After Harden left, the Rockets' record plummeted! The Rockets have also quickly adjusted from a championship-fighting mode to a rebuilding mode, and now that the season is more than halfway through, the Rockets are in second-to-last place in the league, and the record is directly catching up with the worst Timberwolves! Although the record is bad, but this season's Rockets are not completely without gains, at the beginning of the season, the Rockets signed Jeshaun Tate for the Rockets brought a lot of surprises, today, we will get to know the young man who succeeded PJ Tucker!
Name: Jae'Sean Tate
Birthday: 1995-10-28
Height: 1.93 m / 6 ft 4
Weight: 104 kg / 230 lbs
Tate graduated from Ohio State University, played in college for four years, participated in the NBA Draft in 2018, and finally regretted not being selected!
It is also true to say that Tate succeeded PJ Tucker, who not only has the same attributes as Tucker, but is short, defensive, and has a career experience similar to Tucker's. Tucker was selected by the Raptors in the second round of the draft that year, but when he did not have the opportunity to play in the team, he turned to overseas development, played an excellent performance overseas to attract the attention of NBA teams, and then returned to the NBA!
And Tate's situation is a little more miserable than PJ Tucker, the draft was simply not selected, the draft ended, the Milwaukee Bucks finally contacted Tate and let Tate participate in the summer league, however, unfortunately, Tate's finger fractured, and after recovering from the injury, the NBA has no Tate's position, in order to survive, Tate chose to go overseas to play, in the 2018-19 season, joined the Antwerp Giants of the Belgian League, it is also in the Antwerp Giants, Tate's height and poor outside shooting shortcomings were exposed, so Tate began to train shooting like crazy, but the inside technique was always an important scoring tool for him, and at the end of the season, Tate still handed over a good report card of 12.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 1.5 assists per game.
In the subsequent 2019-20 season, Tate joined the Sydney Kings in Australia, where he became a teammate with Bogut, and was able to compete with tori Craig (now the Suns), Lamelo Ball (2020 Flower Hunt), RJ Hampton (24 rookies in the first round of 2020), and in the Sydney Kings' year, Tate averaged 16.4 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2 assists per game, and improved his three-point shooting rate to 40.5%. He was named to the league's season first team.
It was precisely because of this performance that it attracted the attention of the Rockets and put Tate on a 4-year, $4.75 million contract before the start of the 20-21 season!
Tate, who came to the Rockets, did not disappoint the Rockets, in the Rockets' broken season, Tate became one of the few bright spots, after playing 12 games on the bench at the beginning of the season, Tate sat on the starting lineup, the court performance is getting better and better, so far this season, 55 games, in the average 28.8 minutes per game can get 10.9 points, 5.4 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.2 steals 0.6 blocks, shooting 51.7%, three-point shooting rate of 30.8%, Tate is always the most active on the court, the hardest player, the card position to grab rebounds, assist defense, cover, Tate can always appear in the right position on the court, never random shots, although not tall, but strong enough, the strong play under the basket is a must, you can hardly imagine only 1.93 meters of Tate than Celtic Smart, Thunder Dolt heavier, and the Warriors' Drummond Green weight is the same, is not a little scary?
It can only be said that the Rockets have found a treasure, and Tate has no great possibility of becoming an All-Star in the future, but he will definitely become a quality role player!
There is a very popular saying on the Internet: "People who work hard will not have bad luck!" Tate also fulfilled his NBA dream in the same "curve to save the country" way as Tucker!
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