The high school paper has been written, and it will be sent out in the next few days. I'm also a little aesthetically tired when I write about continuous competitions, and I'll be able to zoom in on my moves again! And, Gan's college life will also begin, and a higher level of basketball games awaits him. ）

(PS You let my red ticket stay at 1111 for a long time!) ）

Sunday, March 28. The British Combined Fleet was sailing across the ocean towards the Malvinas Islands in the South Atlantic, and the Falklands War was on the verge of breaking out.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's mood was like that of the British troops on the expedition, waiting for the approaching destination in anxiety and anticipation - the destination of the Vikings was Los Angeles in April.

And now standing in their way is a dragon on the sea, Sacramento High School.

After the match on the 26th, the Vikings were given 2 days off.

After the excitement of reaching the division finals has faded, the Vikings have set their sights even higher in winning the California Division II Championship.

But the Vikings now know nothing about their opponents, the Sacramento Dragons, except for the 8-4 game on the 25th, and the Vikings' intelligence work has always been as bad as Stanley's free throws.

"Remember, the game has to be me, play at our pace! You can't fall into the offensive and defensive environment that the other party is adapted to, you have to drag, drag the other party to death! Bellman's roar filled the ears of the Viking players.

By this time, Pepperdine University's gymnasium was already overcrowded. In the 80s, when the means of entertainment were still relatively scarce, it was also a good choice to go to the gymnasium to watch high school balls.

What's more, the two sides are by far the most high-profile teams in Northern California, as well as two high-profile players.

Bellman had to shout loudly from the sidelines in a noisy stadium to alert his players, even though he had said that more than 800 times.

Because he didn't know enough about the Dragons, Bellman had to use the rhetoric Gan Guoyang once used, "I am the main" and play at his own pace.

Wait until you actually play, and then make adjustments according to the situation on the field.

With five minutes to go, the Vikings and Dragons starters were standing on the wooden floor of the Pepperdine University gymnasium.

At this time, Gan Guoyang is no longer a rookie who will tremble nervously in the warm-up game, but a star player who stands in the center of the court and enjoys the attention.

But his heart is unusually calm at the moment, he likes to keep his head down, close his eyes, and stand on the field silently contemplating, as he did in the past, no one knows what he is thinking at this time.

"Big cousin! Don't sleep! The race is about to begin! ”

Gan Guoyang, who was meditating before the game, heard a familiar voice from the stands, and all his thoughts were instantly disrupted.

Gan Guohui, this guy, danced around on the stage with the broken flag again, and when he saw Gan Guoyang with his eyes closed, he thought he was sleeping.

However, this time Gan Guohui did not just bring a few people, but a large area of green covered behind Gan Guohui, they were all student fans who came from Palo Alto to support the Vikings!

Not far from this piece of green, there is a patch of purple, which is a student from Sacramen High School who came from afar.

They are obviously smaller in numbers than Palo Alto High School, but they are obviously more enthusiastic than the fans of Palo Alto High School, and in the crowd of large and small slogans and flags waving purple, unlike Palo Alto, where only Gan Guohui is carrying the big flag.

Gan Guoyang didn't have the heart to care about his unlucky cousin anymore, and the game was about to start.

Today, the Vikings wore white and green-rimmed jerseys, which symbolized their home stadium, while the rival Dragons wore purple jerseys.

Under the guidance of the referee, the starters of both sides shook hands with each other, and then the starting center came to the center circle and prepared to jump the ball.

The basketball was thrown into the air by the referee, and the centers of both sides struggled to jump, and in the fierce scrum, the California Basketball Division II Championship North Division Finals officially began!

Gan Guoyang showed good form from the start, and although his bounce was not as good as that of black players, he was blessed with a unique grasp of his body and strength - a gift given to him by God.

In the scrum, he beat the opposing center's 6-foot-10 center, touched the basketball in the air, and slid in the direction of Virgin and Dippenbrock.

But between these two white jerseys, a cloud of purple suddenly appeared!

