On December 14, Beijing time, the Rockets defeated the Hawks 132:126 on the road, ending a two-game losing streak and rising to 13th in the West, with only 2 wins left before the Western Playoffs.
In this game, the biggest contributor to the Rockets' victory is Silas, who constantly adjusts the lineup according to the form on the court, constantly optimizes the lineup, and leaves the players who play the best on the court, rather than letting the team start regularly to end the game, which is the most correct thing Silas did in this game.
In this game, the Rockets' starting lineup is Gordon, Brooks, Matthews, Tate and Wood, and in the case of the incompatibility between Wood and Theis, Silas once again let Theis fall directly from the starting lineup to ensure the fluency of both offensive and defensive ends.
Such a lineup is during the Rockets' 7-game winning streak, in the case of Porter Jr.'s suspension due to injury, the Rockets' regular starting lineup, especially Matthews and Brooks' two-shooters, completely liberated the space on the rocket's offensive end, prompting the rockets to end more efficiently on the offensive end.
However, in this game, such a starting lineup has encountered great problems, on the offensive end, the Rockets' top scorer Wood, facing the tough defense of Capela and Collins, holding the ball to break through the box, facing a high-intensity defense, Wood's offensive threat is greatly reduced, more through tactics and teammates' assists, get some easy scoring opportunities, when the Rockets' top scorer encounters weakening, completely unable to play value and strength, the Rockets' space has become bad.
The root cause of the Rockets' deterioration in space is Matthews, who has been in a number of outbreaks, and his recent decline in form has not hit a single three-pointer on the offensive end, while Brooks' accuracy on the offensive end has declined, prompting the Rockets' starting lineup to rely solely on Tate and Gordon.
Because these three people are not in good shape, prompting Silas to abandon these three people in the final stage is the finishing touch to the continuity of the Rockets' points.
The second highlight of Silas's match was the use of a substitute line-up, in this game, Silas used a 10-man rotation, a substitute transition, and the use of replacing all the starters, at this time the lineup is Augustine, Nuwaba, Christopher, Martin and Shinkin.
The highlights of this lineup, the enthusiasm and vitality of Nuwaba and Christopher, grabbed a lot of frontcourt rebounds, Augustine felt hot in this game, coupled with Shen Jing's technology, on-court strategy and passing, can form a situation of Augustine and Shin Kyung's double organization, and then form Martin, Christopher and Nuwaba three vitality players, the Eagles' inner line is turned upside down, while Nuwaba and Augustine can continue to hit three points, the stability of these two three-point projection is not good, the immediate combat strength of this bench lineup, Prompting the Rockets to pull back from the 19-point pit to the Rockets leading by five points, the Rockets chased 24 points with this lineup.
With Wall reaching a no-appearance deal with the team this season, with House, Porter, Garupa, Porter and Green sidelined due to injury, Silas activated the player by using the other 10 players very appropriately, using the characteristics of various players.
The Rockets' starting lineup at the beginning of the season was Porter, Green, Tate, Tess and Wood, and this starting lineup was the most net loss in the league, and Silas gave up Theis in order to activate the team's offense.
When the Rockets faced the opposing star guard defensive end is very difficult, the use of Christopher,using Christopher's defense, but Christopher can have a huge contribution on the offensive end, which is surprising.
In this game, the Rockets fell out of the rotation of Nuwaba, once again returned to the rotation lineup, mainly to defend Trae Young, in the case of defending Trae Young is very good, but also shot two three-pointers on the offensive end, and brought the team a windfall.
This season, House, Christopher, Gordon, Wood, Tate, Augustine and Martin have all performed very well, among which the rocket's role players have performed well, which is related to The trust that Silas has in the players, Silas knows how to use the strengths of the players to play their characteristics, and let the role players play more than their characteristics, so as to stimulate the morale of the players and make the team more cohesive, from this point of view, Silas is a very good head coach, Silas is constantly changing, constantly making the team better.