Chapter Seventy-Three: The Historical Process

(There may only be one shift today, and it's late.) I'm really sorry.,I've been busy lately.。 Moreover, there is a lot of information to prepare for the NCAA National Championship, so please forgive me. )

The process of the game was like Gan Guoyang's behind-the-back pass, and suddenly the peak turned around, and the attack of the entire pit bulls team seemed to open up all of a sudden.

After a complete failure in the first Princeton-style run, the Bulldogs' offense began to flow smoothly in the next offense.

It wasn't because their Princeton-esque running suddenly became proficient, but Gan Guoyang began to lead the team with his imaginative passing.

Let's not talk about the 20-yard long pass that marked xing after the successful defense, how Gan Guoyang passed freely in the positional attack, how he couldn't think of how to pass, and how difficult to pass.

For example, he received the ball at the top of the arc sideways, and before he turned around, he directly hit the ground No-look-pass and stuffed the ball directly from the top of the arc to the basket, and Williams who was inserted on the right side received the ball and made an easy layup.

For example, in a quick counterattack, he received the ball at 45 degrees, turned his back to the basket directly 20 feet away from the basket, pouted his butt and arched inward, but suddenly a pass from the back of his head, the ball went to the basket again, and was received by Matthews who went down the middle lane, and directly made a layup.

Another example is grabbing a frontcourt rebound in front of the basket, pretending to shoot with a hook hand, but suddenly taking the ball back, deceiving the outside player who came forward to attack, and directing the ball to the outside, and Stockton hit it from the perimeter.

Was this Bellman's tactic? No, Bellman has never taught Gan Guoyang to pass the ball like this, and Bellman has never been an offensive coach.

Both of his teams started defensively, playing slow-paced, low-frequency offense, with occasional fast breaks, and a heavy reliance on the interior.

After arriving at Gonzaga, I don't know where to steal some offensive tricks, it seems that the learning is still a scrap, fortunately with Stockton, the underestimated commander, Gonzaga's attack is barely passable.

After getting Gan Guoyang, Bellman has always hoped to train him into an all-round center forward who can both attack and defend and pass well.

Gan Guoyang's defense and scoring are no problem, but his passing has always been a six-vein sword, and there is no time, when it is good, it is amazing, and when it is bad, he is often caught and cannot score the ball.

Therefore, during the one-year training, Bellman deliberately asked Gan Guoyang to strengthen the practice of basic passing skills, and let him shoot less and pass more in the confrontation and warm-up games.

For this reason, he often explains Princeton's tactics to Gan Guoyang, and analyzes some details and keys in this tactic with him, because the center is the most important part of this tactical system.

But Bellman's own learning is all scraps, and he often messes up in team drills, and is prevented by his own defensive system, and he really doesn't know whether to be happy or sad.

Under these circumstances, how could Gan Guoyang really understand Princeton's jīng marrow? How is it possible to complete the important task of being the core axis of this tactical system?

So after only one such tactic, Gan Guoyang felt that the ball could not be played like this, and his teammates were also very unsuitable for this kind of tactic that needed to be honed for a long time.

Then he doesn't care, anyway, Bellman has always been more lenient with Gan Guoyang, as long as he doesn't give a death order, he can watch what to do on the field.

So there are those ethereal and unbelievable passes.

Although some passes inevitably lead to mistakes, once successful, the defender can easily form a sense of powerlessness, and "how the fuck is this defense" is the voice of many defenders when facing this kind of pass.

The attacker is easy to play more and more easily, thinking "this can be passed too", so they let go of their courage one by one, how to look good, how difficult to pass.

The heavy, calm and down-to-earth bulldog team that was originally built by Bellman has suddenly become a handsome "Pegasus team" where everyone can pass the ball and everyone loves to pass the ball.

The Clayton Jays seemed to have become unable to play all of a sudden, and the entire team's originally tight and active defense was shattered by the opponent's sudden opening of the pass, and the momentum in the attack was also bruised at once, and several mistakes completely buried their hope of chasing points.

The Bulldogs are playing more and more smoothly, and even if their passing is no longer as unbelievable as ever, the established advantage ensures that they play more and more relaxed, and their shooting percentage is getting higher and higher.

That's it, an inexplicable game, because of two inexplicable dunks, as well as an inexplicable pass in the second half, through an inexplicable process, there was an inexplicable result.

