The Rockets new guard was brought aboard to challenge other Western Conference point men, and he has reigning MVP Steph Curry in his sights.
Basketball's a two-way sport. You need to have skills at both ends of the floor, because other teams will surely attack you. If a team fails to attack an opposing player, it frees them up to concentrate solely on the things they're the best at, and that's how a player, especially a great one, can kill you.
Ty Lawson understands this well, and he told Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski in an interview that he fully grasps his duty in Houston, and that's to take things straight at the West's cadre of star point guards.