I don't know if it was deliberately arranged or what, the Rockets met their old rival Jazz in the second game of the season, and now the Jazz are still fighting the world with a few old men as always.

36-year-old Carl? Malone, 36-year-old Hornacek, 37-year-old Stockton, Jazz are still these old guys in charge.

Shanton, who originally joined the Rockets on a free basis this season? Anderson also continued his jazz journey.

After the game between the Rockets and Jazz began, both sides were already old rivals, and there was no need to test at all, and from the first minute of the game, the two sides began to compete fiercely.

After the game started, the one who felt the most was Carl? Malone, in previous seasons, when facing Garnett, could be completely suppressed, but now he feels a lot of pressure in the face of Garnett's opinion.

Malone dribbled the ball and felt the defense behind him, and Garnett's trash talk became more and more unbearable, and he heard Garnett say: "I said Carl, you are thirty-six years old, why don't you go home to coax the children, you must know that the league is the world of young people, and you should go home to play chess if you think such an old man." ”

Malone still looked at Garnett with an indifferent face, without any expression, Malone leaned close to Garnett, and then suddenly turned around, shook off Garnett, faced Big Ben's defense, and pressed the basketball into the basket with a split dunk.

Malone glanced at Garnett behind him and said in a low voice: "Boy, basketball relies on action, not on your mouth, even if your mouth is good, you can't beat the opponent on the court." ”

After speaking, Malone went back to defense, and looking at Garnett's gritted teeth, Big Ben came up and said, "Kevin, give him one back and tell him to shut up." ”

Ganeji nodded and said in a deep voice: "Such old guys are the best to deal with, they won't be like ordinary rookies, they will lose their cool after being sprayed a few words, look at the opportunity, you must change one if you have the opportunity." ”

With that, he commanded the Rockets players to start attacking.

Now Stockton is already a colander in the Jazz defensive system, and the Rockets' backcourt far surpasses Stockton in terms of height, weight, and energy, and the only advantage Stockton has now is just his experience.

Rockets on the offensive, whether it's thunder? Allen and Bodi Loga can already blow up Stockton, although Stockton can still play on the court, but his physical strength is no longer able to support the whole court, plus the Rockets' can hit, Stockton was replaced by Sloan 5 minutes after the start of the second quarter of the game, and the current Stockton is not the iron man 10 years ago, or 5 years ago.

The game between the two sides is very intense, Malone is like a King Kong standing on the court, as of the second quarter of the game, Malone himself has scored 20 points alone, although the Rockets still continue to lead in the score, but Ma Long caused a huge typhoid fever to the Rockets, it is still obvious.

At halftime, Lao Tang deliberately adjusted his tactics, and Lao Tang said loudly in the locker room: "Ma Long, you remember to me, Ma Long is a real fighter, look at your performance on the inside in the first half, I blush for you, Kevin and Ben, you two were actually scored 20 points by a 36-year-old old man, do you still want Ma Long to cut 20 points in the second half, do you want Ma Long to lead the Jazz to a reversal, we are only 7 points ahead now, you know?" With only seven points, the Jazz can knock you to the ground with a slight hesitation, and in the third quarter, Hakim, will be able to replace Ben. ”

After Lao Tang made the substitution decision, Malone was suppressed by Olajuwon from the second half, Olajuwon definitely grasped the rhythm of supplemental defense than Daben, a level higher, this is not a matter of strength, but a matter of time, Daben has a year or two of time, and he will almost have such ability.

With Malone suppressed, Stockton physically exhausted, and Hornacek seen to death, relying on Byron? Russell and Shandon? Anderson, the Jazz are really not the opponent of the Rockets, there is also an Easley, and the Jazz were also knocked down by the Rockets.

110:92 Rockets 18-point win over Jazz.

ushered in his second consecutive win in the new season.

Watching the Rockets leave the Jazz's home court with great pride, Malone's heart was full of heartache, is his championship dream so far away?

After defeating the Jazz on the road, the Rockets will face several strong opponents in a row in their new home court.

The first is the San Antonio Spurs on the road, and the Rockets have to play a back-to-back.

The Rockets and the Spurs are already old rivals, and the Rockets, who return to their home court, will certainly not let go of the Spurs, and the comparison of the strength of the two sides has changed a lot this year.

The reason is the aging of the Spurs, okay, let's look at the current Spurs, 34-year-old David? Robinson, 37-year-old Charles? Barkley, 34-year-old 'Little General' Johnson, 36-year-old Terry? Potter, 36-year-old Mario? Elie, 34-year-old Steve? Cole.

Looking at such an old group, Lao Tang really couldn't bear to hit too much, but these old guys are really hard to bite, if you don't pay attention, it's really easy to break your teeth.

The Rockets made such a mistake, the Rockets didn't pay much attention to these old guys, and they played fast, but the Rockets' fast attack was extremely undisciplined and extremely messy, and in front of the Spurs, the Rockets had too many flaws.

By the end of the second quarter, the Rockets had already led the Spurs by 11 points, and the old Tang Tie returned to the locker room with a blushing face.

