After the victory over the Raptors, the Houston Rockets beat the visiting Jazz at home in another blow, not only avenging the loss on the road, but also bringing their win rate back to 50%.

Although the Jazz once again lined up the "three highs": Millsap, Favors and Jefferson were the third, fourth and fifth positions, but in the cheers of the home fans, Harden rushed into the Jazz restricted area with the ball again and again, and walked to the free throw line again and again.

By the end of the third quarter, the Jazz's Millsap had already committed five fouls, while Favors and Jefferson also had four fouls each, causing the Jazz's defensive intensity to drop significantly.

In the end, the Rockets defeated the Jazz 124-116 at home, and in the game, starting small forward Parsons scored a team-high 24 points, starting point guard Jeremy Lin also continued his good form on the court, scoring 19 points and 8 assists, and starting center Asik also scored 12 points and 14 rebounds.

Tall and Strong, who came off the bench as the team's sixth man, recovered from a nightmare last game, shooting 5-of-9 from the field and 6-of-8 from the free-throw line, contributing 17 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists.

Jeremy Lin maintained his good form, scoring 19 points and 8 assists, Parsons scored 24 points, and Gao Dazhuang also had 17 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist off the bench.

Of course, the brightest star of the game is still the Rockets main James Harden, Harden played 39 minutes, scored 33 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists, 2 steals and 1 block on 7-of-15 shooting, and made all 16 free throws, setting a new personal record for free throws.

Free throws are a very important statistic for Harden, and at the moment, the most free throws in the league is Lakers center Dwight Howard with 130, while Harden is second with 119.

The person who shot the most free throws was Kevin Martin (over 50 free throws) at 95.2 percent, but it should be noted that Howard only hit 64 free throws, Martin also made only 59 free throws, and what about Harden? The answer is a staggering 91, which is the top of the league!

In other words, if you want to rate the league's most lethal player from the free throw line, it has to be Harden, no suspense.

In this game, Harden showed his free throw ability to the fullest, because the Jazz team was on the "three high" lineup, their flanks including the outside footsteps were relatively slow, Harden seized the opportunity, and caused Favors and Jefferson fouls in a row, only in the first quarter, Harden got 6 free throws, and at this time, the Knicks only got 8 free throws.

At the beginning of the second quarter, Harden began to exert his strength again, and in the first 5 minutes of the second quarter, Harden caused 3 fouls by Millsap and scored 9 free throws in a single quarter.

After halftime, Harden had made 15 free throws and hit all of them, compared to the Knicks' 12 as a team, and Harden single-handedly beat New York at the free-throw line.

Because the point difference had been opened in the third quarter, the two sides played very restrained and not fierce in the subsequent game, and Harden's free throws also stayed at 16 of 16 free throws, failing to match or even surpass the Rockets' all-time record of 18 free throws set by Kevin Martin.

However, Harden also set a new personal record for single-game free throws - in the second game of the season, Harden faced the Atlanta Hawks, scoring 45 points on 15-of-17 free throws, which not only set Harden's free throw record at the time, but also set Harden's career scoring record.

In less than a month, Harden broke his own record, which seems to indicate that the "beard" will have a very bright future in the Rockets.

After the game, Rockets coach McHale attended the press conference with his lover Harden, and the atmosphere was also harmonious, and the Rockets, who had won three in a row, seemed to be gradually on the right track.

But on the night of the game, the situation changed dramatically, and the Rockets once again fell into the whirlpool of public opinion.

First of all, Alex Kennedy, a famous reporter from "Hoop World", broke the news on Witt: "Rocket" Tanhua Show "tall and strong took the initiative to ask for a trade, and it is suspected that the relationship with Houston has deteriorated".

Alex Kennedy revealed that the answer to this incident was simple, "because Gao Dazhuang was not happy with the Rockets, after Patterson and others were traded, Gao Dazhuang and the Rockets management met and talked, but in the end they broke up, and Gao Dazhuang said to the Rockets management at that time that the team welcomed the team to trade him."

