8 points in the battle of life and death? The Rockets want to rise next season, the first step is to trade Green to help the White Devil

After seven games in the playoffs, the regular season was incredible. The Rockets, which ranked second in the West, lost to their old rival Warriors and missed the semi-finals in the West.

Looking at the seven games, there are actually many reasons why the Rockets exposed them. One of the reasons is that the cornerstone players are not cornerstones and are unable to lead the team to victory. I have to talk about it here, Jaylen Green, the main player of the Rockets. As the Rockets' highest draft pick in the past 20 years, Jaylen Green has trained him as the cornerstone player since joining the league in 2021. However, more than four years have passed, except for the problem of being so shaking the defensive end that has been slightly improved under the training of Uduka (but his defensive ability is not very good, at most he just doesn't drag him down), Green has almost no substantial progress.

The offense is inefficient and the performance is unstable. The gods are in one game and the ghosts are in a few games. The physical strength is poor and the physical confrontation is not good. The breakthrough has no rhythm or skill. They only rely on the first step of speed and the dribbling is so rough that as long as they see him holding the ball, they are worried about losing the ball.

Apart from the technical and physical levels, Green does not have the strong or even paranoid competitive spirit, and the sense of mission to carry the entire team on his shoulders. These two points are the basic requirements for becoming an excellent or even great player. This is true for older players such as Jordan, Kobe, Iverson, and Garnett.

But many times, Green gives people the feeling that winning is the best, and losing is nothing. It doesn’t matter, it’s just a job, so why do you do it seriously?

From this point of view alone, Green is not qualified to be a cornerstone player.

In the seven games of the playoffs, except for G2 Green who scored 38 points in a flash, he scored 12 points in the other six games. G7 even played for 29 minutes in life and death, scored 8 points in 3 of 8 shots, and after seven games, Green's overall shooting percentage was very ugly, and this is the final result of the Rockets' four years of training.

Green, who is already 23 years old, has almost established his skills and it is difficult to have any qualitative changes. After four seasons, he also proved that he was definitely not a superstar of the cornerstone player level, at most he was just a starting player. The comments about Shang Qiao and Xia Ke now seem more like a joke.

So if the Rockets really want to soar, trade Green and replace the White Demon who dares to fight and has better scoring efficiency than him, perhaps the correct first step is.