On January 13, Beijing time, the Rockets defeated the Spurs 128:124 on the road, ending a three-game losing streak.
In this game, Gordon returned to the lineup, Silas put out the starting lineup of Porter, Green, Gordon, Tate and Wood, this lineup is the Rockets lost to the 76ers game, facing the double interior combination of Theis + Wood, re-evaluated and gave up again, it can be seen that the combination of the Rockets team de + Theis is not compatible has become a consensus, but compared to the previous Wood playing center, the bench connection section uses five small lineups, this game, Theis in the bench connection section to get playing time, This is an extremely bad reflection on the crazy loss of rebounds in the previous bench transition section and the internal defense, and it can be seen that Silas is constantly adjusting the team lineup, such adjustments are basically the right medicine, but Silas's reaction is obviously half a beat slower.
This game, is a more talented team, and the more disciplined team head-to-head, the Rockets rely on more outstanding talent, rely on the core players to score consecutive points at key moments, and finally take away the game, although the Rockets won, but the team's discipline and teamness still need to be improved, and the Spurs, although they lost the game, reflected the major flaws in the Spurs' team building ideas, the Spurs rebuild lacked sufficient talent, doomed to the team ceiling is not high, this is the contest between the 1st to 4th team in the West, This reflects that both teams have huge room for improvement.
The Rockets showed the problems that young teams should have in this game vividly, the Rockets had great ups and downs on the offensive end, Porter constantly hurt the team in the first three quarters, Porter's offensive choices were very bad, Porter's offensive efficiency was very bad, Porter had too many mistakes, and was counterattacked by opponents.
In addition to Porter, Christopher and Wood showed instability on the offensive end, especially for the Rockets, wood, who showed no doubt in the case of the Spurs' defensive intensity and little defensive pressure.
With poor stability in the first three quarters of Wood, Porter and Green, Tate's basket attack, Gordon's offense and Augustine's offense, becoming the Rockets' offensive ceiling is not high.
On the defensive end, Porter's defense is simply terrible, the Rockets' defense of the bottom corner of the three points is not good, many times to Forbes three-point shooting opportunities, the Rockets defense Spurs' passing is not done well, the Rockets exposed too many defensive problems, and a problem repeated many times, showing the Rockets' extremely bad defensive discipline.
However, all of this changed in the fourth quarter, Gordon stepped up on the offensive end, his offensive end was extremely efficient, becoming the Rockets' offensive thigh, and Porter's bad one completed the redemption in the fourth quarter, cutting 8 consecutive points to prompt the Rockets to widen the point difference, and the Rockets relied on personal ability to expand the score.
But on the defensive end of the defense against Murray's defense did not do well, let Murray in the fourth quarter final stage to give, in the face of absolute talent and immediate combat power, the Rockets appeared to be better, and finally defeated the Spurs to win the game.
This game, for the content of the game, has many significant significance, Gordon's strong and efficient play, showing the value of the explosive transaction, Porter's scoring ability at key moments is outstanding, from Porter's killing wizards, to the game Potter's key moments of play, Porter's performance makes it difficult for the team to evaluate, the regular big time play is bad, but in the key moments can always stand up, can make people forget a bad whole game of play, Green's ups and downs are still very large, when Porter and Wood are not present at the same time, the Rockets' attack and defense are even more.
In a sense, the Rockets' rebuilding road is destined not to be smooth, in the team's most stable players become the biggest selling point in the trading market, the team's focus on cultivating player Green plays a lot of ups and downs, as the team's main attacker Wood and the team's point guard Porter is very incompatible, but Porter can play a bad whole game, suddenly stand up at a critical moment, making the Rockets more difficult to evaluate the road to future reconstruction.