In this season's NBA Western Conference, the Houston Rockets are the most difficult for fans to understand the team, they once won hard to find, suffered the league's longest losing streak this season, and can also be reborn in the shortest possible time to maintain the longest winning streak, but like many other teams, the Rockets have recently suffered serious injuries, the two most important heroes during the winning streak Gordon and Wood can not appear because of injuries, directly led to the rapid decline in the team's combat effectiveness, In this regular season, the Rockets encountered the Cavaliers who have a very strong momentum in the new season, in this game, the Cavaliers have no face at all, the first quarter of the game established a huge lead of 19 points, up to 45 points in the game, the huge advantage also let the game enter the garbage time early, and finally the Cavaliers bloodbathed the Rockets 124-89, winning five consecutive wins!
The Rockets can maintain a winning streak before, the main reason is the players who appeared, everyone contributes on the offensive end, but this is also inseparable from the drive of several players with good ability, this campaign against the Magic, the absence of Gordon and Wood, so that the Rockets lost their main backbone, the previous few good performance players, in terms of personal performance, there was a cliff-like decline, especially Matthews, who was pinned on high hopes, only scored 1 point in the game on 6 shots.
In contrast, in the draft before the start of the season, Sagu, who entered the league with the 16th pick in the first round, became the only consolation for the Rockets in this game, and in the case that no one could open the situation on the offensive end, Sagu came off the bench for 27.3 minutes, hit 7 goals in 14 shots, contributed 19 points, 11 rebounds, 5 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, which is why fans called on the team to put it in the starting lineup.
The Cavaliers were able to win this game, and the double gun Garland and O'Corro in the backcourt can be said to be indispensable, both of them maintained a very high offensive success rate, of which Garland cut 21 points, 2 rebounds and 3 assists on 7-of-11 shooting, while O'Corro scored 20 points on 3-of-3 shooting from outside the three-point line, compared to the Rockets' backcourt combination of Jaylen Green and Little Ken Young Martin, Garland and O'Corro are worthy of being called the backcourt double gun.
The Cavaliers have been able to make great strides this season, with the performance of interior players playing a crucial role, with Allen scoring no more than six points in this game, but playing a significant role on the defensive end, contributing 9 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 blocks in 18.1 minutes, and veteran Luck also hit 3 three-pointers to score 15 points after coming on as a substitute.
In the first quarter of this game, there was also an unexpected situation, Rockets head coach Silas accompanied by many people, returned to the locker room, and then according to the news of Fagan, Silas had a dehydration reaction is infusion, which also made many fans ridicule the team's poor performance, Silas gas to dehydration, in the absence of many core players of the team to lose can be understood, but such a big rout for the team has just established a very big blow to the confidence of the team, I hope that the Rockets injured can return as soon as possible, And play a good performance!