbar can ignore the opponent's defense and use the Tiangou. Faced with the same situation, Gan Guoyang has much more difficulties.
Gan Guoyang also has a deep understanding of this. For example, against a 7-foot-2 giant like Jill Moore, Gan Guoyang's big hook is very restricted, which is also one of the reasons why he performs in general when facing the Spurs.
Gan Guoyang's other offensive methods are both effective and unsatisfied. The central shot did not show its power until the playoffs against the Nuggets; the offense against the basket can only occasionally explode and there is no way to continue to output; the turnover jump shot is still ineffective, so it needs to be strengthened.
Gan Guoyang's steps are very solid and outstanding, but it will not happen every time when he cleans his opponent in one step. Moreover, without the three-second defense, you cannot crack the opponent's double-team by relying on his steps.
"Coach Lewis, what should I do? I think I can do a lot of things and what I do is OK, but obviously I need to improve further, but I don't know where to start." Gan Guoyang asked in confusion.
"The improvement of technology is slow. No technology can be achieved quickly. It requires learning, repeated training, investment in actual combat, summarizing experience, improving and improving, and then investing in actual combat. For you, I think you definitely hope to be able to practice excellent shooting skills, like Akim, able to make beautiful turnover jump shots. I believe that you will practice this technology one day. But your problem now is that you will not summarize your own advantages, nor will you use your own advantages. You just think that this technology looks great. I have to learn it, and then I can win the game with it... I know, Akim sometimes you think this way... But everyone has flaws and advantages, and playing with advantages is more important than making up for it. Gan, what do you think is your advantage? Compared to Akim." Lewis explained his attitude towards offensive technology in an incisive way, and then asked Gan Guoyang.
"I? I think...my strength, maybe flexibility, and appearance..."
"I'm a handsome guy among black people!" Olajuwon was obviously very dissatisfied with Gan Guoyang's answer.
Coach Lewis smiled and ignored Olajuwon's protest, nodded and said, "You are indeed a little handsome than Akim, and of course it is worse than me... But you are right. Akim's strength and flexibility are already excellent among basketball players, but you are stronger than Akim and more flexible. This makes me feel incredible because muscle mass often affects flexibility and flexibility. I don't know how you have both. Flexibility allows you to hook up like Jabbar, which is really great, but you ignore your strength. Your strength seems to be only used in the position. Once you start to attack with the ball, you become unaware of how to use it correctly."
Lewis saw that Gan Guoyang's attack was very strong and his lower plate was very stable, so he could not get stuck in Gan Guoyang when he was a position of Olajuwon.
When Gan Guoyang took the ball and attacked, Gan Guoyang began to constantly strive for space for hooking.
The advantage of the "Tian Gou" technique is that once you take action, you basically ignore the defense and look at the feel of whether you enter or not; while his disadvantage is that you take slow action and need a calm space to attack.
The Tiangou is not just a hand movement, but a set of coherent technical movements that the whole body participates in. It requires turning, raising legs, swinging arms, and shaking wrists. The process is relatively complicated and the process is also long.
For a giant like Jabbar, it is the same whether you seal it or not, so the hook space he needs is relatively small.
Gan Guoyang is only 6-foot-10. A blocking maniac like Olajuwon has a huge interference with him, so he needs more room to attack.
In the process of fighting for the space for action, Gan Guoyang's power played an important role, but now Lewis said that he did not use his strength advantages well.
"It seems that I still need to do more strength practice. I haven't systematically improved my strength for a month..." Gan Guoyang thought Lewis was saying that his strength had regressed.
Lewis shook his head and said, "No, no, no, Gan, I don't mean that, I mean, you don't need to work so much, but in the end you just use a big hook. Why don't you try a normal hook? Don't avoid Akim and shoot a sky hook after getting space, but face Akim and hook the ball into the basket on his head. Do you understand what I mean?"
"You mean, do you use a small hook?" Gan Guoyang understood what Lewis meant after hearing this, and asked him to use a small hook instead of a big hook.
The main difference between a small hook and a big hook is to turn the four original movement links - turning around, raising your legs, swing your arms, shaking your wrists, and removing two of them - raising your legs and swing your arms. That is to say, holding the ball with both hands while turning around, raising your wrists directly after turning around, and throwing the ball out.
The small hook after two links is eliminated, and the movements are simpler and faster, and no longer need to squeeze out greater action space. The disadvantage is that the range is short, and the other is that it is easy to be interfered with by the opponent.
"That's right, it's a small hook. Since your power has the advantage, you have to maximize your power. From positioning, to squeezing space, to doing movements, to completing the shooting, you have to maintain confrontation, instead of using a big hook after you get space, it doesn't necessarily work well for you. Remember, you are not Kareem."
After Lewis finished speaking, Gan Guoyang also felt that it made sense. He decided to try it as Lewis said. He thought that since he could do anything with a hook, he should be able to do a small hook.
After saying that, Lewis retreated to the sidelines, and Gan Guoyang and Olajuwon began to get a position at the basket.
Olajuwang knew that Gan Guoyang would make a small hook this time, but he still couldn't affect Gan Guoyang's position. Gan Guoyang's position skills were too solid, and he took root on the edge of the three-second zone.
Lewis seized the opportunity and hung the ball to Gan Guoyang, and Gan Guoyang successfully received the ball.
"I know what you want to do, come and try Gan." Olajuwon said. He gained great confidence in this training, and he believed that he could surpass Gan Guoyang.
Gan Guoyang didn't say anything, and he began to think about the action route in his mind, because he rarely practiced small hooks before, unlike big hooks, all movements had long been imprinted in his mind, and there was no need to think specifically about it.
"Use your power!" Lewis shouted from the side. It seemed that Gan Guoyang was his disciple at this time.
So, Gan Guoyang began to advance like a bulldozer. His strength was so abundant, which not only stemmed from his "talent", but also from his acquired hard training.
When Gan Guoyang was fighting against Olajuwon, he mainly wanted to squeeze out space to hook his hand, so he did not work in a consistent way because he had to stop his force at any time to do hook hand.
But now it is different. Gan Guoyang is just trying to squeeze in. Now Olajuwang can't move, and he can be said to be retreating step by step.
"Turn around!" Lewis shouted, and Gan Guoyang had already squeezed into the basket.
Gan Guoyang took the opportunity to hold the ball with his elbow and turned around, jumped with his feet, raised the ball over his head, and hooked his arms in the front of the basket!
At this time, Gan Guoyang felt that although Olajuwon did not take off, in order not to let Olajuwon get up, Gan Guoyang was leaning hard to press Olajuwon, which affected the balance of his shooting hand.
If he uses a big hook, he should squeeze out Olajuwon and take a big step to the middle, then complete the hooking action. During this period, he will be disturbed by Olajuwon's blocking, but he will not have to fight Olajuwon.
"Bang!" The ball hit the basket's neck, and it was obvious that Gan Guoyang's attack was still affected.
But the ball bounced from the neck of the basket to the front of the basket, and then stumbled a few more times, and finally fell into the Nets.
"You know what I'm going to do, you can't stop me, Akim." When the ball entered, Gan Guoyang immediately hit back at Olajuwon, looking very sorry.
Olajuwang stood there with his waist on his back and felt depressed for a while. He still didn't understand how this yellow man could be so powerful.
Until he met that monster in 1992, Olajuwon never encountered a guy who was more terrifying than Gan Guoyang's strength.
Chapter completed!