The Hornets' on-court lineup itself is not good at defending players with strong breakthrough ability, Vasquith, Lopez, and Rivers are not fast, and after the Rockets made personnel adjustments, the Rockets' backcourt combination of Harden and Tall Zhuang have strong breakthrough ability.

In the face of the Hornets' already loose defense, Harden and Tall Strong broke into the opponent's interior again and again to score points.

At 7 minutes and 15 seconds in the first quarter, Harden misplaced Lopez attacked, and he did not hesitate to cut directly from the left side, Lopez kept sliding back and failed to catch up with Harden's footsteps, and watched Harden score 2 points with an easy layup.

Just 25 seconds later, Harden faked a pick-and-roll in the same position, and then deceived Rivers Jr.'s center of gravity and scored two points with the same vertical cut for another layup.

At 8 minutes and 25 seconds, Gao Dazhuang also received the ball in a similar position, and at this time, the Rockets used the ISO (one-four single) strategy, which is also one of the tactics tailored by assistant coach Sampson for Gao Dazhuang.

Facing Hornets backup guard Al Farouk Aminu, Gao Da Zhuang dominated in all aspects, and made Aminu jump with only a simple probe + shooting feint, and then easily cut inside and leaned back to score a shot.

At 10 minutes and 20 seconds, the Hornets missed the shot, and after Patterson grabbed the rebound, the tall and strong ran quickly, and one person hit the Hornets basket and made a foul on Rivers Jr., and the tall and strong made both free throws.

At 19:27, the Rockets entered the second quarter with an eight-point advantage.

The second quarter of the game had just begun, and the Hornets "champion" Davis attacked the basket, but was hit by Rockets center Asik.

As the undisputed "champion" of this draft, Davis has a long arm span, excellent mobility, awareness and a variety of offensive methods, but as an interior player, he is still a little uncomfortable facing NBA-level confrontations, and his thin body and aggressive play make him prone to foul trouble against a larger interior player.

In the first seven games of the season, Anthony Davis showed the dominance that fans expected, and his 13.1 points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game put him in third place on the rookie list.

In front of him are Lillard, who averages 19.2 points, 5.3 rebounds, and 7.6 assists per game, and Gao Dazhuang, who averages 21.5 points, 7.1 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game.

In this game, Anthony Davis faced directly against the Rockets' blue-collar center Asik, although Asik is not athletic, his positional sense is quite good, and he is full of power, Davis has not had the upper hand in several head-to-head meetings.

Compared with the "champion" Davis, the tall and strong as the "Tanhua" plays much easier, and the Hornets player Vasquith, who is opposite the tall and strong, is a point guard with the strongest scorer, but compared to his excellent scoring ability, his ordinary athleticism makes it difficult to prevent the tall and strong breakthrough.

Gao Dazhuang first knocked the mountain with a three-point shot, and then attacked 3 times in a row, Gao Dazhuang completed with a breakthrough, and what puzzled the Hornets was that no matter how they defended, Gao Dazhuang could always kill the way through the cracks and complete the score.

Just 5 minutes into the second quarter, Gao Dazhuang had already scored 10 points with free throws and became the first firepower point of the Rockets on the court.

The combination of Vasquez and Rivers Jr. is only at the bottom of the league by any point of view, and neither is known for their defensive skills and is inexperienced, and the Rockets' backcourt pair is starting to go wild against such an opponent.

After the tall and strong scored consecutive points, the core of the Rockets Harden also began to exert his strength, he first slipped the baseline and scored an easy layup, then made a foul to cheat and hit both free throws, and then immediately after breaking through to attract the attention of the defense, he split the ball to help Asik dunk with both hands.

The Rockets gradually pulled the score away, and with one minute left at halftime, the tall and strong jumper hit a jumper to build a 20-point lead for the Rockets.

In the last 10 seconds of the half, Gao Dazhuang also staged an amazing life-and-death speed breakthrough: at that time, Gao Dazhuang advanced with the ball from the backcourt, and the Rockets scattered on both sides to do fixed-point cover, but Harden only used his teammate's block at the top of the arc, and then a change of direction handed the ball to the right hand to accelerate along the middle, and the Hornets high Grayvis-Vasquith and Rivers Jr. closed the door late, and could only watch the tall and strong cut into the inside.

Tall and strong, he took two big steps, stepped on the reasonable collision zone line, folded and lifted off in the bag of three Hornets interior players, and used the air and body flexibility to score the ball.

In this breakthrough, Gao Dazhuang single-handedly challenged five opponents, which also allowed the Rockets to end the first half with a huge lead of 22 points.

