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For the first time, Gan Guoyang felt that there was still such a painful time to play basketball.

In the past three years, as long as he stands on the basketball court and touches the basketball in his hand, he can feel a sense of happiness and fulfillment. Playing basketball is the happiest thing for him.

Even in intense and cruel games, he can enjoy the fun that basketball brings him.

In the game against the Texas El Paso Miners, although both sides scored very low, and mistakes and irons filled the whole game, Gan Guoyang was still able to find the excitement and excitement brought to him by basketball in excellent defense and a large number of blocks.

However, after just 5 minutes of the game against Georgetown, Gan Guoyang wanted to pass the ball out after getting it.

Because Georgetown's attack was too active and fierce.

In previous games, Gan Guoyang was often hit by a pincer, but he could always divide the ball out in time to create good opportunities for his teammates; or sometimes he simply hit the ball directly with one against two.

However, facing Georgetown, Gan Guoyang was confident of dealing with Ewing alone, but the continuous harassment and double-teaming of other opponents' players made Gan Guoyang unhappy.

He can't even dribble the ball and adjust his pace. The moment he gets the ball, he will be robbed by the opponent's defender or from the front.

Quick transfers and passes are not Gan Guoyang's strengths, and other players lack personal abilities. Even if he passes the ball to other players, the Georgetown defense line, which is easy to stretch and retract, can always fill in the loopholes in a timely manner and will not give Gonzaga a chance.

This is almost the highest level of defense in college basketball, making people-to-man defense have a joint defense effect, and making joint defense feel like people-to-man defense.

Therefore, in the five minutes of the game, Gonzaga struggled extremely hard, their most reliable scoring points were taken seriously, while their backcourt engine Stockton was a clever man who couldn't find anyone to cooperate with him.

He also tried to play pick-and-roll with Gan Guoyang, but Georgetown was extremely strict in the pick-and-roll defense. Ewing's outstanding mobility and huge deterrent force in the inside made Stockton's incisive effect poor.

Gan Guoyang, who lost his stable ability to shoot in the mid-range shot due to weight gain, could not be raised after pick-and-roll, and the offensive threat was greatly reduced, which also reduced the power of the pick-and-roll.

So many times, Stockton has to complete the final blow.

When a team needs their point guard to complete the offensive task, there must be something wrong with the team's offense.

In addition to Gan Guoyang's layup, Gonzaga scored 2 points at the beginning, relying solely on Stockton's two mid-range shots, the other players did not score a single point, and the team only scored 6 points in the 5 minutes of the game.

On the other hand, Georgetown was not having a good time, and they were also trapped in the quagmire on the offensive end.

As a traditional college team, Georgetown University first emphasizes the collective. Therefore, Ewing is not like Gan Guoyang. Although he is the core of the team, his scoring tasks on his shoulders are not as heavy as Gan Guoyang, and his number of goals at low posts is not as many as Gan Guoyang.

Other Georgetown players can contribute points to the team, they play collective offense, although their collective offense is not good under Gonzaga's defense.

Gonzaga's defense is different from Georgetown. They do not perform double-teams except for people-to-peer, because Georgetown's transfer balls and personal abilities are stronger than Gonza. Once the double-team leaks the open space, they basically lose points.

The strategy they adopt is to make breakthroughs and not shoot. All peripheral players adopt close-fits-all defense. You can do it if you want to break through, but if you want to shoot, the defender will not make you feel comfortable.

The reason why Bellman adopted this strategy was, on the one hand, to make up for the team's individual defensive ability and let them do their best to defend themselves from shooting. If they are defending two steps away, they will probably not be able to defend themselves from shooting. On the other hand, relying on the strong ability of Gan Guoyang to make up for defense in the interior, any player who dares to break into the interior will face Gan Guoyang's huge palm.

Gan Guoyang has an advantage when defending, which is that he does not take any shaking and has a very high recognition rate of fake moves, which makes it almost impossible for players who break through to avoid Gan Guoyang's interference, either being slapped or unable to make a shot.

Even if he chooses to pass the ball, because Gonzaga pursues a strategy of not double-teaming, the breakthrough player has almost no way to pass the ball to the open players.

After trying many breakthroughs and being blocked by Gan Guoyang with three big hats, Georgetown could only use mid-range jump shots and pick-and-roll shots to solve the problem.

Under the close defense of Gonzaga players, it is as difficult to shoot, and forced jump shots are not the strength of college players.

In this way, although Gonzaga University only scored 6 points, Georgetown only scored 8 points.

