The Houston Rockets, this year's lineup is indeed too strong. Similarly, it also gave many Rockets fans hope of breaking the curse of a round. As for the opponent Grizzlies, Rockets fans are not worried about the outcome at all, in their opinion, the Grizzlies are already meat on the Rockets' board, just wait for the game to start, and they can enjoy it.

But the relaxed mood of the fans, and the outside world's evaluation of the Rockets' easy win in this game, cannot affect Rockets coach Adelman. After the warm-up before the start of the game and the whole team returned to the locker room, Adelman was reminding all the Rockets players: "This game, we can't let our guard down. This year's Grizzlies don't look so weak. Trust me, guys, tonight's game is definitely not going to be too easy. Especially I want Sean, you to take the initiative on the defensive end to stick to their offensive arrows, he is the only player we can get high marks from us in preseason. I need you to limit his play......"

has never fought against Ding Moan, and Maddie, the core of the Rockets' outside line, is so valued by Adelman that he even does not hesitate to send Sean. Battier, the defensive expert who limited Kobe Bryant, couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. Could it be that Ding Mo'an is really strong? Maddie had naturally heard of Ding Mo'an's name, but in his opinion, Ding Mo'an was just a rookie, what kind of level could he have.

It is estimated that if he ran into Sean's defense, this game would be ruined, right?

Maddie thought and smiled. After all, in his opinion, the rookie's combat effectiveness is geometric, and he meets Sean. Battier, a defensive expert, is really unlucky.

As for Ding's pre-season performance, the long-established superstar doesn't take pre-season performance into account. However, what Maddie didn't know was that Adelman still had a crazy idea in his mind, but he didn't say it in front of so many players.

Adelman has considered using Sean. Battier and Artest go together to restrain Ding Moan.

Without him, Ding Mo'an's inexplicable speed has already made the team that has played against the Grizzlies miserable. The speed is incomprehensible, and it is still within the acceptable range, after all, the league already has an iconic figure, Wade.

It's just that Ding Mo'an is different, and he has a precise vacancy mid-distance, which is extremely stable. Especially in this year's NCAA finals, Ding Mo'an has mastered how to shoot when the opponent can still interfere.

Even in Adelman's view, Ding Moan's mid-range shot is far more threatening than a breakthrough. After all, the Rocket's interior lineup, although it cannot be said to be invincible, but the league's top3 status is undisputed.

As long as Ding Mo'an breaks through, it's a big deal to block the inside line, unless Ding Mo'an can cross the inside line and score two less defenses, then Adelman has nothing to say. If Ding Mo'an can't cross it, the end will be to eat a hat or be taken advantage of by the Rockets players around him to cut the ball.

You must know that the last thing the Rockets lack today is the defensive gate. Adelman's concerns are limited to Ding Moan, and other Grizzlies players don't take him so seriously.

And in the away dressing room, Hollins didn't think about it that much. In the case that the gap in strength is already extremely obvious, Hollins is also doing everything possible to strengthen the team's only strong point, Ding Moan.

This is the key to whether the Grizzlies can pull off miracles in this game.

Hollins is well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of the Grizzlies and the Rockets, so he made a clear tactical arrangement: "We're going to play a quick offense in this game, but it's a fast offense on the defensive counterattack. At this point, we have to make the Houstonians run. Although they are very strong on the inside, the sequelae of their strong inside line is that the tonnage and speed of the inside players are not fast, and it is difficult to keep up with our rhythm! ”

In fact, the Grizzlies' offensive model is somewhat similar to the Phoenix Suns' running and shooting, but it is different from theirs.

The Grizzlies' fast offense isn't like the Suns, who have to be fast in every game of the game. One is that the Grizzlies don't have a promoter who can support the team to play a quick offense, and there are no players who have a good sense of offense and defense switching or who can throw a precise long pass from the baseline in the backcourt.

Of course, if there is Nash, Hollins will not hesitate to run and bomb, so that Yao Ming and other Rockets are exhausted. So Hollins didn't ask the team, only played fast offensive ball, and positional battles were also one of the Grizzlies' scoring methods.

The reason is naturally that the Suns do not have players like the core of the team, Ding Moan, who also has a player who can score efficiently and accurately in the open position. Therefore, in the Grizzlies, there is a pick-and-roll cover of the interior twin towers, and it will definitely not miss the most practical mid-range shot for positional warfare.

So while setting the tone for the tactics of this game, Hollins also completed the final work of the head coach. As for whether the tactics he laid out will work or not, it depends on the players.

After the head coach left, the Grizzlies players did not disperse and did their own things, but continued to gather together and look at Ding Moan. Because next is the time for Ding Mo'an, the core of the team.

In fact, if it weren't for the Grizzlies operating in the summer, they would have traded away many veteran players. Perhaps before the start of this season, Ding Mo'an will have to compete with those veteran players for the right to speak in the locker room.

The core of the team and the leader of the locker room is a title that all team bosses must grasp in themselves. It's like the leader of the team is the head of politics, and the leader of the locker room is the head of military power, these two things are missing, and Ding Mo'an, the boss of the team, is not rightly named.

Without the title of political head, empty military power is inevitably a misname. If you have the title of political head but no military power, you will not be able to speak well, and no one will listen to you when you speak, is the core of the team still the core of the team?

It is precisely because of this that Ding Mo'an chose the Grizzlies team, which is ownerless and the old players in the locker room are gone, which undoubtedly saves a lot of trouble than going to other teams.

Coupled with the experience of the Tigers, Ding Mo'an's adaptation to the team boss is handy. So after all the teammates were gathered together, Ding Mo'an stood in the middle and raised his right hand, and the other teammates also took Ding Mo'an as the center and put their hands up one after another.

"Before the game, a lot of people thought we were here, in Houston, to give the Rockets their heads. But in the NCAA, in the Tigers, it's always someone else who gives me heads. Ding Mo'an knew the remarks of the media before the game, and naturally many of his teammates felt that this game was hopeless, after all, in the first game of the regular season, he met a strong team in the West like the Rockets, and the Grizzlies who had always been at the bottom of the fish belly, so it was strange not to panic.

It's just that Ding Mo'an doesn't want his teammates to be afraid of anything, so let the media and Rocket fans who underestimate them repentance for their ignorance tonight!