Palo Alto High School has always been very lively on Sunday. Although the school does not attend classes, many students will come to the school, either attend club activities, run and play ball on the sports field, or chat and read books on the grass. There are always these people in groups of three or three on the paths on campus, taking leisurely walks and enjoying the beautiful California sunshine.

However, when Gan Guohui hurried back to Palo Alto High School from San Francisco today, he found that the campus was quiet and terrible, and there was no sign in the place where many people were often gathered.

Recently, Gan Guohui felt that he was so busy that he couldn't even have enough food. Because he was going to apply for college, although his credits had been completed, some practical indicators were not enough and his resume was not beautiful enough, so he was looking for every opportunity to give himself extra points.

Today, Sunday, he must have gone to see his cousin's competition, but his mother, who was far away in Washington, called him and said that the practice he arranged for him at a community social work station in San Francisco would have to pass three times a week. Today is the first day.

There was no choice but to go to San Francisco alone early in the morning, without even returning home. After doing the work, he took the car back to Palo Alto in a dusty car. It was important to watch the game.

"Fuc-k, why is the school so quiet? It's not even five o'clock, it's not time to eat?" After Gan Guohui walked into the school, he felt extremely uncomfortable with the lack of people in the school, and always felt like he was dreaming.

But he still walked quickly towards the gymnasium. For Gan Guohui, the thing he was most concerned about during this period was not applying for college, but his big cousin's basketball game and Sony's newly released game console.

Some time ago, Sony's new game console, PlayStation, was released. He bought one with his pocket money from working without telling his father, and his big wish was fulfilled. Now, what he cares most about is the competition in Gan Guoyang.

When he gradually walked into the gymnasium of Palo Alto High School and saw the Vikings Pirate Ship pattern painted on the top of the stadium, a huge cheer seemed to lift the roof of the gymnasium, which scared the fat man and almost staggered.

"So loud? My cousin dunks again?" Gan Guohui thought of every time Gan Guoyang dunks at home, he shouted more than anyone else. He felt that his cousin must have had some wonderful performance.

"Go and see! I wonder if that guy Chen Xing has left me a place!" Gan Guohui couldn't help but feel impatient, and trotted three steps at a time and rushed towards the gymnasium with his fat meat.

When Gan Guohui entered the gymnasium, he found that not to mention Chen Xing had left him a seat, he probably couldn't even find a seat for Chen Xing himself. Because the entire gymnasium was no longer able to find a foothold except for the competition venue and the vertical walls in the middle. Even the audience aisles were crowded with people.

Gan Guohui was anxious outside the crowd. Although he was tall, no matter how tall he was, he couldn't help but block a bunch of people in front of him. So he had to use his great advantage and began to lower his head and squeeze in.

When Gan Guohui rushed to the front without hesitation and finally could poke his head out to see the situation on the field, an extremely powerful sense of tension and oppression came to his face.

At this time, the score on the field has reached 57:59, and the Vikings are two points behind! The Vikings in the green jersey are defending with all their might!

Gan Guohui didn't know what happened in the previous game, but the feeling of tension and oppression made him know that the game must be extremely intense.

In fact, the competition is not only fierce, but to the point of tragic.

At the beginning of the second half, the Vikings scored 8 points in a row, forcing the Hawks to suspend the timeout, Bellman changed his defensive tactics again and decided to strangle the Hawks at all costs!

When the team's overall strength is not good and the players are not talented, fighting for life on defense is the most helpless but effective choice.

Bellman has seen that the Hawks were not a particularly strong team in the past, and the reason for winning consecutive games this year was because they had the No. 20 rookie Payton, just like the Vikings had Gan Guoyang.

Then strangling Payton would strangle half of the Hawks' offense, so Bellman made a bold decision to let Gan Guoyang defend Payton! At the same time, replace the small forward, replace power forward Vigis, and play three insides!

This defensive tactic can be said to be far beyond the expectations of the opponent, the audience, and even the Vikings' own players. Let the No. 5 center defend the opponent's No. 1 point guard? Isn't this let the bear chase the mouse and run?

