Zhou Qi’s data is quite excellent, but at least judging from his subsequent development trajectory. Zhou Qi's NBA career is not even as good as Yi Jianlian's. There are reasons for this because of his personality. Because basketball games are not determined by comparing physical conditions. Everything needs to be competed and fought on the court to know. At least in this aspect, Zhou Qi is not as amazing as his talent. It may even be his lazy behavior on and off the court that ultimately led to his departure from the NBA.
Zhou Qi was injured before the start of this season and missed an excellent opportunity to integrate with the team, let alone show his ability. And after he recovered, he finally got garbage playing time, and got injured again. Zhou Qi has experienced many injuries in the Rockets. For such a performance, the Rockets will naturally not give him too many opportunities. Moreover, the Rockets coach is the conservative and stubborn old coach D'Antoni.
The Rockets' entire record was last season's regular season championship, and the Rockets fought the Warriors to the last minute in the Western Conference finals. They definitely hope to make another breakthrough this season, but training Zhou Qi has not yielded results for two years, so naturally the Rockets have no confidence. They can only let him bounce around in the NBA and the Development League. Not long ago, the Rockets waived former All-Star player and scoring champion Anthony. Just imagine that someone like Anthony cannot stay in the Rockets, so it is natural for Zhou Qi to leave.
In fact, it is also related to Zhou Qi’s personal personality. As a bench player on the team, he has little communication with his teammates off the court. On the court, he stood on the outside waiting for the pass from his teammates, and almost never took the initiative to pass the ball. But the state this season is very unstable. Although they have recently won four consecutive games, they almost all relied on Harden's strong performance alone. The team was looking for ways to strengthen its perimeter defense, so Zhou Qi, who had occupied a spot for a long time and performed extremely poorly, had to be given up.