The Rockets and Thunder were scary. The two teams played an 8-person deal, making people think that something earth-shattering happened.
Rocket get
Feworth/Ty Jerome/hackles/Mahler East
Second round sign in 2025
Thunder gets
Novaba/Stirling Brown/Trey Burke/Chris
In fact, it is just a mutually beneficial business between the two teams. The rocket spent about 1 million more money to get a two-round sign. Feworth could only make a substitute inside the team. He Added an old comrade in the dressing room. Unfortunately, novaba took some makeup photos for free. Thunder got two special transaction cases, which adjusted the total salary to about 10 million below the tax line. Their salary was mainly used to buy out kenba Walker and Jemichael green except for the core Kyrgyzstan Alexander.
Thunder and rockets are mainly young people, and both have built the basic framework, so this transaction has no impact on the lineup of both sides. Most of the 8 contracts exchanged are in the last year.
The rocket is still that rocket, and it won’t be broken this year. However, the rocket is no longer the rocket of last season. They have basically found all the parts, only waiting for the young lineup to play a little, the next step is to find old comrades who can really play, and launch an impact on the playoffs.
Different from the season’s dual-core, the Rockets will be the “iron triangle” structure in the new season, and Jabari Smith will replace wood, which is changed to the Mavericks, and become the higher fulcrum in the triangle. Smith’s registered height is 208, but it was measured before the draft. According to himself, he has grown taller in recent months because he is only 19 years old, and this age will be crazy.
Kevin PROTONIC took on the main tactical launch work last season, which can be said to be a full-time guard. In the new season, Jay Green will take away some of the rights to dominate the ball, there are more opportunities to take the initiative to attack with the ball. In this way, the Rockets will have three starting points for attack. If they ignore their age and experience, it is scary to think about this style of play.
The Rockets added three new players in the first round in one breath, in addition to Jamari Smith, as well as striker Ethan and guard Tetai Washington at the end of the first round. But more changes came from the inside line. Wood changed because the rockets were ready to put the Turkish center Shen Jing on the first line. In this way, the Rockets would play very modern.
Starting
1 Kevin PROTONIC
2 Jay Green
3 Gordon
4 Jamari Smith
5 Shen Jing
Substitute
1 maledong/Knicks
2 Christopher/Jerome/Tetai/Matheus
3 Tate/Ethan/hackles
4 Little Martin/Gruba
5 feworth
Of course, it is impossible for so many people to play, so one of them will lose their jobs and young people or go to G League to exercise after the season officially starts.
In addition to Gordon, the Rockets will focus on young people, especially the “iron triangle” Smith, green and PROTONIC. Tate is still an exciting bench gangster. He entered the rookie for the best time in the previous season, but 3 or 4 is very practical. The disadvantage is that there are many fouls. He should practice three points well, strive to become the next generation of Tucker, everyone earns the hot cakes.
Each of the core members of the rocket is in a very big period of change because they are too young.
First of all, Jay Green, his rookie season has actually changed a lot. He played 18 games before the injury at the end of November, which was really Cainiao-like, with a hit rate of 38 percent at 14 points per game, of which the hit rate of three points was less than 28 percent. But after a month’s rest, Green played the latter 49 games, with an average of 18.5 points per game, and the hit rate increased to nearly 44 percent, of which the three-point goal exceeded 36 percent. Considering that young people are the same day by day, he still has endless potential, and this change is very positive and gratifying.
Green has been reflecting on the performance of Cainiao season all summer. He admitted that he was free to attack, not enough to defend and not accurate to the basket. After the start of the training camp, coach Silas found that Green’s basket became accurate, and the attack basket was still full of explosive force, while the awareness of defense was significantly enhanced.
Moreover, Green became strong. His registered weight last season was 178 pounds, equivalent to 80 kilograms. Now his registered weight becomes 186 pounds, equivalent to 84 kilograms. This is due to strict training and targeted diet in summer. He spent money to hire a cook for four meals a day to increase the absorption of various proteins, and finally received the effect.
Green will wear the No. 4 of the school and lighting team in the new season, and the No. 0 will be released to Thai. When he was picked by rockets last year, No. 4 was dressed by Daniel House. Now house has gone to Philadelphia. Green wore No. 4 and got the new nickname “JG4”. Another rookie, Ethan University, wore the 13th, but this number rocket was ready to hang up in the future, because it was Harden’s, Ethan chose the 17th, which was his pick.
Jay Green combed his hair into dreadlocks, while Kevin PROTONIC shaved a bush of hair late last season.
PROTONIC was a problem Youth. He was suspended in school. The Cavaliers changed him for a second round. The Rockets took him in and gave him a lot of opportunities to perform, let him be the chief control officer of the rocket. When we first arrived at the rocket, we could see the unique personality from his hairstyle, with two locks of braids hanging in front of a bush of hair head. He tied up the bush of hair and finally pushed it to brush cut.
We use “reborn” to describe the great changes of young people. PROTONIC of them are reborn. He said that this is to find a more authentic self: “I have another layer of understanding of myself, I hate myself when I look back at myself in the mirror and those experiences.”
There are more Jay Green around, but the data of PROTONIC has not changed much from the second year, but the hit rate of three points has risen to 37%. Due to the contract year, there were more Jabari Smith around him, and the pressure PROTONIC was very great, because he wanted to renew a big contract in the rocket, and the rocket has not said much until now.
PROTONIC is different from Elton. He has no confidence because he used to be a problem youth, so he can only perform well in the new season.
In fact, the biggest change of the rockets was not to increase the first round show of several powerful factions, nor to change two people in the starting line, but in the past summer, almost all of their young people practiced together. This made coach Silas very excited, and general manager Shi Tong said that among these young people, PROTONIC appeared the most and practiced the most frequently.
This was not the case last summer. At that time, the epidemic was serious. NBA and rockets were still relatively strict in training balls in summer. The chemical reaction of a team is not like that of an old team like the Lakers. It starts from practicing together in summer. Everyone gathered in the same stadium to get familiar with each other. They adapted to the style of teammates several months earlier. After practicing, everyone had dinner and drank together, which was impossible during the busy season.
There are 14 members of the Rockets who are less than 3 years old. There are especially many new players in the past two years, but being so conscious in summer shows that the team culture of the rockets has infected them. This is a weak team at the bottom of the league for two consecutive years, but the team culture is not weak.
Today’s rockets are a bit like Philadelphia a few years ago. They are very patient and so-called “believe in the process”. In the second half of last season, the Rockets also put the old comrades on the bench, which made the obvious progress of green and PROTONIC.
But it is not yet time to launch, but I don’t believe that the rockets will be at the bottom. First, their structure is complete, and second, teams like Spurs and Pacers are breaking up and rebuilding. The Rockets also have old players like Gordon and fevers, but they will go at any time in the season. Maybe by this time next year, they should enter several real old players and launch an impact on the playoffs.
Su Qun column