ClutchFans Game Thread: Lakers @ Rockets 4/26/2026 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 4)

You can't prove it unless you win the series.

 

That play always kills me. Seems like a high risk low reward one

 

Should've been 2-2, but this is the first true blowout of the series, and something that our squad is capable of doing when they actually execute properly.

But even our third-stringers are bad with ball pressure--JD got a backcourt violation too--and that's party personnel but also coaching. It's so annoying, but this game itself wasn't annoying at all. Our young guys showed a lot of heart and hustled their asses off against a Lakers team that just isn't in the same tier athletically as them.

If we win game 5, then I'll be optimistic. But for now, I'm just glad that we didn't take a sweep against these guys.

 

i have always said rockets players have the mentality. They just need a coach that doesn't panic. Trash ball rockets would have been a good team. Stone panicked. i would have waited for jalen green.

 

Udoker putting cases on all ya’ll…….

 

When’s game 5?

 

No team has come back from 3-0, but a handful have come back from 3-1. It’s 3-1 now

 

so you're saying it was a well-coached game

deserves its own thread

 

Beautiful father son moment

 

Once we lost game 3, it was over. I am afraid it is too little too late.

 

thinking about going to game 6

 

It was a masterpiece

 

I’m glad we won but LeBron wasn’t even trying tonight. Felt like a nice WWE game.

but I’ll take winning over losing.

 

That logic is good enough for me.

 

Rockets finally shot more FTs than lakers for the first time this series.

 

This team has shown it can win without KD

 

Marcus yapping after regulation.

 

Wed. which favors Lakers having 2 days off.

 

an amazing difference when we hit threes