On November 7, Beijing time, the NBA regular season game continued, and in the earliest game played, the Rockets challenged the Nuggets on the road. The Rockets played better than before in this game, and it was rare for them to maintain a good lead in the last minute of the game when facing the Nuggets, who were much stronger than them on the road. However, we also need to note that the Rockets finally lost to the Nuggets in this game and were reversed, which actually exposed the immaturity of this team, after all, there are too many young players, and the most criticized of them is Porter Jr.
Porter Jr. continued his bad performance in this game, he played 32 minutes in the whole game, 2 of 14 shots, only got 6 points, 3 rebounds, 4 assists and 1 steal, while also having 3 turnovers and 1 foul, the performance was very bad. This game is once again seen in Porter Jr.'s shooting choice problems at key moments. Probably because the Rockets want to cultivate Porter Jr., the key two offensive rounds in the Rockets' lead to 5 points are basically in Porter Jr.'s hands, and everyone wants to hand them over to him to finish. But I didn't expect that Porter Jr. chose a difficult shot on both balls, which made people wonder. So now his poor shooting choices are also starting to question whether he can be the leader of the team, including me.
In addition, in this game, Rockets leader Jaylen Green played 3-of-9 in 30 minutes, 5-of-5 from three-point range, and only got 9 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, while also having 3 turnovers. This data is actually quite normal for Jaylen Green, after all, Green has got this data many times this season. But it is worth noting that in the decisive moment of this game, Coach Silas did not put Green on the field, but abandoned him, and at the critical moment he was still on the backcourt of Porter Jr. and Gordon. At the critical moment, abandon the key cultivation of the eye show, let the little Porter go to singles, this is indeed still incomprehensible.
In this game in which the Rockets were reversed and suffered 7 consecutive losses, the most surprising thing about the Rockets may be Tate. Although his quasi-kill basket was blocked in this game, he had no other choice at the time, and there was not much time after receiving the ball. It should be noted that Tate was very successful in defending the Nuggets forward in this game, and if it were not for Aaron Gordon shooting a difficult three-pointer, the Rockets would have basically won this game. We've seen Tate's potential to be a defensive gate in recent games and we're looking forward to him playing better in the later stages.