{"id":332003,"date":"2025-10-10T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/332003\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T00:13:10","slug":"rockets-2025-2026-nba-player-previews-jaesean-tate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/332003\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockets 2025-2026 NBA player previews: Jae\u2019Sean Tate"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the injury to Fred VanVleet has been rightfully in the preseason headlines, there are some more under the radar injuries the Houston Rockets are dealing with, including the longest-tenured Rocket, the 6-foot 4-inch combo forward out of Ohio State, Jae\u2019Sean Tate.<\/p>\n

Jae\u2019Sean has dealt with injuries often during his Rockets career, but when he\u2019s been available, he has been a model of consistency. You know what you\u2019re going to get from Jae\u2019Sean Tate. Ime Udoka will not ever have to bench Tate for not giving consistent effort, you will never see Tate complaining about not getting playing time. He had the opportunity to leave the Rockets in free agency but decided he wanted to see the journey through to it\u2019s completion, which he hopes, along with the rest of us, will culminate in an NBA championship. He is the ultimate \u201cIme Udoka Guy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Jae\u2019Sean\u2019s career production looks very close to one of the newest Rockets, Josh Okogie<\/a>. Averaging 8.3 points-per-game, 2.3 rebounds, shooting 47.3 percent from the field including 34.8 percent from the three-point line. Similar to Okogie, his defense is his superpower so there is always a chance he is going to find his way onto the court. The depth of the team likely means that Tate will again be the captain of the \u201cStay Ready Crew\u201d, and Rockets fans couldn\u2019t ask for a better player to be in that position for the price that Tate commands.<\/p>\n

The key to Tate being a contributor to the Rockets aspiration of a championship, as always, is going to depend on his health. If he can stay healthy, then he will have opportunities. Kevin Durant hasn\u2019t played 82 games in a season since 2010. Inevitably, there will be other injuries that open up minutes for Tate and that\u2019s why having him on the roster is such a luxury. So, if you happen to be reading this Jae\u2019Sean\u2026 take your vitamins, drink your protein shakes, and stretch a lot\u2026 maybe some Pilates? Stay ready young man, we got a trophy to win!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the injury to Fred VanVleet has been rightfully in the preseason headlines, there are some more under…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3794],"tags":[7,292,194,4066,6,211,50495],"class_list":{"0":"post-332003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-rockets","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-rockets","11":"tag-houstonrockets","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-rockets","14":"tag-rockets-training-camp-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115346985121295929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}