Is the Rockets' show incarnated as the Houston Blacksmith? After shooting 0-of-11 against the Warriors in the last game, shooting 3-of-16 in this game against the Spurs, although it is understandable that Green's shooting posture is not on the outside line, but it is also unbearable in terms of internal breakthroughs, and the two games add up to a total of 10 points, especially after seeing The Champion Canning ann bomb 34 points, 8 rebounds and 8 assists, and the Warriors' No. 7 show Cumming plus 4 three-point shooting and 22 points and 5 rebounds, green's performance is also more and more disappointed.
For Rockets fans, the most feared thing is that Green will lose water, after all, he is a player that the team focuses on cultivating, carrying expectations for the future, but from the performance of the team's existing lineup players, it does not matter if Green is watery. In the past few games, Green's backcourt partner Porter Jr. has actually performed very well, averaging 17.4 points, 3.6 rebounds, 8 assists and 2.8 turnovers in the past 5 games, including 45.5% shooting, 40.6% three-point shooting, and 59.2% true shooting. From his data, it can be seen that there has been a very obvious improvement not only in the efficiency of individual attack, but also in the organization of tandem teams.
But in fact, Porter Jr. is still a partial point guard player's play, scoring is his strength, although the number of assists in the tandem team has increased significantly, but his field vision and ability to dismember the opposing defense is still very lacking, and this is difficult to make up for the day after tomorrow. If the team's leaderboard really can't cash in on his talent, it's best to let Porter Jr. take green's place, and in the position of organizational defender, it will be replaced by another new star in the backcourt who has recently risen, he is the team's two-way contract player Daischen Knicks, let him form a backcourt partner with Porter Jr.
Although the Knicks are a lost draft, he is very talented in organizing tandem teams, and he is only 19 years old this year, and recently he not only bombed 30+8 assists in a single game, but also won the best honor of the week. The Knicks have spent most of the season in the development league, and in a development league game that ended earlier, the Knicks once again led the team to defeat the opponent, and personally bombed a comprehensive stat of 30 points, 5 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 steals in 33 minutes, including 11 of 21 shots, 1 of 4 three-pointers and 5 of 6 free throws. Not only this one, but he has averaged 27.4 points, 6.7 rebounds and 7.0 assists in the last five games, including 57.3% from the field and 50% from three-point range, and it is precisely because of his excellent performance that he won last week's Player of the Week.
To know that last season he averaged 8.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5.3 assists in the Development League Ignition team, shooting only 38.4% from the field and 17.6% from three-point range, from his data you can see how much he has improved. In some of the previous rocket games, the Knicks also showed his talent in organizing tandem teams, his vision, his cross-pass is very good, so the Rockets chose to give him a two-way contract, and now the Knicks' performance is also beyond expectations, so for the Rockets, if Green can't cash in on the talent, the Knicks and Porter Jr. combination is also worth looking forward to.