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In this year's draft, the Rockets selected Amen Thompson with the 4th pick and Cam Whitmore with the 20th pick.
Will the Rockets optimize or adjust their team-building thinking because of this draft?
Before this draft, the Rockets' team building ideas and team building strategies carried out bottomless swings, and trained young players through a large number of games, so that in the case of young players rising the ball, the Rockets can also get a better first-round pick, killing multiple birds with one stone.
In the process of developing young players, the Rockets let Porter + Green partner in the backcourt, giving these two players a lot of authority and playing time, allowing these two players to take on the heavy responsibility of dominating the ball and handling the ball, but the strength and performance of the two are far from meeting expectations.
The focus of the Rockets' training is on the dual backcourt of Green + Porter, and the secondary focus of the Rockets' training is Jabari Smith Jr., in the first half of the season was extremely bad, the Rockets gave him enough playing time and shots to keep trial and error, in the second half of the season, Smith gradually found a feeling, these three players are basically the Rockets as the core of the team to cultivate.
In the cultivation of non-core players of the Rockets, Shen Jing's authority and status are the highest, but Shen Jing has extremely unbalanced attack and defense, and the offense is the most influential player in the team, but often targeted in the defensive end cup, Ethan's status is second only to Shen Jing, but Ethan's chaotic battle and fast attack are extremely good, but the choice of both ends of attack and defense is often criticized.
Among the young players of the Rockets, the relatively marginal players are Christopher, Tai Washington and Garuba, these three players have relatively low authority and status on the team.
For now, the Rockets' young players are selected with Jaylen Green (2nd pick), Jabari Smith Jr. (3rd pick), Amen Thompson (4th pick), Shinkyung (16th pick), Ethan (17th pick), Whitmore (20th pick), Garuba (23rd pick), Christopher (24th pick), and Taitai Washington (29th pick)
The combined level of these young players of the Rockets: 1 Jaylen Green, 2 Shenjing, 3 Jabari Smith Jr., 4 Tary Easen, 5 Christopher, 6 Garuba, 7 Taitai Washington
The comprehensive level of these young players of the Rockets is not much different from the status of these players in the team, but the status of Jabari Smith Jr. is higher than that of Shenjing.
When the Rockets introduce Amen Thompson and Cam Whitmore, Amen Thompson's status should not exceed Green and Smith in a short time, it may be higher than Shenjing, or it may be lower than Shenjing, and Whitmore's status must be inferior to Amen Thompson, it may be lower than Ethan, or it may be higher than Ethan and Shenjing, the key depends on Whitmore's performance and potential realization.
With Amen Thompson's draft pick, the Rockets are likely to use it as the core of the team, and its draft pick determines that the status in the team cannot be low, and it is possible that the Rockets' future core is Jaylen Green, Amen Thompson, and Jabari Smith Jr.
The core of the Rockets' team building will gradually evolve from the combination of Jaylen Green + Kevin Porter Jr. to the backcourt combination of Jaylen Green + Amen Thompson, Amen Thompson's organizational strengths, make up for the fact that Green is not good enough to handle the ball, Amen Thompson's defense is excellent, can make up for Green's current relatively ordinary defense, and Green's space projection ability can make up for Amen Thompson's short-term projection short-term short-term shooting short, the Rockets' Porter + Green double backcourt, from this season's characteristics and defects highly overlapped, In the future, the dual backfields of the rockets are highly complementary, and this team-building model and team-building idea are more reasonable.
Because of the joining of Amen Thompson, it can also better activate Jabari Smith Jr., Jabari Smith Jr. lacks a play-oriented defender to drive, Amen Thompson's joining, so that Shenjing's future status has the possibility of decline, on the one hand, the current Amen and Shin Jing have no projection ability, the two are present at the same time, the space of the rocket will not be good, both need to dominate the ball and handle the ball, Amen has no projection ability, the effect of playing without the ball should not be the best choice, there is a waste of resources.
When the Rockets use Amen as the core of the team, Amen's defense is online, but the Rockets still have to configure projection-type players, although the Rockets' projection has not been online this season, Jabari Jr.'s status may further rise, and Shin Kyung's status in the team may potentially decline.
And Whitmore, although talented, but the early positioning must be a role player, need to rely on their own to play in order to have more playing time, Whitmore's singles ability is excellent, in the Rockets' system, may enrich the Rockets' tactical play, but Whitmore's three-point projection is also unstable.
The Rockets will focus on introducing 3D players with projection ability and defensive ability in the future, the team projection is generally poor, the Rockets will focus on hoarding shooters, Smith's status in the team will definitely improve, and the Rockets will find role players suitable for Green, Amen and Smith, and will build an offensive and defensive system around these three players, the design and formulation of tactics, of course, the strength of players is changing, not a layer of unchanged.
Since Green, Amen and Smith three players are in a very rough state into the league, the future trial and error space and the cost of trial and error will inevitably not be low, and the Rockets next season should not be based on the championship as the core of the team, more to optimize and upgrade young players, unsuitable young players gradually replaced, to some extent, it is also the last chance to examine Taitai Washington, Christopher and Garuba, the Rockets enter the second stage, already in the training of young players, need young players to cash in immediately, and taking into account the best trade-offs in terms of results.