After a crazy first week, the Rockets are on a three-game losing streak, and coach McHale admitted that there was something wrong with the team: "Now we're a little panicked and the game feels difficult"

"In the last two sessions, we've been rebuilding the offensive system in a targeted manner, hoping to get Harden to play more offense with off-ball running, but against the Grizzlies, the ball always stalled, like a quagmire," McHale said in an interview with the Houston Chronicle.

There is no doubt that Harden is crucial to the Rockets, according to the analysis of data from the American media, Harden will score 32.6 points per 36 minutes when he is the team's first scoring point, which means that in the ideal playing time, Harden's offensive power is definitely the top in the league.

But analyzing the first four games, Harden played an average of more than 40 minutes and his form has been up and down, which shows that the Rockets have not found the best way to use him.

Unlike Harden, the tall and strong from China is undoubtedly more difficult, not only as a substitute for the team, but also with the pressure on the team.

Playing in the United States, a foreign country, Gao Dazhuang knows very well that the slightest mistake will be questioned, and even attract criticism from the media, because of this, Gao Dazhuang does his best in every game.

In the last game, Gao Dazhuang was slightly injured and could not get off the line of fire, in a conflict, Gao Dazhuang was hit in the nose, but he walked to the free throw line with a hemostatic cotton in his left nostril.

Even so, a small number of fans began to criticize Tall and Strong, while 30% of fans thought that the combination of Harden and Tall and Strong was incompatible, and the call for a trade was once again resounding in the Rockets forum.

When the Rockets won, the combination of Harden and the tall and strong was called the league's most offensive backcourt combination, and when the losses followed, people found that the Rockets did not seem to have changed as much as people thought, and it was still far from the era of innovation.

The good news is that the Rockets are young, averaging only 24.7 years old, which gives them a great future.

Recently, the senior management of the Rockets club has frequently stated that "the future of the Rockets is more worth looking forward to", and general manager Morey made it clear that the team will have enough salary space to chase big players by next summer: "Salary space, excellent young players and cities, these can help us get another star"

In other words, Harden + tall and strong + big names are the complete pieces of the puzzle for the Rockets to return to the ranks of the strong team.

The three consecutive defeats after two consecutive wins have brought the Rockets back to reality from their dreams, and the Rockets are not so strong, although Harden and Tall and Strong have made a good start to the Rockets, but they have just joined the team and are all newcomers to the league.

"We didn't have a lot of time to play together, we didn't go through training camp and we didn't have enough time to practice tactics, so we still need to run in, slowly solve the problems that arise in the game, and find the best way to play," said Gao Dazhuang before the fifth match.

It may be that people are looking forward to the new season of the Rockets, and are full of curiosity about the "Harden, tall and strong combination", so that the mood will soar with the Rockets and then fall quickly, maybe the best way for people to keep their mentality balanced now is to look at the Lakers, as Harden said: "We are such a young team, but we have done much better than the Lakers"

You must know that the Lakers, who have the four kings of Kobe, Howard, Nash, and Gasol, are at the bottom of the West.

Fortunately, the Rockets' next opponent is the Pistons, who won the first game of the season on the road, and the Pistons are currently in worse shape than the Rockets, who have lost six in a row and are at the bottom of the league.

So although Rockets head coach McHale missed today's game due to family matters, and the team was coached by assistant coach Sampson, the whole Rockets team is still full of confidence.

"Offense, offense, offense" The fans in the Toyota Center are shouting loudly, although the Rockets have suffered three consecutive defeats, but the current Rockets have more attention than before.

"Brushed" Harden to pick up a pass from Jeremy Lin and hit a jumper, which is why the Rockets are in the spotlight - they have enough good young players.

Although Harden's outside shooting percentage was still not high today, he still played aggressively, creating six free throws in the first quarter and hitting all six free throws to lead the Rockets 22-20 over the Pistons on the road.

At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, Rockets assistant coach Sampson replaced Harden with a tall and strong man, and in this substitution, many attentive fans found a difference, because Harden took the initiative to high-five him when he got off the court, you must know that these two had no intersection in the first few games.

As soon as Gao Dazhuang came on the court, he was immediately clinged to by the Pistons Starkey, but it is said that Starkey has also been the "red man" of the league recently.

However, Rodney Starkey, the 15th pick in 2007, finally secured the top spot in the team, but was named "the worst team boss in the league" by the American media, because Starkey made a total of 23 shots in the first three games of the season, hitting only one shot, shooting only 4.3%, and the Pistons were also at the bottom of the league.

Gao Dazhuang thought that Sterkey might not be able to raise his head for a while, but he didn't expect this guy to be so active in defense, it seems that NBA players have a big heart.

Because the tall and strong was tightly clinged to Starkey, Jeremy Lin chose to attack on his own, but Jeremy Lin, who was strong inside, did not find a good offensive opportunity under the joint defense of the opponent's Knight and Prince, and turned out again.

