On the morning of January 8, the rocket departed from Houston International Airport and flew to Orlando.

The Rockets' next opponent is the Orlando Magic, who are currently the worst team in the East.

Last season, Grant Hill made a brief comeback, playing half of the games that finally left the Magic at the bottom of the league in a row.

But this season, Grant Hill is once again out for the season, and the Magic are left with only a group of shrimp soldiers, and the best player should be McMiller, who is averaging 16.4 points per game this season.

Darryl Armstrong, the outside pillar of the past few seasons, has declined badly, and Gordon Grisek, a rookie from Europe, should be the second best player on this Magic team, averaging 14.3 points per game this season.

The No. 3 person should be the No. 4 rookie Drew Gooden this season, and when given enough possession, Drew Gooden's average data per game is only 13.6 points and 8.6 rebounds.

With such an opponent, the Rockets naturally don't have much pressure, and the only problem may be that the Rockets are back-to-back in this game.

On the other hand, the opponents on the Sun's side are going to face the Jazz who continues to sit on the old Utah twin shasers, although the twins are old, but the power is still there.

Karl Malone still has the ability to average 20+10 per game, but John Stockton's decline is a bit serious, but the power of the double brake block is still huge, and this game will be a severe test for the Suns.

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At six o'clock in the evening, the game began.

In this game, Qiao Hai's starting lineup is more conventional, and the outside line is still Steve Francesca James Posiga Roen Artest's strong man combination, and the inside line is a slow and fast combination of Yao Ming and Chris Anderson.

On the Magic side, the starting point guard is Jacques Vaughn, scoring guard Gordon Gillishk, small forward McMiller, power forward Pat Garriti and center Drew Gooden.

McBrin in the commentary box shouted, "Druguden is against Yao Ming!" This is a direct confrontation between the No. 4 rookie and the top show! ”

The matchup between Yao Ming and Drew Gooden, to a certain extent, is indeed one of the highlights of this game, Orlando has been hot for a long time, and they want Gooden to prove that he is a better interior player than Zhuangyuanlang.

But the Rockets are quite insensitive, Drugouden, who averages 13.6 points and 8.6 rebounds per game, compared with Yao Ming, who averages 13.5 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game, the data seems to be not much different, in fact, the impact of the two on the game is huge, Yao Ming can cut 30+ to lead the team to win, and Druguden can't do this.

Moreover, Yao Ming averaged only 10.6 points, 6.3 rebounds, 1.2 assists and 1.4 blocks per game in November.

In fact, after Qiao Hai took over the Rockets, even Yao Ming at the data level was not on the same level as Drew Gooden.

Therefore, for the media hype of the showdown between Zhuangyuanlang and the No. 4 show, the Rockets did not pay attention to it at all.

……

The competition has officially begun.

Jumping ball, Yao Ming won the victory.

At the beginning, the Rockets played an outside blocking and pick-and-roll cooperation, and Steve Francis forced to break through the interior after covering and missed the throw.

Switching to the Magic offense, Gordon Girisek's jumper was similarly iron.

The Magic weren't the Timberwolves, and they couldn't lock up the Rockets' mid-range offense, so after the opening tentative, Steve Francis quickly used the same routine to score a mid-range step-back jumper.

The rocket was the first to open its beard.

Then, the Magic also scored, McMiller singled on the left, broke through and hit a pull-up jumper, hitting a mid-range shot.

The Rockets' offense is still Yao Ming and Francis's high-post blocking, and after blocking and dismantling, the Magic's defense quickly expanded, but inside, Chris Anderson suddenly cut into the basket, received Francis's pass, and dunked to score 2 points.

Then, the two sides struck iron one after another.

On the Magic side, after Gordon Girisek cut inside, he shook off the defender, received the ball and raised his hand to shoot, and the ball went in! The score is 4:4 draw!

The rocket's offense, Yao Ming received the ball in the middle distance, and then shot, this was the first time Yao Ming received the ball in this game, but the final result was that the shot was missed, and a burst of cheers immediately broke out on the sidelines of the Amway Center.

The DJ even shouted, "Drew made a successful defense!" ”

Joheinick Young question mark face, successful defense? Could it be that Yao Ming's poor hand felt that led to this ironing? What does it have to do with Drugurdon's defense?

The game continued, the Magic's offense, McMiller forced the inside, attracted a pinch shot and forced a layup, deflected!

