On March 14, Beijing time, the Rockets lost to the Pelicans 105:130 on the road, suffering two consecutive losses.
In this game, the pelicans' five important players Ingram, Zion, Nance Jr., McCollum and Lewis have truces, and in the case of the Pelicans' absolute strength has dropped significantly, the Rockets have suffered a fiasco, one of the reasons is that the Rockets' mistakes have been disaster, and the Pelicans have played too many offensive and defensive conversions.
This season, the Rockets averaged 16.6 turnovers per game, and the Rockets ranked first in the league in terms of the number of errors per game, averaging 42.1 rebounds per game, ranking first in the league.
Individually, the Rockets averaged kevin Porter Jr. with 3.36 turnovers per game, Schroder 2.9 turnovers per game, Shin kyung 2 turnovers per game, Green 2.1 turnovers per game, Wood 1.8 errors per game, and Christopher 1.4 errors per game.
The Rockets' biggest mistake problem is to directly give the other side a score, for this reason the Rockets' retreat league is the first to last, the team that is converted by the opponent's attack and defense, in this game, the Rockets are converted by the Pelicans through mistakes to score 27 points, while the Pelicans' mistakes are only 5 points by the Rockets, the Pelicans' fast attack score is 17 points, the Rockets have only 8 points, the Pelicans have 10 full-time mistakes, and the Rockets have up to 24 times.
The player with the most mistakes in the Rockets this game is Kevin Porter Jr., who has 5 turnovers, Green and Christopher have 4 mistakes, Tate has 3 mistakes, Wood and Knicks have made 2 mistakes, and the other players in the team except Nuwaba have made mistakes.
The biggest source of the Rockets' mistake in this game is Kevin Potter Jr., as the team's starting point guard, it is extremely inefficient at the offensive end, and there are constantly various low-level mistakes, and these mistakes can be directly converted into offensive and defensive conversions by the opponent, but the ball is handled by other players, still mistakes, when Wood returns, the team's chemistry is extremely bad, the tacit understanding between the players is greatly reduced, and in the alternate articulation section, Christopher and Shen Jing, the two sharers and organizers of the ball, also have many mistakes. In particular, Daishin Knicks, who has recently been entrusted with heavy responsibilities, is also not adapting to the rhythm of the field.
The reason for the Rockets' many mistakes is, on the one hand, the discomfort between the players, especially after Wood's return, the tacit understanding between the teams has greatly decreased, on the other hand, the players have too many mistakes, resulting in an imbalance of mentality, and such an imbalance has nothing to do with the opponent, after all, the Pelicans' defensive intensity and defensive flexibility are not high.
From a deeper point of view, Kevin Porter Jr.'s stability is still lacking, and Christopher and Shen Jing still have a lot to go through, especially Christopher's turnover rate is extremely high, and there are often a large number of mistakes in the bench connection section, so that the opponent seizes the opportunity to completely break the Rockets.
From the current point of view, the Rockets' mistake problem is not a single, on the one hand, the tacit understanding between the players, on the other hand, the experience and control of the players, from the latter situation, such a problem must be passed, but from the former problem, the Rockets need to consider the adaptability of the lineup, especially the existence of Wood, so that the team's integrity and balance between the offensive and defensive ends, greatly reduced, which urgently needs rocket thinking.