Gonzaga Bulldogs beat Clayton Jays by 18 points, 67-49, on the road, and they provided 23 assists in the game, which means that more than half of the points were scored through cooperation.

Normally the number is 16.

Gan Guoyang scored only 13 points in the game, scored 19 rebounds as always, and sent 9 blocks in a big explosion, and more surprisingly, he also had 7 assists.

In the past, his average assists per game generally remained around 3, and it depends on whether his long-distance passes cause direct scoring, otherwise it is just a beautiful pass.

Of course, the Bulldogs' mistakes also reached a staggering 15 in the second half, and fortunately, the Blue Jays were not far behind, reaching 11.

According to Bellman's team building ideas, slow pace, low turnovers, and strong inside play are the basic ideas they have always adhered to, and the resulting low assists and low scores are inevitable.

This game completely fell one by one, the bulldog did not have the slightest appearance of a bulldog, and Gan Guoyang also made people feel that it was not him.

It wasn't until the Bulldogs left Clayton University in a bus and then left Omaha on a plane that the whole team felt confused along the way.

Bellman, in particular, didn't know how he won the game, and he didn't do anything after the game.

For Gan Guoyang, until many years later, when he recalled this expedition, he felt a little strange in his heart, and he did not feel excited at all.

He never knew who had arranged the game. Although Falke has great powers, he is not rich enough to arrange a basketball game and include food, accommodation and airfare.

In fact, after that game, Buffett and Strasser left to negotiate an investment business at Buffett's old home in Omaha.

Falck did not arrange a meeting between Gan Guoyang and Strasser, after all, Gan Guoyang is still studying, and letting him get into business too early is not conducive to his growth on the court.

Whether Gan Guoyang can bring hope to Nike is inseparable from his performance on the basketball court. This kind of truth that cannot be "boosted by seedlings" is understood by both Strasser and Falck.

At the end of this unforgettable trip to the Midlands, the pit bulls can finally return to Spokane, Washington, their old nest.

Here they will be challenged by teams from the Ten Collegiate League, the Big Sky League and the East Sports League – after Christmas.

For the Gonzaga Bulldog, who has been adrift for 4 games on the road, it feels good to be home. And they came back home with a 4-0 record and a wonderful Christmas.

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Time is so silent, the clock of history has stepped into 1984. On this New Year's Eve, Gan Guoyang put almost all of his jīng power on basketball, and the only thing that could be allocated was to accompany Wang Fuxi at Christmas time and spend a warm Christmas with her in the cold Spokane.

"Forrest Gump, do you still like me?"

"Huh? Why do you ask? ”

"I always feel like you only have basketball in your heart, and we haven't had a good talk together for a long time."

"Really... A little bit... But I can't marry basketball for the rest of my life, right? ”

"Hey~ I see that you are ready to live with basketball for the rest of your life, and then let basketball give you a volleyball."

"yes, so I can marry my family's volleyball to tennis, and then have a table tennis!"

"You're such a! You just don't like me anyway! ”

"Fuxi, I ......"

Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi walked hand in hand in the snowflakes on Christmas Eve on the snow-covered campus. Gan Guoyang listened to what Wang Fuxi said, and he also felt a little guilty in his heart.

Other people are always inseparable in love, and her boyfriend is also very caring for his girlfriend, but he is busy with competitions and training, and he can't even spare time to talk well with Wang Fuxi.

At this time, he wanted to tell Wang Fuxi his secret, saying that he was from the future, and telling her that in this time and space that did not belong to him, he was afraid that one day he would suddenly wake up and find that it was just a dream.

He is still Dang Lei, still in the school dormitory, and still has congenital heart disease and can't play basketball.

Here, only basketball can calm him and make him addicted, and in addition, only Wang Fuxi is his most exciting belonging.

But Gan Guoyang couldn't say it, he didn't know what to say, and he also knew that Wang Fuxi wouldn't believe it if he said it.

But Wang Fuxi did not ask Gan Guoyang what he wanted to say, but hugged Gan Guoyang gently.

"Forrest Gump, I'm a little cold."

"I'm also a little cold, so let's just hold it."

The two figures embraced each other in the snowfall at night, and in this time and space that did not belong to Gan Guoyang, he found a piece of sustenance.

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When January 1984 arrived, basketball competitions at universities around the world were in a heated contest to fight for the spot in March.

