On January 1, Beijing time, the Rockets lost to the Heat at home 110:120, suffered 6 consecutive defeats, and were swept by the Heat this season, and the Heat ushered in a 5-game winning streak.
In this game, Martin and Tate lifted the health management regulations, in the case of Green and Porter can play at the same time, prompting the Rockets to turn the wheel to a rich, this game, Silas lined up Porter, Green, Nuwaba, Gordon and Wood starting lineup, such a starting lineup is very strange, in the case of Tate can play, the first time this season to become a team bench, in the case of Tate playing without time limits, why would Silas have such an arrangement?
From the perspective of Tate's characteristics and functions, as the terminator of the tough offensive frame at the offensive end, he can attract defense, can also pass the ball for his teammates, play the role of tandem teammates, and is the mainstay of the team at the defensive end, with excellent single defense ability, excellent supplementary defense and auxiliary defense ability.
At the beginning of the season, Green and Porter could not open the situation on the offensive end, Tate was one of the Rockets' offensive options, although Tate's ball possession was not much, more in the offensive end of its auxiliary role, on the defensive end, to help Green and Porter wipe their butts, Tate was the best player in the defense of the starters at that time, not only the best players in single defense, but also the best players in defense and co-defense, and Green and Porter had many loopholes in the defensive end, requiring Tate to supplement and assist defense.
Tate's role on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends is very obvious, why did Silas let Tate play as a substitute for the first time this season?
From the offensive end, green and Porter's state on the offensive end in the near future is picking up, whether it is projection efficiency, or offensive choice, it can be said that green has recently moved from an unqualified offensive player to a qualified offensive player, Green's progress is great, Porter also has a certain progress, plus gordon and Wood in the starting lineup are players who can play with and without the ball, and both can digest a large number of players, prompting the Rockets' starting lineup to overflow with offensive resources.
In the Rockets bench, during the isolation period between Augustine and Matthews, the Rockets' bench players include Shen Jing, Martin, Brooks, and Christopher, among these four players, only Shen Jing is more mature in organizational ability, the offensive strength, and only Shen Jing digests the offensive ball, so that the Rockets' starting lineup and the bench lineup have a huge gap, prompting the Rockets' starting and substitution to be extremely unbalanced.
In order to solve this imbalance, Silas let Tate become a substitute from the starter, on the one hand, to balance the organizational ability of the substitute lineup, on the other hand, to hope that Tate digested the ball, attracted restraint for teammates, and facilitated other substitute players to play.
From the defensive end, although Nuwaba's defensive strength and defensive ability have a certain gap with Tate, but Nuwaba's defensive awareness is excellent, single defense is active, supplementary defense and co-defense are good, which is very similar to Tate, Silas will be Tate's defensive attributes out, let Nuwaba fill completely appropriate, and in the Rockets bench connection section, the combination of Shin Kyung and Tate has greatly improved the defensive efficiency of the Rockets' bench, and Tate has become a substitute in order to solve the Rockets' recent defensive efficiency is a very bad choice.
From the current point of view, Tate has become a substitute, not Tate's status in the team has declined, Silas does not attach importance to Tate, in fact, on the contrary, Silas has entrusted Tate with a heavy responsibility, hoping that it will become the core of the bench lineup and help the Rockets out of the current predicament, in fact, Tate's status in the team has a certain improvement, from the starter to the substitute, Tate's status in the team is actually rising.