Goodbye Houston! The 7th player in the Rockets left the team was released! 4 of the summer league made 15 shots, and the Rockets cut off people and killed two birds with one stone

On July 14, the Rockets lost again in today's Summer League match against the Pistons, and suffered two consecutive losses in the Summer League. Their core guard Shepard was not doing well. In the whole game, Shepard made 6 of 19 shots and scored only 18 points.

In addition, there is another news worth paying attention to today, that is, another player of the Rockets has left the team, and he is Rockets' shooting guard Nate Williams. You know, a day ago, Williams was also the starting shooting guard in the Rockets' summer league lineup. But his performance was really bad. In the 31 minutes of the game, Nate Williams made only 4 of 15 shots and 0 of 7 three-pointers, scoring only 8 points in the whole game. It was precisely because of Nate Williams' poor form and abnormal performance in the summer league that the Rockets directly cut him.

In this way, Nate Williams' minimum salary contract will be released next season, because his contract is not unsecured now. The Rockets cut him and freed up more than 2 million in salary space. They still have about 3 million in salary space to use without hitting the first hard salary cap. So for the Rockets, it is really a very wise move to cut Nate Williams in time. After all, the Rockets gave him two years. Williams has not performed well in the team and has played for a long time in the Development League Vipers.

And in the summer league, his sluggish performance of 4 of 15 shots made the Rockets management directly lose confidence in him. After laying off him, the Rockets still have the chance to sign other players. After all, Williams left, the Rockets had a player position and salary space, and they could sign another player with a minimum salary.

In fact, Williams was cut, and he is also the seventh player to leave the Rockets this summer. Compared with the lineup last season, the Rockets' Jaylen Green and Dillon Brooks are now traded to the Suns, both Langdale and McVeigh have been cut, and David Rody has also been traded to the Hawks, and after David Rody has been traded to the Hawks, he has now found a new boss. In addition, the Rockets also sent Whitmore to the Wizards, and with the current Nate Williams leaving the team, almost half of the Rockets' team's lineup last season left the team this summer.

However, the Rockets have also introduced many powerful players, such as super forward Durant, excellent forward Finney Smith and insider Capela, which can make the Rockets better next season. After cutting Nate Williams, the Rockets not only freed up more salary space to use, but also freed up a valuable player position. After all, Nate Williams' two-way contract was transferred to a regular last season, which is equivalent to him occupying one of the 15 official contract places for the Rockets.

Now that Neway has been cut, the Rockets still have room to sign players with a formal contract. Considering the current lineup configuration of the Rockets, the inside and forwards are basically no longer needed to be strengthened. The next step for Rockets general manager Rafael Stone to strengthen the position is likely to be their back line.