The Biggest Problem of the Rockets this season is in the organizational guard, after giving Wall to the DNP, the team does not have a good organizer, Porter Jr. has only found a little state in the last few games, averaging 17.8 points, 6.6 assists, 3.4 rebounds and 1.6 steals in the past 5 games, including 48.5% shooting, 42.4% three-point shooting, and 62.3% true shooting. Compared to the beginning of the season, he has improved a lot in terms of personal attack and tandem teams, but Porter Jr. still has big problems in the possession of the ball, such as his field of vision, his passing ability, his dismemberment defensive ability, and his assist data has improved recently, mainly because Silas has reduced his ball holding, and it may be difficult for Porter Jr. to make significant progress in a short period of time.
Another player on the team can complement Porter Jr. very well, and he is the two-way contract player Daischen Knicks signed by the Rockets. Because he didn't play much with the Rockets, many fans didn't know much about him. In fact, he has played some games in the Rockets before, but most of them are in garbage time, and there is no too bright data, since Porter Jr. returned from injury, he has also been sent to the Development League. And this time he was a big killer in the development league, in the previous two games against the Spurs, one bombed 29 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals, one bombed 34 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 steals, which is already very good, did not expect that he once again bombed 30 points, 6 assists and 2 rebounds in the second game against the Salt Lake City Stars, including 12 of 18 shots, 3 of 5 three-pointers, plus or minus +31 team-high.
This time was sent to the development league, the Knicks is like opening his valve on the offensive end, in the past 5 games he can average 27.4 points, 6.4 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 steals per game, including 57% shooting and 50% three-point shooting, from his data can be seen, not only in terms of personal scoring, but also in the tandem team is also good. Knicks itself is positioned as an organizational guard, his biggest feature is that he is very imaginative in passing, his vision, his passing, his ability to handle the ball, the performance is better than Porter Jr., in the past his biggest shortcoming is in the personal offensive aspect, last season he averaged only 8.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists in the development league, shooting only 38.4%, compared to his performance now, there has been a very big improvement in personal offense. It can be said that he is another successful leak pick-up of the rocket.
For the current Rockets, the Knicks are quite important to them, although Porter Jr. is now the team's starting organization guard, but he still has a lot of shortcomings, and the Knicks can make up for these shortcomings very well, especially after the end of the trade day, if the Rockets management trades Gordon or Augustine, then the Knicks are a very good supplement to the Rockets.