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Chapter 136

After returning to Seattle, he spent the rest of the 96 season at Key Arena.

The Key Arena is a new arena, which was put into use only last year. Qin Fei compared this arena with the old Memorial Arena. It is no wonder that the Clippers insisted on moving to the new Staples Arena with the Lakers.

The new arena is not only good-looking, but also has better built-in equipment than the old arena.

The last game in 96 was against the Rockets at home.

At this time, the Rockets, after getting Barkley in the offseason, have formed a super big three of Flying Pig + Glider + Big Dream.

If the three of them were all five years younger, they wouldn't be able to play. Fortunately, all three of them are at the end of their career peaks.

Drexler is 34 and the other two are 33.

A few years ago, Barkley sprayed the Rockets quite violently. I didn’t expect to join the Rockets in the summer. Look at this incident.

Why did Barkley have to be brought in? In fact, it has something to do with the Supersonics.

Last season, the Rockets, as the defending champions, were swept by the Supersonics in the Western Conference semifinals. The lack of strikers led to Olajuwon being besieged to death was the rocket's lifeblood, and Barkley could just make up for this vacancy.

Another opportunity is that the Lakers got O'Neal.

O'Neal, you can't hold it alone, so you must have a strong striker to assist the inside to complete the defense.

So in the summer, the Rockets frantically pursued Barkley and kept raising prices for the Suns.

Originally, the Suns wanted to recruit the Nuggets as a third party and try to trade Muto Mubo. This failed, which caused the Rockets to increase their bargaining chips and sent a bunch of reliable young people in the team, including Kassel.

Then the Suns traded Barkley and got a lot of chips, which indirectly helped in exchange for Kidd.

When Barkley joined the Rockets, he had to deal with embarrassing questions from the media about "how to face joining the Rockets that eliminated you twice in a row". Barkley mocked himself: "Since you can't beat them, you can only join them."

But from beginning to end, Barkley didn't force the Suns to do anything, and the Suns got enough benefits from his deal.

Fighting against the Supersonics, the Rockets attach great importance to it.

This was the culprit that swept the Rockets 4-0 last season. In order to deal with the Sonics, the Rockets have paid too much.

Whether it works or not, today's game is the touchstone.

On the evening of the game day, there was a rare long line outside the key arena.

After all, the Rockets have three superstars, and the three superstars have been all-powerful in the league before, and they have a large fan base.

Most of the fans who bought tickets came for the stars. The Rockets came to visit, and this became the focus of the game.

The Rockets' jersey is mainly blue, with red inlays and stripes. Barkley said before that the Rockets' jerseys are ugly, like pajamas.

Unexpectedly, he himself is now playing in pajamas.

So Qin Fei understood one thing from Barkley's incident, that is, to be a human being, to stay on the sidelines so that we can meet each other in the future, and there is no need to say dead words.

At night, under the light, the stadium is bright.

Amidst the noisy voices of countless fans, players from both sides appeared on the stage.

The coach made pre-match arrangements for the two teams. Qin Fei thought that he had nothing to do with this game. The most intense confrontation should be on the front line.

When he sat down, the assistant coach Bob suddenly came to his side with a serious expression.

"Seize the opportunity on the court and try to perform well."

"Ok?"

Qin Fei was stunned, did he not seize the opportunity one day?Why all of a sudden?

Before Bob finished speaking, he sat in the group of assistant coaches in suits and ties, and then the starters from both sides began to play.

The Rockets' starters are Matt Maloney, Drexler, Mario Avery, Barkley and Olajuwon.

Mario Alley is a veteran who has played in the league for many years. He is a New Yorker. He is only 1.9 meters tall and has shooting ability.

Maloney is an unselected player in this year's draft. He is 1.9 meters tall and is also a shooter.

Logically speaking, how could a player who was not selected in the draft become the starter of the Rockets in his first season?

But there is no way, the Rockets' good defenders are all sold out.

Qin Fei remembers that later this season, when the Rockets met the Supersonics in the playoffs, the back line was completely blown out, even with a glider, and Jose + Payton were completely crushed, which caused the Rockets to solve the front line problem but not the backcourt problem. They fought seven games against the Supersonics all the way to win. In the end, they lost to the Jazz due to physical problems and failed to win the championship.

