Some adjustments and interpretations have been made to Gan Guoyang's previous average data to make it more in line with the historical situation. ）

On March 26 at 7 p.m., the second of the Northern California Final Four of the California Division II Championship will be played in the gymnasium of Pepperdine University, and the winner of this game will advance to the Northern California Finals to compete for a place in the Grand Finals.

Once the Northern California champions are determined, ten North-South champions from five divisions of California will gather in Los Angeles to determine the overall winners of the five California Championships.

And now, Gan Guoyang and the Vikings are on the glorious road to the ultimate glory of this California high school basketball.

But Gan Guoyang's absent-minded expression on the field really made it hard to believe that this was a regional semi-final match.

Because, the gap between the two sides is a bit too big.

Gan Guoyang's attention at this time was divided into three parts:

The first one is used to look at the scoreboard and timer on the sidelines.

At this time, the score of the two sides was 57:41, and the lead was the Vikings, who opened a 16-point gap with the opponent.

And the time left on the timer, there are only 5 minutes, and now it's the second half.

That said, the Vikings are five minutes away from reaching the finals of the tournament in Northern California.

Gan Guoyang's second attention was "attracted" by Gan Guohui in the stands, or disturbed by him.

Today is Friday, and after class in the afternoon, Gan Guohui and a group of Palo Alto High School students and fans took a bus to Pepperdine University to watch the most pivotal game in Palo Alto High School basketball history so far.

"Big cousin! Come on! You've got too few points! In Pepperdine University's 1,500-seat gymnasium, only Gan Guohui was alone shouting in Mandarin from the stands, and only Gan Guoyang could understand it.

Gan Guohui also brought a big green flag, which not only painted the Viking team logo, but also was pasted by Gan Guohui with the four big Chinese characters of "Ganjia Restaurant"! If you have nothing to do, you can take it out and dance on stage, and use it as an advertisement.

More than once, after Gan Guoyang got the ball, he wanted to throw the basketball in his hand directly into the stands and smash the fat man who was bouncing around there to death.

But Gan Guoyang's emotions disturbed by Gan Guohui, a fat man, calmed down after he saw the purple in the stands not far away.

Because Gan Guoyang's third attention is focused on the next opponent - the Sacramento High School Dragons!

He looked up at the stands and at the purple he had encountered on the first day of the tournament.

"Gan, pay attention to the catch!" Gan Guoyang's attention was divided into these three parts, except for his opponent on the field, when the shouts of his teammates came from his ears.

Gan Guoyang came back to his senses at this time and found that the basketball was coming straight for him! At this time, he was standing outside the three-second zone, confused and unsure of what to do.

"Bang!" This ball is right in the face of Gan Guoyang! A sore pain came from his nose, Gan Guoyang covered his face at once, and felt that his snot and tears hurt out.

As a result, the ball was naturally cut off by the opponent, and the Tigers launched a counterattack.

Although there are only 5 minutes left and 16 points behind, for the Tigers, who have finally reached the final four of the division, they cannot give up the game even if there is only one minute left.

"Stupid! Damn Gan, this guy is fucking sleepwalking in this game! Bellman in the coach's seat saw Gan Guoyang's blank eyes on the field, and knew that this guy must be deserting again.

But he didn't expect him to be so distracted that he was hit in the nose by a ball!

"Back to the defense! Fuck me back! This ball is going to be lost, watch out for your ass! Bellman shouted from the sidelines, and although he had won the game, he didn't like to see the players lazy and lazy because of this, especially Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang knew that his performance in this game was indeed "bad".

He scored 20 points, 13 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 blocks, which is already a relatively good stat for other interior players.

But he is Gan Guoyang, who averaged 40 points and 20 rebounds per game in the first two games, and only got half of the stats in this game.

What makes Bellman even more crazy is that Gan Guoyang has made 5 mistakes in this game, plus the catch is broken, there have been 6 mistakes, which is higher than the point guard's mistakes!

Thankfully, the rest of the Vikings played very well today, especially their backcourt duo, Dippenbrock and Williams, who burst into action in the second half of the first half.

