I'll preface this by saying that I'm extremely biased, but I think the Rockets are a top 3 Western Conference team next year. Their pre-season projected starting lineup, of Beverley, Harden, Ariza, Jones, and Howard only started a total of TWO games together last season. Replace Jones with DMo, and they started 21 games. They had a total of 18 different starting lineups throughout the year. Putting that into perspective, Golden State's best lineup started 57 games together, and they only had 8 different lineups in the year. Granted, the Spurs had 23 different lineups, but how much of that is a product of Pop's resting Duncan? And even still, their best still got 25 games together.
I'm still very scared of both of those teams, especially with LMA to San Antonio. However, having a healthy Bev is what the team needed down the stretch, and getting Brewer for a full year is great. It would've been great to sign a big man, but I think Jones can have the breakout year that he should have had last year (if not, he's a damn good trade chip). If I had to make a WCF prediction, we'd be losing to the Spurs, who then go on to beat the Cavs in the Finals.