Looking at the big tall man behind him, Jiang Yang was really stunned, it is estimated that he is a Chinese, as long as he watches basketball, he knows who this little giant in front of him is, Jiang Yang thinks that he has seen a lot of long people, and this guy is definitely the highest.

"Uh, hello!" Looking at Yao Ming in front of him, Jiang Yang stretched out his hand a little woodenly, and gently shook the pride of this Chinese, for the first time to see Yao Ming, Jiang Yang said that it was pure if he was not excited.

After all, Yao Ming was a giant in Jiang Yang's heart before, Chinese who like to watch basketball, there is no one who does not like Yao Ming, of course, it is not excluded that some guys like Kobe, Maddie and the like, but Yao Ming's status in the Chinese sports circle is untouchable, and Jiang Yang gently shook hands, and the somewhat jerky Yao Ming touched his head a little embarrassed, no matter what the status of Jiang Yang and Yao Ming is in the real world, in this world.

Jiang Yang is indeed Yao Ming's 'senior', because Jiang Yang has already helped the Lakers win a game before Yao Ming joined the league, the Western Conference Finals in 02, the series against the Kings.

"Uh, hello!" Looking at the little giant in front of him, Jiang Yang was stunned for a moment and said to Yao Ming with a smile.

'I'm really looking forward to playing against my seniors, and of course it would have been nice if we could have been in one team, but unfortunately today we were opponents. Yao Ming saw that Jiang Yang had eased up, and patted Jiang Yang's shoulder with a smile and said.

Yao Ming, who joined the league on June 26, 02, is only his second season this year, so the current Yao Ming is still a little young, the original English, and the weird tone, he should not have adapted to the environment here.

"Come on, hehe!" Jiang Yang just smiled and patted Yao Ming's arm, because he could only touch it naturally, and Jiang Yang couldn't be allowed to deliberately raise his arm to pat Yao Ming's shoulder, that would be too fake...... Soon the warm-up time was over, and Jiang Yang and Yao Ming entered their locker rooms respectively.

The last to enter the Spurs locker room was their head coach, Po Povich, Jiang Yang had seen Po Povich before, it was in the 03-04 season finals, Jiang Yang helped the Pistons win the game, I saw Po Povich at that time, I used to look at it from a long distance, Jiang Yang thought that he had appreciated how ugly Po Povich's face was.

But today, when he took a closer look, Jiang Yang found that he had deceived himself before...... "so many long, long-tested faces!" I really don't know how his wife endured it! In his heart, Jiang Yang has selected Popovich as the No. 1 sweet-mouthed and ugly baby in the league, and it is indeed difficult to see people.

"All right, my soldiers! Ready to fight? "I've heard that the Spurs are militarized, and now it seems right, and the first thing Popovich said when he came into the house was to ask, my soldiers, are you really choking...... The Spurs actually had a long tradition of being a soldier, and the original 'Admiral' David Robinson was in the Navy.

And Popovich is a graduate of the Air Force Academy, so the whole team is full of something called militarization, and even the aisles and questions have a smell of American GIs, which is really a bit too rigorous.

No wonder Duncan's face has no expression at all, and ninety percent of it may have been trained here.

"Hey Jiang, we're teammates again!" Just as Jiang Yang was maliciously speculating in his heart about how Po-Povich had tortured a beautiful man with a flower season to become a facial paralysis killer, someone next to him gently stabbed him.

Looking back, it turned out to be Robert Horry, looking at Horry, Jiang Yang was really excited.

You have to know that you are in the Lakers, and you have a good relationship with Horry, and your physical fitness training method is still taught by Horry, now that Horry is here, Jiang Yang is really happy, the last copy, Jiang Yang was in the Pistons, and this time he entered the Spurs, so he naturally became teammates with Robert Horry.

However, Horry doesn't remember that Jiang Yang is a player of the Pistons, because that copy is a copy of June 05, when Jiang Yang was in the Pistons, and now it's only December 04, and Jiang Yang in Horry's memory is still the one when the Lakers were there.

"Hehe, what luck!" Looking at Huo Li next to him, Jiang Yang also stabbed him with a smile.

"Today is Jiang Yang's first day of coming to us, let us applaud and welcome his arrival!" Just as Jiang Yang and Horry wanted to say something, the voice of Popovich next to him came out, and in the entire lounge, there was a neat applause, and Jiang Yang had to stand up and nod his head to show his kindness.

"Okay, let's talk about today's tactics...... "Actually, the Spurs' tactics are really simple, although it is very complicated to say, but to simplify it, their tactics are mainly based on half-court offense, with Duncan as the axis, and the main task of point guard Parker is to dribble the ball across the half court, and then go around in circles on the outside and pass the ball to Duncan on the inside.

Duncan singles, if Duncan can play, then play, if he can't play, pass to Parker on the outside, Parker first rushes with speed, if he rushes down, he rushes, if he can't rush down, he gives Ginobili, and Ginobili then uses his breakthrough to attack.

