Chapter Seventy-Two: The Art of Passing

Updated: 2013-10-23

(Sorry, it's too busy today and the update is late.) And it's written in a hurry, maybe it's more watery, don't blame it. The official NCAA national competition is coming soon. )

The game was interrupted and stalled 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 didn't expect the momentum to change, and the process of the game was disrupted all of a sudden.

In those days when there was no internet, not everyone had a video recorder, and not everyone had the time to record all the highlights of the game.

Therefore, the wonderful performance can only pass, and if you want to relive it, you can either slowly reminisce yourself, or you can only wait for a new performance to appear in the competition.

In the 1983 Finals, Dr. J's Rock-The-Baby shook all the basketball viewers in front of the TV.

But no one expected that at the scene at Clayton University, a college player would re-enact this classic.

It doesn't matter who wins or loses for those who watch the excitement, they just want to watch the number 11 dunk on the court, even if it's on the head of the home team.

Gan Guoyang's mind was still a little confused at this time, because the audience was cheering for him, and when he returned to the court after the pause, the cheers reached the most.

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

Seeing that the fans at the scene showed signs of defecting to the away team, Gan Guoyang also had to feel the great charm of the skill of dunking in the basketball game.

However, a dunk is still only two points in the end, and the madness and enthusiasm of the audience will gradually cool down.

Back on the court, the game that was interrupted by a dunk continues.

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

The best respect for the opponent on the field is to give it your all.

Returning to the defense again, the Blue Jays, who were a little dazed by two dunks, didn't seem to have come to their senses, and in the face of the pit bulls' continued to strengthen their oppressive defense, they had a big problem with the outside of the ball.

If you are facing an oppressive defense in the game, the most important thing is to "overcome rigidity with softness" and use tactics and patience to wear out the opponent's defensive enthusiasm.

In this case, once the oppressive defense that is very physically exhausting does not work, it will naturally be self-defeating.

But once the pressing defense has worked, the defender will defend more and more, and the intensity will increase, and it will enter a virtuous circle, so that the attacker will have problems.

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

The sluggish conduction of the outside line makes the running position of the blue jay often become useless, because people can't reach the ball.

After many attempts, repeated breaks, and breaks, the Blue Jay never found a good chance, and Benjamin never got the ball.

In this case, it can only be thrown by the outside players.

College players themselves are not as good as professional players, and the ability to force shots is even worse, and the result of strong outside shots can only be rebounds being pocketed by the bulldogs.

The Bulldogs, led by Stockton, began to launch a quick counterattack, and Bellman not only surprised the players with "clam-don" during the timeout, but also asked to seize the opportunity to win on the court and strive to score quickly and continuously to take the lead.

Comparatively speaking, fast offense is not a strong point for the Bulldogs, as they lack a strong and fast forward.

But their three-line fast-break coordination is quite good, and with Stockton as a reliable point guard to distribute the ball, the whole team can do nothing to beat the blue jays of the pit bulldogs.

Matthews, who was quick to plug in, made a successful layup after receiving a pass from his teammate, making the score 13:6 and the Bulldogs hitting a 7:0.

However, the Blue Jays who are fighting at home are not all powerless.

Compared to the Bulldogs, the Blue Jays have an advantage in their forward line, their front court.

The Blue Jays, who had two strong forwards, Gregory Brandon and S, began to use these two fast and strong players to attack the Bulldogs' interior.

The Bulldogs also had two very good swingmen, but unfortunately they were both forced to leave the team due to academic problems.

In this way, the front line has become the weakest link of the bulldog, and the loopholes formed by this can only be filled by Gan Guoyang alone.

Benjamin, Brandon, Evans, the three strong men in the front court, Gan Guoyang may not be able to completely contain them even if he has three heads and six arms, not to mention that it is difficult to defeat four hands with two fists now.

In this way, the Blue Jays also found their own offensive rhythm, not going on the outside, nor doing inside and outside, but relying on their forward line to turn over the river and the sea on the inside.

A similar situation has been encountered countless times since Bellman took charge of Gan, using a dynamic forward to attack the team's interior pillars.