Qin Fei's college alumni, Osella Harrington was selected by the Rockets in the draft, but he was injured before and did not come to Seattle to play.

After the start of the game, the Rockets, which solved the front line problem, stormed the Sonics inside from the very beginning.

Tsk tsk, Qin Fei felt sorry for Jim. He had just finished fighting with O'Neal, and now he was going to face Olajuwon again.

The Big Three this season are still at their peak.

Olajuwon averaged 26.9 points, 10.9 rebounds, 1.6 steals and 2.9 blocks last season and was selected as the All-Star starter, the second team of the best team and the second team of the best defense.

Barkley averaged 23.2 points, 11.6 rebounds and 1.6 steals last season and was selected to the third team.

In other words, the glider is a bit far from the peak data, but it also averaged 19.3 points, 7.2 rebounds, 5.8 assists and 2.0 steals per game.

After becoming the Big Three this season, the statistics of the three have shrunk slightly, and the average points per game have shown a downward trend, but the efficiency of the three has improved.

So the Rockets are also favorites to win the championship.

The two teams fought fiercely for half a quarter, and the Rockets turned away, leading the Supersonics by 11 points 9 to 2.

The game was relatively smooth, and neither side called a timeout.

At this time, the referee called a timeout, and the timeout was counted on the head of the home team, giving the big guys a little time to watch the advertisement.

Qin Fei had been sitting on the sidelines, when suddenly, head coach George Karl beckoned to him.

"I?"

Qin Fei was a little surprised, no one was troubled by fouls, right?

Although he thought so, he took off his coat and stood up. George Karl said to him: "The outside player on the opposite side is not good. Do you know what to do?"

After hearing this, Qin Fei showed a surprised expression. What the coach meant was

The Rockets were surprised. Isn't this the [-]th pick this year, playing so early?But they thought about it again, didn't they reuse Maroni on their side?

That's not right. Although Maroni was not selected in the draft, he is very mature. He is 24 years old this year. Qin Fei is only eighteen

Qin Fei replaced Jose, Payton was transferred to the first position, and Qin Fei was transferred to the second position.

Drexler continued to defend the strong Payton, Maloney faced Qin Fei, ace against ace, rookie against rookie.

Good guy, although this Maroni is 24 years old, his body is a little thin. When he stood beside Qin Fei, he was actually a circle thinner than Qin Fei.

beep--

After the whistle sounded, the two teams quickly started to operate like machines.

Payton shouted loudly, and after holding the ball to the frontcourt, he directed the players to move.

The glider is very tight on the ground, and Payton pulls the ball to the right to avoid Drexler's long arm steal.

The Supersonics chose a high pick-and-roll attack, but the pick-and-roll method was a little different. Kemp ran out to the high position to catch the ball, and then he took the ball and chose to attack left or right.

Payton flicked twice, found that he couldn't shake Drexler, and signaled Kemp to move to the other side.

The other side is Qin Fei's side.

Qin Fei was very surprised. He rarely had the opportunity to play pick-and-roll with his teammates. What's going on today?

Without thinking about it, he reached out and pushed Maroni secretly.

Maloni didn't expect that this guy had a pretty face and made such a dirty little move. After pushing away all of a sudden, Qin Fei moved quickly.

After receiving Kemp's ball, Barkley was blocked by Kemp.

"Help me fix it!"

Maloney yelled, and Barkley was hesitating whether he could let Kemp go. Maloney thought he would switch defenses, and the two followed Kemp together, and they were immediately called illegal defense.

Rockets head coach Rudy Tomjanovich:

"Hey, you have to follow him."

Barkley said to Maloney that the ball was a matter of cooperation between the two. Before the game, the media said that they got along well. What a run-in.

"He's just a rookie, and he doesn't have much shooting ability. If you catch up, don't switch defenses. I will help you delay it when the time is right."

The jazz's voice is not low, and half of the venue can hear it.

　Use mosaics throughout the article to affect reading, so I won’t write mosaics, I will get angry when I think of it, how good it was before

　　

　

(End of this chapter)