In the penultimate game of the preseason, the Dallas Mavericks will host the Houston Rockets, who are also in the top three in Texas. Ｘ

The bearded Brother Denge is coming!

Harden is definitely a very special existence for Chinese fans, and after Da Yao's NBA journey ended early due to injury, the biggest benefit is undoubtedly the Houston Rockets.

The huge Chinese fan market, even after Da Yao's retirement, still half of the country fell into the hands of the Houston Rockets. The Houston Rockets, which is among the top 10 in the United States, is definitely an existence that makes every NBA boss blush.

Even teams such as the New York Knicks, Los Angeles Lakers, and Chicago Bulls, which occupy a super-big ball market in the local area, have to look at the Houston Rockets' overseas ball market with three points in their eyes.

However, the Lakers have the "contemporary Jordan" Kobe Bryant in charge, and he also gained a lot of Chinese fans during Da Yao's NBA campaign, after all, in Da Yao's era, Kobe Bryant was undoubtedly the first person in the league.

After Da Yao's retirement, the Rockets have Kevin Martin and Lowry Jr. leading the team, but these two have not shown the ability to become the cornerstone of the Rockets, and can only be regarded as a temporary transition, and these two are not real All-Star players during the Rockets period, although Kevin Martin has also played an average of 20+ per game in consecutive seasons, but his glass physique is too obvious to be recognized by fans and management.

In the end, the Rockets used Kevin Martin as the main body, coupled with a bunch of draft picks to get Harden of the Thunder's three young men, I have to say that Rockets general manager Morey is indeed sophisticated, and this deal successfully obtained the cornerstone of the team's future for the Rockets.

After the bearded Dengge took off the hat of the third son of the Thunder, he was thriving in the Rockets, his personal data and team record have risen year after year, and he has successfully grown from the sixth man of the Thunder to the top two in the league, and even faintly the first quartile after Kobe, although the Buddha of the Warriors is excellent at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, but the Warriors are Curry's team after all, which is obviously a huge disadvantage for him to compete for the first quartile.

Chen Zhi has been looking forward to meeting the Houston Rockets for a long time since he watched the Mavericks' preseason schedule, after all, Harden is the NBA player he is most familiar with in China before, and he will play against the Rockets today.

Although the preseason is not important, it is generally important for teams to take the last few games very seriously, because the regular season is about to begin, and these games are important training periods, and the playing time of the team's main players in these last few games will be greatly increased.

After all, these games can be regarded as a preview of the regular season, and the main players of the team also need more time to play on the court together, and it is naturally not enough to rely on team training alone.

Head coach Carlisle, who has always been completely dismissive of the preseason, had a team meeting, a very formal team meeting, and analyzed the Houston Rockets as he did before the regular season.

"What do you guys think about the Houston Rockets game?" In the conference room, Carlisle asked the players with a smile.

Horse legs are definitely a very active one in the Dallas Mavericks, Nowitzki is the team's anchor, but Matthews also plays a leading role in the locker room, after all, compared to young players such as Chen Zhi and Curry Jr., Matthews can indeed be called a veteran.

"I just know that in this game, against Harden, I have to give my hands clearly, and I must not give him the opportunity to cheat and foul easily. At the same time, when facing Beverley's frantic defense, our ball handler had to be extra careful and protect himself. Matthews shook his head helplessly, as if he had some very unpleasant experiences, probably remembering the moments when he was dominated by Haki's foul skills.

James Harden's touch porcelain and the crazy defense of "Mad Dog" Beverley are definitely very headaches for players in the league.

Harden's foul is good to say, at most it is punished by the referee, although the defensive players who are touched will be very uncomfortable psychologically, especially if they are fouled one after another, it is definitely psychologically devastating to the opponent, because Harden made fouls, and there are many players who shout and complain to the referee, but that is also a reasonable use of the rules, and now many players have begun to learn more foul making skills, which is a very useful skill in the NBA arena.

But Beverley's defense, that is really a little disgusting, the most famous, is to directly abolish Wei Shao's knee in defense, let the latter directly reimburse the season.

