The second half of the game was about to begin, and Gan Guoyang finally put on a simple red vest and stepped onto the wooden floor of the gymnasium.

All summer, Gan Guoyang spent his energy on the concrete floor on the streets of Auckland, and he didn't go to the regular basketball court once. Now he is standing on the maple floor again, and it feels really unaccustomed to it.

"Hello rookie, you are so awesome. Famal's face turned out like that on the first day. I hope you can stay in UCLA with a happy stay." The first team's point guard walked to Gan Guoyang and said to him.

"I feel like vomiting when I see his face. Does this guy always have such a constipation expression?" Gan Guoyang said without any scruples, but he didn't expect that this was not Palo Alto, where no one would care about anything he said.

The point guard of the first team didn't say anything, but just smiled and began to prepare for the game.

Gan Guoyang walked to the sideline with the ball and prepared to serve.

"Beep!" With the referee's whistle, the 15-minute game in the second half officially began, and the second team was still 2 and 2 points behind the first team.

During the halftime break, Gan Guoyang and his teammates from the second team discussed together and decided to continue to implement the offensive tactics of the first half at the beginning, relying on outside transmission and jump shots as the main point.

At the same time, Gan Guoyang replaced the 6-foot-9 power forward, so the second team's lineup is one, one big and four small, one center with three defenders and one small forward.

This lineup configuration will be a mainstream configuration when there is a lack of inside lines in the 21st century, but in the 1980s, this was a naked freak.

Gan Guoyang couldn't control whether it was a freak or a freak. With no offensive burden at the beginning of the second half, he began to conscientiously complete the task of blocking people for the outside.

The regular center and power forward are different from the blocking of people. Gan Guoyang is taller and stronger, and his cover quality is significantly higher.

The second team's point guard relied on Gan Guoyang's cover to escape the entanglement of the defender at the top of the arc, and cut in with the ball. The first team's inside line had to be raised to make up for defense.

But the second team didn't want to play in at all. The point guard saw it attracted the defense and immediately passed the ball back to Gan Guoyang who took a step forward.

After receiving the ball, Gan Guoyang held the basketball with one hand and did not make an offensive move. Obviously he was looking for a pass opportunity.

At this time, the shooting guard on the left wing understood and immediately moved horizontally from the periphery toward Gan Guoyang.

Defensive players naturally have to keep a close eye on it, because once the shooting guard relies on Gan Guoyang's cover to cut from the front, Gan Guoyang can pass a straight pass directly to the defender, creating an opportunity to cut and layup.

However, when the shooting guard circled Gan Guoyang's big pillar for half a circle and cut into the three-second zone, Gan Guoyang did not stuff the ball in because the first team players had followed up to the inside and blocked the second team's empty cut opportunity.

But the second team didn't think about playing in from the beginning, and their attention was actually focused on the outside offense.

The defensive contraction of the first team gave the second team the opportunity to the outside. Just after the second team's point guard handed the ball to Gan Guoyang, he had already relied on the cover of the small forward and slipped from the bottom line to the left, just filling the gap for the shooting guard to turn to the front door.

In this way, the defense of the left bottom line of the team has been taken away by the shooting guard, forming a large open space. Gan Guoyang got the ball and immediately passed the ball after his point guard reached the zero-degree angle of the baseline.

Take action, hit, equalize!

The second team's hot feel in the first half has not completely cooled down. They relied on this open shot to tie the score, 28:28.

"Yes! You're doing beautifully, you're such fucking geniuses!" Gan Guoyang shouted loudly, regardless of the ugly faces of the old players of the team.

"Gray, give this arrogant guy a look. He thought he was amazing." The point guard of the first team was carrying the ball while saying to the team's center Gray.

"No problem, I'll pass the ball to me later."

Soon, the second team fell into the position, and this time they still used the conservative but most secure man-to-man defense.

However, the first team no longer used telescopic offensive tactics. Their 7-foot center Grey began to ask for the ball at the low post, and he wanted to play singles directly.

