Clutchfans Game Thread: Rockets @ Lakers 9/4/2020 (Playoffs Round 2, Game 1)

Tony Brothers, Marc Davis, and Scott Foster will see out the series. The replacement ref will be Tim Donaghy

 

Guess who else is 35, but doesn't tire?

THIS GUY:

 

Any word on danuel house???

 

Faking an injury to hide his F'ing quitting ass.

Janice has a lot of Steph in him.

 

Don’t worry! All of the Chinese fans and expats here can still watch the games on local TV and/or free streaming sites (the dodgy ones with questionable ads). The games are just banned on national TV and the official streams...there are a million ways around it Rockets fans will always find a way.

Also, I don’t know what I was expecting for game one but a blowout wasn’t it! I thought we’d grind out a tough one, but I much prefer the boring wins

 

We're 3-1 against the Fakers this year, and now to advance we just have to go 3-3.

 

Lakers not winning 3 games against Rockets.

 

No sane GM would do that trade

 

Wish the Lakers would have put up more of a fight, they mailed in the 4th.

They will play harder, but our group won't let up. When they play harder and are still having trouble, I think they will fall apart.

 

Word. Glad you have access. Go Rockets

 

Lakers in trouble.

Who woulda thought starting a center that cant shoot with guards that can't shoot would hurt spacing?

 

I think it’s just age, a lot of wear on the tires, and the injury last year all finally catching up to him. He was hoping Davis and the supporting cast could do the heavy lifting, and they did during the regular season, but Bradley not being there leaves a huge void at PG that the Lakers can’t fill...and it wasn’t as if Bradley was great, but he was way better than anything else they had.

The Rockets are just a poor matchup for them...they can’t stop Harden, Westbrook and Gordon. They would have had problems with OKC, would have struggled more against Portland if Dame and CJ were healthy, and aren’t going to get by the Clips barring injury. Just no answer with the roster they have...I think LeBron cares, just nothing he can do...kind of like when he was with Cleveland and they would lose to Boston...he can’t do it alone. But, he decided this was what he wanted...which is fine, but Lakers fans aren’t going to be happy.

I wouldn’t be surprised if AD leaves for NY in the offseason and the Lakers go get Lebron’s buddy, CP3, along with Steven Adams. Hell, maybe they reunite the Banana Boat crew and bring in Carmelo. They won’t win, but they can sail off into the sunset together.

 

they are praying for a dort type bodying harden even before he gets the ball, a cp3 type injuring harden, a russel wb injury, and a referee fixing

 

And no one who can guard Harden the best scorer on the planet. Lebron got torched when tried to defend him, Green actually did ok but he got torched as well. They had to put Davis on him at the end and started doubling James when everything else failed

 

No one on the Lakers can stay in front of Harden.

When he literally sought out LeBron in a switch in the first half and scored on him I knew it was game over.

This series should be way different for our guard attack. Dort and the OKC guards deserves some serious credit.

Westbrook this game. Jesus. Just the epitome of what he is. Soo many WTF plays and yet, in this game, he made up for it with some huge ones.

I pray Westbrook finds his mid season groove. We will need it.

 

Who'd a thunk it - grabbing game 1!

The Lakers just look like a hot mess a good part of the time - just no cohesion...

Hopefully their shakiness continues - and we can continue to offset to's w steals... and we might have a shot...

I'm glad we didnt force 50+ 3s

 

Frank Vogel has always struck me as an incompetent coach.