They could be forced to sit him in their most important games, even at the risk of not having a true point guard.
As the Houston Rockets fell, 124-125, in their season opener against the Oklahoma City Thunder, the most glaring weakness of their current rotation became abundantly clear: the defensive liability that young point guard Reed Sheppard presents when he's on the court.
Throughout the night, the Thunder's quickest players picked on Sheppard repeatedly in order to collapse the Rockets' defense.