Jason Terry Sees Rockets “Going All The Way”
Veteran guard Jason Terry won a championship with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. He tattooed the Larry O’Brien title on his arm during the season in anticipation of his team doing so. Confidence is not an issue for him.
Terry was traded from the Sacramento Kings to the Houston Rockets this summer, and while even expressing his gratitude at the Rockets media day on Monday, he spoke on his expectations for his new team via Jonathan Feigen of The Houston Chronicle:
I see us going all the way. If you look at the Western Conference, everybody’s gotten better. People look at our team and they’re trying to figure us out. I just think we have the talent. I think it’s about us going out every day, competing against each other, creating a championship environment. If we do that, I think we’ll put ourselves in a position at the end of the year to do something very special here.
As far as the roster goes, when you have two studs such as James Harden and Dwight Howard, you have a realistic shot at winning the championship.
That’s what it’s about for me. I have one. I lost one. Now I just want another opportunity.
The Rockets were in heavy pursuit of landing a top-tier free agent this summer (see Carmelo Anthony and Chris Bosh) but instead ended up with Trevor Ariza as the ample replacement for Chandler Parsons.
Terry has been to the Finals, as have the aforementioned Houston “studs” James Harden and Dwight Howard. What he brings on the floor with his experience, toughness, awareness, and outside shooting can give the Rockets a needed bench spark that was hardly present last season. If Terry’s championship aspirations for his new team are true they’ll have to bounce back from a first-round playoff elimination.