In the all-time 1983-1984 Ncaa season, Gunzaga University ultimately failed to make it to the NCAA Nationals, finishing fourth in the league with an overall record of 18-10 and a 6-6 record in the West Coast Conference.

With the exception of the top-ranked University of San Diego that made it to the NCAA National Championship, none of the other teams qualified.

Moreover, the University of San Diego also had to participate in the qualifiers because of its record, and was eliminated in the qualifiers, and did not enter the top 48 in the United States at all.

Now, the addition of Gan Guoyang is about to change the course of history, and the 1983-1984 NCAA season will have some variables because of his arrival.

The first thing they need to do is to win the West Coast Conference and qualify straight into the round of 48 with excellent results, rather than having to play a qualifier game.

After the baptism of the away game, the bulldogs who returned to the home stadium can be said to be full of fighting spirit, and the four teams that came to challenge the University of Oregon, the University of Montana, Washington State University and Robert Morris University were all cut down by the bulldogs.

In the game, Gan Guoyang once again resumed his killing weapon, did not do any dunking, passing, and focused on scoring and killing the inside line in the offense, averaging 30 points per game in four games, including 40 points in one fell swoop against Washington State, leading Gonzaga Bulldogs to remain undefeated in the first eight games.

And there are four more invitational tournaments in the next place, which are basically home and away games with previous opponents, and the Run-in is getting better and better, and there is no team in the entire northwest coast region that can stop the wreak havoc of this bulldog.

Gunzaga University have been playing against teams from other leagues throughout January, winning all 12 games and averaging 10 points per game to head into February's West Coast Conference Championship.

The West Coast League is really a small league that is not well known among the more than 30 first-tier leagues of the Ncaa in the United States, and if Gan Guoyang had not come to this time and space, no league in history would have entered the Final-Four, let alone the championship.

Their best result would be a run to the round of 32 set by Universidad Gonzaga in 2005, where they lost to Texas in a 32-16 win with Adam Morris at the heart of Gunzaga's team.

Now it's different, Gan Guoyang has changed the fate of Palo Alto High School, but the results of the state high school league are indeed a little insignificant, while the history of the NCAA is deeply influential.

Changing history starts with changing the West Coast Alliance.

The West Coast Conference Championship is a home-and-away double round-robin match between seven teams within the West Coast Conference, with each team playing 12 matches.

The results of these 12 races will be combined with the results of the previous 12 invitational tournaments to form a regular-season-champ winner, who will automatically enter the NCAA Nationals.

But if this regular season championship record is mediocre, then the team needs to play a qualifier game to have a chance of reaching the national round of 48.

If the team's record is particularly good, then it will not only be able to enter the top 48 of the country, but will also become a seeded team and get a first-round bye, which is equivalent to directly entering the top 32.

The round of 32, this is the best result that Gonzaga University can achieve, if you can enter the round of 32 without playing a single knockout game, how can you not make Gunzaga's players excited?

So, in the 12 West Coast Conference tournaments, Gunzaga University almost did their best, and won all the games with the wind sweeping the leaves!

That made Universidad Gonzaga undefeated throughout the regular season!

There have been 12 unbeaten seasons in the history of the NCAA, including four in 1963-64, 1966-67, 1971-72 and 1972-73.

Since Indiana University in the 1975-1976 season, there has never been an undefeated team in the entire history of the NCAA.

Of course, these undefeated teams all went on to win the NCAA championship, and going unbeaten in the regular season is just one small step.

Now, Universidad Gonzaga will have a chance to record their thirteenth unbeaten run.

However, they still haven't caught the nation's attention, as an unbeaten regular season in this part of the Northwest Coast is no big deal, with only one or two losses in the history of the West Coast Conference and many teams unbeaten in the league's championships.

So, when the confident Gonzaga team members saw the NCAA national schedule, they were dumbfounded.

"Damn, why aren't we in the top 32? Still want to play the first-round? Gan Guoyang thought that the team would directly enter the top 32 and had a bye in the first round.

"Because the West Coast League is too weak to get into the eyes of the NCAA organizing committee, let's prepare for the first round." Bellman explained.

"So who are we going to fight in the first round?"

"I don't know, the results of the qualifiers haven't come out yet...... Let me think about it, it's... is the winner of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Princeton University. ”

"Princeton?"