After Howard signed a big contract with the Rockets, the strength of the Rockets rose to a new level, and the Morden combination was also called. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info 6-1 in the preseason, except for the first unexpected loss to the Hornets, three of the other six games were won by big scores, and the Spurs won by 17 points.

Before the Lakers played again, they had played five games, winning all four of them except against the Clippers, where they lost by 19 points. And in the game of the Clippers, you can't blame the Demon Deng combination, after all, there are only two of them. Harden is playing by himself in the backcourt, and Howard is also fighting on the inside, and their partners are not very good.

Howard's partner is Chandler Parsons, a good offense and a power forward who can also respond, 208cm tall and weighs only 104kg, and he can't resist people at all. Griffin is still a physically strong guy who can squeeze Chandler Parsons out of the way.

What if Howard was to defend Griffin's? Then Parsons will be tyrannized by Jordan Jr., Jordan Jr.'s offensive means is to make a layup or dunk under the basket, but his physical fitness is absolutely beast-level, and he can arch Parsons with an arch of his butt.

The other two on the Rockets' perimeter are Terrence Jones and Beverley. Jones is a defensive player with some three-point ability, but he is not very reliable, shooting just 26.3% from three-point range last season. Beverley is a speedy point guard, but he doesn't have much of a ball in the Rockets, and it's similar to what Fisher did with the Lakers, which is a dribbler who will be handed over to Harden after halftime.

Crucially, both players joined the NBA last season and have had little game experience and have had ups and downs.

At the beginning of this season, the person who jumped the ball became Wu Di, although he was short, but his jumping skills were very good, and he did not lose a single game in the first few games. Now facing Howard, the master of jumping ball in the league, Wu Di is not too sure.

The referee threw the ball up, and Wu Di jumped up, and he jumped a little early. Howard was happy and jumped along, but he soon found that Wu Di did not fall down, but seemed to stop in the air.

It turned out that Wu Di relied on his strong waist and abdomen strength to increase the time in the air. In just over a second, the basketball fell down, and Howard was distracted by Wu Di's idle time, and Wu Di easily dialed the basketball into Jeremy Lin's hands.

As soon as he landed, Wu Di immediately ran quickly to the penalty area. The rest of the Rockets didn't react because of Howard's unexpected jump ball failure, and they didn't think that Wu Di could jump to beat Howard, so they were all thinking about offense, not defense.

And someone on the Lakers' side is already about to go, and Jimmy Butler has rushed to the three-point line. Jeremy Lin immediately threw the ball to the frontcourt, but Harden waved it, and the ball flew a little higher, directly past Jimmy Butler, smashed under the basket, and jumped off the court. Jimmy Butler stepped forward and salvaged the ball back with a handful of strokes, and he pounced on the reporter with momentum, but the ball was saved.

Originally, he shouldn't have saved it, but he didn't see Harden playing, because it was Jeremy Lin's big pass, so he saved the ball back. But immediately behind him was Wu Di, who grabbed the ball, stepped on the line of the penalty area, jumped up, and came to a 360° dunk.

After the dunk, Wu Di pulled up Jimmy Butler, clapped hands with him in celebration, and then returned to his own half to prepare for defense.

Wu Di followed Howard into the box, and Parsons blocked Klay Thompson for Harden. Harden's breakthrough is strong, but it's not easy to break through Klay Thompson easily. As the first person under the Lakers' superstars, Klay Thompson is very strong, and I believe that his statistics will be better after this season, and it is not impossible to enter the All-Star in the future.

When Harden enters the interior, it is a European step layup. The players in the league who have taken European step layups to the extreme are Ginobili, Wade and Harden. And under the current rules, it is extremely difficult to defend the European step layup, and it is easy to be fouled if you don't pay attention to it.

The UAE was a lot slower than Harden and didn't keep up with Harden. Wu Di immediately moved sideways to make up for the defense. Howard doesn't have the ability to shoot from mid-range, and he doesn't need to worry about Harden's passing at all.

To be honest, Howard and Harden are not the best partners, a star who is good at breaking through the inside line to score also needs to be an inside line that can shoot the basketball, and after Howard is out of the restricted area, he basically has no scoring ability, isn't he waiting to be released?

Wu Di's hands were on Harden's head all the time, blocking his shooting space. Harden couldn't make a move, so he had to return the ball to Howard.

After Howard received the ball, he immediately took three steps to rush to the basket for a dunk.

Wu Di jumped up head-on, and hit him with his head and face.

The wheel strength of Wu Di and Howard is not about the same, and even the strength of the lower limbs, Wu Di is stronger than Howard. Although Wu Di is only 203cm, he weighs 130 kg. The whole body is full of muscles, and even though it is a burden to be overweight, it is impossible to run fast or jump highly. But also look at Wu Di's strength, which has an extremely complex formula for measuring the strength-to-weight ratio. If the ordinary player is 1, Wu Di is 3 to 4, so that he can have his current performance.

"Smack!"

Wu Di slapped the basketball with a slap, Howard clung to the basketball and didn't let go, and the two of them were like this, one person grabbed the basketball with one hand and fell from the air.

"Drop!" The referee blew the whistle, pointed at Howard, and jumped. Indeed, Howard took two steps and then jumped, which is the standard three-step. But when it fell, the basketball didn't leave his hand, so it was a violation. He fished a mistake himself, and Wu Di also fished a block.

Howard glared at Wu Di, then turned around and went back to defense.

Wu Di served directly, and after handing the ball to Jeremy Lin, he made a cover for Jeremy Lin by the way to prevent Jeremy Lin from entering the inside line. Pick-and-roll! Howard met Jeremy Lin from the inside, but Lin passed the ball back to Wu Di, and Wu Di became Beverley, the 185cm guard.

Wu Di shot directly on the head and hit a three-point shot!

Wu Di practiced five points at the beginning, and it seems that he feels good today, and the rocket is more than lucky.

Sure enough, next, Harden made a difficult shot under Wu Di's supplemental defense, and was directly slapped out by Wu Di. Jimmy Butler grabbed the ball, then went down quickly and scored with a dunk straight to Beverley's head.

As soon as the game opened, the Lakers played a 7-0 attack wave, which foreshadowed the direction of today's game.