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The Wizards took the lead to score the first point of the game, and the home fans in the MCI Center began to cheer. At the beginning of the game, the fans were more focused, so after the goal was scored, many fans shouted in unison A few words.

The Rockets served the ball, and Yao Ming gave the ball to point guard Ish Smith. The latter is an undrafted pick this year. He graduated from Wake Forest University and was the captain of the school team. He averaged 9 points and 5 points per game during the NCAA. Rebounds are a good stat, but it's no surprise that he lost the draft. He was originally an older draft pick, and his physical talent was average, even a little thin.

With a height of 183 and a weight of less than 80kg, no matter how you look at it, you can't survive in the NBA. I don't know what the head coach of the Rockets thinks. Letting the team's good backup point guard Lowry not be used, he has to play with an undrafted rookie starter.

However, the only advantage of Ish Smith is that he is relatively fast. Hinrich is more troublesome with him, especially the Rockets have such a huge insider like Yao Ming. The latter's cover quality is estimated to be better than him in the league living.

Ish Smith used the outside pick-and-roll to get to the middle distance, Hinrich followed behind, and Blatche also raised it slightly, because Yao Ming is not one of those simple-minded, muscular insiders with well-developed limbs. The distance is also very accurate, and Blatche dare not let it go at all.

However, the coach of the Rockets, Alder, seems to have made adjustments before the game, trying to let Yao Ming play less singles inside, so even though Yao Ming was able to catch the ball at this time, Smith still did not pass the ball. Get to the basket, ready for a layup.

He has good speed, but Blatche and Li Kaiming, who is concentrating on defending, are staring at each other. The two big men are pinching each other. Ish Smith's thin body can't keep his balance at all, let alone score the ball.

His layup didn't even touch the basket. Blatche gave up the backcourt rebound and stuck Yao Ming with all his body.

Because the latter is really too tall, especially after gaining weight later, standing on the court as a whole, making Brache, who is 213 on the side, look much petite.

With such a behemoth standing under the basket, Blatche had to put more attention on the card position, and Li Kaiming was handed over to rebounding.

I don’t know if Yao Ming hasn’t fully recovered yet. Blatche’s block was very successful. Li Kaiming successfully scored the offensive rebound and then handed the ball to Hinrich. Kai Yazi ran towards the frontcourt!

It is true that Yao Ming's offensive power and defensive deterrence are very strong in the interior, but what the Rockets' interior combination is most afraid of is the fast interior. Sanders emphasized when arranging tactics before the game. Attack is a very important weapon.

Seeing Li Kaiming rushing forward at full speed, the Rockets players, including Yao Ming, were a little flustered, especially Scola, who was facing Li Kaiming, his entire face was crowded together due to excessive force, which shows that he has already He tried his best to follow Li Kaiming.

But what made him feel extremely desperate was that even if he tried his best, he could only watch Li Kaiming's back getting farther and farther away from him!

Without the ball, Li Kaiming throws off his burden and runs, which is really terrifying!

In the entire Rockets' starting lineup, only Ish Smith, who is known for his speed, could barely smell Li Kaiming's exhaust, but he could only smell the exhaust. Li Kaiming took a step forward, and Ish Smith's short legs tw It takes three swings to offset it, not to mention that the frequency of swinging Li Kaiming's legs is not much slower than the former.

Seeing that Li Kaiming had already rushed to the three-point line, Hinrich, with the help of a long-term tacit understanding, directly threw the ball vigorously forward. The field landed one step ahead of Li Kaiming!

The commentator at the scene praised, "Good pass! This pass is just right! If there is no accident, this guy will give us another top five dunk!"

Seeing that the Hinrich ball had arrived, Li Kaiming sped up again and caught up with the basketball in front of him. At this time, he was within the distance of a three-step layup. He held the ball with one hand, stepped on the last step, and then spun 360 in the air. Speed, and finally dunk the ball into the basket with one arm!

5 is better than 0!