Before Virgin and Dippenbrock could react, the purple ball had already intercepted the ball in mid-air and dribbled towards the Vikings' half.

It's No. 7, Sacramento High School's "Lightning" – Kevin Johnson!

"Damn, that's the case again!" After Gan Guoyang landed, he looked at the back of No. 7 and chased after him in great strides, muttering in his heart at the same time.

The last time I played against Skyrim High School, I was cut off by Payton at the beginning and then a dragon, and now I am facing Kevin Johnson and I am stealing again.

This time, Gan Guoyang is not ready to let the opponent go to the basket easily.

In addition to Gan Guoyang, the other Viking players also quickly returned to the defense, and it is clear that their awareness and speed have improved a lot compared to the past.

Kevin Johnson slowed down when he saw that the Vikings were retreating quickly, and some players were already in the three-second zone, and it seemed that he was going to give up the fast break and organize a position.

At this time, Gan Guoyang also followed, caught up with Kevin Johnson at the top of the arc, and quickly opened his big net in front of him.

As soon as the game began, the top stars of both sides had their first direct conversation! Although the difference between the positions of the two is 108,000 miles.

Gan Guoyang stared at Kevin Johnson, who had stopped looking around, and looked around with the corner of his eye to prevent Johnson from passing the ball to his teammates.

Now the rest of the Vikings have reached the halfcourt and started to settle down, but the formation has not yet been formed, especially the alignment is very chaotic, the center guards defend and the point guard guards the front.

So Gan Guoyang must be careful with the person in front of him, he may play the ball at any time and pass the ball to the hands of the most threatening player.

But just when Gan Guoyang's eyes rolled and he glanced at the position in the three-second zone, Kevin Johnson, who had stopped in front of him, suddenly started again!

Gan Guoyang only felt that Kevin Johnson had passed by his left side!

No matter how fast he is and how good his defensive awareness is, after all, he is also a 6-foot-9 center, how can he keep up with a guard of more than 6 feet in terms of speed.

In addition, Johnson's breakthrough was completely unexpected, and he saw that Gan Guoyang's attention was not all focused on him, so he seized the moment of his distraction to break through again.

Breaking through Gan Guoyang, the Vikings' three-second zone became undefended, because they only had Diepenbrock in the three-second zone.

Like a bolt of lightning, Kevin Johnson came to the basket in an instant, and before Diepenbrock could react, he had already jumped up and scored a layup!

“Dame！ (Damn)" Gan Guoyang rushed to the basket, only to find that the ball had fallen from the net.

He took the ball and slammed it the ground before he walked to the baseline to serve.

Dippenbrock felt that Gan Guoyang's reaction was a little strange, and it was like two people in the previous game.

In the last game against the Tigers, regardless of the opponent's performance, Gan Guoyang has been calm. And today, just being passed by the opponent and losing a goal, Gan Guoyang looked extremely annoyed.

"Did he have a holiday with this No. 7 Johnson across the street?" Diepenbrock thought that Gan Guoyang had made eye contact with the No. 7 player opposite several times before, and thought that the two had a holiday.

Of course, Gan Guoyang will not have a holiday with Kevin Johnson, he knows Johnson, but Johnson does not know him.

As a future Suns guard and future mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson may not be on par with Gary Payton, but he's undoubtedly an exciting player.

Gan Guoyang did not watch Kevin Johnson play in later generations, because he retired with the Suns in 1998.

However, in 2000, when the Suns' core point guard Kidd retired from injury, he returned to play the last six games of the regular season and the playoffs.

Not only did he help the Suns successfully break into the playoffs, but he also led the team through the first round and reached the Western Conference semifinals! After losing to the Lakers, Johnson retired again.

Every time Gan Guoyang saw this record, he had a feeling of blood boiling.

Even if he has come to the past, it is uncertain whether this history will happen again, but this does not affect Gan's admiration for Johnson.

And admiration is admiration, when it comes to the field, Gan Guoyang has long been gearing up to compete with the scoring champion of the California high school league!

