With more than a dozen games to come to an end, the Rockets have a record of 17 wins and 51 losses, ranking first in the league, and if only from the perspective of the record, it is clear that the Rockets' achievements are not surprising, all in the team management's plan.
However, from the perspective of team reconstruction, this season can be said to be a comparative failure, the Rockets won 4 first-round shows in one go at last year's draft, plus the team has two young players, Porter Jr. and Martin Jr., but the Rockets' current core lineup only has The Eye Green and Little Porter are in the core rotation of the team, and other young players this season are also doing well, but because the team has other veterans, these young players have not been able to get more playing time, as the end of the season, The team is in the league's penultimate position, and the Rockets' coaching staff should make big changes to the rotation of the team, of which 3 should be discarded directly, 2 should be reused, and 1 is worth entering the team to start.
The three people who should be discarded are Wood, Gordon, and Schroeder. Wood has been occupying the team's starting lineup this season, but he has not actually played a positive role on the court, the offensive end does have a good ability to brush points, but in the defensive end of the loss of points than the offense, that is, in the eyes of Cyrraz Wood is a treasure, if put in other teams can enter the rotation is not bad; Gordon since the end of the trade day, not only has there been a significant decline in state, in many games are also paddling, it is obvious that he is not in the Rockets, in order to ensure that his trade value is not discounted, It would be better to hide him; Schroeder should have been bought out, leaving him injured and injured, and had little positive help for the team, as well as eating up the rotation time of young players.
After abandoning these 3 people, the team can give young players more opportunities to show themselves, first of all, Shen Jing, who has long had the ability to play the starting point, but because of The presence of Wood, Shen Jing has not been able to fully release himself. In the past two games because of Wood's absence, Shen Jing handed over 19+14 data and 21+14 data in one game, which was quite powerful. In the area of the substitute interior, the team has another good blue-collar interior lineman Fernando available, who not only has excellent physical talent, but also a good interior finishing and basket protection ability, and is also a player worth exploring, and the two of them belong to the players to be reused.
In addition, in the starting No. 4 position, Silas has been using Tate this season, but as he plays more games, the shortcomings of playing the No. 4 position with Tate are becoming more and more prominent, even if he has a good interior finishing step, there is a very high enthusiasm, but the height disadvantage makes it difficult for the team as a whole to have an advantage in alignment, the most important thing is that Tate's three-point projection ability is not stable enough, only 30% in the past two seasons, very dragging the team's offensive space. Compared to Tate, Martin Jr., who gradually entered the rotation in the middle and late season, has become more and more outstanding, and after a disappointing start, his three-point shooting this year has now risen to 34.6%, and at the end of the basket, this is no worse than Tate, and the defense has also improved tremendously. So from the perspective of the advantage of the position, Martin Jr. should start, Tate play as a substitute, it is best to squeeze out some more time for Garruba, he is also quite good after the comeback.
In this way, the Rockets can put up the starting of Porter Jr. + Green + Matthews + Martin Jr. + Shinkin, with Knicks, Tover, Tate, Garruba, Fernando, which is what rebuilding the team to cultivate young players should look like.