TO Usman garuba It is difficult for him to find not only the stability to pick up pace, confidence, minutes, but the regularity to be able to play the games. The new blow to his first season in the NBA is given by the coronavirus, which makes him stay involved in the health protocol of the League at the time when he had a new impulse.
The Spanish player has completed his first game out of action. The peculiarity is that, unlike others during the season, his participation in the game against the 76ers was assured. After the double scandal in the team’s previous meeting, against the Nuggets, the franchise suspended Christian Wood and Kevin Porter with one game without playing (which was fulfilled against the 76ers). Sharing position with Wood and having to drop Tate to guard or forward to replace Porter and Brooks, also out, Garuba was a very clear option that could not materialize against Philly, a game lost 133-113. Silas had to introduce Theis, whom he does not usually have, so that the rival, who also has Embiid as the main center, would not drill into his team’s area.
Garuba must be at least, according to the new guideline of the US authorities that reduce the mandatory quarantine to five days, another two games without playing. He will not be against the Wizards and Mavericks.
The campaign of rookie Usman’s not being easy at all. In a young team in which he was expected to have the capacity to contribute, the doors have been closed: after playing minutes in only half of the first 14 games of the season the Rockets sent him to the G-League, in which he averaged 9.3 points and 9.3 rebounds in six games with the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
Garuba has also suffered a right thigh injury from which he came out in mid-December. After that he had entered to play in seven of the last ten games of the team. Now the stop is more than obligatory.
