"No more wandering! The Rockets' purge, next season's youngest team in the league in Houston" season is about to begin, and the Houston Chronicle published an opinion piece pointing to the new season.

In the past three years, the Rockets have pursued a cautious business strategy, not wanting to destroy the team structure on a large scale, and hoping that the team can continue to enter the playoffs, but the Rockets' playoff dreams have been repeatedly disappointed, ranking ninth in the West for three consecutive years, unable to poach superstars for three consecutive years, and unable to select talented rookies with high picks, the Rockets have to change their thinking.

A storm of change has detonated, Darrenbert and Badinger are gone, Dragic and Lowry are also gone, Camby is also leaving in a sign-and-trade manner, Scola has been pardoned, Kevin Martin has also been put on the shelf, and there is only a group of post-90s players left in the Rockets.

Hoop World columnist Bill Ingram has long suggested that the only way out for the Rockets is to swing, and "since Morey is having trouble convincing a very strong player to join, then playing bad is a good way out."

Ingram's words hit the nail on the head, in the past three years, Morey has been working hard to operate stars to join the Rockets, but none of them have succeeded: in the summer of 2010, the Rockets chased Bosh unsuccessfully, and after the end of the suspension in 2011, the Rockets chased Gasol, Gasol Jr., Nene and others failed, and the Rockets had finally reached a three-way deal with the Hornets and the Lakers, and they were going to get Gasol, but they didn't expect to be stopped by the league, and the Rockets could only knock out their front teeth and swallow it in their stomachs.

In the summer of 2012, the Rockets were still hitting a wall on the road to recruiting stars, and they had been actively chasing Howard, but the hope of success was slim, and the Rockets met with Eric Gordon, but Gordon reached a four-year, $58 million deal with the Suns two days later, waiting for the Hornets to match.

"We're very interested in the top players, and we have a very clear idea of how to get back into the championship team," Morey, the general manager of the Rockets, said, but it is clear that the Rockets are not attractive enough for stars, and the big names in the free agent market seem to be uninterested in the Rockets, but they just use the Rockets as bargaining chips to raise prices, and the Rockets also try to bring stars in trades, but the chips in their hands are not comparable to other teams.

In this era of pop superstars, teams without superstars are destined to become supporting characters or spectators, and the Rockets' construction thinking must be changed, otherwise they will be in a very embarrassing situation like the past three years, where they can neither make the playoffs nor get potential new stars.

The Rockets must change their strategy, Rockets general manager Morey is under tremendous pressure, "We are disappointed not to be a playoff team, this is unacceptable to us, of course, we can't blindly trade for short-term goals, we have to think about the overall situation in the future" Morey showed his attitude, once the Rockets can't convince big-name players to join, the draft strategy may usher in a turnaround.

The Rockets made up their minds to change blood this summer, no one is for sale, and then played the young card, and in the draft, the Rockets got 5 rookies in one go, the 3rd pick is tall and strong, the 12th pick Jeremy Lamb, the 16th pick Royce White, the 18th pick Terrence Jones and the 53rd pick Forkan Odemir, of which the Turkish power forward Odemir will continue to stay in the Turkish league, and the other 4 rookies will enter the Rockets' lineup next season, The Rockets also recently signed with last year's 20th pick Rookie Motieyunas, who will also be part of the Rockets' roster next season, and if you add Chandler Parsons and Marcus Morris, who already played with the Rockets last year, the Rockets have become a veritable youth army.

The Rockets' trade this summer is actually a sign of the Rockets' new team-building ideas, the Rockets traded Batinger from the Timberwolves for an 18th draft pick, and sent away Dyrenbert before the draft in order to improve the draft pick, turning the No. 14 pick into the No. 12 pick.

The Rockets failed to chase Dragic, mainly because they didn't want to spend too much money on him, for fear of being tied by a big contract, the Rockets originally offered Dragic's contract, the annual salary for the first three years was almost the same as what the Suns offered, but the Rockets asked for the fourth year to be partially guaranteed, and Dragic hoped that the fourth year was fully guaranteed, and the two sides finally collapsed.

The Rockets sent Lowry away and used the third-overall pick to pick up a promising rookie from China, Gao Da Zhuang, giving the Rockets more leverage to rebuild and proving that the Rockets have changed their minds.