"Peter, pass me the ball later." Gan Guoyang said to him while sending the ball from the bottom line to Diepenbrock.

Diepenbrock nodded understandingly, he knew that when Gan Guoyang was serious, once the other party hit him in the face, he would definitely fight back.

Sure enough, after Gan Guoyang came to the frontcourt, he immediately covered for Diepenbrock at the top of the arc, and he wanted to make a simple and effective block with Dippenbrock.

Diepenbrock and Gan Guoyang's blocking and dismantling are not only perfect, but they are also extremely skilled in conventional tactics.

Diepenbrock first used Gan Guoyang's cover to pretend to cut inward from the left, but when Johnson, who was in the opposite position, wanted to squeeze past Gan Guoyang to keep up with Diepenbrock, he suddenly changed direction and turned to the right!

This technique of breaking through and changing direction was handed over to Dippenbrock by Gan Guoyang, because Gan Guoyang found that the backcourt players in the 80s did not like to change direction sharply, so he "instigated" Dippenbrock to practice the technique of changing direction greatly in the daily practice.

And Dippenbrock realized it was a good move for him to make up for his speed deficit.

Kevin Johnson couldn't react and was suddenly cleaned up by the slow Diepenbrock!

The dragon center opposite Gan Guoyang naturally asked to supplement Dippenbrock, while the other Vikings players were very open, and the dragon players couldn't release people to block the inside line.

In this way, Gan Guoyang shook off the defender and went down to the basket, while raising his left hand high to ask for the ball.

Diepenbrock was naturally a man to the ball, and Gan Guoyang successfully received Dippenbrock's high-throw pass.

But Gan Guoyang did not directly impact the basket, because the block just now did not completely throw off the opponent's center, and now he has let Deepenbrock go to make up for the basket.

The dragon's white center is taller than Gan Guoyang's, but looks a little thinner.

He raised his hands under the basket and made a "surrender" gesture, which was actually blocking Gan Guoyang's movement space and trying to make a foul at the same time.

However, he saw that Gan Guoyang did not rush to the basket after receiving the ball.

I saw Gan Guoyang slapped the ball after receiving the ball, and the basketball moved from his left hand to his right hand, and then suddenly turned around at an incredible speed, and the whole person disappeared in front of the dragon center at once.

When the center of the Dragons turned his head to look, he had already found Gan Guoyang jumping into the air, grabbing the ball with his left hand and smashing it into the basket.

"Phew!" The sound of metal rubbing, accompanied by the shaking of the basket, reached everyone's ears.

Gan used a heel turn he learned from Bernard King to get away from the defense and finish off with a powerful slam dunk, and he used his left hand.

"You've always defended with your ass? , then you have to be careful with your chrysanthemums. After Gan Guoyang landed, he said to the dragon center on the side.

Without waiting for the other party to react, he ran away expressionlessly, leaving the other party stunned.

The other Viking players who heard him know that Gan Guoyang has turned on the "devil mode" early, and it seems that he is determined to win this game.

The score came to 2:2, and as soon as the star players of both sides used their outstanding performances to add 2 points to each team, the atmosphere in the stadium was instantly hot.

"Big cousin! Attaboy! Come on! And the loudest roar in the audience was Gan Guohui who waved the banner of "Ganjia Restaurant" in the stands.

Gan Guoyang was very helpless when he heard this voice.

The opponent yelled at him that he could return the favor with trash talk and scores, while his own people shouted at him like a pig, and he was really out of luck.

But soon, Gan Guoyang didn't have time to care about the fat cousin in the stands.

Kevin Johnson had already had the ball in his hands and was going to have to do it once in a positional battle after two quick starts of the attack.

Unlike the regular season and invitational tournaments, after the start of this tournament, Bellman no longer used joint defense in the opening game, but switched to man-to-man defense.

Even in the first game against a team with poor outside shooting like Los Altos Conqueror, Bellman still used man to man rather than defense.

