In the early morning of the next day, Qiao Hai was woken up by the alarm clock, and he quickly got dressed and went out.

I knocked on Steve Francis's door again, and after knocking for about a minute, there was a click, and the door opened.

Standing in the doorway was the sleepy-eyed Trent Morris.

He looked at Qiao Hai and was a little surprised: "Boss? Can I help you? ”

Qiao Hai did not answer, but bypassed Trent Morris, walked into the room, and saw Steve Francis, who was still asleep.

However, Qiao Hai's movement in the door was too loud, and Francis had already woken up, sat up suddenly, squinted his little eyes, and glared at Qiao Hai.

"When did you come back last night?"

Qiao Hai didn't have any nonsense, opening his mouth was such a problem.

Steve Francis is still playing dumb: "What? ”

Trent Morris was really stupid, and he replied directly: "It's ...... at 2 o'clock."

The next second, he realized that he had made a mistake and was busy silencing.

But by this time, it was already too late.

Qiao Hai turned around and left the room, and went to knock on the room of Muchinoris and Kenny Thomas again, this time, Kenny Thomas and Muchinoris had a hard mouth and never admitted it.

But Joe Hai directly named Trent Morris and Steve Francis in the other room, and Muchinoris was the first to admit his mistake.

Kenny Thomas had no choice but to admit it.

So, everything is clear!

Qiao Hai didn't say anything more, just said: "Before the afternoon game, you will know what the team's punishment is for you." ”

……

On the day of the game, the Rockets did not arrange training, but only rented the hotel gym for the players to maintain their condition.

In the evening, the team opened the Phillips Arena.

In the away locker room of the Phillips Arena, all the players were seated, and Qiao Hai quickly took out a list and read it out: "There are a total of four people on the inactive list today, namely Steve Francis, Kenny Thomas, Muchinoris and Trent Morris. ”

Not activating the roster, and being on this roster, means that in today's game, these players are destined to not play.

Generally speaking, a 15-player NBA team will have 3 players on the inactive list per game, while the Rockets only have 14 players, so they will have 2 players on the inactive list per game.

Of course, there is no upper limit on the players who can enter the inactive list, so similar to Qiao Hai, there are also operations that directly put four players into the inactive list, but generally this operation will occur when the team has a serious injury tide and a large number of injured players.

Qiao Hai directly put four players into the inactive list, of which Steve Francis is the absolute core of the team, and Muchinoris is the team's main substitute, which is quite strange.

Many players who didn't know the truth showed puzzled expressions, and some players who knew the inside story bowed their heads, which was no longer strange.

Qiao Hai announced as he observed the expressions of the four people.

Steve Francis lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking, Muchinoris looked ashamed, Kenny Thomas looked as usual, and there seemed to be no change, and Trent Morris was even more indifferent, even if there was no such thing, Trent Morris would be on the inactive list.

Qiao Hai also did not explain why Steve Francis would be on the inactive list, he directly continued to announce: "The starting lineup for this game is, Yao Ming, Chris Anderson, Ron Artest, James Posey and Ralph Alston. ”

The starting list Qiao Hai was announced from the center, and only then did he shout Alstom's name.

In fact, Alston had already guessed that Francis might be starting when he appeared on the inactive list.

When Qiao Hai actually called his name, Ralph Alston was still a little excited, a little excited.

Alston has been on the bench for two months as the team's third point guard, and he knows that as a point guard who hasn't had many opportunities in the first two seasons and has had poor performances, he needs to be patient and wait patiently for his opportunity.

But he didn't expect that the opportunity that he was really waiting for was that this opportunity was so spicy! Spicy vast!

……

Needless to say, the tactical setup of this game was as Chris Anderson defended Raheem one-on-one and was tasked with protecting the rebounds in the backcourt.

Then the rest of the defense expands out, locking in the mid-range, forcing the opponent to either break through the basket or shoot from a distance.

Without Steve Francis on the offensive end, the Rockets can only play Atega Yao Ming's duo, and Qiao Hai doesn't have much to expect from the street ball king Alston.

However, in his mind, as long as Yao Ming and Atai are in good shape, there is no problem with winning this game.

……

Out of the locker room, after a short warm-up, the game began.

At the end of the Rockets bench, Steve Francis, Muchinorris, Kenny Thomas and Trent Morris sat in line, and the starters on the court surprised everyone.

"Steve Francis didn't start, and that's it, the Rockets' second point guard, Muchinoris, didn't start either, and it was their third point guard, Raff Alstone, who started?"

"What's going on?"

No one knew what was going on, and Qiao Hai didn't have a chance to explain it to them now, and the game started in everyone's confusion.

In this game, the Rockets' tactical strategy was still correct, and at the beginning, Raheem's low-post single was locked by Chris Anderson's single defense, and his consecutive shots were inaccurate.

But helplessly, Jason Terry on the outside exploded, took a step after continuous blocking, stepped on the three-point line, and scored consecutive goals.

In the first quarter, Jason Terry shot 4-of-6, got 8 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists, and took the Hawks and Rockets to a 24-23, and the Hawks still led by 1 point.

The best performer on the Rockets' side was Yao Ming, who scored 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting in the first quarter, followed by Boozer, who came off the bench and scored 7 points on 3-of-4 shooting from mid-range.

And Ralph Alston, who started for the first time in his Rockets career, shot 1 of 3 and only scored 2 points and 1 rebound.

In the second quarter of the game, Qiao Hai continued to play the main force, and while he was playing, the Rockets' offense on all lines broke out, Yao Ming scored 3 points on 1 of 2 shots in this quarter, Boozer scored 4 points on 1 of 2 shots, Ron Artest scored 5 points on 2 of 2, and finally, Love Alstom, who started for the first time in his Rockets career, broke out, scoring 6 points and 3 rebounds in 2 of 5.

In the second quarter, the Rockets played a 24-21 and the score was more than two points.

It was the third quarter that really helped the Rockets complete the comeback.

After a 15-minute break, the Rockets exploded completely, Yao Ming scored 7 points in a single quarter, Jamal Crawford off the bench scored 8 points, Ralph Alston added 6 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists, and Boozer had 4 points and 4 rebounds.

The Rockets beat the Hawks 28-18 in the first quarter, and the margin stretched to 12 points.

In the last quarter, the Rockets played steadily and steadily, relying on the final defensive battle in the fourth quarter, playing a 21:21, and in the end, the Rockets won 96:84, and then won the next game!

This is Qiao Hai's sixth consecutive win after coaching the Rockets!