{"id":2840,"date":"2023-01-24T08:19:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T08:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/stephen-silas-talks-about-usman-garubas-progress-talkbasket-net\/"},"modified":"2023-01-24T08:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T08:19:17","slug":"stephen-silas-talks-about-usman-garubas-progress-talkbasket-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/24\/stephen-silas-talks-about-usman-garubas-progress-talkbasket-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Silas talks about Usman Garuba&#8217;s progress &#8211; TalkBasket.net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/garuba-e1674548340894.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Photo: &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/twitter.com\/Usmangaruba\/status\/1445048978379321354\/photo\/1&quot;&gt;Usman Garuba\/Twitter&lt;\/a&gt;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"660\" height=\"504\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/garuba-e1674548340894.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/garuba-e1674548340894.jpeg 660w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/garuba-e1674548340894-80x60.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/garuba-e1674548340894-560x428.jpeg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" alt=\"\" title=\"Usman Garuba\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Usmangaruba\/status\/1445048978379321354\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Usman Garuba\/Twitter<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Usman Garuba is playing his second season in the NBA. After appearing in just 24 games for the Rockets last year, he has already played 44 games this year.<\/p>\n<p>While his usage has not increased dramatically, Houston\u2019s head coach Stephen Silas says he sees improvement in the 20-year-old Spanish international.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wasn\u2019t even in the mix last year, and now he\u2019s getting quality minutes, and he\u2019s taking advantage of those minutes,\u201d Silas said, per Adam Spolane. \u201cHe\u2019s switchable. He rebounds the ball, I think he\u2019s take a little bit of a dip lately, but overall, if you\u2019re asking about the overall improvement, I definitely see it.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rockets head coach Stephen Silas was asked about the development of all four members of the 2021 draft class. Here&#8217;s what he had to say about Usman Garuba <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EgDRjcx9Mo\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/EgDRjcx9Mo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Adam Spolane (@AdamSpolane) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamSpolane\/status\/1617668944638410755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 23, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>This season Garuba is averaging 3 points, 4.8 rebounds and 1 assist in 14 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talkbasket.net\/158598-stephen-silas-talks-about-usman-garubas-progress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Usman Garuba\/Twitter Usman Garuba is playing his second season in the NBA. After appearing in just 24 games for the Rockets last year, he has already played 44 games this year. While his usage has not increased dramatically, Houston\u2019s head coach Stephen Silas says he sees improvement in the 20-year-old Spanish international. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}