"It's a no-brainer, it's not a playoff-level contest at all." ーespn

"Even though it's only been one game, we all know the outcome of the whole series." - Chicago Worker

"1:0 = 4:0, no mercy." The Cleveland Truth-Telling Newspaper

"The Rockets really should think about their opponents for the next round." The Houston Real-Time

"The team's two and three leaders are mysteriously missing, can the Portland Trail Blazers win one of them?" - Portland Basketball Pioneer

At the end of the game, the Rockets finally defeated the opponent by 36 points 126:90, which was a slaughter, and this point difference also created the largest net win of the Rockets in the playoffs, surpassing the 35 points of the Rockets led by Big Dream in 1995 and becoming the new No.1 in the playoffs.

In this game, the main players of the two sides really met on the field for no more than 20 minutes, but in this short 20 minutes, the tone of the game was set, which also shows how big the gap between the two teams is, which can already be described as a chasm.

The Trail Blazers are actually not so dish, but the playoffs are different from the regular season after all, the defensive intensity here is higher, the physical contact penalty is also greater, once the hardness is raised, some of the Portlanders' problems of not being able to play tough battles are suddenly reflected, and this year is not the time for them to enter the playoffs and get good results, because some of them are not ready to play the playoffs, not to mention that this state is a bit restrained by their rockets, Even if they were replaced by the Lakers, who won many times in the regular season, they could abuse the Trail Blazers under the rules of the playoffs.

Some people will say that Totoro himself is also a playoff recruit, but the Rockets are all veterans who have been in the league for at least two years except him, and the Trail Blazers are still too young to be the opponents of the Rockets, and the current playoffs are a bit polarized, either the team is too old, and the players in the team have experience but the body can't keep up with the ideas, or the team is too young, impetuous, and inexperienced, and there are too few players like the Rockets who have playoff experience in their playing years, This is the kind of team that will produce results this year.

In the first game, experts and fans gave the coffin of the confrontation between the two teams to be finalized, and the outside odds of the bookmaker in the second game also became 1:15, but this still couldn't stop the fans from going crazy and squeezing the Rockets to win, and the bookmaker originally wanted to adjust the odds to 1:20, but several millions of dollars suddenly injected money into the counter-pressure Trail Blazers to win, which caused them to be vigilant.

These millions of dollars are not the amount that ordinary American families can come up with, let alone use it all for gambling, the people who can pay these dollars must be small, and this situation dares to pressure the pioneers to win, then there must be a secret that cannot be said!

In order to prevent their own blood collapse, the bookmaker did not exaggerate the odds to 1:20, they have received a little wind, it seems that the Rockets themselves have internal ideas to deliberately lose in the next game, of course, they are in favor of this, because now 99 out of 100 people buy the Rockets to win, even if everyone contributes, they are equivalent to making 84 people's money.

And the league and the team owner here is even more no problem, the Rockets and the Trail Blazers play one more game, they can have one more game of ratings and ticket money, if the Rockets are not sensible, the league management is also ready to intervene to arrange the referee to interfere in the game, and now the Rockets are so understanding, they are naturally willing to accept it.

Trail Blazers fans are also satisfied with this, their team can win a game to save face so that they are not so embarrassed, and some legendary fans of faith can also make a lot of money from it, but it is too sad for those gamblers and Rockets fans to suffer from the fact that the team they worked so hard to support deliberately loses, and this kind of truth is really hurtful if they know.

But they will never know the truth, the Rockets will have 10,000 reasons to explain why they lost, and when the time comes, like Yao Ming's old injury recurrence, Totoro is unwell, Iguodala has no feelings, and Battier occasionally feels cold, these reasonable insiders will be picked up, not only can the fans not say anything about their loss, on the contrary, they have to be grateful, it turns out that their players are fighting with injuries, what a great professionalism is this?

This is definitely a fart, the NBA is a field of interest, players compete for the championship just to gild themselves to get a bigger contract, they play for money, there are very few players who can really reduce their salaries for the benefit of the team, and most of those are veterans in their old age, and there is almost no star who can really play.

In addition to the Rockets' game, the Lakers unexpectedly killed the Mavericks at home, Kobe Bryant was still brave, scoring 37 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, Gasol 21 points and 13 boards, Bynum 13 points and 7 boards, Odom 14 points and 4 assists, on the other hand, on the Mavericks' side, in addition to Nowitzki's still stable 30 points and 8 boards, the Mavericks only Super Sixth Man Jet Terry scored double-doubles, when a team has to rely on the bench to save, it is inevitable that they will lose.

The Cavaliers and the Magic also defeated their respective opponents bloodlessly, and the dark horse that playoff fans are most looking forward to did not appear as promised, with the division of the heroes for several years, and now there are several powerful forces in the league again, and there are only a few teams of the Lakers Rockets, Spurs, Magic, and Green Shirts who are expected to compete for the championship this year, and the other are too far apart from the above.

The Rockets rested the day after their first game, but the Rockets were not idle, and although Adelman banned a lot of team practice, he still asked each teammate to report in the arena at 8 a.m. and get together to watch other NBA teams play to get a sense of what their potential opponents are like.

There are still ideas within the Rockets this year, their biggest goal is to compete for the championship, and this does not seem to be impossible to complete, and now the three hurdles in front of them are the Spurs, the Lakers and the Celtics, and the other teams Rockets are not worried, in other words, as long as the Rockets can defeat these three opponents, they will be able to win the O'Brien Cup again after 13 years, and raise a banner representing the best honor of basketball in the sky above the Dragonborn Cave Arena.

And there are signs of this, Alexander accepted the Rockets in '94, and they won the championship that year with the eighth overall pick in the West, and this year the Rockets have a new owner, aren't they going to win the championship again this year? According to this logic, it is not without a little reason.

