When Green and Porter went low and high, they were extremely depressed at the beginning of the season, and their performances in the recent period have shown people to see progress.
But the performance of Christopher, another rookie of the Rockets, did not show a trend of progress, but presented a situation of high and low, why did Christopher's performance have a certain regression?
This season, Christopher played in 57 games for the Rockets, averaging 7.1 points, 2.2 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 0.8 steals per game in 16.7 minutes, shooting 43.8 percent from the field, 30.9 percent from three-point range and 78.3 percent from the free throw line.
In terms of data, Christopher's offensive efficiency is not high, the scoring rate per unit data is not bad, and Christopher's assist-to-turnover ratio is not good.
At the beginning of the season, Christopher gave the intuitive impression of defensive excellence and defensive positivity, and Silas used Christopher mainly to use Christopher's defense, especially to use Christopher to defend the opposing star defender, and the effect was very good.
While Silas reused Christopher's defense, he showed excellent competitive form on the offensive end, Christopher's three-point shooting was excellent, the sense of steals was excellent, and he had a certain ability to digest the ball, Christopher entered the rotation with defense, and became an important player in the Rockets rotation with offense.
But as time went on, Christopher's strengths became less and less revealed, and his shortcomings were exposed more and more.
Specifically manifested in the defensive end, Christopher's defensive position and defensive scale are not good, often by the opponent one step over, Christopher's defensive judgment and defensive choices are not good, there are often fearless fouls, there are aggressive defensive habits, Christopher's mistakes are too many, often give the opponent the opportunity to attack and defend, Christopher often leads to the rhythm of both ends of the attack and defense is contained by the opponent.
On the offensive end, Christopher's offensive confidence has dropped greatly, Christopher has lost a lot of the attribute of digesting the ball, while Christopher's assists have dropped significantly, offensive ball has dropped significantly, offensive efficiency has dropped significantly, and the offensive stability of the attack frame is not good.
From the look and feel, Christopher's performance is obviously degraded, and this degradation is particularly evident with the progress of Jaylen Green and Potter.
So why is there such a big gap in Christopher's performance perception, and other young players are showing a trend of improvement, but only Christopher is showing a trend of regression?
From the root, on the one hand, Green and Porter digested too much ball, in the case of Gordon and Schroeder can play, Christopher's status has dropped significantly, the authority has naturally dropped significantly, on the other hand, Christopher's time on the court, mistakes are too frequent, handling the ball has become extremely bad, very affecting the team's attack and defense, especially on the defensive end, Christopher's error rate is too high, these negative effects, resulting in Christopher's self-confidence decline, thus prompting Christopher's status and authority to decline , which led to such a situation.
The Rockets are currently focusing on cultivating Green and Porter, followed by Shin Kyung, and finally Christopher, which is the embodiment of too many young players in the Rockets to cultivate, and to another extent, this is also the drawback that too many rookies cannot be trained in the Rockets draft.