This kind of extremely crazy defensive titan is definitely a character that opponents are very disgusted with, it is too dangerous to play with them, and it is not impossible for the career to be scrapped, health is the basic guarantee of the NBA players' "money journey", as the saying goes, cutting off people's financial paths is like killing parents, and guys like Beverley are definitely very unpleasant in the NBA.

However, they are also very popular with their teammates and fans because they are so positive that they can make the fans feel passionate just by defending alone.

Matthews, as the outside defensive leader of the Dallas Mavericks, basically marks the opponent's outside offensive core in every game, not to mention that in this game, James Harden is a split player like him, probably in his opinion, he has to be responsible for marking Mustache in this game, and it is inevitable to suffer a lot.

After all, when facing Harden, you have to be careful at all times on the defensive end, and if you accidentally touch his beard, that guy will turn his head along the way, and the referee is likely to be a whistle!

For other players, body hair fouls are a bit exaggerated, but James Harden is such a strange man, he will really foul when he touches his body hair!

It was the first time for Chen to participate in this kind of team meeting, and when he looked at the scouting report about the Houston Rockets that was handed out to him, he knew that this was the work of the Dallas Rockets' senior scouts.

Obviously, for this year's Houston Rockets, the senior coaches of the Dallas Mavericks have to spend more time paying attention, because this offseason, the changes that have taken place in the Houston Rockets can be described as earth-shattering.

Not only have they had changes in their core players, but also in their manager.

The Rockets had a poor record last season, and there were some problems in the locker room, and Cuban, who had been thinking about getting into Dallas, was extremely unhappy with the Rockets last season, and complained publicly to the Rockets many times.

It's no wonder that Howard complained that Harden averaged 19.7 shots per game for the Rockets last season, while Howard, the second-in-command who is the core of the interior, only averaged 8.5 shots per game, which is definitely not the number of shots that a second-in-command should have.

His average shots per game is still below Trevo Ariza, Marcus Thornton, and even Michael Beasley, who has only played 20 games in Houston, has a higher average of shots per game.

Even though Howard has said goodbye to his peak and is not the man who was able to replace James alone, this number of shots is already an insult for him, after all, he still has a 62% shooting rate, which is still a good finishing efficiency even for a center.

This offseason, Howard, who has reached his contract year, left Houston without nostalgia and returned to his hometown Hawks.

Howard's departure may have a big impact on the team, and the Rockets have a young "card" Capela who can make up for Howard's vacancy, after all, Howard didn't have many roles in the Rockets before.

And the young Capela may be a more suitable center player for the Rockets than Warcraft in the new season, because Mike De Anthony has become the new head coach of the Rockets after "Refrigerator" Michael Hale and Bickerstaff.

And the hiring of mustachioed Mike D'Anthony as the team's head coach in the new season is the main reason for the Rockets' major changes.

Fans who are familiar with the Suns of the Nash Orange Storm are certainly no strangers to this mustache coach, he is the head coach of the Suns' run-and-bomb team back then, and it only takes 7 seconds for an offense to be launched and completed, bringing the fast offense to the extreme.

The head coach and former Mavericks head coach Nelson Sr. is arguably the leader of the bombardment tactics in the NBA, while D'Antoni is undoubtedly the most accomplished coach in terms of running and shooting. Although the Warriors are also a shooting team, Kerr's style of play with the Warriors is not pure running and shooting.

The run-and-gun tactic, as you can clearly see from the name, is most focused on fast movement and three-point shooting, which is undoubtedly also a small-ball tactic.

The Rockets introduced D'Antoni as the head coach, and the main theme of the Rockets in the new season in the offense is undoubtedly the bombardment tactics, faster movement speed, and more three-point shooting!

That's why they invested heavily in Battery Ryan Anderson and Eric Gordon "Round Face" from the Pelicans in the offseason, both of whom are very sharp three-point shooters and definitely fit into the head coach of D'Antoni.

If it weren't for that, Coach Gentry, who once served on the Suns' D'Antoni coaching staff and is now the Pelicans' head coach to implement small-ball tactics in New Orleans, would not have been so helpless with Pelicans management.

