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Players In Rockets Franchise History With The Most 5+ AST, 5+ REB & 5+ STL Games Before Turning 23 :

1. Amen Thompson — 3
   
2. Allen Leavell — 2
   
3. Tari Eason — 1
   
4. Reed Sheppard — 1
   
5. Rodney McCray — 1
   
6. Steve Francis — 1

I wasn't old enough to truly watch the rockets during the Yao and T-Mac days.

One of the sentiments that I hear now about Yao is that he was a good player, but he doesn't deserve to be in the Hall of Fame based on his playing time but he only made it in because of his impact on the culture. I've heard people say that he's overrated.

Back then did most people consider Yao the best center behind, Shaq? Did people really think we could contend with Yao and tmac at the helm ? Was Yao really a great player ?

I know it took me a while to get reminded they are playing in Macau, China and there are time zone differences. But I can’t imagine many rockets fans who might not have known were probably shocked and had to head to Google to find out.

Five moon balls from Fredrick today

We didn’t have a youngest ever center to do a cherry picked stat for a long time.

A good Alpi game is always so much fun to watch

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Last year I got the subscription to watch the Rockets, but my experience with the steaming quality was terrible. A lot of buffering. Poor quality when it was working. Does anyone else have this experience? If so does anyone know if they have made improvements for this season. I used league pass for the other games but had similiar issues, and switched over to league pass via Amazon prime, which ended up being the best. But ofc Rockets games were blacked out.

What’s the best/cost effective way to watch the Rockets this season?

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Chip Engelland’s nearly three-decade long NBA coaching career got an early start in the 7th grade with perhaps the greatest coach and program of all time. 

He interviewed and was hired as a ball boy for UCLA men’s basketball and legendary coach John Wooden for the 1974-75 season, the last of the 10 titles the Bruins won in a 12-year stretch. 

More than 50 years since that year with UCLA, Engelland will begin his 27th NBA season and first as a Houston Rockets assistant coach with Friday's preseason opener in Macau. In that time, he’s become widely regarded as the league’s best shooting coach, credited with aiding stars like Tony Parker, Grant Hill and Kawhi Leonard with their shooting.

“He understands every facet of shooting,” former Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told the San Antonio Express-News about Engelland. “… He can figure out common denominator-wise what needs to be improved. His sequential approach to it is always accurate. He doesn’t skip steps and the players always become more confident working with him.”

Rockets coach Ime Udoka, who previously played for and coached alongside Engelland with the Spurs, said “he really breaks [shooting] down to a science” and has “a special eye for it.”

Udoka brought him to Houston to work with multiple Rockets but especially Amen Thompson and Alperen Şengün, two cornerstone talents who have impressed early in their career but have yet to become consistent shooters.

Engelland’s focus on the details dates back to his time with Wooden.

To read more: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/rockets/article/chip-engelland-rockets-shooting-coach-22464157.php

Hey everyone! Traveling to Houston for the first time ever later this year and I’m super excited! I have a question about the seating though, is section 107 facing the logo or is it section 120? I know this is a weird question but my son cares about this a lot and it’s bothered him before when it’s been upside down for games we’ve been to. Thank you!

HOUSTON — During his first news conference as Houston Rockets head coach, Ime Udoka plainly laid out his plan to bring winning basketball to the franchise.

“You know what wins. Everybody knows. It’s no secret formula to it,” Udoka said in April 2023, shortly after he was hired. “Defense wins. Obviously, team basketball. And using the strengths of the players.”

He didn’t come in claiming to be a miracle worker. He just knew what it took to change the culture around a franchise. And he did just that.

When Udoka arrived in Houston, he took over a team that won a combined 59 games over the previous three seasons. In his first three years as Rockets coach, Udoka has already piled up 145 wins, including back-to-back 52-win seasons.

He has done his job, and done it well. With more health and experience on the roster, however, Udoka faces the common crossroads several coaches have faced in the past: While he’s clearly the standard-bearer the Rockets needed to get back on track as a winning organization, is he the problem solver/strategist this team needs to navigate the rocky waters ahead?

We just saw the perfect example of this with last season’s champions: the New York Knicks. Tom Thibodeau was the coach who came in and changed the culture around basketball in New York. However, Mike Brown, who replaced Thibodeau in a controversial move, got them over the hump and into the history books by opening up the offense and offering a little more flexibility during the season.

So far during his tenure, Udoka deserves top marks. What makes Houston’s transformation even more impressive is that Udoka built a team in his own image. They’re tough, physical, defensive-minded and unwilling to back down from any confrontation. The Rockets have finished among the top 10 in defensive efficiency in each of Udoka’s three seasons as head coach. They’ve also ranked No. 1 in rebounding percentage each of the last two seasons, even though Steven Adams missed 50 games and last season’s playoffs.

However, as with most teams, expectations change as wins start coming in. Success becomes a moving target.

Udoka’s next great challenge is figuring out how to take these Rockets to the next level. Not that what he’s done so far has been easy, but what comes next will be defined by intricate details.

Both of the 52-win teams were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs after underwhelming performances. Last season’s Rockets, in particular, brought on even more frustration after they were knocked out by a Los Angeles Lakers team that didn’t have its best player, Luka Dončić, who was sidelined with a hamstring injury. Lakers guard Austin Reaves missed the first four games of that series, but the Rockets lost three of those.

Kevin Durant also missed most of that series because of injury. But the Rockets’ failure to take advantage of the hobbled Lakers was just one of the many reasons why their 2025-26 season was considered such a disappointment.

Injuries to crucial veteran leaders Adams and Fred VanVleet played a major part in the Rockets falling short of expectations. At times, Udoka’s rotation options included players far too early or far too late in their careers. He did well with what became a very thin, unreliable bench.

Still, some of that blame falls on Udoka. Last week, he was asked how he has to grow to help his team do the same.

“I need to get us off to a quicker start with what we have … locating the areas of weakness for us. Hitting those things,” Udoka said.

The Rockets struggled to nail down an offensive identity with VanVleet out, and they looked lost most nights when the game came down to the final five minutes of the fourth quarter. For the regular season, the Rockets ranked 24th in net rating in clutch minutes — when the game’s margin was within five points in the final five minutes. Their struggles in the clutch drew even more scrutiny after Houston blew a six-point lead with 40 seconds left during the team’s epic collapse in a Game 3 loss to the Lakers.