Chapter 73 Historical Process
(It may be only one update today, and it’s too late. I’m sorry, I’ve been busy lately. And there’s a lot of information to prepare for the NCAA national competition, please forgive me.)
The game was just like Gan Guoyang's pass behind the ball. Suddenly, the rounds of the rounds turned around, and the entire Bulldogs' offense seemed to have been opened up all at once.
After a complete failure of Princeton-style running in the first offense, the entire Bulldogs' offense began to smoothly in the following offense.
It was not because they suddenly became proficient in Princeton-style running, but because Gan Guoyang began to use his wild passes to drive the entire team.
Let’s not talk about the iconic 20-yard long pass after successful defense, how to pass Gan Guoyang in the position attack, how to pass it, how to pass it on, how to pass it on with high difficulty.
For example, he received the ball from the top of the arc, and before he could turn around, he directly hit the ground No-look-pass and stuffed the ball directly from the top of the arc to the basket. Williams, who was inserted on the right, easily made a layup.
For example, in a quick counterattack, he received the ball at 45 degrees, and directly turned to the basket 20 feet away from the basket, and arched his butt inward. But suddenly he passed the ball behind his head, and the ball came to the basket again, and was received by Matthews, who was walking down from the middle, and he made a layup directly.
For example, he grabbed the frontcourt rebound from the basket and pretended to hook the shot, but suddenly took the ball back, tricked the outside player who came forward to attack, and led the ball to the outside line, and Stockton fired a cannon from the outside.
Is this Bellman's tactic? No, Bellman has never taught Gan Guoyang to pass like this, and Bellman has never been an excellent offensive coach.
Both teams under his rule started with defense, playing slow-paced and low-frequency offenses, occasionally having some fast attacks, and relying heavily on the inside.
After arriving at Gonzaga, I didn't know where to learn some offensive tricks. It seemed that I had learned all the remaining books. Fortunately, with Stockton, the underestimated commander, Gonzaga's attack was barely acceptable.
After getting Gan Guoyang, Bellman has always hoped to train him to be an all-around center with both offense and defense, and excellent passes and shooting.
Gan Guoyang's defense and scoring are fine, but his passes are always the Six-Meridian Divine Sword. There are no moments when it is good. When it is bad, people are often double-teamed and unable to get the ball.
Therefore, during a year of training, Bellman specially asked Gan Guoyang to strengthen his basic skills in passing, and allowed him to shoot less and pass more in the confrontation and warm-up matches.
For this reason, he often explained Princeton's tactics to Gan Guoyang, and analyzed some details and keys in this tactic with him, because the center is the most important part of this tactical system.
But Bellman himself learned all the sub-books, and he often messed up in the team's drills. He was designed by his own defensive system to prevent it from being so sad. He really didn't know whether he should be happy or sad.
In this case, how could Gan Guoyang truly understand the essence of Princeton? How could he complete the important task of doing the core axis of this tactical system?
So after only one such tactic was carried out, Gan Guoyang felt that the ball could not be played like this, and his teammates were not used to this tactic that required long-term training.
Then he doesn't care. Anyway, Bellman has always been relatively relaxed against Gan Guoyang. As long as he does not give a death order, he can do whatever he should do on the field.
So there were those elegant and incredible passes.
Although some passes are inevitably made mistakes, once successful, the defense can easily develop a sense of powerlessness. "How to defend this fucking" is the voice of many defensive players when facing such passes.
The attacking side is prone to fight more and more easily, thinking that "this can be passed on even the same thing", so they all let go of their courage to come and pass on as they look good and at high difficulty.
The heavy, calm and down-to-earth Bulldogs that were originally created by Bellman suddenly became a handsome "Tianma Team" where everyone can pass the ball and everyone loves to pass the ball.
The Creton Blue Crows seemed to have become unable to play. The entire team's strict and active defense was broken by the opponent's sudden passing, and the momentum in the offense was also damaged. Several mistakes completely ruined their hope of chasing points.
The Bulldogs played smoothly. Even though their passes were not as incredible as ever, the advantages they had established ensured that they would relax and their shooting percentage would be higher and higher.
In this way, a mysterious game, due to two inexplicable dunks and inexplicable passes in the second half, through an inexplicable process, there was an inexplicable result.
