Rockets coach Silas has said in an interview that he will give more players the opportunity to play in these games at the end of the season. In fact, the Rockets did the same, and players such as Nuwaba, Fernando, Garruba and even the Knicks got some opportunities. Silas not only gave these fringe players playing time, but also had more experiments in tactics and player use.
This is also a rare opportunity for the Rockets to test the lineup, after all, whether the Rockets will be bad next season, this is really difficult to say. But this season the Rockets are a sure thing to mess up, and using the last 10 games to try more player combinations is one of Silas's goals. In the Rockets' victory over the Wizards, winning or losing is not important, but some of the Ways the Rockets employ people in the game are still worth affirming.
Take a look at the playing time of the players in this game, wood, who cut 39+10, got 36 minutes of playing time, tied with Porter Jr. for the first place on the Rockets. Rockets' bench center Shin Kyung also got as many as 25 minutes of playing time. Looking at the statistics, it is known that the average playing time of Shen Jing this season is only 19.6 minutes, but in this game, Silas gave Shen Jing the opportunity to exceed the average playing time of nearly 6 minutes per game, which shows that Silas's investigation of Shen Jing has reached a critical moment.
We know that a game is 48 minutes, what does Wood's 36 minutes + Shin Kyung's 25 minutes playing time tell us? Both are in the No. 5 position, and the time they played in a game showed that the two spent as much as 13 minutes on the field at the same time! The Rockets haven't used Twin Towers mode in a long time.
We know that the Rockets' previous main center was Daniel Theis (who has been traded to Boston), when the Rockets' main interior line was Wood as a big forward and Theis as a center, but the duo was not successful, and the data showed that Wood and Theis were playing together, and the Rockets spent more time losing.
Therefore, Silas also abandoned Theis in the middle of the season, but put Tate and Martin Jr. in the No. 4 position as big forwards, Wood and Shen Jing took turns as centers, and Hid Theis. But now that the Rockets have started experimenting with the two-center model, it's no coincidence that Silas wants to try the lineup of two centers again. Another piece of evidence is that Jeshaun Tate, who played as the starting big forward, only got 19 minutes to play in this game.
In order to make more playing time for Shinkin and Wood, Silas had to temporarily let Tate "give way". In this way, Shen Jing mainly plays the center position, Wood plays the big forward position, and the characteristics of the two are not in conflict - Shen Jing plays the inside line, while Wood floats on the outside line to find opportunities to shoot three points, which is why Wood has made as many as 9 three-point shots in a single game.
Tate is not idle, the Rockets No. 4 position is more time by Wood, so Tate took the initiative to transform, from the No. 4 position he is best at, took the initiative to play the No. 3 or even no. 2 position. Tate also focused more on tandem offense, which led to 6 assists in a single game (the Rockets' highest), and completed the combination of Shin Kyung and Wood's interior line, allowing the Rockets not only to win a victory, but also Toras's attempt to restart the twin towers, which was a good start.