On November 2, 1996, the first game of the new season for the Rockets began.

The first opponent was the Kings.

The current king is not yet the ornate king of the Princeton system that came later.

Now, under the leadership of Richmond and Chris Jackson, they can only fight for a playoff spot.

Such a team is simply irresistible in front of the Rockets.

On the outside, Richmond faced Drexler, and Horry couldn't withstand the onslaught of a group of young bench bandits.

And the inside line, under the blow of the inside big men led by Olajuwon and Kevin Garnett, completely collapsed.

In the first game, the Rockets, 7 people made double figures, 110-85 bloodied the king.

And in this game, the Rockets' powerful attacking power was jaw-dropping, as their main players only played an average of 30 minutes.

Played the longest without going out of time for Horry's 35 minutes.

Olajuwon also only played 30 minutes and rested off the field.

Kevin Garnett was only 32 minutes.

Such a group of substitutes makes all the teams shudder.

Whoever can spend it with them is to fight for physical strength, and all 12 people in the audience take turns to play.

Engage in car [***] war, who can compare.

Immediately, the Rockets came to Phoenix, and with Barkley gone, only Kevin Johnson and Dan Marley were left to continue to hold on to the Suns.

It's a pity that under the strong inside blow of the rockets, the sun collapsed.

Kevin Garnett, Marrick Rose, and O'Cella Harrington are a group of three forwards, which directly makes people speechless.

The all-time trio had 55 points and 35 rebounds.

Utterly humiliated, without Barkley's Sun inside.

In the end, the Rockets won 115-95 to become the Suns' nemesis.

On November 5th, the time to test the rocket came.

The Rockets met the Jazz, who played 4 games with the Jazz last season and were beaten 3-1.

It's helpless.

And this year's Rockets are the two big wins of the Jazz.

With that, the whistle sounded and the game began.

When jumping the ball, from this year onwards, it will be time for Garnett to face Foster and win easily.

Spotted the ball to Mark Jackson.

Jackson took the ball, arched his butt, pushed away Stockton, who was trying to steal the ball, and firmly controlled the ball in his own hands.

Steadily lead through the half, settle down and start positional battles.

Mark Jackson made a gesture.

Kevin Garnett immediately stood on the side.

And Malone had to follow.

Mark Jackson saw it and immediately hoisted the ball to Olajuwon.

Olajuwon, who held the ball, leaned back lightly and tested Foster's defensive strength.

Seeing that the force is not very large, he immediately increases the strength, leans back, and squeezes out the space to turn around and cut inward.

After Foster stepped back a little, Olajuwon immediately turned and stepped to make a layup.

The moment Olajuwon turned, Byron Russell stepped up to make up the defense.

And Foster, who was behind him, also suddenly used force to flank Olajuwon.

However, Olajuwon seems to already know the plans of the two men.

After turning, a pinpoint ground-hitting pass bounced off Drexler, who was following up behind Byron Russell.

After receiving the ball, Drexler had strong legs and a strong abdomen, and he was about to dunk.

But Malone, who had just defended Garnett in the ribs, returned to the defense and got up to block Drexler.

Drexler was not afraid at all, straightened his waist, closed his hand, changed the dunk to a layup, and made a beautiful sliding layup.

"Whew" the ball is scored, and two points are counted.

"Carl, you're too slow." After Drexler scored, he sarcastically said Malone and turned away.

Malone didn't say anything, just picked up the ball indifferently, served on the baseline, and then followed Stockton to continue the attack.

Stockton controlled the ball, looking at the guy in front of him who was defending with a huge ass, and he was not only emotional.

The guy in front of him, as long as he stays in the Rockets, will definitely get the championship ring.

Look at the kids on their bench, each one is more impactful than the other, how did they all choose.

Come on, let's play a good game first.

Stockton beckoned, and Malone immediately came over to do the pick-and-roll.

Pick-and-roll, pick-and-roll, that's the simplest tactic, but also the most complicated.

In the current NBA, only Malone and Stockton can make such excellent blocking and pick-and-roll tactics.

After Malone made a wall to block Mark 1 Jackson, Stockton faced Garnett.

Garnett waved his arms and blocked Stockton's passing and attacking lanes.

And Ma Long, who successfully blocked people, took Mark Jackson to the inside.

Normally, now is when Stockton gets the ball back.

Use the mismatch offense, and make a layup or shoot by Malone.

Very suddenly, Olajuwon came out of the inside.

Directly stuck Marlon.

Stockton's pass to Malone is no longer good.

Stockton played a wide cross.

Give it to Hornacek, who has just gotten rid of the defense on the weak side.

The moment Horry was blocked, Stockton's pass arrived.

And it's very comfortable, I shoot when I catch the ball, and I don't even hesitate.

The ball hollows into the net.

Turn over and rocket to attack.

Mark Jackson still handed the ball to Olao Juwon.

This time it was Malone's pinch and Olajuwon's pass.

When the ball reached Garnett's hand, Hornacek, who was nearby, quickly stepped forward to make up for the defense.

But because of his height, Garnett bullied Hornacek hard.

Right in Hornacek's face, arms raised, a jumper.

The ball hollows into the net.

Looking at Hornacek, Garnett shrugged and left.

Attack again.

Jazz continued his class.

The ball rotated, and said Marlona.

Old Malone has an arm and a direct layup, and Mark Jackson can't guard him at all.

