On April 11, Beijing time, the Rockets lost 114:130 at home to the Hawks, ending the season with a 7-game losing streak, while the Hawks locked in the 9th place in the East and will face the Hornets in the playoffs.
This game, for the Hawks have the significance of locking the ranking, if the Hawks win this game, will lock the 9th in the East, if you lose this game, it is possible to fall to the 10th in the East, although the opponent is still the Hornets, but the 9th in the East has home advantage, and as long as you win a game to eliminate the opponent, and the 10th in the East, you need to win two consecutive games to advance to the next round, in the case of the Rockets to determine the bottom 3 of the league, this game, the Rockets win or lose basically no meaning.
To this end, the Rockets continued to take a break from Wood, Gordon and Schroeder, fully developing young players, and from the beginning of the game, the Rockets' defense was exposed, and the experience and defensive choices of young people were vividly displayed.
At the beginning of the game, the Eagles focused on targeting Shen Jing, through Capela and Trae Young to change defenses, let Shen Jing defend Trae Young, Shen Jing was not only able to step by Trae Young, Trae Young can also feed the cake Capela, the Eagles block the connection, exposing the problem of Shen Jing's poor foot movement speed, poor defensive position selection, and poor defensive scale, more test of the Rockets' defense and co-defense, and the Rockets' poor defense, so that the Eagles have to eat and drink in the rocket's inner line, very painful, and such a scene, in the first and fourth quarters, is very common, Shin Kyung's defense still has a lot to improve.
Rockets not only Shin Kyung's defensive problems highlighted, Porter Jr.'s defensive problems appeared many times again, Porter Jr. often took a step by Trae Young, the defensive position and defensive awareness urgently needed to be improved, in the second and third quarters, Little Porter and Trae Young formed a two-way attack, the defensive quality of both sides was not good, Trae Young's defensive quality was not good, the Eagles allocated defensive resources for him, mainly the problem of height talent, and Porter's defensive problems, more of a problem of defensive experience and defensive enthusiasm, There is also a part of the problem of defensive skills and defensive awareness.
Not only did the Rockets defend poorly on the inside and rotate poorly on the outside, giving the Hawks a lot of empty space many times, but they also often made the same mistake many times, being sanctioned by the Eagles' shooters, Gallinari and Bogdanovic repeatedly sanctioned the Rockets' defense through three-pointers, prompting the Rockets' defense to be full of holes.
In the last three quarters of the game, the Rockets and the Hawks basically attack each other, the Rockets do not defend, mainly defensive quality and defensive rotation do not dare to compliment, defensive configuration is not a defensive type, and the Eagles do not defend, mainly the rocket double backcourt projection efficiency is too excellent, the Eagles single defense can not be defended, the game forms a situation of attack and defense mutual attack.
In the case of Kevin Porter Jr. and Jaylen Green,000, the two took on a lot of shots, digested a lot of ball rights, and both had a certain improvement in offensive choices and offensive efficiency, especially the reading of the game, Green scored a career 41 points, ending the season in a record form.
This game, basically is the prototype of the rocket's future configuration, the rocket double backcourt digests a lot of ball rights, dominates a large number of ball rights, the rocket in the offseason may focus on reinforcing other positions, but also may continue to upgrade in the backcourt, after all, the rocket's draft pick is now uncertain, to the rocket in recent years The key investment has been the defender, Green has basically determined that it is the core of the rocket's future reconstruction, the rocket in this year's draft conference, in its first round of draft picks will not choose a point guard, directly determine the future status of Porter Jr. in the rocket, And this is related to the Rockets' team building strategy and team building ideas in the next few years, only until the draft will be finally revealed, we need to wait and see.