Everybody needs an identity. What’s yours? Are you mysterious and brooding? Alternatively, you may be the life of the party. Whatever you are, you’re something, and it’s important to you. That’s just basic human nature. NBA teams need an identity as well.
Some teams will try to outscore you, and others will try to stop you from scoring.
Moreover, some teams move the ball religiously, while others prefer to let their best isolation playmaker go to work. In any event, every team needs an identity.
The Houston Rockets have been struggling to find one in recent years. In fact, they’ve been the worst team in the NBA for two consecutive seasons.
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On the other hand, a defensive identity is beginning to emerge. After drafting Jabari Smith Jr. and Tari Eason, it’s clear that the Rockets would like to be known as a team with tremendous stopping power in the future.
Here’s a deal that has them leaning into that identity by landing Matisse Thybulle of the Philadelphia 76ers.
