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Chapter 183 The Confidence Given by Houston

At the official timeout of the second quarter, the Rockets not only failed to recover the score because of Randolph's exit, but inexplicably fell into another weird quagmire.

Except for Dayao, everyone can occasionally get some scoring rebounds, but the rhythm of the game is just not right, and the more you play, the more you stretch your hips.

The Timberwolves were 2 points ahead of the Rockets during the official timeout. Based on efficiency, the Rockets are expected to tie the game after the second quarter, but generally speaking, Dayao’s usage time in the regular season should be controlled at 30 to 35 minutes in the regular season. It's been 15 minutes, the second quarter is over, and the third quarter...it's horrible.

It's not that the Rockets can't keep up with the offense, it's just that the defense is too stretched and the offense is not strong enough, so Adelman wondered, how about slowing down the rhythm a little, so as to prolong the battery life of Yao, and then strengthen the defense inside, maybe it will consume energy. Then you win.

Well, I did it when I thought of it, so McGee, Livingston, and Steven all voted away.

Isn't it to suppress the rhythm, isn't it to prevent Dayao from working and dragging them all behind? Well, let's start a chapter for Dayao, let's all throw the outside line, and lose control of the inside line, okay?

Just say that Dayao can't defend against it. If he defends it, the amount of exercise at the three-point line is exaggerated. If he doesn't defend it, he has almost no defensive effect.

In 4 minutes, McGee, the three hooligans partnered to throw 5 three-pointers, with an average of one round to spare. The current defensive strengths of the Rockets are only Artest and Battier. The defensive state has declined for a long time, coupled with pulling the front line to the three-point line, and then the Timberwolves' friends played so easily and happily.

Although he would give Dayao room to fight back because of too many shots, McGee didn't plan to 0-block Dayao, that's not realistic, just try to get the big man down as much as possible.

As long as McGee is not one-on-one with Artest or Battier, he can even shoot against any defensive player of the Rockets. No way, he is so confident against the Rockets. This is the confidence that Houston gives to the opponent.

In the third quarter of the game, Adelman resumed the Rockets' regular style of play depressed, and then watched pitifully as Yao continued to be flanked. He went in, and McGee and his group of inappropriate three-pointers were so accurate. Adelman didn't understand how a broken team like the Timberwolves could collect three good three-pointers, and one of them was an insider?
It's really hard to define whether McGee is an insider or an extrovert, but no matter how you say it, let's look at him as an insider.

The Rockets have gradually been unable to keep up with the rhythm. In the 2 minutes of the third quarter, they relied on Dayao's explosion to forcefully tie the score with the Timberwolves. However, because Yao could only play 5 minutes in the third quarter, the Timberwolves took this opportunity to gang up Tai paused, blocked him inside and couldn't get out, and seized the time to open the score to 7 points.

So in the fourth quarter, the army was defeated like a mountain.

107 to 87, the Timberwolves once again scored 20 points against their opponents!
In this game, the Timberwolves played very happily except for Randolph. Because there was no trouble from Yao, the strength of the Rockets is really mediocre. A luxurious lineup does not mean a reasonable match. If luxury can win the game, there is no reason for the Lakers to lose to the Pistons in F4 , Except for Dayao, the Rockets have no bright spots now. Although Artest is better than most ordinary players, his quality has indeed dropped a lot compared to his peak period, and the thickness of the Timberwolves can completely handle it.

After the war, he was harassed by major TV stations and even domestic reporters.

McGee took the towel from Steven, a professional secretary and part-time Timberwolves point guard: "Game? I really don’t think the Rockets can beat anyone other than Brother Yao, oh, if it’s elbows, I think Ron is pretty good too.”

"Brother Yao is a very powerful person. We need at least two people to restrain him, but once we succeed, as you can see, I can only say that the Rockets' lineup is too friendly to the opponent. After all, they don't even need pay taxes."

"Any other thoughts on the Rockets? Well, saving money is great?"

McGee's series of speeches forced by this incident made the Rockets management's head big the next day. They seem to have entered a dead end now.

The first is McGrady's problem. This guy's injury is very serious. Although the team doctor's diagnosis is 'he can recover naturally', they know the actual situation too well. Now McGrady is no longer an expensive asset of the Rockets, but a must. The burden of getting rid of it, now that McGee is throwing public opinion to Houston, they must find a way to trade McGrady as soon as possible.

Now the Houston uniform team urgently needs to exchange for an All-Star player to revitalize the Rockets, and at the same time persuade Dayao to renew his contract, preferably with a salary cut.

The starting lineup, Jia McGrady, has already shared 70% of his salary. Now the Rockets can only persuade Dayao to cut his salary if they don't want to pay taxes.

Of course, the Rockets hope that they can continue not to pay taxes, even if their home courts can rank in the top 8 in the league in terms of annual profit, but who would dislike a lot of money?
So the Rockets, who were still on the sidelines, issued a deal for McGrady a week after McGee played against the Rockets...

Now the Timberwolves have 11 games left to play, and if they win 4 of them, the Timberwolves can say that their participation in this year's playoffs is a certainty. The same goes for the Rockets. In fact, their wins are similar.

McGrady was listed for sale, which is not news to McGee, but this time was much earlier than expected, and it was even more impersonal.

Currently, Maizi has not exchanged fire with the management due to surgery problems. He is just injured again. Although McGrady has often been injured in these years, he is really fighting. At this moment, that guy should feel betrayed by the whole world.

Hey, unfortunately, if McGrady can recover, McGee will also hint that the Timberwolves will join the competition. After all, even if he retains half of his peak strength, he still has an All-Star level, but McGee knows the pitiful games he attended this season Time is McGrady's last afterglow. Starting next season, McGrady will plummet, not to mention that it will be difficult for him to start a strong All-Star team.

It can be said that he fell from the super giant to the second line. If it was in China, he should find someone to touch porcelain.

Forget it, what does the wheat matter have to do with him, McGee, now McGee is wearing the big B bird's armguard and starting to the next game, the opponent is the Spurs, the good news is that Duncan takes a rotation, and the bad news is that it is better than Hard They are still strong enough.

At this time, McGee didn't know that a few things happened because the Rockets traded McGrady in advance...and most of them were related to him.

The first thing is that McGrady, who was watching the news at home with his children, suddenly found himself put on the shelf, a little confused. After all, this is not the same as what was agreed. The Rockets promised him that he would return to the team when he recovered from his injury?

McGrady was stunned, and Dayao was speechless at this time. What the hell is going on? The Rockets have pitted him and McGrady all these years. But what do you mean by that?
I just said to consider the issue of salary, you put me on the shelf first as a partner?
Threatened me?

At this time in Minnesota, a certain general manager who did not want to disclose his name was thinking. Others were worried that the team did not have enough money, but the problem with the Timberwolves was that the money could not be spent...there was too much left.

(End of this chapter)