Chapter 60: Invincible Heavenly Hook

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly known as Luke Alcindor; A 7-foot-2" giant born in Brooklyn, New York.

He has been in the NBA for 11 years since he entered the NBA in 1969.

In those 11 years, he won three championships, five regular season MVPs, one Finals MVP, and was named to the league's first team eight times.

Moreover, he is only halfway through his career, and there is more glory waiting for him in the future.

One thing he's been consistent in those 11 years is to return to UCLA every offseason and hone his skills day in and day out in the gymnasium he knows and under the watchful eye and guidance of Coach John Wooden.

In the summer of 1971, the season he won the NBA championship, he returned to his alma mater's gymnasium with his championship ring, where he met his younger brother, another super center with a very different style, Bill Wharton.

The encounter between the two was like a collision of Goliath, and under the gaze of John Wooden, a god-like confrontation began.

And this confrontation continued into the NBA, in the 1977 Western Conference Finals, his junior brother Bill Wharton took his brother away with a 4-0 and finally won the Brown Cup.

It may have been a legacy of legacy, but Bill Wharton was stuck with injuries and couldn't achieve anything greater, but Abdul-Jabbar stayed tall and would continue to fight.

Now, in the summer of 1982, Abdul-Jabbar won another championship and returned to his old place with his championship ring, hoping to meet a center like Bill Wharton to carry on the UCLA tradition and revive the UCLA dynasty.

UCLA hasn't won a championship since 1975, and UCLA hasn't had a superpower center since Bill Wharton.

Abdul-Jabbar comes here every year and is always disappointed in the end, and those interior players are not even miscellaneous fish in front of Abdul-Jabbar, and they can be blown out without much effort.

The only thing that gave Abdul-Jabbar some hope and talent was last year's senior Mark Eton, a 7-foot-3 guy who put Jabbar under pressure on the defensive end.

It's a pity that his offense is really rotten like a piece of, and he is already very old, he was an employee at a gas station for two years before he was brought to UCLA, and his foundation is quite poor.

The rest of the players are basically out of Abdul-Jabbar's eyes.

The lack of strength is one thing, and the most important thing is that Abdul-Jabbar does not feel a trace of hard resistance in the confrontation with this batch of new UCLA centers.

Maybe they had at first, but after a few rounds they succumbed to the NBA superstar's unrivalled offensive and all-pervasive defense, and they lost the will to resist.

For example, in the past two years, UCLA's leading center forward, Gray.

When Abdul-Jabbar came to UCLA last year, Gray and Abdul-Jabbar played one-on-one on the training ground.

In the playoffs that year, Abdul-Jabbar lost to Moses Malone in the first round, so he went crazy in the offseason to sharpen himself to the next level.

Poor Gray became Abdul-Jabbar's target scarecrow, and he was ravaged like a rag doll by Abdul-Jabbar, and he didn't have a temper at all.

This offseason, Abdul-Jabbar came to UCLA again, and Gray couldn't help but shudder when he saw Abdul-Jabbar's glowing sports glasses, and he knew that he was going to be abused again.

Sure enough, before the team's official training began, Abdul-Jabbar picked Gray to do one-on-one practice with him as a warm-up.

This made Gray regret it, he knew that he would not have come so early, and the result of coming half an hour early was to be repeatedly abused by this extremely powerful, but eccentric old senior.

Just when Abdul-Jabbar and Gray were one-on-one on the field, Gan Guoyang passed the inspection of the gatekeeper and did not bring a camera before entering the gymnasium.

This made Gan Guoyang unhappy for a while, training in his school gymnasium and undergoing inspection, he is also on the basketball team.

When he arrived at the museum, he found that there were actually quite a lot of people inside, most of whom were UCLA student fans, who came in to see the number one superstar in the history of the school.

Only journalists were stopped because Abdul-Jabbar hated journalists.

"Huh!"

"Yay!" There was the sound of the ball smashing into the basket, followed by a burst of cheers from the surrounding onlookers.

Gan Guoyang saw that the tall and slender figure on the court, wearing a pair of sports glasses, used a stretched hook hand to easily send the ball into the basket at a distance of 15 feet, just like an ordinary layup.