On the defensive end, it is basically Duncan as the axis, and the defensive players on the outside are looking for defensive positions.

And Bowen is responsible for defending the opponent's arrowhead alone, just like in this game, Bowen has to deal with Maddie.

"Tell me about today's starting line-up, center No. 8 Nestor Lovic." This player is not very famous, basically linked to the dragon set, the most glorious time was in the Minnesota Timberwolves, in the 02-03 season, he averaged 11.2 points per game, played 77 games throughout the season, started 77 games, and was a good assistant next to Garnett.

But then switched to the Spurs, the level is like Wang Erxiao's New Year, a year is not as good as a year, there is an average of 8.7 points per game in the first year, and only 5.9 points are left this year, there is no way to share Duncan's responsibility, Po Povic has recently planned to trade him, but unfortunately the Spurs are not under his control, otherwise he would have kicked this guy away.

"Power forward, Tim (No. 21), small forward Bruce (No. 12), point guard Manu (No. 20), point guard Tony (No. 9), the rest of the guys are benches, are you ready? Let's go! At Po Povich's command, the Spurs players stood up neatly and walked to the court with neat steps.

In fact, the current lineup of the Rockets is very strong, it can be said that it is not weak at all, and the center is Yao Ming, the sophomore.

Ever since Yao Ming joined the league, he has been the starting center in the West, after proving it last year.

Yao Ming's status in the league is like Zhongtian, although he has no way to compete with O'Neal now, but he has been called by the outside world as one of the only centers who can fight with O'Neal, and Yao Ming also feels a lot of pressure on him.

The big forward is known as the 'spark' Uncle Huo, Zhu Wan Howard, don't look at the second Uncle Huo in the future, that looks like playing soy sauce, he was very bull at the beginning, after joining the NBA in 94, he averaged 17 points per game in his rookie year, 22.1 points per game in the second year, and he could also play an average of 18.4 points per game in the Nuggets the year before last.

This year, he was traded to the Rockets with Maddie to fill the vacancy in the No. 4 position of the Rockets, and the Rockets executives have great expectations for him! Small forward No. 40, Ryan Bowen, there's nothing to say, a pure top cylinder player.

It is mainly the arrow figure who defends the opponent as a small forward, and the offensive ability is almost 0.

Last year, he averaged 0.9 points per game for the Nuggets, and he was not a very reliable player, and his main role was defense.

The shooting guard is none other than Tracy McGrady, who was later known as 'Crisp Knees', and this one needs no introduction.

The point guard is Bob Sulla, a point guard who is not very well-known, but he is really playing well.

This season, he can average 10.3 points and 5.2 assists per game, which is a relatively orthodox point guard.

In fact, the overall strength of the Rockets is not much worse than that of the Spurs, after all, the current Parker has not fully grown up, and now he is in addition to speed, and the rest are basically statistics that only appear in occasional outbreaks.

Po Povic is not the kind of coach who trusts new players very much, although he has been transferred a lot of coaches, lost in the draft, and plays an important role in the game, but for newcomers, he does not trust as many other coaches, so Jiang Yang did not have time to play at the beginning of the game.

At the same time, his tactical routine, like the head coach of the Rockets, Jeff Van Gundy, is defense-oriented.

So from the beginning of the game, it fell into a slow-paced defensive battle, under Jiang Yang's gaze, the referee called the center forwards on both sides to the field, and when the whistle sounded, the big centers on both sides jumped up at the first time.

The Spurs' jump center, Nestor Lovich, is also a good height himself, seven feet in front of his feet.

But in the face of Yao Ming, he was obviously still one section behind, and Nestor Lovevic, who was white, was not very strong in his own jumping ability, so he lost Yao Ming directly on the jump ball, and Yao Ming easily slapped the ball to his side.

After receiving the ball, Maddy did not give the ball to the Sula organization, but directly dribbled the ball to the Spurs' half.

Bowen's main task today is to keep an eye on Maddie, but after all, Bowen is not young, and in the case of Maddie's full sprint, he will not be able to stop him unless he maliciously fouls.

There was no way, no matter how fat Bowen was, he didn't dare to maliciously foul at the beginning of the game, so he could only let Maddie leave.

After Maddie left, he dribbled directly into the Spurs' defense like a sharp knife.

Ginobili's defense was just a joke, Maddie made a simple line change between the lines, and directly erased Ginobili and entered the interior, and before Duncan came out to defend, a simple pull layup sent the basketball directly in.

The Rockets opened the game with two points first, but watched the home team score, but the crowd on the sidelines was not very enthusiastic.

There was just a sparse applause, Houston fans are notoriously bloodless and very passerby-minded, they just came to see the excitement, and whether the team played well or not had nothing to do with themselves.

There was a time when all the away teams said that they were most comfortable playing in Houston because no one would boo you here, no matter how arrogant you were, and that's why the Rockets had a better record on the road than at home.

