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Chapter 72 The Art of Passing

(Sorry, I was too busy today and I updated it late. And I wrote it in a hurry, maybe it was a bit watery, so don't blame me. The official NCAA national competition is coming later.)

The game fell into a state of interruption and stagnation because of Gan Guoyang's wonderful dunk. Gan Guoyang originally wanted to use one or two dunks to change the momentum on the court, but he did not expect that the momentum was not changed and disrupted the progress of the game at once.

In that era without the Internet, not every family had a video recorder, nor did everyone have that time to record all the exciting shots in the game.

Therefore, the wonderful performance has passed and can only pass. If you want to re-remember it, you either slowly recall it or you can only wait for a new performance to appear in the competition.

In the finals just passed in 1983, Dr. J's Rock-The-Baby shocked all the basketball audiences in front of the TV.

But no one expected that at the scene of Creton University, a college student player repeated this classic.

For those viewers who are watching the fun, it doesn't matter who loses and who wins. They just need to watch the No. 11 dunk on the court, even if it's on the head of the home team.

Gan Guoyang was still a little confused at this time because the audience was cheering at him. When the timeout ended, he returned to the court, the cheers reached their climax.

At this time, Gan Guoyang understood how much influence a basketball player's wonderful dunk would have in such an era of scarce video resources.

Seeing the fans on the scene showing signs of turning against the away team, Gan Guoyang had to sigh at the great charm of the dunk technique in basketball.

However, a dunk is only two points, and the audience's madness and enthusiasm will gradually cool down.

Returning to the arena, the game that was interrupted due to a dunk continued.

Now, Gan Guoyang has calmed down, and the audience's enthusiasm for basketball touched him very much, but this does not mean that he will show mercy to the Blue Crows.

The best respect for opponents on the field is to do your best.

Back in the defense again, the Blue Crow, who was a little dizzy after being hit by two dunks, seemed to have not woken up yet. Faced with the Bulldogs' oppressive defense that continued to strengthen, there was a big problem with their outside conduction ball.

If you face oppressive defense in the game, the most important thing is to "super hardness with softness" and use tactics and patience to eliminate the opponent's defensive enthusiasm.

In this case, once the pressure defense, which consumes a lot of physical strength, cannot be effective, it will naturally be self-defeating.

But once the oppressive defense plays a role, the more the defense becomes more and more vigorous, the stronger the strength, and enters a virtuous cycle, so that the attacking side will have problems.

As a team with center Benjamin as the core, Benjamin is an important tactical starting point for Blue Crows at any time, but now this starting point has been strangled to death by Gan Guoyang, and Blue Crows' tactics are immediately reduced by half.

The sluggish transmission of the outside line often makes the Blue Crow's running position become useless because the person cannot reach the ball.

After many attempts and repeated scores, Blue Crows never found a good opportunity, and Benjamin never got the ball.

In this case, the outside players can only throw it away.

College players themselves are not as capable as professional players, and their ability to shoot forcibly is even worse. The result of strong outside shots can only be that the rebounds are taken into consideration by the Bulldogs.

Under the leadership of the engine Stockton, the Bulldogs began to launch a fast counterattack. In addition to surprise the player "clam-down" during the timeout, Bellman also asked to seize the opportunity to gain the upper hand on the court, strive to score in a fast and continuous manner, and gain a lead.

Relatively speaking, fast attacks are not the Bulldogs' strengths because they lack strong and fast forward players.

But their three-line fast break cooperation is excellent, and with Stockton's reliable point guard distributor, the Bulldogs who were quick to get off the team and the Blue Crows were helpless.

Matthews, who quickly inserted, successfully got the ball after receiving the pass from his teammate, making the score 13:6, and the Bulldogs scored a 7:0.

However, the Blue Crow who fought at home was not completely powerless to fight back.

Compared with the Bulldogs, the Blue Crows' advantage lies in their forward line and their frontcourt.

The Blue Ravens, who have two powerful forwards - Gregory Brandon and Kenny Evans, began to use these two fast and strong players to hit the Bulldogs' inside.

The Bulldogs used to have two very outstanding forward guards, but unfortunately they were both forced to be cleared out of the team due to academic problems.

In this way, the forward line becomes the weakest link for the Bulldogs, and the loopholes formed can only be compensated by Gan Guoyang alone.

Benjamin, Brandon, Evans, three strong men in the frontcourt who are not very bad. Even if Gan Guoyang has three heads and six arms, he may not be able to completely curb them, not to mention that he is now unable to defeat four-handed with two fists.

