This night, the Rockets and Spurs are about to meet for the third time this season.

Many media predict that the highlight of this game between the Rockets and the Spurs will be the confrontation between the Spurs' GDP trio and the Rockets' modern combination plus Jeremy Lin. Although Jeremy Lin was not reused by head coach McHale last season, he did not ask the Rockets to trade him like Asik, but has been training hard, and whenever Harden is out due to injury, he has always played efficiently. This season, Harden and Jeremy Lin have finally found a tacit understanding, and Jeremy Lin can fully play his level on the court.

As a result, the media has compared the GDP mix with the modern Galin bookmaker's portfolio.

Of course, in the eyes of the media, the trio of the Rockets is still a little behind the GDP. Harden is too prone to sticking to the ball, which leads to his over-the-top singles, and the other two are suspected of being wasted. And the GDP trio under the training of ** Vicky, each performing its own duties, can always play the most reasonable cooperation.

So this time, the media unanimously favored the Spurs and looked down on the Rockets.

But after all, this is the home court of the Rockets, Houston has more media, and the fans are almost all Rockets, so only cheers and cheers for the Rockets can be heard at the scene, but there are few cheers for the Spurs.

However, the Spurs have gone through a lot of winds and waves over the years, and they haven't seen any scenes, plus with ** Zhuge Vic in charge, they are very open, as if they are on their home turf.

At the beginning of the game, the Rockets still had Jeremy Lin playing the starting point guard, Harden as the scoring guard, and the other starters were the same. Wen Hao and Da Yao are still sitting on the sidelines watching the game.

But they were not idle, after the game on the court began, Da Yao sat next to Wen Hao, pointed to Parker and Duncan of the Spurs, and kept explaining the blocking and dismantling of the two in Wen Hao's ear. Regarding pick-and-roll, although the two of them have practiced a lot, and McHale often points them out, it is worse than Parker and Duncan, who have been playing pick-and-rolls for many years. Therefore, they should seize the opportunity to learn from the advanced experience of others.

With four minutes left in the first quarter, the Rockets trailed by nine points, 15-24.

At the beginning of the game, the Rockets played the ball to the interior four times in a row according to the head coach's arrangement, allowing Howard and Duncan to play alone. As a result, Howard shot five shots and zero, and Harden saw this, and no longer passed the ball inside, more of his own singles. This once again puts the Rockets in the same problems that have occurred in many previous games.

**In the live broadcast room, Ke Fan shook his head helplessly: "The problem of Harden and Howard not working together has been plaguing the Rockets since the formation of the modern combination, but I didn't expect that now it's been a season and a half, and McHale still hasn't been able to solve it." ”

"This is just the appearance," said guest commentator Yang Yi, "The biggest problem of the Rockets is that the leader is not clear enough, and many other problems are derived from this problem." On many occasions and in many interviews, Harden and Warcraft have said that they themselves are the leaders of this team. In other words, these two people have the intention of competing for the position of leader, which is already bad. To make matters worse, neither of them has the temperament to be a leader. Needless to say, Warcraft laughs all day long, and even sometimes when it is obvious that he is about to lose, he is still laughing, of course he can't be a leader; Although Harden seems to be the most like a Rockets leader at the moment, in fact, he still lacks the temperament of those real leaders who carry the team forward in critical moments. Like Kobe James, when it came time to live or die, I took over the game alone. That's the real leader. And Harden is clearly not. ”

"Well, that's the biggest problem with rockets right now. But let's not talk about anything else, let's just say that in this game, the modern combination is no longer useful on the field, only Kobayashi is left alone and can occasionally score one, seeing that the score difference is about to open up to double digits, McHale must have to find some way. However, I really don't think he will have a way, is it, the Rockets are going to kneel again this time? Ke Fan said.

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McHale was also a little anxious at this time. Even if the Rockets are not as strong as the Spurs on the surface, they can't be defeated in the first quarter, that's too much to say. However, Harden and the Monsters have begun to have a tendency to fight on the court, and if they are not replaced, I am afraid that they will really collapse.

In desperation, McHale had to call a timeout and replace Harden with Warcraft. What he meant was to let Harden and the Monster rest off the court for a while, let Parker and Duncan go crazy for a while, and then let the modern combination go back on when their stamina dropped.

But McHale's little trick can't escape the eyes of Zhuge Vic. When the two sides restarted, McHale was a little dumbfounded, only to see that Parker and Duncan were also resting off the court. And when Vicky looked at him, there was a little smugness, which made McHale almost angry.

At this time, Wen Hao replaced Harden, and Da Yao replaced Warcraft.

As soon as he got on the court, Jeremy Lin dribbled the ball past half court and handed it to Wen Hao, after Wen Hao took the ball, he didn't look at anyone else at all, and gave it directly to Da Yao on the inside.

Da Yao played the Spurs' substitute center, as if playing, facing the opponent's substitute center, and scored two consecutive dunks.

Seeing this, the ** Vicky on the sidelines did not panic, and shouted to the substitute center: "Go around, go around!" ”

Around the front, this is the method used by many players when defending Da Yao at the peak of Da Yao. couldn't defend Da Yao behind him, so he had to go around in front of Da Yao to prevent Da Yao from receiving the ball.

However, after Da Yao's comeback, those new generation of players disdain this practice.

But now this center is obviously not going to work, so the next time he defends Da Yao, he directly bypasses Da Yao and blocks in front of Da Yao.

At this time, Jeremy Lin was forty-five degrees on the right side and wanted to pass the ball to Da Yao, but he was surrounded by the opponent and couldn't pass it at all, so he had to pass the ball to Wen Hao at the top of the three-point arc.

Seeing this, Vicky nodded secretly in his heart, it seems that this time he has prevented.

But before his idea completely flashed, he saw Wen Hao at the top of the arc receive the ball and throw it directly into the inside line. Although Da Yao on the inside line was rounded on the right side, he was almost undefended from the middle, and when he received the ball at this time, he turned around and jumped directly.

Seeing this, the Spurs' substitute center hurriedly turned around and pounced, but in the face of Da Yao, who is two meters tall and has jumped to the highest point, he has only one end - being blocked. And it's a two-plus-one partition.

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