Chapter 274: Houston Rockets
In the early morning of the Celtics vs. Rockets game, Harden and two female friends hugged and walked out of the nightclub door, quickly got into a Cadillac SUV and drove to Harden's home in Houston. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Isn't James afraid of the coach and the team punishing him? It's going to be a game against Celtic tonight! Second-year rookie Kyle Velche muttered.
"Shut up, don't you want to mess around with the rockets? James is a privileged player, scoring 30 points per game, and is now the league's number one scoring guard! Even D'Antoni has to look at his eyes, you are old, and you dare to question. Sam Decker, a third-grader, immediately pulled Wilcher aside and whispered.
Wilche, who had tried his best to find a place in the NBA, looked at the direction in which Harden's car disappeared and couldn't say what it was like.
The Houston Rockets, a team based in Texas, are known as the Texas Three along with the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks! In terms of the history of the team, the Rockets were leading at the beginning, but after Olajuwon retired, the Spurs and Mavericks began to surpass the Rockets, and even the other two teams reached the Finals more than once after 2000, and both won the championship, but the Rockets' best time was only to reach the Western Conference Finals, and most of the other games that reached the playoffs were rounds.
This team with a tradition of high school forwards, from Moses Malone, Ralph Sampson, and Hakeem Olajuwon in the early days, to Yao Ming in 2002, to Dwight Howard in 2013, are all traditional centers in the league. But with Howard leaving the Rockets for the Hawks in the summer of 2016, the Rockets have not had a center star and have relied instead on James Harden, an outside point guard.
In this case, the Rockets brought in D'Antoni, who focuses on run-and-gun tactics, hoping that his arrival can activate the Rockets' offense. Morey, on the other hand, relied on his own data analysis to continue to sign some role players who looked good on the fly, but were not part of the championship puzzle, and perhaps expected to play for a few more years and then trade a few good players for a few more numbers.
Some people, if you give him 30,000 yuan for decoration, he can give you the effect of 100,000 yuan, but if you give him 300,000 yuan, he can still only give you the effect of 100,000 yuan.
Under this unenterprising strategy, although the Rockets made the playoffs in the 2016-17 season, they are still in a modest position such as fourth in the West, and although they have home-court advantage, they still lost 2-4 to Lillard's Portland Trail Blazers in the first round, and suffered another round of tours.
This season's Rockets are still not bad, and the ball possession ratio of Harden has reached a career-high 38%, although the data is very dazzling, but it cannot lead the team to go further!
The current Rockets, the goal is not clear, the tactics are not clear, there is a group of shooters in the team, the most suitable for fighting is the chaotic war, although the offense looks disorganized, but it is often messy to kill the master, and this kind of team against each other, you need to be vigilant at all times, but everyone knows that such a team will never win the championship!
Despite this, the Rockets' reliance on Yao Ming's mass base still has enough popularity in China, especially after the rumors of Chinese interior player Rui Zhiwei have once again attracted the attention of Chinese fans.
Before the start of the game, there was a lot of discussion about the game on the Internet.
A certain wave:
It would be nice if Ye Hai went to the Rockets, the Rockets are the home team of our Chinese fans in the NBA!
- Nonsense, my big dog thorn is!
-- Where did the Rockets go to get such a high pick?
--- Morey's strategy of neither high nor low will earn eyeballs and excitement, there is no good draft pick every year, and there is no chance to get close to the championship every year!
A certain career:
Harden's strength has surpassed Maddie at the peak of the year, as long as he is paired with another center, he will definitely have a chance to win the championship!
-Hehe!
--Howard lies down, the Hawks don't have Harden, but the record is better than the Rockets!
--- Maddie is lying on the ground because of a back injury, and Harden is lying on the ground because hehe!
---- support Dengo! Since watching Brother Deng play, I have already bought a house in my hometown by touching porcelain!
A certain flutter:
Down with the rockets, hate the iron that doesn't make steel!
-In the tank! Compete for the championship every year, and play soy sauce every year!
--Houston reporter reports: The Rockets want to sign Durant, Ibaka, and Wei Shao to form the Houston Thunder!
---Well, yes, I heard that Messi and Ronaldo will be signed!
----Yes, the Rockets are so braggart and don't pay taxes!
----- about kicking, the Rockets are the strongest in the NBA, and it is not a problem to instill 10 Chinese men's football teams!
In this game, several heavyweight players came to the VIP seats of the Houston Rockets: Olajuwon, Drexler, Mutombo, Yao Ming, and Maddy, four former Rockets stars sat in turn, and when the camera swept over them before the game, the audience burst into warm applause and cheers from the fans!
Olajuwon and Drexler brought the fans' nostalgia and longing for the championship, and Uncle Mu, Yao Ming, and Maddie brought the crazy history of the team's 22 consecutive wins, and the miracle of 35 seconds and 13 minutes!
In this game, Rockets coach D'Antoni put out the starting lineup:
Center: Clint Capela, 2.08m;
Power forward: Ryan Anderson, 2.08m;
Small forwards: Trevo Ariza, 2.03m;
Shooting guard: James Harden, 1.96m;
Organizational Defender: Patrick Beverley, 1.85m.
At the same time, the team's bench is also sitting Eric Gordon, Cory Brewer and other scoring masters, as well as Nene Hilario and other inside giants!
The Celtics still continue their starting lineup, and the trident of Horford, Yahi, and Paul team up!
For Yao Ming, the boss of the brokerage team who is also a teacher and friend, Ye Hai made a special trip to hug him before the game, and Harden also said a few words to several stars on the sidelines!
With the referee's whistle, the Boston Celtics away game against the Houston Rockets officially began!
Capella, a third-year center, is only 2.08 meters tall, but his arm span is an astonishing 2.24 meters! Relying on this long arm span, Capela averaged 1.8 blocks per game last season, and this season it has improved to 2.0!
But this way of relying on explosive blocking has no effect on the flexible Horford, who can be inside and out, and Horford taught Capela a lesson in the third year as soon as he opened the game.
Horford, who pulled to the outside, made a realistic feint shot, shook Capela up, and then dribbled three steps, directly facing Ryan Anderson's defense, holding the ball in both hands, and a two-handed slam dunk came up!
After the goal, Horford roared and ran to the backcourt!
Since the last game accidentally stimulated the chemistry of the whole team, all the players of the team have been opened up on the court, including Horford, who is usually calm and rational, and has also begun to express his passion on the court! This emotion also means that the whole Celtic team has really entered the state!
It was the Rockets' turn to attack, Harden dribbled the ball across the half court and beckoned, Capela hurriedly stepped forward to help block and dismantle, Harden used Capela's block to shake two steps to the other side of Brandon Rush's defense, and shot directly outside the three-point line, and the ball went into the net!
2-3! Harden shook his left hand to shoot, and it seemed that the feeling of touching the ball in the early morning was still hot! (To be continued.) )