However, Bellman knew that Gan Guoyang was different from ordinary centers, such as Stanley. His lateral movement speed, reaction rate, and judgment ability were far beyond ordinary high school inside players, and he reached the defender level. This is also why Gan Guoyang was able to oppress the outside line and return to protect the inside line in time.

But in this game, the engine on the Hawks' outside was really troublesome, so Bellman decided to let Gan Guoyang give up the inside protection, focus on the outside defense, and lock Payton!

So when the timeout came back on the court and the Hawks launched an attack from Payton, they found that Gan Guoyang was standing in front of Payton. Everyone was shocked, including Payton.

What surprised everyone even more was that Payton had no choice but to face the big spider Gan Guoyang.

Payton's speed is not particularly fast. After becoming famous in the future, he is not good at speed. Instead, he is famous for his body shape, excellent rhythm control, good back-body feeling, and a gushing mouth.

But now Payton is only in the ninth grade, he is only 6-foot-2 tall, his rhythm control is not yet perfect, his back has not been trained, and even his trash talk has lost its effect, because he is facing Gan Guoyang.

No one expected that Gan Guoyang not only could keep up with Payton in speed, but also that Peton's rhythm changes and his footsteps were completely seen through Gan Guoyang, just as his frequency code was cracked, Gan Guoyang could always stick to Payton without hesitation.

In this case, let alone organizing the offense, whether the ball can be passed is a problem.

The other Vikings team members guarded a regional joint defense, so the entire Vikings used a 1-4 joint defense move, which was to strangle Payton to death.

Gan Guoyang did it, and the Hawks' offense was completely disrupted. Payton went from the offensive engine in the first half to the second half to the porter who dribbled the ball after half.

The Hawks, who lacked Payton's needle thread, immediately dropped to a higher level and could only rely on the personal abilities of other players and some small cooperation to break the pieces.

At the same time, Bellman also sent Virgis as a power forward to make up for the inside vacancy caused by Gan Guoyang's pulling to the outside, and fully protect the backcourt rebounds, and not give the Hawks a chance to attack a second time.

However, this style of play has two disadvantages. One is Gan Guoyang's physical strength problem. As a 6-foot-9 center forward, he always defends Payton from the outside. He is a very physically consuming general manager.

The second is the offensive problem, because Vigis replaced the small forward on the court, so the Vikings formed a strange formation with three inside and two outside lines. The Vikings' outside firepower and breakthrough impact were greatly affected, and the entire team's offense had no three-dimensionality.

Their only reliance on offense is Gan Guoyang.

So, Gan Guoyang did the work of three people alone, becoming the point guard on defense, and being a small forward and center on offense.

In the second half, the Vikings' offense was apart from a few defensive counterattacks, and there was only one offensive routine - that was to give the ball to Gan Guoyang singles. All other players focused on defensive hand-to-hand combat and fighting for offensive rebounds, and all the shooting tasks were thrown to Gan Guoyang.

This can be said to be the ultimate use of star players, or even to squeeze players. In Gan Guoyang's later memory, only the Timberwolves power forward Kevin Garnett in the 2004 Western Conference Finals, achieved a terrible level than him, because Garnett played in five positions in a game.

But Gan Guoyang loves this feeling of resisting the team's progress, and he never forgets his promise of "die as a center forward and even in the inside."

Just when Gan Guohui arrived at the school, Gan Guoyang faced three Hawks in the inside, shot and grabbed the ball, shook the two defenders away, and hit the ball into the basket with the third person, causing the opponent's foul, and added a penalty and scored three points!

It was this ball that made the audience excited, the Vikings' bench excited, the gymnasium seemed to be about to be lifted, and Gan Guohui almost fell.

After hitting the extra free, the score was chased to 58:59, and the Vikings were only one point away! So far in the second half, the Eagles only scored 12 points, while the Vikings scored 25 points! Gan Guoyang alone contributed 18 points, and the score of the whole game reached 37 points, which was nearly two-thirds of the team!

