Chapter 1 Cheers at the Toyota Center
"Defend, defend, defend!"
Inside the Toyota Center, the fans sat in the stands and kept shouting!
From nearly six minutes left in the first quarter to less than two minutes now, the Bulls have played a wave of 10-0 small **!
Directly rewrote the score from 8-13 to 18-13, from five points behind to five points ahead!
Although this is only the first quarter of the game, Rockets fans are still looking forward to the team continuing to write legends!
The Rockets haven't lost since their home win over the Warriors in January!
If they can beat the Bulls in this game, they will have won 12 in a row!
However, with less than two minutes left in the first quarter, the first thing the Rockets have to do is break the current scoring drought! The lack of a score in four minutes boosted the morale of the Bulls!
After Ben Gordon dribbled the ball across half court, faced with Luthor Hyde's defense, he accelerated, trying to burst into the basket from Hyde's side! After Yao Ming went off the court, the Rockets' deterrence in the restricted area obviously decreased a lot!
Hyde took a step back and stood directly in front of Ben Gordon!
But Hyde wasn't able to stop Ben Gordon's shot!
After Gordon saw Hyde blocking his route, he changed hands under his crotch and directly made a step-back jumper!
With a bang, the basketball smashed directly on the basket with a crisp sound!
Landry easily picked up the rebound, the Rockets' offense!
After Hyde dribbled the ball through half court, he handed the ball directly to Maddie!
Maddie, who stood at a 45-degree angle outside the three-point line, held the ball in one hand, and faced Lore Deng's defense, Maddie had no direct chance to score! Of course, Maddie can choose to go straight to the dry jumper, which is one of his housekeeping skills!
Maddie passes the ball to Hyde at the top of the arc!
Hyde chose to break through directly after receiving the ball! Although Hyde's breakthrough ability is not particularly strong in the league, compared to those bulky interior players, Hyde is very flexible! Gooden, who couldn't defend well, directly dragged Hyde down and rolled out of the bottom line!
Hush!
The overwhelming boos immediately poured out from all around the stands!
The referee blew the whistle directly in his mouth and gave Gooden a T!
Sitting in the back of the stands, Lei Lin's excitement was beyond words!
To be able to see an NBA game, it cost him almost three hundred dollars! Although the position he got was very low, this was enough to make Lei Lin excited!
After watching Gooden directly drag Hyde out of the bottom line, Leylin, like the other Rockets fans in the arena, booed there!
And when Hyde's free throw smashed directly into the neck of the basket, Leylin also followed the fans to look up to the sky and sigh!
Raylin's every move is in the eyes of Rocket fans!
For this strange big man fan, the locals all smiled warmly!
Technical foul, one free throw!
The Rockets frontcourt, Bobby Jackson received the ball on the sideline, and broke through with the ball directly! In front of the experienced defender, Gordon's defensive weaknesses are unmistakable!
Plus Gordon's fakes that are already easy to eat opponents! So Bobby Jackson's shot after a change of direction directly caused the opponent to foul and went directly to the free throw line!
Two free throws and one hit!
The Rockets have finally scored! Narrowed the gap to four points!
And Bobby Jackson's score seems to have helped the Rockets find their touch!
In the next two rounds of offense, Bobby Jackson first directly assisted Hyde to hit a three-point shot, and Hyde assisted Maddie to hit a three-point shot before the end, and the first quarter of the game ended!
The Rockets scored seven points in a row in the final moments, successfully overtook the Bulls, and entered the second quarter with a two-point advantage!
At the beginning of the second quarter, the scores of the two sides were very anxious! The score alternately climbed, and after more than half of the second quarter, the main players of the Rockets all returned! With the scores of Hyde and Yao Ming, the difference was once widened by seven points! However, Hinrich's three-pointer and an assist directly narrowed the difference!
Although the Rockets immediately widened the gap again, until the end of the second quarter, the difference remained within five points! For the Bulls, there was still a chance in the second half!
Although such a game looks anxious! But Leylin's excitement has slowly receded!
Because after halftime, Yao Ming only got 6 points and 2 rebounds! It's hard to tie up with a world-class centre-forward! And the bigger feeling is that in the second half of the second quarter, I can only see Yao Ming running back and forth in the court, and there is not even a chance to make a shot!
Looking at Adelman, who was motionless on the sidelines, Leylin didn't know what he was thinking!
Although Princeton's style of play has been successful before!
But in the current Rockets, it is obviously not suitable for Princeton's style of play! The most obvious embodiment is Yao Ming!
