ESPN’s Tim MacMahon: Buckets, not leadership, is what Houston needs most from Kevin Durant
During the first ESPN taking, one of the discussion questions from the Thursday round table was the type of leader that Houston’s Rockets could need Kevin during the 2025-26 season.
Tim MacMahon, who covers the Rockets more closely than anyone from the network, had not had it after hearing comments from the former NBA player Markieff Morris that Houston might need that during a vocal leader.
In a prolonged rant, MacMahon clearly indicated it: Houston simply needs buckets and to restart his half-terrain offense. MacMahon’s comments:
Kevin’s Twitter biography During, “I get it and relax”. This is all the rockets he needs. They don’t need Rah-Rah speech. It is not a team that must change its culture. He has made a massive and successful cultural transformation in recent years. It started with the hiring of Ime Udoka and the signature of Fred Vanvleet. Steven Adams is another veteran who won a lot and whose voice resonates when he wants to use it.
It is not a team that has a leadership vacuum. It is a team that has a phenomenal culture. They are hard, they are mean. They need the creepy buckets and Kevin during can power them with clusters. That’s all he has to do in Houston.
For MacMahon’s point, with Vanvleet and Adams which both signal new contracts with the Rockets this month, there should not be any leadership vacuum.
The Rockets just need their attack to make up for their defense among the first five – and if this is the case, Houston should have a candidate in the legitimate championship in his hands.
Enter during, an All-Star last season and one of the largest NBA scorers of all time.
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