"This guy is such a fucking genius. I probably will never meet such a genius again in my life!" Bellman, standing on the sidelines, was pacing nervously, and sighed again as he looked at Gan Guoyang's performance.

At this time, there were less than two minutes left before the end of the game. In the first 18 minutes of the second half, the two teams only scored 37 points, which was less than the Hawks' first half scored 47 points. And judging from the current trend, it would definitely not be able to surpass it.

This shows how fierce the two teams fought in the second half and how low the shooting percentage was, but the Vikings made the Hawks' shooting percentage lower.

Just when Gan Guohui poked his head out of the crowd and saw the situation on the field, Gan Guoyang had already relied on his height and footsteps to force Payton into the dead corner of the midfield line with Dippenblock's cooperation.

The two corners of the midfield line and the two corners of the base line are the minefields of the ball-holder attacker. Once forced into it, they either make mistakes or make random passes. The team's offense will most likely be disrupted.

"Hey, work harder, work harder, you can break through my defense. What's wrong with you? You have to cheer up. We're about to catch up with you and kick your ass." Gan Guoyang forced Payton while his mouth was not idle.

At this time, Payton had no intention of squirting against Gan Guoyang. He had been forced to a dead end and had no choice but to retreat. He had to use a high throw pass to pass the ball to his teammates who came to pick up the ball.

However, Gan Guoyang's tall body shape and ape-like arm span affected his sight and passing route, and Payton had to throw the ball very high to cross the Wuzhishan of Gan Guoyang.

In this way, the ball passes slowly. Before the Eagles' receiver has received the ball, a black shadow broke out from the slant and jumped up and competed for the ball in the air. It was Williams!

Although Williams is not tall, he has a strong ability to take off continuously. In addition, he raided from behind and took the lead. Therefore, after two scrambles to take off, Williams grabbed the ball. A very critical steal!

Everyone in the gym stood up, and everyone was shouting loudly, "COME-ON!" "GOME-ON!" "GO!"

Williams ran towards the opponent's basket like a wild horse that ran out of control, which was probably the goal to equalize the score!

But at this moment, the Hawks will no longer let the Vikings score fast break, and all the Hawks players quickly returned to defense and came to the basket to make up for defense before Williams entered the three-second zone.

After all, Williams is just a defender rather than a forward, and his height, strength and speed are insufficient. Seeing that the opponent has returned to the defensive position, he slowed down, protected the ball in his hand, and prepared to organize a positional offense - although the Vikings' positional offense at this time was to hand the ball over to Gan Guoyang for a singles.

At this time, Gan Guoyang had already followed the Eagles' defense, but he did not enter the inside line, but stopped at 45 degrees on the right wing.

There was a big gap, because the entire Eagles' defensive center of gravity was shrinking to the inside, only some obstacles were set at the top of the arc, while the 45 degrees and bottom corner were completely empty. However, the Vikings did not focus on the low-efficiency long-range shots on the outside, and Gan Guoyang's inside singles were their only reliance.

But now, Gan Guoyang stopped here, spread his hands to make a ball-catching shape.

Williams didn't think much about it. Now other Vikings players have formed the inertia that they will pass the ball to him as long as Gan Guoyang wants the ball, whether Gan Guoyang is inside or 20 feet from the basket.

Gan Guoyang received the ball without anyone being disturbed, because no one thought he would shoot directly here, and everyone felt that he was just here to help Williams transition and then continue to enter the inside strong attack.

But many people forgot that Gan Guoyang made a long shot in the first half and even mocked Payton for this.

There is one person who has not forgotten that is Dipengblock. He knows that Gan Guoyang stays every day and practices in the training ground. One of the things he needs to make 100 long shots, otherwise the training will not end.

"Gan! Shot(生分)!" Dippenblock shouted, knowing that this was the time when Gan Guoyang's sweat was rewarded.

Gan Guoyang did not hesitate. He bent his knees gently, raised his arm, bent his elbow, aimed and took action!