In front of Abdul-Jabbar, the 7-foot Gray also looked a little smaller.

Gan Guoyang watched this relaxed goal from the sidelines, and couldn't help but imagine what would happen if he defended Abdul-Jabbar?

"I guess I can only watch the ball being shot into the basket......" Gan Guoyang thought to himself.

At this time, Gray on the court once again watched Abdul-Jabbar make a feint at the right waist position and then turn right and hook his hand, and the ball was hollowed into the basket again, and even the Nets were not touched much.

"Famar, don't you have any better players here? I don't want me to play like I'm the only one. Abdul-Jabbar complained to Larry Famar on the sidelines after scoring so many goals in a row that he didn't even feel the slightest pressure.

In the past, when John Wooden returned from Abdul-Jabbar, he would be there to re-instruct his proud disciples.

But this year, Wooden's health was not very good, so after Abdul-Jabbar personally visited his mentor, he went to the university to train alone, and naturally met Larry Famar.

Famar was unhappy that Abdul-Jabbar was calling him by his name, and Abdul-Jabbar was too blunt to take Gray for air.

However, Abdul-Jabbar is also notoriously withdrawn and eccentric, and with his superior strength, he doesn't care about other people's feelings.

"I'm sorry Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, there were a number of people who graduated and quit this year, but there was only one center among the new players, and the others were backcourt and power forwards." Famar explained. This year, the loss of UCLA players is more serious, and half of them are gone, so there are more new students.

"Then let him try, though I don't have much hope." Saying that, Abdul-Jabbar returned to the court, picked up the basketball, and suddenly made a super long-distance hook near the top of the arc, and the ball was hollowed into the basket after drawing a big arc!

This random ultra-distant hook won the applause of the audience, and Gan Guoyang swallowed a mouthful of saliva after seeing it, thinking that this guy was too terrible.

I didn't feel strong when I watched the game at the Great Western Forum Arena before, because both sides were professional players, and it was very motivating to fight against each other.

Now in ordinary training, in the face of these amateur college players, Abdul-Jabbar's random display of strength is simply overwhelming.

"Gan, Gan!" At this time, Gan Guoyang actually heard someone calling him, he raised his eyes and looked around, only to find that it was Famal who was waving to him.

After Abdul-Jabbar asked him to try it out, Famar immediately thought of Gan Guoyang, although his height is only 6'10, this guy is also a center forward anyway.

Besides, it would be good to let him compete with Abdul-Jabbar, just enough to strain the sharpness of this thorn.

Since the fight that day, Farmar has never let Gan Guoyang participate in full-court confrontation training. In addition, several players of the first team also blew the wind in his ears and poked out Gan Guoyang who said "bad things" about him on the field, Famar naturally did not treat Gan Guoyang well.

The most important thing is that Gan Guoyang is a yellow person, what future can a yellow person have in a basketball arena where the confrontation is fierce and speed and strength are required?

So in normal training, Gan Guoyang arrived late and left early, and Famar didn't care at all, he ignored it, and left him to fend for himself.

It's like he did with the mechanic Mark Eaton, who was drafted in the third round of this year's NBA draft to Salt Lake City, Utah, where birds don't.

Famar glanced around, and saw Gan Guoyang, who was staying in the audience, staring blankly at Jabbar's hook hand, and there was a breath of anger in his heart, and he didn't even want to go to him and shout at him, so he yelled at him and beckoned him to come over.

Gan Guoyang heard the shout and immediately walked to Famar.

"Gan, you are also playing in the center position, go up and compete with your seniors, and learn some skills and experience." Famar pointed to Abdul-Jabbar on the field and said.

"Huh? Good... Okay..."Gan Guoyang didn't know what to say for a while when he heard that he was going to fight Jabbar.

But he quickly calmed down, but he was also the one who played against superstars like Thurmond and Chamberlain, and he also scored in front of Chamberlain, so it would not be a problem to have another Abdul-Jabbar.

When Gan Guoyang took off his coat and changed into a basketball uniform, warmed up a little and came to the court, and stood directly with Abdul-Jabbar face to face, he found that this feeling was really different from before.

Although Nate Thurmond and Wilt Chamberlain are both super centers in the famous league, they have both been retired for many years at this time, especially Big Beidou Chamberlain, who has been retired for nearly ten years.

