Updated: 2013-10-19

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The originally empty seats in the UCLA gymnasium began to be gradually occupied by student fans in powder blue fan suits, from one point to two points, to one piece and two pieces, and finally before the start of the game, a blue sea was formed.

Among them, there were also blue flags with gold trim waving in the crowd, and the stadium suddenly became a noisy sea of fans.

Gan Guoyang has taken off his training clothes and stood in the center of the court, waiting for the players and referees from both sides to take their places, and the game is about to start.

Gan Guoyang looked up at the towering dome of the UCLA Gymnasium and took a deep breath.

It's been more than a year, and this is the first time Gan Guoyang has set foot on the official competition venue.

Although Gan Guoyang has participated in various warm-up matches to find his form before, and the results and processes of these warm-up matches have proved that Gan Guoyang's condition and integration with the team are very good.

But the warm-up game is a warm-up game after all, just like the preseason game of the NBA, which cannot be counted.

Whether Gan Guoyang's silence this year has made him stagnate, and whether his Gonzaga University really has outstanding strength, needs to be verified by official competitions.

"So, let UCLA be my testing stone!" Gan Guoyang saw that the referee had already walked to the center circle with the ball, and took a firm step, ready to start jumping the ball.

Gan Guoyang's opponent for jumping the ball is UCLA's main center, the veteran player with the worst relationship with Gan Guoyang, Gray.

"Hello, Soft-Footed Shrimp Gray, I hope your feet will be harder today." Before the two could fight for the ball, Gan Guoyang couldn't help but start taunting.

Ever since Gray was beaten by Abdul-Jabbar in that offseason's workout, Gan has used the term "soft-footed shrimp" to mock Gray, in his words, "Every time Abdul-Jabbar starts to stick out his hook, the soft-footed shrimp starts to shrink." ”

In this regard, Gray is also extremely angry, often embarrassed Gan Guoyang in the usual training, plus the two fought on the first day of team training, and the relationship between the two sides has long been irreparably damaged.

Gray wanted to fight back, but he found that after not seeing him for a year, Gan Guoyang, who was standing in front of him, seemed to be a lot stronger.

"Beep!" Before Gredo could think about it, the referee had already blew the whistle for the start of the game and threw the ball high into the air.

The two centre-forwards jumped up almost simultaneously and launched the first confrontation of the game in the air.

When Gray touched Gan Guoyang's body in the air, his first reaction was as if he had hit a big tree, and he was bounced away.

In the opening scrum, Gan Guoyang beat Gray, touched the basketball first, and put the ball into Stockton's hands, and Gonzaga Bulldog won the offensive right in the opening game!

The competition has officially begun.

But when Gan Guoyang ran to the UCLA halfcourt, he glanced at the UCLA players wearing white gold-rimmed jerseys on the field and found that there was no No. 31 Reggie Miller.

He took another closer look at the faces of each UCLA player, and Reggie Miller was indeed not there, and then he glanced at the UCLA bench again, only to see that Reggie Miller was sitting on the bench and watching from the wall.

"**, is Larry Farmar really funny? He's going to have to be on the bench with a player like Reggie Miller? Gan Guoyang felt angry for Miller in his heart, but he didn't expect that when he arrived at UCLA, he would have to enjoy the same treatment as himself in the past.

"If I'm still at UCLA, I'll probably be sitting next to him."

But Gan Guoyang didn't have time to think about these messes anymore, and Stockton, the commander of the periphery, had already begun to plan the first attack of the Gonzaga Bulldogs.

According to Bellman's pre-game arrangement, the main offensive strategy of the opening Bulldogs was a 1-4 low-post stacking offensive tactic.

After looking at UCLA's defensive positioning, Stockton determined that the opponent was using a man-to-man defense in the opening game, and this defensive strategy played into their favor. This is based on a number of UCLA match footage, who always like to use man-marking in the opening stanza.

The 1-4 low-post stacking offensive strategy is a tactical solution that makes the most of the point guard's ability, and he needs the point guard to have excellent field observation and adaptability.

At this point, Stockton stood at the top of the arc, becoming one of the 1-4 positions, while the other four players all sank to the baseline position, forming a four-man line from the two bottom corners to the two waist positions.

Gan Guoyang did not stand in the low post at this time, but stood in the bottom corner of the right side, which made the UCLA defenders extremely hesitant.

And Gray implemented the coach's tactical arrangement, moving to the periphery and clinging to Gan Guoyang.

When the players were all in position, Stockton suddenly started to cut in from 45 degrees to the left.