At 5 minutes and 25 seconds of the game, Georgetown coach Thompson called for the first long timeout, and the team's offense obviously could not satisfy him.

And Gonzaga University also has the opportunity to make adjustments.

"Our defense is very good, but on the offense, we give too little support to the inside! We play too hard and have almost no vitality. We must increase your offensiveness so that our opponents dare not double-team the inside!" Bellman shouted loudly.

At the Great Western Forum Arena, the noisy noise forced the coaches to yell with the maximum decibel voice.

"At the same time, effective cooperation between the outside and Stockton must be made to give full play to your shooting ability, and the point guard cannot take on too many offensive tasks!"

Bellman has discovered that the biggest problem for the team in offense is that the core players and other players are separated, and the two core players have no contact with each other, which makes the entire team's offense a mess.

"Gan, how do you feel?" After setting up the tactics, Bellman looked at Gan Guoyang who was sweating profusely and asked.

"No problem, believe me." Gan Guoyang said confidently, but he knew in his heart how tired he was in the fight in the past 5 minutes.

On the offensive end, he was constantly double-teamed by his opponents, and on the defensive end, he had to face the impact of the entire Georgetown. More importantly, he had to fight Ewing all the time. The 5-minute game had already soaked his jersey.

But he knew that he could not rest or relax. As long as he relaxed one after another, Georgetown would make efforts to make the situation unbalanced.

"Come on, you have never let me down." Bellman patted Gan Guoyang on the shoulder and said to him.

After the suspension, Gan Guoyang threw away the towel draped over his head and stood on the stadium with lights again. Looking at the audience seats full of fans, he couldn't help but be a little dazzling.

Georgetown continued to attack, and neither side's on-court lineup was adjusted.

On the defensive end, Bellman did not adjust his strategy and continued to let the players defend closely, make sudden moves and make a move, allowing Gan Guoyang to take the inside.

But Thompson is very scheming. He did not use any special offensive tactics. He used a very simple strategy to break Bellman's defensive arrangement.

That is a low-level single.

However, Thompson did not let Ewing play Gan Guoyang at a low post. He had already seen that Gan Guoyang is Gonzaga's strong defense point, and using Ewing to play this strong point will only result with twice the result.

He chose to use the team's shooting guard David Wingate and small forward Reggie Williams to get the ball at low posts, singles to the opposing shooting guard and small forward.

In the 1980s, when three-pointers were not widely used, low-post singles were a compulsory course for every player, so in the 1980s, many forward and guard players under two meters tall were singles experts.

Like James Worthy, Adrian Dantley is a huge threat at the low post.

Thompson seized the two height disadvantages of Gonzaga's small forward and shooting guard, the loopholes of personal lack of personal ability, and arranged for the forward and guard players to play singles.

At the same time, Ewing pulled up to a high position to cover other players, and the most important thing was to lead Gan Guoyang out of the three-second zone.

Since Ewing had a very good mid-range jump shot, Gan Guoyang had to follow the defense to the outside and handed over the three-second zone to Anderson.

In this case, Williams easily reached the position at the low post on the right. Claremont, who was defending him, was obviously at a loss in height and strength, and could not resist Williams at all.

Williams scored two points with a beautiful rollover low hand layup, and Anderson failed to make up for defense and did not interfere with the layup.

"Fuck! It's bad now." When Bellman, who was on the sidelines, he thought to himself that something was wrong when he saw Georgetown's tactics. He knew that the team's biggest weakness had been discovered by his opponent.

Bellman's previous idea was very clear, which was to use Gan Guoyang's super defensive ability to wipe their butts through defensive migration, to achieve a complementary effect.

Now, Thompson's simple tactic has exposed the disadvantages of Gonzaga's outside line, while Gan Guoyang is beyond the reach.

The anxious Bellman could only squat on the sidelines, observing the situation on the field, racking his brains to find a response strategy.

At this time, Gonzaga finally made some changes in the offense.

Gan Guoyang no longer sinks to the low level, but mentions the high level to provide cover for Stockton.

In the previous pick-and-roll, Gan Guoyang chose to go down, but the inward cut channel was blocked by Ewing, and Stockton's ball could not be passed.

This time, after the two blocked, Gan Guoyang chose to pull out 45 degrees to the right. Because the quality of the cover was very high this time, Stockton cut very smoothly, and Jackson, who was defending him, could not keep up.

Ewing had to follow Stockton to make up for defense, otherwise Stockton would make a layup directly, so Gan Guoyang would be vacant.

