Beijing time on April 11, the Rockets sat in their home Toyota Center ushered in the final opponent of the regular season against the Eagles, although it is the final battle of the regular season, but this campaign Rockets coach Silas still let the two backcourt core Porter Jr. and Jaylen Green continue to play, and the two also did not fail in their mission, played an excellent performance, although the Rockets eventually lost to the Hawks 114-130, but Green blasted out the highest score of his career in this game, this campaign he played in the 39 minutes of playing time, He scored a career-best 41 points on 14-of-26 shooting, while another backcourt player, Porter Jr., scored 26 points, eight rebounds and six assists on 10-of-24 shooting in 40 minutes.
In order to train young people to directly refrigerate Wall with a fat of about 43 million, the rocket really opened up
After picking up Jaylen Green with the picks in last year's draft, the Rockets' goal this season is to train young players, in order to give Porter and Green a place, they also deliberately refrigerated veteran Wall, let him directly take the fourth highest salary in the league this season 43.85 million, it can be seen that in order to cultivate young people, the Rockets are really open-minded. In the case that the team did not qualify for the playoffs early, the Rockets also directly suspended the absolute main players such as Wood, Gordon and Schroder in the second half of the season, which is to give the backcourt double core ample opportunity to prove themselves. And they really seized the opportunity and ushered in a big outbreak in these games.
After the rotation of the three main players, the rocket dual core ushered in a strong outbreak
Since the rotation of those 3 main players, Jaylen Green has indeed shown his own eye value in these 7 games, averaging 29.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game in 38.5 minutes of playing time, and the three shooting rates have reached 47.3%, 40% and 78.6% respectively, while the other Porter Jr., who came to the team last season, is not willing to show weakness. In 38.3 minutes of playing time, he averaged 28.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 7.4 assists per game, shooting even better than Green in three categories, 48%, 40.3% and 86.7%, respectively. That is to say, after the two have officially taken the position in the last seven games, they can average 58 points per game, accounting for almost half of the total score of the whole team (the Rockets have averaged 117.3 points per game in these 7 games).
Green & Porter Jr. can shoulder the responsibility, and the Rockets draft can consider choosing the inside line
Since last season, the core james Harden who has played for the team for many years was traded to the Nets, the Rockets also frantically reinforced in their most lacking guard positions, traded from the Cavaliers to get potential new star Porter Jr., and then used their own list at last year's draft to pick up the "upper limit Jordan, lower limit Kobe" five-star high school student Jaylen Green, although the performance of these two at the beginning of the season was indeed not ideal, once crazy iron, which attracted serious doubts from Rocket fans, but with the deepening of the season, the Rockets carefully cultivated them. It also finally blossomed in the second half of the season.
And this time in the case of several main players are off, played the all-star level of the data, the Rockets in this year's draft conference, in fact, really do not have to choose the guard, on the contrary, to carry out the internal reinforcement, Although wood, the core of the interior this season, can average 17.9 points and 10.1 rebounds per game, but his offense is weak, most of the time with that kind of data brush attribute, plus he is 26 years old, the ceiling has basically reached the ceiling, so the Rockets need a defensive, and younger interior players, to partner with Porter Jr. and Green.