Early in the season, the Rockets' management made a very surprising decision to let Wall still receive his salary without playing, and to push the team's young player Porter Jr. to the position of organizational guard. This decision has also been questioned by many fans, coupled with the poor performance of Porter Jr. on the tandem team this season, it has strengthened the idea of some people, thinking that Porter Jr. is born a scorer, although he has a certain passing ability and awareness, but his vision is limited, unable to cut the opponent's defense through his own organization to help his teammates create easy scoring opportunities, which are difficult for him to improve through training the day after tomorrow.
Now the team's management seems to recognize this, in the past few games, especially in the game against the Heat, the management has changed the team's team building strategy, the coaching staff has swapped the roles of Porter Jr. and Green on the field, Green has more to hold the ball to launch an attack, and Little Porter more to play without the ball, the main role to score, from the data of the two after the game can see the change in their role positioning on the field, Green got 20 points and 3 assists, Porter Jr. scored 22 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist. In fact, in the game against the Nuggets, the coaching staff has made changes, the team has no longer emphasized Porter Jr. as an organizational defender, no longer emphasize that every round must be initiated by him, and this side proves the failure of Porter Jr.'s transformation into a point guard.
Of course, this is not useless, the transformation of half a season has indeed made Little Porter have a huge improvement, now he can play with the ball and without the ball, at this stage more let Green to control the ball will also help Green's progress, the future two can have more cooperation on the field. But the team will not deliberately let Green play the role of No. 1 position, because the team management has another choice, that is, the Knicks, who got a lot of playing time in the last game against the Heat.
This season, the team management has also poured a lot of effort into the Knicks, signing him with a two-way contract after he lost the election, allowing him to serve as the team's control field core in the development league, and the Knicks are also living up to expectations, handing over 20.6 points, 5.8 rebounds, 7.6 assists and 2 steals in 18 games in the development league, including 48.4% shooting and 40% three-point shooting, the improvement is quite obvious, which also helped him get a 4-year and 8 million early renewal contract.
In the game against the Heat, although the Knicks data panel is not beautiful, 23 minutes to get 7 points, 1 rebound, 4 assists and 1 steal, shooting 6 of 2, three points 3 of 1, but he showed a very good ability to organize the tandem team on the court, he has a very good passing vision and passing accuracy, can be a good combination of his body and technology, can run through his own control to create empty shooting opportunities for teammates, people can't help but sigh that his ability to organize the tandem team is really strong. Because his body and ability are somewhat similar to Lowry, so many people also regard his template as Lowry, and now that the team management has changed the team's construction strategy to adjust the organizational defender, then the Next Knicks will most likely be strengthened by the team. For this decision, Porter Jr. also agreed very much, and praised the Knicks in particular in an earlier interview.