ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Pelicans 12/18/2025

Failoka you gotta do better on your roatations gd it.

 

ehhhhhh.... they got lucky....


personally... i blame J.R.

i mean it was the first post of the thread... so there's that...



lol

 

What we need is proper player development, which Ime is incapable of, unfortunately.

 

Losing to a 6 win team should be a fireable offense. A demotion, a trade , sonething

 

JR is going to be updated soon....ascension in progress.

 

i trust amen and reed to be able to get a clean shot off more than sengun at the end of the game.

yea, i said it.

 

Ouch.

 

You have to be a strategist, a planner, a quick adjuster, meticulous attention to detail, and Ime is none of that.

 

u don’t understand. Imes the GM of the rockets now. he runs this organization

 

Sengun has been getting exposed defensively. Plus his offensive decision making has been poor

 

And people around the league love it. Hard-nosed, tough, pulls no punches…

 

I do think he is holding back kindness.....lmao.

 

Takeaways after a nights rest:

1) This team is a gimmick. They rely on Adams rebounds and the terror twins on defense. Now that Amen is having to play lead, he cant contribute as much terror on defense and it shows.

2) This team cant defend. KD is a minus defender. Sengun is a minus defender. Reed Sheppard is a minus defender. If I hear someone say either Sengun or KD are good defenders im gonna blow a gasket. They are not. Just stop.

3) KD is a turnover machine. Starting to see why he struggled a lot after the GSW era. He's too easy to turn over and another reason why I'm not high on thr 7 footer who can kinda dribble archetype.

4) Sengun. Whoo boy. Im seeing a lot of James Harden here minus all the 50 point outputs. Can't shoot free throws. Can't shoot period. Whines. Flops. Floor raiser. Ceiling lowerer? Maybe. Seeing a "second best player" on a contender at best here and you always have to account for his defense which is bad. Its still bad.

5) Reed is young so I don't care much to talk about him. Amen should be better but suffers from not being able to shoot (and had the clutch basket towards the end taking Queen off the dribble). You can see him starting to Ben Simmons a lot when he penetrates which I *really* dont like.

People think that this team is a PG away and you are mistaken. A PG is not fixing this teams problems. This teams problem can be summed up by this: Option Paralysis.

Sometimes you. Sometimes me. Always mid.

 

This team is a **** tease

 

Everyone sucked but I though we blew the game in the 3rd quarter letting Jabari "experiment" and "find his game". Absolute garbage performance by him on both ends of the court. His handles suck and he cannot create his own shot. And then he got targeted by Bey repeatedly on defense.

 

This is a good team, but they don't seem to play with the same edge that they did a year ago. There's not nearly as much fire in them. I think they are really missing Brooks.

 

Lmao is that what they did with Fraubari.

It's crazy that we keep putting the worst defenders in crucial situations with a defensive minded coach. Jabari and adams suck defensively . The double big line up has not worked all season (Adams and Sengun)When we need shooters he doesn't put them in. No progress anywhere, not the coaching and not the players.

 

Considering how much Reed has sucked the past 10 games, I edited this image to show the Rockets' spots with and without Reed.


Locations are approximate.

 

Absolutely shocked we lost the game.