With Ronald Artest, their only All-star gone elsewhere?

Yao Ming, the heart & soul of the team out for the year indefinitely and once All-star 2x Scoring champion T-Mac facing uncertainty whether or not he'll be in a Rockets uniform for all of this season or in the long run as well as being injured also. How will the Rockets fair this season and what would it take for them to squeeze into an 8th seed being that the bottom tier of Western playoff teams may not be as strong this upcoming season than years past?

PG. BROOKS
SG. BATTIER
SF. ARIZA
PF. SCOLA
C. HAYES
6. Landry
7. Lowry
8. Anderson
9. Barry
10. Mensah-Bonsu
11. Cook
12. Dorsey

I say that if these Rockets find a way into the playoffs Adelman deserves a symbol of honor, like the keys to the city from the Mayor of Houston. I project a big year from Battier and Ariza.

Battier and Ariaza could be All-Stars with every good players out ,Go Battier

Battier and Ariza will have much improved stats from last year
Despite that, I am uncertain if they will be strong enough as a team to make it into the playoffs. Even though Phoenix has gone quite downhill with regards to their roster, they still can sneak into the playoffs. It will be a bigger fight for Houston this season but definitely not impossible for them to make the post-season.


EDIT: it is funny how you are still calling him "Ronald" haha

Because he's Ronald Werner Artest,LOL