I have to admit that the Rockets led by "Morden" have reached a place that "Yao Mai" has not reached, that is, it is enough to make Chris Paul cry and faint on the floor of the thatched house, and the Rockets have waited for 18 years for this moment, and this time they finally ushered in a new sunshine, this time, the opponent of the Houston people is the Golden State Warriors, the favorite to win the championship this year.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr was a very wise player when he was young, and after retiring from football, he sat in the position of a commentator for many years, and this year is the first time he has taken the coaching whip, Kerr has spent most of his career as a player with the Bulls and Spurs, but Phil Jackson's triangle offense and Popovich's "magic method" Kerr are not involved, but he put the small-ball style of play that Nelson Sr. made on the stage. They gave up the traditional advantage of high school forwards under the basket, and let the small man run away, basically everyone on the floor has a certain three-point shooting ability, so as to force the opponent's big man to pull to the outside, so that their players get a lot of space to break through, the Warriors' starting lineup in the whole situation is Stephen Curry at the No. 1 position, Klay Thompson at the No. 2 position, Harris Barnes at the No. 3 position, Draymond Green at the No. 4 position, and Andrew Bogut at the No. 5 position, but in fact, Bogut only played about 20 minutes per game, and the Warriors' real killer was Andre Iguodala sitting on the bench, who came on the court to play the No. 4 position, and Green to the No. 5 position.

It's actually quite interesting to say, Kerr was not interested in this so-called "small ball tactic" when he was the general manager of the Phoenix Suns, but at that time the head coach of the Suns D'Antoni would play this again, and nothing else, for this reason, Kerr got the "big shark" O'Neal through the operation, he still felt that the playoffs were the world of interior players, and the Suns that year would not say more. D'Antoni didn't get the attention of the world, but in the end, Cole, who didn't like small balls, was accidentally carried forward, which made the first two old coaches embarrassed!

Rockets VS Warriors, in fact, it is not only a duel between two teams, but also a duel between Harden and Curry, this season, Harden ranked second in the selection of MVP in the regular season, and the number one star in the Warriors is Steve Curry, this time the two go head-to-head, it is really the best evidence to determine the ownership of the league's first guard!

Rockets vs. Warriors, the first game was full of sparks, the first quarter of the Warriors' two major scorers Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson one after another, a single quarter of 18 points together, but the Rockets are in full bloom, eight of the nine people on the court in a single quarter have scored, Ariza scored a high 7 points, and the Rockets temporarily lead 31:24 in a single quarter! In the second quarter, the Rockets suddenly increased the defensive intensity on the outside, and Curry and Thompson couldn't find the crosshairs for a while, but the Warriors' "broken leg guard" Shaun Livingston stood up, and he continued to impact the basket to play offense, and his signature "back hit, turn around, step back, and shoot backwards in the air" was even more unpleasant, and he scored 14 points on 5-of-5 shooting in a single quarter! trailing by three points at 55:58 after halftime; In the third quarter, Harden and Curry opened the matchup mode, you have a three-pointer, I give you a breakthrough, Harden scored 11 points on 4-of-5 shots in a single quarter, Curry scored 10 points on 4-of-7 shots, and in the most critical fourth quarter, Harden scored 10 points on 5-of-8 shooting, Curry scored 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting, and when there were 5 minutes left in the game, Harden scored consecutive points to chase the score to 97:99, only 2 points behind, but then Curry hit a three-pointer to lead the team to a wave of 7:0 attack, and in the last 47 seconds, the Rockets won 103: 108 behind, then "Wonder Boy" Ariza made a ghost steal and hit a three-pointer, 106:108! With only 11.8 seconds left in the game, the Rockets were forced to foul Curry, and in the end, Curry hit both free throws while enjoying the cheers of the "MVP" of the whole game, giving the Rockets their first loss.

In the whole game, Harden scored 28 points, 11 rebounds and 9 assists and 4 steals on 11-of-20 shooting, which was a tie with Curry, who scored 34 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals on 13-of-22 shooting, but in the face of a strong opponent like the Warriors, one Harden is obviously not enough, Dwight Howard, another cornerstone of the Rockets, fell into the contradiction between defending out of the restricted area and defending out of the restricted area throughout the game. He finished with just seven points and 13 rebounds.

In the second game, Curry had a god-level performance in the first quarter, scoring 15 points in a single quarter, and once led the Warriors to expand the score to ten points, and then the Rockets blossomed more and stepped on the accelerator to chase fiercely, but unfortunately fell to the last step, and finally lost by 98:99 by one point, Harden played an excellent performance, 38 points, 10 rebounds, 9 assists and 3 steals on 13-of-21 shooting, while Curry scored 33 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists on 13-of-21 shooting. He finished with 14 points, eight rebounds and five blocks on 7-of-9 shooting, while Howard had 19 points and 17 rebounds on 8-of-11 shooting.

For the Rockets, the first two away games have suffered losses, so the next on their own road, there can be no mistakes, everyone is looking forward to the Rockets' explosion, but unfortunately, in the third game of the two sides, the Rockets are not on the tune, four quarters of the game, the Rockets did not score more than the Warriors in one quarter, and they were already behind by 25 points at halftime, and finally, the game ended, and the Rockets suffered a massacre with a score difference of 35 points!