Gonzaga's other players started to run, and unlike the usual tactics, where the big man covered the small man; In the 1-4 low-post stacking strategy, the two outside players who fall to the low post cover the inside players who fall to the baseline.

Gan Guoyang shook off Gray at once, and with the help of the blocking of the scoring guard on the right waist, he instantly cut into the inside line.

At this time, the big forward and small forward on the left also completed the same covering action, the difference is that the scoring guard on the right side falls to the baseline after the screen, and the position of receiving the ball and shooting at a zero degree angle; The left small forward, after completing the covering task, continues to be raised, covering for the breakthrough Stockton, or doing the reception.

At this time, UCLA's man-to-man defense is a little chaotic in an instant under such continuous and simultaneous cover, and for the point guard of the attacking side, this is the best time to play the ball, and multiple opportunities will appear at the same time; But these opportunities are fleeting, because such a single cover cannot completely tear apart the opponent's defense.

However, Gonzaga's point guard is John Stockton.

Stockton, who has been watching and listening in all directions, has long observed scoring opportunities in three positions, and only one of the best is Gan Guoyang, who is cutting to the three-second zone!

Without any hesitation, after slightly escaping the entanglement of the opposing point guard with the help of the cover of the small forward, Stockton used an extremely accurate ground-hitting pass to pass the basketball through the defender and accurately stuff it into Gan Guoyang's hand.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's feet had just stepped into the three-second zone, and the opponent's supplementary defense had not had time to keep up, and the ball passed to Gan Guoyang's hands as if he was hand-to-hand.

How could Gan Guoyang let go of such an opportunity, an easy layup, and gently put the ball into the basket.

A simple and efficient two-point game, the opening Gonzaga Bulldog used a delicate cooperation to score first, 2:0.

“nice！ John: You must have been a surveyor in your last life. With such an easy and comfortable score, Gan Guoyang couldn't bear to use a dunk to destroy its sense of ease, and couldn't help but praise Stockton's passing.

As a pseudo-fan in later generations, John Stockton's name is also thunderous to Gan Guoyang.

When he arrived at Gunzaga University last year, arrived at the training gym for the first time, and saw the little white man with maroon hair, deep and charming eyes, a baby face, and a love to purse his lips tightly, the more he looked at it, the more familiar it felt.

Later, when they introduced each other, they learned that this little man turned out to be the famous John Stockton, and he was so shocked that he almost didn't let his jaw drop.

He's also excited because it means he'll be playing with the NBA's future assist leader.

Stockton, who was a junior last year and a senior this year, also quickly recognized the transfer student who transferred halfway, and became the tactical duo of the Bulldogs team with him under the pinching of Bellman.

This goal reflects the excellent tactical literacy and high tacit understanding between the two, which is not the first and obviously not the last.

Back defensively, the Gonzaga Bulldogs, in contrast to the UCLA Bruins, offered Bellman's favorite zone defense – a 1-2-2 combo.

There are two most important and common ways to crack the regional defense, one is to play fast, and quickly end the battle when the opponent's regional defense line has not yet been formed and the power has not been revealed, so that the opponent's defensive layout bamboo basket is empty.

The second is to use zone offense to break down zone defense.

The so-called zone offense is similar to the concept of zone defense, which divides the pitch into several zones, which are staggered from the opponent's defensive zone.

Each player is responsible for attacking one area, and by moving the ball quickly between the zones, they can open up space for one or two of them to get a shot.

Like the 1-4 low-post stack offense, zone offense requires the attacker's point guard to have excellent observation and court nose to act as a transit point to move the ball between offensive zones.

UCLA's point guard is Jackson, whom Gan Guoyang knows, and is the "fanning the flames" who once greeted Gan Guoyang in a training game and then told Famar what Gan Guoyang said.

However, he is a very reliable point guard for the Bruins, diching out around five assists per game and being the team's second-leading scorer.

But in defense, he has to face Stockton, who is stuck at the top of the arc alone and pulls out a single defense.

Stockton is not tall, not fast, explosive, and a mediocre white defender in all aspects.

However, Bellman found that Stockton has amazing stamina and resilience, which is very similar to Gan Guoyang, and will play a very big role in defense.

One thing that is different from Gan Guoyang is that Stockton has more game experience and more cunning skills on the court, especially his defense.

Gan Guoyang once felt some knocks on the door of the single defense through one-on-one practice with Abdul-Jabbar, while Stockton has already experienced three years of NCAA competition and honed his outstanding defensive skills in college games.

At this time, Jackson should have understood it deeply, because Stockton was like a fly, constantly harassing him.

