Fans who often follow the Rockets game must know that the Rockets experienced violent turmoil last season, many players left Houston, and many new people joined the Rockets camp. It is under this change and frequent injuries that the Rockets still insisted on playing last season, of course, the record of 17 wins and 55 losses is a bit disappointing, but the Rockets' stated goal has been achieved, and the addition of rookie Jaylen Green has opened a new era for the Rockets.
Due to frequent injuries last season, Rockets coach Silas used a total of 42 starting lineups, the highest in the NBA. After the Rockets have played more than 30 games this season, Silas has used about a dozen starting lineups. Ahead of the Game against the Hornets, the Rockets again made some "fine-tuning" to the roster — as multiple players triggered a health and safety agreement out of the lineup, the Rockets had to recall 19-year-old two-way contract player, The Daschen Knicks, from the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, which developed the league, to help the Rockets survive the extreme shortage.
In fact, a total of 4 players from the Rockets have been sent to the Development League Vipers this season, in addition to the Knicks, Spanish big forward Garruba, guard Christopher and Matthews, have all played in the development league for a long time. But now that Garupa and Christopher have returned to the Rockets, Matthews has also reached a formal contract with the Rockets, and even Christopher and Matthews have occupied the main position of the Rockets, and Garuba also has some opportunities on the Rockets' bench.
With the return of the Knicks, the number of players delegated to the Rockets to the development league has dropped to 0, which means that the Rockets' 17 tough players have now gathered in Space City, which is the best way silas can think of in the case of extreme shortage of people. Take, for example, the Rockets' game against the Hornets, in which three rocket rookies entered the rotation together.
Garruba played a rare 13 minutes in the game, contributing 2 points, 4 rebounds and 1 block on 1-of-4 shooting; two-way contract player Trevlin Quinn played 29 minutes, 6 of 13 shots, 4 of 10 three-pointers, and contributed 17 points, 6 rebounds and 4 steals; the Knicks also got 25 minutes of playing time, he had 11 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals on 5 of 8, although he was still a little nervous in the game, but the 19-year-old Knicks' statistics were still relatively beautiful.
In the absence of many players, Silas also had to send all the "useful" players to the court, and even Silas said after the Rockets' fiasco to the Hornets that many Rockets players had not played much in the NBA in this game, which means that although the Rockets lost miserably, there was really no way, only to use these marginal newcomers to top it, and its effect naturally could not be the same as the usual traditional rotation lineup.
But for the Rockets' 3 newcomers Garruba, Knicks and Quinn, entering the rotation lineup for the first time should be a "huge improvement" in their careers, especially the Knicks and Quinn scored in double figures, which made the Rockets see the hope of the future. Don't look at the Rockets' poor record, but being able to try to use more players in the long regular season will also have a positive effect on the construction of the future lineup.