"Beep." The game officially began, and there was no doubt that Channing Frye, the floor streamer, was no match for Warcraft at all, and the rebounds were swept away by Howard.

As the biggest free agent of the summer, "Warcraft" once caused five NBA teams to scramble. But in the end, he chose to leave the Lakers, who had an illustrious history, and switched to the younger, more dynamic Rockets.

Why is Howard on the Rocket? The story has to start in April 2012, when the regular season reached a critical moment, Dwight Howard announced that he had not recovered from a back injury and refused to play for the rest of the game for the Magic. He then flew to Los Angeles to meet with spine surgeon Watkins and announced his season reimbursement. Previously, Howard played in a total of 621 NBA games, the most of any active center in the NBA in the first eight seasons, and can be called a "model worker".

Six months later, Orlando didn't wait for the monster to return, and he stayed in Los Angeles and became a Lakers player. But Howard seems to have only seen the bright side of Los Angeles and ignored the pressure he was about to take on with the Lakers.

Since coming to the Lakers, Warcraft and Kobe have not found a tacit understanding, and before the Christmas game, their record was 14-15, less than 50%. The Lakers have poor results, and Howard is not honest in the locker room, and he can't stand his big brother Kobe Bryant scolding him in the locker room in January: "Every time you scold me behind my back, everyone will reach my ears." Every time you're funny in the dressing room, I can see it. The teammates looked at the two bigwigs who turned their faces and chose to be silent. From this moment on, the tone has been set for the two of them not to get along, and it is a tacit fact that one of them will leave the team after the season.

It was Bryant's criticism of Warcraft in January that made it clear to Howard that no matter how hard he tried, this team was still Kobe's. If you can't compete for the title, you won't be in Los Angeles for long.

30 minutes before Howard officially announced that he would join the Rockets, his agent Dan Fagan was still trying to defend his players, and he still had a 50% chance of staying with the Lakers, but he didn't expect Lakers manager Kubchak to directly announce 15 minutes later: "Howard, we don't want it." Another 15 minutes later, Howard changed his profile picture to Rocket on Weibo, and Kobe Bryant unfollowed Warcraft almost at the same time. All this happened in half an hour, and it is hard not to be reminded of the fact that they already knew, just waiting for who would pierce this layer of window paper first.

The Lakers' locker room tensions are still irreconcilable, which is a key reason why they stumbled into the playoffs last season and were swept out of the first round by the Spurs. Even at the most critical moment in the fight for Warcraft, the team's boss Kobe Bryant made a cold remark: "You have to learn how to win the championship first," which is simply touching the reverse scales of Warcraft, and what Howard hates most is that others command him strongly.

"Howard is not a man who respects veterans, he likes to joke too much at times, but he doesn't have a sense of proportion, so much so that he sometimes goes overboard. And several big names in the Lakers, almost all of them are highly respected, and their interests are very different from Howard's, except for Artest, no one can play with him. ESPN expert Bill Simmons revealed. Howard is a kid king, but in the Lakers' locker room, no one wants to take him seriously. ”

"In the Lakers' locker room, Howard couldn't find a sense of identity, and his cousin, Kevin, who was also one of his personal agents, often complained that Howard was unhappy." Simmons said. "When you own an unhappy beast, you only have a cat, not a lion."

Harden holds the ball through the half court to the top of the arc, yes, the Rockets are the same as the Lakers and the Heat, the point guard does not let alone organize the offense, and even the responsibility of dribbling the ball over the half court will be deprived many times. The Rockets had Beverley, Cargarcia, and Jones pulling away, and Howard was hovering on the right side of the paint area.

This season, the Rockets' strategy is to focus on the fast break, focusing on attacking the basket and three-point shooting.

Generally speaking, the center will definitely come out to block and dismantle at this time, but the rocket tactics are not arranged in this way.

A big reason is that Warcraft can only go down the block and dismantle, and cannot disassemble the mid-shot, plus Warcraft picks up the earth and dribbles one or two steps to deal with the ball is not an absolute block-and-tear bully like Xiao Si, resulting in a single choice of defenders who play blocking and dismantling with him, and the best choice for the ball is the most difficult air relay, if you catch the ball at a slightly farther away, Warcraft, especially in the last two seasons, has no ability to handle the ball. In addition, Warcraft's positioning of itself is different from that of other pie-feeding centers, and Warcraft must think that the current self is still the inside giant type of interior line that should carry the banner of the traditional center, and it is normal to dislike blocking and dismantling.

