Rockets in the new season - Defensive victory

Talk about the new season of the Rockets, the Rockets have been very disturbing this season's offseason.

1. Durant was welcomed and Jaylen Green was sent away. This deal directly strengthened the Rockets' weakest hard solution, and also announced that he chose Shin Kyung on the team's future core issues.

2. The electric fan is added to make up for the thickness of Dillon's front line after being traded. The electric fan has three points, and the defense is above the league's level.

3. Signed Capela and kept Adams

This season, the Western Conference's interior armament was very cruel. The Rockets kept Adams and traded to Capela to directly arm it to the teeth, so that the Rockets' biggest advantage rebound will continue to strengthen next season.

4. Signing with Okogi

This is another trade to continue to strengthen the defense of the back line. Okogi's defensive ability is unquestionable, and he is also a performance of the Rockets' defensive label continuing.

5. The transaction takes a very obvious signal that Whitmore

. The Rockets want to play team basketball. As long as they do not conform to the team's team building philosophy, they will not stay no matter how good their talent is.

Through the above transactions, we can see that the Rockets have a clear idea of building a team, and defense and team are the core words of the team.

The starting lineup is expected to be excellent in height and talent in the other positions except for the point guard. At the same time, this lineup on the defensive end is also very scalable. The point guard is still the weakest position on the Rockets' defensive end. Although Van Vreet is outstanding, his figure and confrontation are still the opponent's main breakthrough.

The biggest problem of the Rockets is still starting at one point offense, which is also the most important issue for the Rockets to be eliminated by the Warriors in the first round of the playoffs last season.

The Rockets' lack of good ball holders has not been resolved in the transfer this season.

The best ball-holder Van Vreet is obviously a clear gap with the top teams in the league.

Although Amen has the ability to hold the ball, his shooting still needs to be strengthened. Durant has been more of a finishing point in the past two years, and Xiao Jia is not a ball-holding player. Shin Kyung does have a certain ability to initiate tactical skills, but he needs to do a lot, and it is difficult for you to expect him to evolve to the level of a teacher.

So the Rockets solved the end point problem (Durant) and continued to continue the defensive rebounding characteristics (electric fan, Capela, Okogi) but did not fundamentally solve the problem of weak ball-holding and breakthrough ability.

They can still rely on crazy defense and rebounds to solve most teams in the regular season, but once they reach the more targeted and slower playoffs, their weaknesses will be infinitely magnified. Perhaps they can only rely on Durant at critical moments. But we all know that one person can't kill a team. If they want to go further next season, they must develop a second qualified ball-holding point (Amen)

Expected record:

Regular season: Top four in the Western Conference

Playoffs: Second round of the Western Conference