Lowry was once considered the new core of the team's rebuilding last season, which is not for sale, but in fact, with Lowry's qualifications, it is difficult to become a superstar, if a team has such a player as the core, then it is doomed that the team cannot succeed, Lowry lost his main position after returning from injury in the second half of last season, he complained about coach McHale, and after the season, Lowry even said that between him and McHale, the team can only choose one, and the Rockets finally chose McHale, Because he's a coach who is good at developing young players.

The departure of Lowry and Scola also represents the complete disappearance of the Rockets' "Yao Ming mark".

The storm of the Rockets' purge is far from over, and the Rockets are likely to become one of the youngest teams in the league next season, "The Rockets, who are used to sitting in the ninth place in the West, should change their way of life" The general manager of the Rockets was also in high spirits after getting Tall Zhuang, Jeremy Lin and Asik one after another.

Morey and the Houston are full of expectations and information about the changes of the Rockets in the new season, but the mainstream media in the United States is not very optimistic about the Houston Rockets.

In the latest trade rating released by ESPN, the Rockets are only C+.

Get: Tall Strong, Jeremy Lin, Omir Asik, Carlos Delfino and Tony Douglas, among others

Lost: Luis Scola, Kyle Lowry, Goran Dragic, Marcus Camby and Samuel Daimpoter, among others

Every summer, Morey, the general manager of the Rockets, is operating with the mentality and attitude of hooking superstars, and every summer, he fails, and this year, Morey tried hard to get Howard, but he couldn't even join the four-way trade.

In the offseason, Morey's biggest achievement was to get the "Tanhua Show" to be tall and strong, and threw out two "** contracts" one after another, bringing in Jeremy Lin and Asik, but whether the Rockets' current lineup can succeed remains to be tested.

In ESPN's Future Power Rankings, the Rockets are only ranked 18th.

In the past, the Rockets were either average or top, but now the Rockets are the worst team in the Southwest and one of the worst teams in the West.

"The rebuild is painful, and while the short-term results may drive Rockets fans crazy, it's a solution," ESPN pessimistically views the new season for the Rockets.

However, there is a thriving scene within the Rockets, a large number of young players are not lacking in attitude, and the "seniors" Jeremy Lin and Asik, who have just received big contracts, are also full of motivation, under the leadership of the veteran meritorious coach McHale, the Rockets started preparations for the new season early at the Toyota Center.

"Success is never accidental, if you only have talent and don't work hard over time, you can't seize the opportunity even if it's right in front of you," Rockets head coach McHale roared from the sidelines.

In the 4X10 switchback run, the tall and strong crossed the finish line first, while Jeremy Lin crossed the finish line second by one position.

"Tall, it's you winning again" Jeremy Lin called tall and strong like other teammates, looking at the yellow-skinned Jeremy Lin speaking broken Chinese, tall and strong felt very strange.

"Chinatown that night?" In order to stimulate the effect of training, Gao Dazhuang and Jeremy Lin will have a variety of competitions every day, and today's bet is "eating".

"No problem, I really don't understand how you can have such excellent physical fitness when you eat Chinese food every day" Jeremy Lin is becoming more and more "hated" such competitions, except for a few accidental wins in the first few days, Jeremy Lin has been "losing consecutive battles" recently.

"Hey, Chinese food is the most exquisite, I'll recommend a few to you in the evening to ensure that you are full of motivation"

"I don't want chili"

"Hey, I'm not spicy"

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The same yellow skin allowed Gao Dazhuang and Jeremy Lin to establish a good friendship when they first met, and in this black-white alliance, the two of them joined hands to form a guard line that was noticed by many media outlets, and they were under tremendous pressure, but it was under this pressure that they made new progress every day.

"The tacit understanding of the team built bit by bit, the friendship that deepens day by day" is also what head coach McHale asks of the Rockets players.

After a month of intensive training with the Rockets, the NBA's official website announced the 2012-13 season, and the Houston Chronicle unveiled the Houston Rockets' preseason matchups, with their first opponent being last season's Western Conference champions, the Oklahoma City Thunder.

The Rockets have a total of seven preseason warm-up games before the start of the new season, in addition to facing the Thunder on the road in the first game, they will also play against the San Antonio Spurs and Dallas Mavericks, two powerhouses in the same Texas, and two games against the New Orleans Hornets of Davis, the "top pick" Davis, of these seven games, three are played at the Toyota Center Arena of the Rockets, and among all the opponents, only the Orlando Magic are from the East, when the Rockets will rush to the Amway Center Arena to play away.

On October 11, the NBA preseason began, and the Oklahoma City Thunder faced the visiting Houston Rockets at the Chesapeake Energy Arena at home.