Against the Thunder, Silas made some adjustments in the rotation, and the team's No. 24 pick Christopher did not play in regular time of the game, but waited until the end of the trash time to let him play.
In fact, from the arrangement of Silas this season, in addition to Taitai Washington now leveling in the Development League, the rest of the first-round picks in the past 2 years have been given the opportunity to enter the rotation, Green, Shenjing, Smith these needless to say, Ethan and Garuba have also played a wonderful performance, only Christopher, he is born to play himself out of the rotation.
In his rookie season, Topher still played some amazing games, once played 30+ against the Timberwolves, so both fans and management still have great expectations for him, especially management, and even hope that he can become a dual guard like Juholladay, but Christopher really does not have that level and ability. At the beginning of the season, Silas was still relatively heavy on Tofor, and his rotation priority at the beginning of the season was still relatively high, and he could even play 15 minutes, but what kind of results did he deliver, the highest scoring game of the season was against the Clippers with 8 points, this game put him on the court in regular time is completely a big colander, in the stage of appearing with other substitutes, he did not have any performance, and when it entered garbage time, he brushed 8 points.
So far this season, he has averaged 2.6 points per game, shooting 39.5% from the field and 23.1% from three-point range, and his poor performance has also taken him out of the rotation for a while, but recently in order to save him, Silas gave him some playing time when he first entered the rotation stage of each game, and he was a complete side effect on the court. In the last game against the Hawks, Murray scored consecutive points on him during the second quarter, and after five minutes, Silas couldn't stand it and never let him play again. Mainly because his defense can't look at all, the traverse speed is slow and is one step over, the opponent blocks him around the cover to leave people with empty space and open hands is three points, and the defense is often humiliating, and if you follow it, you don't know who to defend, so against the Thunder, even if the team led by as many as 26 points halfway, but Silas didn't mean to replace him.
Offense is not, defensive colander, and no organizational ability, his performance is not even as good as Matthews, who has recovered in these two games, at least people are very active on the defensive end, know what to do, and have a strong ability to make fouls, not to mention on the offensive end, basically do not occupy any possession, shoot three points when there is a chance, return the ball to the defender without a chance, do not play randomly, do not do what they are not good at. Compared with Christopher, as long as he gets the ball, there is only the basket left, and he often breaks through to the mid-range position to shoot, the key is that the certainty is not large.
Toph's current situation is completely caused by himself, not not to give a chance, but to give the opportunity is useless, and then he can only ask for blessings.