ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Timberwolves 4/21/2018 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 3)

A team that can beat a healthy Warriors in 7 can **** on a team that plays "inspired".

 

LOL 29 points with best BPM in the team and it's still his fault

guess how much he's averaging in pts and assists this playoffs?

 

Who’s worse ...

Playoff Paul or Harden?

I.d.i.o.t

 

That tells me he hasn't changed as a leader. He wanted the glory if a comeback came to fruition. I blame MDA as well. You milk the hot hand. Dumb basketball and no passion = loss. MDA needs to actually coach and make some adjustments.

 

They were taking away Clint, Harden should have taken all those mid range jumpers they were giving him.

 

Did that 2014 Spurs team have to go through "the greatest team ever assembled" .

Jesus Christ people forget the jaugernaught that we have to eventually face.

 

such a weird game.

no rockets player could stay in front of their man. cp3, ariza, tucker, gordon, green.

not many times this season the rockets looked so helpless on defense.

 

Dude, the Twolves were a very good offensive team this season. Defensively, yes they sucked, but offensively they were pretty damn good. Obviously tonight, they were off the wall with the three point shooting, but I never thought we would dominate them. Twolves are much better than their seed indicates, they just got bit by the injury bug at the wrong time of the season.

 

The Rockets haven't all played well together for a month, 120 points was normal, Rockets are barely making it to 100. Luc needs to play PF, C at times to stretch the floor give Ariza less minutes, regardless of Luc injury

 

Sooooo .. . if the Warriors lose 1 game .. . . . .you will **** on them too?

Rocket River

 

Jazz coming out like Minny.

 

everybody wanted to disrespect Minnie... but they have some talent... I figured it was just a matter of when the youngsters put it all together and gelled... I was hoping it was still a season or two away...
I'm sure we'll rebound and make a gentlemens sweep of the series - but the timberpuppies could be formidable down the road...

 

Thats why i said its exploitable in a 7 games series. In the first two games when we switched, the Wolves went away from KAT and isoed the guards instead. Which was really stupid. They finally figured out that whenever they have a mismatch in the post, we double immediately. Sure they probably arent going to be shooting 57% from 3 from now on but if we continue to give them wide.... i mean wiiiiiide open shots.... we're in trouble.

 

We will be playing them with Curry, their best player, the once unanimous ****ing MVP back .they can afford to lose one game and still be touted as "the best team ever assembled".

But so far they are still ******** on their opponents, even with their beat player missing.

 

People really need to understand those last two tweets.

Every. Playoff. Series. Is. Different.

Yeah, the Warriors look dominant. They are playing the least talented team probably in the playoffs, definitely the west.

The Pels dominated the 3 seed, you think they are doing that to the Warriors?

Every series is different. Whether this series goes 5-6-7 games, unless someone gets hurt in those extra games, it has 0, ZERO, relevance to the next series. Sometimes, a player completely sucks for a series, or a player comes off the bench and dominates a series. We've seen this with Dwight, dominating the Clipper series...then turning around and getting punked by Bogut in the Warrior series...

How we look against the Wolves has no relevance to how we will play against entirely different teams.

Sure, we'd all love to sweep through this series, but it ain't happening. Maybe the Rockets needed this loss, they have played very lackadaisically as of late, a good punch in the mouth may wake them up.

I do hate that Rose and Teague gained confidence though, that may be a problem, but if we hit our open shots I think we'll win this in 5.

 

I guess... whatever it takes to wake them up but we need to do that and going all the way to 7 games in first round isn’t helping us with facing either jazz or OKC next round. The good news is that luc should be back in this round.

 

I feel like some of these crazy, negative, knee-jerk posts are made by fans of other teams trying to troll Rockets fans and bring us down.

Like, I understand being disappointed—hell, I’m feeling as disappointed as a Chinese parent whose child decided to pursue a career in music instead of being a doctor—but some of the posts here can’t possibly be serious.

Unless people are posting while drunk. Please don’t do that. Don’t drink and post.

 

I think so as well JSizzle. I could see this coming a mile away. I found myself wondering where the Jimmy I knew has been the last couple of games. At least, he was a facilitator in the previous game. I still think we have too much for Minn. but I'm REALLY concerned about the Pelicans.We don't look enthusiastic about being in the playoffs. You play 82 games, have the best record in the NBA and decide you don't want to play in the playoffs. Very disappointed and no, I'm not overreacting.

 

Now of course we take comfort in the fact that there were champs losing in the first round.

Where are defense when we need them the most? Where are hearts when we need them the most? Where are leadership when we need them the most?

Games like this are UNACCEPTABLE.

 

That game was like pushing through the paper and getting **** on your hand after taking a dump.

What should have been easy and routine became a disgusting failure because of our own incompetence.

Smelled similar too.