However, fortunately, Malone missed the layup. It popped up directly.

Olajuwon jumped hard and took the ball directly into his arms.

On the outside, Drexler, as soon as he saw that the rebound was his own, immediately turned over and accelerated, directly impacting the opponent's rear.

Just as Drexler was accelerating, Mark Jackson's ball was passed to the glider with great precision.

Drexler, without even thinking about it, got up directly and dunked.

Although the 'glider' is old, Drexler is not old enough to fly.

An elegant dunk without the slightest pyrotechnic gas, this is Drexler.

Unlike Jordan's forever arrogant and domineering dunks, watching Drexler's dunks, I always feel that he is an artist.

It's a pity that the old and spicy Jazz team will not be defeated by a single ball at all.

They silently started the ball and started attacking again.

In the frenetic atmosphere of the Jazz's home court, both sides launched a stubborn defense.

Stockton is up against old fritters like Mark Jackson.

His own little actions will be the same, they are all guys who have been in the league for a long time.

This kind of thing is familiar.

On the bench, Kassel is also eager to try.

Malone faces Kevin Garnett, Osera Harrington and Marrick Ross.

After Malone became familiar with one person's defensive style, he immediately replaced another person.

In this way, Malone was almost submerged in the Rockets' power forward group.

With Malone and Stockton being restricted, the Jazz's scoring ability has dropped dramatically.

The same is true for the Rockets, who struggle with the same defense as the Jazz hand-to-hand combat.

The game between the two sides made the audience drowsy.

Dure, incomparably dull.

However, in the last minute of the Dole competition, the show played out.

Last minute, 69:69.

The double anti-war is drawn.

The Jazz opened the scoring as Hornacek stubbornly hit a three-pointer under Horry's defense.

overtook the score, and for a time the Jazz's home court was thunderous.

Unfortunately, in the next attack, Horry scored a three-pointer with the same head under the defense of Stockton and Byron Russell.

The double reversal was tied at the second.

There are 31.4 seconds left.

The Rockets are about to take a timeout.

Lao Tang picked up the tactics board, drew tactics and shouted loudly: "Remember, we want a way, a dead defense, Malone Bao Clamp gives me a dead bag, if you really can't stand it, you have to be ruthless in fouls, you can't let them play 2 + 1, Stockton, this point Mark you stare at me to death, bite him ten million, his rhythm is not very fast, you can hold him down." Hornacek here, Horry, you want to stick it on me like kraft candy, and the rest of the people pay attention to the rotation, don't give them a chance, you know. ”

"Got it," the Rocket Crowd nodded.

"Alright, play, the victory is ours." Old Tang encouraged everyone.

"Victory is ours, come on, come on, come on." Olajuwon shouted from the lead.

"Come on"

"Come on"

"Come on"

The Rockets shouted in unison.

Then it was played.

Stockton held the ball firmly.

After half court, he was wasting time, and he had to attack in the last time not to give the Rockets a chance to overtake.

And the final 17 seconds, Jazz, started to run.

Suddenly, Malone made an off-ball screen for Hornacek and blocked Horry.

Seeing the empty Stockton's body, he pulled a touch of space and flashed a little space, and passed the ball directly, and Hornacek received the ball and made a shot.

At this point, as soon as Hornacek was about to shoot, Horry and Garnett both pounced on Hornacek.

The old and spicy Hornacek, faked a real pass, and handed the ball to Malone, who had already cut in the air.

Malone is about to make a layup when he gets the ball.

And on the inside, Olajuwon, who did not hesitate to do anything, directly connected with the ball and let Malone stay.

Malone makes a free throw.

The first penalty, no one knows, what Malone muttered, anyway, he threw it out and didn't go in.

Malone's face darkened a little.

The second penalty was still babbling and cooing, and he threw it out at the next time, but unfortunately he tossed it on the hoop a few times, but he still didn't go in.

Malone's face was already dark.

The rebound was taken by Garnett and held on to it.

This time it was the Jazz who took a pause.

Jerry Sloan, the old monster, didn't know what he was talking to the Jazz players.

Lao Tang came up and said to the players: "Good job, we have one more chance, the last 9.4 seconds, make good use of it." Hakim, you're going to get stuck in the position, you're going to get stuck for the outside players, they must think we're going to play inside, but we're not going to, Mark, Garnett, you come down, Aaron and Cassel you go up, Horry, Clyde, Allen, you three stand apart, Kassel, you come and catch the ball, give it to Hakim, shrink their defense, let them shrink their defense to the inside.

Hakim, you decide who to pass it on, we're going to kill them, go ahead, guys. ”

The rocket crowd who returned to the field started to run according to Lao Tang's tactics.

Cassel received the ball and dodged Stockton's defence with a single step and handed it to Olajuwon on the inside.

As soon as the ball reached the inside, Malone and Byron Russell pounced on Olajuwon like hungry wolves.

And Olajuwon took a look.

Quickly passed the ball.

Ray Allen receiving the ball.

The guy who came to be known as the 'Killer Regent'.

Catch the ball, jump up, shoot.

The ball arced beautifully through the air at Delta Center in Salt Lake City and landed in the basket.

The sound of "swish" directly silenced the fans in the Delta Center.

The hustle and bustle is over.

With the basketball's landing, the red light at the end of the game also lit up.

72：75

The Rockets beat the Jazz with a three-pointer and walked away with a rare victory at Delta Center in Salt Lake City.

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