Competing for the main point guard! The Rockets 21-year-old newcomer speaks out: He has been practicing hard! Can he take over Van Vritte?

Regardless of whether Rockets veteran Van Vreet is injured or not, the Rockets 21-year-old guard Shepard has been practicing hard this summer. According to his personal disclosure, he has been increasing his strength and improving his ability to fight during the offseason, and he has not let go of his three-point shooting this summer. In addition, Shepard also revealed that he has been practicing defense hard. After all, he was too small last season, average defensive ability, and insufficient confrontation ability. This is his biggest problem. His shortcomings have been rapidly improving during the offseason. For the Rockets, these are what they want to see. Although 21-year-old Shepard is only a rookie among the Rockets, he occupies more than 10 million in salary space. For the Rockets, Shepard was a very valuable rookie player selected with the No. 3 pick that year. He is completely different from mid- and low-pin rookies such as Whitmore, Tate Washington, and Christopher. Other rookies can be abandoned, but as Shepard of the Tanhua Show, the Rockets will definitely continue to reuse him. Although Shepard did not perform well last season, the Rockets have always wanted to help Shepard up, at least let him enter the rotation lineup.

Now the opportunity has come, Van Vreet has a knee injury and a season reimbursement. In this way, the Rockets' main point guard position will be vacant next season, and three players, Amen Thompson, Holiday and Shepard, are the best candidates for the main point guard.

However, Amen Thompson seems to be more suitable as a forward. Aaron Holiday has poor organizational skills. Although Shepard has poor defensive skills, after a summer of hard training, I wonder if he has a chance to become the starting point guard of the Rockets. After all, he has a high basketball IQ and a good passing awareness. When he was at Kentucky, he was a double guard and a core backcourt. With his stable three-point shooting ability, this is Shepard's all advantage, and at the age of 21, he has been growing and improving.

Van Vreett was injured and was reimbursed for the season, which gave Shepard a chance to show himself. In an interview, Shepard also talked about his offseason training. He said: "The most important thing is to enter the training room and start training, stay there and do all the training content."

, and Shepard also directly stated that he wants to be a person who has the right to speak in the team next season, "this is also something that needs to be learned in the new season." This also means that Shepard has improved a lot this summer, especially his defense and confrontational abilities have been improved. In addition, Shepard has a very good passing ability and awareness of sorting out offense. Next season, Shepard has the opportunity to become the main point guard of the Rockets, and he is also the player with the most chance to take over Van Vreet in the Rockets.

21 years old, he has always been favored by the Rockets. He believes that Shepard's performance next season will drive the Rockets forward. Of course, to put it bluntly, if Shepard performs poorly, he may be sent away by the Rockets directly in the potential transaction before the trading deadline.