This offseason, in addition to the selection of four rookies in the draft, the rocket's two major operations are failures from the current point of view.
The Rockets' biggest failure this summer is to sign Theis by signing first and then for 4 years and 36 million, from the point of view of the time, it is a very good signing, Theis has been considered a golden supporting role for many years, Theis defense can complement Wood, and Theis's defense can improve the Rockets' poor defense and improve the quality of the Rockets' interior defense.
However, from the current point of view, the existence of Theis, very dragging the team space, prompting the team to develop the attack is unfavorable, in order to solve the space problem, Silas directly dropped Theis from the starting lineup out of the rotation lineup.
Another signing for the Rockets this summer is a 3-year, 15 million renewal of Novaba, whose performance in the Rockets last season was recognized by the team's management and eventually renewed Novaba, knowing that the Rockets eventually gave up Bradley and DJ Wells and only renewed Novaba.
Judging from the Rockets' positioning of Nuwaba, it is basically used as a defensive player, and Nuwaba has the ability to hold the ball to attack the frame, which can bring vitality to the Rockets.
Nuwaba as an offense mainly relies on the ball to break through, can bring offensive firepower, extremely good at fighting for rebounds in the front court, extremely good at stealing, but Nuwaba is not a good projection player, three-point shooting is very bad, from this point of view, Nuwaba drag space, but do not drag offense, and now the mainstream players do not coincide.
From the defensive end, Novaba is active in defense, very energetic, and at the same time good at supplementing and assisting in defense, while Novaba can drive teammates and infect teammates on the defensive end, when Novaba and Tate are on the court at the same time, the Rockets' defensive vitality can bring huge energy to the Rockets.
But this season, Nuwaba fell out of the rotation lineup, Nuwaba fell out of the root of the rotation, on the one hand, the Rockets have a lot of rotation players, in the guard line there are Porter, Green, Gordon, Christopher, these players in the team status are higher than Nuwaba, in the front line there are Tate, Martin occupy the main time, the Rockets really do not have time to give Nuwaba to play.
From the current point of view, Nuwaba compared to last season, in addition to a certain regression in defense, mainly reflected in the fact that it is often stepped by the opponent, the change of defense is often wrong, the communication with teammates is not good, and the single defense ability has declined, but Nuwaba's other aspects of ability and performance have not declined.
During the quarantine of Tate, Augustine, Martin and Matthews due to the control of the epidemic, Green and Porter returned, and Silas did not give Nuwaba playing time, allocating more playing time to Christopher, from this point of view, Nuwaba is almost unlikely in the future of the Rockets, because Nuwaba's contract amount is around $5 million, which is very conducive to the trade match.
Nuwaba is not reused in the Rockets, does not mean that Nuwaba does not have the ability to rotate, in Nuwaba can occasionally enter the rotation, show excellent competitive status, for some of the champions who need to improve their defense is the best supplement, such as the Lakers and nets, such teams are very lacking defensive guard, Nuwaba's price is not expensive, age is not large, will not decline significantly in a short period of time.
From this point of view, before the trade deadline this season, the probability of Nuwaba being traded is extremely high, and perhaps the Rockets considered the transaction factor when they renewed Nuwaba.