After previously exercising Tate's 7.2 million team option, the Rockets officially announced the extension of Aaron Holiday today, with a two-year, $10 million contract. Holiday is an excellent bench bandit for the Rockets, averaging 6.6 points, 1.6 rebounds and 1.8 assists in 16.3 minutes per game in 78 regular season games in the 23-24 season, shooting 44.6% from the field and 39% from three-point range. Originally, the Rockets were going to let go of Holiday and now sign him back to look like they want to add another scorer to the team's bench.
Because there will definitely be new moves in the follow-up of the rocket. At present, the rookies of the team have crossed the sea, Jalen Green, Shen Jing, Smith, Ethan, White Devils, Amen, Shepard and Griffin, who has just joined. The young people of the rocket have exploded, and they can't be trained at all. The signing of Tate and Holiday now is actually intended to replace the youngsters. Before the start of the new season, the Rockets are sure to have a big deal.
Even if they don't, the Rockets will have to make a choice at next year's trade deadline. At the end of the day, it's not a matter of choosing one or the other, but maybe they'll have to go. The main reason is that three rookies in the class of 21 have already won the maximum salary. They are the top pick Cunningham, the No. 4 show Barnes and the No. 8 show Wagner Jr., all three of whom signed the most basic five-year 226 million maximum salary extension contract, and can get up to 5 years and 270 million.
And what about rockets? Jalen Green and Shen Jing's contract renewal requests have chosen to ignore, in terms of data, Shen Jing averages 21 points per game and does not lose to Cunningham, Jalen Green averages close to 20 points per game, and does not lose to Barnes and Wagner, but the problem is that the Rockets are not the Pistons and the Raptors Magic. They don't have many rookies, and the Raptors are a high pick Barnes, who don't give him to? Toronto is a bitter cold place. And then only Cunningham has the Pistons to get the max salary.
There is no doubt that the Magic will definitely give Banchero a salary cap in the future, and Wagner himself is a potential star. Magic retains the dual core is the most correct route. The Rockets have too many newcomers to make a decision. The most important thing is that both Shin Kyung and Jalen Green have serious strengths and weaknesses. Shin Kyung's strength is Jokic's general playmaking ability, he can play singles in the low post and can tandem. However, on the defensive end, Shen Jing's frame protection is insufficient, the speed is too slow, and it is easy to be trained by the military, and Udoka likes to play fast and does not like positional warfare.
Jalen Green is a bad guy offensively and defensively, he's a convulsive player. Jalen Green can lead the team to 11 consecutive wins with an average of 30 points per game in March, a shooting rate of 49% + 3-point shooting rate of 41%, or a performance of less than 4% per game with an average of 12 points per game in a single month. He shot 42 percent from the offensive end and 33 percent from three-point range for many years. Defensively, the high-end stats are the last of the Rockets. In such a situation, if you were Fertitta, you wouldn't dare to give them a maximum salary. What's more, the Rockets are now focused on Tanhua Shepard, and the Rockets have regarded him as a cornerstone and let Van Jordan assist him in a few years before taking over.
So the Rockets' strategy is still Booker, they have the Suns' future first-round picks and swap rights, and if the Suns don't rebuild next season, the Rockets hold their lifeblood. If you want to mess up, you must trade with the Rockets, so Booker can naturally settle in the Rockets. The lineup that the Rockets most want to build is Shepard point guard, Booker point guard, small forward Eason, big forward Smith and center Adams. It is not surprising that Shin Kyung and Jalen Green, a pair of 21 rookies, will all leave in the future. The Rockets' moves this offseason speak for themselves. If Jalen Green and Shin had played a performance, the Rockets would have extended their contracts long ago.