"Not good."

Wang Chao shook his head and said what he thought.

"Not to mention that these centers can't replace Da Yao's role in the team, it is extremely unwise to trade draft picks and some potential rookies on the team as bargaining chips."

General Manager of the Rocket: "......"

Of course he understands Wang Chao's words.

But the question is, what if the Rockets are facing the situation at the moment, if they don't strengthen the interior position? Should Whiteside or Gobert on the bench take Da Yao's place? That would only get worse.

Who would have thought that Da Yao would be injured at the beginning of the season?

"Don't worry." As if seeing the general manager's concerns, Wang Chao smiled with a relaxed expression. "The reason why the lineup will be tested in the preseason is to avoid this situation, but I didn't expect it to be used so soon, with the current Rockets lineup does not need any trade reinforcements, only need to adjust the starting lineup slightly, change the style of play and tactics is enough to deal with it."

"Is that really possible?" Not to mention the general manager, even the head coach McHale, who was sitting on the sidelines, was a little entangled.

He knew what Wang Chao was referring to, that is, the strange lineup with him as the center.

To be reasonable, although he played quite well in the preseason, as a traditional head coach and a man who retired from that center-first era and turned coach, McHale felt that there was not even a center forward in a lineup, which was simply deviant.

And what does a good pre-season game mean? Neither side is serious about fighting, and once both sides are serious, the result may be completely different.

But Wang Chao's words, who dared not listen to them?

When he chose to come to the Rockets, Wang Chao was destined to become the biggest ball bully of this team, after all, the premise of his arrival was that the team fired the team's general manager Mo Gou for no reason and reason.

A player, the request to join the team is that they fire their own general manager, what a ridiculous thing, but Wang Chao did it, and the owner of the Rockets also agreed.

Then in the two years since Wang Chao's arrival, the Rockets reached the finals twice and won the championship after more than ten years, and even led the team to play an exaggerated regular season record of 72-10.

All kinds of achievements make Wang Chao's status here more and more transcendent, basically except for the owner of the Rockets, everyone in the team has to look at his face to act, from the team's recruitment transaction signing work, to the daily training and itinerary, all of which can only be carried out with Wang Chao's approval.

Therefore, the meeting held by the general manager of the team is only in the form of advice, and Wang Chao needs to nod to really implement it.

And now, their plan was directly rejected by Wang Chao.

There will be no changes to the Rockets' lineup and they will continue to play the regular season with their current lineup.

But as Wang Chao said, after Da Yao's injury, the Rockets need to make some changes to the existing roster, some changes that have been tried in the preseason.

On November 11, the Houston Rockets hosted the Toronto Raptors.

Due to the butterfly effect brought about by Wang Chao's crossing, Kyle was directly changed. Lowry's career trajectory, he didn't play for the Rockets and made a name for himself, but gold shines anywhere, so the Raptors went around and around and finally got together the trash brothers, Kyle. Lowry & DeMar. DeRozan and the two have also made the Raptors skyrocket, and if nothing else, they will rank third in the East with a 48-34 record in the regular season this season, and have been one of the top teams in the East in the following years.

This is definitely a strong opponent that should not be underestimated, without Da Yao, even if the Rockets still have Wang Chao, they can have the upper hand in the game, but it will take some effort to win the game.

It was supposed to be like this.

However, the Rockets fans, who were still immersed in the reimbursement of the Da Yao season and the team's strength plummeted, ushered in a big victory at their home court with a confused face.

At 117:104, the Rockets beat the Raptors by 13 points at home and refused to lose by 13 points.

Winning is still secondary, the key is the starting lineup and style of play sent by the Rockets in this game, which is jaw-dropping.

The Rockets' starting five are Wang Chao, Butler, Leonard, Parsons and Middleton.

This lineup is very similar to the lineup sent by the Rockets in the preseason, except that Thomas Jr. was replaced by Middleton.

But there is nothing wrong with doing this in the preseason stage, after all, the preseason record will not affect the team's record, and the Rockets dare to play like this in the regular season? And at the moment when Garnett played poorly and Da Yao was reimbursed for the season due to injury, this irresponsibility for the game is likely to cause the team to suffer a wave of consecutive defeats and fall out of the top of the record rankings.

But the Rockets won the game, and the winning process was wonderful and beautiful, the team's offensive end revolved around Wang Chao, and the offense almost reached the extreme fast, almost every round ended within 10 seconds, which is very similar to the original Suns running and bombing tactics 7 seconds of offense.

But the Rockets are obviously different from the Suns back then, although the offensive rhythm is the same, but while focusing on the offense, the Rockets' defense has not fallen.

This is also the reason why Wang Chao will replace Thomas Jr. and replace Middleton.

