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Joining the Rockets for one year, with 3 off the edge and 0 appearances in the playoffs! Each has its own shortcomings, and may become the first choice for leaving the team

5:41am, 18 May 2025【Basketball】

Although the Rockets did not successfully pass the first round of the playoffs, the Rockets' performance this season was indeed very surprising in the regular season. After all, before the start of the season, the well-known sports media ESPN predicted that the Rockets might enter the playoffs this season as a playoff. But this is not the case. Everyone has seen that the Rockets finally won 52 wins and 30 losses, and entered the playoffs as the second in the West.

Although the Rockets seem to be immature enough and lack offensive ability in the playoffs, the Rockets' performance in the regular season should be impeccable. If it weren't for Van Vreet, Smith Jr. and other players who had been absent due to injury for more than a month, then the Rockets with a complete lineup could compete with the Thunder to compete for the No. 1 record ranking in the Western Conference.

So, the Rockets are not a mature playoff team now, they are just a strong regular season team. In such a strong confrontation game as the playoffs, the Rockets are still difficult to adapt, but this year's playoffs have accumulated a lot of experience for the Rockets. If you enter the playoffs next season, the Rockets will not be so easy to be controlled by randomly.

The Rockets are now in a strong lineup, with an 18-man lineup full, and even the three players on two-way contracts can perform well in the game. In the regular season, three Rockets' two-way contract players - shooter McVeigh, center Enfalley Dante, and power forward David Roddy have all made appearances and have also produced beautiful data.

Although they all appear when the winners and losses have been decided or the Rockets have been determined, these three players do have certain abilities. David Roddy has strong ability to attack the basket and has three-point shooting. He is a typical short and strong offensive forward; while Dante is known as "Little Capela", with first-class skills in the interior and no choice but to say about his ability to protect the basket. As for the Australian shooter McVeigh, he is a famous player in the international basketball court and a national player in Australia. His three-point shooting is one of the best among the Rockets.

, but these three players did not get a chance to play in the playoffs after joining the Rockets for a season. Compared to another shooting guard, Geneson Williams, who was turned into a regular contract, these three marginal substitutes with two-way contracts did not make it in the playoffs. The main reason is that Uduka wants to use shorter rotations to concentrate firepower and deal with the Warriors, but unfortunately, the main rotation players of the Rockets have not improved on the offensive end.

Although the Rockets have strong inside capabilities and their defense and confrontational abilities have always made the Warriors very troublesome, the Rockets have no one available on the offensive end, which is the biggest trouble and the main reason why the Rockets were eventually eliminated.

Now that the contract has expired, three two-way contract players are facing the problem of staying or leaving. Of course, going to or leaving them doesn't matter, it depends on the Rockets' choice. If the Rockets think they are worth staying, a contract extension will be delivered to you; if the Rockets think they have shortcomings and are not worth staying, they will become free agents.

Although the three of them have their own strengths, they also have their own shortcomings. For example, McVeigh has very low defensive ability, while Dante's offensive ability and shooting ability are basically zero in the interior, while David Roddy is relatively short and although he is full of strength, he has no effect on the offensive end at all when facing a tall inside line. Therefore, these three players whose contracts expire may become the first choice for the Rockets to clean up their lineup. After all, their two-way contracts are only one year. If the Rockets want to strengthen the lineup and make room for players, then these three two-way contract substitutes who join the Rockets for one year will leave the team this summer.