Chapter 311: The Spirit of Entertainment
The All-Star Game went on in such a relaxed and playful atmosphere, and Gan Guoyang's actions undoubtedly stimulated everyone's desire to perform, and the game became colorful.
But Pat Riley, the coach of the Western Stars team on the sidelines, after watching a few rounds of back and forth, quickly saw through Gan Guoyang's "undercover" nature, this guy doesn't look like playing well at all, he is purely here to play.
Don't look at Pat Riley looks oily, every time he appears in public, he will always be the same big back for 10,000 years, plus a handsome and somewhat evil face, in fact, Riley is an out-and-out iron-blooded devil coach.
In the NBA, every team and coach has a different training style, some of which are very loose, and they practice by game to let the players play to their heart's content; Some are very harsh, using an almost oppressive approach to extract the potential of the players.
Although the Los Angeles Lakers play gorgeous offensive basketball, which is generally much easier than defensive basketball, the Lakers' training Gan Guoyang has experienced is completely suffocating, and even a little cruel long-term training.
It is Riley's training method that makes the Lakers, who look like a showman, actually an invincible steel division, and Riley, who looks like the godfather of the underworld, is definitely an out-and-out strongman in the league.
Such a strongman, even in the All-Star Game, could not tolerate Gan Guoyang's game like this, and soon after a timeout, Riley replaced Gan Guoyang with the Lakers' own center Abdul-Jabbar.
In the following games, Gan Guoyang got very little playing time, and Gan Guoyang didn't care much about this, basically this time was enough for him to brush up all the data.
Moreover, sitting on the bench, Gan Guoyang was reluctant to communicate with Riley, not that Gan Guoyang didn't like Riley or Riley couldn't get used to Gan Guoyang, in fact, when Gan Guoyang went to Palm Springs City to experience the Lakers training camp before entering the league, Riley still admired Gan Guoyang's brave momentum very much, and Gan Guoyang gradually looked down on this coach.
But as the head coach of the strongest opponent, Gan Guoyang hopes to deliberately maintain a hostile relationship with Riley, not to mention hating Riley, at least to sweep away the respect and admiration in his heart, Gan Guoyang knows that a vengeful heart is often a huge motivation for basketball players.
Gan Guoyang still remembers last season's Western Conference Finals, Pat Riley's bag and clamp defensive tactics made Gan Guoyang feel painful, and his performance was almost half discounted, and there was a game in which Gan Guoyang even quarreled with Riley on the sidelines, although both sides who were discouraged afterwards said they would not mind, but Gan Guoyang still kept this in mind.
Gan Guoyang is not a person who holds grudges, but now he needs hatred.
If the coach of the Western All-Stars in this game is Ramsey, Gan Guoyang will basically not play tickets like last season, at least he will play seriously, otherwise don't make the old man angry, then the Trail Blazers will be bad.
Since it is Riley, Gan Guoyang played honestly and unceremoniously, after the start of the second half of the game, Gan Guoyang started again, anyway, Riley couldn't press him on the bench at this time.
In the locker room at halftime, Gan Guoyang took out the goggles he won from Worthy in the slam dunk contest yesterday, put them on his eyes to participate in the game, and also made a cobra.
Gan Guoyang not only made a cobra, you must know that Abdul-Jabbar also wears goggles, so Gan Guoyang played cosplay on the field and began to imitate Abdul-Jabbar to play.
Abdul-Jabbar's hook Gan Guoyang would have been, but there is still a difference between the two hook movements, Jabbar's sky hook is actually not the most standard big hook, the general standard big hook, the moment of the shot is to rely on the forearm, wrist and fingers to take turns to exert force, the whole action is made to form an arc-shaped hook, so it is called "hook-shot", this hook is curved.
And Abdul-Jabbar's hook hand is Jiang Taigong fishing, using a straight hook, he stretches out his whole arm at the moment of shooting, and then uses his wrist and fingers to exert force, and the forearm does not exert force, such a hook is more concise and more difficult to defend, but only Abdul-Jabbar can do it.
Gan Guoyang has always used the standard big hook hand, and he is more like the first super charge George McCann in ancient times, of course, Gan Guoyang also learned the advantages of Abdul-Jabbar, and the whole action is more coherent and smooth.
So in the second half, after Gan Guoyang began to imitate Abdul-Jabbar, he completely changed his action to a straight-arm hook hand, and he received a pass from the magic on the first ball, and then followed Abdul-Jabbar's routine and hooked a ball on Moses Malone's head.
