[{"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-1960":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},1445510,1896,"Chapter 1960 29: The Audience's Favorite Game_3","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1960",1960,"\u003Cp>Bibby and Wei Bo's pick-and-roll is different from the Malone-Stockton pick-and-roll. Utah's pick-and-roll is more about setting up Malone to score, because Malone has the strength and explosiveness, while Stockton's own scoring is just average.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bibby, on the other hand, is a much stronger scorer. After he runs the pick-and-roll with Wei Bo, he gets a ton of catch-and-shoot mid-range looks—quick, precise, and with a high conversion rate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plus, the series of options that come from Wei Bo rolling inside or popping out really enrich their playbook and puts huge pressure on the opposing defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bell's dogged, biting defense is really fierce, and it throws Bibby off a bit for the moment, so the King shift their offensive focus onto Divac.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divac backs down Miller on the low block and scores, but then when he tries to drive down the middle, his layup gets blocked by Gan Guoyang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In transition, Gan Guoyang fires a long pass to Padgett at the right 45-degree angle. Padgett catches and launches a quick three—hits again! His second three of the second quarter!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Glory Team are rapidly cutting into the lead, but Adelman doesn't panic. The King still have the bench advantage, and a bit of grinding in the second quarter is no big deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they can wear out Ah Gan's energy, the third and fourth quarters will be much easier for the King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The crafty Bibby starts drawing fouls in succession on offense to take the edge off Raja Bell's defensive intensity, goes to the line and sinks both to maintain the lead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief burst of rapid scoring, Glory's offense stalls out again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This is the biggest issue in Glory's offense right now, and also the dilemma of many mid-tier teams: a lack of continuity on offense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a stretch they can be on fire, feel like they can shred any defense—but once that surge passes, the momentum nosedives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's like a national economy with only one growth engine: the downturn comes fast. Only with a second and third engine can the growth keep rolling on and on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Player ability is one part of it. Glory, after all, just don't have the personnel. Gan Guoyang has to save his stamina for the second half; he can't burn out too early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then there's the tactics. Tomjanovich is not exactly a master of system offenses, and Glory's playbook is pretty fragmented, with too little time for the team to gel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result of having no real system is that the variations aren't rich enough. It's easy for things to devolve into chaos mid-game—those few plays only work for a while, and when situations change, everyone just starts freelancing and leaving it up to fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end they just give the ball to the alpha. You can still win playing like that—plenty of NBA teams do—but it's exhausting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gan Guoyang wants the Glory Team to keep improving, to run more smoothly as a team, and to win more games.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two teams actually go blow for blow in the second quarter. Offensively it's fast and fluid, with varied attacks and smooth teamwork.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This kind of game is probably what fans love most: offense-oriented but without slacking on defense, fast-paced but not chaotic. There are a lot of threes, but it's not just chucking nonstop; every kind of offensive option gets its share, giving the fans a constantly changing visual feast of basketball.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everything's running so smoothly that even the refs seem reluctant to interrupt such a slick game flow—no whistles, no timeouts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, the scorer's table can't take it anymore and calls an official timeout—the TV station has to run commercials. Only then do the players head back to their benches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Rick Adelman pulls out the whiteboard and has just said a couple of sentences to his players when he looks up and feels something's off… Since when did we have an Asian player on our team?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah Gan, why the hell did you come over to our bench!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sonny, did you come to the wrong bench?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'm just here to learn something. Hurry up and keep talking, Rick!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our next play: Vlade, on the low block, give Ah Gan an elbow and knock him out of here.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this point, the ref realizes something's wrong, quickly comes over and escorts Gan Guoyang away. The little tactic-eavesdropping mission fails.\u003C\u002Fp>",729,"2026-06-06T01:42:09.674Z",1,"novelbin.me","29595910a03f23ad5d3b72bcb01d8071c086adee08690163de25fb3e379de8e1","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1961","the-golden-age-of-basketball-chapter-1959",2033,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-golden-age-of-basketball-cover.jpg"]