Against the Magic, the Rockets side because after a long break in addition to Wall and Garupa the rest of the players can play, so Silas also put out the small Porter + Green + Gordon + Tate + Wood regular starter, the previous arrangement in the starting Schroder on the bench lineup, and at the beginning of this game, the Rockets exploded 14:2 climax to achieve a huge lead to play a very beautiful first quarter, but after the second quarter of the bench, the Rockets began to thin at the offensive end, and the defensive end was completely dropped. It took a quarter of the game for the Magic, the league's penultimate team, to complete the rebound until the Rockets swallowed an eight-game losing streak.
In the eyes of many fans, the culprit of the Rockets' loss to the Magic is Wood, although he bombed a double-double of 21+11 in the whole game, but his 3 of 13 free throws was very hot, coupled with his poor performance on the defensive end, making the Magic in the box to give and take. There is no denying that Wood is an important factor in the Rockets' loss of the game, after all, Wood has always performed like this, and his ability is limited and he is not expected to be able to help the team more. In addition to Wood, another big reason for the Rockets' loss is that the team organizes the guard. The Rockets left Schroeder through the trade before from his ability to strengthen the team, many fans still have great expectations for him, hoping that he can provide greater help in organizing the tandem team, but against the Magic This game, Porter Jr. withdrew due to injury in the second half, but Schroeder was not able to carry this big flag.
Look at The data of This game Schroeder, playing 27 and a half points to get 10 points, 3 rebounds and 6 assists, at first glance it does not look bad as expected, but the offensive efficiency is so bad that it is not seen, the whole game shot 4 of 10, 5 of three points 0, plus or minus -19 The worst of the team. Since he joined the Rockets in 4 games, he averaged 11.5 points, 3.8 rebounds and 7.3 assists in 28 minutes per game, including 37.2% shooting, 17.6% three-point shooting, 47.6% true shooting, 104 offensive efficiency, 126.5 defensive efficiency, and net efficiency -22.5.
The most critical thing is that the team's No. 24 show Christopher's cultivation has been delayed, before the Rockets did not trade, Christopher was already a member of the regular rotation of Cyrus, each game off the bench can get more than 20 minutes of time, but since Schroder came, Toffer's playing time has been seriously squeezed, in addition to the game against the Clippers because Porter Jr. and Gordon are absent to get 26 minutes of playing time, the remaining 3 games are about 10 minutes. In fact, the compression of playing time is nothing for Christopher, more importantly, it directly breaks his role positioning in the game, most of the time Toffer plays with Schroeder, and the two have obvious overlap, so this has caused a serious decline in Toffer's offensive efficiency.
The Rockets' current situation is also a sequelae of the team's trade, not only did not let Schroeder play a beautiful data, but also delayed the cultivation of rookies, some of which were not worth the losses.