On March 14, Beijing time, the Rockets lost to the Pelicans 105:130 on the road, once again suffering two consecutive defeats, and currently ranks firmly in the league's bottom 1st, and the League's 4th-bottom Thunder have 3.5 wins.
In this game, the Pelicans 5 important players are absent, Ingram's right hamstring is sore, McCollum is absent due to health and safety agreements, Zion Williamson's right foot fracture is absent from this game, Lewis is absent from this game with a right knee injury, Nance Jr. is missing this game after right knee arthroscopy surgery, and the Rockets are only Gordon and Schroeder missing this game.
The Pelicans' two core players, Zion and Ingram, missed the game, and the most important signings before the trade deadline of the season, McCollum and Nance Jr., missed the game, which greatly reduced the pelicans' strength, and before this game, the Pelicans had suffered four consecutive losses, both of which believed that the Rockets were far better than the Pelicans of such a lineup, but the Rockets faced such a bench, suffered a fiasco, which explained a lot of problems.
In this game, the biggest problem for the Rockets is that the basket is exploded, the interior defense is useless, when Wood returns, it becomes the opponent's key weakness, from the beginning of the frequent sanctions against Wood's defense, on the one hand, Varan is hard to chisel Wood in the low position, Wood's strength confrontation and tonnage can not withstand Varan, the Rockets must switch to Tate against Varan, but Tate's height and arm span, completely out of Valan, forming a dead knot of the inner line defense, how can not be aligned with Varan, and the Pelicans will also use the block to dismantle the sanctions against Wood, Sanction Wood's defensive choices and poor defensive positions by playing small and big.
When Wood is frequently sanctioned on the defensive end, and frequently loses points by the Pelicans in a variety of ways, the interior rebound protection and protective frame cannot be seen at all, and Wood cannot respond to the opponent on the offensive end, and it is extremely dragging down the whole team at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends.
If the Rockets' starting center is on the scene is a catastrophic existence, the Rockets' backup center Shen Jing, the foul rate on the field is too high, in the process of opposing Varan, Shen Jing's size and stature are also at a loss, and they can't prevent the opponent, but they continue to lose a lot of fouls, and the rocket's inner line is pierced.
The most intuitive data is that the Rockets only had 39 rebounds, while the Pelicans had 45 rebounds, the Pelicans grabbed 14 offensive rebounds, while the Rockets only grabbed 9 offensive rebounds, the Rockets conceded 64 points on the inside line, and the Pelicans conceded only 52 points on the inside line.
If the Rockets' interior defense is terrible, the Rockets' mistake control and the conversion score of the mistakes made by the opponent are heinous.
In this game, the Pelicans only have 10 mistakes, the Rockets have as many as 24 mistakes, the Pelicans' fast attack score is 17 points, while the Rockets' fast attack score is only 8 points, and the Rockets and Pelicans' grasp error scores have been amazingly 5:27.
Rockets' mistakes are mainly reflected in the team's collective crazy mistakes, as the core point guard Porter Jr. 5 mistakes, the Rockets two major doggers Green and Christopher two each 4 mistakes, the organization of the front line Tate 3 mistakes, the team scorer Wood and the backup point guard Knicks both have 2 mistakes, the Rockets all the players on the team only Nuwaba did not make mistakes, the whole team is crazy mistakes, especially the third quarter of crazy mistakes, constantly staged by the opponent to attack and defend the situation, directly prompting the fourth quarter to become garbage time.
Rockets as a team with the most mistakes in the league, the team with the worst internal protection, the problems of this game are exposed at the same time, the rockets need to improve there are too many places, from the current point of view, the rocket young players' ability to resist pressure and anti-setback ability also need to be improved, more importantly, the rocket's young players need to learn how to better face adversity, and how to better adjust their state, which is the necessary process in the process of growth.