The 2007 NBA Summer League is mainly composed of the Rocky Mountain Summer League, the Orlando Summer League, and the Las Vegas Summer League, of which the Las Vegas Summer League has the most teams and the highest level, and it is also the only summer league in which the Houston Rockets participate.

It is worth mentioning that the Chinese men's basketball team participated in the Las Vegas Summer League for the first time.

It is debatable that Yi Jianlian, as a rookie this year, did not participate in the summer league with the Milwaukee Bucks, but chose to play with the Chinese men's basketball team.

From this point of view, perhaps his NBA journey, from the beginning of the regular season, has laid a foundation for failure.

Back in the field of the Houston Rockets.

Almost all of the first games of an NBA team are exciting, and the basketball world is excited, but unfortunately this rule does not work for David.

"Rick's son doesn't seem to be out of the middle school league yet, and now the Los Angeles Clippers are telling him: This is the NBA, rookie! Haha, go back to your middle school! The black commentator in the commentary seat teased as if he were talking rap.

"I really don't know what he thinks, playing Princeton in Summer League? Is he crazy? Another white narrator didn't let David go either.

"I feel like he's almost crying, brother!"

Crying, David didn't do, but his face was obviously blue.

Mark Gasol, Scola, Novak, Mike Harris, Brooks are the starting lineups that David fielded for the Rockets and Clippers in their opening game of summer league.

After 3 years, this lineup is not shabby at all even if it is a starter in the NBA regular season.

But it was such a lineup that the Rockets were beaten 6:15 by the opponent within the opening 6 minutes.

Although he didn't pursue the team's summer league results, David didn't want his opening game in the NBA to end in a rout, so he quickly called a timeout and replaced him with Landry.

Unfortunately, that's it, the first quarter ended, and the Rockets still trailed 11-23.

At this time, the game had come to the 9th minute and 26 seconds of the second quarter, and it was only a few minutes before the end of the first half (the summer league game was four quarters of 10 minutes each), and the score was 25:41, and David was about to lose his temper.

He has realized that the reason why the team has fallen into total passivity is his blind command - it is completely whimsical to want the team to play complex Princeton tactics in less than a week of training!

And these NBA fringe people who participate in the summer league are not as obedient as the middle school students at Lincoln Middle School, and the first reaction when they get the ball is still individual singles, but their individual ability is not good.

If it weren't for the sharpness of the older rookie Scola on the offensive end, coupled with the efforts of players such as Marc Gasol on the defensive end, the Rockets would have been opened up by the opponent by 20 points.

David didn't want to make the team like the Los Angeles Clippers on the court, but there have been a lot of arguments about Yao Mai's inability to play Princeton's tactics.

"Niang Xipi, what is the face!"

At halftime, the score was set at 27:41, with the Rockets trailing.

The gap isn't huge, because the Clippers across from them are basically a bunch of stinky fish and shrimp that no one wants.

"Aaron, come over to me!" Inside the locker room, David yelled at Brooks.

Brooks subconsciously shrank his neck, he knew that his performance in the first half was not good, relying on his status as the team's top draft pick to play a few singles, but the shooting percentage of 2-of-7 was really unacceptable.

After David waited for Brooks to come to his side, because of his height, he kept looking down at the little black bean in front of him and didn't say a word.

"Coach, don't look at me like this, I can see that my heart is furious, you can say anything!" Brooks really couldn't admit David's gaze and spoke.

Actually, David wasn't looking at Brooks, but "looking" at the other party's abilities-

Brooks Overall: 71 points, shooting ability stats: 66, three-pointers: 66, free throws: 87, dunks: 1, inside points: 49, offensive rebounds: 12, defensive rebounds: 25, bounces: 50, strength: 50, agility: 94, speed: 93, passing: 84, dribbling: 85, offensive awareness: 77, defensive awareness: 75, steals: 65, blocks: 7, stamina: 62, endurance: 80, key balls: 39.

Brooks' overall rating is mediocre, but he is definitely among the top in the NBA in terms of speed and agility, and David estimates that even Iverson is not much closer to his prime.

Of course, this is only in terms of Brooks' speed, and he is more than a step behind Iverson in terms of ball handling and confrontation.

"Smack!" David didn't answer Brooks, but instead clapped his hands to draw the attention of all the players in the locker room.

"In the first half, you guys played like shit except for Luis, Mark and Steve!" David was a squirt as soon as he came up, which saved some face for Scola, Gasol and Novak.

"I thought you would understand the simplest of Princeton's tactics, but look at what the first half played on? The ball passes out and stands there like a stake, where is the air cut and no-ball running that I taught you? ”

"The offense is not good, your defense is also angry, the little man on the opposite side casually burst in, and he was sent off after receiving the 10th foul in the summer league, but you don't even play a hand, and you are ready to save the foul and take it back to eat? Eat, you ......" David wasn't worried about going overboard, in fact, there were plenty of sweary coaches in the NBA locker room.

In fact, most of the NBA players are black players who grew up in the bottom of the American ladder, and in the early 21st century, if you have to be in the locker room all the time, it's hard to sit in the whole position.

Today's "Zen Master" Phil Jackson was also a gangster leader when he was young.

Because the summer league game had only an eight-minute break, not as much as the 12 minutes of the NBA halftime, David stopped after a few reprimands.

"I don't think you bastards can learn Princeton's tactics, so we'll change our tactics a little bit in the second half." David would never admit his tactical mistakes in front of the players, so naturally he blamed the players for the problem.

"Let's play simple, let's play run-and-bomb tactics! Seize every opportunity to attack! David said this, glancing at Brooks, "It's like the sun right now!" ”

With the current Rockets summer league lineup, it is clear that playing artillery is more suitable than playing Princeton - the 2.06-meter Landry is pushed to the center position, Scola is still playing power forward, the three-point small forward Novak is ambushed outside the three-point line, the running and jumping Mike Harris is the scoring guard, and Brooks is the brain of this team.

The run-and-gun tactics may seem simple, but in fact, the requirements for point guards are very high, they must have the ability to pass the ball, have a wide field of vision, and have the ability to move forward quickly with the ball.

The point guard who threads the needle is usually the offensive initiation point of the run-and-gun, and the guard with the ability to transmit the ball and have a wide field of vision is no longer enough, but also has a guard who can move quickly with the ball and play blocking and dismantling after falling into the position, such a guard must be a star, and now Nash is doing well enough in this area, while Brooks is obviously not enough.

If you don't have a proper point guard, you can only play more and more chaotic and become a headless fly.

In desperation, is David going to make a mistake in his busy schedule and make a second wrong decision?