As a championship team, the most important thing to think about is how to find the right team that matches the core of the team, and how to optimize the use of functional players if the salary is not allowed and the objective conditions are not met.
For rebuilding the team, the most important thing to think about is how to better cultivate young players, when the team has multiple young players to develop, the team needs to determine the order of training players, and whether the way to develop players is appropriate.
At present, the problems encountered by the rebuilt teams are not the same, the Kings have been given to the opponent in many consecutive games, so that the team's focus on cultivating Halburton and Fox, the performance did not meet expectations; the Thunder have a lot of first-round draft picks in the future, how to optimize the use of these draft picks, but also let the Thunder very headache.
As for the future of the Thunder, the Rockets have encountered it at the moment, and the Rockets have selected four first-round picks in one go in last year's draft, namely Jaylen Green, Shen Jing, Garruba and Christopher, plus the young players Martin, Tate and Porter that the Rockets got last year.
As a result, the Rockets have a total of at least 7 young players this season, not including Quinn and Knicks on two-way contracts, and Armony Brooks, who are relatively low in team status and rotation order.
From the current point of view, the rocket's training is in order, the rocket is currently focused on the cultivation of Kevin Porter Jr., followed by Jaylen Green, followed by Shin Kyung, due to the cultivation of these three players, has occupied most of the rocket's energy and resources, the rocket's remaining playing time and number of shots, leaving few young players left, so Garuba has not entered the team's rotation lineup this season.
The biggest ups and downs in the Rockets' development is Christopher, who did not rotate on the team at the beginning of the season, but played well during the season and became the most important player in the rotation lineup, with the return of Green and Porter, Christopher's rotation order and position on the team have declined to a certain extent, but Christopher is through his own ability and performance, from players outside the rotation to players within the rotation.
The root of Christopher's entry into the rotation is Silas's reuse of Christopher's defense, Christopher is extremely energetic and aggressive on the defensive end, the defensive aggression is extremely strong, the perception on the court is very good, when Porter and Green can't defend the opposing arrow, Silas uses Christopher against the opposing arrow defender, sometimes with a very good effect.
However, the recent decline in Christopher's status in the team is also because of defense, Christopher's defense has very obvious problems, poor defensive position, poor defensive scale, poor defensive choice and defensive judgment, often step by the opponent, and at the same time, Christopher needs the defense and co-defense of other teammates, thus disrupting the team's overall defensive system.
From the offensive end, Christopher is very restrained, basically rarely like the summer league singles, although Christopher's ability to digest the ball is strong, but during the simultaneous presence of Green, Porter, Gordon and Wood, he is very restrained, in the team encounters a scoring drought, or garbage time, Christopher's main offensive role is extremely sufficient, can play with or without the ball, the presence of the presence is very strong, but also show talent.
From the beginning of the Rockets to choose Christopher, mainly because Christopher is the ball holding big core of the play, can solve the problem of the Rockets' lack of offensive strength, but the Rockets reuse Christopher because of its defense, and from the team status decline, but also because of defense, from this point of view, Christopher in the Rockets is a very unique presence, its training method is very interesting.