In addition, Alex Kennedy also said that Gao Dazhuang also did not hide his dissatisfaction, when Patterson was traded by the team, Gao Dazhuang looked demoralized and indifferent to what happened after the trade, when the Rockets played the Raptors in the last game, someone asked Gao Dazhuang, do you think the Rockets will maintain the current core lineup?

At this time, Gao Dazhuang took this opportunity to express his dissatisfaction with the team's management, "It doesn't matter what they think, these are not things we need to think about in the locker room, what the management thinks, it really doesn't matter, because I know that the NBA is the first naked business, and it is not surprising that anyone is traded."

Finally, Alex Kennedy also revealed that another reason that has been overlooked is that "the relationship between Tall and Strong and Harden, the core of the Rockets, has been strained for quite some time, and although they have always tolerated each other, several skirmishes have proved that they are not close."

In addition, there is also a conflict of position between Tall and Jeremy Lin, and Tall Zhuang, who is at the top of the rookie list, is obviously not willing to play as a substitute, so there is also a big gap between him and coach McHale.

The most important thing is that Patterson's trade has made the conflict between Gao Dazhuang and Rockets management such as Morey and Alexander public.

"When a player is strongly asking to be traded, it means that he and the team's goals are at odds, and even though the player is not as strong as the management, this cannot be ignored either," said Alex Kennedy at the end.

Then the "Houston Chronicle" immediately published a follow-up report: The Rockets' "super rookie" Gao Dazhuang was dissatisfied with his bench status and his playing time was not guaranteed, and he had asked the team to trade him.

Before the start of the season, the Rockets signed Harden and Jeremy Lin heavily, and the Rockets coaching staff has been experimenting with the terrifying backcourt lineup of Harden, Jeremy Lin, and Tall Strong, but in the end these attempts failed, and there was a natural positional conflict between Tall and Strong, so Coach McHale had to press the amazingly talented Tall and Strong to the bench.

The Rockets' stance on the trade rumours remains unclear, with coach McHale telling the Houston Chronicle that "I've never heard anything like that, Tall and Strong is a very promising young player, and he and Harden will need a lot of time to find a good understanding, and when we need to rely on offense to open things up, the two of them are still my most trusted players."

But in an interview with Sports Illustrated, Fagan, the tall and strong agent, did not agree with Coach McHale: "I'm surprised by the Rockets' approach, and if the Rockets think that the tall and strong can't be a starter, then I welcome the Rockets management to contact me, and other team management to contact me, I think we can sit down and deal with this matter."

Matty Black, a former NBA scouting director who has close ties to the Rockets, also told ESPN that the Rockets' recent performance in the trade market has angered Tall and Strong, who is about to ask the team to trade him out in order to leave the Rockets altogether.

In fact, before the news of the trade turmoil, the Rockets have also been seeking trades with other teams, hoping to make up for their shortcomings in the No. 4 position, but whether it is Alexander or Morey, the players they want to trade away are not tall and strong, in the eyes of Alexander and Morey, tall and strong is still an untapped treasure, the day before yesterday in an interview with ESPN, Alexander also said in front of fans across the United States: "I like the talent of tall and strong very much, He can do anything on the offensive end, it's incredible."

Despite the trade turmoil that swept through the Rockets, Rockets management appeared calm, and Morey told the Houston Chronicle: "No matter what Tall Man says, we can't let him go, he is still one of our core players, the most potential and efficient player on our team, even if he offers to be traded, we will not agree to him."

Although Morey made his attitude clear on behalf of the Rockets management, the trade rumors immediately attracted the attention of many teams in the league.

A number of teams have made private offers to the Rockets, and of course these actions are done in private.

But many "enthusiastic" fans and experts have listed twelve routes for Gao Dazhuang:

The Lakers, Mavericks, Suns, Clippers, Grizzlies, Trail Blazers in the West and the Raptors, Celtics, Nets, Bulls, Knicks, and Pistons in the East are considered to be the teams with the most interest and sincerity in being tall and strong.

But considering the huge potential of the tall and strong team, which poses a huge trade risk to the Rockets, and the trade chips the Rockets need, a large number of these teams don't stand a chance.