The Gonzaga Bulldogs defeated the Creton Blue Crows with a 67:49 and 18 points away. They gave 23 assists in the whole game, which means that more than half of the scores were obtained through cooperation.
Usually this number is 16.
Gan Guoyang scored only 13 points in the whole game, scored 19 rebounds as consistently, and sent out 9 blocks. What is even more surprising is that he has 7 assists.
In the past, his average assists per game was generally maintained at around 3, and it depends on whether his long-distance pass caused direct scores, otherwise it would be just a beautiful pass.
Of course, the Bulldogs' mistakes also reached an astonishing 15 in the second half. Fortunately, the Blue Crow's mistakes were no less than 11.
According to Bellman's team building idea, slow pace, low turnover, and strong inside shots are the basic ideas they have always adhered to, and the resulting low assists and low scores are inevitable.
There were completely lost every game in this game, and the Bulldogs didn't look like a Bulldog, and Gan Guoyang's fight made people feel that it was not him.
Until the Bulldogs left Creton University on a bus and then left Omaha on a plane, the whole team felt confused along the way.
Especially Bellman, he didn't know how he won the game, and he didn't do the post-match summary.
For Gan Guoyang, he felt a little strange when he recalled this expedition many years later, and he didn't feel excited at all.
He didn't know who arranged this game from beginning to end. Although Falke was powerful, he was not as rich as being able to arrange a basketball game, and he also included food, accommodation and air tickets.
In fact, after that game, Buffett and Strathor left and went to Omaha to negotiate investment business in Buffett's old house.
Falke did not arrange a meeting between Gan Guoyang and Strathor. After all, Gan Guoyang is still studying now, so it is not conducive to his growth on the court to get him in contact with business too early.
The reason why Gan Guoyang Energy’s failure to bring hope to Nike is closely related to his performance on the basketball court. Strathor and Falke both understand this principle of not being able to “sweep and encourage growth”.
After finishing this memorable journey to the Middle, Bulldogs can finally return to Spokane, Washington, for their old lair.
Here they will face challenges from the Ten School League, Big Sky League and Eastern Sports League teams - after Christmas.
For the Gonzaga Bulldogs who have been wandering away for 4 games, it feels great to go home. And they returned to their home court with a record of 4 wins and 0 losses and have a wonderful Christmas.
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Time is so silent, and the clock of history entered 1984. On this New Year's Eve, Gan Guoyang devoted almost all his energy to basketball. The only thing he could allocate was to accompany Wang Fuxi on Christmas and spend a warm Christmas with her in the cold Spokane.
"Forrest Gump, do you still like me?"
"Hmm? Why do you ask that?"
"I always feel like you only have basketball in your heart. We haven't been together for a long time and talked well."
"Is that right... there's one thing... but I can't marry basketball for the rest of my life?"
"Hehe~ I think you are planning to spend your whole life with basketball, and then let basketball give you a volleyball."
"Yes, so I can get my volleyball team to marry tennis and then have a table tennis!"
"You can really talk nonsense! You just don't like me anyway!"
"Fuxi, I..."
Gan Guoyang and Wang Fuxi walked hand in hand in the snow-covered campus covered with snow in the snow on Christmas Eve. Gan Guoyang felt a little guilty when he heard what Wang Fuxi said.
Others are always inseparable from love, and their boyfriends are very caring about their girlfriends, but he is busy with competitions and training, and he can't even get the time to talk well with Wang Fuxi.
At this time, he wanted to tell Wang Fuxi his secret, saying that he came from the future, and told her that in this time and space that did not belong to him, he was afraid that one day he would wake up and realize that it was just a dream.
He is still Dang Lei, and he is still in the school dormitory and still has congenital heart disease and cannot play basketball.
Here, only basketball can calm him down and indulge him. In addition, only Wang Fuxi is his most touching belonging.
But Gan Guoyang couldn't say it. He didn't know what to say, and he knew that Wang Fuxi wouldn't believe it.
However, 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 a little cold, let's just hold it like this."
The two figures hugged each other in the flying snow at night. In this time and space that did not belong to Gan Guoyang, he found another sustenance.
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With January 1984, basketball games at universities in various places have entered a fierce competition, and they are all working hard for the place in March.
