In recent times, because of the Rockets' poor performance, so everyone has focused on Green, but in fact, in addition to Green, the team's other young players are also very worthy of attention, just like against the Spurs in this game, the team's son Martin Jr. performed well, he played 29 minutes, including 6 of 7 shots, 1 of 1 three-pointers, got 13 points, 8 rebounds, 2 assists and 2 steals of comprehensive data, the most important thing is that he did not make a mistake in this game.
Martin Jr. is a second-round show, and he still made a very deep impression on last season's matches, especially his vertical jump ability, which covered the big players in the league over and over again, and even the fans sent him such a sentence as "the knife does not cut the nameless, and the hat does not cover the nameless.". In addition to his ability to bounce, Martin Jr.'s performance at the end of last season was also surprising, in the 12 games at the end of the season, Martin Jr. even averaged 16.8 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, including 51.7% from the field and a staggering 39.3% from three-point range.
There are two main reasons for this, the first is because the Rockets have competed heavily on the flanks this season, Martin Jr. is a no.4 player, and Tate, although only 1.93 meters, his favorite position is also playing the No. 4 position, plus the team before House, and the offseason renewal of Nuwaba, Martin Jr. got fewer opportunities; the second is because Martin Jr. has a significant decline compared to the end of last season, especially in terms of outside projection, his three-point shooting rate this season is only 32%, In addition, he likes to jump easily foul, so the playing time he gets has been reduced to a certain extent.
However, in the last few games, Martin Jr. has made significant progress, in addition to this game against the Spurs, in the last game against the Warriors, Martin Jr. also played 26 minutes, including 6 of 9 shots with 14 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals, and the total of 24 points, 12 rebounds, 5 assists and 4 steals in the two games. Among them, Martin Jr. has two most obvious aspects of progress, the first is in the breakthrough of the score of this piece, before Martin Jr. did not have this awareness, a game can occasionally send 1-2 assists, the season is only averaged 1.4 times per game, but in the last 3 games he sent 9 assists, in the game can also be seen, his awareness of the ball is obviously strengthened a lot; the second is his penalty area end efficiency, know the confrontation, learn to fake action.
Martin Jr. is the most willing thing for team management to see with such progress, and he will be an important core rotation player for the future of Hugh City. To know that although the Rockets can use more people in the flank position, but Tate's lack of height is a hard injury, rookie Garupa attacked Tara, only Martin Jr. has enough size, and a good finishing ability, the defensive end is also good, if the future to stabilize the three-point shooting rate at more than 36% level, he will play a very big role in the future of Hugh City. I also hope that Martin Jr. can continue to improve himself and play a better performance in the next game...