A news by yahoofreeshop:With early training camp buzz pointing to a shift in focus from run and gun offensive firepower to a more “Van Gundian” recommitment to defensive intensity it is clear that the Houston Rockets enter the 2010-11 season with a sense of determination....Gone (for now) is the dream of a legacy defining offseason. Rumors of Chris Bosh’s interest in the Rockets were always tenuous at best but there is no denying the chase of Bosh held a higher significance a necessary step in order to establish Houston as a major player in the free agent market. Fans were perhaps entirely too optimistic about this offseason although few could blame them for getting caught up in the spectacle that was the much hyped much maligned 2010 NBA Free Agency period...........
Still Houston collectively couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed about the way the summer transpired Despite the team’s coup d’etat of New York Knick assets at last season’s trade deadline Rockets GM Daryl Morey for the moment has been unable to pull another rabbit out of his hat and parlay Donnie Walsh’s lunch money into a Rolls Royce.........
However in light of the perceived failure to add a dominant offensive force to the roster there remains an optimism – albeit a much more subdued one – that this Rockets team is good enough in collective quantity to make up for what it lacks in individual quality.......
After the dust settled the smoke cleared and Lebron and Bosh agreed to serve as mercenaries for Dwyane Wade’s Heat Morey didn’t spend two weeks moping around in seclusion playing Coldplay songs on an acoustic guitar like some jilted lover.
He went to work.......
Cohesion
Simply moving forward, the Rockets did what they could locking up Luis Scola and Kyle Lowry, adding the significantly less exciting but still serviceable Brad Miller drafting another glue guy in Patrick Patterson, unloading the seven-foot Australian Bob Sura (or David Andersen as he is sometimes called) and jettisoning the talented but immature Trevor Ariza for the defensive-minded Courtney Lee...........
All these moves point to one simple, overgeneralized but undeniable logical fact chemistry on both sides of the court is the blueprint for success in the NBA.
Synergy is a cliché all too often tossed around in board meetings, but part of the Morey-infused philosophy is the notion that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The Rockets face a lot of the same limitations from the previous year; whether they be Kevin Martin‘s defensive abilities (or lack thereof) Aaron Brooks‘ court vision, the relative lack of experience on the bench, or Chuck Hayes‘ frustrating inability to grow four inches taller. Add in Yao Ming’s calculated and cautious integration back into the team and it appears likely this team will be searching for an identity early and often during the November and December months.
