I believe that there are many Rockets fans, who saw the team's injury report earlier, Porter Jr. and Wood will miss this game against the Suns, and the idea is "It's over, the Rockets will be a fiasco again...". But the Rockets played a game against the Suns that surprised everyone, and the team eventually lost to the Suns by 3 points at a 121:124 loss, and the Rockets almost led the First Three Quarters of the Suns until Gordon missed a three-point draw at the end of the game.
Although the Rockets ultimately missed the game, it made it clear to everyone that the Rockets did not trade Wood before the trade day deadline was a very wrong decision. In this game against the Suns, because of Wood's absence, Silas put Shen Jing in the starting No. 5 position, before the game began, everyone was still worried about whether the Suns' core interior line Ayton would give Shen Jing a lesson and teach people, but such a situation did not happen on the field, this game Shen Jing played 28 minutes to hand over a double-double of 19 points + 14 rebounds, including a score of 19 points + 14 rebounds, which scored a new season high, rebounds set a new career high, including 7 of 11 shots, 3 of 3 three points, and the true shooting rate reached a staggering 80% In addition, Shen Jing also handed over 3 assists, 2 steals and 1 block data, plus-minus +11 tied with Green for the first place in the team.
It can be said that the Rockets' inner line star is a super performance, from the basic data of his game can see how good he is in this game, facing the excellent interior center Ayton in the league, Shen Jing did not suffer losses, but better than his performance, the outside line opened his hand, the inside line easily completed the end with his excellent footsteps, and it was even more eye-catching in the domination ball. This game let the fans see that Shen Jing already has the ability to play the starting inside line, in the past, Silas because Shen Jing is a rookie, because of his lack of physical strength, has been letting Shen Jing play as a substitute, coupled with the limitation of playing time, Shen Jing did not show himself very well, although in the past period of time, Silas put Shen Jing into the starting lineup and played with Wood, but it is obvious that many times are around Wood, Shen Jing did not fully release himself.
But the key is that Wood did not play much help to the Rockets, in the past when Shen Jing's ability was insufficient, his offense could indeed provide some help for the Rockets, and his outside projection ability was more suitable for Silas's 5-outside tactics, but Wood still had many drawbacks in the Rockets' system, from the help of the team, Wood was a very big drag on the defensive end, he could hardly defend most of the league's interior players, and when encountering the power-type interior line, Many times Cyrence let Tate top, wood went to defend relatively easy players That's one of the reasons why the Rockets are the league countdown on the defensive end. Then there is the fact that Wood has basically reached his ceiling, can brush up beautiful data by eating the ball, and if he is not given the ball, his presence is a serious side effect, and even threatens the team's dressing room.
Now That Shin Kyung has played such a brilliant performance, although he still has imperfections, but he has made great progress, the Rockets should tilt more resources to Shin Kyung, but Stone did not trade Wood out before the trade day, and now he should also regret it, after all, he can't directly put him DNP, which will have an impact on his trading value.