The reason is that the joint defense does not require the physical fitness and defensive level of the players, but it requires their defensive awareness and basketball IQ to be very high, and the players must have a very good degree of cooperation.

Bellman knows that the last thing that high school players, especially black people, lack is physical fitness and physical strength, and what they lack most is awareness and brains.

His joint defense system can be said to be invincible against some weak teams around Palo Alto, and can abuse the opponent out of the.

And when faced with a strong team, especially a team with a strong breaker, the Vikings' joint defense will often take care of one or the other.

Sometimes this kind of zone defense not only does not play the role of sharing pressure and defending together, but also causes Gan Guoyang on the inside to be busy wiping his buttocks.

This was evident in the game against Skyrim High School, where the 3-2 perimeter defense couldn't stop the sinister Gary Payton.

And now facing Kevin Johnson, who defeated Gary Payton, Bellman naturally does not dare to use joint defense.

I saw Diepenbrock start to entangle as soon as Johnson passed the half, and it can be said that he never left.

Kevin Johnson, on the other hand, was dribbling the ball and watching the situation on the court, and it was clear that for him, Dippenbrock's defense was a drizzle at all.

At this time, the Dragons' power forward stepped forward to block Johnson, and the pick-and-roll is indeed the best weapon in any level of basketball league.

Johnson used the cover of his teammates to easily get rid of Deepenbrock's entanglement, and he faced the switch to Virgin, and did not choose to continue to break through, but made a 45-degree pullup jumper.

"Brush!" The ball went in, a simple and efficient attack, and the Vikings' defense didn't even have time to react.

For a slow-paced, defensive team like the Vikings, the most hated thing is this simple and rough style of play.

It's like a martial arts master, who has set up a dragon gate array and is waiting for the other party to challenge, but the other party took out a gun and collapsed the martial arts master!

"Fuck, how do you meet such a non-skilled team!" Bellman saw the Dragons' offense and cursed from the dugout.

He has always dismissed teams that simply rely on the talent of their players as unskilled, although high school basketball is all about talent.

Just when Bellman scolded the Dragons for having no skills, Gan Guoyang asked for the ball in the weak side of the waist, and Dippenbrock easily hoisted the ball to Gan Guoyang.

After receiving the ball, Gan Guoyang dribbled to the inside, and the opposing forward who came up to attack forced a jump shot.

"Bang!" Gan Guoyang took advantage of his height and arm length to easily hit the board into the frame.

"This is fucking technology!" Bellman praised in his heart when he saw the goal of his proud disciple. I didn't expect that I was still saying that the opponent's attack was not skilled......

The game went unexpectedly smoothly, both sides played in a very orderly manner, there were not many mistakes and fouls, and the rhythm of the whole game was very smooth.

The shooting rate of both sides was even more terrifying, and in just ten minutes, the score had come to 26:27, and the Vikings were one point behind.

In high school games where there is no time limit for attacking, such a score tends to be a half-time score for both sides.

Gan Guoyang was invincible in these ten minutes, not only relying on his proud skills to turn over and jump shots to score again and again, but also shook off the opponent's center many times and dunked vigorously, winning the applause of the audience.

On the contrary, the Dragons' Kevin Johnson, except for the opening two points, spent most of the rest of the time relying on his breakaway balls to create opportunities for his teammates.

The rest of the Dragons players are also in good form, facing the Vikings' not strong one-on-one defense, blossoming more points, and the score is one point ahead of the Vikings.

However, when Gan Guoyang grabbed a frontcourt rebound and vigorously poured his hands into the basket, the Vikings successfully overtook the score, 28-27.

"Beep", at this point, the Dragons called a timeout, and there were 9 minutes left before the end of the first half.

"Hey boys, good play, good fight, but I think we could have played better!" Bellman applauded his players and wondered if they needed to adjust their tactics.

Because although the Vikings played well, he found that this was not the rhythm that the Vikings were familiar with.

Bellman sensed a sense of crisis in his mind.