Daily Ding: Rockets ready to take off?
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🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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The Athletic’s Houston Rockets beat writer Kelly Iko joins Jared Weiss for a backstage look at some of his recent profiles and discuss the expectations for the young Rockets in the forthcoming season.
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| 0:42.2 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Ding on The Athletic NBA Show. |
| 0:46.3 | Ding, ding! |
| 0:47.5 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:50.4 | I like that idea. |
| 0:57.4 | Welcome to the D Ding offseason edition here on The Athletic NBA show. |
| 1:01.6 | I'm Jared Weiss. |
| 1:02.5 | I am joined by a Rockets writer, Kelly Eco. |
| 1:05.5 | Kelly, let's dive into IMEOdoca and just all the other crazy changes happening in Houston. |
| 1:10.7 | You sat down with him earlier in this offseason for a one-on-one. I feel like you've had... to Imey O'Doka and just all the other crazy changes happening in Houston. |
| 1:14.5 | You sat down with him earlier in this off season for a one-on-one. |
| 1:17.3 | I feel like you've had a one-on-one with everybody in that organization the last like month or so. |
| 1:18.2 | But the first one was E-May, and that was the most important one. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah, so right off the bat, I think coming into the rockets into the situation where they're in the |
| 1:29.7 | middle of a rebuild and they've gone out and hired Imi Udoka, you know, the sense that he's |
| 1:34.5 | coming in and putting things his own way, putting his own plans in place, he's trying to ensure, |
| 1:40.8 | you know, that there's a culture shift, trying to ensure that there's accountability at all levels |
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