On Nov. 6, the Rockets faced a back-to-back game and visited the Clippers in Los Angeles.

Although the race with the supersonic rocket wasted a lot of physical strength.

However, Brent Barry, Rodney Rodgers, and Murray were unable to stop the Rockets from winning four in a row.

The substitutes played well.

Bodi Roga had a quasi-triple-double with 15 points, 9 rebounds and 11 assists.

Big Ben also had 13 rebounds and scored eight points.

Saulius scored 16 points.

In today's game, the Rockets' main players only played an average of 20 minutes.

At 134:101, the Rockets took only half a time to get the Clippers.

After three away games, the Rockets returned to their home court and welcomed the Portland Trail Blazers.

When they thought they could easily win the game, the Rockets encountered unprecedented resistance.

Michael Dunleavy has assembled a group of good players under his wing.

Isaiah Ryder, Sabonis, Rashid Wallace, Kenny Anderson, Damon Stoudamire, Grant, Gary Trent, these powerful players also gave Dunleavy Sr. the confidence to give the Rockets a good look on the Rockets' home court.

Before the start of the game, the Rockets' Lithuanian Saurius ran to the Trail Blazers to say hello to Sabonis, the captain of his national team.

Sabonis is also very happy to see this junior who has already made a name for himself in the NBA.

A few words of encouragement from Saulus.

"Well done, Sboga, really give us Lithuanians a long face, you participated in the whole of the seven big battles with Jordan, do you know that you are even more famous in China than me." Sabonis values this junior.

"Thank you for the compliment, Captain, I still have to learn from you." Saullius is modest, because in front of him are the legendary superstars of Lithuania, the equivalent of Pele and Maradona on the basketball court.

"What to praise, play well today, if you have the opportunity to play, use your best strength to finish the game." After saying that, he hugged Saulius and went back to his side to prepare for the game.

Saullius also returned to the Rockets and began to prepare for the game.

"Sboga, if the situation allows, you'll get a chance to play." Lao Tang, who has been getting along for a year, still likes this young Lithuanian very much.

"Thank you, Coach, as long as I'm on the court, I'll play at my best." Saulus spoke softly, but with an extremely firm tone.

In this game, given that the Rockets are not very suitable for short speed point guards, the Trail Blazers' 'flying squirrel' became the key to the game.

There are still a lot of highlights in this match, 33-year-old Sabonis and 34-year-old Olajuwon.

Rashid Wallace, the fourth-place pick in '95, and Kevin Garnett, fifth.

can all become classic lenses.

The jump ball of the game was played between Ra Wallace and Kevin Garnett.

(It's very inhumane for you to let two old men jump balls.) ）

There is not much difference in the physical fitness, bounce, and explosiveness of the two people.

However, Garnett's arm is a little longer than Wallace's.

In the end, Garnett gave me a finger advantage and gave the ball to Mark Jackson.

Mark Jackson, who is much taller than Damon, has a headache when he looks at a small guard who is much shorter than him.

said, "Damon, why can't you grow taller?" “

Damon smiled when he heard this, and said, "Mark, if I were as tall as you, I must be the darling of the league now, and I still use it every day to throw myself into the muscle jungle of the inner line." ”

One sentence left Mark Jackson speechless.

yes, if this kid is as tall as me, then he's definitely the top guy in the league.

Shaking his head, he sighed: "Old Dunleavy can really find something for me, make you a little man." ”

"Hehe, you can be content, Mark, I'm guessing with Anderson, I won him before starting, and there will be a little man waiting for you in a while." Damon replied with a smile.

"Well, you just toss my old arms and legs like this, and I can't make you feel better." didn't wait for him to finish, and used his height to directly give the ball to Da Meng.

Da Meng leaned on Sabonis a little harder, and felt that the power behind him was very weird, as if there was no strength, but according to his own experience, as long as he exerted his strength, he would have his own good looks.

It's not funny, this old guy, don't look at the knees are not good, the kung fu in his hands is still very good.

After dribbling the ball, the body moved forward a little, and the body immediately retracted, followed by a backward step.

Sabonis is not a loss, Sabonis saw the intention of the big dream early in the morning, his body was raised in advance, and his two hands were directly sealed on Olajuwon's eyes.

Looking at the two big hands waving in front of his eyes, Olajuwon's hands trembled, and the ball was deflected.

The ball bounced straight into the basket.

Olajuwon, who knew it was bad as soon as he made a shot, shouted at Garnett under the basket: "Rebound." ”

Garnett, who heard the scream, thought to himself, "Boss, I saw it too, but I can still get stuck in my position." ”

The rest of the interior also shrank to the basket and began to pay attention to the protection of the rebound.

Just as Garnett struggled to squeeze away Wallace and prepare to steal the ball.

A guy with pigtails jumped up and took the basketball in his arms.

It turned out to be Blazer Grant.

The guy who was counted in the NBA with the 8th pick in '94 spent three years with the Kings and just joined the Trail Blazers on a free transfer this year.

It's a very good blue-collar worker.

After grabbing the rebound, he waved his elbow and Grant desperately protected the ball.

Damon stepped forward quickly and answered the pass.

