Porter Jr. is a controversial player in the Rockets this season, and the team even gave Wall, who has a 44 million salary contract, to the DNP in order to develop him, but in many games, Porter Jr. not only performed badly in individual offense, but also performed in organizing tandem teams. At the beginning of the season, he had almost equal assists and turnovers in one game, and coupled with his previous conflicts with Lucas in the Rockets locker room, many people felt that the Rockets should not continue to cultivate this "problem teenager".
However, in recent games with the absence of the team's veterans, Porter Jr. and Green's backcourt duo performance on the court is quite amazing, look at the last 3 games, Porter Jr. averaged 27.7 points, 8.3 boards, 10 assists, 1.7 breaks 0.7 caps, shooting 49.2%, three-point shooting rate of 34.5%, free throw shooting rate of 83.3%, true shooting rate of 60.8%, if only from the data point of view, Porter Jr. has performed better in the position of organizational guard than Harden has performed in the past few games. Silas, the coach of the team who performed Porter Jr., was also praised, Silas said: "In fact, it's not just Kevin Potter Jr., the whole league is like this, players need to find a balance between scoring themselves and putting pressure on defenders by scoring, and also use that pressure to create opportunities for your teammates." So, for Kevin Porter Jr., he can always put pressure on the opposing defense and he reads the game. He can kill himself to the basket, or he can get an empty shot and shoot. If not, he can still attract a second defender, which will make the team easier. ”
It can be seen that Silas is quite satisfied with Porter Jr.'s performance in the past few games, not only in the individual offensive end of the firepower, but also in the organization of the tandem team is also quite good, Silas performance also seems to imply that Porter Jr. in the future of the Rockets, he will still be the team's starting No. 1 answer, in fact, this is not the first time Silas has praised Porter Jr. so much. But for many fans, it is still not very optimistic about porter Jr. in the future of the Rockets, and recently when the rocket reporter Kelly Iko answered the fans' questions, he was asked whether the rockets regarded Porter Jr. as a future starter and whether they would bring in a guard in the offseason.
Kelly Iko replied, "Porter has made a lot of progress in his transition to playing point guard. His backcourt partner, Green, loves to play with Porter. I think it's more important to make your core players happy than something superficial. Porter is eligible for an early contract extension with the Rockets this offseason, up to $184 million for four years. That amount could almost go hand in hand with Wall's contract. Therefore, the next operation of the rocket will pass on their message. ”
To put it bluntly, the answer to whether Porter Jr. will be the team's starting No. 1 position depends on whether he will get a contract extension in the offseason. Of course, 4 years 184 million is the biggest contract extension he can get, with the current strength of Porter Jr., it is almost impossible to get this contract, according to the previous Warriors rumors to renew with Pooler for 4 years and 80 million, if it is this price code, it is still more reasonable, so fans think, the Rockets will give Little Porter such a contract extension?