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Chapter 28 How long does it take to get a recommendation after signing the contract?

In this game, Yao Ming took 24 shots and scored 39 points efficiently, with 13 rebounds and 8 assists!
As the team's outside scorer, he was late and still maintained high efficiency. He took 19 outside shots, hit 10 goals, scored 30 points, no free throws, no assists, no rebounds!In addition to scoring, he also had 2 turnovers.

David Wesley was in poor form and failed to make many open shots, but Juwan Howard and Sura benefited from tactics and performed efficiently, with shooting percentages exceeding or close to 50%.

热火一边韦德18中8，命中率44.4%，砍下30分还有8篮板6助攻，数据非常全面。

In the first half, Wade didn't feel good. In the second half, Wade made more breakthroughs to the basket, and the efficiency was not bad.

O'Neal played only 27 minutes, 11 of 6, and only scored 15 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists. Just looking at the statistics, he was completely blown by Yao Ming.

In the post-match press conference, Wade talked about his feelings when he was late in the matchup: "Cutino Mobley said that the late shooting ability is like a monster. I also saw it today, and it is true. In fact I even think that my defensive effect today is pretty good. I have defended in place many times, and I didn’t even give the lates many shots, but every time he shot, he was very determined and full of confidence, and his shot speed was super fast. I don't think anyone in the league has a faster shot than him. Sometimes I even feel that the ball has already been shot before his shooting posture is fully opened. So when defending him, you must maintain concentration. He will score. Especially his magical pick-and-roll tactics with Yao Ming. No one can interfere with his shooting through Yao Ming. To be honest, I can’t understand how his three-pointers are trained. Such a shooting percentage is too high. Terrible."

O'Neal mainly talked about his feelings against Yao Ming: "He (Yao Ming) is very strong on the defensive end, and his superhuman height makes him very intimidating on the defensive end. What makes me even more uncomfortable is his playing style in this game. The first time I took a shot from the free throw line, it made me very uncomfortable. I was fouled so many times by him in order to limit his scoring. In the end, I didn’t even play 30 minutes. I think he (Yao Ming) is more difficult than before. , And know how to use his own advantages, I think he will become a center that dominates the league in the future, of course after I retire."

There is no impenetrable wall in this world. After the game between the Rockets and the Heat, some media broke out that Tracy McGrady and Yao Ming had a fierce quarrel in the locker room. It is impossible for the Rockets' internal and external dual cores to coexist.

The Rockets not only showed a strong defensive ability, but also gradually gained momentum on the offensive end. ESPN pulled McGrady out to "whip the corpse".

ESPN sports columnist Warren Tuttle said in the article comments: He (McGrady) is injured, which is a good thing for the Rockets, so that the ball can be concentrated on Yao Ming, and Yao also used today His performance tells everyone that he is already a super center who can compete with O'Neal, coupled with the late arrival of a super shooter, and a bunch of defensive strongmen, the Rockets are already qualified to compete for the championship. I don't think he (McGrady) exists at all. The Rockets need, if the Rockets management is smart, they should trade him (McGrady) in the middle of the season, in exchange for a player who can pass the ball to Yao Ming and late, or one or two good swingmen .

At the end of the article, Varen also listed the list of players that the Rockets can currently trade with McGrady, and analyzed the pros and cons of the Rockets after trading these players.

At this time, the media had the opposite effect. McGrady had already regretted it a bit and planned to find a chance to make peace with Yao Ming. Now that the media caught him messing around, it would be difficult for McGrady to apologize to Yao Ming.

But in this way, McGrady will really sit on the wax.

Because the Rockets' opponents were not strong, the Rockets won all the games until the All-Star Game, winning 9 consecutive victories.

Among them, only when they played against the Blazers, the Rockets played more difficult, because the Blazers shot crazy from the outside, and their shooting percentage was as high as 61%. three points.

On the other hand, the Rockets, except for being late and still maintaining a 63% shooting rate, the other Rockets players made 9 three-pointers without scoring a single goal.

The Rockets were almost stunned by the Blazers' hammering. Fortunately, Yao Ming still showed his dominance in the interior. After increasing his mid-range and long-range shots, the Blazers did not dare to double-team him at the basket. Even if the teammates were not in good condition, the Rockets still won 88:80 in the end.

This is also the first time the Rockets have scored below 90 since joining the Rockets late.

In this game, Yao Ming took 23 shots and hit 14 goals, scoring nearly 40 points again.

He took 14 late shots, hit 9 goals and scored 27 points.

The remaining players of the Rockets only scored 21 points in total!It can be seen how hard they are in this game.