Damon, who took over the basketball, accelerated directly to the half court of the Rockets.

A beautiful cross in disguise freed from Mark Jackson's entanglement.

Straight to the Rocket's basket.

Horry, who checked out quickly, was already waiting for Damon under the basket.

However, after Damon slowed down with a crotch cross dribble, it was a pull-up jumper.

The basketball spun softly and got into the hoop.

The Trailblazers went down first.

The game kicked off with the Trail Blazers' opener.

Damon is very active.

Compared to Brian Knight, Damon Stoudayre's individual attack is much stronger.

Damon kept pounding the basket and messing up the paint area of the rocket.

In less than five minutes of the opening game, Damon scored eight points himself, and the Trail Blazers led by six points at 14-8.

Looking at the guy who was at peace with the whole rocket team who was messed with by one person.

Lao Tang decisively called a timeout and began to make substitutions.

Bodi Roga came on for Horry and Jacques Vaughn was substituted again.

The goal is to defend and contain Damon.

But Damon, who has been in the league for two years, is clearly not something a rookie like Jacques Vaughn can watch.

Last time, I suppressed Knight, and that was because Knight was a rookie.

Watching Jacques Vaughn be unscrupulously broken through again and again, the Rockets' players were helpless.

At the end of the first quarter, Damon scored 16 points in a single quarter.

Such an achievement is to the shame of the Rockets.

However, thanks to an excellent offense, the rocket was not crushed.

Relying on Drexler's three three-pointers in a single quarter, the Rockets kept the score at around 5 points.

The rocket was not driven too much.

Lao Tang didn't think of any good way.

Isn't it, to carry out a bag clamp, to a small man who is only 1.78 meters to carry out a bag clamp.

It also keeps the Rockets from messing around in the NBA.

Just when everyone is helpless.

A guy walked over and said, "Coach, why don't I try it?" ”

When you look at it, it's Saulius.

"You, can you keep up with Damon?" Old Tang was a little skeptical.

"Yes, try it, I know if I can keep up, but I always have to experiment with something." Saulius was calm.

Old Tang thought for a while and said:

"Okay, you go and give it a try." Lao Tang couldn't think of any way, so he had to try.

The second quarter begins.

Big Dream was replaced, and it was the bus that came on the field.

Because Big Ben suffered a small injury in the game against the SuperSonics, he needed to rest for a game.

But the confrontation between the two international players is also very interesting.

Now the Rockets have three international players on the roster.

Center Big Bus, power forward Garnett, small forward Bodi Roga, scoring guard Shandon Anderson, point guard Saullius.

After coming on the court, Damon found that his defender was replaced by a white man who hugged Sabonis in the opening game.

He knew, that Sabonis had told him, that his name was Saulius.

"You, too, like Alves, are Lithuanians." Damon looked at the big white man with the ball in front of him.

"Yes, I'm Lithuanian." There are very few words from Saulius.

"Hehe, among you Lithuanians, Alves can play basketball, and the others are really nothing good." Anyway, it's not familiar, and it's trash talk.

"Yes, I'll let you know that there are a lot of high schools of your level all over Lithuania." Although there are few words, the words are very poisonous.

After hearing this, Damon's heart was a little angry.

"yes, then let me, a high school student, beat you." When he said this, Damon gritted his teeth a little.

Just as Damon was gritting his teeth, Saulius was already close to the three-point line with the ball.

Ignoring Damon Stoudayre's defense at all, a shot directly from the three-point line is a three-pointer.

"Huh"

It hit very briskly.

The height difference of 23 centimeters is enough for him to shoot.

Then, ignoring Damon's angry gaze, Saulius stepped back to defend.

Damon took the basketball and began to accelerate unscrupulously.

Looking at Saurius, who had already caught up, a cross-step attempt was disguised in an attempt to shake Saurius away.

However, in the first quarter of the game, Saulus had already observed his game for the whole time.

I have a certain understanding of some of his habits.

Saulius didn't shake at all, and a stride directly blocked the line that Damon had broken through.

And he also used his body and strength to constantly press Damon, making it difficult for him to break through the attack freely.

Under the constant pressure of Saulius, Damon finally made a mistake.

The pass was cut off by Shanton Anderson.

When Anderson and Bodiroga went on a fast break, they went two-by-one and played directly with Brian Grant.

It was Bodillo who scored two points with a layup.

In less than one and a half minutes of the opening game, the Rockets had already tied the score.

29：29.

The Rockets managed to equalize.

Looking at Saulus, who still had such a straight face, Damon gritted his teeth for a while.

However, he doesn't have much of a chance for the time being.

Kenny Anderson and Gary Trent came on to replace him and Sabonis.

In this way, in the second quarter of the game, Damon and Saulus never faced each other again.

When Kenny Anderson came on the court, he started to focus on organizing.

The Trail Blazers' offensive was well conditioned by him.

The Rockets are also under the organization of Bodi Roga, and a group of bench players and the Trail Blazers are playing well.

By the end of the second quarter, the Rockets and Trail Blazers were 52-52.

The match ended in a draw.

The Rockets and Trail Blazers went into halftime.

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