The Rockets lost to the Trail Blazers again in overtime, and at the post-game press conference, Aldridge, the Trail Blazers' winning hero, proudly declared: "I want to send a message to the whole team in this game, I want to be the leader of the team."

Trail Blazers acting coach Canales praised his disciple and said, "We are counting on him, it is all up to him to win, he shoots a lot of great shots, that's what an All-Star is like, he's a great player."

The controversial Harden, the sluggish Jeremy Lin, and the brilliant tall and strong did not attend the press conference, and the Rockets' players who attended the press conference were Asik, who grabbed 10 points and 12 rebounds, and Asik praised Aldridge convincingly at the press conference, saying: "A big man of 6-foot-11, dribbling and stepping back for a jumper, he hits, I have to take off his hat, and then all we have to do is get out of the shadows and prepare for the next game." ”

"We played a little bit jerky in the final three-and-a-half minutes of the game and in overtime, and we need to continue to work on that, and we need to trust each other so that we can help our teammates make the right choices," Sampson, assistant coach of the Rockets, concluded.

The current Rockets are 4-5, which is obviously still some distance from the expectations of fans, and the Houston Chronicle conducted a detailed analysis of the Rockets team after the game, which pointed out that the Rockets currently rank 27th in the league in shooting percentage and 28th in three-point shooting percentage.

In this regard, Sampson, assistant coach of the Rockets, also admitted that Houston must focus on improving his shooting to find the right shots, and he is also glad that the season has just begun, and it is not too late to make amends.

"In this league, a lot of things can't be said alone," Sampson, assistant coach of the Rockets, said in an interview, "You need to practice shooting hard, and the five players on the court also need to play together, and teams tend to have a lot of problems on the offensive end, and sometimes the game is won or lost by the last five shots, and those losing teams can be reversed if they get better shots, so we have to shoot those shots."

In Gao's view, the team should find the best time to shoot, telling the Houston Chronicle: "We need to find good shots, know when to go to the basket or shoot open threes, in the last few games, everyone's shooting is not good, but at the beginning of the season, we need to play more aggressively without the ball and hit the shots that should be made."

The Houston Chronicle pointed out that the Rockets' offensive firepower is not weak, but the team has a fatal blind spot, and that is the offense from mid-to-long range: in the 16-23 foot range, the Rockets rank last in the league in shots and shots per game.

The Houston Chronicle notes that the Rockets are the least adept at shooting in the mid-to-long range of 16-23 inches, averaging just 9.4 shots per game in the opening nine games of the season, the only team in the league to take fewer than 10 shots in this area.

In fact, this range is often the distance that most players like to shoot the most, after all, the restricted area is a heavily defended place, and the shooting is interfered with greatly, and once it is pulled to the outside, the shooting percentage is not guaranteed, so it can be seen that there are 11 teams in the league that average more than 20 shots per game in this area, except for the Rockets, the rest of the teams have more than 14 shots.

There is a reason why the Rockets don't like to shoot in this area, because their main attack points Harden and Tall and Strong are not shooter-type players, they both have a strong ability to attack the basket, which can also be seen from the Rockets' shot distribution: the Rockets' highest percentage of shots is the restricted area, where they can average 34.9 shots per game, ranking first in the league, and secondly, the Rockets are good at shooting outside the three-point line, where they average 29 shots per game, also topping the league.

From the shooting point, it can also be seen that the Rockets' offense tends to be polarized, either hitting the ball inside to attack, or shooting directly from the outside, and this is exactly the team's two major attackers, Harden and Tall Strong, are the best offensive methods, both of them lack stability in mid-range shooting, like to use speed to hit the restricted area to score points, or directly on the outside to use long-distance attack opponents.

But it's not a good thing for the Rockets to focus too much on the box and the perimeter, once the opponent focuses on these two areas and forces the Rockets to shoot from mid-range, then Houston's shooting may also run into trouble, and the position and style of play between the Rockets' core Harden and the superstar Tall and Strong are too overlapping, and the skirmish that broke out in the game against the Trail Blazers once again worries Rockets fans.