In the lounge of the stadium, the bold Chinese boss directly bought a 46-inch large screen LCD TV and put it in it, the Rockets players are more like a food exchange meeting between China and the United States, the little giant has a lot of fried food from his own Yao restaurant, pot stickers, fritters, these domestic snacks, the power of Great Chinese cuisine is very great, it may usually be an ordinary breakfast that Chinese people eat to vomit, but in the eyes of the big black man, it is like a delicious food in the world, one hand is stuffed into the mouth and one hand is taken on the plate, I didn't think about the game in front of the TV at all.

And those Yankees brought over were ordinary beer turkeys, Totoro and Yao Ming took a fork and ate without a bite, they were really tired of eating these things, American food is very simple, breakfast is bread and milk, lunch is either fast food or pizza, at night there is also a little vegetable salad, fried half-cooked beef, and the wealthy family eats foie gras and drinks cat feces coffee at most, and the tricks are finished in a week.

My neighbor toro thinks it's great that he can eat in the United States for two years, but fortunately there is a Chinatown in almost every city in the United States, and fortunately, Yao Ming opened a Chinatown in Houston, otherwise Totoro thinks he really won't live long in the United States.

In the first game of the Spurs vs. Jazz, the Jazz were pressed to the ground by GDP and Popovich throughout the game, and the situation was completely different from the five or five predicted by experts before the game, Duncan was already 30+, but in the face of Boozer, who was five years younger than him, he still hit one by one, and on the other hand, the anti-bone boy could not break through Duncan's defense at all, and the whole court was blown up by Shifo's offensive and defensive ends, which made people look like this was not a confrontation between superstars and all-stars at all, but a game of superstars abusing ordinary players, It's a shame that the anti-bone boy still boasts all day long that he has played in the Western Finals, so he is a quasi-superstar, and it is estimated that even Jazz fans don't recognize this quasi-giant for this performance.

Deron Williams also performed very sluggishly in this game, but the little fat man was not because of his own problems, but was pitted by the team and teammates, Duncan can also come out from time to time to delay himself while taking care of Boozer, Bowen, who is ready to retire this year, harassed himself with his signature small actions, Parker's speed can allow him to keep up with himself after losing his position, and the most important thing is that there is a strategizing Popovich standing on the sidelines, and the old man laid a "pocket array" against him today, Delong feels that it is easy to break through the first line of defense on the line every time, but after breaking in, he is often "beaten" by a group of people, and his teammates watching the play next to him do not help him in the slightest.

Sloan's Jazz doesn't have too many routines, the defense relies on toughness, the offense relies on blocking and dismantling, to put it bluntly, it depends on two players to play the world, but the Spurs on the opposite side have kneaded five people into a team, this is an unfair matchup of two against five, and now there is a person who has dropped the line halfway, and the helplessness of the situation is estimated to be only understood by DeLong and Sloane in their own hearts.

Hornets and Suns, Paul shined at home, scoring 36 points and 14 assists not only beat Nash, but also led the team to a 16-point advantage over the Suns.

You can imagine Paul being able to dunk on Howard's head with this kind of physical energy, coupled with his historic ball sense and dribbling skills, passing skills and offensive means, as well as his rare ball IQ and IQ among blacks, Paul really has no reason not to succeed.

Although his fate is more tragic, his life seems to have been cursed, first he was seriously injured and then directly removed half of the meniscus and lost nearly forty percent of his athletic ability, and then the team owner went bankrupt, the team was managed by the league, and after being traded to the Clippers, Paul thought he could regain his life, but his good helpers White Monster and Uncle Liu Huang were not as powerful as they imagined, and the team's playoff record also plummeted, either this injury or that injury, and finally eliminated the Spurs to survive to the second round but was magically Rockets 3:1 Reversal, this kind of unfortunate thing with a small probability Paul has almost all of them, which is also quite tragic.........

However, Totoro doesn't know if his current crossing will change Paul's current established fate, Queen Bee became a captain after being injured and is still the top three point guards in the league, and after the age of 30, he is still the top five super backcourt in the league, the uncrowned king, can you imagine that if he can stay healthy, then the West Final floor that he has not touched is still an ethereal dream?

Nash who was opposite Paul cut 21 points and 10 assists, the son of the wind has tried his best, the players he met in the past are not as good as himself, the ball quotient with better skills than himself is not as good as him, and the speed of the ball quotient is better than his own and not as fast as him, but this Paul is like God sent to restrain him, leading himself in all aspects, if he was placed 5 years ago, although he still can't prevent Paul from asking himself, but Nash can also guarantee that the opponent can make up for all the points he can get back on himself, but it's a pity that the years are a pig-killing knife, Any player is so vulnerable to the power of time.

In addition, Xiao Si played abnormally under the full name of boxing champion Tyson Chandler, and only scored 14 dismal data, O'Neal 1 6 points and 7 boards, Brazilian Lightning Barbosa 13 points, in addition to the Suns no one scored a double-double, and the Hornets Peja scored 17 points on 5-of-5 shooting, David West steadily contributed 18 points and 10 boards of double-double data, and Tyson Chandler, who is known for his defense, also frequently performed aerial relays on the Suns' interior under Paul's feeding, relied on dunks to get 10 points and 13 boards.

The offensive firepower can't be compared, which is a devastating blow to the Suns who rely on shelling to eat, and it becomes reasonable that they can't beat the Hornets, and Phoenix fans are also very disappointed with the performance of the Suns, whose city team has been a league powerhouse every year since the 20th century, and who can fall behind the Phoenix Suns when it comes to championship seeds? They can be compared with the Spurs and Lakers at their peak, but the latter two teams have won three consecutive championships in the new century, and one will win the championship in odd-numbered years.