The rockets' internal players have changed much less this season than last season, and fans who often watch rocket games last season must remember that when Harden was still on the Rockets at the beginning of the season, Silas generally let Wood play as the main center and played with the main striker PJ Tucker. On the bench, the Rockets have been using Cousins as the second center. However, with the changes in the Rockets lineup and the injury of many interior players, the Rockets' internal line has also changed to a certain extent.
At that time, the Rockets had temporarily signed center Spalding, Patton and other players. When the Rockets traded PJ Tucker and cut Cousins, the Rockets began using the "twin tower" combination of Wood + the newly traded space center Olynyk. At that time, the Rockets' twin towers did play a certain role in the offensive end, but the Rockets' record did not improve.
The Rockets have been using a wood + thesis combination in the opening stages of this season, Wood, like last season, focuses on the big forward, while Theis plays the center, and Shin Kyung plays as the first substitute center to play for Theis. However, some data show that the twin towers of Wood + Theis are not very useful, and eventually Silas changed back to Wood's single center mode, in addition to Wood, the use of double forward Tate + Gordon, so that the Rockets abandoned the interior defense, mainly with offense and high-intensity scoring to win, the effect is not too good.
So far this season, Theis has long since gone to the East, and the Rockets have been using Wood's single-center model. But in the final few games of the season, the Rockets consciously took the initiative to put Shin Kyung and Wood on the court at the same time, although the time was short, but Silas's bold attempt also received attention in the game.
So can Shin Kyung and Wood coexist? Silas gave the answer: "They were more comfortable together, before Shin Kyung was just a 19-year-old rookie, his English was not good, no one knew him, but now they (Wood and Shin Kyung) have a connection, the communication is better, and we have been emphasizing communication." ”
Silas added: "When Shinkin takes the ball, he first needs to look for empty teammates, which helps everyone play well, especially Wood. He (Shin Kyung) can create opportunities for others, he can also score, he makes others play well. Unlike in the past, Silas began to assign "new tasks" to Shin Kyung. In the past, after Shen Jing got the ball, he would attack and score when he had the opportunity, and if he didn't have the opportunity, he would find his teammates, but now Silas obviously let Shen Jing put the first choice after getting the ball on the "assist pass" - let the teammates score first, and then attack themselves.
Obviously, this is a good thing for Shin Kyung, although his score may decline, but compared to his personal interior singles, it is clear that Shin Kyung is better at assisting teammates in the game. Shen Jing has averaged 2.4 assists per game this season, while he has averaged less than 20 minutes per game. The assist data does not reflect Shen Jing's creativity and ability to seize opportunities on the passing end, in addition to the comprehensive scoring means, Shen Jing's passing ability is the best level among the rookie big men.
Didn't Silas also mention that Shen Jing's passing can make Wood play a better performance, which means that Shen Jing should do a good job of Assisting Wood and create more easy scoring opportunities for Wood's passing, which is the main job of Shen Jing at this stage. So in the rockets' last few regular season games, Wood will be "firmly bound" to Shen Jing, and What about Shen Jing's mission? It is to emulate Jokic's playing style and become the rocket's interior tactical axis.