The 2013-2014 regular season can be said to have entered the final stage.

There are about a dozen games left, and after the game, you can play the playoffs.

However, except for the Spurs, who can determine the first place in the West, and the Hawks, who can determine the fourth place in the East, the rest of the playoff spots are not determined.

Of course, the uncertainty here refers to the ranking rather than the qualification, that is, the Thunder, they will definitely play the playoffs, but they don't know whether to play as the second in the West or the third in the West.

Why is the Thunder in an unstable position? Because the Rockets, who were originally fourth in the West, seemed to have suddenly completed the run-in at the end of the season, under the guidance of "refrigerator" coach McHale, the Rockets won a strong wave of six consecutive wins, instantly surpassing the Trail Blazers and approaching the Thunder!

This rocket is going crazy!

Of course, the number of Rocket fans in China is really large, thanks to Yao Ming's blessing back then, the Rockets were once the home team of Chinese fans, and now seeing the Rockets playing so well, a bunch of fire honey is really joking that it is old tears!

In Qin Yan's memory, the rocket didn't seem to be so strong this year, but now this rocket is just deadly, it seems that like the Knicks, the rocket has become stronger because of its butterfly effect!

The Rockets' signature this year is the "Morden" combination, after the "Warcraft" Howard came from Los Angeles, he was indeed much happier than last year in the Lakers, Harden and Kobe Bryant are two styles of scoring guards, Harden can play, which is very much with Howard's appetite.

So these two are working together quite well now, Houston fans feel that the partnership of these two is a copy of Yao Ming and Maddie, of course, these two are healthier than Yao Ming, so the results are better now!

However, although the Rockets have a top center and a top quarterback this year, they are really average in other positions, and the point guard is still Jeremy Lin, but he has not played well this year, and the backup point guard "garbage dog" Beverley has not grown up, and they have a serious problem on point guard.

As for the small forward, the Rockets are rookie Parsons, the legendary "rich and handsome", who is really comprehensive in small forwards, nicknamed the "poor version of Durant", McHale has given him a lot of opportunities to perform this year, so Parsons' data is not bad now.

The big forward is another problem for the Rockets, Jones won't talk about it, "The Little Prince of Abuse", when he played the NCAA finals with Qin Yan, Jones couldn't even stop Thomas Robinson, let alone expect him to be able to block Duncan.

And another power forward, Motai Yunas, although he has height and weight, does not seem to be particularly happy to play under McHale, and now he is a little inseparable from the team.

But it is such a somewhat "lame" lineup, which actually reached the third place in the West under the leadership of the "Morden" combination, and also faintly threatened the second place of the Thunder, which is indeed not simple.

"Qin, your buddy is here, and he will hand it over to you tonight."

In the Spurs locker room, everyone is changing equipment without a pair, and Dio, who is going to start playing power forward today, is discussing defense with Qin Yan for a while.

"Okay, I'll leave it to me, at least I won't let him touch your porcelain." Qin Yan patted his chest and said that there was no problem.

"Touching porcelain?" Dio didn't get it.

"It's just making fouls, which is called touching porcelain in our China."

"Oh, like this." Dio had a "live and learn" look on his face, while repeating the word with his inflexible tongue.

"Hassan, face Dwight tonight, come on." Uncle Duncan, who is wearing a suit, is instructing Whiteside, after all, tonight's Howard is a person with strong physical fitness and athleticism, and the Cavaliers who killed James in the peak year reached the finals, and is known as a man who can "replace James alone".

Although Howard's athleticism has declined after the injury, after all, the skinny camel is bigger than the horse, and Howard's muscles are really not blown, even if Whiteside has trained his body hard this summer, he is still Howard strong from the outside!

Moreover, although Howard is rough, after all, he has been playing in the league for almost ten years, and his experience and skills are not comparable to Whiteside, who has only been playing for more than a year.

So Duncan was reminding him, "You're younger than him, you're running faster, you're running more!" ...... will pass you the ball."

Today, the Spurs' starting point guard is Maddy, and Popovich is also a thief, knowing that you don't have a good point guard for the Rockets, so you play a big point guard, and it would be boring to play the Rockets without Maddy.

"That's right, Hassan, you pay attention to my eyes, I will give you a signal at any time, you just follow my ball, you don't have to worry about not being able to deal with Dwight."

Maddie is obviously still very supportive of his little brother, especially his opponent this time is still Howard, who has a vague reputation as the first center, if Whiteside can compete with him, it is rare for Whiteside's self-confidence to improve not a little.

Whiteside was flattered, did Maddie mean that he was going to let him eat cake today?

"That's right, the protagonists today are you and Dwight, James will be taken away by me, and it's up to you whether the team can win or not." Qin Yan also said that he would support Whiteside, and let him and Howard one-on-one, even if he lost, he could accumulate experience.

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The Spurs side of the lounge is very noisy, and the Rockets side is actually the same, the two leading stars are not the kind of serious people, so the atmosphere in the Rockets locker room is still very good.

"Qin is not easy to defend tonight, Kobe Bryant didn't have much advantage of Kobe Bryant's single defense last year, you have no problem, James?"

Howard still cares more about his teammates, after all, he doesn't have much pressure tonight, just picking up a rookie, and Harden is going to play the currently recognized first guard after Kobe, who can score 72 points in a single game.

"Don't worry, Qin is my buddy, it won't make me too ugly, and they don't care about winning or losing now, we have a high chance of winning this game."

Harden is a smart guy, and a look at the Spurs' recent record knows that they won't be desperate to win, and he can probably guess what his buddy thinks, and nine times out of ten tonight, the center of both teams will play the leading role, and everyone else will be a supporting role.

So it is not unreasonable to say that Harden can later become the first quarterback in history, look at people's IQ, play with brains!

Of course, he will definitely compete with Qin Yan tonight, and only when he can be my opponent can he become my friend, this sentence works in the era of the "four quarterbacks", and it is okay now.

Harden would also like to split the game with his best friend, but he would have preferred that occasion to be the stage of the Western Conference Finals rather than now.

San Antonio, Morden is coming!