After the Rockets lost to the league's top Suns in the last game, they have another game against the Eastern Pacers today, bearing in mind that after the last loss to the Suns, the Rockets have lost 3 consecutive games, and the team's record has also come to 17 wins and 51 losses.
This game against the Pacers because the opponent is also a rotten team, currently ranked 13th in the East, the record is only better than the Pistons and Magic, so in the face of such a team, the first thing the Rockets need to do is to go all out to beat the opponent, after all, consecutive losses will have a huge impact on the confidence of the team's young players, even if the Rockets win the next game, it will not have much impact on the team's bad plan.
Unfortunately, the Rockets, after four quarters of battle with the Pacers, eventually lost 118-121 to their opponents and swallowed a four-game losing streak. In fact, from the score of this game, the Rockets did not want to deliberately lose this game, the performance on the field of play is even more so, although the Rockets in the first half of the game once fell behind the opponent by 8 points, but after entering the second half, the Rockets played an offensive climax, at the beginning of the third quarter not only erased the point difference, but also led the opponent by 12 points at the end of the third quarter, but after entering the fourth quarter, the Pacers first played a wave of 7:0 climax, narrowing the point difference, and then the Rockets responded, But in the end, it was still possible for the opponent to eat away at the lead little by little, and finally reversed the game.
In fact, the rockets played well overall in this game, the team's backcourt double core Porter bombed 19 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists, Green got 20 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, and the team's interior core Wood handed over a large double-double data of 32 points and 13 rebounds, but in the end the rocket still lost the game. The fundamental reason for the loss is that the Rockets lost on the defensive end, especially on the inside defense. Let's look at the data of both teams, the Pacers took 46 rebounds, including 16 offensive rebounds, 62 points in the Rockets box, 42 rebounds in the Rockets, including only 5 offensive rebounds and 52 points in the Pacers' restricted area. Look at the comparison of these core data, especially in the offensive rebounding, the Pacers are simply crushing against the Rockets, and in this game, Wood, as the core of the interior line, although the offensive end is extraordinary, there are 13 rebounds, but his offensive rebound is only 1.
In addition, in the restriction of the opponent's interior line, due to the Lack of the Pacers' core interior line, this game than Taze entered the starting lineup, and this game than Taze had 23 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals and 1 block, shooting 9 of 9, 3 of three points, including scoring and steals hit a new season high, you can imagine how bad Wood's performance in the inner line protection is. You know, in this game, Shen Jing caused several fouls against Taze to make him obviously foul troublesome, only played 26 minutes, if he played longer, this game would have lost the hanging long ago. Even though the Rockets had other shortcomings in this game, Wood could say that it was still the core reason for the loss in this game.