Because whether in Palo Alto or Gonzaga, Gan Guoyang has never had a good power forward by his side to share the pressure on the inside.

In the face of some teams with outstanding athletic talents, Gan Guoyang had to carry the interior defense on his stomach 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 really be "sympathetic" in this regard, and he would be "alone" on the inside for a long time afterward.

In the first half, the game became more and more intense as the two teams gradually entered the state, and the home fans also cooled down from Gan Guoyang's two dunks and threw themselves into the current game, and began to cheer for the Blue Jays at home.

The game is finally starting to get into earnest, like a serious NCAA invitational tournament.

But in the first half, Gan Guoyang's performance was not in formality, although the two dunks attracted almost everyone's attention, as well as 80% of the cheers in the first half.

His hand is still cold, and in the face of Benjamin's "never leave" defense and the timely entrapment of other players on the offensive end, Gan Guoyang has never formed a sustained firepower.

And most of his energy was allocated to the defensive end to entangle with opponents, and he only scored 9 points and 10 rebounds in the entire first half, and blocked a record-breaking 7.

At halftime, the Bulldogs led the Blue Jays by 7 points at 29:22, the same as the difference between the two sides after that small **.

"Gan, what's wrong with you today? Didn't sleep well last night? I don't think you're very passionate on the court, even though you gave two great dunks. Bellman said to Gan Guoyang at halftime.

Gan Guoyang also felt a little discouraged, it stands to reason that Benjamin's defense is slowly adapting, after all, his bug-like strength is there.

But his touch never recovered.

No matter how the defender presses and interferes, as long as the action is complete, it depends on the shooter himself.

And once the feel is gone, it is not so easy to get the feel back with such a difficult hook action.

"I don't know, I didn't feel anything about the attack today, my wrist didn't seem to be oiled. It feels good to dunk and hopefully it will be better in the second half. Gan Guoyang shrugged helplessly, he still prefers the thrill of scoring consecutive goals to dunks.

'It's okay, we were still leading in the first half and the game was already in our control. And Gan, forget, I hope you can learn to control the game in more ways, not just defending and scoring. Bellman said meaningfully.

Gan Guoyang listened to Bellman's words and remembered that there was a time when Bellman strictly controlled the number of shots he made in warm-up games and team training matches, and asked him to help the team in other ways in attack.

Including his first competitive game, the one against UCLA, he barely had a single shot in the first half, but his performance didn't seem to live up to Bellman's expectations, and he still relied on a crazy scoring in the second half to get his opponents out.

"I get Mr. Bellman, I'll 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 hand was actually very powerful, but this time I don't know what's wrong, I don't feel it at all. But he has a strong presence in defense, and you should be able to tell that if it weren't for him, Bulldog would have become HotDog! Falke in the stands was still commenting on Gan Guoyang's performance, for fear that Stu Erse would think that Gan Guoyang's ability was not good.

"Don't worry about Falck, I can understand basketball. And you know, I'm choosing a spokesperson and not the championship core of the team, and I feel like he's playing in style and temperament, healthy and upbeat, which fits well with our new strategy. Stu said.

"That's right, this kid is really extraordinary, he has a super infectious energy, and I still remember that time at Inglewood, he was a center and he played point guard on the court and ended up completely dominating the game." Falck also mentioned the encounter at Inglewood, and Falke already felt that the trip to Inglewood had been more rewarding than he had imagined, and he was now very grateful to the fat black man on the sidelines.

However, on the official playing field, a center wants to play point guard but don't even think about it, let alone the bulldog and Stockton, a real point guard who can't be correct.

But Gan Guoyang will not let his passing talent go to waste.

At the beginning of the second half, the Bulldogs took the lead in attacking, but after falling into position, the Bulldogs put on a strange formation.

They use a 4-1 position, which is often used to open up the offensive situation by using the outside breakaway pull and outside fixed-point projection when there is a lack of attack points on the inside.

But now, Gan Guoyang has become one of the 4, standing at 45 degrees on the right side, echoing Stockton, who controls the ball.

