Today's NBA regular season ended a focus battle, the Rockets lost 111-124 at home to the Nuggets, eating a 7-game losing streak. In this game, the Rockets can still fight with their opponents in the first quarter, leading the Nuggets by 1 point, but in the second quarter, the Nuggets bombed 47 points in a single quarter, and their offense completely destroyed the Rockets, winning 23 points in the single quarter and leading by 22 points at halftime. In the second half, the Nuggets' advantage expanded, they did not give the Rockets any chance to counterattack, the strength and momentum were in the advantage, they won as they wished, giving the Rockets a 7-game losing streak.
It is worth mentioning that this game Wood did not enter the starting list, as the core of the team he came off the bench, in the Nuggets crazy attack, Wood did not respond, he only had an embarrassing 1 rebound in the first half, all shots were lost, and did not appear in the second half. The two points of this game for the Rockets are their new leader Jaylen Green, who scored 20 points in the first half and scored 29 points in the whole game, if it were not for his efficient performance, I am afraid that the Rockets would lose more thoroughly.
As a result, the Rockets are already getting wider and wider from the 10th place in the playoffs, and it is worth mentioning that after seven consecutive wins, the Rockets are only 1.5 wins between the 10th place and the 10th place in the West at that time, the Blazers. Now the Rockets have been sluggish in recent times, losing 11 of the 13 games after seven consecutive wins, which has directly put them in the bottom of the West and is getting farther away from the playoffs.
It is worth mentioning that when the Rockets management was interviewed this season, they said that the team is rebuilding and putting hope on young players, so there is actually not much pressure on the record, after all, the competition in the West is fierce, and the Rockets' lineup is too young, more to train Jaylen Green, Kevin Porter Jr., Martin Jr. and Christopher Jr. and others. So there is no pressure on the record, and the players need to gain experience through the game.
In fact, through today's game Wood did not start can be seen, the Rockets are likely to be officially rotten, that is, to let the young players play more, even if their play is not stable enough, but the most important thing about rebuilding is to allow talented players to get more playing time.
So the next focus of the Rockets is not on the record, and whether it will break the embarrassing record of 15 consecutive defeats held this season, the focus is to train players, which is the goal of the Rockets this season, focusing on cultivating talented young players and gambling on the future.