Li Kaiming scored 5 points in a row at the beginning, pushing the atmosphere of the entire mci center to a climax!

The Rockets served. This time the Rockets played a very classic tactic. After the pick-and-roll at the 1st and 5th positions, they created a dislocation and gave the ball to Yao Ming, who was behind the inside, because the dislocation of Yao Ming and Hinrich was almost It is equivalent to an adult beating a child, so the Wizards simply chose to double-team and vacate point guard Smith on the outside.

Yao Ming played very logically. The chance of the ball was not big, so he passed the ball to Smith, and Hinrich immediately returned to the outside to defend. Smith diverted the ball to Kevin Martin at the top of the arc. After receiving the ball, It doesn't matter whether there is a defender in front of him or not, but he just feels that the rhythm is good, so he shoots directly.

Kevin Martin was the 2004th pick in the first round of 26. He is a very good off-the-ball shooter. Although he moved to three teams last season, he played very well in every team, averaging 20 points per game. to [-] points.

Nick Young's defense was actually in place on this ball, but Martin's offense was even sharper. He hit a three-pointer against Nick Young, and the Rockets scored the first point in the opening game.

5 is better than 3!

After the Rockets' goal, everyone immediately went to the backcourt to defend. It seemed that they were scared by Li Kaiming's fast break in the previous round, for fear of being "scored twice" by the latter.

Of course, the Wizards didn't panic at all when playing positional battles. There were so many teams trying to suppress the rhythm and grind positional battles with the Wizards before, and no team could gnaw this hard bone.

Li Kaiming's first two offenses made him the focus of the Rockets' marking. Scola knew he couldn't guard Li Kaiming, so he told his teammates directly that as long as Li Kaiming participated in the pick-and-roll, he would double-team.

You have Zhang Liangji, and I have the bridge ladder.

Since it is difficult to play with the ball, Li Kaiming turned into an off-ball player again. The pick-and-rolls of Hinrich and Blatche were picked up again. Yao Ming was limited by his body and was really not good at defending the perimeter, so he chose to delay and wait for Smith to come out and return. Defend.

And Hinrich took advantage of this opportunity to stuff the ball into the hands of Nick Young inside the three-point line. Kevin Martin scored against the latter in the last round. As a singles player, Nick Young naturally couldn't swallow this breath.

Kevin Martin's defense is not as good as his offense. Nick Young took a step and threw it directly, scoring two points.

The Wizards' shooting percentage in the opening game was so high that even Nick Young, who had been in a downturn for a while, recovered his form.

7 is better than 3!

In the next round, Yao Ming finally got a chance inside, but it was not a misplacement, but a chance to directly take the ball and hit Blatche. Shocked, he took a step back, and the space immediately came out. Yao Ming turned sideways and hooked his right hand, scoring two points steadily.

Seeing that Yao Ming finally scored, in the studio of Huaguo Sports Channel, several commentators were excited. Yao Ming has not been in a good state since his comeback this season. The efficiency of the previous few games was very low. It may be a symbol of glory back then.

The two sides went back and forth, and the time passed slowly. When there were 6 minutes left in the first quarter, Yao Ming, who was returning to defense, suddenly stopped, and then the Rockets suddenly applied for a timeout. After that, Yao Ming was in the team doctor. Accompanied by him, he limped back to the locker room...

The last second was discussing what kind of statistics Yao Ming could score tonight, but now the studio of Huaguo Sports Channel became extremely silent.

At this moment, a shadow was cast over the hearts of all Huaguo fans. Yao Ming came back for less than six games, and suddenly left the game. Everyone had a bad premonition in their hearts.

Sitting on the bench, Li Kaiming noticed that the faces of Yi Jianlian and Sun Yue beside him were also not very good. The big brother of the national team suddenly left the field. How could they be in a better mood?

Before the timeout ended, the news of Yao Ming came back. Yao Ming will miss tonight's game and will not return.

This news, like a huge meteorite, smashed into the huge lake of Huaguo basketball, setting off a circle of towering ripples...