ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Lakers 3/31/2025

I am sick tired of Fred playing like shiit every game.

Fred is shooting around 20% in recent 4 games. Dude is unplayable.

 

You havent played in the NBA though so what experience are you talking about exactly? The experience of watching players play? You mean like what we do today? LOL.

The players in the 80s can be called plumbers compared to players today. They dont have any analytics back in the day dont have hyperbarric chambers or any sports science other than steroids. No internet no digital tracking no systematic training from 12 yrs old etc

 

I’ve been a Jabari hater for a while but I agree with this, the Rockets don’t even try to get him involved. Fred and Dillon are prioritized over most of the young guys on this team. Jabari seems like a rhythm player, he needs to know where he’s going to get his shots to be effective. He’s been playing well lately but our vets still ice him out the game to go one on one.

 

I only caught the 4th quarter but just the lineups, the choice of who should handle the ball and the shot selection were terrible. Udoka really got outcoached.

This is what we're going to see in the playoffs. Teams will not only pack it in but they will be aggressive as hell. Lakers are a mediocre defensive roster we shouldn't have had this much trouble scoring.

Why in the name of god did Van Vleet play 39 minutes? I really don't understand this. He was useless and fatigued by the 4th. Then Dillon Brooks suddenly thinks he's Kevin Durant when we get close? Jesus reign it in Ime.

It's a back to back and we're ok record-wise but we better learn from this game. Could've won this regardless of the refs.

It's ok we learn hopefully. I love that the final stretch of the season is basically a bunch of playoff games. Microscope will be on our offense.

 

This is preview of playoffs.

Fred and Jalen will be choker in playoffs.

 

I don’t think Ime will be hesitant to change things up in the playoffs. Look at his playoff games in Boston

 

Lol Lebron is just going to flop and act like a b****. Jordan is 6'6 with actual defense with better mentality than Lebron but hey if you love Lebron that's your opinion. I'm not here to change your mind anyways.

 

Regardless of the horrible officiating that hurt our momentum and also as a big Green fan, he got benched because Ime saw what I saw. He passed the ball like he wanted no parts of it, ended in a Brooks fadeaway.

Green cannot be shook of these moments. This is the 2nd time I've seen him do this in his career. He cannot run away from the moment. He needs to understand this in the playoffs.

 

There was no flopping back then Lebron would knock MJ's head off since he is 6'8 and nobody will say ****.

 

Is it only me thinking or only guys we count on to put up a fight during playoff are Dillon, Jabari, Tari and Amen. Rest of the rotation guys looked lost tonight and scared to do anything.

 

I appreciate FVV, but no way his contract should be extended $40M+ per year. Inconsistent shooter.

 

And that's one of the things that drives me crazy. They are far too dependent on him down in the paint fighting off double and triple teams. They simply can't exploit teams that pack the paint from the outside yet. That has to be the next step in their development. They need more dependable scoring from guys and better coaching from Ime.

 

I swear every time Jalen or Alpi wins player of the week, Ime goes into ( I must humble them mode, the motto is not you not me but us!!) to sit our more explosive scorer for last 3-4 min of a tight game while keeping (let me slow walk the ball up the court FVV in is criminal)

 

I bought that stock months ago. You’d be pretty dumb to have sold it because Green and a few good games against garbage teams

 

Looks like he shouldn't have given Aaron a Holiday

 

I ain't even mad about this game. So many good things going on: balance, ball movement, multiple lines of attack, multiple penetrations, not settling for the old knee-jerk or give-up 3's. On the defensive side, we didn't cover all those corner 3's, and we can't -- we'll lose games when a couple of role players go 12 of 24 from 3. But that won't happen 4 times in a 7-game series.

Give the Lakers credit for their rotations, deflections, and blocks. They made some clutch plays at the end.

Sure, I'd love to have won this game for the standings. But as we go into the playoffs, I like what I'm seeing. We have so many guys who create problems, and they're working together, and they're showing both the patience and the ability to break down defenses and make high-percentage plays. Over the course a series, that'll pay off. And it's gonna be so much fun to watch.

 

We have no alternatives as the moment. Jalen was just mindlessly dribbling and going nowhere when he handled the rock. I guess we could have played Holiday.

The teams pack the paint against us, we don't really have a half court offense from our backcourt. Even the buckets Jalen did get were forced shots at the rim

 

He can't even stand up to Isaiah Stewart and gets hurt when he gets called out by his teammates (ask Mario Chalmers, Dwight Howard)

 

I'm ready for robots and AI to be officiating games

 

He didn’t run from the moment, he just refused to jack 3s like he normally would .. Ime did him no favors of trying to open the paint so the Lakers parked Bron and FFS in the paint on Alpi and Amen