Although Middleton in the second year is still a little more dish, his speed is not as flexible as Thomas Jr., unlike Thomas Jr., who can be used as a ball holding point when attacking, sharing some of the pressure of holding the ball on the offensive end for Wang Chao, but he is much stronger than Thomas Jr. on the defensive end, even if he is not good at defense in his future career, his height of 2.01 meters and his arm span of 2.1 meters determine that even if he is not good at defense, as long as he is serious, the effect of defense will not be very bad.

The Raptors were of course a little stunned when they saw that the Rockets starters actually sent such a lineup, but they reacted quickly, and like those teams who encountered the Rockets' Death Five Small 1.0 in the preseason, their first reaction was to let the interior attack the basket.

But like those teams in the preseason, the interior attack didn't work as well as it could be.

The Raptors' current main player on the interior is Jonas. Valanciunas, who is 2.13 meters tall and weighs 120 kilograms, is a relatively large center forward.

However, as a sophomore rookie, Valanciunas only averaged 8.9 points and 6 rebounds per game with the Raptors last season, and his skills are still very immature.

In the face of Wang Chao, Valanciunas could not play to his advantage inside, and he did not even have the slightest advantage in terms of strength.

Wang Chao's newly acquired fighting maniac talent is not for use, 88's strength plus fighting maniac talent makes Wang Chao's confrontation ability quite outstanding, even if the weight difference between the two is 15 kilograms, he can still make his hands busy through continuous pressing defense, and the offensive rhythm is completely absent.

In the first quarter of the Raptors' entangled interior offense, Valanciunas scored only 2 points on 1-of-6 shooting, but the Rockets took the opportunity to play a 12-0 attack wave to directly open up the difference.

The Rockets' 2.0 version of the Death Five is definitely not as weak as it seems, and even has a slight advantage in rebounding.

After the whole game, Wang Chao scored a big triple-double of 27 points, 19 rebounds and 12 assists, especially rebounding, and 7 offensive rebounds made people wonder, which side of the interior is more dominant?

If the game against the Raptors was luck, then the Rockets defeated the 76ers 123-114 away on November 13, and defeated the New York Knicks 109-106 on November 14, winning three consecutive wins with small-ball tactics, which really surprised the whole league.

Is this kind of play really possible? That's a bit of an exaggeration, isn't it?

There is no center, not even a big forward in the traditional sense, and even a traditional point guard does not exist in the strict sense, and the five swing men in the early 2 meters are so strong in the field?

This was widely reported in the media throughout the Union.

"The general manager of the Miami Heat, the legendary coach Pat Brown. Riley once proposed that the ultimate form of basketball in the future will be 5 all-round players with a height of about 2.03 meters on the court, with blurred positions, and everyone can be competent for any position on the court, and there will be no obvious shortcomings, and naturally there will be no fatal weaknesses. ”

"Obviously, the current Rockets in the lineup has been infinitely close to the ultimate form of future basketball that Riley said, and in the previous three games, it can be seen that such a style of play is desirable, the average height of the Rockets' current five starters is just 2.03 meters, although only Wang Chao can really achieve complete position blurring, but the effect on the court is very good."

"In this era when there are fewer and fewer top-level traditional centers, maybe the changes made by the Rockets are really the direction of basketball development in the future."

On November 16, the Rockets sat at home to face the Denver Nuggets, facing the team with the fastest offensive rhythm last season and known as the Denver track and field team, the Rockets of the Death Five 2.0 staged an extreme run-and-bomb battle with each other at home.

The two teams were full of offensive rhythm in the first quarter of the game, the Rockets scored 40 points in a single quarter, and the Nuggets also scored 36 points, followed by the second quarter of the game, the Nuggets began to gradually lose support, and gradually fell behind in the attack, scoring only 23 points in the second quarter, while the Rockets scored another 32 points in a single quarter.

The Nuggets' reduced offensive ability is not because they are physically weak and can't outrun the Rockets, but when the Rockets begin to adapt to the Nuggets' running rhythm and strengthen their defensive capabilities, the Nuggets' offense has encountered great resistance.

Although it is a replica of the Warriors' lineup of the Dead Five, the defensive ability of the Wang Chao Rocket version of the Death Five is far superior to that of the Warriors.

Wang Chao, Leonard, Butler's three defensive cores, plus Chandler. Parsons and Middleton's height and reach bring on the defensive end, and the effect of the five guys increasing the defensive intensity is quite exaggerated.

You know, even Parsons and Middleton, who are not good at defense, have averaged more than 1 steal per game in their careers, and they are not defensive giants but they are not defensive black holes.

In the second quarter, the Nuggets made more than 8 turnovers in a single quarter, all of which were made by the Rockets' half-court tight defense.

Both offensive and defensive ends were blown up, how to play this game?

In just three quarters of the game, the difference between the two teams went straight to 30 points.

In the end, the Rockets defeated the Nuggets by 25 points 132-107, winning four consecutive victories, and once again proving to the whole league that the Rockets' five-small lineup of dead is strong!

(End of chapter)