This year is really an opportunity for the Rockets, originally the outside world, including the Rockets themselves fans, felt that their team was going far this season, and the Yao Mai combination lacked one of them in exchange for two problem players and potential rookies, and no one thought they could make a difference in the competitive West this season.

But when the problem player is not a problem, and the potential rookie redeems his potential ahead of time, everyone is now a little afraid of the luxurious and excessive team lineup of the Rockets........

Does Team Rocket have a superstar? It's really hard to say this question, because Da Yao's supergiant identity has been questioned in the NBA, and physical strength problems and foul problems have always been shackles that limit his contribution to the team, but in his limited playing time, there are really not many people who can limit the little giant one-on-one.

And to say that the All-Star players of the Rockets have just gotten the standard of championship-winning players, Totoro and Artest, one is still on the verge of the All-Star file, and the other only meets the All-Star requirements in a certain aspect, like the teams that are the favorites to win the championship this year, almost all of them are such a configuration, and the Rockets have not taken advantage of the number of stars.

But if you want to talk about starters and bench players who can play, the Rockets are a bit unbeatable in the league.

On the 27th, the Rockets returned to New Orleans to challenge the Hornets, who had beaten them this season.

Whenever facing a team with a super guard, the Rockets will always look very passive, especially against a team like the Jazz and the Hornets with a super point guard, the Rockets win hard every time and lose very simply.

If you are a little bit better at the opponent's scoring guard, the Rockets and Battier and Artest can go up to the front, but the defense of the president and the beast is good, and it can't offset the fact that they originally played the position of small forward, and you let them make a cameo appearance to play the point guard, if you let them lower two positions to play the playmaking guard, it will be a bit difficult for the strongman.

However, the Rockets are not completely disarmed and surrendered this time, Adelman's attainments in defensive tactics are not high, but in the face of a pseudo-strong team like the Hornets with only one superstar, the old coach said that he can still deal with it.

This time, Lowry, who has a better defense than Brooks, was arranged to start by Adelman, he is the first line of defense to consume the queen bee, before the game, Ah Shuai has made it clear to the small steel cannon in the locker room, even if Paul scores 100 points in this game, it will be fine, but Lowry must be on the court all the time to consume Paul, always do physical confrontation with Paul, always entangle each other like a hanged ghost, even if Paul bursts into a sieve for this, it doesn't matter, But what the little steel cannon has to do is to press every minute and every second, so that the queen bee can't get the chance to connect the team.

And Totoro is the second line of defense against Queen Bee.

Today Adelman asked Totoro to hand over the ball and let the beast go to the top of the arc to catch the ball to play the Rockets' Van Gundy era pick-and-roll tactics, and the veteran coach allowed Totoro to be unproductive on the offensive end today, but he had to put his energy on defense.

Not only should you pay attention to the movements of the queen bee, pay attention to the defense and packing, but also always pay attention to your opponent player Stojakovic, once this guy gets too many vacant opportunities, the three-point firepower can definitely shoot a team to death, so even if the game has not started, Totoro has already predicted his fate, and after today's game, he estimated that his running distance was the most in the game..........

The Rockets just walked onto the court with their head coach's tricks, but on the other hand, the Hornets are also fully prepared for this game, they are now in 6th place in the West, and a win may not change the standings, but a loss may fall to 8th in the West.......

From this point, we can see how terrifying the battle for the Western Conference playoffs in the 08-09 season is, the first-ranked Los Angeles Lakers and the tenth-ranked Golden State Warriors are also less than 5 wins, and the difference between the 5-8 places is only 0.5 wins, and some have the same winning rate, but because of the relationship between wins and losses and the different reasons in the region, it is ranked below, so now every team that aspires to the playoffs this year does not want to lose, because even if it is just one loss, you may fall back 4 or 5 places.

Today's Hornets tactics are very simple, Tyson Chandler goes around the front to defend Yao Ming, David West is responsible for the package, James Posey and Stojakovic switch positions to play small forward to defend Totoro, the Rockets think that the Hornets are Paul's team alone, and the Hornets don't think the Rockets are Totoro and Yao Ming's team? Both sides want to strangle the core of the other party, and whose tactical success depends on how well they cultivate.

The Hornets' boxing champion won the scrum, and Paul, unbeknownst to him, still dribbled slowly towards the Rockets' half as usual, but he had just crossed the halfway line with the ball when Lowry reached out with his teeth and claws, which scared Paul a lot.

Please, is there any mistake? This is the first leg of a regular season offense, right? Aren't you a little too blind to me when you come up and press me like this? What when I'm a CBA point guard?

Every NBA player has his own dignity, especially these point guards who have long been famous, just after half of the court, they are close to each other, isn't this a naked contempt for people?

Paul accelerated without warning and planned to forcibly overtake from Lowry's left, and at this time the difference between Lowry and Brooks was reflected, if it was a thin little black bean, it was estimated that he would be squeezed out of the thick queen bee at this time, and he couldn't even buy time for his other teammates to come up to make up for the defense.

But this will be Lowry, who is known as a small steel cannon, although his body is not as muscular as Billups, Westbrook, and Rose, but he can still do it with Paul in the front.

It's just that although Queen Bee's body is good, his breakthrough is not as simple and rough as Westbrook and Rose, and people say that he is a tall player who breaks through with technical rhythm.

A simple pull-and-pull stop, and then a start to accelerate, Lowry suddenly lost his center of gravity, defense is always passive in the basketball game, and it is also this kind of close defense that requires to avoid fouls, if the opponent can't easily pass you, it's hell.

It's just that Paul has just passed Lowry on his front foot, and a tall black shadow behind him has shrouded him.

"Hehe, was it planned before the game?"

Queen Bee was a little surprised to see Totoro filling the position so quickly, but this was just a little surprised.

He is the king of cosover in the NBA league now, in terms of the combination of ball sense and dribbling skills, I am afraid that the former Rockets player street ball king Alston is not his opponent, so simple to rely on the two of them to cover himself, this is too naïve.........