Bobby Bellman was a very gifted player in his youth, and he didn't receive a basketball scholarship from any college after graduating from high school, which was certainly to be expected.

However, when he applied to college, he chose the Department of Physical Education at the University of San Francisco, where he studied basketball theory as an undergraduate.

After graduating, he coached a community basketball team, worked as a physical education teacher in elementary school, and coached a girls' basketball team in middle school.

Later, he became the coach of the Palo Alto High School basketball team because of an opportunity - the original coach was hospitalized due to illness, and he became a temporary worker to replace him.

He's got a good result here because his guiding philosophy is very clear, since we don't have talent, then we have to make up for it with tactics.

In this regard, he thinks the same as Coach Carell of Princeton University, except that Coach Carell designs an offensive system, while Bellman is obsessed with building a defensive system.

If the course of history is followed, Bellman will eventually be fired for not being able to lead the Vikings to a breakthrough of much reason, and in the end he will be just an ordinary little man for the rest of his life, a basketball lover who is obscure to everyone.

In this sport that requires great talent, there are countless such enthusiasts.

However, God gave him a chance and brought him a man, a man who had crossed over from the future, though no one knew about it except himself.

This man is Gan Guoyang, and his arrival will change a lot of things, and the first thing he will change is Bellman's fate as a coach.

Gan Guoyang's talent is so high, so high that all Bellman has to do in the high school league is to let the other players defend well, and leave the rest to Gan Guoyang.

This is one of Bellman's biggest flaws for Bellman, who is not good at directing offenses.

As a result, the Vikings were able to make it all the way to the finals of the California Championship, but in such a game, there were too many variables, and Bellman and Gan Guoyang were still inexperienced after all.

Even so, Bellman, who missed out on the championship, was given the opportunity to change his fortune and come to Gunzaga University, and by chance got Gan Guoyang again.

In order to make up for the regrets and shortcomings of high school, Bellman worked hard to learn and digest various offensive tactics and apply them to the game.

At the same time, he also focused on cultivating Gan Guoyang's skills in all aspects, so that he could truly grow into an inner line Optimus Prime with one side.

Eventually, they made it to the NCAA national for the first time in history, making it to Salt Lake City to face Bellman's admired coach, Carell, and his Princeton Tigers.

However, the young and inexperienced Bellman fell into a misunderstanding, one that left the pit bull in a mess.

In the past three years, Bellman's two teams have been known for their "mediocre talent", and even if he has Gan Guoyang, he can't improve the overall talent of the team.

So, Bellman has always adhered to the idea that he has believed since he was a player - if there is no talent, then make up for it with tactics.

But what he didn't expect was that the Princeton Tigers they faced today were a more untalented team, and at the same time, a team that relied more on tactics.

Bellman always wanted to use tactical adjustments on the defensive end to deal with the Tigers' tactical changes on the offensive end, which was actually based on his own shortcomings and offensive strengths.

Fighting with the Tigers for tactical changes, isn't this looking for death?

Carell was able to bring this group of third-class cripples in college basketball to the NCAA national tournament because of the ever-changing tactics, and Princeton's tactics are also a kind of extremely changeable, improvisable basketball thinking, which is by no means something that can be played by learning a few routines.

When Bellman figured that out at half-time, Gunzaga was four points ahead of his rivals and he wasn't too late to get the hang of it.

Sure enough, in the second half, Bellman rearranged the starting lineup in combination with the situation in the first half and the foul problems of the starters.

Gan Guoyang and Stockton naturally couldn't move, and in the two positions of power forward and small forward, Bellman sent two substitute players, and his only explanation for these two substitutes was to "play with the people you want to keep an eye on." ”

No matter how bad the talent of the pit bulls players is, they are all basketball scholarship winners, and they are all star players in high school, and their running and jumping qualities are quite good.

So as soon as the second half began, the bulldogs showed the ruthlessness of the bulldogs and began to implement full-court tight defense!