But the past two years seem to have been a bit unworkable, of course, Howard will not think that his ability has declined, he attributed these things to the injury is not thorough, he believes that when his back injury is fully recovered, the lumbar spine protrusion can return to the peak.

Due to the lack of dominance on the inside, D'Antoni arranged a lot of pick-and-roll tactics for Howard last season, but ...... He didn't even want to help Nash block people, plus he didn't have the ability to play hard inside, and he didn't shoot in the middle, every time he went up to block and dismantle halfway, when he didn't block people at all and went inside, the opponent didn't bird him, resulting in the outside line being trapped, and he could only pass the ball to him, and then he made a single mistake, either being stealed or hitting iron.

And Harden didn't expect Howard to come out to block and dismantle, he and Howard have also been teammates for a few months, and they know the style of play of Warcraft very well, so he directly chose to single PJ Tucker on the outside.

Anyway, Harden, who made his debut with the Thunder, said what is the tactic? X**D is it, didn't Brother Thunder three reach the finals with X**D tactics back then?

He just signed a five-year contract with the Rockets last season with a total price of $76.8 million, and changed from the sixth man of the Thunder to the core of the Rockets.

"Mine!" Sure enough, as Yao Ming expected before the game, the monster that jumped high under the basket took off the rebound, and Channing Fry, who was reimbursed for the season because of heart disease last year, was out of reach and could only look at the basket and sigh.

"Here you go." After Howard won the rebound, he found that Marcus and Frye were posted, so he didn't force his lame back single, turned his head to look at Harden, didn't pass, and passed to Terrence Jones, who pulled to the outside, Terrence Jones made a three-point shot, and also missed.

"Mine!" Li Mojie was in a hurry, how could he shoot like this, so he grabbed the rebound in front of Howard, and there was a burst of cheers from Chinese fans on the sidelines.

Li Mojie's face remained unchanged, and he dribbled directly across the half court, and Francesco Garcia on the opposite side hurriedly caught up, he was very excited about this game, because the competition for the forward position of the rocket was very fierce, if it weren't for Parsons, Asik and others to recuperate from injuries, he wouldn't have been able to get the position at all.

"Rookie, I heard that you were treated badly in the last game? Yes, this is your strength, don't deny it, you can't! Garcia squirted as soon as he came up.

Li Mojie immediately became angry when he heard this, facing Prince in the last game, if it wasn't for the team's early admission of defeat and allowing him to score more points, I'm afraid his record of scoring consecutive doubles would be over, and the media really didn't say anything good about him after the game.

So Li Mojie lowered his center of gravity at the top of the three-point arc, cut the ball to his left hand after a few dribbles, took a step forward to the left with the ball in his left hand, and stood in a horse step, with his left foot in front of him and behind his right foot; After the slight "worship Buddha" stepped out of the right foot, a crotch dribble, the ball was cut from the left hand to the right hand, the left foot stepped forward, the left foot immediately kicked back as soon as it landed, the knee was slightly bent, the body squatted, staring ahead, the legs suddenly exerted force, bounced high, the arm pushed the ball up, and the wrist gently shook the ball to the basket.

"Huh!" Basketball obedient into the pocket.

"Beautiful continuous shaking, Li Mojie's signature right-handed step-back jumper." Director Zhang shouted, he liked this kind of technical action too much.

"Lee Mojie used his beautiful technique to help the Suns score in the opening game." Yao Ming also exclaimed.

"Who do you think you are? What cats and dogs can guard me off? Li Mo said contemptuously. Since Li Mo's fame, no matter which team he encounters, he has spared no effort to defend him, and he has long felt very irritable. After all, Prince was also one of the Pistons Five Tigers in the last game, and he was still at the age of 33 and was not in a stage of complete decline, with excellent height and long arms, and very rich defensive experience. But this kind of cat and dog who has never heard the name also ran over to spray him, and he couldn't stand it a little.