Dennis Schröder expects to stay with the Houston Rockets. The move to Texas recently came as a “very, very big surprise” to him.
“My advisor is doing his job and talking to the Houston Rockets, and they wanted to keep me for the long term. This year I will most likely stay here,” the 28-year-old Braunschweiger told dpa on Thursday evening (local time) after the Rockets’ loss to the Los Angeles Clippers. You can never rule anything out, “but for people to come up to me and give me a good feeling, of course that’s better than anything else,” Schröder said.
Forcing a title is not his first priority: “I don’t want to go somewhere where I just win a championship. I’m too proud to do that. I want to play a big role there and contribute to that. “
Schröder had been sent to the Rockets a week earlier by the Boston Celtics in exchange for national team player Daniel Theis. His contract runs until the end of the NBA season in the summer.
Good option because of salary cap
The Rockets are bottom of the Western Conference standings, but not a bad place for him in Schröder’s estimation. “Now with Houston – very, very surprising. But my advisor also said it’s a good option” because the salary cap is not exhausted with the squad. Schröder also sees “many, many players who are very, very talented. Where we have a few building blocks and can build around them.” Should some experienced professionals come in the summer from teams that have recently played successfully, “then we can also achieve something.
