Among the Rockets' top 4 rookies this season, the player with the fewest opportunities and the most average performance is Garruba, a big forward from Spain. Speaking of Garupa, his draft template at that time was regarded as the Warriors' Draymond Green - a first-class defensive, strong assist ability of the all-round forward, although the shooting ability is average, but Green is one of the warriors' tactical core, the Warriors' glory of the year is closely related to his contributions.
The same is true of Garruba, who was picked by the Rockets at the age of 20 because of his all-round skills, and even Garuba's draft pick was one place higher than Christopher's. The Rockets took off Garupa with their precious first-round 23 picks last summer offseason and Christopher with the 24th pick. But this season, the performance of the two can be described as very different, why do you say so?
In fact, looking at the data of the two people, we can understand a rough idea. TOEFL played in 74 of 82 regular-season games, averaging 7.9 points, 2 assists and 2.5 rebounds in 18 minutes per game; what about Garruba? In fact, he has spent most of this season in the development league, in addition to playing in the development league, Garuba also has a long recovery period, when Garuba injured his wrist during the game, because it takes nearly a month and a half to recover after surgery, so Garruba took more than a month off before returning to the court.
Compared with the popular newcomers of Jaylen Green and Shenjing Rockets, Garupa is far behind, even compared to the TOEFL, Garuba's performance is not better, after all, he has too little playing time. Garruba has only made 24 appearances for the Rockets this season, averaging 2 points, 3.5 rebounds, 0.7 assists, 0.4 steals and 0.4 blocks in 10 minutes per game. But don't look at Garupa in the Rockets belongs to the "marginal substitute" type, but his talent and ceiling are still worth looking forward to.
Garruba is the kind of all-around striker who knows how to defend, pass the ball and shoot attack, but this season Silas has given him few opportunities, which is not too good. As long as we continue to work hard this summer, I believe that Garupa will be an important rotation for the Rockets in the 4th and 5th positions next season.
From another point of view, although Garruba's status in the Rockets is not high, he can be described as a star forward-level player in his hometown of Spain. After all, at last year's Olympic Games, Garuba played for the Spanish national team, and Garuba was also the representative of the new generation of the Spanish national team after the Gasol brothers, Ibaka and Mirotic!
After the Rockets game, Garouba, who returned to his hometown, posted a set of photos on his social media showing That Garupa was participating in what appeared to be a basketball training camp event held locally, and Garouba, as a training camp instructor, in addition to giving lessons to the young players, also signed a souvenir for the young players, looking like a superstar.
Again, Garuba is not a key player in the Rockets, and even he is only one of the players on the edge of the bench; but in his hometown of Spain, Garuba is a local celebrity, enjoying the treatment of a popular star. We also hope that Garuba can continue to train hard to improve the level, after all, the new season center Fernando contract expires, Wood may also be traded by the Rockets, when the time to vacate a few interior positions, Garruba's opportunity to play on the Rockets will come.