In this way, Blue Crow also found his own offensive rhythm, not going to the outside, nor making internal communication with external communication with external communication, but relying on their forward line to make the situation in the inside.

Similar situations have been encountered countless times since Bellmann coached Gan Guoyang, using the dynamic front line to hit the team's inside pillars.

Because no matter in Palo Alto or Gonzaga, Gan Guoyang has never had an outstanding power forward to share the pressure on the inside.

When facing some teams with outstanding athletic talents, Gan Guoyang had to carry the inside defense alone and withstand the repeated impact of the opponent's heavy cavalry.

This is very similar to Yao Ming of the Houston Rockets in the future. Gan Guoyang would not have thought that he and Yao Ming would be "complained with each other" in this regard, and for a long time he will "fight alone" in the inside.

The first half of the game became more and more intense as the two teams gradually entered the state. The home fans also cooled down from Gan Guoyang's two dunks and entered the current game, and began to cheer for the home Blue Crows.

The competition finally began to enter the regular stage, like a serious NCAA invitational tournament.

But in the first half, Gan Guoyang's performance did not go into regularity, although the two dunks attracted almost everyone's attention, and 80% of the cheers in the first half.

His touch was still cold. On the offensive end, facing Benjamin's "never leaving" defense and timely double-teams by other players, Gan Guoyang never formed a continuous firepower.

Moreover, most of his energy was assigned to the defensive end and entangled with his opponents. He only scored 9 points, 10 rebounds in the first half, and scored 7 blocks.

At the end of the half, the Bulldogs led the Blue Crows by 29:22 by 7 points, the same difference between the two sides after that little climax.

"What's wrong with you today? Didn't sleep well last night? I think you were very passionate on the court, although you gave two wonderful dunks." Bellman said to Gan Guoyang during the halftime break.

Gan Guoyang also felt a little discouraged. Logically speaking, he gradually adapted to Benjamin's defense, after all, his own BUG-like power was there.

But his feel never recovered.

A hooking method like Gan Guoyang cannot be blocked once the touch feels. No matter how the defender puts pressure or interferes with it, as long as the movements are done in full, whether it is in or not depends on the shot himself.

Once the feel is gone, it is not so easy to get the feel back with such a difficult hooking action.

"I don't know, I didn't feel anything at all when I attacked today, and my wrists seemed to be unfueled. The dunk felt very good. I hope it would be better in the second half." Gan Guoyang shrugged helplessly. Compared to dunking, he still prefers the pleasure of scoring consecutive goals.

"It's okay Gan. We were still ahead in the first half, and the game was under our control. Gan, have you forgotten? I hope you can learn to control the game in more ways, not just defense and scoring." Bellman said meaningfully.

After hearing Bellman's words, Gan Guoyang remembered that there was a period of time when Bellman strictly controlled his shots in the warm-up match and in-team training matches, and asked him to use other methods to help the team in the offense.

Including his first official game and the one with UCLA, he almost didn't make singles in the first half, but his performance did not seem to meet Bellman's requirements, so he still relied on crazy scoring in the second half to get the opponent.

"I understand Mr. Bellman, I will do my best!" Gan Guoyang nodded. He knew what Bellman meant.

"This kid struggled a little in the first half of the game today. His hook was actually very powerful, but I don't know what happened this time, and he had no touch at all. But he had a strong presence in defense. You should be able to see that if it weren't for him, Bulldog would have become Hotdog long ago!" Falk in the stands was still explaining Gan Guoyang's performance, for fear that Strathor felt that Gan Guoyang was not capable.

"Don't worry about Falk, I can understand basketball. And you have to know that I am choosing a spokesperson instead of the team's championship core. I feel that his playing style and temperament are quite good, healthy and upward, and very consistent with our new strategy." Strathor said.

"Yes, this kid is indeed very unusual. He has a strong infectiousness. I still remember that time in Inglewood, he played the point guard on the court, and finally completely dominated the field." Falke mentioned the encounter in Inglewood again. Falke already felt that the gains from going to Inglewood were beyond his imagination. Anyway, he is very grateful to the fat black uncle on the sidelines.

However, in the official field, a center wants to play point guard but don't even think about it, not to mention the Bulldogs and Stockton, a genuine point guard who can't be the right one.

But Gan Guoyang will not let his passing talent be wasted.

The second half of the game just started, and the Bulldogs took the lead in attacking, but after falling into the position, the Bulldogs set up a strange formation.