But with a beep, the referee blew the whistle and signaled Steve Francis, who assisted in the defense, to foul, and this time, Qiao Hai asked Nick Young to have a question mark face again.

He walked directly to the sidelines, spread his hands, and expressed his dissatisfaction.

The defense of this ball is still very clean, if there is a problem, the only problem should be that the action on the defensive end is a little bigger, and it looks like the penalty area is a crowd of people on their backs.

But Qiao Hai didn't think the ball was a foul, so he complained twice.

The referee warned Qiao Hai, and Qiao Hai immediately stopped talking and retreated.

McMiller still walked to the free-throw line and made both free throws, giving the Magic a two-point lead.

The Rocket's offense is still the blocking and dismantling cooperation of Yao Ming and Francis in the high position, after blocking and dismantling, Francis rushed in, attracted the pinch shot, and gave the ball to Yao Ming, Yao Ming also defended in the mid-range position.

Therefore, he did not make a move, and turned around and gave it to Ron Artest, who went around the bottom corner.

Altai burst with the ball, and at the same time, Francis went around the box and took away the Magic's defense in the box.

Chris Anderson got off to a sudden start, and Artey passed a high ball directly.

Bang! Chris Anderson on the inside line is on fire! Hit the dunk!

At the beginning, the Magic and the Rockets played a tie, Drew Gooden did not show much, the Magic's shots were concentrated on the outside, and on the Rockets' side, Yao Ming's appearance rate was quite high, but Yao Ming on the court was more like a pillar, and his presence was not strong.

However, Yao Ming was still trying to shoot, and in the next two minutes, Yao Ming made another mid-range shot, still striking iron.

Yao Ming shot twice and hit the iron twice, and the Amway Center was even more excited, although Drew Gooden didn't play much, but this did not prevent Magic fans from gloating about Yao Ming's poor performance.

In the second half of the first quarter, Qiao Hai replaced Steve Francis, and Yao Ming became the main point of attack on the court.

"Da Yao, be more decisive! You have to believe that you can shoot those shots! ”

Yao Ming nodded vigorously.

The game restarted, the Rocket's high block and dismantling cooperation, Ron Artest held the ball, and after a quick breakthrough, he quickly completed a hand-to-hand cooperation with Yao Ming.

Yao Ming received the ball silently and was one step away from Druguden, who was defending him.

Decisive shot! He thought of Qiao Hai's request.

So, he didn't hesitate to shoot directly!

"Yao Ming's long-range two-pointer!"

Swish!

"The ball is in!"

For a moment, the Amway Center was silent, except for the boiling on the rocket bench.

"Well done, Da Yao!"

Qiao Hai on the sidelines clapped his hands, shouted in Chinese, and finally gave a thumbs up.

Yao Ming also gave a thumbs up, the Magic's offense began, and the Rockets' defense quickly fell into place.

Magic's offense, Gordon Grisek hit a mid-range shot, turned, the Rockets' offense, Yao Ming took the ball again in the mid-range, and after attracting the Magic's defense like a magnet, he quickly passed the ball and assisted Carlos Boozer on the other side to hit a mid-range shot.

Then, on the offense of the Magic, Darryl Armstrong, who came off the bench, broke through the inside, the ball was divided into baskets, and Drew Gooden received the ball for a layup and scored two points.

With a bang, the Amway Center was boiling again.

But soon, the rocket's offense, Yao Ming took the ball in a high position and shot directly.

Bang!

Ball in!

It's an anserball! Almost instantly! Yao Ming returned the ball forcefully! Amway Center, which was still cheering wildly one second, was quiet the next.

And when Yao Ming waved his hands and began to celebrate, a wave of crazy boos erupted in the Amway Center!

However, for Yao Ming, this boo is like an encouragement to him, an affirmation of him, the opening hand is not good, and now he has scored two goals in a row, including an anserball, Yao Ming's state has improved.

Magic's offense, Gordon Girisek forced the inside, and Yao Ming rushed up to hit a big hat.

Then, with the Rockets' offense, Ron Artest drew a foul on McMiller and went to the free throw line, hitting the first free throw and missing the second.

Yao Ming grabbed the offensive rebound and missed the layup again, but it caused Drew Gooden's foul!

In the second half of the first quarter of the game, Yao Ming, who had no solution, broke out!