On December 24, the NBA regular season ended a focus battle, the Rockets lost to the Pacers 106-118, suffered a three-game losing streak, and continued to be the bottom of the West. The Rockets played a bit of a "suffocation" in this game, they overtook the Pacers at the end of the third quarter, but collapsed in the last quarter, only scored 12 points in the fourth quarter, and the team was also hit by the Pacers and suffered a defeat. The Rockets' new leader Jaylen Green returned, played 25 minutes, scored 20 points on 6-of-9 three-pointers, and the team lost the game.
The Rockets' loss in this game is indeed very frustrating, although the first half is behind, but the third quarter of Green's single quarter 8 points, Wood and Tate also have a good performance, the team has surpassed the Pacers by 3 points before entering the final quarter, seeing the hope of winning away from home. Unexpectedly, in the fourth quarter, the Rockets played with Substitute Players such as Christopher, Shin Kyung, and Kenjan Martin Jr., and the result was a wave of 12-2, and after being overtaken by the opponent, they remembered to change to the starter, and as a result, the Momentum of the Pacers had risen at this time. The main force of the Rockets did not continue the state of the first three quarters, and the team was directly hit by a wave of flowers.
After the game, Rockets coach Silas was ridiculed, although the team is back-to-back on the road, there is a physical test, but Silas's tactics are incomprehensible, the team in the first 4 minutes of the final quarter let the pure bench against the main players of the Pacers, the result was directly overturned by the opponent, which is indeed a puzzling operation.
In fact, the Rockets have a chance to win, Wood, Green and other people are in a good state, but they have encountered a "fire collapse", especially Jaylen Green, who made 6 of 9 three-pointers in this campaign, and his performance was eye-catching. Rockets coach Silas also praised him after the game, saying: "Green is very good, the offensive choices are very clever, and the catch and shoot is great. He's now reducing the number of dribbles, which is pretty good. ”
As a result, the Rockets have lost as many as 7 of their last 9 games, and the team's recent poor record has also caused their ranking to fall to the bottom of the West, from a wave of 7 consecutive wins to see the hope of impacting the playoffs, to now swallowing consecutive defeats, the team wants to catch up with the team in front of them, really need to work hard.