![]() The Houston Rockets had a rough offseason. ![]() Some would say they’ve still got some growing up to do, but the Rockets should be one of the most exciting, high-scoring teams in the league again this year, whether Howard and Harden mature or not. Still, bringing back Trevor Ariza was a solid move, and James Harden and Dwight Howard are both still there and plenty motivated to make progress on their first year together in Houston. It wasn’t the greatest summer for the Houston Rockets, as they lost Chandler Parsons, their starting small forward, in restricted free agency and then traded away two solid rotation guys in Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik to create cap space for an elite player (Carmelo Anthony? Chris Bosh?) that ultimately never came. It would be a mistake to count out a team with Dwight Howard and James Harden on it, though.īasketball Insiders previews the 2014-15 Houston Rockets. With the West just as tough as it was a year ago, the Rockets enter the season with a thinner bench and no upgrade at the power forward position, which was a major part of their undoing against the Portland Trail Blazers in the playoffs. ![]() The Houston Rockets learned that the hard way this offseason, going from potentially one of the winners of the offseason, to one of the losers with Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh’s decisions to stay with their respective teams. They call it dare to be great, because in order to do so, you take the greater chance of being worse off than you originally were.
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