In the 1983-1984 NCAA season in history, Gonzaga University ultimately failed to enter the NCAA National Championship. They ranked fourth in the league with a total score of 18 wins and 10 losses and a record of 6 wins and 6 losses in the West Coast League.
Except for the University of San Diego, which ranked first, who entered the NCAA national competition, no other teams were eligible for the selection.
Moreover, the University of San Diego also participated in the perimeter competition due to its record, and was eliminated in the perimeter competition and did not enter the top 48 in the United States at all.
Now, Gan Guoyang's joining will soon change the course of history, and the NCAA in the 1983-1984 season will have some variables due to his arrival.
The first thing they have to do is win the West Coast League championship and be able to directly enter the quarterfinals with excellent results, rather than playing an outside game.
After going away baptism and returning to home, the Bulldogs can be said to be full of energy and fighting spirit. The four teams that came to challenge the University of Oregon, University of Montana, Washington State University and Robert Morris University were all beaten down by the Bulldogs.
During the game, Gan Guoyang regained his true nature in killing weapons, not dunking, passing, and focusing on scoring and killing the inside in the offense. He averaged 30 points per game in four games. Among them, he scored 40 points in one fell swoop, leading the Gonzaga Bulldogs to remain unbeaten in the first eight games.
There are four invitational games next, basically playing home and away games with previous opponents. The better and better Gonzaga University plays smoothly. There is no team in the entire northwest coast area that can stop the bulldog from raging.
Throughout January, Gonzaga University played against other league teams, maintaining a full win in twelve games and averaging 10 points per game to meet the West Coast League Championship in February with a record of 12-0.
The West Coast League is really an unknown minor league in the more than 30 first-level leagues in the US NCAA. If Gan Guoyang had not come to this time and space, no one of the leagues in history had entered Final-Four, let alone the championship.
Their best result will be the top 32 that Gonzaga created in 2005. They lost to Texas in the 32-16 game, when Gonzaga's core player was Adam Morris.
It's different now. Gan Guoyang has changed the fate of Palo Alto High School, but the results of the state high school league are indeed a bit unimpressive, while the history of the NCAA has a profound impact.
To change history, start with changing the West Coast Alliance.
The West Coast League Championship is a home and away double round-robin match played by seven teams in the West Coast League, with each team having 12 games.
In the end, the results of these 12 games will be summarized with the results of the previous 12 invitational games, and a regular-season-champ (regular season champion) will be listed, and the champion will automatically enter the NCAA national competition.
But if the regular season champion's record is average, the team still needs to play an outside game and get the chance to enter the top 48 in the country.
If the team has a particularly good record, it will not only be able to enter the top 48 in the country, but also become a seed team and receive the treatment of a first round bye, which is equivalent to entering the top 32 directly.
The top 32 is the best result that Gonzaga University can achieve. If you can enter the top 32 without playing in a knockout match, how can you not make Gonzaga's players excited?
Therefore, in the 12 West Coast League Championships, Gonzaga University almost tried its best and achieved a complete victory with a strong wind sweeping away the fallen leaves!
This made Gonzaga University unbeaten in the entire regular season!
In the history of NCAA, there are twelve seasons that teams have been unbeaten throughout the season, including UCLA, 4, namely the 1963-64 season, 1966-67, 1971-72 season and 1972-73 season.
Since Indiana University in the 1975-1976 season, there has never been an unbeaten team in the entire NCAA history.
Of course, these unbeaten teams eventually won the NCAA championship, and staying unbeaten in the regular season was just a small step.
Now, Gonzaga University will have the opportunity to set the thirteenth unbeaten record.
However, they still did not attract the attention of the whole United States, because in the Northwest Coast region, unbeaten in the regular season is not a great achievement. The West Coast League has only lost one or two games in history, and there are also many teams that remain unbeaten in the league championships.
So, when the confident Gonzaga players saw the NCAA national competition schedule, they were stunned.
"Damn, why are we not the top 32? We still have to play First-round?" Gan Guoyangman thought the team would go directly to the top 32 and be bye in the first round.
"Because the West Coast League is too weak and cannot get into the NCAA organizing committee's legal eye, we should prepare to play the first round of the game," explained Bellman.
"Who will we fight in the first round?"
"I don't know, the results of the perimeter race have not come out yet... Let me think about it, is... the winner of the University of Las Vegas and Princeton University in Nevada."
Chapter completed!