Chen Zhi quickly finished reading the information in his hand, and said to Matthews with a smile: "Hey, you should take a look at the information before expressing your feelings, the Rockets' main point guard Patrick Beverley has not recovered from injury, and it seems that we don't have to face his defense today." According to the scouting report, Eric Gordon, a new signing from the Pelicans, has been in the starting position in the first few preseason games, and the bearded man will be the point guard, and I will probably play the position. ”

Matthews opened the information in front of him and looked at the two of them, and found that it was as Chen Zhi said, "Whatever, anyway, the coach will definitely let me keep an eye on Harden, he is not willing to let you spend too much energy on the defensive end, and I am specialized in this, I am not your opponent in terms of passing and offense, but in terms of defensive experience, especially in defending James Harden, you are far worse than me, he can blow you up on the offensive end with his beard!" ”

Matthews' remarks about Harden's beard immediately drew a burst of laughter from the Dallas Mavericks players.

In fact, Matthews is not talking nonsense, he now has a lot of understanding of Chen Zhi's defensive level, although the defensive awareness is good, the position is especially sophisticated, and he has a very good sense of helping defense. However, there is still some lack of experience in single defense, especially in the face of Harden's miraculous ability to make fouls, and he will definitely be troubled by fouls.

According to the practice of previous years, in the preseason at this time, the main players will not play less, if Chen is really allowed to defend a rookie like Harden, if the head coach does not control it, maybe after a quarter of the game, Chen Zhi has been sent off the court, Matthews really has no doubt about this.

Chen Zhi smiled when he heard this: "Hey, Matthews, you probably forgot who took you flying in the team training match!" ”

"You're flying me well, and I'll admit that you're good at helping defense, but when it comes to fouling, I'm like a six-year-old kid and an eighty-year-old spirit compared to Harden, do you know what that means? If you flaunt me, I'll stand up very upright, even if you pass by Harden, he will probably fall to the ground and ask the referee for a whistle, let alone reach out to cover him! ”

Chen Zhi smiled helplessly when he heard this, Harden's ability to make fouls is very powerful, but Matthews is also too evil.

I didn't want Coach Carlisle to hear it, but he looked at Chen Zhi and nodded and said: "Matthews' words are based on experience, he is one of the best defensive players in the entire NBA against Harden, in the regular season last season, he will be able to control Harden's shooting percentage below four layers, you are not tall enough, the task of defending Harden, or leave it to Matthews, in this game, you have to play your best on the offensive end, and you will become the tactical core of the team on the offensive end in this game." ”

Chen Zhi looked at Carlisle in surprise when he heard this, in the past few preseason games, what limited him everywhere was the head coach's bald card, giving him very little playing time, and when he was on the field, most of them practiced the tactics with other players as the core, such as Bogut's high-level strategy.

Seeing Chen Zhi looking at himself with surprise in his eyes, Carlisle smiled and said: "I know your information very well, your learning ability is extremely outstanding, the tactical experience I gave you, although it is a thick book, but by now, it should have been almost seen, what others can't do, for you, a learning genius, it's definitely not a problem!" ”

When the Dallas Mavericks heard this, they all looked at Chen Zhi, especially those newcomers, everyone knew that Coach Carlisle gave Chen Zhi his tactical notes.

Little Curry shook his head when he heard this and said: "It's impossible, the tactical manual that Dallas is using now in my hand is much thinner than the version of Chen Zhi, and until now, I have only understood less than half of it, how can he finish reading it." ”

Carlisle asked Chen Zhi expectantly, "In Dallas's current tactical manual, which is the most suitable half-court offensive tactic for you, you should know very well!" ”

Chen Zhi smiled, "Coach, I feel that all the tactics in Dallas are very suitable for me!" If you want to say that the best thing for me should be a four-four pull-away, and I will hold the ball and play singles......"

Carlisle was stunned when he heard this, Chen Zhi's answer surprised him, and everyone couldn't help laughing when they saw this.

"If you've read the tactical tips I've given you, you'll probably get the answer I want." Carlisle stared at Chen.

"You're probably talking about UCLA cutting into those evolutions!" Chen Zhi said with a smile. Among the many tactics in Dallas at present, this tactic is undoubtedly the most suitable for him, because the first few opportunities will appear on the point guard, and various opportunities such as air cuts, backs, and three-point points will appear in different evolutions.

Carlisle nodded with satisfaction when he heard this, and said with a smile: "In this game, I want to see how far you can play this tactic!" ”