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ANALYSIS: I'm writing this post mere hours after Houston made it official: Danuel House is no longer a Rocket after the official NASA Franchise cut him for good to make room for Matthews on a proper, no-two-way deal to become a full-time Rock going forward. Good news for a Garrison Mathews and his upside, as you don't go cutting fools in the middle of the strongest COVID wave in a while.
Mathews debuted as late as Nov. 15 playing just 15 minutes. He already put on a nice 7-1-1 line. Since then, he's played 15 more games and even better he has started all last 11 matches played by Houston through Friday at the SG position. Seriously. The Rockets didn't lose a single game Mathews had started until last Friday when they dropped one to the Nets. That's bonkers but not just a coincidence, believe me.
As a starter, Mathews has been able to average a fantastic 14.5 PPG (3.0 3PM a game in that span), 3.8 RPG, and almost one steal a pop. The dimes are just nonexistent, so that hurts. But at least he's making up for that blemish with the super low turnovers and some great shooting--keep an eye on that, though, as he's on a very deep slum through the past week of play shooting a measly 21.7% on 8 FGA since Dec. 11. Barring that little bump on his road, Matthews is hitting 41.7% of his shots as a starter, has gone to the charity stripe in all last nine games, and he's hitting freebies at an 84.8% clip (29-for-34 in December).
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