In addition to the Rockets' victory against the Jazz, his development league team Vipers also ushered in a game victory, the Vipers defeated the Spurs' development league team 112:100. In this game, the team's two-way contract player Knicks is a big killer, he played 38 minutes to blast the team's high 34 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 steals of the comprehensive data, including 13 of 17 shots, 3 of 3 three-pointers, plus or minus reached +18.
In fact, in addition to this game, in the last game, the Knicks also performed well, playing 37 minutes and bombed a comprehensive number of 29 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals, including 10 of 25 shots, 3 of 7 three-pointers, plus or minus +9. After two games, the Knicks are booming 63 +18+10, even if it is a game to develop the league, his data is enough to amaze everyone. To know that the Rockets did not give him a two-way contract for no reason, the team is looking at his talent in organizing tandem teams. As you all know, the Rockets have pushed Porter Jr. to the team's starting point guard position this season, but from the past games, he has not performed well enough in this regard, and he hesitated between passing and his own attack at the beginning of the season, often without many assists, and there were a lot of mistakes.
Judging from the past Porter Jr., although he can sometimes deliver some good assists, his vision and ability to dismember opponents are really limited, on the contrary, he is very talented in his own attack. From the beginning of the game against the Spurs, Silas changed the use of Porter Jr., he did not let Porter Jr. hold the ball too much, sometimes just used him as a transit point, did not expect that in the past 4 games he has performed quite well, 4 games to average 17.8 points and 6.3 assists per game, shooting 50.0% from the field and 44.4% from three-point range. From his data, it can be seen that Porter Jr. is still more suitable as an endpoint, and should minimize the possession of the ball, so that he can not only make himself an efficient score, but also because he has the ability to dominate the ball and can send assists to his teammates at any time.
It can be said that the Rockets are now a lineup of unstructured guards, but this is not a long-term solution, the Rockets need to have a pure point guard, and the Knicks are the ones the Rockets expect. He has also played some games with the Rockets before, averaging more than 8 minutes per game, although the playing time is not much, but it can be clearly seen that his talent on the tandem team, his vision, his passing, his ability to handle the ball, the performance is better than Porter Jr., just that he needs to be honed in offense and defense, and in the development of the league game he can have such a performance, but also proves that Porter Jr. can give way, the Knicks are very promising to become the rocket want to become the organizational guard.
If the Knicks can be successfully trained, which will not only liberate Porter Jr., but also be of great benefit to the team's 2022 draft, they will be able to choose a flanker or an inside player in one fell swoop...