On February 24, Beijing time, the latest rookie list has been released, the Cavaliers center is still in the first place, and the Rockets' Jaylen Green is still in 10th place. It is a little regrettable that the other 3 rookies of the Rockets, Shin Kyung, Christopher and Garupa, did not enter the list. That is to say, in addition to Jaylen Green may still have the opportunity to compete for the best rookie, Shin Kyung, Garupa and Christopher have basically missed the best rookie. Now they should use their performance to compete for the best rookie first or second team.
In fact, it is not that Christopher and Shen Jing have performed badly, the performance of the two of them this season can be said to be slightly beyond expectations, but because the growth rate of this rookie player is relatively high, so in the top 10 list, they are some capable rookies, Shen Jing and Christopher, the two rocket team's substitute newcomers, naturally fell off the list. As for Jaylen Green, don't worry about him, Green has been doing very well lately, in nine games in February, don't look at the Rockets only got one win, but Jaylen Green averaged 16 points per game in February, ranking second among rookies, only 0.2 points less than Kiddy.
But rockets rookie big forward Usman Garruba is more unfortunate. The star big man from Spain has always been the main force of Real Madrid's interior line before, but after coming to the Rockets, Garuba has too many competitors, such as Wood, Tate and Martin Jr. are competitors in the No. 4 position, and Garuba, who has no qualifications and no NBA experience, naturally has no position. The Rockets sent him down to the Development League, and while there were also brilliant performances, overall he still needed a lot of time to adapt to the NBA.
After Garupa suffered a wrist injury late last month and underwent surgery, news at the time suggested that Garupa might not play in 6-8 weeks. Now that nearly a month has passed since Garouba's surgery was successful, what about Garruba's injury? Rockets head coach Steven Silas also spoke about Garruba's recent situation, saying Garruba's injury was "slow but steady."
In this way, Garupa is still recuperating, and there has not been much progress. Considering that the Rockets have only 24 regular season games left, and all of the Rockets' regular season games will be completed by mid-April, will Garupa really be able to catch up with the comeback before the regular season at the rate of recovery from Garouba's injury now? It should be known that after Garuba's hand injury is healed, it will take a lot of time to recover and train before he can play.
Considering that the NBA regular season is still more than a month away, Garupa wants to recover 100% and play for the Rockets in the regular season, and the chances are getting smaller and smaller — and It is not clear that Garruba will be reimbursed directly for the season. If you look at the information given before, optimistically speaking, Garupa will have to rest for at least half a month before he can make a comeback, of course, this is the best result, but according to Silas, Garruba's comeback may be delayed.
But that doesn't matter, this summer offseason train well to get more goals, next season Garruba is still one of the rockets' internal rotations. Since Wood may become a deal target for the Rockets in the offseason, Shen Jing and Garupa, two rookies, are likely to become the rockets' future pillar players. Garruba is only 19 years old, and there is still a chance to gain a foothold in the Rockets in the future.