The Rockets, which had 6 consecutive victories before, originally went to the top 8 of the West in the regular season, and in one or two days during the 6 consecutive victories, the Rockets entered the top 8 of the West in a short time. Unfortunately, the Rockets After only one day in the top eight positions in the West, he was pulled down. Today, the Rockets have never won in the 4 games without Wood. After losing to the Heat, the Rockets have lost 4 straight. .
4 losing streak does not matter, the Rockets found that the spirit of reluctance to admit defeat in previous winning streaks has long disappeared. This is the most terrifying. The Rockets' Western Conference rankings also plummeted, from 10th in the Western Conference not long ago to 13th in the Western Conference today. Not long ago, even if the Rockets were 10th in the West, they were only 0.5 games away from the 8th Golden State Warriors in the West. But now? The Rockets have two wins from the eighth in the West. In 72 regular season games, the gap of two wins is not easy to catch up. Moreover, the Rockets now only have "bad news" and there is no good news.
Such as Oladipo, Tucker and even House are all involved in trading rumors. The Rockets put Tucker on the shelf, while Oladipo was spotted by the Eastern underdogs Knicks. House was also spotted by several teams. The Rockets now seem to have 2- Three people are available, but in fact, the rotation, injury, and transfer of each game to the Development League make the Rockets' lineup incomplete.
Wood was injured and missed 4 games (will be absent in the future), Ixam still has not played a game for the Rockets (expected to be out for about half a month), Martin, Porter and Thomas three , Has also been delegated to the Development Alliance. And the development league just started the season, three players are indispensable, and it is estimated that they will not return to the Rockets in a short time. What made the Rockets even worse was that in the game against the Heat, the Rockets' Tucker and Oladipo were injured and retired. They never returned to the court in this game.
Oladipo has just returned here, but he felt uncomfortable in his knees during the game. He returned to the locker room in the first half and played for a few more minutes in the second half. After that, Oladipo felt really persistent Can't go down,Did not appear after voluntarily retiring. The same is true for Tucker. Tucker, known as the Rockets' number one iron man, has never missed even one game after joining the Rockets for four years, but now the 35-year-old Tucker has long lost his former toughness. Tucker also withdrew from the game because of a thigh injury.
In addition to Wood and Exam, the Rockets’ Audi and Tucker were injured one after another. In addition to the marginal players in the team, Wood, Tucker and Oladipo are all One of the five main players, there were only two people left on the injury list, this time another two main players were added. In the 17-man lineup, in addition to the 4 people on the injury list, and the 3 newcomers who were transferred to the Development League, the Rockets actually only have 10 people left in the lineup.
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