The first round of the 2021-2022 playoffs is in full swing, and for some teams that have already been eliminated, the season has been completely over.
For teams that have been eliminated, the focus will be on two things, for the summary and review of the 2021-2022 regular season, for the upcoming offseason, how to operate, and for the players who have been eliminated, how to improve themselves will be the top priority of the offseason.
For the Rockets, it has ended the season perfectly, in the Rockets' finale, Jaylen Green scored 41 points, creating a new career high in scoring, and made a perfect finale for the Rockets this season.
Last offseason, the Rockets through the draft has selected Jaylen Green, Shen Jing, Garupa and Christopher four young players, basically determined the rebuilding chip, and last season's lack of rebuilding core, John Wall occupied a lot of ball rights and playing time, the first step of the Rockets to correct the chaos is last year's offseason and Wall agreement not to play, the purpose is to train young players, for this reason, sacrificed Wall's trading value, such a very obvious trade-off, indicating the Rockets' determination to rebuild.
The dual core of the Rockets reconstruction is Kevin Porter Jr. and Jaylen Green as the core of the reconstruction, Kevin Potter Jr. was sold to the Rockets by the Cavaliers last season through the cabbage price, Jaylen Green was the Rockets' top pick last summer, the Rockets took Porter and Green as the core of the reconstruction, more to a greater extent, imitating the success of the light bulb combination, so as to draw the scoop again, in the current trend of the league, the importance of the guard is self-evident, is the most mainstay position on the court, the Hawks take Trae Young as the core, The Grizzlies have Morant as the core, the Warriors have Curry as the core, the Jazz have Mitchell as the core, the Mavericks have Doncic as the core, the Blazers have Lillard as the core, and most of the mainstream teams in the league are defenders as the core.
The configuration of the dual backcourt core, the Rockets tried to sweeten, and the dual backcourt core of the Warriors era has proved the threat and explosive power of the double backcourt core.
The ideal is very full, the reality is very bold, when the rebuilding team to the young backcourt players as the core, it needs more mistakes in the process, the guard's growth cycle is the longest, the anti-league aging degree is the weakest, the point guard shows the trend of getting older and more popular, and the early growth cycle and training cycle will be very long.
As a result, the Rockets' double backcourt opening stage presented a crazy bad scene, Jaylen Green's strength confrontation was not good, he was madly targeted on the defensive end, his shooting on the outside line was extremely unstable, he could not break through the inside line of the penalty area with the ball, Green fell out of the water, and the rocket's eyes-catching voice was incessant in the first two months of the season.
And the Rockets also cultivated a backcourt kevin Porter jr., in the offensive end of the casual, crazy mistakes, by the opponent often play counter-attack, no ball leakage seriously, shooting ups and downs are very large, often one step over, both ends of the offense and defense appear to be incompatible with the NBA level players, the Rockets' double backcourt at the beginning of the season to bring a bad look and feel is self-evident.
And when Silas put green, Porter, Tate, Tys, Wood's starting lineup, the Rockets became the lowest plus-minus starting lineup in the league, Green, Porter, Andes offensively inefficient, Tate and Theis were very blocked in offensive space, Green, Potter and Wood defended very badly, becoming a colander on the defensive end of the team.
At the beginning of the season, the Rockets' bench played better than the starting lineup, at this stage, there is the Rockets' most efficient offensive gordon on the bench, at this stage, there is the team's best player Augustine in the bench lineup, there is the team's most creative interior Shin Kyung on the bench, the Rockets' starting and bench show a polarized trend.
In the face of such an incompatible lineup, Silas, after many trials and reflections, finally won the starting lineup of Theis, directly from the starting lineup, fell out of the rotation, and the Rockets' offensive and defensive ends had a certain improvement.
In order to develop young players, Last season's important rotation player Nuwaba fell directly out of the rotation, and last season's important backup point guard Augustine also gradually fell out of the rotation, and the Rockets' lineup gradually became younger.
The rocket's first turnaround this season, is Silas experienced the huge bonus brought by space, and finally opened the mode of space, this stage, Jaylen Green was injured, Silas put up the lineup of Gordon, Brooks, Matthews, Tate and Wood, from the space end, Brooks and Matthews projection, brought space, completely activated the whole team, Silas realized the role and importance of space, Nuwaba completely fell out of the rotation, such a spatial lineup prompted the Rockets to usher in the longest 6 wins of the season.
However, the stability of Matthews and Brooks in projection cannot be sustained, Brooks' defense is always targeted, Matthews' projection is very undulating, and the Rockets' dual-space starting lineup eventually collapses with the return of Porter and Green.
When Green and Porter's poor performances lasted for a long time, Wood's defense has also been criticized, and Wood's defensive limitations have been amplified, prompting the Rockets to become the worst defensive team in the league, whether it is the protection of the interior line or the outside line to limit the opponent's three-point shooting rate, the Rockets have not done a good job.
More often, the Rockets compete with opponents to attack, but the continuity of the Rockets' attacks is not good, and many times the Rockets' offensive stages of power outages occur from time to time.
The Rockets became the worst team in the league, once ushered in the longest 16 consecutive losses of the season, in such a team that could not be defended, the offense had great ups and downs, the Rockets in order to train young players, become a team with no immediate combat strength, become the league's fish belly.
Rockets' change, happened after the All-Star game, after the All-Star game, the Rockets' dual core progress is very obvious, whether it is the efficiency of projection, the choice of offense, or the improvement of defense, the Rockets young backcourt gives people a very profound progress, although the team still can't win the ball, but the sound of Green water drop basically disappeared, in this case, the Rockets train young players appear more thorough, the end of the season completely took a break from Wood, Gordon and Schroder, fully train young players, Garupa, who has been abandoned during the season, has been given a lot of playing time, and the Rockets' vitality has been highlighted.
From the current point of view, the performance of the Rockets throughout the season is very bad, but the team's focus on the training of Jaylen Green and Porter has made significant progress, and the team's sub-key training of Shen Jing and Christopher have also made some progress, in the ranking of the bottom 3, the Rockets can be described as a double eagle, but also for the future to pave the way.
Offseason, the Rockets' work will still not be easy, their first-round draft picks in the end who to choose, the Nets' draft picks, Gordon, Wood, Schroeder, Nuwaba and other players where to go, but also need management to focus on thinking, but the Rockets have taken the first step in a very short period of time, the road ahead is very bright and tortuous.