Everyone wants the Rockets to find another point guard this summer. Fair enough, the playoff exit practically guaranteed it. Most of the conversation has started in the same place: find the biggest name available and worry about the details later.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, New Orleans Pelican Dejounte Murray<\/a> is sitting over here quietly making a lot of sense. Not every problem requires a blockbuster trade that makes national headlines.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Murray isn\u2019t cheap, but the cost to acquire him looks a lot different today than it did a few years ago. A ruptured Achilles and a missed season have a way of cooling the market.<\/p>\n The former All-Star averaged 16.7 points, 6.4 assists, and 5.4 rebounds<\/a> this season after returning from a rehab process that stretched beyond 13 months. Fourteen games isn\u2019t enough to draw sweeping conclusions, but it was plenty to show he\u2019s still capable of running a team.<\/p>\n Fred VanVleet<\/a> isn\u2019t getting younger. Kevin Durant<\/a> turns 38 before next season tips off. Asking Amen Thompson<\/a> to suddenly become a full-time floor general feels\u2026 ambitious.<\/p>\n Murray isn\u2019t the type of player Rockets fans have spent the last month asking for, because he doesn’t launch ten threes a night. But he would immediately give the Rockets another adult in the room- and one with a steady hand. Then you get to the shooting.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The Rockets need three things right now: a playmaker, another scorer, and a shooter next to Durant. Murray checks the first two boxes.<\/p>\n