The two former superstars in their forties are like lions in their twilight years, their strength is still there, but their strength has long been greatly reduced.

Moreover, when they played with Gan Guoyang, they all had the mentality of mentoring the juniors with their seniors, and they were naturally heroic but not murderous.

Abdul-Jabbar is different, he is in his early thirties, at the peak of his career, and has just won the NBA championship, coupled with his arrogant and ruthless personality, the king's spirit is unmistakable.

Karim Abd al-Jabbar means "noble and powerful servant" of Allah in Islamic translation.

Gan Guoyang looked at Abdul-Jabbar who was standing at the top of the arc with the ball, and felt a trace of fear and fear in his heart for the first time, not only from the opponent's 7-foot-2 height, but also from the momentum of him standing there and looking at everything.

"Hello, it turned out to be you, I heard of you, a Chinese, Gan." Jabbar actually took the initiative to say hello to Gan Guoyang and stretched out his right hand, which flattered Gan Guoyang.

"Hello, Mr. Abdul-Jabbar, it's an honor to meet you." Jabbar's friendly attitude calmed Gan Guoyang, who was bright when he gave a little sunshine, and shook hands with the giant with a smile.

Famar didn't expect Jabbar to be so friendly to this thorn, which greatly surprised him.

In fact, Abdul-Jabbar's impression of Chinese has always been very good, because he was once Bruce Lee's apprentice and made movies with Bruce Lee, but unfortunately the Chinese superstar died young.

"Let's get started, and hopefully you'll be able to resist a little longer." The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and Abdul-Jabbar went straight to the point, making Gan Guoyang ready to be abused.

"No problem." Gan Guoyang didn't say much, he was ready to defend in the three-second zone, and he didn't have the courage to talk trash in front of Abdul-Jabbar.

When Abdul-Jabbar turned the basket with a smooth face basket, shook his shoulders with the ball and cut inside to hook his left hand to send it firmly into the basket, Gan Guoyang knew that the problem was big.

Jabbar did all these actions without any obstacles, as if Gan Guoyang did not exist.

Gan Guoyang tried hard to cover Abdul-Jabbar, but found that his height of 6-foot-10 was really a little short in front of Abdul-Jabbar.

Abdul-Jabbar doesn't look particularly strong, but as a professional player, he conducts professional strength training all year round, and Gan Guoyang's "talent" plus a year of training can't stop Abdul-Jabbar at all.

After really playing a round, Gan Guoyang realized what is the NBA level and what is a superstar.

His own level is not enough for Jabal to plug between his teeth.

But Gan Guoyang has always been more and more courageous, and he will never admit defeat easily, so he just played a ball, and there are still opportunities in the future.

The two sides played a heads-up style that is common on the streets, and the team that scored the goal would always have the offensive possession until the shot was not scored, and then the attack and defense would be switched.

In the previous one-on-one, Gray didn't get a single offensive right from start to finish, only having one offensive opportunity at the very beginning, only to be slapped by Abdul-Jabbar.

Gan didn't seem to be doing any better than Gray in the next few defenses, and Abdul-Jabbar's hook was still so inexplicable.

Abdul-Jabbar's body has amazing flexibility and coordination because of his perennial yoga, so no matter what kind of defensive pressure he faces, Abdul-Jabbar, who is not particularly strong, can always rely on his feet and long arms to make hook movements.

Within 17 feet of the basket, Abdul-Jabbar's hook hand was as effortless as a normal player's layup.

After Abdul-Jabbar scored five goals in a row, the surrounding crowd felt a little bored, and such a one-sided heads-up was really not interesting.

Abdul-Jabbar signaled that he would continue to compete with Gan Guoyang, because the feelings of the people who really faced off on the field and the audience on the sidelines were different, and he found that this Chinese boy, who was more than half a head shorter than himself, although his single defense skills were very rough, he was improving every ball.

From the vain attempt to interfere with Abdul-Jabbar's hook at the beginning, to the later slowly began to focus on physical confrontation and disrupt Abdul-Jabbar's rhythm of movements, now Gan Guoyang has begun to pay attention to controlling Abdul-Jabbar's lower game and suppressing Abdul-Jabbar's attack options from the offensive route.