Williams relied on the double cover of Gan Guoyang and Virgins, plus the small forward and Dippenbrock's attractive defense on the weak side and at the top of the arc, and constantly scored on jumpers in both bottom corners.

In the days when there was no three-point line, a zone-stack strategy like this was very rare, because it relied on the feel of the outside and was not very efficient in scoring.

At the same time, the outside formation is stretched too wide, and the two players on the inside are squeezed into the bottom corner to cover the scoring guard, so don't think about the frontcourt rebound.

However, it is precisely because of the lack of appearances, coupled with the hot hands of Williams, that under the cover of the high-quality protective wall formed by Gan Guoyang and Vicess, this tactic has repeatedly succeeded.

And this tactic forced the Tigers to expand their defensive range, which loosened the Tigers' tight and oppressive defence, and eventually they could not withstand the continuous onslaught of the Vikings before the end of the first half, and the defense collapsed.

The Vikings took the opportunity to stretch the score to 15 points at halftime.

Judging from the previous games, including the regular season invitational tournament, the Vikings are best at crushing the opponent in the first half to take the lead in the score, and then using slow pace and high-intensity defense in the second half to drag the opponent to death.

It's just that most of the Vikings relied on Gan Guoyang's outstanding performance to open the score before, but this game relied on the performance of the whole team and excellent tactical use.

Now, with the game clearly falling into the familiar rhythm of the Vikings, it's only natural that the Tigers have been pressed in the second half.

"The tactical richness of the Vikings is really unexpected, I didn't expect their coach to really have two brushes." A man in a purple tracksuit sitting in the stands said.

"Their coach seems to be called Bellman, and he is said to be a very good guy, but he has never had any good players." Another guy in a purple tracksuit sitting next to him said.

"But now they have that Gump! This guy is the second-highest scoring average in Northern California! I really didn't expect this to be a Chinese! Another purple tracksuit said.

Gan Guoyang scored an average of 28.5 points per game in the previous regular season and invitational games, which should be said to be not a high score for Gan Guoyang.

The main reason is that the Vikings played against some teams with large differences in strength, and Gan Guoyang either only played half the game, or began to work without effort when the score was opened.

So a lot of his statistics are caused by only playing more than 20 minutes or not playing well, otherwise he will go all out every game, and an average of 40 points per game is not a problem.

"But California's leading scorer is on our team! Isn't it, Kevin? ”

"Huh? What's wrong? The man named Kevin was obviously absent-minded, and he was looking at Gan Guoyang, who was being talked about by his teammates on the field.

At this time, Gan Guoyang happened to be cut off because of smashing his face, and Bellman roared on the sidelines, urging the Vikings to return to defense.

The Tigers' point guard pushed all the way after getting the ball, and the Vikings were very good at rebounding, but they were also a little slack after taking a big lead.

So he slowed down with the ball and observed it, and decisively accelerated through the gap in the middle, ready to go straight to the basket, so that he could get a point to change some of the situation.

But when he jumped up and was about to go to the basket, he obviously felt that someone came up behind him to make up for the defense, it was Gan Guoyang!

This guy listened to Bellman's roar, didn't care about the pain and tears, chased after the backcourt like a mad dog, and caught up with the opposing point guard when he was about to make a layup.

This point guard is not so easy to deal with, he shrank in the air, using his waist and abdomen strength to increase the time in the air, and at the same time, the right hand of the layup also retracted, ready to dodge Gan Guoyang's block.

At this time, Gan Guoyang's crazy waist and abdomen practice in the first half of the championship played a role, although he still can't compare with the talented black people, but the stronger waist and abdomen also make him more capable of doing movements.

Coupled with his terrifyingly long arms, the Tigers' point guards didn't dodge the giant spider's web.

The ball seemed to be a fly all the time, sticking to the big net woven by Gan Guoyang, and chasing after the cover again!

After Gan Guoyang landed, he watched the players who followed him grab the ball, breathed a sigh of relief, and began to run slowly and leisurely to the front court again.