Lao Tang looked at the players of the Rockets, and said in a cold voice: "Do you have brains, you are still not professional players, your performance on the court just now is no different from a group of high school students, even high school students are better than you." I don't know what you're trying to do, and I don't want to know what you're doing, the only thing you're going to do now is to let those old men know how good you are in the game at work, do you know? ”

The sound of the old soup was like a cold snap from the Arctic tundra, which made the hearts of all the rocket players cold.

Rockets players know that if they don't work hard when they get off work, then what awaits them is an unbearable blizzard.

At the beginning of the off-duty period, the rocket was replaced with a Mark? Jackson and Olajuwon played a rhythm with the Spurs, and such substitutions made the Spurs play very tricky in the second half, and the Rockets used their skillful cooperation and tenacious defense to pull back the score little by little.

With four minutes left in the game, the Rockets finally leveled the score.

After stabilizing his mind, Bodiloga played again, and Bodiloga, who had stabilized his emotions, also returned to his level, controlling the rhythm of play and his own strong play, and the Rockets relied on Bodiloga's consecutive points in the final moments to finally win.

The score of 88:84 shows the intensity of the game between the two sides.

After the game, David? Robinson sighed: The Rockets are really powerful, they have too many players who can change the direction of the game on their own, and they are still very young, they will continue to dominate the league for at least 3 years, it seems that my Charles's championship dream is about to be shattered.

In other words, Da Yao played for two minutes in this game, and after two fouls, Da Yao did not score any points, so that everyone's disappointment with this Chinese champion began to increase.

Although the Rockets won three consecutive victories, Lao Tang did not give the Rockets players a holiday, but continued to train, and at this point, everyone saw Lao Tang's dissatisfaction with this game.

For three days, the rocket did not rest for a day, and all of them were trained.

On November 9, 1999, the Rockets continued to play on their home court against the visiting Orlando Magic.

This year's Orlando has a change of head coach, Chuck? Daley, the old villain, completely left the basketball circle because of physical reasons, and Rivers, who took over, is still very young, this is the first time he has joined the NBA as a head coach.

The head coach, who later rose to prominence with the Celtics, is now just a rookie who has just joined the league.

And the injury of Magic's number one star 'Penny' Hardaway once brought the Magic to the brink of collapse.

But this is the kind of team that made the Rockets really break out in a cold sweat, and the Magic suppressed the Rockets' offense from the first quarter of the game.

Armstrong, Chris? Green, Tariq? Abdul, the three-man attack line, keeps the rocket on the back foot.

Lao Tang, who was on the sidelines, was already standing on the sidelines anxiously and began to shout at the Rockets' players, but this never had any effect.

The Magic used their skilled team to attack, killing the rocket little by little.

Magic put a shackle around the neck of the rocket, clamping it little by little, and the rocket at this time has no way at all, if they don't make changes now, then they can only be greeted by death.

At halftime, Lao Tang couldn't figure out what was going on with his team, and why the championship for two consecutive years was so difficult in this year's regular season.

This made Lao Tang puzzled, and he couldn't figure it out, the game continued, and after Lao Tang finished arranging the tactics, the rocket returned to the field.

However, the scene is still the same, and the rocket has changed a few people in a row, and it hasn't changed much.

The Magic have maintained a 10-point advantage, and the Rockets are trying to catch up, but nothing has happened.

By the last 5 minutes of the fourth quarter, the Rockets were ready to give up resistance, and the Rockets replaced all the bench players, and when the Rockets were ready to give up, the Rockets' bench players began their own performances.

Da Yao, Nazr? Muhammad, Halplin, Mobley, Daniels, these five young people, let the Magic know that at any time, no player in the Rockets should be underestimated.

Da Yao, who took the lead in starting to wield, although Daniels' offense was very bad, his passing was still very good, two high-profile in a row, Da Yao got the basketball very comfortably, two consecutive turns to wipe the defenders, a pick-and-roll and a dunk, so that the score of the Rockets and the Magic narrowed to six points.

Followed by Mobley, who received a pass from Daniels outside the three-point line, a precise three-pointer that directly turned the score into three points.

The Rockets scored seven points in a row in one minute, and all of a sudden the format on the court changed again.

With three minutes left and only three points left, the Rockets benches used their own strength to pull the Rockets back from the brink of defeat.

What people didn't expect was that the remaining 3 minutes once again became the world of the Rockets bench, Da Yao took 5 minutes to cut 10 points, Muhammad scored 6 rebounds at the end, including two frontcourt rebounds, Halprin's defense is very fierce, Chris? Green was knocked straight off the sideline by Haplin. Mobley's two consecutive three-pointers became the deadliest knives, Daniels dished out five assists in five minutes, and his defense allowed Armstrong, the Magic's leading scorer, to score just two points in the final five minutes.

98:92 The five substitutes of the Rockets solved the magic trick that gave the Rockets a headache, all the media boiled again, and the young people of the Rockets became the focus again.

(To be continued)