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When the whistle blew at the end of the first half, Gan Guoyang scored two more points for the Vikings with a whistle-blowing jumper. However, the Vikings were still trailing the Hawks at this time, and they were 14 points behind the Hawks at 33:47.

Gan Guoyang's whistle-blowing jumper just now only narrowed the gap between the two sides to within fifteen points. The 47-point half-time conceded was also the most points conceded by the Vikings since the start of the high school league, including the warm-up game.

In previous games, the Vikings were always able to follow through on Bellman's tactical intent in the first half, disrupting the opposition attack with a slow tempo and zone defence.

In particular, the presence of Gan Guoyang, his oppressive defense greatly limited the fluency of those weak teams' attacks.

In addition, there was no limit on offensive time in that era, and often after half a game, the opponent could only score more than 20 points, so that the opponent's entire team tended to collapse regardless of offense and defense, and the second half completely became the time for players on both sides to practice offensively.

But the Skyrim High School encountered this time, because of the presence of Peyton, a ninth-grade freshman, the overall offense was extremely dynamic.

And the rest of the Hawks players are not mediocre players, although Greg Foster will only be a nobody in the NBA in the future, and now he is only a ninth-grader, but any player who can enter the NBA is a powerful figure in high school.

Foster not only brought Gan Guoyang the biggest defensive pressure since the start of the high school league in the matchup, but also was always able to provide good quality cover for his teammates and create more opportunities for his teammates in the attack. Later in his basketball career, he grew to a standard center height of 6'11" and became a soy sauce interior in the NBA.

The rest of the Hawks' players are a notch better than the Vikings in terms of individual ability, especially their small forwards and power forwards, who have a fierce and flexible style of play and a very strong impact.

With the Hawks playing fast-paced and not shooting from the field, their two forwards continued to use their bounce advantage to attack the Vikings' baskets and grab frontcourt rebounds to get a second chance to attack.

In the game with McClaude High School, the Vikings also encountered the crisis of poor backcourt rebounding protection and frontcourt rebounds being repeatedly impacted, and later Gan Guoyang came on the court to solve this problem perfectly.

But in this game, Gan Guoyang is invincible with two fists and four hands, not to mention that most of his energy has to be spent on taking care of Payton. The entire Viking regional defense line was shattered by Peyton alone, and Gan Guoyang had to go around like a tinker to fill the gaps.

So, the Vikings kept losing backcourt rebounds, and the Hawks kept getting a second chance to attack. Even if Gan Guoyang relied on his deterrence on the inside, so that these secondary rebounds did not all turn into basket scores, he could not withstand the Hawks' reorganizing offense and making him tired.

Coach Bellman also called a timeout and changed the team's defensive tactics, such as switching to half-court marking. This worked a little bit at first, but soon, the more individual Eagles began to tear apart the Vikings' defense easily with simple coordination and singles.

Obviously, man-to-man is not as good as the zone defense, but the zone defense is too dependent on Gan Guoyang, and he didn't rest for a minute except for a timeout in the first half. Bellman himself wondered if he should give up the game, because the Vikings had done their best in the first half, while the Eagles felt like they were playing with ease.

Maybe it's time to let your core rest well to prevent Gan Guoyang from being overtired and injured.

"Gan, I think if it doesn't work, reduce your playing time in the second half, you need to rest, after all, it's just an invitational game." Bellman said with concern to Gan Guoyang in the locker room.

Bellman knows that protecting key players is more important than a win in an invitational tournament, although that would greatly hurt the morale of the team. After all, even the coach wants to give up, how can the players give it their all?

However, Gan Guoyang, who scored 19 points and 10 rebounds in the first half and scored more than half of the team, is obviously not a person who gives up easily. Hearing the coach's concern for him, he stood up, shook his head, and uttered a sentence:

"Just put me on the field, I'll have time to rest when I'm dead, not now."

With that, he sat down and looked at Coach Bellman with burning eyes, like a warrior waiting for the general to give him a battle order.

Other players were also infected by Gan Guoyang's words of "seeing death as home", and the depressed atmosphere that permeated the locker room in the first half because of the big score behind seemed to be swept away. Everyone looked up and looked at Coach Bellman with the same gaze.

In this case, Bellman is already "difficult to ride a tiger", and he can no longer talk about discouragement.