The whole court was pressing, there was no fancy, no tactical changes, it was just the hard work and physical strength of the players.

The two players who replaced the starters did not get many opportunities to play in the usual games, and a performance opportunity of about ten minutes was only about ten minutes, and sometimes they were fouled when they went up.

And now, in the NCAA national arena, they have the opportunity to start in the second half, how can they not give their best.

On the other hand, the Princeton University players, who served first, clearly felt uncomfortable.

In the first half, they can be said to play very comfortably, and the opponent always wants to rely on tactical changes to strangle their attack, but in the usual repeated training, they have long figured out the loopholes of various defensive routines. No matter what kind of defensive strategy, they can find the "back door" and then use the extremely tacit pass to help their teammates complete the fatal blow.

At the beginning of the second half, it began to become difficult for them to even dribble beyond the half, let alone move the ball and run tactics.

"Keep-moving, keep-moving! Don't let the opponent stand there and receive the ball comfortably! Pressure them, put pressure on them! Gan Guoyang continued to act as a defensive commander on the field, and at the same time he also mentioned the upper line, stubbornly entangled with the opponent's core center.

When the center is unable to receive the ball comfortably, the most common routine of Princeton's tactics suffers greatly, and they have to perform other tactical moves.

With the high post offense blocked, they naturally switched to the low post and began to use their No. 19 small forward, Kevin Mullin, to pry open the back door of the Bulldogs.

In the first half, whenever the Tigers' offense went wrong – because not every time they had a chance to cut – they would give the ball to top scorer Kevin Mullin and let him handle it.

Kevin Mullin is arguably the most talented player of the Princeton Tigers, and despite being a white man, he is the team's leading scorer and rebounder despite being only 6-foot-6.

His free throw shooting percentage is also the highest on the team, and his ability to make fouls is superb.

It is precisely because of his presence that the Tigers' offensive options have been greatly enriched, so that they will not rely too much on team cooperation, and they can also have a star player who can solve problems at critical moments.

But now Kevin Mullin's life is not easy, because it is none other than John Stockton, the most clingy and annoying of the pit bulls' outside defense.

In the game against UCLA, Stockton managed to cause a lot of problems for Reggie Miller.

In fact, with Stockton's physical fitness, it is impossible to limit the opponent's arrow figure, he is too short and too slow.

But Stockton has always been known for his small moves and defensive tricks, not to prevent the opponent from death, but to make the opponent feel sad and unable to play at the pace he likes.

This is not useful for players with physical attributes, but it is especially effective against players who rely on awareness and emphasize the rhythm of their throws.

Kevin Mullin is one such player, and the reason why he can make fouls is because he has a particularly good grasp of the time difference, and can always tease the opponent's "defensive passion" and then make the opponent suffer.

But Stockton doesn't eat that, all he does is interfere, interfere and interfere, but he doesn't foul and never jumps around.

So when Kevin Mullin leaned on Stockton and turned around, and made two feints in a row to fool Stockton, Stockton remained motionless and ignored him at all.

Seeing that the feints had no effect and that he could no longer dribble, Mullin took advantage of his height and pulled up and shot directly 12 feet to the right of the basket.

Stockton still didn't move, just made a few small movements to make Mullin's jump less comfortable.

Because he knew that he couldn't cover it when he jumped, and someone would come to cover it.

"Phew!" It was Gan Guoyang who came from the line.

His long arms exceeded Mu Lin's expectations, he thought that Gan Guoyang should not be able to cover it, but he didn't expect Gan Guoyang to slap the ball directly behind the side.

At the same time, Mu Lin also felt that his jump was very insufficient, his lower body seemed to be stuck, and the height of his jump was not enough, so he ate a big hot pot.

He knew that Stockton was the devil, but the referee didn't notice these small moves, and he could only suffer a dumb loss.

One in front and one in the back, this is such a simple and crude defensive strategy, but it is more effective than the complex defensive formation.

