ClutchFans Game Thread: Cavaliers @ Rockets 1/22/2025

Jabari will help with this when he returns.

 

Mrs Subtomic and I joke that like in the Notebook, we’re going to pass away together at home.

Unlike the Notebook, we won’t go peacefully - we’ll probably have simultaneous strokes watching the Rockets play a game like tonight’s.

 

I gotta Dream, Franchise, T-Mac, and a fake-ish Beard t-jersey (an ex bought that and she was just as trashy.... lol)

I may get an Amen. I wanted a Barkley back in the day.

 

Everyone has more fun when Jalen plays well. He didn’t tonight, but we got the win, thankfully. So I’m guessing the forum’s mood will be generally upbeat for a few days

 

FOR ONCE THE BASKETBALL GODS WERE ON OUR SIDE!!!!!

 

I doubt that lol

 

They have two days before we play again hopefully they can have a practice to figure it out because we are going to see a lot of it.

 

One can hope

 

I was thinking the same thing. Those mid ranges should be like layups to him

 

Bari is underrated. I was watching Frank's midseason grades, and as well as Amen has been playing, Bari is still better as a starter. At least that's what the stats show. Pretty shocking.

 

He did the same thing earlier in the game. 90% but went 3/8 tonight. Maybe he likes the Houston clubs?

 

If anyone was wondering Donovan Mitchell in the 4th quarter

0-6 field goals
0-3 three point field goals

Amen Thompson should be first team all defense.

 

my Jalen PTSD starting to kick in

u can’t play how he did for weeks and go back to being trash, u just can’t…it’s like somebody singing like prime Whitney Houston for 3 weeks, then all of the sudden back to sounding like National Anthem Fergie

if he goes back to regular Jalen I’m gonna be mad as hell and confused

 

That reminds me of Nick Anderson missing those free throws against the Rockets when we won the championship. Having good vibe for this season. Tari Eason needs to be careful with these close out on threes. Seems like he had time to react rather than closing out at the shooter landing spot. I remember he had a similar one this year at the end of the game too.

 

You ain't scoring son

 

naw, i get it. Jalen gotta have a floor of an above average player. Jalen can't revert back to basement basketball or the fanbase will know no peace.

 

Teams are starting to fear Amen defensively. Amen started guarding Spida at some point and just completely shut him out the game.

Held him 0/6 in the 4th quarter.

 

Yup. He’s out best midrange shooter … he should “eat” lol is that how you say it?

 

They’ve started game planning for him now…