At this time, Stockton passed the ball to Gan Guoyang, and then rolled inward to open the tactical run of the Bulldog.

For those who are familiar with the various tactics of American college basketball, it is obvious that this is the position of Princeton University's best Princeton tactics.

Leave the task of playing and directing the attack to the centre-forward, and the other players use tactical movement to pull space and create opportunities for their teammates.

Bellman didn't know where to steal this tactical system, but he actually used it in this game, and he also made Gan Guoyang, who has outstanding passing talent but not solid basic skills, to serve as the tactical core, is it so reliable?

Bellman doesn't know the bottom of his heart, and he doesn't know if Gan Guoyang can play the role of the tactical axis with such tactics, but he firmly believes that if Gan Guoyang wants to become a superstar, he must develop his talent in this area.

The passing skill is difficult to hone in training, and it is necessary to constantly read the defense and accumulate experience in the actual game to become a qualified passer.

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

Gan Guoyang stood outside the right corner with the ball, watching the changes and running of the players on the field, and his brain was like a machine.

Unlike the street fish game, the defenders here don't just stand and the attackers can run around a few times to get out of the space.

The core idea of Princeton's tactics is the so-called "back door", which is based on the fact that the opponent's defense must have a defensive corner, that is, the back of their head!

No matter how strong a defender is, how good his defensive skills are, how strong his physical qualities are, he has to defend a player, at least he has to be able to see the opponent and be able to stare at the opponent.

And a person's eyes can only see the piece in front of him, unless he has a heart and a heart, then the direction he is facing away from is defenseless to the opponent.

So all the runs in Princeton's strategy are to stare behind the defenders, behind them, and out of sight.

Once you master this, the rest of the specific running routes and tactical routines will be able to adapt to the opponent's defense.

Because the overall physical fitness of the pit bull is very average, the height, speed, and strength are relatively ordinary, so Bellman has been experimenting with this tactic of "defeating the strong with the weak", and this is the first experiment on the blue jay.

Gan Guoyang watched for a while, but found that his teammates' running positions began to mess up, and his mind was also a little messy.

It's over, it's a mess, the Bulldogs' cover and inchement on the right flank are all under the pressure of the Blue Jay's defense, and Princeton seems to be on the verge of breaking before it even starts.

Gan Guoyang saw that it would not work, and if he stayed in a high position, the opponent would come up and attack.

He hurriedly dribbled inside, passed the ball to small forward Matthews, who outflanked him to the top of the arc, and himself sank inside.

Bellman shook his head on the sidelines, he thought that this experiment was a failure, and he usually ran well in training, but he was blind when it came to the game.

In fact, this is also normal, Princeton's tactics require a very high degree of tacit understanding and a combination of man and ball.

As soon as Gan Guoyang sank to a low position, he immediately stuck the position in the right waist position, at this time, the inside line of the blue crow was unusually crowded, because of the wrong running position of the pit bull, several players all ran to the three-second area.

Therefore, when Matthews passed the ball to Gan Guoyang's hand, the blue crow's bag came with great ease, and he forced Gan Guoyang to the right bottom line at once.

Gan Guoyang was surrounded by blue crows, shrunk at the bottom line, couldn't shoot, and the pass was not easy to pass, because he couldn't lift his hand at all.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's long arm played a role again, he seemed to have long eyes in the back of his head, and he actually slammed the ball out of the bottom line, and passed the ball back to the three-second zone from outside the bounds!

Unlike football, basketball is not out of bounds as long as it doesn't press the line, even if the ball is out of bounds, as long as it is thrown back before it hits the ground!

Gan Guoyang passed the ball back into the bounds from the unguarded out-of-bounds direction, which happened to fall into the hands of Stockton, who was unguarded under the basket, and made an easy layup.

"Wow, it's dangerous, you almost stopped me, but unfortunately I can still pass the ball." Gan Guoyang, who "does not die in a catastrophe", also said to the Blue Jay players "unashamedly".

But Bellman off the field thought that maybe for a player like Gan Guoyang, he should not use a tactical system to restrain him, but should let him play freely!