NBA Rockets offense and defense upgrades in offseason

On July 26, Houston media published an article: The NBA Rockets' offseason upgrade of trading signings and recruitment work was completely completed, and the team's lineup has been perfectly improved and supplemented on both ends of offense and defense. If the whole team is healthy, will there be hope for a regular season record of 56-60 wins in the new season?

The Rockets achieved a regular season record of 52 wins and 30 losses in the 2024-2025 season. When Van Vreet's performance was not very ideal, they relied on the emergence of Shin Kyung + Amen Thompson + Tari Ethan and others. At the last moment, they overcome all obstacles and advanced to the second place in the Western Conference to advance to the playoffs. This is the first time that Rockets superstar Harden has advanced to the playoffs after forcing the palace to leave the team. Although they fell to the feet of their old rivals Warriors and Stephen Curry again in the first round!

Rockets are the team with the fastest and most efficient recruitment and upgrade work in the entire offseason. At the same time, they have also received a high score rating of A+ for the offseason reinforcement and upgrade, which shows that both the outside media and the league's internal evaluation have given them high recognition. They sent Jaylen Green away with Durant, and truly welcomed a super scorer. There was no need to worry about no one scoring at critical moments to break the deadlock; they recruited perfect 3D forwards on the wing, Finney Smith and Josh Okogie, and upgraded the defense level of the front line again; and returned the center Capela, who once played at the peak of the Rockets; at the same time, they renewed the original lineup players such as Van Vreett, Jabbarry Smith Jr., Adams, Aaron Holiday, Tate, and Jeff Green. They did have the superficial strength to sprint for the championship in the new season. Can the regular season record continue to move forward? What is certain is that if they can really achieve a 56-60 victory record, they will still rank in the top 2 in the West!