"Very good, I'm starting to sweat now, if you work harder, maybe you can stop me." Abdul-Jabbar said as he dribbled the ball.

Gan Guo* didn't have the energy to listen to Abdul-Jabbar, his whole attention was focused on Abdul-Jabbar's body, on every movement in every part of his body.

At this time, he remembered the passage that Thurmond had said to him when he was trained by Thurmond at the Great Nate Grill, and he always remembered it in his heart:

"A center forward, you have to fight like a warrior every moment on the court, either you die or I die. If you don't have the determination to fight your opponent for three hours, then no matter how good your skills are, how good your positioning and back, you are not a good interior lineman, you are not a real center. ”

In previous matches, there was no center forward who could make Gan Guoyang go all out to deal with it.

Now, a seemingly invincible opponent is in front of him, and although it is only a heads-up in the training gym, he is already determined to fight this giant god with the determination to die!

Abdul-Jabbar chose to dribble sideways from the right side this time and gradually cut in, if Gan Guoyang chose to block the route, then he would cover with his left hand and end the battle with a direct sky hook with his right hand; If Gan Guoyang interferes closely, he will rush directly into the basket with a big stride and dunk.

But Gan Guoyang didn't just block the route, nor did he have pure personal interference, he was like an octopus and entangled Abdul-Jabbar with his upper body, and the lower plate was violently stuck, and his foot was even inserted between Abdul-Jabbar's feet.

Gan Guoyang is like two spears, nailing Abdul-Jabbar outside the three-second zone!

Strictly speaking, Gan Guoyang's actions will be blown fouls, but although he is tightly wound, his movements are not big, and he does not push, and if the game is fierce, the referee may not blow the penalty.

Abdul-Jabbar is so easy to deal with, seeing that he can't cut sideways, he immediately swapped dribblers, and at the same time made a dashing outside turn and turned over directly for a jumper!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar isn't just hooking, he's also a step-back jumper.

Gan Guoyang did not give up in the slightest, even if a 7-foot-2 giant with an arm span of 7-foot-5 (2.26m) made a step-back jumper, he also jumped up hard to block.

Although Gan Guoyang's height is insufficient, his arm span is even more impressive, reaching 7'6 (2.28m), which is almost a limit among players with a height of 6'10.

Abdul-Jabbar felt a huge palm fanning at him, so he was noticeably hastily shot, only to have the ball bounce out of the basket after brushing around the basket.

Gan Guoyang worked hard and finally prevented a ball!

"Huh~Huh~Huh~" Gan Guoyang took a few heavy breaths, and didn't even have time to celebrate.

It seems that the feeling of playing against a professional player is different, and the intensity is not comparable to other people.

"You've done a great job, basically blocking all the possibilities, but if I do it again, I'm sure I'll get the ball in." Abdul-Jabbar is clearly a competitive guy as well.

"Now, though, it's my turn to attack." Gan Guoyang said with a smile.

In this way, the two seemed to find their senses, and regardless of whether Famar wanted other training content or not, they launched a protracted offensive and defensive battle in the half.

Until the surrounding audience felt bored and started to leave, the two of them still enjoyed learning skills, although Gan Guoyang was abused more times than the number of goals.

It wasn't until it was getting late, the fans were gone, and Famar and the rest of the squad had finished training in the other half, that Gan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar realised it was time for the heads-up to end.

At this time, the two of them were already soaked with sweat, and Gan Guoyang's clothes even had a layer of salt frost.

"It's been a long time since I've played so hard at UCLA, come on, Gan, you're still losing badly today."

"Me too, I feel so happy! I hope to be able to play with you every day in the future. I don't know if those reporters are still out there. ”

"Hehe, I hate those guys the most, they are like cockroaches everywhere and can't die." At this time, the two were already talking and laughing.

Abdul-Jabbar looked at Gan Guoyang's sweaty profuse sweat and his soaked jersey, and couldn't help but think of an old opponent, the tenacious center who always sweated like pulp in the game, and at the same time made himself sweat like rain.

In Gan Guoyang's body, Jabbar saw his shadow.

Nate Thurmond.