There’s been a lot of intangible discussion about the Houston Rockets over the last few years. Is this team developing a “bad culture”? Wouldn’t “veteran mentorship” benefit this group? Won’t one to three seasons of tanking destroy the careers of these naturally gifted young men forever more?
In 2023-24, we’re going to find out. It has long been my suspicion that these conversations will amount to much ado about nothing. The Rockets were always going to do what they did this summer: bring in a head coach and some veterans.
Most of those veterans were brought in to play major rotation minutes.