After beating the Kings, the Rockets were given two days of rest, which also gave them the physical strength to cope with the Jazz's road trip. Although mitchell, the jazz's star, missed the game because of the concussion mechanism, there is still a relatively large gap between the strength of the two teams, so the game itself does not have much hope for the Rockets to win, but what is unexpected is that the Rockets finally defeated the opponent 116:111 to achieve the first two consecutive wins on the road this season, and it is also the third victory in the past four games.
As far as the game against the Jazz is concerned, the Rockets side is a national soldier, and only one person on the team has bombed 20+ data. Judging from previous games, this person will most likely be the team's top scorer Wood, but in this game, because the Jazz's interior line is Gobert, Wood is still more restricted in the offensive end, and he got 13 points, 15 rebounds plus 4 assists, and his performance was decent. And the player who bombed 20+ this is the team's sharpshooter Matthews, he played 29 points and a half bombed 23 points, 4 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals of the comprehensive data, including 5 of 10 shots, 9 of 3 points, plus or minus + 22 the highest on the team, from the data can be seen that this game can win Matthews is indispensable.
But in fact, he only played the performance he deserved, after all, he joined the Rockets more than once to play such excellent data. Compared with Matthews, the most impressive thing about this game is the team's backcourt rising star Porter Jr. In this game, he played 30 and a half points and had 15 points, 1 rebound and 8 assists, which did not seem to be amazing, but he only made one mistake in the whole game, shooting 6 of 12 and 3 of 6 three points, and hit the key three points at the left 45 degree angle in the final stage of the game, laying the foundation for the victory of the game. This is the second time in his last four games that he has hit a crucial three-pointer in the same position, the last time he killed the Wizards in this position.
In fact, not only this game, in the last 4 games, Porter Jr. has performed very well, averaging 17.8 points and 6.3 assists per game in 4 games, including 50.0% shooting and 44.4% three-point shooting, compared with the past, he has a significant improvement in offensive efficiency. At the beginning of the season, his assists were not much, but there were many mistakes, and the voices of doubt for him were also frequently heard, after a period of absence, his assist data improved a lot, and led the team to win a wave of consecutive wins, but in the subsequent games, he fell into the downturn again, the overall shooting rate of less than 40% is simply impossible to see, and now he is like a changed person, not only the offensive efficiency has been greatly improved, the number of assists is also very impressive, and more importantly, the error control is also very good.
It can be said that the progress of Porter Jr. this season is still relatively obvious, and now it has ushered in a new change, and I have to sigh that the general manager of the Rockets, Stone, is indeed not mistaken for him. Compared with Porter Jr., the worst performance of this game is like the leader Jaylen Green, playing 23 minutes with 7 points and 5 rebounds, shooting 3 of 13, 4 of 3 three-pointers, and being directly abandoned by Silas in the fourth quarter...