Jackson wanted to get rid of it, and Stockton clinged to the defense; wanted to stop the ball to observe, but Stockton's hand kept pulling; What's even worse is that Stockton constantly disturbs Jackson with some small pushes and handchecks, which makes him less annoying.

Because of the constant harassment, Jackson had no way to concentrate on directing the team's offense, so he could only hastily pass the ball to other players.

The quality of a pass is very important to the success or failure of a zone attack, and a good pass does not necessarily directly create a scoring opportunity, but can change the unfavorable situation on the field.

Jackson clearly didn't have that ability, and Stockton's all-out marking made UCLA's offense unusually sluggish.

"Phew!" UCLA had to rely on the singles of their perimeter players to break the offensive stuck, but unfortunately they didn't seem to be feeling very well today.

In contrast, Gunzaga played a 1-4 low-post stacking attack under Stockton's threading needle, and there were two or three scoring opportunities in every run, and Stockton could always pick the most suitable one, comfortably send the ball to his teammates, and complete a shot or breakaway.

In this way, after seven or eight rounds of offensive and defensive battles between the two sides in the half, the difference was slowly widened, and in the sixth minute, Gonzaga Bulldogs had led the UCLA Brown Bears by 8 points at 14:6.

The only thing UCLA can rely on on on the court is their top scorer, power forward Fields, but unfortunately Gan Guoyang has never relaxed his protection of the inside, which makes UCLA's impact on the inside line also fail when the outside line is not working.

"Beep!" The referee blew the whistle and UCLA finally called a long timeout, and Farmar clearly felt that Gunzaga University had not yet made a move, and his team was easily beaten half to death, and changes had to be made.

"Phew, I haven't even fucking sweated yet!" Gan Guoyang, who was on the field, complained.

Because of Stockton's outstanding play before, Gan Guoyang basically does not need to work hard in the offense, in addition to receiving two inside through balls to complete the easy-ball, Gan Guoyang's main task on the offensive end is to stand still to attract the defense.

"Don't be in a hurry, it's not time for you to play. We're playing well, keep going, and keep it up for the everyday. However, be careful, the opponent may switch to a joint defense later, and then it will be time to test the feel of the outside players! Watch out for your transfer ball John, I'm guessing they're likely to trap you. "Bellman was off the pitch and gave instructions.

The timeout ended quickly, the Bulldogs made no personnel changes, and the Bruins finally brought on Gan's "long-awaited" opponent, Reggie Miller.

Larry Famar likes to get freshmen up from the bench for a day or two, and he always believes that people must climb up step by step, but he doesn't know that everyone's step size is different.

But at least he, Reggie Miller, a freshman, shoots accurately, very accurately, but unfortunately he is too thin, especially compared to another freshman, the '82 McDonald's All-Star Hatcher.

At this point, though, it was clearly the right decision for him to bring Reggie Miller on the field.

Feel is a thing that is often incredibly contagious, once a player in the team throws away, the other players will be like being infected, and the hit rate will be raised, and vice versa.

Therefore, when Reggie Miller received a pass from his teammates with the help of a covering run as soon as he came on the court, and ended his own offense neatly with a C&S, UCLA's originally somewhat silent arena immediately gained a touch of vitality.

"Oops, this guy, that's a real headache." Miller only scored a goal, but Gan Guoyang has already begun to have a bad premonition.

On the one hand, because he had the experience of playing against Miller, there is still a shadow to this day; On the other hand, the zone defense is most afraid of this kind of crisp and neat shooting, which hurts the enthusiasm of the defense very much.

And when it came to the offense, as Bellman expected, UCLA changed to zone defense, and it was a 3-2 joint defense, increasing the pressure on the outside, trying to extinguish the offensive engine of Stockton.

The sudden change in the opponent's defense did not make Stockton panic, seeing that his teammates had some problems with their positioning, and the running position was not very good, and he suddenly pulled up to shoot while standing at the top of the arc!

"Huh!" After the ball crosses an arc, it hollows into the basket!

"Yes......"

But before Gunzaga's players had time to cheer, UCLA had already launched a quick attack with the help of a quick serve from the backcourt.

But instead of attacking the basket directly, where Gan Guoyang had a quick return, they split the ball to 45 degrees on the left side, Reggie Miller.

A 25-foot jumper!

The ball goes in.

Miller spread his lanky arms, and the next superstar was already taking shape.

Since then, the first half of the game has entered a battle between Gonzaga's Stockton and UCLA's Miller, who is playing an official college game for the first time, seems to have been forgotten by coaches, opponents and spectators, and has become a blue-collar center who runs back and forth.

However, Gan Guoyang knew that he had a secret weapon in his hand, and it was not yet time to use it.

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