Hello! I’m Varun Shankar. I'll be covering the Rockets for The Houston Chronicle.

I officially start Monday but will be at tonight's game. Can't wait to get started! Rockets fans — what do you want to know about your team?

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/about/newsroom-news/article/houston-chronicle-varun-shankar-rockets-reporter-21295250.php

18 comments

  1. We already know everything 😀

    Tell Udoka to resign and Stone go find a new coach and offensive coordinator.

    Stone also should find a PG, who can play PR and be at least an average shooter.

    Thank you for your attention.

    Welcome, by the way.

  2. I want to hear about where Fred Vanvleet is at in his recovery, and his role with the current team. I am also wondering what the energy in our locker room is.

    Welcome to Houston🙏

  3. Super jealous of your job! Hope you post here regularly. Would like to know what front office makes of the recent slide. And if players internally feel some type of way about Imes public criticism and lack of personal accountability 

  5. Congrats! Excited for you. Would love to know if and/or when the Rockets intend to have a table-setting floor general point guard until FVV returns. And, if so, who that person will be (internal or a trade).

  6. Welcome and congratulations on the position…

    Stay strong you will see a lot of bi polar reactions from fans on any given night

  8. I’d be interested in hard-hitting questions about Ime’s rotation decisions – like why Aaron Holiday starts and plays 30 minutes one night, then doesn’t see the court at all in the next game. Or why Reed Sheppard is averaging only 9 minutes of floor time in second halves over the last month, when he’s a key cog in some of our best defensive lineups. (citation: [https://www.nba.com/stats/lineups/advanced?CF=MIN*G*30&GroupQuantity=5&TeamID=1610612745&dir=A&slug=advanced&sort=DEF_RATING](https://www.nba.com/stats/lineups/advanced?CF=MIN*G*30&GroupQuantity=5&TeamID=1610612745&dir=A&slug=advanced&sort=DEF_RATING) )

  9. We want to know that we’ll be winning the Championship. Deliver that, and you’ll be our BFF.

  10. Welcome to Houston 🚀!

    I noticed that you previously reported on the Wizards. How goes the Cam Whitmore experiment?

  11. I hope you have a Nintendo Game Cube. If not this will be important background research.

  12. Congratulations my good man. I’m just wondering if they’re going to ride out the season with the personnel they have or are they planning to make some moves?

  14. Ask Ime about his bizarre rotations, why he keeps benching Reed randomly, why decided to start Aaron and JD over him. Ask if we can see more of the JD and Reed combo as it was great.

    Ask them all if they know Gamecube Nintendo

  17. Welcome Varun!

    I’d love to get a sense for what the coaching staff is trying to accomplish, player development and scheme-wise, between now and the playoffs.

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