On December 28, Beijing time, the NBA regular season continued to unfold, and the Rockets will challenge the Hornets away. However, before the game, the Rockets suffered successive blows, and after Augustine and Matthews triggered the health and safety agreement, Tate and Martin Jr. also suddenly became infected and could not play in today's game.
In a pre-match interview, Silas announced that Tate had triggered a health and safety agreement with Kenjan Martin Jr. and would be absent from the game. This also weakened the Rockets lineup again, and Tate is the team's main player, with a big role on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, and it is also the first time he has missed a game this season. In addition to these two players triggered, yesterday the Rockets announced that Augustine and Matthews triggered successively, all of a sudden there were 4 triggers, the Rockets manpower is also a bit short, but they did not risk letting the backcourt double star play.
Jaylen Green made a comeback in the last game, but he was still put on the list of doubts; Porter Jr., who resumed training, was also put on the list of doubts. But in today's game, neither of them will play, but also for the sake of safety, coach Silas revealed that both of them have actually entered the list of available players, but today the team is not ready to arrange for them to play. The two are likely to play back-to-back games at home tomorrow against the Lakers. Is this to charge up the Lakers? It seems that the Rockets also want to pick a "soft persimmon", the Lakers have been in a slump recently, suffered 5 consecutive defeats, if they lose to the Rockets again, it will be a bit embarrassing.
Originally, 5 days ago, there were 10 teams in the NBA league that did not have players infected, including the Rockets, but after 5 days, only the Jazz team was left. During this period, the Rockets appeared in succession to trigger 4 players, which also made their personnel tense, plus Wall's words, a total of 7 players missed the game. Speaking of Wall, it should have been a great opportunity for him, but unfortunately he missed it, otherwise he could have proved himself again like Walker.
Wall agreed with the Rockets before the start of the season that he would not play for the team again, waiting to be traded. Unfortunately, his big contract has deterred other teams, and he once began negotiations with the team last month, but the two sides did not negotiate. At that time, Wall still wanted the starting position, the Rockets only wanted him to be a substitute, if Wall chose to regress at that time, now in the case of shortage of manpower, he would definitely enter the starting lineup. Now that the team's point guard is only Gordon, who is not pure, it can only be said that Wall missed this opportunity. Like Wall, after being DNP, after the team was understaffed, he re-entered the rotation, once again proved himself, and was also elected the best player in the East last week.