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Chapter 70 Back to Back (Part [-])

The main force was exhausted, and the substitutes naturally couldn't make any waves. The Celtics simply lost the game, and the Rockets won two consecutive victories in the new season.

But even so, the outside world is still not very optimistic about the Rockets' performance this season.

One of these two games was against the Seattle SuperSonics, a big fishy team, and the second was against the Boston Celtics, who had back-to-back physical problems. It looked like the Rockets took advantage of the schedule. If the two teams play a real game, few people think that the Rockets can beat the Celtics.

But no matter what, the Rockets are very satisfied with the record of 1 loss and 2 wins after a big deal.

But the Rockets just took advantage of the Celtics back-to-back, but then they will switch back. On November 11th, they will face the outstanding young team Blazers, and then on October 6th, Going to Los Angeles to challenge the Clippers, compared to those old men who played back-to-back home games and one away game, the Rockets played back-to-back away games. Portland is already a certain distance away from Houston, and even farther away from Los Angeles. Although the three The cities belong to the west, but they also have to face the dilemma of staying overnight on the plane.

The only good news for the Rockets is that although the Blazers have entered the top eight in the Western Conference, they are still at the bottom of the playoff list, while the Clippers are no different from the Supersonics, and they are all working hard for the captain and deputy squad leader. The team that will draw the No. [-] pick in the coming year.
The Trail Blazers are very strong this year. Brandon Roy, known as the "Yellow Mamba", is a rising All-Star shooting guard in the league. Aldridge at the power forward and Oden at the center also continued to maintain health. This year is the season that Oden played the most. In the rookie position, they selected a powerful rookie Bartom, and traded from the Wizards and the Suns. Blake, who is known as "Little Nash", and the Spanish eccentric Rudy Fernandez, the team's weak strength has been greatly improved in an instant.

Some people may wonder, that is how those weak teams rose to become the top teams in the league. In fact, this question is very simple. There are only two ways for nba teams to become stronger, or to attract those famous players with high salaries from the free market every year Stars come to join, or it is a few years of bad luck to select potential rookies through high-ranking draft picks, while the Blazers are obviously taking the latter path.

However, the Trail Blazers were really unlucky. Oden was selected as the No. [-] pick with a glass body, but the core of the team, Brandon Roy, suffered an injury that directly caused him to retire. The originally strong team suffered major injuries. Almost completely lost, and in the end only Aldridge was able to play, and since then he has entered the queue of the big team
But that's all in the next few years. This year's Blazers were their strongest in the first decade of the 20th century.

Facing Totoro, who has been in great form in the last three games, Bartomeu is the same rookie. This small forward from the romantic country of France is very confident. He wants to make a name for himself by stepping on Totoro's shoulder The popularity is even higher.

But Chinchilla told the French with a personal steal and a dunk, you are daydreaming!
Bartom's official height is 2 meters, but his actual height is only a little over 03 meters, but his wingspan and jumping are very good, but those are only relative to the average player. In front of Totoro, Bartom suddenly found himself All the magic weapons that were proud of in the past to defeat the enemy have all fallen into a disadvantage?

What Totoro showed in this game is very simple, that is to use oppressive defense to force the opponent to make mistakes, and then quickly break and counterattack. Although this will increase his fouls geometrically, the effect is obvious.

The poor French rookie received a total of 5 balls in the first quarter, but 5 of the 4 balls were cut off by Totoro, even though Totoro suffered two fouls in the first quarter, But Bartom was obviously fooled by Totoro's unforeseen efforts on the defensive end. As soon as the Blazers came up to start, it was tantamount to self-defeating.

Yao Ming continued to slap Oden on the inside, and he didn't know if the little giant was playing this kind of black center who relied on his body for food. Every time he faced Howard, Oden, who was black and tough, always performed well, but There is no good way to deal with a white center like Gasol or a half-black insider who relies on technology like Duncan.

Aldridge also struggled against the big black bears. Aldridge said that he was the opposite of Yao Ming. He was the worst at dealing with players who relied on their bodies for food. The hard chisel immediately made Aldridge miserable.

Battier, a defensive expert, restricted Roy within a normal range. Two of the matchups between the Rockets and the Trail Blazers were completely overwhelmed. One had the advantage, but the other could only play normally. Rose Garden wanted to Winning can only be thought of in the heart.

The final score was 98:87. The Rockets players clocked in three quarters to prepare for tomorrow's back-to-back. The fourth quarter was full of substitutes fighting on the field. Totoro scored 23 points, 6 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals and 5 fouls in the third quarter. Totoro continued Building blocks for his Rookie of the Week award.

After solving the Portland Trail Blazers, the Rockets rushed to Los Angeles to challenge the Clippers non-stop. This is the second time the Rockets have visited the Staples Arena in a week. Because of the same western team, the Rockets will compete with the Lakers. And the Clippers played a total of four games, which is 8 times, so it is good to have two teams in a city. At least the Lakers and the Clippers will run 2 less away games than other Western teams.
The main white center of the Clippers, Chris Kaman, has always been a bit displeased with the little giant. He has spoken ill of Yao in many public occasions, and threatened that Yao Ming is not qualified to be the league's first center.

And the little giant also hates this arrogant German. In the parallel world, Yao Ming, who has always been quiet in the game, once yelled at Kaman after a key goal in the fourth quarter, "You can't stop me!", This sentence was also selected as one of the top ten trash talks in the nba. It is conceivable that Dayao does not want to see this German.

(End of this chapter)