"Well, ladies, in that case, let's fight. With half-time to go, we're 14 points down and there's still plenty of time, but we're going to change our strategy......"

The 20-minute break passed quickly, and the gym was still crowded. Although the Vikings were behind by a score, there was plenty of time at half-time, and everyone was waiting for a big comeback.

Throughout the first half of the game, the Vikings gradually eased up after experiencing a slump at the beginning, but they were still pressed and beaten by the Hawks overall, relying only on Gan Guoyang to support alone.

And before the second half even began, the Hawks and the audience at the scene noticed that the Vikings' starting lineup for the second half had changed.

The Vikings' interior starters have always been 6-foot-9 center Gan Guoyang and 6-foot-8 power forward Viciss, while 6-foot-10 former starting center Stanley has become a substitute inside.

Stanley's height should be said to be quite good in the high school league, but his talent is average, he is heavy, slow to move laterally, and his bounce is average. Basically, it will be difficult to enter a higher level of basketball league in the future.

Since Gan Guoyang became the Vikings' starting center, Stanley has neither been able to achieve Gan's defensive function of "wide range, fast movement, and high pressing", nor can he replace Virgin's offensive ability, so he has less and less time to play.

But now, Bellman put him in the starting lineup in the second half, partnering with Gan Guoyang to form a twin tower.

"Another stupid big guy? Haven't you eaten enough ash behind my ass? Payton couldn't help but scoff when he saw the Vikings on Stanley's big center.

In the first half, he scored 12 points, 7 assists, 4 steals, and most importantly, he revitalized the Hawks' offense and made the team blossom more, which cannot be reflected in the statistics. And on defense, he put a lot of pressure on the opposing point guard, making it impossible for the Vikings to play a smooth offense.

"We're going to chase you and kick your ass right away." Although the Vikings were behind in the score, Gan Guoyang did not fall behind in his individual performance and mouth.

"Then wait and eat my stinky fart."

"Beep!" With a whistle from the referee, the second half of the game began, with the Eagles serving first.

Payton still shook his head and dribbled the ball through half court before he began directing his team's offense from the perimeter while mouthing unclean trash talk. This scene will be repeated on the basketball court for decades to come.

"Look at the little boy, pay attention to your feet, I'm talking about your feet. At what point do you think I'm going to break your ankle? I've always been a killer and a burier. Payton watched his teammates' movements while trash talk to irritate Downbrock, who was opposite him.

In high school competitions, where there is no time limit for offense, he has plenty of time to show off his eloquence on offense.

However, Dippenbrock was unmoved, and he did not surrender after suffering a double blow of mental and performance in the first half. Although he knew that with his talent, he couldn't catch up with this guy who was only in the ninth grade, but Gan Guoyang once told him, "If you give up lightly, then the game will end early." ”

"The game has just begun!" Dippenbrock cried out in his heart.

Payton took a look at the Vikings' defense and saw that it was completely different from the first half.

In the first half, the Vikings mainly relied on a 2-1-2 defensive formation, with Gan Guoyang as the defensive core, and the pressure on the outside line was very strong, which could not only break through the defense, but also make up for the shortcomings of the joint defense to a certain extent.

But the biggest drawback of this defensive formation is that the protection under the basket is not enough, and the Eagles' forward line is full of vitality, relying on Gan Guoyang to save everywhere alone, and it is completely impossible to strangle the Eagles' continuous offense.

After the readjustment of the midfield, Bellman sent Stanley and formed a twin tower with Gan Guoyang. In this way, the Vikings' defensive formation became a 2-3 combination, relying on a heavy center like Stanley to fill the interior and fend off the onslaught of the Eagles.

Seeing this, Payton knew that in the face of this kind of defense, the tactics of cutting and sliding the baseline and rushing to grab rebounds that applied in the first half would no longer work, so he felt that he could solve the problem with his own breakaway shot.

So he adjusted the pace of his footwork a little, did a change of hands dribble, and suddenly changed direction to the right, trying to burst into the inside from the right side.

At this time, Williams, who was responsible for defending the right baseline to the 45-degree area, decisively stuck to block Payton's breakthrough route.

However, his blocking made the bottom line leak out.

If the Vikings were playing a 2-1-2 defense, it would be their interior that would be the one to block Payton, so that the baseline would not leak, but the interior would be empty. Once the baseline defense is not strong, the inside line is completely exposed.

