He has roughly 20 games before they need to start exploring the trade market.
As the Houston Rockets attempt to mount a run at a championship this season, their biggest weakness remains their lack of a bona-fide point guard in the absence of Fred VanVleet.
Although there is still the possibility that second-year guard Reed Sheppard could take on this mantle, Tim Legler, on the recent episode of The Bill Simmons Podcast, has predicted that Sheppard will have about 20 games to prove his value before the team needs to consider making a move to fill that void.