ClutchFans Game Thread: Warriors @ Rockets 2/13/2025

I can’t wait for Fred and Jabari to come back so we can look coherent again. These games showed us that Jalen and Amen cannot run the offense. The team looked dead offensively from start to finish.

Really just a let down. No will to fight before the all star break

 

Around the 5 minute Mark substitute the other productive player.

Rick Adelman was the best in substituting in momentum Plays.

 

Hard to win when your two cornerstone players are so inefficient this season

 

11 years of Warriors dominance over the Rockets. SMH

 

Coaches become the fall guys waaaay too easily. Ime is not perfect, but he is very good and still gaining experience as a head coach.

Silas was deservedly seen as a major reason why our guys didn’t develop properly in the first two years, but Ime has done a lot of things right, and I feel like he’ll get better too. He’s in his third year as a head coach—that’s it!

 

Jalen and Sengun are happy for their holiday now....

 

He's honestly been bad before even that. His shooting especially has regressed so hard

 

The next time this team is a legit contender I don't think Green or Sengun will be the best player on the team.

It's year 4 and these guys are still getting benched because they are playing like absolute ass.

 

Absolutely I watched starters tonight not even crossing midcourt on a possession (more than once)...didn't want to go to the floor on a 50/50 ball etc. I don't always agree with Ime but the one thing you can control as a head coach is EFFORT...you don't give it,you don't play. I have no qualms with that.

 

Sabonis 19/26 but he’s not an all star because he doesn’t play with FVV.

 

Jalen Green is way more mature.

Alperen Sengun having White Privilege can last so long until he gets beaten up in the Media. Jackson Gatlin the Biggest Glazer of them All. Really started hating Alperen Sengun and Jackson Gatlin because he was false narrating Alperen Sengun is the Most Consistent BS. Which is False. He is terrible underneath the rim.

 

I was one of the guys who thought that Amen’s emergence and Jalen being there would make Fred expendable—I can see now that it was very stupid of me to believe that. Fred, warts and all, can run the offense. Jalen can run it for at most like three minutes at a time, and then it turns into turnover city. Amen looks so discombobulated at the point that his vision is being negated by either his loose handle or him being rushed all the time.

We definitely need a true backup PG, like a late-stage Andre Miller or something. Holiday is more of a 2 guard in a tiny frame and can’t really run offenses either.

 

If we play the Warriors in the playoffs, pretty sure they will sweep us.

 

Starters were absolutely miserable today. Disinterested ball. I thought he should have at least put Sengun in for Jock. Oh well. The missed FT’s killed them again

 

Rockets need to go after Luka Doncic in 2026

 

All the turnovers by Jalen and Amen, we win the game just by cutting those in half.

 

Yeah ...the All Star game...that's where the focus should be...a gloried scrimmage with no defense...165-155.

 

This is…certainly an interesting take. Alpi gets his fair share of criticism, him being white has nothing to do with anything. He earned his all-star spot (over another white dude, Sabonis) and currently isn’t playing great probably because he’s still a little hurt. Same reason why Jalen isn’t playing great, he’s also a little hurt and probably tired.

After the all-star break, with adequate rest and a full roster, we will see what this team is really made of

 

I don’t know about white privilege but he’s benefitted heavily from the love he’s gotten his first 3 seasons by casuals and it carried over now. The average fan doesn’t know how bad he’s been. The only time they notice it is when they play against him. He’s a likeable guy on a winning team so he gets away with a lot. But he’s not an all star. It loses distinction when a guy like that becomes one. It used to mean something. No one is scared of playing Sengun.