After losing to the Lone Rangers on the road, the Rockets seem to be about to start a losing streak again. In the next few games, the Rockets' opponents will be teams that want to get playoff qualifier tickets, such as the Blazers and Spurs, and they all want to get more wins from the Rockets. The idea on the Rockets side is very simple, if you can win, you can win, and it doesn't matter if you lose, after all, give the young players more opportunities, and by the way, you can carry out the rot to the end.
In the next 9 games, the Rockets' young players may get more playing time. In the game against the Lone Rangers, there are some such signs in the distribution of the Rockets players' playing time alone. With the exception of Jaylen Green, the Rockets' starting 5 Tigers did not play more than 30 minutes, and several of the Rockets' key bench players played about 20 minutes — 22 minutes for Shinkin, 20 minutes for Schroder, Matthews, Christopher and Martin Jr. all played nearly 20 minutes.
But the cost of doing so is that it is difficult for the Rockets to form a sustained fire output. Look at this game, under the strong defense of the Lone Rangers, the Rockets only scored a total of 91 points, which is a bit low for a team that is good at hitting opponents with three-pointers. In addition, the Rockets can also have a relationship with the Lone Rangers in the first half, but in the second half, the Rockets were not only overtaken by the Lone Rangers, but also scored only 38 points in the second half of the Rockets in the two quarters!
That's the main reason the Rockets lost. The offensive end can't defend itself on the one hand, but the defensive end has not been able to play its own level, which is the biggest shortcoming of the Rockets. Just like in this game, the 3 core Jaylen Green scored only 8 points, and Porter Jr. and Wood scored only 11 and 12 points respectively. The so-called Rockets' three cores only scored 31 points in the entire game.
The role players didn't perform well enough, with Martin Jr., Matthews and Gordon not scoring in double figures, and the only normal players were Shin Kyung (14 points) and Tate (13 points). After the game, the Rockets' main striker Tate also talked about the reason for the team's loss: "We started well, but we didn't play the whole game... The opponent defended well, we didn't shoot much, we didn't hit the shot, they made us very uncomfortable. We only scored 38 points in the second half, so we won't win a lot of games and we had to score more points. ”
The Rockets' three cores and most of the role players are out of order offensively, and tate alone can't save Hugh City from defeat. In this campaign, Tate made 5 of 9 in 23 minutes, 1 of 2 three-pointers, and had 13 points, 5 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal, and 13 points was already the Rockets' second-highest score in the game. Tate, who is known for his defense, has really tried his best on the offensive end, but he has limited talent and can only watch the Rockets being abused by the Lone Rangers in the second half.
Previously, most of the reasons for the Rockets' loss were due to poor defense, but now the Rockets can't hold on, or even attack, and Silas's coaching of the Rockets throughout the season is an extreme failure.