Gan Guoyang is like this, if someone stimulates him, he will be like an angry bull, and he must overturn the other party; And once the opponent loses the ability to resist, he will become an old cow gnawing grass, absent-minded, and often deserted.

Bellman is often helpless about this, because he knows that Gan Guoyang is actually scared of the back injury last time, and he always pays attention to protecting himself.

"I think sometimes you look like an old man who played in the NBA for 20 years!" For Gan Guoyang's self-protection, Bellman often scolds, feeling that he doesn't look like a hot-blooded basketball young man at all.

"I'm just doing the right thing at the right time, and people can't fall twice in the same place." Gan Guoyang said this, which has also become a common quote in his future interviews with the media.

Bellman naturally didn't know that Gan Guoyang was a "little monster" with memories of two lives, especially his deep impression of various injuries and illnesses of later stars, which made him have to pay attention to it at all times.

But now, Bellman is no longer in the mood to study this "little monster" under his command, because with the sound of the buzzer, this Northern California Final Four is over!

In the end, the Palo Alto Vikings defeated the Fremon Tigers, the big dark horse of this tournament, with a huge advantage of 61:45, 16 points, and reached the division finals of the California Division II Championship for the first time in the history of the school!

The next time they did so was in the championship season in 1993 and in 2006, under the leadership of Jeremy Lin and coach Dippenbrock.

That time, they won the state championship again.

And what about Gan Guoyang this time? What he didn't know, the only thing he knew, was that he had already begun to change history.

The game-changer was joining the rest of the players at this time to give Bellman the treatment of a trapeze.

“Vikings！ Vikings！ Vikings！ The players shouted the name of the team as they threw Bellman in the air.

"Hehe, these guys, don't you think it's too early to celebrate?" A man in a purple tracksuit who was leaving the stands looked at the Vikings who had won the state championship with joy.

"It's already their best result in history, right? Let them celebrate, they won't have a chance in the next game. Another said.

"Hey, don't be so confident, Vikings aren't that easy to deal with."

"It's alright, we still have you, Kevin."

This group of players in purple tracksuits is naturally the opponent of the Vikings in the next game, the Sacramento Dragons!

Contrary to Gan's expectations, Skyrim High School was not able to defeat their opponents in yesterday's game, so they also lost the opportunity to take revenge on Palo Alto High School in the division finals.

Putting the dizzy Bellman down, Gan Guoyang looked at the team of players who had left the field in purple jerseys, and tried to search for a small figure among them.

"That guy is No. 7......" Gan Guoyang thought in his heart.

That near-invincible No. 7!

In yesterday's game, Gary Payton, the future 50 superstar, the best defensive player, and opposite him, was almost like paper paste, and it broke with a single stab!

Gregg Foster on the inside couldn't stop No. 7's breakthrough, but repeatedly fouled, sent the opponent to the free throw line, and finally made five fouls himself, so that the Hawks' interior line lost the barrier.

Gan Guoyang sat in the stands and couldn't hear the conversation of the players on the field.

But he knew that Payton must have been nagging in front of this No. 7 all the time, because his mouth never stopped.

But he only nagged about half the game, and by the second half, Payton had no energy to play on both sides physically and mentally.

The entire Skyrim High School defense line was broken by No. 7 alone, and he also has a very good mid-range shot, and any player in Skyrim High School can't do anything about him!

40 points, that's the number 7 of the purple won in that game.

And according to Diepenbrock, the player who scored 50 points in the first knockout game is also this No. 7!

In the end, in a head-to-head battle, the Dragons defeated the Hawks 75-63 and entered the Northern California finals.

After all, Peyton is still too young, only in the ninth grade, and now he has lost at the hands of more mature and powerful opponents.

And Peyton's revenge for this defeat will wait until 11 years later, on a broader and more glorious stage. There, he will receive the name "Glove".

Gan Guoyang finally spotted the diminutive figure in the purple crowd, and he understood that in Northern California, this was his real enemy.

"I didn't give my best today, but it was all for the game the day after tomorrow, Kevin Johnson!"