But the schedule continues, the Rockets are going to challenge the powerful Los Angeles Lakers on the road, this season with the addition of the monster Howard and Nash, the Lakers have also become the hottest team in the league, but the current Lakers have the same 4-5 record as the Rockets, but they are more disappointing fans.

You must know that after just learning that Howard has joined the Lakers, a large number of Lakers fans have occupied the entire cyberspace: "The Lakers will be invincible this year!" Oh! Welcome to LA, Dwight Howard! "Welcome to the City of Kings and Rings, Welcome to the City of Champions", "Welcome Howard from Dwightmare to California Dreaming......

But the reality is cruel, the Lakers started with a losing streak, but at present, Lakers fans are still full of confidence in the team.

Mike D'Antoni, the new coach of the Lakers who originally planned to take the reins of coaching in this game, was determined not to appear in the coach's seat after a pre-game inspection, so that the reunion of Jeremy Lin and D'Antoni could not be staged, but the backcourt combination of Harden and Tall Zhuang, the strongest offensive backcourt, is still strong, and when it comes to the Staples Lakers' turf, in the face of the Purple and Gold led by Kobe Bryant and Howard, what kind of performance can the Rockets' new backcourt combination have? Such a drama has attracted the attention of all basketball fans.

Today, it will be a battle of the spotlight at the Staples Center, home of the Lakers.

This is also the first time that Gao Dazhuang has come to the legendary Los Angeles, and it is also the first time he has come to the Staples Center.

The Staples Center has a very immodest term - the World Sports and Entertainment Center, but as soon as he arrived here, he was moved by the strong cultural atmosphere, and the World Sports and Entertainment Center - lived up to its name.

The $380 million, nearly 20,000-seat Staples Arena has numerous entrances that form a block on its own, each with a giant "Go Lakers!" The banner and the giant electronic display board constantly flipped the glorious history of the Lakers who won 16 championships and reached the Finals 31 times, as well as the introduction of the current Lakers stars.

The three buildings opposite the Staples Center have huge portraits of the Lakers' three historical centers, Chamberlain, Abdul-Jabbar and O'Neal, which is an advertisement made by Apple Computer on the three main buildings of the Staples Center opposite the Staples Center.

Although this is a commercial, it is the most intuitive way to promote the Lakers' proudest center tradition, and now the Lakers have welcomed Howard, the current league's No. 1 center.

Before entering the arena, Gao Dazhuang felt the strong atmosphere of basketball culture and the huge pressure brought by the king Lakers.

The Lakers' glorious past gives them an atmosphere that no other team has, and the most special thing about being tall and strong is the visiting locker room at Staples.

Compared to the Pistons' home and away locker rooms, the Trail Blazers' home and away locker rooms are shabby and dilapidated, and the Staples visiting rooms are only slightly smaller than the home team, and the other facilities are not much different.

"Let the visitors be treated the same as themselves, and beat the opponent on the court with dignity," the Staples Arena staff proudly explained to the tall and strong -- this is the atmosphere of the Lakers.

Clean, bright, that's the first feeling Staples gives people, just like the California sun, soft and not dazzling, warm and warm on the body.

But when the tall and strong team walked into the stadium, the bright feeling suddenly disappeared.

Unlike many of the team's newly built arenas, Staples, an older man, has a typical old-school style of court lighting.

The ceiling is particularly high, and the spotlights hanging from the roof always feel a little lacking in energy when casting light on the court over long distances, and the stadium staff deliberately turned off several rows of lights on the ceiling to deliberately restore the arena to the "theater-style" style of the old-fashioned arena.

However, the slightly dimly lit stands did not dampen the enthusiasm of the fans.

Before the game even began, fans wearing yellow, purple and white Lakers uniforms occupied almost the entire stands, and from time to time there were "Comeon, Let'sgoLak-ers!" (Come on!) Go ahead Lakers! "The cry of the people.