After the fiasco against the Lone Ranger, the Rockets ushered in the first game of the away challenge to the Blazers, in fact, this is not a small "pressure" for the Rockets, although in the first two meetings of the season, the Rockets lost to the opponent, but the core of the Blazers at that time was almost all staff, but now the Rockets face this Blazers except for the Rockets fans know Ben McLemore, the rest of the players are almost unknown, in the absence of Lillard, it can be said that they are a worse team than the Rockets.
The same is true for the performance on the court, in this meeting, the Rockets easily defeated the opponent 125:106 to win the victory, after winning this game, the Rockets' record came to 18 wins and 55 losses, fortunately, the Rockets lost more in front of them, opening up the gap with the penultimate and the penultimate, which allowed the Rockets to retain the league's penultimate position. As far as the whole game is concerned, the most eye-catching performance of the Rockets is the list of green, because the lone ranger Blazers do not have better defensive resources, so this game Green in the third quarter of the 28 minutes of the situation bombed 23 points and 3 rebounds of the data, of which 19 shots 6, three points 10 out of 5, is a sweep of the past few games haze.
But in fact, in addition to Green, there is another person on the Rockets side who performed very well in this game, he is the son of the former Yuan, Martin Jr., in this game he played off the bench, in 22 minutes of 8 shots 6, three points 2 of 1, bombed 16 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 steal data, and staged a number of dunks, perhaps his data is not as good as Green, but now Martin Jr. performance on the court is more and more mature, it can be said that he is already the strongest flank of Hugh City 3D. In the past, Martin Jr. impressed fans the most with his bounce and explosiveness, especially last season, the hat was in the league's top five tall, but Martin Jr. has a lot of immaturity on the offensive end and the defensive end, such as he always likes to go straight at the end of the interior, which leads to him often being hatped, such as he is not afraid to shoot three points on the outside, such as he always likes to shoot on the defensive end.
Now Martin Jr. is playing a lot smarter, against the Blazers this game, you can see that he and Shen Jing are very tacit understanding, there are two rounds are in Shen Jing rushed to the box to attract the defense he cut over to catch the ball to complete the dunk, in an attack to get the offensive rebound multi-pack, he did not directly get up, but through the fake action to deceive the defenders to finally complete the end, these are the embodiment of his more and more clever. In addition, in the outside shot, Martin Jr. as long as there is a chance to be vacant is also resolute a lot, and the shooting rate has also been greatly guaranteed, the entire March game, Martin Jr.'s outside shooting rate reached 46.2%, which is quite impressive.
Martin Jr.'s progress is exactly what rocket management expects to see, as one of the team's few full-sized wing players, the team management has high hopes for him, otherwise it would not have turned his contract for next season into full protection in advance. Of course, as far as Martin Jr. is concerned, he still has a lot of room for improvement, such as improving his ability to hold the ball and improving his three-point production while maintaining his shooting rate, so that his next big contract will also have greater security.