The objects in the entire gym were stationary, only the basketball in the air was flying, along a smooth and soft curve, falling towards the Hawks' basket with a rotation.

"Swish!!" This is the most beautiful sound in Palo Alto Stadium, and it is also the detonator of the sound bomb of Palo Alto Stadium.

The ball enters!

Overtake it!

crazy!

Gan Guoyang raised his arms high, like a king, enjoying the cheers from his subjects, enjoying the rain of flowers and flying white doves. All the Viking players wanted to rush up and embrace Gan Guoyang and embrace this king-like man.

But at this time, there is another person who is sober, that is coach Bellman.

"Fuck me and go back to defense! Go back to defense! The game is not over yet! Go back to defense, go back to defense!" Bellman roared loudly, the ball just surpassed one point, and there is less than a minute left before the end of the game, which is enough for both sides to play back and forth!

After being tied, the Hawks did not call a timeout, but grabbed the opponent and felt immersed in the joy of overtaking the score for a moment and relaxed, serving quickly from the backcourt. After Payton received the ball, he rushed straight to the opponent's half, wanting to play the Vikings to chase him.

Before Gan Guoyang could react from the joy of overtaking the ball, he found that a black shadow had already crossed his ball with the ball and rushed towards his own basket! And Bellman's roar also reminded him that the game was not over yet!

"You must never let the victory you get slip away!"

Gan Guoyang was the first to react among all the Vikings players, and he chased Peyton ahead with a big stride like a train.

Payton obviously felt someone chasing behind him. Although he was defended poorly in the second half, he only relied on free throws and a single shot to score 5 points, and no assists. But he is worthy of being the future superstar, and he is extremely calm at this time.

He knew that he was not fast and would definitely be chased with the ball in his hand. At that time, he might have to be beaten. If he stopped to protect the ball and reorganized the half-court attack, he would have wasted such a good fast attack opportunity.

So Payton made a bold opportunity, and he suddenly slowed down his speed, but instead changed direction, he continued to rush towards the basket.

In this way, when Payton entered the three-second zone, Gan Guoyang had already caught up.

But Payton did not choose to make a layup, but suddenly stopped near the basket, protected the ball with both hands, waiting for Gan Guoyang to pounce. Obviously, he wanted to rely on fake moves to deceive Gan Guoyang's foul. If he could score, he would score a three-pointer, not only to overtake again, but also to lead by 2 points.

If you can't score, there are two free throw opportunities. Only by placing one free throw can you equalize the score and return to the same starting line.

Unfortunately, although this guy Gan Guoyang has little experience in playing games, he may have more experience in watching games than anyone present, because there are various online live broadcasts in later generations.

When he saw Payton slowing down suddenly, he guessed that this cunning guy wanted to cheat a foul so that he could be invincible.

Therefore, when Gan Guoyang saw Payton raise his hand and pretend to shoot under the basket, he didn't jump at all, but rushed forward and covered Payton!

Payton made three consecutive fake shots, but none of them deceived Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang blocked Payton like a big spider, never jumped casually, and never reached out to dig it out randomly.

"Beep!" At this time, the whistle sounded, and the referee stretched out three fingers and pointed at Payton again, attacking for three seconds!

Payton stayed in the three-second zone for too long and was called by the referee for a violation, causing the Hawks to make a mistake. At the same time, the Vikings also had to make a free throw.

The audience's hearts were relieved again, and the twists and turns really scared people.

When Gan Guoyang stood on the free throw line, the Eagles players felt that it would be difficult to turn over this game again. Only Payton was still talking nonstop, hoping to use this to affect Gan Guoyang's free throw.

Gan Guoyang did not hesitate and quickly made the free throw. Before the ball could fly to the basket, he turned around and left the free throw area and ran to the backcourt of his side.

At the same time, he said to Payton, who had been cursing him behind him, "Fuck you a happy day trip to Palo Alto."

"Brush!" As soon as Gan Guoyang finished speaking, the ball was hollowed into the net.

Payton knew that the game was over.
Chapter completed!