Who are the Houston Rockets?
As they continue to work through an NBA offseason that was once dressed in promise and optimism and grand ambitions but is now steeped in disappointment, it's a fair question. And it's a malleable inquiry at that, not one stringently limited to the scope of how it's phrased.
With one question, we're asking a vast number of different things.
Are the Rockets who they think they are? Is there a crater-sized chasm between where they are and where they're supposed to be?
Can next season's Rockets team be as good as last year's squad, keeping itself inside the top half of the Western Conference, among elite title contenders, within striking distance of its own championship pursuit?
Losses on Losses
Last year's Rockets—the 54-win faction that ranked fourth in offensive efficiency—have been dismantled by scaling visions of peerless power.
Call it ambition. Call it greed. Call it snobbery borne from two consecutive offseasons headlined by superstar arrivals.
Call and see Houston's summer as you like. Varying percept ...
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