Although the Rockets lost the last game against the Heat, this game is very different from the past, the most obvious of which is that Porter and Green's roles are swapped. Since the new season, in addition to paying more attention to the cultivation of rookie players, the Rockets are also very concerned about Porter Jr., and even made a decision to let Wall receive salary without playing, and push Porter Jr. to the position of starting organization guard.
However, in the game against the Heat, Green became the starting point of the team's attack, and it was clear that the team's management had adjusted its strategy, one of the purposes of which was to help the top rookie team. After Green joined the Rockets, his biggest goal this season is to win the award for the best rookie player, but in terms of the current team's record and his personal data, it is likely to miss this award. So far, the Rockets' record is 16 wins and 49 losses, Green has averaged 15.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game, shooting 40.3% from the field and 31.5% from three-point range, which is not comparable to the Cavaliers' Mobley and the Raptors' Barnes, so he can only focus on being selected as the best rookie.
But even so, Green is still at a disadvantage, because Cunningham, Barnes, Mobley, Vaghera have all won at least one rookie-month best honor, the West side of the Thunder's Gidey has monopolized this honor for 4 consecutive months, and Green everyone knows that the early performance of the season is quite poor, he averaged 11.1 points and 1.4 assists in the first 11 games he played, shooting 35.3% from the field, coupled with the struggle during the change of shooting posture in January, resulting in him not being able to be selected once. Although the state picked up in February, the performance of the people's Gidi was not bad, and it was finally spent on the others.
But fortunately, compared with the beginning of the season, the recent Green has made great progress, the past 11 games, Green averaged 19.2 points, 2.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 1.1 steals in 34 minutes per game, including 47.9% shooting and 38.4% three-point shooting. From the recent data, it can be seen that Green has evolved to another level, and the same is true for his performance on the field, he is smarter and more aggressive on the offensive end, not blindly only knowing to use explosive physical talent to impact opponents, against the Jazz game even used his feet to eat Gobert under the basket, and used his foot and his ability to hold the ball to single Clark to complete the final in the mid-range shot against the Grizzlies, all of which reflect his progress.
But Green's performance before February is really too poor, the basic data lags behind these good performing rookies too much, and even once fell out of the top ten of the week, then want Green data to have a significant improvement, that is, increase his ball holding to improve his use rate, after all, now Green's ability to hold the ball has been greatly improved, in recent games to use him as an offensive launch point Effect is also good, so Green and Little Porter role swap can better promote Green, It can be said that this is the last chance for Green to attack the best rookie for a while.