Today's NBA regular season ended a focus battle, the Rockets lost to Philadelphia, eating 8 consecutive losses. Shen Jing and others continued to miss due to injury in this game, and Porter Jr. and Wood were banned from the team. The Rockets in the first half, led by Matthews, once tightly clamped on the score gap, and even led the East by one point before the end of the half. Unfortunately, in the second half, a very wave of flowing offense quickly pulled the point difference apart, and the Rockets did not respond, and finally regretted to suffer a defeat. As a result, the Rockets have lost all of their last 8 games, while Philadelphia has won 4 consecutive games and performed strongly.
This is not the first time this season that the Rockets have suddenly lost power in the game, each time they can fight with their opponents in the first two quarters or even the first three quarters, but suddenly there is no point, and the defense is bad, so that they are instantly caught in passivity, and there is no way to rebound in the case of falling behind, regrettably losing. Obviously, in addition to the strength of the Rockets is not strong, the Rockets coach Silas's on-the-spot adjustment is not good, there is also a relationship, the team always collapses suddenly, and it really needs to be summarized.
At the same time, infighting broke out within the Rockets, and in recent times, there have been many incidents of disunity within the Rockets. The beginning was that core Wood and Porter Jr. were directly on the bench on the sidelines, almost moving, and were pulled away by Gerald Green. Subsequently, Wood also complained directly with the comeback Jaylen Green on the field, and the relationship between the two was also hotly discussed by the outside world.
Then there's Porter Jr. and Wood Jr., who didn't make it today against Philadelphia, both of whom had misbehaved before, with Porter Jr. clashing with assistant coach Lucas at halftime and Wood refusing to come on as a substitute in the second half. So the players have such behavior, but also directly in the team ban.
Coupled with the fact that the team is currently in an 8-game losing streak, the next opponent is the Wizards, Lone Rangers, Timberwolves and Spurs, the opponent's strength is very strong, the Rockets want to stop the decline of the losing streak is very difficult, and the Rockets are currently "firmly" at the bottom of the West, in the bottom position, so they want to end the losing streak, it is indeed hopeless.
The Rockets' goal this season is to rebuild, and even Wall, who has an annual salary of more than 44 million, will not appear, and the focus is on training youngsters. But I didn't expect that during the period, there were 15 consecutive defeats, 8 consecutive defeats, intra-team discord, player infighting, team bans and a series of other things. Few teams in the rebuilding team will have so many stories, and if you want to give young players more experience and experience opportunities to achieve the reconstruction goal, then the Rockets need to adjust as soon as possible, otherwise there is a high probability that the reconstruction will fail.