They use a 4-1 position, which often uses the breakthrough involvement of the outside line and fixed-point projection of the outside line to open up the offensive situation when the inside line lacks an attack point.

But now, Gan Guoyang has become one of the four, standing at 45 degrees on the right, echoing Stockton who is in control of the ball.

At this time, Stockton passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, then rolled inward and started the Bulldog's tactical running position.

For those who are familiar with the various tactics of basketball in American universities, it is obvious that this is the position of Princeton tactics that Princeton University is best at.

Leave the task of supporting and commanding the offense to the center, and other players use tactical running to pull space and create opportunities for teammates.

Bellman didn't know where to steal the tactical system, but he actually used it in this game, and also made Gan Guoyang, who had outstanding passing talent but did not have solid basic skills, take the role of the tactical core. Is this reliable?

Bellman was not sure, and he didn't know whether Gan Guoyang Energy could be competent for the role of the tactical center axis by using such a tactical tactics, but he firmly believed that if Gan Guoyang wanted to become a superstar, he had to develop his talents in this area.

The passing technique is difficult to practice in training. You must continue to read defense and experience in actual games to become a qualified passer.

Gan Guoyang has worked hard to practice basic passing techniques during one year of training to reduce his passing error rate. Now, he has to combine the basic passing skills with his talent in the game.

Gan Guoyang stood outside the right horn with the ball. Watching the changes and running of the players on the field, his mind was like a machine telling him to run.

Unlike the miscellaneous fish game on the street, the defensive players here do not stand casually, and the offensive people can run out of the open space after a few runs.

The core idea of ​​Princeton’s tactics is the so-called “backdoor”. This tactic is built on the opponent’s defense that must have a defensive blind spot, that is, behind their heads!

No matter how powerful a defender is, how outstanding his defensive skills and strong physical fitness are, he must be able to defend a player, at least he must be able to see his opponent and be able to stare at his opponent.

And a person's eyes can only see the piece in front of him. Unless he has a soul, the direction he is facing away from his back is unprepared for his opponent.

Therefore, all the running positions in Princeton's tactics are staring at the back of the defensive players, running behind them, and running to places they can't see.

As long as you master this, the remaining specific running routes and tactical routines can be adapted to the situation and exert their power based on the opponent's defense.

Because the overall physical fitness of the Bulldog is average, the height, speed and strength are relatively ordinary, Bellman has been experimenting with this tactic of "weak defeating the strong" and this time it is the first experiment on Blue Crow.

Gan Guoyang looked at it for a while, but found that his teammate's running position began to get messy, and his mind was also a little confused.

After that, in this chaos, the Bulldogs had problems under the cover and cutting of the three players on the right wing under the defensive pressure of the Blue Crows. Princeton seemed to be defeated before it even started.

When Gan Guoyang saw that it was not possible, he would stay in a high position and his opponent would come up to attack him.

He hurriedly moved inward and passed the ball to the small forward Matthews who had been crossed to the top of the arc, and he sank inward.

Bellman shook his head on the sidelines. He thought this experiment had failed. He ran well in training and was caught blindly as soon as the game came.

In fact, this is normal. Princeton's tactics require a very high degree of tacit understanding and a coordination system that integrates man and ball. The ball moves and man moves. The first time it is used in the game, it is inevitable that something will happen.

As soon as Gan Guoyang fell to the low position, he immediately stuck his position in the right waist position. At this time, Blue Crow's inside line was extremely crowded. Because of the Bulldog's mistake in running, several players all ran to the near three-second zone.

So, when Matthews passed the ball to Gan Guoyang's hand, Blue Crow's double-team was extremely relaxed, and he suddenly forced Gan Guoyang to the bottom line on the right.

Gan Guoyang was surrounded by Blue Crows, huddled at the bottom line, unable to shoot the ball, and it was difficult to pass the ball because he couldn't raise his hand at all.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's long arm played a role again. He seemed to have eyes on his head. He actually swung the ball from outside the bottom line and passed it behind the ground, passing the ball from outside the boundary back to the three-second zone!

Unlike football, as long as basketball does not press the line, even if the ball is out of bounds, it will not be out of bounds as long as it is thrown back before landing!

Gan Guoyang passed the ball back into the boundary from the outside of the unmatched team, and just fell into Stockton who cut into the basket. Stockton, who was unmatched at the basket, made a layup easily.

"Wow, it's so dangerous. You almost defended me. Unfortunately, I can still pass the ball." Gan Guoyang, who "did not die of the disaster", also said to the Blue Crow player "shamelessly".
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