In Princeton's style of play, the center is more of a playmaker than a strong basket! At this point, Yao Ming's vision is not a problem! The key issue is speed! It's not just about the speed of movement, it's about the speed of the pass and the speed at which the player can move when running without the ball!
Obviously, Yao Ming will definitely not meet Adelman's requirements in terms of speed!
The second is whether Yao Ming can resolutely turn himself into an organizer! Judging from so many games, although Yao Ming is close to this aspect, he is still not good enough! In terms of passing and receiving the ball, Yao Ming often seems a little hesitant!
Although the Rockets did not play a fluid offense as Adelman said when he joined the Rockets!
But that doesn't stop the fans from liking him!
The Rockets had a mediocre start to the season! But now the Rockets have improved their record with a wave of eleven consecutive wins, and the ranking is slowly moving closer to the top eight in the West!
But the eleven-game winning streak doesn't tell the story of the benefits the new system has brought to the Rockets!
Even under such a winning streak, there are huge hidden dangers!
It's still Yao Ming! From the beginning of this season to the present, Yao Ming's average playing time per game has created the highest in Yao Ming's NBA career, reaching nearly 38 minutes, such a high-intensity game is definitely not good news for the tall Yao Ming!
Although Morey has been stating all day long that the Rockets need a backup center, so far it seems that nothing has been done!
The current lineup of the Rockets is also full of holes!
In the center position, in addition to Yao Ming, it is the aging Mutombo, although the African uncle's blocking ability is still strong! But he still can't make up for Yao Ming's absence on the field!
After the trade of Bunch Wells and Mike James, the Rockets are also stretched at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions! Except for Maddie and Battier holding on there, there is no talent on the bench!
Even though Alexander is very picky, Raelin still loves Team Rocket! Not for anything else, just because I like Yao Ming and support Yao Ming!
And Lei Lin still has a big dream, that is, to be able to become an excellent basketball player like Yao Ming! If he could, he would like to be able to fight alongside Yao Ming!
Rumble!
Suddenly, there was a cheer that interrupted Leylin's fantasy!
The players of the Rockets, cheered by the fans, walked to the sidelines!
The second half of the game also kicked off!
Like all the fans, Leylin cheers for every offense of the Rockets and shouts for every defense of the Rockets!
Although Yao Ming's performance in the whole section of the game was average, a block successfully ignited the passion of the Toyota Center!
In addition to a variety of slam dunks, blocks can also ignite the passion of fans!
"Yao Ming ......"
In the stadium, the DJ shouted Yao Ming's name loudly!
Every time it was shouted, the fans were there with a huge cheer! Obviously, Yao Ming has successfully conquered the fans here! Become a hero in the hearts of the fans!
In the third quarter of the game, driven by Alston and Scola, the difference was successfully widened to nine points! 68-77 The Rockets went into the fourth quarter with a nine-point advantage!
As we all know, the rockets of Yao Mai's era often stage an unreasonable collapse in the last quarter!
As soon as the fourth quarter came up, Yao Ming made a mistake! After Gordon cut off Yao Ming's ball, he assisted Larry Hughes to hit two points and narrow the difference! But that won't change the fate of the Bulls!
Bench gangster Bobby Jackson successfully took over the game!
He scored eleven points in the entire fourth quarter to help the Rockets win 110-97 and become the best player of the game! And Bobby Jackson's joining, which was operated by Morey, sent away Wells and James, and got Bobby Jackson, it seems that this deal is still quite good!
After the victory over the Bulls, the Rockets are on a twelve-game winning streak! This is the Rockets' biggest winning streak since 1994! At the same time, it is approaching the team's all-time winning streak of 15 consecutive wins! At the same time, the Rockets are also in seventh place in the West with a 36-22 record!
In this game, Yao Ming got 12 points, 6 rebounds, 2 assists and a block! Maddie, who played with an injury, scored a game-high 24 points and had 8 assists! Bobby Jackson played 19 minutes and scored 14 points, plus two assists! A total of seven players on the team scored double-doubles, and the three-point shooting rate reached 54.2%, which is also the most critical factor for the Rockets to win!
When Ben Gordon's three-pointer hit the iron, the stadium resounded with cheers from the fans!
With the fans cheering, Yao Ming and the other Rockets players were there to celebrate this hard-fought victory!
Standing on the top of the stands, Lei Lin looked directly at the stadium in the distance, listening to the cheers from the stands, Lei Lin could feel the passion ignited in his body!
He aspires to be a great basketball player himself, and like Yao Ming, he enjoys the cheers from the fans! He loved it!