At the end of the warm-up, the starters of both sides stood on the field, ready to start jumping the ball.

"We will win today!" Fultz said to Paul.

"Young people, it's good to have confidence, but to be blindly confident is to be arrogant!" Paul said with a smile.

In Paul's opinion, this 76ers team is still too young, and maybe in the future, it will be their world, but now, they still need to work harder.

"Capela, do you think you can jump over me with this ball?" Embiid and Capela were in position, legs bent and ready to jump.

"Maybe that's a deal!" As a young man, Capela will not admit defeat.

Honk... The whistle sounds, the referee throws the ball into the air, and the game officially begins.

Capela jumped up first, Embiid had the advantage of height and reach, and he could only rely on his faster bounce speed to try to point the ball out before he reached the highest point.

Capela jumped, Embiid jumped, and the two touched the ball almost at the same time.

The ball did not fly in the expected direction with the intervention of the two at the same time.

Simmons rushed out at once, grabbed in front of Ariza, took the ball, and the ball belonged to the 76ers, and after Foltz received the ball, he dribbled across the half court unhurriedly and came to the three-point line.

Simmons did exactly as you could see in the pre-game data, he didn't stand outside the three-point line, but took a step into the three-point line.

The 76ers are facing Foltz, Redick, and power forward Saric outside the three-point line.

This made Anderson very happy, originally Anderson was a high battery, and the inside line was not his strong point, but now it's okay, the big forward on the opposite side is not standing on the inside line, which makes him feel a lot less pressure all of a sudden.

Foltz only dribbled the ball a few times and gave it to Simmons, and it looked like the offense was going to start from Simmons today.

Ariza opened her arms and fixed her eyes firmly on Simmons, and her hands went up and down, blocking Simmons' offensive line.

Simmons' play is also direct and crisp, without too many fancy movements, a chest in disguise fire, breaking through in the direction of the left baseline.

Ariza followed in time, and the bodies of the two fought together from time to time.

Simmons is young and strong, his body is his strength, and this kind of strong burst is also his favorite blow.

Boom! Ariza was halfway through the defense, only to feel like he had hit a wall, unable to take a step forward, and fixed his eyes to see that Embiid was firmly in his forward position.

Blocking and dismantling, Embiid has already rushed here as soon as Simmons broke through.

Simmons got rid of Ariza's defense and jumped up, and Capela's supplementary defense followed, Simmons was also smart, and when he had a fleeting opportunity, he made a decisive throw that made Capela pounce.

Throwing the board and scoring two points, Simmons waved his arms excitedly, and finally found an offensive routine that suited him best.

The coach of the 76ers also nodded with satisfaction, and finally saw Simmons and Embiid, had a chemical reaction, and had new expectations for the future development of the team.

Scoring the first goal so easily was something the Rockets didn't expect.

"Let's attack, let's run!" Paul dribbles the ball and directs the players to run.

After Harden received the ball, he looked very casual, defending himself was Redick, and Harden was confident that he had N ways to score on his head.

It is also true that after Harden took two disguises, he stepped back one after another, and in a flash, he passed Redick and continued to kill inside.

Maybe it was carelessness, seeing that Embiid was still one step away from him, Harden went directly to the free throw line and made a pick-and-roll.

Embiid took a big step from the baseline, then jumped high and touched the ball in the air.

Still touched the ball, the ball in the air obviously changed the trajectory of the flight, smashed on the rebound, Simmons quickly rushed and won the rebound.

Harden stretched out his hand to the referee to signal that the block was violated, but the referee shook his head and motioned for the game to continue, ignoring Harden.

It's Simmons again, receiving the ball in the same position, the same breakthrough direction, this time, Ariza is ready, knowing that Embiid will come over to block and dismantle, and deliberately leaves a little distance for himself.

Moreover, Capela is also fully focused and ready to make up for it at any time.

While Embiid came up to block the demolition, Ariza hurriedly stepped back, circled Embiid, and chased after Simmons, while Capela also made up for it.

The duo suddenly formed a wrap-around trend for Embiid.

If Simmons is forcing a shot, there is a high probability that the ball will be broken by the two, and Paul also moved two steps towards the midline, ready to break fast at any time.

Judging from the data, Simmons is not a master of passing, and there are several probabilities that he will attack.

However, to everyone's surprise, Simmons made a backhand pass that went between Ariza and Capela.

After Embiid, who was unmarked, received the ball, he took a step and provoked a two-handed dunk.

"When did these two people cooperate so tacitly?" Even Cheng Lei off the court couldn't believe it, is this the previous 76ers?

It turns out that the Jazz Boozer and Delon like to play this kind of two-handed blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, and now Simmons and Embiid have also understood this trick?

The 76ers watched the game, and indeed as they themselves said, gave the Rockets a dismount, and the Rockets have not yet recovered from this rhythm.

The unusually tacit understanding of the two offenses, coupled with Foltz's timely inward cut, made D'Antoni feel that this 76ers team was a little unfamiliar.

Their style of play has become very similar to the style of play of the peak Spurs trident back then, and if time goes by, maybe it will really achieve the effect of the Spurs back then.

If the first time they played against the 76ers, their chemistry was a piece of loose sand, now they have a certain cohesion and know which direction to work into.

At the beginning, it directly hit the Rockets with a wave of 8:2 small climax, which everyone didn't expect.

The Rockets are on their home court, pressed and beaten by the 76ers.

"Defend! Defend! The audience consciously and rhythmically sounded the voice of support.

It was not a way to play like this, and Coach D'Antoni decisively called a timeout and rearranged the tactics.

"They're on this lineup now, and they're a bit of a playoff team!" Even Harden is starting to admit their strength and stop treating them as the bottom team in the league.

"The current 76ers team, compared to the first game, has cooperated too much, everyone must not be careless!" After D'Antoni glanced at everyone, he continued: "Ariza, in your next game, don't let Simmons break through in the direction of the baseline and force him to go up!" ”

"Capela, try to go around and defend Simmons, don't let him come and block easily!"

The atmosphere on the Rockets' side is very dignified, on the contrary, on the 76ers' side, the atmosphere is much more relaxed.

"Simmons, you played well, that's it, let's beat Team Rocket in one fell swoop!" Foltz said with a smile.

"How is it, do you think that this style of play is much easier now? Moreover, the efficiency is much higher than before! The 76ers' assistant coach said.

Since the team began to learn from the Spurs' style of play, it has achieved good results, and the coach's bench is obviously very happy to see the team's progress.

(End of chapter)