Although Gan Guoyang did not conduct formal tactical training this summer, he never lost the training of his center skills.

Using center skills when playing on the street is inevitably criticized for not being good-looking enough. However, Gan Guoyang can always flexibly switch between center and defender, which has brought some changes to the blindly outside singles on the street.

This also made him famous on the streets of Auckland.

Now back in the regular game, Gan Guoyang will face a seven-foot-tall center forward.

In the position confrontation, Gan Guoyang has begun to feel some pressure, which he has not experienced in the high school competition, because he has never encountered a seven-foot-long man in the high school competition.

The difference between 2 inches in height doesn't look big, but it's just a finger long, but in basketball games, the length of a finger often determines whether you can avoid a block and score a key goal.

Moreover, the height gap also brings about the difference in weight and body shape. Gan Guoyang has grown to 210 pounds after a summer. But he still feels a little troubled when facing his opponent who is seven feet tall and weighs 220 pounds.

Gray pressed against Gan Guoyang like a gate panel. Gan Guoyang had almost no other way except to push forward desperately.

It seems that the skills of university centers are very solid, and it is not that easy for Gan Guoyang to rely on technology to win like before.

Gan Guoyang failed to stop Gray from receiving the ball. The point guard of the first team easily hanged the ball into Gray's hands and quickly cut in. On the one hand, it took away the defense, and on the other hand, it also posed a certain threat to the defense of the second team.

Obviously, Gray never thought of passing the ball. He just wanted to play Gan Guoyang alone to give this arrogant newbie a little color.

Gray dribbled inward twice and found that the newcomer behind him seemed not as easy to deal with as he thought, because he couldn't resist Gan Guoyang at all.

Although Gan Guoyang was not strong enough, he once practiced confrontation with Thurmond every day, and it was not a joke.

But after a little adjustment, Gray still pressed Gan Guoyang to turn over and forcefully. He gently picked up his right hand in the air and wiped the ball into the basket without anyone disturbing him.

28:30, the team scored a goal and took the lead again.

"Boy, don't be too arrogant, be more restrained, remember that you are still a newcomer." Gray said to Gan Guoyang after scoring the goal.

Gan Guoyang glanced at him and didn't care much because he knew that he would call him back sooner or later.

If it were the former Gan Guoyang, he would definitely tell Dippenblock that he would pay back one of the balls.

But now, Gan Guoyang is even calmer, and he understands that he only smiles the sweetest until the end.

Team 2 still firmly implemented the effective tactics before and continued to use the transmission from the outside to find opportunities.

However, the first team also began to make adjustments, their defensive formation began to expand outward, and began to use small-scale attacks to destroy the passing fluency of the second team's outside line.

This move caught the second team off guard, the smoothness of the pass was destroyed, and the ball could not reach it, and some of the open spaces that ran out like this also lost their meaning.

Seeing that his control of the ball was getting weaker and weaker, Gan Guoyang knew that he could not pass it like this anymore, so he, who was still at the top of the arc, began to attack independently and break through with the ball!

The defenders of the first team did not expect that the 6-foot-10 center would break through.

What they didn't expect was that Gan Guoyang's breakthrough skills were actually quite good, and he was not like an inside player at all!

He suddenly accelerated at the top of the arc, and passed the power forward who came out to repair the defense in one step. Then, before Gray in the inside jumped up to block the block, he jumped directly at the edge of the three-second zone and flew into the air.

Before Gray could even take off, Gan Guoyang had already made a layup and his body had begun to fall.

30:30, the two sides tied again!

"How about it, I didn't dunk on your head, I've already restrained a lot." Gan Guoyang said to Gray with a well-behaved look, as if he wouldn't be arrogant when he scored a layup like this.

"If you can dunk on my head, I will buy you a box lunch." Gray obviously had a temper that was not as good as Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang provoked and he immediately fired back.

In the team, newcomers usually have to buy this and that for old players, just like handymen. After training, newcomers usually buy food in a fixed old rule.