And now the Vikings have used a 2-3 joint defense, the bottom line is leaking, and the interior line has Stanley as the last line of defense.

Payton's breakthrough speed was not fast, and as soon as he was blocked, he immediately made an emergency stop and turned sideways, away from the two's bag, to observe the position of his teammates on the court.

He spotted a hole in the Vikings' baseline and immediately passed a drop ball to the small forward who cut in, by which time Stanley was already outside the three-second zone to block the opponent's impact on the basket.

The Hawks' small forward didn't force the offense after receiving the ball, after all, he was still stunned to see the 6-foot-10 Stanley standing under the basket.

Therefore, in the face of Stanley, he made a change of direction, trying to bypass Stanley and attack the basket directly from the front side.

After all, Stanley moved slowly, and even if he tried hard to follow up, he still showed a gap, and was pushed out by the opponent by half a position, and this half position was enough to make a layup.

The Hawks' small forward relied on speed and change of direction to barely break through Stanley's block, and after two big strides, he relied on Stanley to force a throw-in from the front.

However, even if Stanley was half of his body out, Stanley was tall and strong after all, and still had physical contact with him, so that the Hawks' small forward did not have enough jump height.

Just as he pushed Stanley away with all his might, ready to end the attack with a one-handed throw, "Bang! He felt a huge resistance in his hand, and he couldn't throw the ball at all. His shot is covered!

At this time, Stanley did not take off, and in this case, the jump block is likely to be fouled.

Therefore, it was not Stanley who risked the ball, but Gan Guoyang, who covered the opponent with insufficient starting height from the side and back!

Gan Guoyang's block is not only clean and foul-free, but also has just the right amount of force. He wiped the ball and pulled it off the back of his opponent's head, so that the ball landed right in front of Gan Guoyang.

After Gan Guoyang landed, he stretched out his long arm and fished the ball away in front of the Eagles who came to fight for the ball. And after getting the ball, he didn't hand it over to the point guard as usual, but shot the ball to the front court like an arrow like a bow!

This ball was just like the long pass that Gan Guoyang made against McCrowder High School in the first warm-up, and it accurately reached the small forward who had already rushed to the opponent's basket, and he scored two points with an easy layup without defense, 35:47!

The beautiful goal once again detonated the stadium, and in the cheers of the audience, a loud shout was especially loud, "Gan! Come the fuck to our football team! ”

Gan Guoyang looked up when he heard this voice, only to find that this somewhat familiar voice turned out to be Halek!

It turned out that the football match between Palo Alto High School and Skyrim High School was over, and Palo Alto, who was playing at home, easily defeated the opponent and won the invitational match.

Halek, who had already released his suspicions with Gan Guoyang, ran to the gymnasium to watch a basketball game in the middle court, only to find that the school's team was behind by a large score! But in the second half, Gan Guoyang's first pass showed the style he had shown on the rugby field, and Halek couldn't help but joke loudly, also to encourage Gan Guoyang.

Gan Guoyang looked at this guy who was dressed by himself, and found that he was still quite cute, so he shrugged his shoulders with a smile, and then continued to stay in his own half and wait for another attack from the Eagles.

Although this offense and defense are very beautiful, no matter how beautiful the goal is, it will only count two points, not three or four points. Moreover, this kind of ball can only occasionally hit the opponent by surprise, and it cannot be the main means of attack.

However, it was a good morale boost for the Vikings and a good start to the team's counter-attack in the second half, and only the Vikings knew that their new defensive tactics should be working, and the opponents had not yet discovered the secret.

A fast-break conceded goal was not a problem for the Hawks, who still held a 12-point lead, so they were unhurried to the next offense and try to pull one back.

The main weakness of the 2-3 joint defense is still in the two 45 degrees, and by moving the ball in a wide area, it can pull up a large gap at this angle. However, at that time, there were no three-point shots in high school and college games, and the perimeter shooting was not cost-effective.

In the last round, Payton felt that the opponent's 2-3 joint defense did not seem to protect the area very well, and he made a feint to let the opponent leak the bottom line.

Payton believes that on the one hand, this is the opponent's lack of training, because the area defense requires a high degree of tacit cooperation, and it is normal for a weak team like the Vikings to not practice well; On the other hand, the opponent's core defender has become Stanley, who lacks movement and can't fill the hole in time.