On the road, they will make some noise from the crowd, but at home, there is really no motivation.

The market is really good, you can sell a lot of tickets every day, but the players are on the field, you play yours, and those spectators are off the field, talking about their own ...... It's like a student in class.

The teacher in front of him is foaming at the mouth, and the students below are sleeping when they should sleep, talking when they should be talking, and reading novels when they should be reading novels, but none of them are listening to the class, so the teacher naturally has no fun to talk about.

At present, Houston is in such a situation, no wonder Rockets general manager Morey has to spend money to hire people on his home court and boo the away team, which is also the first time in the NBA...... It's really because of the fans here, it's too bad...... Maddie, who scored a beautiful goal, opened her arms and just wanted to boost her morale, but found that only two or three kittens responded to her, and there was no excitement at all, so she silently ran back to the halfcourt, ready to defend.

Looking at the Spurs' side again, Duncan sent the ball to Tony Parker and ran to the opposing half of the court himself.

After getting to the position at halftime, Parker hoisted the ball to Duncan on the inside, and that's how the Spurs played.

Duncan has his back to Juwan-Howard, who is simply too short in height and not very powerful.

Although his mid-range shooting is sometimes quite incomprehensible, his defense is also really bad...... Duncan squeezed him back twice, and when he was about four yards away from the basket, he suddenly turned around and hit the board at a 45-degree angle.

The basketball hit easily, and then Duncan ran back to his half of the defense with a blank face, and saw that the visitors had scored, and the home fans didn't even boo, still doing their own thing, and almost no one paid attention to the game on the court.

"This atmosphere is indeed very harmonious!" Looking at the fans who didn't even bother to boo the away team on the sidelines, Jiang Yang said with a smile.

It's the first time Jiang Yang has encountered such a fan, think about the team Jiang Yang once stayed in, the Bulls, when he played with the Lakers, whether it was Chicago fans or Los Angeles players, which one was not booed when he played against him?

Later, he played in Los Angeles and Sacramento, and the Kings were the most watched players in the league at that time.

The boos of the fans, it can almost be said that they booed from the beginning of the game to the end of the game, and Jiang Yang's ears hurt when he was shocked, and then he went to San Antonio and Detroit, and the fans in Detroit are almost the same as hooligans, and although San Antonio's ball is not like a hooligan, it is not the same when it scolds people! Now Jiang Yang is in Boston.

North Shore Garden Arena, which is known as the home of the Devils in the league, is on a par with the Nuggets' Pepsi Center.

Almost all teams that play there are booed by the earth-shattering boos...... When you come to Houston, that feeling disappears.

"Hey, what's this! Most of the Rockets fans are white-collar workers, and it's impossible for them to yell in front of their co-workers and bosses, unless it's not an NBA, it's a nightclub! Robert Horry next to him saw Jiang Yang's doubts, and explained to Jiang Yang with a smile, after listening to Horry's explanation, Jiang Yang smiled helplessly, looking at the game that was still playing on the court, he now finally understands why the Rockets' record is poor.

At this time, the players on the court are fighting for each other in a defensive battle, and it takes almost 120 minutes to shoot the ball into each ball, and the Spurs basically revolve around Duncan and Ginobili to play, Parker's speed, under the dense defense of the Rockets, is quite weak, because he has almost no basket, so the shooting is basically not considered.

In such an environment, the Rockets have Yao Ming on the inside and Maddie on the outside, at least when they are still full of physical strength, abuse the Spurs, it's still not a big problem! In the first quarter of the game, the Spurs only scored 12 points, but the Rockets were not much better, only scoring 18 points, and the Rockets led the Spurs by 6 points into the second quarter!

In the second quarter, the Spurs' bench, Devin Brown, showed a strong offensive game.

In the second quarter, he helped the Spurs slowly chase the score back, and in this quarter, the Spurs recovered two points at 22-20, narrowing the gap to four points, and at the end of the half, the Spurs were only two points behind the Rockets at 34-38! At halftime, Po Povich laid out a new tactic, only letting Bowen defend Maddy alone, and if Maddie has the ability to break through Bowen and then score, then let him be good!

And Yao Ming has no choice, the Spurs' center is really not very good, so he can't let Duncan come over to defend him.

It's better to let Duncan abuse Juwan Howard, which limits Howard's mid-range shot, which is also a winning relationship.

It was precisely because of Popovich's tactics that the Spurs, who were in a catch-up position for most of the first half, tied the score not long after the start of the third quarter, and barely gave the Rockets any chance, and instantly overtook the score, although it did not pull away, but it gave the Rockets a heavy blow.

Yao Ming's physical strength could not support him to play the whole court, after Yao Ming left the court, Mutombo on the court, except for defense, almost no use of force, in this case, the Spurs directly played a 24-16 in the third quarter, winning 8 points in a single quarter.

Not only did he erase the front four, but he also overtook the four, and Jeff Van Gundy's brow furrowed.

(To be continued)