Could Dejounte Murray Be Houston’s Next Point Guard?
· Yahoo Sports
Everyone wants the Rockets to find another point guard this summer. Fair enough, the playoff exit practically guaranteed it. Most of the conversation has started in the same place: find the biggest name available and worry about the details later.
Meanwhile, New Orleans Pelican Dejounte Murray is sitting over here quietly making a lot of sense. Not every problem requires a blockbuster trade that makes national headlines.
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Murray isn’t cheap, but the cost to acquire him looks a lot different today than it did a few years ago. A ruptured Achilles and a missed season have a way of cooling the market.
The former All-Star averaged 16.7 points, 6.4 assists, and 5.4 rebounds this season after returning from a rehab process that stretched beyond 13 months. Fourteen games isn’t enough to draw sweeping conclusions, but it was plenty to show he’s still capable of running a team.
Fred VanVleet isn’t getting younger. Kevin Durant turns 38 before next season tips off. Asking Amen Thompson to suddenly become a full-time floor general feels… ambitious.
Murray isn’t the type of player Rockets fans have spent the last month asking for, because he doesn't launch ten threes a night. But he would immediately give the Rockets another adult in the room- and one with a steady hand. Then you get to the shooting.
The Rockets need three things right now: a playmaker, another scorer, and a shooter next to Durant. Murray checks the first two boxes.
When it comes down to it, the Rockets are faced with a priorities problem this offseason. Murray solves most of Houston’s biggest immediate needs. He just happens to leave another one sitting right where it was. If Houston’s offseason starts and ends with finding more shooting, this conversation gets cut short.