Before the start of the All-Star Game, the Rockets had a record of 34 wins and 19 losses, behind the Suns, Spurs, Supersonics and Mavericks, ranking fifth in the West.

And it is 3 games away from the sixth-ranked Kings in the Western Conference behind them, and 1-2 games behind the top-ranked Sonics and Mavericks.

This year's Western Conference can be called the difficulty of purgatory. In the original history, the Timberwolves had a record of 44-38 and did not make it to the playoffs.Especially the top three in Texas are even more terrifying. The Spurs, Mavericks and Rockets seem to have the posture to dominate the entire league.

On February 2, the All-Star game officially started in Denver. Yao Ming, as the All-Star vote leader, performed mediocre.In the end, the Eastern All-Stars defeated the Western All-Stars with a more luxurious lineup 21:125. Iverson played 115 minutes, scored 32 points, 13 rebounds and 4 assists in 15 of 4, and won the AMVP of the All-Star Game.

It is worth mentioning that McGrady played 24 minutes in the All-Star Game. When he played with Yao Ming, he took the initiative to seek cooperation with Yao Ming many times. passion.

As the most accurate marksman in the current league, Late did not participate in any of the All-Star Games.

He joined the league too late, when the All-Star voting channel had already opened and there was no place for him.

Originally, the league invited him to participate in the three-point contest, but Late thought that the open shot was too simple and not challenging, so he refused on the grounds that he still had a research project and could not be separated.

After the All-Star Game, each team entered the rhythm of grabbing points.

Teams that are eligible to play in the playoffs must compete in almost every game, and teams with poor records can let their core players score stats openly.

On February 2, the second day after the All-Star Game, the Rockets sat at home to meet the challenge of the Supersonics, and Tracy McGrady, who had "returned from injury," started the game.

The Sonics have an excellent record this year. Under the leadership of the three musketeers—Ray Allen, Rashad Lewis, and Luc Credno—even the team's center has learned to throw three-pointers.

This game is also seen as a direct contest between the representative of the league's Mesozoic sharpshooter (Ray Allen) and the new generation of monster-level shooter (late).

However, the Sonics let everyone down. Under the tight defense of the Rockets, the Sonics fell short of the outside line. The Sonics made 25 three-pointers in the game and only made four.

Especially Ray Allen, who lost a complete defeat in the direct confrontation with Late. He played 37 minutes, took 23 shots, hit 11 goals, and his shooting percentage was 47.8%.But he took a total of six shots from the outside and missed all of them. He missed a three-pointer in the whole game.

He played 30 minutes late, made 15 of 10 three-pointers, scored another 30 points, and had no other statistics.

Yao Ming has reduced the number of shots appropriately, but his efficiency is still very high. He scored 18 points, 12 rebounds and 32 assists in 10 of 5 games. achieved this achievement.

McGrady "returned from injury". He played 40 minutes. Because of his poor hand feeling in this game, he took the initiative to reduce the number of forced shots. In the end, he scored 14 points, 6 rebounds and 17 assists in 10 of 11 triple-doubles.

In the end, the Rockets defeated the Sonics 101:87 and won 10 consecutive victories.

In the post-match press conference, Yao Ming praised McGrady, saying that he provided the most important weight for the team to win.

McGrady also reciprocated, praised Yao Ming's strong dominance in the interior, saying that Yao Ming and late presence are indispensable for the team.

Faced with media reporters asking them who is the boss of the team, the two chose to avoid this question tacitly, insisting that the most important thing is to lead the team to victory, and everyone will work together to challenge The championship is much more important than who is the boss of the team.

After returning to the locker room, Late asked Yao Ming how he persuaded McGrady.

In the end, Yao Ming said that it was McGrady who took the initiative to find him, and that everyone was a man, so there was no need to play tricks, so if there was something to say, it would naturally pass.

In fact, McGrady is not convinced, the media criticized him, and even the fans gradually lost patience. Under the leadership of Yao Ming, the Rockets won one victory after another, and even Van Gundy seems to have changed a lot. Some brand new tactics have been configured for the late arrival, so that the rocket's attack power has been greatly improved.

With McGrady's return, the Rockets' weakness of lacking a strong ball-handler has been supplemented. Yao Ming dominates the inside and is ready to shoot from the outside at any time. Everyone knows that the Rockets are really getting stronger now.

The results of the subsequent game proved the strength of the Rockets.

They beat the Suns and Kings by 20 points, the Warriors and Trail Blazers by a small margin, and lost to the Celtics unexpectedly.

With their recent excellent record, the Rockets' ranking is still only stable, and they are currently ranked fifth in the Western Conference. The media can't help exclaiming that the era of the top three in Texas has come to rule the league.

(End of this chapter)