On March 6, Beijing time, the NBA regular season Rockets sat at home to face the Spurs. The first three quarters of this Texas Civil War were very close, and the Rockets only led by 3 points at 80:77 in the third quarter. In the final quarter of the decisive battle, Whitmore pulled the trigger, threw himself and grabbed himself, shot in the middle of the basket, attacked under the basket, made up the basket, dunked violently, and stealed, and used all kinds of ** in the toolbox almost all over, omnipotent, bombarded indiscriminately, slashed 12 points in a single quarter, and defeated the Spurs' surprise soldiers 114:101 into the Rockets.
In this game, Whitmore played 20 minutes, shot 9 of 16, including 1 of 4 three-pointers, handed over 19 points, 8 rebounds (4 frontcourt rebounds), 1 assist and 1 steal, and only 1 turnover. After the game, Shen Jing ranked first in the United States with 45 points, 16 rebounds, 3 assists and 5 steals, while Whitmore was on the list as the second, you must know that the young man is only the No. 20 rookie in 2023, and Wembanyama, the champion of the same year, only got 10 points, 11 rebounds and 7 blocks.
After the All-Star break, Whitmore's stats dropped significantly, and he was suspected of hitting the "rookie wall". However, the young man did not believe in evil, played only 20 minutes on the whole game, and the playing time was distributed at the end of the quarter and the connecting period, the time was chopped very hard, and few "rookie" players played such a scoring force in such a short and scattered time, but Whitmore did it.
With 1:58 left in the first quarter, Whitmore came off the bench and scored 3 points with an assist from Holiday as soon as he came up, and the data showed that Whitmore shot 48% of three-pointers this season, ranking first on the Rockets. He was able to dunk and end without a shot, and Whitmore missed a three-point shot in the second quarter, fully demonstrating the boy's excellent athleticism and explosive physical fitness. At the end of the third quarter, Whitmore received an assist from VanVleet and went straight to the basket in the middle and scored a dunk.
In the fourth quarter, Whitmore opened with an 8:4 small climax to help the Rockets lead the Spurs by 9 points at 90:81. Johnson teamed up with Vassell to play a 7:2 small climax to help the Spurs eat away the score to only 4 points, at this time the most amazing goal of the game appeared, when Shen Jing received a pass from Van Vleet in the penalty area, Shen Jing passed the unmarked Whitmore, and the young man almost flattened the basket and dunked four shocks. And that's not all, after that, Whitmore steals Vassell's pass and completes the one-arm split.