At halftime, Harden scored a game-high 21 points, 2 rebounds and 1 assist on 8-of-13 shooting, while Gao Dazhuang, who came off the bench, shot 7-of-10 and scored 17 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists at halftime.

In the second half of the game, the Rockets, who led by 20 points, were still in the driver's seat, and the Hornets didn't have a good strategy to keep an eye on the Rockets' twin guns Harden and Tall Strong, especially when both of them were on fire.

At 9:11 in the third quarter, Harden cut into the Hornets basket with a European step from the center and scored the ball under the bag of four Hornets players to score his 30th point of the game.

At 11:05 in the third quarter, Gao Dazhuang received the ball at the top of the three-point arc, and after a probe + shooting feint shook the defender, he shot again, and with a "brush", Gao Dazhuang hit a three-point shot, which also made his score reach 30 points.

In the fourth quarter of the game, the Rockets, who were playing at home and leading by 25 points, made personnel adjustments, Gao Dazhuang and Harden went off the court one after another, and the team's starting point guard Jeremy Lin got on the court and led Asik, Morris, Parsons and Delfino to play.

But with the Rockets' two major scoring points absent at the same time, the situation on the court took a sharp turn for the worse, with the Rockets attacking back-to-back misses and the Hornets taking the opportunity to counterattack, at which point the entire Toyota Center Arena once again resounded with huge boos.

Jeremy Lin, the team's starting point guard under tremendous pressure, tried his best throughout the fourth quarter, but he only scored a pitiful 4 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals on 2-of-10 shooting.

Aside from a reflexive pull-up layup and a couple of passes, Jeremy Lin had no other highlights in the entire quarter.

Fortunately, the Rockets built a huge lead in the first three quarters, and in the end, the Rockets, who were playing at home, won 102-96 against the visiting Hornets.

Harden finally recovered after five consecutive games, scoring 30 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists on 10-of-20 shooting, while Rockets rookie Tall and Strong also scored 30 points, 6 rebounds and 2 assists on 11-of-19 shooting.

Both Harden and Tall scored 30 points in less than three quarters, and it's worth mentioning that the last time the Rockets had two players score 30+ points at the same time in the same game was last season's home win over the Cavaliers, when Martin and Battinger scored 30 points at the same time.

After the game, Sampson, the interim head coach of the Rockets, attended a press conference and talked about the game, and after praising the team's performance in the second and third quarters, the bench lineup and Harden, Sampson used a long time to praise the tall and strong.

Coach Sampson made no secret of his admiration for Tall Strong: "I think we played really well in the second and third quarters, Gao not only helped the team offensively, but also very tough defensively, and he was always in the right place."

This is the first time that the Rockets coaching staff has publicly praised the tall and strong defense, and then Sampson also said that the Rockets coaching staff will equip the tall and strong with more blocking and pick-and-roll tactics to fully play the ability of Lin Gaozhuang.

"As the season progresses, we're going to involve Gao in more pick-and-rolls, but the opponent will get to know him as well, and Gao is now 14th in the league in points per game," Sampson said proudly.

Sampson is not worried about the problem of several forced shots by Tall and Strong today, "I think Gao has no problem choosing the timing of his shooting tonight, I like the timing of each of his shots, I always tell him 'It's okay, keep shooting, the next one will score, I want him to have that confidence, because I have confidence in him, you know, he is not a pure shooter, compared to shooting, he has more ability to impact the basket"

However, the focus of the Houston media after the game was not the outstanding super-rookie Tall and Strong, nor the team's core Harden, but the team's starting point guard Jeremy Lin.

Jeremy Lin played 20 minutes in the game, shooting only 2 of 10 and 0 of 4 three-pointers, with a measly 4 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals.

Counting this game, in the past 5 games, Jeremy Lin has made a total of 44 shots, but only 14 shots, with a shooting rate of 31.8%, and he has made a total of 20 shots outside the three-point line, but only 5 shots, with a shooting rate of only 25%.

After last season's madness, Jeremy Lin, who joined the Rockets with a high salary this season, is at a low point.

"Yahoo Sports" used "Jeremy Lin's Rocket Career Cold Start" as the title in the headline position today, although it has also had a bright performance in previous games, but it can be seen that Jeremy Lin is very uncomfortable with no ball in the positional battle and can only play the role of a fixed-point shooter.

In the life-and-death game against the Heat, he was criticized for his three-point shooting in the open position.

Against the Hornets, Jeremy Lin's situation did not change much, as a playmaker, he basically couldn't get the ball in the first quarter of the game, most of the time he played a set shooter on the wing, and there were very few opportunities to break through and attack with the ball.

"Maybe he's better off the bench," Yahoo Sports commented at the end of the report, while the Houston Chronicle also published an article stating that "we would rather see tall and strong"!