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Chapter 175

Houston is a very international city with a large number of people not born in the United States. There are many special festivals every year, such as cowboy festival, international festival, film festival, folk music festival, Asian culture festival and so on.

Much of Houston is surrounded by forests, shrubs, swamps, and grasslands.

The Rockets are one of the most popular local sports teams.

For the Rockets, Olajuwon may be the greatest star and the best center in history.

He beat the Admiral in the Western Conference Finals, and defeated the teams of Ewing and O'Neal on the stage of the two finals respectively.

But even such a player, in 92, almost left this city where he has lived for many, many years and has been here since college.

It was a game between the Rockets and the Clippers at the beginning of the year. After Olajuwon finished the game, he announced that he had strained his left hamstring and needed to rest for a truce.

The Rockets' team doctor gave the completely opposite diagnosis after the examination-no injury, can be done.

This angered Patterson, who was the general manager at the time, and he simply ordered a suspension of Olajuwon.

In the NBA, if you are injured and do not play a game, you still get your salary, but after you are suspended, you will lose money. At that time, Olajuwon’s salary was 4 US dollars for every game suspended.

"I'm injured and can't fight."

"No, you're not hurt, please keep going."

Is there a striking similarity in history?A similar thing happened later in another Texas city, San Antonio.

However, the conflict between Olajuwon and the Rockets has been going on for a long time. This incident is actually just a fuse. The most real reason is that Olajuwon failed to win the championship with the Rockets for many years in the early stage of his career, and he failed to break through the first round for many years after reaching the finals in the second season.

Olajuwon's own data is very good, but because the Rockets lack outside firepower, he is always double-teamed wantonly. At that time, Olajuwon used the ball like an outside star to play inside star-level offensive efficiency, but still failed to support the team's overall offensive level.

After many years of no improvement in his record, he was even called a "ball bully" and was complained by his teammates as a "ruthless truck driver".

After the turmoil, Olajuwon requested a trade and wanted to leave the city.

To ask about feelings, I have loved, but it has indeed passed.

In this year, the Rockets fired the old coach and Tomjanovich came to power.

Maybe this is the arrangement of fate. This "communication" coach, who is ranked number one in NBA history, quickly had a chemical reaction with Olajuwon, and Olajuwon also believed in his ability.

In the summer of 1994, as the league's three-point line shortened, the Rockets' shooters ushered in the spring. Opponents did not dare to double-team Olajuwon.

To this day, the rocket systems that the Supersonics encountered were all developed by Tomjanovich around Olajuwon at that time.

Therefore, many systems are not brought by the coach, but by the players.

A really good coach focuses on the players, researches and formulates a good system that suits the players, rather than the coach bringing his own system and then selecting players to play according to this system.

The former can continuously refresh the upper limit of players, while the latter can only refresh the upper limit of the system.

In a real game, there are infinite possibilities, and it will always be the players, not a certain system.

Both the Rockets and the Sonics have their own systems.

In this round of the series, each other played according to their own system and dedicated a round of classic tricks.

The G3 game is the Rockets' first game in Houston, and the Rockets attach great importance to it.

Regardless of whether it is G3 or G4, the pressure on the Rockets is greater than that of the Sonics. As long as they lose one of the games, the home court advantage they had so hard to get before will be gone.

The Sonics' minimum goal is to win one of them, and of course it's best to win both.

However, the difficulty of winning both games is too high. Counting G2, it is a three-game winning streak against the Rockets, and the possibility is too low.

Before the start of the G3 game, there will inevitably be some war of words between the two teams.

This war of words was mainly due to the pushing and shoving in the second game.

The fans of the Rockets thought that the Supersonics won disgracefully. They angered Barkley and caused the Rockets to lose their rhythm. In the end, the entire game failed to form an effective counterattack.

Sonics fans are happy, you can not be angry.

At the same time, the G3 battle between the Jazz and the Lakers.

In this game, Kobe ushered in an explosion in his rookie season. He played 19 minutes off the bench, scored 19 points and 3 assists, in addition to 1 steal and 1 block.

The Lakers, who had lost two games in a row, finally regained a victory, trailing the Jazz 1-2 in total.

After this season, Kobe's tactical status has improved slightly compared to Qin Fei's previous life, but overall, because of the suppression of more mature guards such as Nick Van Exel and Eddie Jones, there are not many opportunities for personal performance.

As for the head coach Harris, he is indeed a very good coach. From his point of view, there is nothing wrong with slowly guiding the growth of a 19-year-old boy.

It's just that because of Kobe's major achievements later, Harris was dissed many times when the old score was turned over.

Of course, Kobe himself didn't like Harris.

O'Neal gave Kobe the nickname "Showman". Although he was complaining about Kobe, his care for his younger brother was still shown between the lines. At least after this round of the series, O'Neal was the first player to support Kobe.

"How bad you think he is in the fourth quarter now, how much you will be afraid of his fourth quarter in the future."

In his rookie season, the biggest Bole turned out to be this fat man who later caused troubles, and he was the only one who saw through Kobe's killer nature at a glance.

Kobe, who scored 3 points in G19, was not complacent and hurried back to the locker room.

On that day, there was also a game between the Rockets and the Supersonics. The two teams started the game earlier than the Lakers, but they were both playing before, and they didn't know the outcome of the two teams. If you watch it now, you can directly see the results on TV.

After switching to a certain sports channel, it was indeed broadcasting the news of the NBA playoffs.

Among them, the game between the Lakers and the Jazz has just finished, and some simple editing has been completed in the camera. Hornacek with 26 points and Kobe, the Lakers' highest scorer with 19 points, became the players for comparison. The statistics of the two were listed together, and Kobe's standard toothy grin appeared on the screen.

The commentators are still analyzing the reasons why the Lakers won this game, and the sharp-eyed Kobe has already seen the scrolling small print below.

Game 3 in the Western Conference semifinals.

The Seattle SuperSonics lost 101 to 110 at home to the Houston Rockets.

Lost

It was a pity for Kobe. He hoped that the Sonics would win. After all, he had a good relationship with Qin Fei, and he didn't know many people in the Rockets.

What he hopes most is that the Lakers and Sonics can each win the series and then meet in the Western Conference Finals.

Then it would be best for him to rise up and lead the team to defeat the Supersonic, defeat Qin Fei, and reach the finals.

Hahahaha

In the small print information played, there are also scoring information of several main players of the two teams. The Rockets scored the highest score on Barkley's 24 points. In addition, he also contributed 16 rebounds and 6 assists. The standard peak level, Drexler scored the Rockets' second-highest 23 points, and Olajuwon scored 19 points.

The highest in the Sonics is Payton's 27 points, and then

Qin Fei scored 20 points!

Kobe's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it.

He actually scored another 20 points?This is the playoffs!

In the playoffs, how difficult it is to score 20 points, Kobe has experienced it personally in the past two days, this game does not count, in the first two games, he scored 3 points in one game and 2 points in the other.

Looking at it this way, Qin Fei walked ahead of him again.

20 points is a watershed. To get this score, from the perspective of a substitute player, it is definitely a very good performance.

While Kobe was surprised, he was also slightly anxious.

Qin Fei's growth rate is too fast. He not only has a higher status in the team than him, but also has better scoring and rebounding statistics than him.

And many media are saying that Qin Fei should be selected in the lottery, but no one said that his draft pick is too low.

This made Kobe a little upset.

He secretly made up his mind.

"Xiamen must continue to practice with Qin Fei to see what skills he has learned this season, and how he can score faster than me now."

(End of this chapter)