Stockton decisively passed the ball and passed it to Gan Guoyang, but Gan Guoyang's current mid-range shot is not stable. Although the shooting opportunity is very good, he is not sure.

And this is not the tactical end point arranged by Bellman. Just as Stockton cut into the inside, Matthews also started from the top of the arc and went straight to the bottom line along the diagonal cut.

He happened to bypass Gan Guoyang and used Gan Guoyang's body to provide an unball cover, and obtained a space at the bottom line zero angle.

So, after getting the ball and providing a cover for Matthews, Gan Guoyang handed over the ball to Matthews, and Matthews took a mid-range shot from the bottom line!

"Bang!" The opportunity was very good, but the ball was not scored, and the rebound was easily won by Ewing, who followed the basket.

"It's okay, the opportunity has come out, defend well!" Gan Guoyang comforted Matthews, who missed the shot, and immediately ran back to the backcourt to defend.

Matthews' shooting has always been relatively stable, and he is also a very important scoring point for the team, but in this game, he feels different from playing against other teams.

He also wanted to provide strong support for Gan Guoyang and Stockton, so he kept running and cutting, but Wingate, who was facing him, was stronger than him in speed, height and strength, and his defensive skills were extremely solid, so he couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard he was.

Not only can't get rid of it, Wingate can also devote his energy to interfering with the double-teaming Gan Guoyang, which means that he doesn't need to do his best when defending Matthews.

Matthews is not making any open shots now, which further damages his confidence.

This is the case with pitchers. You must have confidence. Even if you don’t score the first nine shots, you must shoot the ball with confidence to score the tenth goal.

Once you lose confidence, even if you are as broad as the sea, you will shoot a shot that you will always make.

On the defensive end, Matthews' confidence was further hit.

Georgetown re-used his old trick, and this time it was replaced by Wingate, who played Matthews with the ball on the right waist position.

As Georgetown University's No. 2 scorer, Wingate is very skilled in all kinds of skills. His position is as fierce as an inside player. His dribbling rhythm after receiving the ball is quite good, and his sudden turn is also very fast.

Matthews had almost no choice but to watch Wingate turn over and jump shot on his head and fill out two more points for Georgetown. After the timeout, Georgetown had already scored 4 points in a row, and the scoring method was extremely easy and simple.

"Play your energy, don't be afraid of your opponent, be confident." Stockton said with his defender while dribbling through the half.

Matthews looked obviously a little disgusted, and after hearing Stockton's words, he nodded slightly, and didn't know if he could regain his confidence.

However, Gan Guoyang knew that he had to score points at this time, and they had not scored in several rounds.

Gan Guoyang pretended to mention the high position and continue to cover the outside line, but he and Stockton winked. Stockton understood it and did not carry out a pick-and-roll with Gan Guoyang.

While Gan Guoyang was holding Ewing's clothes with his hands, he observed the position of the opponent's players in the three-second zone; and Ewing was also following Gan Guoyang, with small movements in his hands constantly.

At this time, Gan Guoyang suddenly grabbed a gap and rushed into the three-second zone with one step. He directly stuck the ball in the front of the basket, blocking Ewing behind him.

This is a fleeting opportunity. Once there is a slight delay, Gan Guoyang will be three seconds, and Ewing behind him is desperately pushing him out.

Stockton was prepared for it and without hesitation, he passed the ball straight and sent it to Gan Guoyang.

With such a close to the basket and a front position, Gan Guoyang certainly would not give up such a good opportunity. He pressed Ewing and turned around and forced his left hand to lay up!

Ewing was suppressed and unable to take off, and the players who made up for defense failed to follow up in time, Gan Guoyang successfully made a layup.

However, due to excessive force and full force of defense, Gan Guoyang successfully fell to the ground again with a layup. This was the second time he fell to the floor.

The teammates didn't have time to help Gan Guoyang because Ewing did not make a foul, and Georgetown had already served quickly and launched a quick counterattack.

By the time Gan Guoyang rolled and crawled up from the ground, Georgetown's ball had passed half. He didn't care whether he was injured or not, so he hurried to the backcourt to return to defense.

However, when he just passed half the game, he found that he had to go back.

Georgetown, who was four-on-five in the frontcourt, passed the ball to Ewing, who cut in the middle. Ewing faced the three-second zone without Gan Guoyang, took off and jumped directly with one hand and dunked angrily!

"Yeah!" After the dunk, Ewing roared like King Kong, and the entire Western Conference Forum was excited because of this dunk.
Chapter completed!