After winning the ball, the Bulldogs were unhurried and handed the ball to Stockton, and they had no problem attacking and there was always nothing wrong with playing steadily.

In the offense, the biggest problem for the bulldog is how to get the ball into Gan Guoyang's hands, as long as the ball is in his hands, the rest will be easy to handle.

The Princeton Tigers must trap Gan Guoyang, otherwise his hook will be impossible to defend.

Once trapped, the pit bull's air cut is like the impeller of a windmill, wave after wave, constantly impacting the inside line of the Tigers.

In the past games, the inside line of the bulldog has always suffered from repeated impacts from other teams, and Gan Guoyang has always been like a body armor to withstand the rush of the opponent's forward.

Now, against the less athletic Princeton Tigers, the Bulldogs' front line is to turn over and serf to sing, and the two new forwards are playing on the opponent's head, constantly rushing for rebounds.

Gan Guoyang also subconsciously raised his key position more shallower, leaving more space for the inside line, so that his team's forward line could be turned upside down.

When a team has better talent and athleticism, it will be easier to play, often using simple tactics and taking on opponents with excellent tactical literacy, as has been repeated in the history of basketball.

What's more, the Bulldogs are not a team that fights randomly, they have also been bullied by more talented teams in the past, and today they are just inflicting the pain they once suffered on their opponents.

At this time, Princeton was completely messed up, and after being damaged several times by the mad dog defense of the bulldogs, and the defense could neither limit Gan Guoyang nor withstand the opponent's forward line, their morale began to decline

When the morale of a team that relies on teams and tactics declines, the consequence is that they are not active in running and are prone to mistakes.

In addition, their number one star was very uncomfortable by Stockton, and they could only score some goals piecemeal, and they also had to risk being rewarded by Gan Guoyang.

The Princeton Tigers lost the fluid offense they relied on to survive, and their defense continued to struggle, and the Bulldogs stretched the deficit to 16 points after 10 minutes of the second half.

Although Coach Carell called a timeout a few times, he hoped to make adjustments to regain the confidence of the players and play the same feeling as in the first half.

Unfortunately, it became not them, but their opponents, and the pit bull in the second half was no longer the pit bull that was not clearly positioned in the first half.

In the end, no matter how hard the Tigers tried, they couldn't narrow the gap to within 15 points, and they also lost the first round of the NCAA National with a 52-70, 18-point disadvantage, and were unfortunately eliminated.

As soon as the whistle blew at the end of the game, the entire pit bulls team fell into a frenzy of joy, and although the spectators had no way to understand them, they themselves knew what a breakthrough and what a great victory.

They made it to the round of 32, one step closer to Los Angeles.

As the two sides shook hands after the game, Coach Carell came to Coach Bellman's side and extended his hand.

"Good job, Bobby, you finally found the real strength of your team in the second half." Carell said to the young college coach.

"Thank you, Mr. Carell, you're more amazing than me, and if we swapped teams, I wouldn't have been able to do that."

"No, Bobby, I'm fit to be around these kids who don't have any talent, because I don't have any talent, and I can understand them. But you're different, even though you're not a star player, you have all the qualities of a star coach, which is that you can control star players. As he spoke, Carell looked at Gan Guoyang, who had finished shaking his hand, and happily said to Gan Guoyang on the side.

"You say Gan, he's a good boy, very, very good." Bellman said with a smile.

"Haha, good boy, maybe he's only a good boy when you're here, and it's said he's not a good boy at UCLA. Moreover, among those NBA superstars, few are good boys. But an excellent star coach is able to turn these bad boys into good children who are obedient and obedient. "Carell's point makes a lot of sense.

Like Larry Bird, he had the same experience as Gan Guoyang, who put the overlord Indiana University and ran home to play wild ball, and then went to Indiana State University.

Magic Johnson also forced the head coach away because he didn't like the coach's coaching style and replaced it with Pat Riley, who suited him.

"I don't know, but this kid is a gift from God, and I think he's going to be a superstar one day, a real superstar."

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