This is not the end, after the goal, Gan Guoyang also followed the example of Abdul-Jabbar and the magician to celebrate, the two pointed at each other with their fingers, and then high-fived each other hard, which is also the classic way of celebration between Abdul-Jabbar and the magician.
After this set was done, the magician had already laughed, and the two discussed it when they were in the locker room, and Abdul-Jabbar himself didn't know that watching Gan Guoyang and the magician cosplay on the field, Tiangou, who had never shown much smiles, also smiled, and even Moses Malone, who was even more unsmiling, shook his head and snickered there.
Gan Guoyang and Magic, the two two defects, completely became the protagonists on the court, the Western Star team launched a fast attack, Gan Guoyang quickly followed up, and the ball was directly dunked successfully!
It's just that Gan Guoyang's dunk is no longer a gliding dunk like Dr. J, but imitates Abdul-Jabbar to go straight up and down, and after scoring, Gan Guoyang also learned Abdul-Jabbar to raise his hands and run back to the backcourt with a slightly "old" pace.
The all-star players off the court are almost laughing crazy, Gan Guoyang is really vivid to learn from Abdul-Jabbar, if he can shave a bald head, it will be even more perfect.
Even Pat Riley shook his head helplessly off the court, obviously there was no player like him before Gan Guoyang, Gan Guoyang's performance in this game was also the first to break people's stereotype of the center, in the past, people thought that the center was all a lonely giant, they played on the court just to show mortals their height and strength, not for show.
Since then, the entertainment spirit that Gan Guoyang has brought to the center has gradually been inherited by the "later" center forwards, and they are no longer the Goliath who is feared by everyone.
However, the game has to continue, Gan Guoyang's cosplay is just a small episode, and then Riley still replaced Gan Guoyang and replaced the real Abdul-Jabbar on the field, and Gan Guoyang went off the field, and when Abdul-Jabbar came on the field, there was extremely warm applause in the stadium, which seemed to be to give this pair of "real and fake Abdul-Jabbar".
Although Gan Guoyang has been "making trouble", the Western All-Stars still maintained a slight advantage at the end of the third quarter, when the game entered the fourth quarter, the two sides finally put aside the entertainment, and finally began to play seriously one by one, after all, entertainment games are also games, as long as it is a game, there will be a winner or loser, as a basketball player, there is no game that you don't want to win.
After the start of the fourth quarter, the defense on both sides began to strengthen, and it was unlikely that the center would easily get to the position in the low post, and the two sides launched a fierce battle for each ball, and the referee's whistle finally began to become more frequent.
The Western All-Stars still played very beautifully on several offenses because of the presence of the Magic, but one of the biggest flaws of the Magic is that he made more mistakes, and his mistakes often put the team in a disadvantageous situation in the Lakers, and in the 84 Finals, his fatal mistakes were also one of the important factors for the Lakers to lose the championship.
When it came to the All-Star Game, everyone didn't practice much coordination, purely by feeling, plus the Eastern players were already good at hand-to-hand defense, and the Western All-Star team made several mistakes in a row, and these mistakes were caught by the Eastern team, and they used fast counterattacks to score continuously.
One of the most ruthless was Isiah Thomas, whose breakthrough and small toss helped him hit back-to-back shots to help the Eastern Conference All-Stars widen the gap.
At the same time, although Larry Bird is not too popular in the All-Star Game, after all, his style of play is too simple, more simple than Gan Guoyang, but his jump shot and dunk are both two points, for a team to have a lethal jump shooter, the critical moment is really deadly.
Gan Guoyang did not get a chance to play at the last moment, but sat on the sidelines and watched the ten best players in the league fight on the court, although they did not have much tactical cooperation, but their super individual ability still made the scene exciting.
Magic's pass, Bird's jumper, Thomas's breakaway, Abdul-Jabbar's hook, Moses Malone's frontcourt rebound, Sampson's dunk, Dr. J's big move, Worthy's low back, all showed their housekeeping skills and raised the intensity of the game to the maximum.
The two sides continued to fight back and forth until the last minute, and the Western All-Stars were still 8 points behind the East, basically losing hope of winning, so the Western players also gave up resistance, and a wonderful All-Star game was coming to an end.
In the end, the East team defeated the West team 141-133, and Isaiah Thomas scored a game-high 30 points, won the All-Star Game MVP, and became Stern's 1986 star of the stars.
But in the eyes of many viewers, Gan Guoyang is the brightest star in this All-Star Weekend.