So Payton chose to break through from the diagonal side again, and this time he chose to break through from the left side, which is the side that Gan Guoyang is responsible for. He wants to attract Gan Guoyang's filler, so that Gan Guoyang has no way to take care of others.

But when he burst in from the left, Gan Guoyang didn't come up to block the area at all, but kept an eye on the Eagles defender who was on the baseline.

And after Payton broke through to the inside line, Stanley had already stood in front of him like a wall, and it was difficult for Payton, who was not fast, to find a gap to break through.

At this time, he can only pass the ball back to the outside, because his teammates are in the position of breaking the joint defense.

But the moment he passed the ball, he realized that the opponent's perimeter defense had turned into a man-to-man! But the ball had already been passed.

In man-to-man defense, the passer must be careful not to pass directly to the receiver's hand, but to the receiver's periphery, and then the receiver moves to the point where the ball lands, that is, there is a judgment in advance, so that the pass is not destroyed by the defender who is entangled with him.

But in the face of zone defense, there is generally no such problem, because the defender is marking the area and not the person, whoever takes the ball to my area I will defend him, otherwise what do you like. So this pass from Payton went straight to the person.

At this moment, the unsuspecting Eagles players were caught off guard by the Vikings who suddenly posted on them. Dippenbrock, who was on the right side, blocked the opposition player and jumped up in the air to intercept the pass! Another steal!

The point guard stealed, and the Vikings immediately launched a three-line fast attack, Gan Guoyang went straight to the front court from the left side of the backcourt, and rushed to the basket from the right side (changed directions, left and right also changed, this must be figured out). And the opponent has only one player who returns to defense in time, forming a three-on-one situation in the frontcourt.

In this case, the only defender could only take care of one or the other, and under the basket, Diepenbrock made a fake shot and passed the ball to Gan Guoyang. Gan Guoyang is like a tiger descending from the mountain, jumping high after receiving the ball, holding the ball with both arms and twisting backwards, and using one hand to vigorously fill the basket to complete another rapid attack!

37：47！ The Vikings chased two more points and narrowed the gap to 10 points!

The atmosphere in the stadium gradually heated up with the Vikings' two fast attacks, because the audience also saw the momentum of the Vikings at the offensive and defensive ends at the beginning of the second half, and there was a faint hope of a comeback.

"You'll never be able to figure out what's going on with our defense." Gan Guoyang returned to the backcourt, ready for the next defense, and said this after passing Payton.

Peyton's mind was indeed a little messy, he didn't expect that the Vikings were obviously using the joint defense just now, but they suddenly guarded another marker!

"Will they be able to change the defensive formation on the fly depending on the way we attack?" Payton pondered in his heart that this is a very difficult technique, and it requires a very high level of tacit understanding and tactical literacy of players, which can only be done by ordinary professional players.

In fact, Payton thought too much, according to the level of Viking players, they couldn't play such an ability at all.

Bellman's midcourt assignment for the Vikings was not a 2-3 defense at all, but a wrap-and-turn defense, while Stanley defended the basket and protected the rebounds.

Specifically, once Payton moves with the ball, the nearest player will have to trap him, and the other players will pay attention to rotation and make up for it at any time, so that people are faster than the ball.

If the Eagles run aggressively and cut into the air repeatedly, then this defensive strategy is dead. It's a pity that the Hawks misjudged and used a fixed position to break the joint defense to attack, and there was only one moving point on the court, Payton, and he was also caught by the Vikings, so it was naturally unfavorable to attack, and he was hit two counterattacks.

In this way, the Vikings relied on small tricks on the defensive end and quick counterattacks on the offensive end, and at the beginning of the second half, they caught the Hawks off guard and returned the Hawks an 8:0! The score came to 41:47, and the difference was narrowed to 6 points.

The Eagles had to call a timeout, and the coach had to make new adjustments to his team's offense.

And the Vikings can't sit still, the moves are already old, the opponent must have thought of a way to crack it, and now it's time to rearrange the tactics.

"Boys, you have to remember that defending is our fundamental and whether you're ahead or behind, as long as you don't let the opponent score, we have a chance." Bellman once again stressed the importance of defence, and then began to lay out the specific tactical arrangements for the rest of the game.

The moment of decisive battle is coming.