6 points lost, the Rockets turned the tables and failed! Udoka abandoned Green, and he was not far from being traded
The Rockets have shown good spirit this season under the leadership of Udoka, and although their performances have been up and down, they have also maintained a high-quality level, and the team has achieved a 15-12 record, ranking 8th in the West, and has truly achieved a rise.
The Rockets' progress is very obvious, and their recent performance is also very good, defeating the Mavericks and Pelicans successively, and winning 2 in a row, the team has consolidated its ranking, and wants to go further!
The Rockets want more wins, but the strength of their opponents recently is not weak, in this game, the Rockets once again encountered the challenge of the Pacers, which is also a difficult opponent to deal with! The Pacers are not weak, they are the same team as the Rockets are rising this season, and they have a record of 14 wins and 14 losses, although they are not as good as the Rockets, but they are about the same, and everyone has the possibility of winning when they meet 2 teams in this game.
The Pacers are a team that is very good at offense, and they also showed their league's No. 1 offensive firepower at the beginning, with no missed shots from the outside, and the first 6 3-pointers were all hit, which also made the Rockets lose and soon fell behind!
The Rockets benches were still strong in the second quarter, Holiday continued to score points with passes, Ethan relied on his tough body, constantly impacting the Pacers' interior, the Rockets took the initiative on the court and gradually took the lead!
Entering the second half, Haliburton suddenly broke out, hitting 3 points from the outside, and the Rockets were beaten with an unstable foothold, directly allowing the Pacers to blast out a 14:4 offensive and overtake the score in one fell swoop! Shen Jing relied on his height advantage to continue scoring points on the inside, but the overall offensive efficiency of the Rockets was still not high, but the Pacers were playing more and more fiercely, Hield and Turner blossomed, and the team completely occupied the initiative on the court, scoring 37 points in a single quarter, winning by 14 points, and opening an 11-point gap in the third quarter.
Trailing by 11 points, the situation of the Rockets is very bad, and the team is likely to lose at home! In the face of pressure, the Rockets did not panic, Udoka directly adjusted the lineup, and sent the final lineup of Shen Jing + VanVleet + Smith Jr. + Holiday + Eason, and the Rocket's system also showed its power, constantly catching up in the final quarter, and with VanVleet throwing successfully, the team directly overtook the score! At the last moment, Haliburton stepped up and hit a desperate 3-pointer on the offensive end, although the Rockets continued to catch up, but the team did not have a decisive player, and the Pacers used free throws to reopen the difference, and finally won the Rockets 123-117.
6 points lost, the Rockets faced the Pacers at home, although they launched a Jedi counterattack in the final quarter and once overtook the score, but due to the weakness at the critical moment, they still failed to turn the tables and unfortunately lost the game!
The Rockets played a pretty good game as a whole, with 5 players scoring double-doubles, Smith Jr. 10 points and 6 rebounds, Shen Jing 30 points, 16 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals, Eason 16 points, Holiday 15 points, and VanVleet 18 points and 9 assists!
Losing to the Pacers can be said to expose all the problems of the Rockets, there is no absolute offensive core, and there is no reliable offensive core, which is the root cause of the team's delay in going further.
Green played 19 minutes in this game, and the result was 2 of 7, only scoring 7 points, insisting on singles on the offensive end, and the offensive efficiency was very low, and the defensive end became a breakthrough, allowing the opponent to score all kinds of points, and the plus/minus on the court was also as low as -19, the lowest in the game, so Udoka directly hid Green in the final quarter and didn't let him play for a minute, the Rocket's rising star, and it was time to be traded.
When Green encounters the current crisis, he really doesn't blame others, only himself! When he debuted, Green was full of talent, known as the upper limit Jordan, the lower limit Kobe! But what about the result? Green, who is now in the third grade, has no rules on offense, has a lot of offensive means, but he is not proficient, the offensive efficiency is very low, the passing and organizational skills are also very poor, coupled with the inferior defense, his performance on the court is very bad, and it is also a wise choice for the Rockets to give up on him.