The NBA regular season continues, with the West hosting a Southwestern divisional battle, with the Spurs at home against the Rockets.
Both the veteran and strong teams in the Southwest Division, the Spurs and the Rockets have entered a rebuilding period this season, both trying to compete for higher pick rookies in a bad way, while the goal of the season is mainly to train new talents.
Before the game began, the Spurs suffered three consecutive losses, ranking 12th in the West, and the Rockets still ranked first in the West despite beating the Dark Horse Cavaliers in a cold way.
Therefore, the victory or defeat of the game is not the main focus, the performance of the young people of the two teams is the focus of the game.
In particular, Collins, which the Spurs have previously obtained through trades, will make its season debut in this game and become one of the biggest highlights of this game.
At the beginning of the game, the two teams played each other back and forth, the score was very sticky, the two teams alternated leading, until the end of the first quarter, the Spurs suddenly played a wave of offensive climax, with an 8-point lead to end the first quarter of the competition.
In the second quarter, the Rockets rotated the lineup to power, and the substitute Christopher sent out the power, leading the Rockets to play an offensive climax in succession, once equalizing the score.
But with the return of the main players, the Rockets once again fell into passivity, fortunately the Spurs did not pull away the score, and only led the Rockets by 3 points at the end of the half.
Easy side to fight again, the Spurs' state continues to improve, the point difference is quickly expanded to double digits, coupled with the rocket team's sudden collapse, at the end of the third quarter, the Spurs have led by more than 20 points, the last quarter also lost suspense, and finally the Spurs easily defeated the Rockets 131-106 and won the southwest region.
Compared with the wins and losses of the game, the focus of the two teams is still on the young players, and spurs new signing Collins has performed well.
Played 13 minutes, 4 of 7 shots, efficiently handed over 10 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals of comprehensive data, is expected to complete the rebirth under Popovich' hands, in addition, Kelden Johnson performed very well, playing 33 minutes, 11 of 17 shooting, efficient bombing 28 points, 7 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals.
However, the Spurs may not be a good thing to win, the team is currently ranked 12th in the West, plus the Blazers in front of them have cleared up the battle force through trades, the intention of swinging is obvious, the Spurs want to swing the second half of the difficulty of lowering the ranking is not small, and it is difficult to enter the ranks of the playoffs.
On the other hand, the Rockets are in a more complicated situation than the Spurs, and the team clearly needs to speed up the pace of the transaction.
The first is that Christopher and Shin Kyung performed well, and Christopher, who was regarded as a "relationship household" (very good relationship with the leader green) in the draft, played 29 minutes, shot 7 of 13, and efficiently obtained 23 points, 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 steals.
Shen Jing also performed well, playing 29 minutes, shooting 7-of-15, and handing over 18 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assist and 3 blocks.
In contrast, the leader Green can be described as too uncompetitive, starting 23 minutes in the game, 3 of 9 shooting, and getting 12 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal.
After playing only 11 minutes due to injury, Green still did not seize the opportunity, and even appeared to be afraid to shoot after holding the ball, and the whole person looked very depressed.
It should be known that Rockets head coach Silas clearly has no intention of cultivating Green, and if Green himself can't seize the limited opportunities like players like Shin Kyung and Christopher, even if he is a leader, it will be difficult to get privileges in the Rockets.
For the rebuilding Rockets, such a situation clearly requires the team to make adjustments and appropriately accelerate the pace of trades.
On the one hand, because Christopher and Shin Kyung have begun to play well and deserve more opportunities, on the other hand, the leader Green is about to lose confidence, and the team needs to clean up the players that the current manager Silas relies on are not in the team's future plans.
For example, Gordon, Wood and Porter Jr., as long as the price tag is right, the Rockets sent them away is undoubtedly a double-eagle operation.