Curry continued to have a hot hand in the last two games, scoring 40 points on 12-of-19 shooting, Green scored 17 points and 13 rebounds, while Harden only hit 3 of 16 shots in the game and scored 17 points, Josh scored 16 points and 8 rebounds, and Howard scored 14 points and 14 rebounds.

0:3, no team in history has been able to reverse and win and advance after falling behind by three games, none of them have been predestined for the Rockets in this round of the series.

The Rockets in the fourth game, and the Rockets in the previous game are completely two teams, this Rocket, as soon as it came up, showed its sharp fangs, and scored 45 points in the first quarter, while the Warriors only scored 22 points, the Rockets made a dream start, but in the second quarter, Klay Thompson scored 16 points in a single quarter to lead the Warriors to chase the score to 59:69, and the two sides continued to tug of war in the second half, and finally the Rockets kept the 10-point difference to the end, winning 128-115 in the whole game, and Harden shot 13 of 22 in the game, With 45 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists, Smith continued his thigh-level performance, scoring 20 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists on 7-of-8 shooting, Howard had 14 points and 12 rebounds, while the Warriors Curry scored 23 points on 7-of-18 shooting, Klay Thompson scored 24 points on 9-of-21 shooting, and Draymond Green scored 21 points and 15 rebounds.

It's a pity that the Rockets' fierce performance was just a flash in the pan, and the fifth game became the last game of the season for the Rockets, and it was still out of shape, 90:104, the difference was not very much, but from the kickoff to the end of the game, the Rockets had no hope of winning, Harden left the hot hand in the last game, this game felt cold, 14 points on 2-of-11 shooting, Howard scored 18 points and 16 rebounds, Terry and Brewer each scored 16 points, The Warriors' Curry scored 26 points, 6 assists and 8 rebounds on 7-of-21 shooting, Harrison Barnes scored 24 points, Thompson scored 20 points, and Green and Bogut combined to grab 27 rebounds and became the key to the team's victory.

In the whole series, Harden averaged 28.4 points, 6.4 assists, 7.8 rebounds, 2.4 steals, 4.8 turnovers, 46.7% shooting, and 42.9% three-point shooting per game, while Curry's performance was 31.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 2.0 steals, 2.8 turnovers, 51.5% shooting, and 49.1% three-point shooting, between the two and the second.

In the 2015 NBA draft, the Rockets selected Sam Decker, a strong and well-rounded ConnectnAmerican with the 18th pick in the first round, and on July 17, the dust had settled on the whereabouts of free agent Josh Smith, and he accepted the Clippers' offer, although the Rockets and the Clippers offered a base salary contract, and on July 21, Morey once again traded a gold nugget for a big gold nugget, and he traded Joey Dorsey, Nick Johnson, and Kostas Papani Koolau. Papro Prichionioni was traded to the Nuggets in exchange for leading guard Ty Lawson, Lawson is not tall, but he is good at breaking, good at organization, and played 75 games last season. can average 15.2 points and 9.6 assists per game, except for loving to drink a little and love to make trouble after drinking, everything is perfect, but Lawson is also a player who needs to have the ball in hand, whether he can share the ball with Harden is a very big problem, not good, one plus one is not equal to two, it may be small, on July 31, the Rockets shot again, he used a base salary of $1.2 million a year, introduced free man Marcus Thorton, Thorton is a player with very strong single ability, can make a good contribution as the team's sixth man, at present, the Rockets lineup tends to be stable, the first starting Lawson, substitute Beverley (it may be two people competing for the post, after all, Beverley's style of play and defense are more suitable for partnering with Harden) starting Harden in the second position, substitute Thorton, Terry, Ariza in the third position, substitute Brewer, fourth position Terrence Jones and Capela competing for the post, fifth position Howard, substitute Motai Yunas, the latter of which can also be moved to the power forward position because of his rich shooting range. The Rockets' total lineup on paper is better than last season, and now it's time to test McHale, if he can put the whole team together, according to the current Rockets' lineup, it shouldn't be a problem to get into the West, but if he can't do it, it may cause the team to not even get into the playoffs, because now the Rockets' players are all players with very distinct strengths and weaknesses, and they all have to have personality, they need a capable coach to drive them and improve them, what is the result, Look at this summer! They have opened a new era, a glorious era that belongs to the new "Morden"!

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Okay, the Houston Rockets talked about this as the end of the story, this volume was actually written earlier, and the regular season was not finished when it was written, and I was counting on the Rockets' excellent performance in the playoffs, and then I read a good book, but I saw that I played such a grandma kick, then forget it, don't be boring, let's start the next volume in the afternoon, the new army of the league, the Charlotte Hornets, that is, the former Charlotte Bobcats. The Bobcats joined the NBA family in 2004, do you know why they had the top three picks in their first year of selection, and how the Bobcats came to be? The answer is tomorrow at eight o'clock in the morning, Wasp roll, we'll see you there!