"Then I'll thank you in advance here." Gan Guoyang naturally would not say mercy.

But on the basketball court, the best way to hit back is to have an excellent performance on the court.

Gray obviously got on with Gan Guoyang. When he came to the attack, he once again took the position of the waist on the left side, stretching out his long arm to ask for the ball from his teammates.

In this kind of situation where the competition is strong on the court, the other players on both sides will naturally not be disappointed. The point guard of the first team directly hung the ball to Gray, while the defenders of the second team did not attack and let the two fight one-on-one in the inside.

Gray's offensive skills are quite monotonous, and he is still the only three tricks. He is in a position, pushes his strength inward and turns to the layup.

Gan Guoyang tried hard to hold back the door panel in front of him, making him feel even more uncomfortable when doing the movements, and at the same time stretched out his long arms to interfere with his shooting sight.

Sure enough, Gray was disturbed by Gan Guoyang's full force and turned over and the ball hit the basket's neck.

But because Gan Guoyang has been defending with all his strength, he did not notice that he wanted to protect the backcourt rebounds. As a result, Gray made his own shot and grabbed the frontcourt rebounds directly under the basket and put the ball in easily.

"Fuck!" Gan Guoyang was really angry now. He had already defended himself, but he lost the rebound.

In fact, Gan Guoyang’s single defense technology should be said to be very immature.

In high school games, the inside line he encountered was either shorter than him, lighter than him, no skills or strength.

Therefore, Gan Guoyang's defensive pressure comes more from blocking the outside and remediating the inside. In terms of one-on-one defense, he lacks specialized training and rarely has training opportunities in the game.

The entire state of California has produced the most NBA players in history, but the most famous here is their defenders.

Gan Guoyang encountered strong opponents in the California League, which are also famous defenders, such as Gary Payton, Kevin Johnson, and Reggie Miller.

In the future, California will also have outstanding backcourt players such as Russell Westbrook, Barron Davis, Jason Kidd, etc., and in their inside line, only the white center's final glory Bill Walton and the future Kevin Loeff.

In this case, it is naturally difficult for him to deal with Gan Guoyang suddenly encounter a 7-foot college center.

Gan Guoyang adjusted his mentality and continued to concentrate on the offense after serving the ball at the bottom line.

He knew that losing his temper would only make things worse if it could not be converted into motivation.

Since the first team has changed its defensive strategy, the second team's offense has no way to be as smooth as the first half.

More importantly, what really supported the second team to chase points in the first half was their sudden heated feel. The feeling was so good that it could not be stopped when the feel was coming, and it was even worse than the pig without feeling.

"Bang!" Knight got a glimmer of opportunity by relying on Gan Guoyang's pick-and-roll, but failed to make the shot. The second team's shooting percentage began to decline.

Fortunately, because the first team's defense expanded relatively well and the inside was insufficient, Knight's ball jumped far, so the second team's small forward got the frontcourt rebound, and the second team was able to reorganize the offense.

At this time, Gan Guoyang cut from the top of the arc to the waist position, but he did not need the back basket, but the ball in the face basket.

The small forward of the second team passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and Gray immediately stepped forward to defend.

Gan Guoyang is a good player in the back basket, but his face basket is not bad either, especially when playing on the street. His face basket breaks through in one step and his emergency stop jump shot after dribbling are both extremely lethal weapons.

But facing Gray, he did not force a breakthrough, nor did he jump shot directly.

Gan Guoyang had a huge palm, and it was extremely easy to catch the ball with one hand. He pinched the basketball with his right hand and suddenly threw his hand forward and placed it behind Gray's head!

Gray was shocked and thought Gan Guoyang had passed the ball to the inside, so he hurriedly turned around and wanted to make up for defense or grab the rebound, but when he turned around, he found that the basket was empty.

When he looked back at Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang had already shot directly, "bang", and the ball hit the board directly into the frame. The two teams tied again.
To be continued...