The league's team building model is mainly that each team takes one or more players as the core of the team, and around these team building cores, configure players who match them, or match teams that are configured with the team system.
However, as far as the rebuilding team is concerned, it is not the same as the configuration of the playoff team, and even the championship team, the configuration of the playoff team, more needs to be the combat strength, more need to immediately cash in the talent of the player, and as a rebuilding team, you need to give young players more room to make mistakes, more cost of trial and error, veterans are not necessary for rebuilding the team, too many too strong veterans, but will inhibit the growth of young players, dilute the ball rights of young players, rebuild the team more need to help young players grow players, Veterans have different meanings for rebuilding the team, and different roles mean different things.
But a rebuilding team still needs some veterans to sit in order to tell young players how to play in adversity and crisis, and if the veteran dominates and seizes the stage of young players, then this veteran is a major obstacle to rebuilding the team.
Taking the Rockets as an example, when the Rockets determined to rebuild, finding the young rebuilding core Kevin Porter jr. and Jaylen Green, Wall was still unwilling to lower his posture, unwilling to play on the bench, unwilling to change from a core player to a role player, and finally reached a season no-appearance agreement with the Rockets last summer.
And some of the other veterans of the team, Gordon and Schroeder, are better at playing, assisting young players to grow, playing the role of green leaves in the team, with young players as the core.
However, as a young player 27-year-old Wood, has been recognized by the Rockets as a veteran, in the team digested too much ball rights, in the case that the Rockets are unlikely to be around Wood as the core of the team, Wood's average playing time, average number of shots per game, and average points per game are at the top of the team, at the end of the season, the Rockets have a large area of rotation veterans, Wood, Gordon and Schroeder are all veterans, did not get playing time, became a spectator of the scene.
However, Tate, who is also 27 years old, at the end of the regular season, played with young players and was not suspended by the Rockets, indicating that Tate's status in the Rockets is significantly higher than Wood, Tate is in the Future Planning of the Rockets, and Wood is not, on the surface, Wood is the Rockets' average scoring king this season, but as a role player, why is it higher than the team's average scoring king status, the most important thing is that the two are the same age, Wood has become a veteran of the Rockets, and Tate is not, what is the mystery in this?
In terms of personnel structure, the current age group of Rockets players is mainly based on 25 years old, players over 25 years old are Wood, Tate, Gordon, Schroeder, And Nuwaba, and those under the age of 25 are Matthews, Martin, Porter, Green, Christopher, Knicks, Garupa, Shenjing, and Fernando.
Players under the age of 25 are only 24-year-old Matthews as a ready-to-play player, the rest are Rockets training players, and among players over 25 years old, Wood and Tate are relatively young, but in the training of veterans, the Rockets have abandoned Wood and reused Tate.
On the one hand, the root cause of the Rockets abandoning Wood is that Wood's defense is really too bad, the last two seasons, Wood has little progress on the defensive end, no cultivation value, coupled with Wood does not have the core ability, the offense and defense are not available, the Rockets for its configuration the Thesis declared failure, Wood's offense can not make up for the shortcomings of the defense, and Wood's offense does not reach the All-Star level.
Compared to Wood, Tate is more likely to be part of the Rockets' future team.
From the perspective of the draft, although Wood and Tate are both unsuccessful drafts, this season is Tate's second season in the NBA, and from this point of view, Tate can not only show a certain ability in the game, but also show a certain potential and learning ability.
In a sense, Tate is currently the best player in the Rockets' defense, not only the player with the best single defense ability, but also the best player in supplementary defense and co-defense, in the game, Silas basically uses Tate against the core of the opponent, and even the All-Star front and even the guard.
Tate's defensive size and defensive awareness is the best for the Rockets, the last two seasons, the Rockets' defense has not been very good, the defensive efficiency is very bad, Tate is the Rockets player, in the defensive end of the most daring to use the body, and the defense prejudged the best player, when Tate participates in the defense, the Rockets' defensive efficiency has improved significantly, Tate not only has a good single defense effect, during the field, but also very actively help the team to supplement and assist in defense, can be described as the most desperate player in the field of defense.
For young players like Jaylen Green and Porter, who often make mistakes on the defensive end, Tate can wipe the ass of these two very well, but the Rockets' defensive colanders are too many, many times, Tate's defense and co-defense can not be supplemented at all, in a sense, Tate improved the quality of the Rockets' defense, although in the face of the Rockets' devastated defensive loopholes, these are insignificant, but the presence of Tate, let the Rockets fans see, the Rockets defense has the possibility of improvement.
From the Rockets' future planning, if Tate maintains his current competitive state, he will definitely partner Porter and Green for a long time to help these two players improve their defensive awareness and maintain good defensive habits.
Tate's foothold in the Rockets is based on defense, but Tate is not only a defensive player, Tate also has certain skills on the offensive end.
Tate on the offensive end, not to assist as the core of positioning, but in the stage, Tate can really digest the ball, Tate's offense is mainly to hold the ball to attack the frame, under the basket with technology and footsteps, the layup scores, and Tate's technology under the basket is very delicate, used for Tate in the offensive end of a lot of physical confrontation, resulting in it seems that Tate's offense, sensuality is very sufficient, giving people the feeling that Tate is very hard, but in the face of the league's first-line interior line, Tate's tough attack frame, it seems inefficient, Tate's attack still has certain limitations.
Tate's offensive technique and footsteps, to some extent, must have been trained for a long time, otherwise it would not be so high offensive efficiency.
From the current point of view, Tate's offensive flaws are still very large, Tate's three-point projection has not been too good, becoming the object of the other side's long-term empty, the last two seasons, Tate's three-point shooting rate is only 31%, and such a three-point shooting rate for the front, obviously unqualified, Tate's free throw shooting rate is not very good, only about 70%, such offensive efficiency is obviously not qualified.
Tate's biggest progress, mainly Tate also has a certain passing ability, when the Rockets do not have a guard on the floor, or during the Shenjing truce, Silas once let Tate in the organization of the forward, Tate in the inside line of the strong attack, to attract the opponent's defensive attention, but Tate passed the ball to the empty teammates, to create opportunities for teammates, and such organizational ability and passing vision, at the end of last season, as well as this season have appeared, when Tate has the ability to pass the ball and the ability to organize, can attract diversion, then the value of Tate undoubtedly increased a lot.
Of course, when Porter and Shin Kyung are present at the same time and do not need Tate to exist as an organizational striker, Tate's sometimes passing seems too strong and prone to mistakes, but Tate's passing ability and organizational ability are underestimated.
Next season, this is the 3rd year of Tate's contract, this summer, the Rockets have the Tate contract team option, the 2023-2024 season, Tate's contract is not guaranteed, with Tate's performance and ability, will undoubtedly stay with the Rockets, but the Rockets can renew Tate early this summer, can also renew Tate in advance in the summer of 2023, with the Rockets' positioning in the next few years, after 2023 their own draft pick initiative is in the hands of the Thunder, when will the Rockets renew Tate, The renewal of Tate's contract became the most noteworthy thing.