ClutchFans Game Thread: Nuggets @ Rockets 3/23/2025

They ain't even that good...

 

If they had made layups and free throws, they run away with this game. They also had 0 fast break points.

nuggets broadcast, meanwhile, celebrating game 7 of a championship

 

tactical loss

 

Oh well. Time to start another winning streak.
40 minutes each for most of the starters no Cam no Tate

 

And didn't capitalize on Jordan's foul trouble

 

We played terrible and still made a comeback, but lack of shooting killed us in 2nd half.

Not sure why Tari didn’t get more run.

We'll get swept if we play like this in the playoffs, but hopefully this was an anomaly.

 

Brother are you telling me 8-22 FGs (36.4%) and 3-12 3 pointers is not a bad game in terms of efficiency? Don't be a homer for once and be critical of Jalen for chucking threes the entire first half before finally driving the lane after we were down 19 points.

 

41 minutes for Fred is baffling.

 

If you lose the game all the players choked. Sengun airballed the ft, Amen was invisible all game etc

Hyper focusing on Jalen when he actually had an efficient game is just you being a salty ass hater.

 

Fred playing 42 mins with 2/12 is a joke.

Tari 15 mins
Bari 16 mins

Anyone of them would play better than trash Fred.

**** Ime.

 

One person said it was doomed? I think you are a Jalen homer who never criticizes him when he lays these eggs. Did you watch the game against the heat? Are you going to defend that performance?

 

The way alp has been playing is very concerning.

 

Well, at least Jalen got a favorable whistle on that 3 because nobody touched him. Maybe he'll get some foul calls going forward.

 

The achilles heel for the Rockets in the playoffs will be fts. We got too many brackets. They make 50% of the missed fts and this game goes into OT.

 

Let's face it no matter how bad fred is ime doesn't have the balls to take him out smh...

 

Sengun and Jalen werent blame for this. It is FVV/Ime and them missing Fts.

Sengun missed his share of fts but he had a triple double. Jalen made 10/11 fts and had an efficient game.

FVV played 42 mins and was horrible. Amen played 30 mins but didnt produce enough stats. Jabari and Tari had good games but only played 15 mins. The 3rd quarter destroyed us and Ime conserved all his timeouts. Just bad coaching and bad adjustments by Udoka.

 

Jalen and Alpi finished with good counting stats but neither were particularly good this game, especially relative to the expectations that I have for them.

However, I really don’t expect many nights where both of them would just miss a whole bunch of easy bunnies and free throws, so I think it’s just one of those nights where the shooting just dried up.

On to the next, we’re still holding on the the 2nd seed. Still quite a bit of season left to play

 

It's a "meh" game in terms of efficiency given the 11-14 fta which is around 54% ts which is like a point below his season average. Not good efficiency and not horrendous and given 5 assists to 0 turnovers and a lot of hockey assists, the Rockets couldn't produce much offense without him breaking down the defense.

This definitely wasn't a good game from Jalen. But not a bad one. Just "meh"

 

jalen made denver adjusted their defense but jalen's adjustment to their adjustment didn't work.

he was attacking the basket at will so that made jordan sagged off and stay home at the basket. then jalen decided to start taking midrange but they didn't fall. he needs to improve on that midrange to add a floater/tear drop for that range.

his bricks kept hitting the back of the rim and allowed denver to start off the fast break a lot. tear drop and floater would give it a softer touch.