Gan Guoyang had no longing for UCLA in the past, and he had no regrets about not being able to go there.
Although there is a glorious history here, what does it have to do with him?
Inheriting this history will not make him play better.
The longer he stays on the court, the more he sees and experiences, the less superstitious Gan Guoyang is about the glory of history.
Time will cast a layer of blurred gray on history, and memory will filter out the bad parts and retain the essence, making it look hazy and beautiful.
And all this is deceptive.
Gan Guoyang only believes that everything depends on human effort, lives in the present, and takes every step in front of him in a down-to-earth manner. The past and the future are not in his consideration.
After the timeout, Gan Guoyang wiped his sweat and reappeared. At this time, no Los Angeles fans were shouting at him anymore.
From this point of view, Los Angeles fans are pretty good and know how to shut up when they get beaten.
Farmar did not give up his double-tower inside line, but Gan Guoyang reappeared and stared at Gray alone.
Gray is huge, and Gan Guoyang flexibly used his mid-range and face-to-the-basket hooks to put Gray in a dilemma.
As long as Wright comes to help defend, Gan Guoyang will temporarily pass the ball to avoid it. And once Gan Guoyang catches the ball in an outside position, the double team will have no effect, and the weak side and the basket will be completely empty.
Gan Guoyang's flexible inside play was not suitable for college teams in the 1980s, because they had not played this way since they were young, their coaches had not taught them this way, and they did not know how to defend.
In the second half, Farmar finally decided not to use the twin towers and use an ordinary-sized power forward to replace Gray and let Wright defend Gan Guoyang.
It's just that in the first half, Gan Guoyang's offensive feeling was brought out. His hands were so hot that he could no longer stop him.
"John, give me the ball more, don't care where I am."
"Hold on tight, it will get cold later."
"Run, run, you are all as slow as a turtle!"
The whole team was spurred by Gan Guoyang to attack. Because they were leading in the first half, Gonzaga was a little relaxed and everyone was relatively tired.
Only Gan Guoyang was alive and kicking, and Behrman believed that he did not fool around with the girl last night.
A distinctive feature of Gan Guoyang's game also emerged in the second half, that is, energy and hustle and bustle.
Unless he is on the court to save some effort and be lazy, once he starts to get involved, he will be full of energy, extremely noisy, and extremely noisy.
When you get excited, you can keep talking and go head-to-head with the opponent's arrows for the whole game. You won't feel tired even if you play the whole game plus two or three overtimes.
This is completely different from some big men who start to lower their heads and pant after running back and forth for a few times, or hold up their knees during a timeout.
Any great person must have strong energy that surpasses ordinary people. This is true in any field of human beings.
The physical fitness of the big men in the interior is often a bottleneck for them. Yao Ming is greatly hampered by his own physical fitness, and can often only play three good quarters, half a season's worth of good football.
Gan Guoyang was very foresight and set the highest physical and health values for his template. Coupled with his self-discipline and hard and scientific training, he was like a catfish in a sardine can on the court.
He gave up the effortless hook shot in the first half and began to violently hit the basket, rush for offensive rebounds, attack the basket after being dropped, and get deep into the position to push away the defender and dunk directly with both hands.
He poured all his offensive skills into the Pauley Arena and showed no reservations to the fans and friends in Los Angeles. If college basketball didn't have a three-point line, he would definitely show off his long-range three-point shot.
He brought the game into a steamy, noisy atmosphere that seemed to raise the temperature at Pauley Stadium.
It excites teammates, tires opponents, and scares Los Angeles fans.
Because it will remind them of Moses Malone and the helplessness of the Lakers and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar when facing the 6-foot-10-inch beast.
That kind of brutal and aggressive atmosphere disrupted the rhythm of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's elegant hook, and also caused the entire Lakers to lose their steady pace towards victory.
However, in the first half, this kid played quite smoothly, and his hook shot made people think about it. Why did he change his appearance in the second half?
Bellman, who was sitting on the sidelines, looked at Gan Guoyang's energetic look and thought to himself, what Forrest Gump said in the first half that he was not targeting UCLA must be a lie. Today, he showed off all kinds of unique skills. It was wonderful. The dedication is to let the UCLA management and Farmar see what kind of player they have lost.
This guy Gan is very vengeful but doesn't show it easily.
As for Farmar, that guy is stupid enough. In 1977, he tried to recruit Magic Johnson and made a phone call, but gave up in the end, causing UCLA to miss the opportunity for revival.
In 1981, Bill Walton strongly recommended Michael Jordan to UCLA. Jordan also wanted to play for the Golden Bears, but Farmar said, "There is no place for you here."
Now that they have given up on Forrest Gump again, UCLA will not be able to do anything good in his hands.
Many examples in the future have proved that it is reasonable or unreasonable to select a player based on his talent first, rather than what position he plays and whether he is suitable for the team's lineup.
If the lineup is unreasonable, it can be adjusted. What seems to be a harmonious combination now may be completely different in one or two years, but high-quality talent can be the cornerstone for a long time.
The game gradually turned into Gan Guoyang's personal performance in the second half. He scored 17 points in the first half and another 26 points in the second half, finishing with 43 points.
Although it was just a warm-up match, and both sides did not try their best offensively and defensively, they scored 43 points in a single game at Poly Stadium, which made UCLA disgraced and made the school leaders and local fans very unhappy.
It was not just ordinary students and citizens who came to watch the game, but also some politicians and entertainment stars in Los Angeles. Everyone had mixed feelings when they saw UCLA being beaten by a Chinese center they had once given up.
Bellman was worried that Gan Guoyang was playing too enthusiastically and angered his opponent, so he replaced Gan Guoyang after a timeout and was not prepared to let him play again.
Gan Guoyang said: "I haven't fought enough yet, Bobby, why did you replace me?"
"That's enough. Do you want to refresh the data?"
"Oh no, I just enjoy basketball, you know I haven't played a good game in a long time."
"There are plenty of opportunities later, so just rest."
The game started at 7 o'clock in the evening and ended before 8:30, which shows that the game went very smoothly, without any ups and downs or suspense.
Reggie Miller only got some opportunities to come on as a substitute after Gan Guoyang came off the field. He played for a few minutes and failed to score two goals. He was completely out of shape.
Looking at Miller, Gan Guoyang thought that if he came to UCLA, he might be treated like this.
When leaving the field at the end of the game, Gan Guoyang glanced at the audience and saw Wang Fuxi's pink hat, which was very conspicuous.
Wang Fuxi waved to him, and Gan Guoyang also waved to her, making a phone gesture, then left the Poly Stadium and got in the car, heading towards the next destination with the team.
