Beijing time on October 7, the young Houston Rockets ushered in their second opponent of preseason -the Miami Heat. In the end, the Rockets were beaten by 106-113 seven points at home. The Miami Heat defeated. The young Heat’s Hiro and Duncan Robinson scored 24 points and 20 points respectively, becoming the key players in the team’s victory. On the other hand, the Rockets, although the team has a total of 6 points. Double, but apart from Jaylen Green’s personal score of 20+5+2, no one else can score more than 20 points. It is definitely not enough to win by relying on one person's performance.
Earlier, we have made a simple view on the Rockets’ first preseason game with several young people in the team. Now we will discuss the performance of these young people based on this game again:
first from the ball On the team as a whole, the Rockets' defense is simply amazing. Although their defense was not good before, no one could imagine that in this game it would be such a virtual situation.
Earlier, Rockets head coach Silas mentioned in front of the media many times that they would pay special attention to the team’s defensive issues during the off-field training of the Rockets, and they did the same in previous games. , Whether it is mutual rotation or mutual defense on the field are quite good, but in this game against the Heat, they seem to have forgotten what they should have on defense. Judging from the performance of the game, they still persisted in the high-intensity defense at the beginning, but in the subsequent time, the young Rockets seemed to be unable to bear such a defense. Their mutual rotation awareness on the court is still good, but the too slow rotation speed has always left them in a situation of missing people. The opponent can find a suitable player through multiple large-scale transfers, and even in many cases. It's an unguarded open three-pointer. Not only that, but in the process of the opponent's breakthrough,The rocket's follow-up defense speed is also far from reaching the target, and sometimes they just gave up the defense. This is the main reason why the Heat scored a lot in the Rockets penalty area.
As Silas emphasized before, a team’s effective defense must be based on the coach’s defensive strategy, the player’s effort, and the continuity of the defensive strength, but the Rockets are fighting their opponents In the 48 minutes of the duel, these requirements were obviously not implemented. With this defensive intensity, the Heat delivered a 48.2% field goal percentage and a 30% field goal percentage on three-pointers from outside. In addition, they scored 44 points in the process of breaking through the basket. With this kind of blossoming inside and outside, it is naturally very difficult for the Rockets to win.
Of course, as the head coach Silas mentioned in a post-match interview with reporters, is just a preseason game. Your players have met teammates who worked harder than them. Such failure is more conducive to The growth and learning of young people is also the ultimate meaning of the preseason, and now that these problems have time for them to adjust and change, the future will inevitably be better.
The above is the poor performance of the team as a whole. Next, we can look at the players in the Rockets.
As the losing side, Jaylen Green is the best player in the Rockets lineup. However, as the leader of the future team, he still needs to learn more on the court to be better. The most important point is to maximize his role in the offense. As the core of the team's current scoring, he needs to give more contributions at critical moments, especially the night when the Rockets' overall offensive is weak. But in the matchup with the Heat, they adopted a different defensive strategy for Green from the previous teams. They adopted strict blocking against Green and would not easily allow their opponents to attack near the rim. Under such circumstances, Green used more jump shots to complete his offensive rounds in the offense.
There is nothing wrong with this choice. Compared with the previous games, Green also delivered a better shooting performance from the outside, and he also made 4 of 9 shots from the three-point line. Give the team a lot of help.However, it may be precisely because of this choice of Green that it is precisely an important factor for the team to stall in the offense. We know very well that in the offensive thinking of head coach Silas, he has always emphasized that players can share the ball more during offensive rounds on the field. The smoother the ball sharing on the field, the more the team’s offense will be inevitable. Will be more efficient. However, as the core point of the team's offense, Green seems to pay more attention to his own scoring situation when he is on the court, and does not say that he is the first to find the best scoring opportunity for his teammates in the offense, as Silas said. This is also the main reason why the final individual score is the highest, but the teammate's performance is average.
Of course, as a young man on the team, there are bound to be some bad aspects on his debut stage, and the lack of game experience in some rounds is excusable. And this is not a complete shortcoming, at least Green did show excellent one-on-one singles ability on the court. This is also his irreplaceable talent in scoring, and the future is also a point that the team needs to pay attention to.
There is one more surprising point. For the team’s newcomer, Ixam, he was originally a marginal figure who is dispensable in this team at the moment, but in this game between the Rockets and the Heat. In the game, the head coach Silas put him in the position of the organizer in the second team, and the effect was actually pretty good. In the second half of the game, Exam's presence still played a big role in the team's offensive organization. But because the team like junior Kevin Porter and other scoring players are not on the court, even with Ixum sorting out the offense, the Rockets' offensive performance is still somewhat unsatisfactory.
However, for Exam, we can still find his advantage on the field. At least he performed quite well on the field. The team's overall offensive and defensive is more than enough for his organization, whether it is for Shen Jing. The outgoing assists and dunks are still giving Tays a cake opportunity. These all show Exam's role in this team. Although the Rockets eventually lost the game, for the time that Ixum was on the court, the team's performance was quite good. For the Rockets, this is a surprise that deserves attention.
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