2013 Houston Rockets Season Preview

The Houston Rockets are a team that is very interesting in the way that they went about trying to built there team in the offseason.  They decided that they wanted to stockpile draft picks in order to hopefully trade with Orlando for Dwight Howard.  However, at the time of the draft the Magic were not in a position to trade him. ( He was later traded to the Lakers)  Because they were unsuccessful in acquiring the services of Howard, they were forced into using all of there picks on young players in the draft.  That is the main reason why they will have a tough time this year with all the young pieces they have.  They were able to bring back Jeremy Lin along with the fact that a few days ago they traded for James Harden.  With that addition here is how there starting lineup in projected to look like:

  PG. Jeremy Lin


  SG. James Harden

  SF. Chandler Parsons

  PF. Patrick Patterson

  C. Omer Asik

Sports Illustrated projects the Rockets to finish 14th in the Western Conference.  I think that with the addition of James Harden they can push up into somewhere in the 10-12 range in the Western Conference.  James Harden brings a very physical game that will allow the younger guys to thrive by watching him take over games.  I wonder how well Lin and Harden are going to play together, if they are able to play well together they could be tough to try to outscore.