The Rockets are at home against Philadelphia, and after just one season, Philadelphia is still that Philadelphia, and the Rockets are no longer the Rockets.
Hugh City is currently in the process of full reconstruction, suffering two consecutive defeats before the start of the game, the record is at the bottom of the West, while Philadelphia, on the other hand, has shaken off the slump of the previous period and recently won 6 consecutive wins, which can be described as a high-flying progress.
In the end, there was no upset in this obvious confrontation, and Philadelphia won 111-91 against the Rockets by 20 points, expanding the winning streak to seven.
Compared to losing the game by a big score, the situation inside the Rockets and the state of the players are even more annoying.
As a rebuilding team, losing is not only a common occurrence, but also a planned thing, but the Rockets are currently losing for the sake of losing, and it is not at all the losing effect that comes with the process of developing young players.
The whole team played lifelessly, if from the beginning of the season to the present, the Rockets have been playing non-competitive, it does not matter, but the fans are watching the Rockets start to be uncompetitive, as the main force is injured, the team gradually plays chemistry and competitiveness, and as a result, after the return of the main force, the team becomes loose and selfish.
Throughout the game, the players within the Rockets can be divided into three waves, the first wave is Tate, Matthews, Gordon, Augustine and other players, they are role players themselves, the core blind they are also messing around, after all, they have no tactical status.
The second wave was Wood and Porter Jr., who had enough ball power to be used as the core of the team in silas's eyes, regardless of their form, and could be picked up at any time on the offensive end.
The third wave is green, Christopher, Martin Jr. and ShinKin, who should be the focus of the team's training and deserve to be treated casually, but in Silas's eyes, they still need time to grow and cannot be entrusted with heavy responsibilities.
This has led to the Rockets' current situation of the privileged Wood and Porter Jr., whether reasonable or unreasonable on the offensive end, is casual, while the defensive end is lax, all for the purpose of brushing data to play.
The originally motivated role players, looking at the ball passed out, will never come back, simply join the ranks of chaos, and only see the basket in the first time they get the ball.
This leads to extreme embarrassment for young players, on the one hand, they can't get enough playing time and shooting opportunities, and on the other hand, they are powerless to change the status quo of the team.
Among them, Wood's harm to the team is actually not much, because everyone knows that the Rockets want to send Wood away, and let Wood casually sell for a good price, which at least has a hope.
Porter Jr. has always been regarded as the core of the team's future, and Silas has publicly praised Porter Jr. more than once, and even after making a big fuss in the dressing room, Silas claimed that Porter Jr. was a good boy.
Coupled with the fact that Porter Jr. played 50 points and 10 assists in a single game against the Bucks last season, the Rockets management was reluctant to abandon the new star.
But the problem is that Porter Jr., after gaining the privilege, has performed significantly lower than expected this season, averaging 11.8 shots per game and only handing over 12.3 points, and the overall shooting rate and three-point shooting rate are hovering around 35%, and the last three games have scored 8, 9 and 11 points respectively.
More importantly, he also has to send 3.8 turnovers per game, coupled with the grumpy temper outside the field, how to see Porter Jr. is not a qualified team core, this game Porter Jr. was also directly expelled because of defensive action problems.
Because of his presence, he occupies a large number of ball rights for the Rockets, and naturally pits Green, who also needs the ball.
Coach Silas has contributed to this momentum, and this game is the best example, when Porter Jr. was expelled from the game, Silas quickly gave up the game and directly took Green down.
But the problem is that when Porter Jr. is on the floor, the ball has always been in the hands of Porter Jr. and Wood, and Green has no chance to find rhythm, but instead frequently becomes a back cooker and cannot get the experience he deserves.
In the final analysis, the Rockets faced an unfavorable situation, or chose to believe in Porter Jr. and Silas, nothing more than because both of them are very cheap, at that time, porter Jr. was because he was carrying a rookie contract, and signing Silas was even more because he was cheap, which is also an old tradition of rocket saving money, but the problem is that such a strategy has obviously delayed the growth of rookies, and it is a choice that is not worth the loss.