[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-golden-age-of-basketball":3,"chapter-the-golden-age-of-basketball-the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1341":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Golden Age of Basketball",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1444758,1896,"Chapter 1341 - 21: You Are Already a Dead Man_2","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1341",1341,"\u003Cp>Moreover, just follow the map to trace it, it basically follows the transmission route: America-Japan-Hong Kong and Taiwan-mainland, Americans can be considered the founding fathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though the news content is quite absurd, the relationship between Clinton and Gan Guoyang is indeed pretty good; they really have known each other for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During elections, when facing minority groups, Clinton indeed would play the Gan Guoyang card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the West Coast Region, Gan Guoyang’s influence is still significant, with blue completely covering this area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gan Guoyang didn’t expect that these things would bring him considerable trouble in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next two days, the Trail Blazers had consecutive away games against the New Jersey Nets and the New York Knicks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They defeated the Nets, avoiding consecutive losses, but then lost to the New York Knicks at Madison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Knicks have quite a formidable lineup, with Kemp, Mourning, Glen Rice, and Alan Houston forming the basic framework of the team.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Knicks’ head coach is a scrawny guy with a bald head and dark circles, who’s never played professional basketball—Jeff Van Gundy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Van Gundy served as assistant coach for the New York Knicks starting in 1990, and became the head coach by the 1994-1995 season.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He is a thoroughly defensive coach who hasn’t played professional basketball but is a very experienced basketball strategy research expert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since 1990, he has been immersed in researching how to build more solid and tougher defense, but the Knicks’ style has always kept him from being truly utilized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until 1994 when Ewing left, the Knicks started rebuilding, and Van Gundy became the helm of the Knicks, beginning to reshape the team’s style.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After getting Alonzo Mourning, snatching Alan Houston from the Pistons, alongside Rice and Kemp, the Knicks already have quite a strong lineup foundation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Van Gundy is very adept at creating defensive traps, believing that the defense used to be reactive, just waiting for the offense to attack, often resulting in passive situations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To have stronger defense, one should be proactive, not just adapt passively, but actively dig a pit to lure opponents into making mistakes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Van Gundy’s defensive system, pressure on the ball handler is highly emphasized, similar to the Supersonics’ SOS defensive system, often constantly targeting the opponent’s Point Guard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The difference with SOS lies in Van Gundy’s system that places a strong emphasis on protecting the basket, not easily sacrificing the inside for pressure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Knicks big men are all required to come out to delay smaller players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Almost every round, Mourning and Kemp would finally come out to delay the ball handler, then immediately retract to protect the Three Second Zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on this basic rule, Van Gundy wove many defensive traps, leading ball handlers into \"dead ends.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, driving them to the baseline, trapping them in a three-man encirclement without any passing route, or forcing them to pass to a player without autonomous offensive ability, forcing inefficient solo plays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every pass and choice by the ball handler seems completed autonomously but is actually guided consciously by Knicks players, inducing dead ends based on players’ characteristics and offensive habits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For instance, if a player is proficient with the right hand and generally weak in left-hand breakthrough, the defense would block the right hand, leaving the left open, with big men waiting inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or if an external player has deficient offensive ability, he would be left open to receive the ball and go one-on-one, but actually, his efficiency is low, unable to produce results.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Trail Blazers, whose offensive system was not yet formed, naturally struggled against the disciplined, complete system of the New York Knicks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rick Carlisle’s so-called \"Fluid Offense\" was still under theoretical construction, even he was confused, let alone making the players understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the game, the Trail Blazers repeatedly made mistakes and eventually had to give the ball to Gan Guoyang for him to hold the ball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this match, at Madison Square Garden Arena, Gan Guoyang scored 41 points, which wasn’t considered a very high score in Gan Guoyang’s career.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in a regular match, the Trail Blazers only scored 75 points, with Gan Guoyang scoring more than half the team’s total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no choice; against the Knicks’ minefield-like defense, the Trail Blazers struggled and ultimately had to rely on the leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ultimately, the Trail Blazers lost 75:80, a 5-point deficit against the Knicks, ending this Eastern tour with a 2-2 record.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This match made Gan Guoyang quite frustrated; the Trail Blazers trailed significantly in the first half, at one point trailing the Knicks by 15 points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Trail Blazers players were unaccustomed to the Knicks’ defense, completely subdued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This defensive-minded Knicks team, once the gap reached 15 points, was essentially sealing the fate of the game.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gan Guoyang initially thought it wasn’t a big deal to lose this match early in the season, treating it as practice, a lesson for the players.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpectedly, during the official time-out in the middle of the second quarter, Jeff Van Gundy abruptly shouted at Gan Guoyang, \"This isn’t your Time! You shouldn’t be back!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, Gan Guoyang was fiercely contesting with Mourning and Kemp under the basket, and a foul call on Mourning led to Van Gundy’s dissatisfaction, thus provoking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterward, Van Gundy explained, saying he did this to encourage the players to confront Ah Gan and not be afraid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But in reality, when Van Gundy said that, the Knicks players were scared stiff.\u003C\u002Fp>",910,"2026-06-06T01:41:52.877Z",1,"novelbin.me","64b9cbb7532fe93e38cad6137b7c0b5be14b5a37a5fd6e840d9543cae0f75359","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1342","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1340",2033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-golden-age-of-basketball-cover.jpg"]