The clock ticked by, and at this time, the tall and strong pushed the starkey in front of him, a reverse run, and the moment he got rid of the starky defense, Jeremy Lin showed the acumen of a point guard and passed the ball to the tall and strong in time.

After receiving the ball, Gao Dazhuang turned around and wanted to shoot, and at the moment when Starkey pounced, there was a "snap", and Gao Dazhuang changed direction to break through, and then followed by a step-back step and jumped directly.

"Hmph" Starki gritted his teeth and jumped hard to pounce on Tall Zhuang, trying to interfere with Tall Zhuang's shot with his height and reach.

"Not good" Starkey, who had already jumped, suddenly found that his tall and strong figure suddenly became shorter again, and it was another feint!

After using two consecutive feints to shake up Starkey, the tall and strong jumped again to shoot against Starkey.

The referee's whistle sounded, and Starkey had no choice but to raise his hands helplessly.

The tall man who took the initiative to make a foul forcibly threw the ball out when his body was slightly unbalanced, and with a "brush" sound, the ball went into the net.

2+1

"Oh" is tall and strong, and as soon as he came on the field, he ignited the entire Toyota Center with a "2+1".

This ball is the epitome of the whole game against Stucky, not only did Starkey not keep an eye on Tall Strong, but he was still continuing his cold touch.

At 47:41, the Rockets' rotation lineup, with tall and strong as the offensive core, expanded the score on the court.

At the beginning of the third quarter, the Rockets made another personnel change, and Harden reappeared in place of Parsons.

The current Harden is the cornerstone of the Rockets, and the coach can't bear to press him on the bench, so the tall and strong are forced to appear more in the small forward and scoring guard positions, but fortunately, the tall and strong are used to it.

As soon as Harden came on the court, he missed two consecutive strong shots, and the Pistons took the opportunity to play a wave of small **.

At this time, Jeremy Lin passed the ball to the tall and strong hands on the wing, and the tall and strong were pasted by Prince just after receiving the ball, but in the face of this kind of forced defense, Gao Dazhuang had already prepared, and with a touch of the situation, he instantly left Prince behind him and rushed to the opponent's basket.

At the moment when Gao Dazhuang entered the restricted area, the Pistons' Drummond and Monroe, the two big interior captains, immediately surrounded and blocked Gao Dazhuang.

But Gao Dazhuang did not flinch in the face of the blockade of the two, jumped high, "drunk" the whole person roared, contracted in the air, slid through Monroe's cover, and slid past him, but at this time, Drummond behind Gao Dazhuang followed closely behind him, waiting for Gao Dazhuang to make a move.

At this critical moment, the tall and strong shook the ball hard and passed the ball directly.

The "snap" ball accurately passed to Harden, who was standing outside the three-point line, and the unmarked Harden made an adjustment after receiving the ball, and then made a three-point shot.

With a "brush", the ball hollowed into the net.

"Beautiful, good, just like that" There was an excited cheer from the sidelines, and this voice was none other than Sampson, the assistant coach of the Rockets.

And Sampson was not the only one who was excited on the sidelines, the rest of the Rockets coaching staff, including the Rockets' bench players, stood up, not because Harden scored, but because it was tall and strong who assisted Harden in scoring.

This is the first time that Harden and Gao Dazhuang have scored directly on the court, and the game has been played in five games, and the number of direct passes between the two is only a handful.

Harden didn't say much after the goal, but in the process of retreating, he gave a thumbs up to the tall and strong figure.

"Hey," the tall man smiled meaningfully.

Starting from the tall and strong assist, the Rockets began to play their own momentum, and the players cooperated tacitly, whether it was passing, stealing or shooting, they were very decisive, which greatly disgraced the Pistons.

In the fourth quarter, Harden also completed his first assist to Gao Dazhuang, and he also teamed up with Gao Dazhuang to play a wave of 10:0 attack to completely lock up the victory.

"The Bearded" Harden made 8 of 16 shots and 8 of 10 free throws that night, contributing 24 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist to the Rockets, while Gao Dazhuang shot 7 of 11 and 5 of 6 free throws to score 20 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists.

In the end, the Houston Rockets defeated the Detroit Pistons 96-82 at home to win their first home game of the new season, while the Pistons still did not win a game.

"We're finally winning, and that's important for the team, especially Coach McHale," Harden, the resurgence of the Rockets, attended the post-game press conference.

Sampson, the assistant coach of the Rockets, said: "Our defense is pretty good, our coverage of pick-and-rolls is top-notch, it's very different from what we've done before, and we're going to continue to improve, I'm happy with the game, this win is what we need, we're doing pretty well on the defensive end."

The Rockets won 3-3 in the first six games, and the combination of Harden and Tall Strong took care of the Rockets' offense, but neither Tall and Harden were good defensive players, but today, defense has not become a shortcoming for the Rockets.

"The test is still to come," said Sampson, the Rockets' assistant coach, because the Rockets' next opponent is the defending champion Heat led by "The Emperor" James.