ClutchFans Game Thread: Warriors @ Rockets 5/4/2025 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 7)

Great opportunity to Fire Ime Udoka and get a Offensive Coach.

 

Yup I hate it when he throws his arms up when not getting calls instead of going back on D.

 

yeah Udoka failed at rotations. Tari played terrible should have taken him out. Should have matched their small lineups.

 

he does these dumb **** every game. Every.Game.

this team was infuriating.

 

33 points by Buddy Hield is a Ime Udoka Failure.

 

What do you think, man? They had 3/4 of their starting lineup struggling today.

 

I can understand that. It’s tempered for me because I thought we’d only win one game.

 

im pretty certain that there was more than enough buzz about the rockets taking the next step and actually playing some playoff ball this year, just bc it wasn’t unanimous doesn’t mean we “overachieved” by losing in the first round

I agree the future is bright, but that doesn’t really give me a solace right now. There is not a team would rather lose to less

 

Jalen fking wilted but Smith is content with being a role player. Man refuses to shoot and got fking clamped by curry of all things

 

houston and harden losing game 7 go hand in hand.

 

My warriors friend enemy. Said

wow, buddy hield is our worst player. Never thought this would happen

 

Ime Udoka letting Dillon Brooks cheat off of Buddy Hield was a Huge Mistake over and over and pulled Jalen Green way early ruined the Team.

 

You can't keep pointing to Silas to excuse Ime's terrible offensive coaching in this series. His shortcomings were exposed and exploited by Kerr. This team was coached (by him) to play physical defense yet was one dimensional and clueless on offense. That's on Ime. I realize that they are young but youth is not a guarantee that they will make it back to this point next year. And, from what we've seen go down this season, head coaches are increasingly on a shorter and shorter leash.

 

He doesn't, but neither did Dream at 22.

I'm sorry, too slow?

Why does alpi getting 5 seconds too slow but fvv or Jalen wasting 10 seconds dribbling around the perimeter not?

 

I liked Pau but Pau struggled to score on Amare Stoudmire. Draymond putting that boy in a blender.

 

Well no matter how you look at it - this sucks. I really felt good about our chances to win tonight as we had all the momentum. Game 4 was where we lost the series (the “12 missed free throws game”). Just like in Game 1, we played like complete ass in the 2nd quarter and even though we got it to 63-60, we just didn’t have it tonight. Fred came back down to earth, but Golden State made sure he didn’t get the looks that he had in the previous games. Too many empty possessions whether it was missing point blank shots or not hitting free throws. Of course, it was another role player who killed us in Buddy “Bucky” Hield (I swear that guy looks just like Bucky from Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids). And for us to lose to THAT organization AGAIN is what really sucks. The only organization that would have been worse to lose to would be the Lakers. Hopefully the T-Wolves will beat these punks but no one is going to beat OKC in the west.

We overachieved and we as Rockets fans have a lot to look forward to. We got a great young core in place and we don’t need to make a trade that will come back to haunt the franchise. We definitely need to resign FVV and hopefully Reed Sheppard will be ready to start in another year or two. Amen is ready to be our franchise player and just needs to get his outside shot more consistent. Jalen Green was the invisible man again and I don’t really know what to think about him. I hate to give up on him but he still hasn’t stepped up to be that go to guy who can close out games for us. If Phoenix will trade Durant for Jalen, Whitmore and our pick that we got from them, then I would do that deal in a heartbeat.

 

The Warriors vaunted offense scored 103.

Buddy going off wasn't the reason we lost this game. We got the data we need. Lets see how we address things this offseason.