The Rockets just played a defensive battle with the Spurs in the same state yesterday, Yao Ming played 39 minutes, and after four quarters of fierce battle, they lost to the fierce rival Spurs by 84-90, 6 points. The two sides were deadlocked throughout the game, knowing that the winner was only decided at the end of the fourth quarter, and the Rockets lost to the old opponent because they did not have Maddy, which led to the failure to score with the ball at the critical moment.

Playing back-to-back with the Suns today, Yao Ming's physical strength was obviously affected, he didn't feel good at the beginning, rested on the bench for most of the quarter, and went on the court in the middle and late stages of the second quarter, still not finding the feeling of attack. In the confrontation with Xiao Si, Yao Ming rarely suffered a big loss in the first half. In fact, in the previous years between the two sides, no matter what the team's victory or defeat was, Yao Ming still had an advantage in the face of Xiao Si.

Any player who wants to rely on impact and brute force to do whatever he wants on Yao Ming's head will find it difficult to take advantage in the end, and the same is true for Xiao Si. He was a fierce general, and even Duncan was once overwhelmed by his formidable basket attacks. Almost all the inside lines in the league have been ravaged by Xiao Si's impact, but Yao Ming can be regarded as the highest wall in the league, and it is still the kind of high wall that cannot be easily flown over.

Therefore, it is common for Xiao Si to be hatted under Yao Ming, so every time he meets Yao Ming, he wants to do something on Yao Ming's head. It's just that Xiao Si seemed a lot calmer tonight, and under Leon's arrangement, Xiao Si increased mid-range jumpers and blocking and dismantling on the offensive end, and reduced one-on-one singles on the basket. Moreover, he actively runs, participates in quick counterattacks, mobilizes Yao Ming's defense, and attacks his shortcomings of small movement range and weak movement ability.

This allowed Xiao Si to play extremely efficiently in the first half, he made 4 of 4 shots, 4 of 4 free throws, and scored 12 points on 100 percent shooting, helping the Suns to open up a point gap with the Rockets in the final stages of the first half. If it weren't for Luis Scola's continued fantastic performance, the Rockets would have gone into the second half with a double-digit deficit.

At halftime, Xiao Si, who played well in the first half, looked very excited in the locker room, but Leon reminded him not to be happy too early, and he must maintain this performance and "play smarter", which is Leon's admonition to Xiao Si. As a high school player, being sometimes not too smart and reckless on the court is a shortcoming for Smalls, which has led to his influence on the court being far less powerful than Nash's.

This season, Leon is cultivating Xiao Si as a team leader, Xiao Si should not only be the team's scoring machine, but also should become the tactical core and leader on the court, so that the Suns can have the qualifications and ability to wrestle with the strongest team in the league. Otherwise, they'll just do the backdrop for the Finals or the championship team, as they did in previous years.

For Leon's cold water, Stoudemire took note, he calmed himself down, and listened carefully to Leon's layout of the second half tactics. Leon didn't call a timeout much throughout the first half, the players played well and were able to satisfy them. Because of the addition of Hill, their offense is indeed getting better and better, and the small lineup is running more and more freely.

However, they still have a lot of problems on the defensive end, and Leon doesn't expect the Suns to be a defensive powerhouse, and he wants to win a championship with offense. But he also can't stand the team making too many low-level mistakes on the defensive end. For him, a lack of mistakes on the defensive end is a win. So at halftime, he reviewed every defensive mistake of the Suns in the first half with an astonishing memory, telling the players who made the mistake not to make the same mistake again.

The worst person who was scolded was not Nash, nor Xiao Si, but Dior. Offensively, Dio played well today, diching out four assists, but on the defensive end he was about to be rubbed on the ground by Luis Scola a hundred times. Dio is not known for his defense, and recently he has always been pulled to the center and big forward of the opponent on the inside, especially Yao Ming and O'Neal, which make him miserable.

Back in the 2006 season, there were still low-post defensive experts like Kurt Thomas on the team, and now Dio himself is treated as a low-post defender, which makes him very uncomfortable. At halftime, he was scolded by Leon again, anyway, he was scolded by Leon a lot when he was in Boston, and he was used to it. It's just that he is no longer the stunned he was when he was young, he once played his value in the Suns, and after leaving the Celtics, he proved that he can also be on his own.

If it wasn't Fox Leon who scolded him in the locker room but some other coach, Dior's temper would definitely throw his face, but he wouldn't dare in front of Leon, first, this was his coach when he first entered the NBA, and his awe was deeply imprinted in his heart; Second, Leon's fist is not vegetarian.

Holding his breath, Dio still started in the second half and continued to fight Yao Ming in the center position. Yao Ming stood there, and when he asked for the ball in the low post, Dior was behind him, like no one. Sure enough, as soon as the second half began, the Rockets used Yao Ming's low-post offense to score consecutive points. Yao Ming's feel is a little back.

When he has a feel, the difference between defense and non-defense is not very big. Watching Dio lose points after consecutive defensive failures, Leon was a little unable to sit still on the sidelines. At halftime, I should scold and scold, and scolding again has no effect. He didn't want to replace Dio from the pitch for the time being, because he still played a very important role in the attacking position.

Leon knows that this kid is just lazy, not as competitive as many stars, and has a high level of talent, but sometimes he has to get by, and if he wants to work the defensive end, he has to whip him in the back. That's what he did at the Celtics, but at the Celtic Leon would whip everyone, and it was no surprise that Dio would be whipped twice. However, in the Suns, Leon changed his coaching policy and used a softer defense to get along with the players. At this time, if Dior is caught, it will inevitably collapse his mentality.

Leon decided that he still had to find an opportunity to give Dior some special training, thinking that the young people such as Reed, Arenas, and Joe Johnson were all trained by Leon one by one. Dio is actually very important in the current system of the Suns, and he is the barometer of the team after many games. If Dio plays well, the Suns will definitely win easy and happy, and if Dio doesn't play well, the team will definitely play hard.

The game continued in the third quarter, and Yao Ming helped the Rockets close the score slightly after recovering his offensive state. But at this time, Steve Nash, who had been dormant in the first half and did not have much eye-catching performance, showed his sharp fangs, and ate Ralph Alston twice on the offensive end, once after blocking and dismantling the right 45-degree three-point shot, once using continuous footsteps to shake Alston into the inside, facing Yao Ming's supplementary defense and a master's throw hollow into the net, helping the Suns reextend their lead.

Nash's role as the team's voltage regulator is becoming more and more prominent. As long as the solar energy survives the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter, without Maddie, the rocket, which has always been a four-section collapse, what can be used to fight against the sun?