ClutchFans Game Thread: Warriors @ Rockets 4/20/2025 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 1)

What's up, page 12ers! I asked clutch to start this after the Warriors game hoping to get on page one and here I am beasting on page twelve. My patheticism (not a word) doesn't matter here and I wanted to read every post before posting. It is what it is and it is what time it is. Winning time. JUST WIN, BABY!!!!! WOOOOOO!!!!!!!









Vicious every play and we won't have to wonder who wins that day.

 

The Ringer did an article 3 years ago about how every player in NBA history is 6 degrees or less of Jeff Green...

 

@Reeko

 

Or 3:30 Hawaiian

 

so it’s the 12th page.

did we win the game?

 

Quentin Post is the biggest secret kept, The Warriors literally are hiding him against the Rockets.

 

@arno_ed

Dutch breh.

 

There is literally no answer for Quetin Post.

 

Yeah there were 3 dutch players this summer with a chance to get to the NBA. I am happy he made it. I am a bit sad it is with the warriors.

I hope he has a terrible play offs

 

The grizzlies coulda easily beat the warriors if they could rebound. Its crazy they have to trot out uncoordinated Zach Edey to get rebounds so that the warriors don't get a bunch of second chance points.

We aren't going to have that problem at all. The Grizzlies are fake tough. We are actually touch and physical. I hope Ime turns this into a trench warfare grind the entire series.

 

Spoiler

Adams is unintentionally funny.

“The lesson is the lesson, you can’t advise your way out of it. Some people just need to learn that lesson.”

“You don’t have enough time to mess around with this. ‘Oh, I’m not playing well,’ Dude. No, that sh–‘s still after.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6277162/2025/04/18/nba-playoffs-2025-houston-rockets-warriors/

From an on-court perspective, how do the playoffs differ from the regular season?

Brooks: It’s more physical. There’s more free play, gameplay. Getting a good shot every single time matters. And then making adjustments.

VanVleet: I mean, it’s completely different. High stakes, intensities, greater crowds, officiating is less. It’s more physical, it’s more everything. It’s the highest level in the world and highest caliber players playing win-or-go-home. So it’s a lot of fun.

Green: It’s more of the little things. Turnovers, possession time. The defense intensifies a lot more because you have an opportunity to really study and hone in on your opponent. In the first round, you get five days off now. When I started, it was only like three days. It just gives you an opportunity to home in and know what to take away and it intensifies on every level.

Adams: Well, one, you’re playing one team, the other team knows all your players… any piece of data on you, whatever, they have it. And then they will implement a system solely based on them giving up a certain shot or a certain whatever. So it’s very, very precise. That is the biggest difference from regular season. Regular season, you just run your system, run some movement, da, da, da. When you go in there, you try and get some carryover, but when you go in there, it’s very, very precise, which makes it much more difficult, right? Down to the point of like, yo, closing out on, say, Malik Monk. Shade this because he passes 60 percent of the time when he goes that way from the slot. When you have data like that, you’ll live with the result, stuff gets to change. It’s more of a chess game.

What’s one piece of advice you wish you had been given before your first playoff experience, that you would share with this current group?

Brooks: Understanding your role and doing it to the best of your ability. In my first series, we won the first game and lost the next four. But through that experience, just the discipline we needed that we took to the next year, the attention to detail, and then understanding that before all that, having the hunger. I feel like with that team, we started to gain the hunger after we lost that first playoff series and it brought us to the next year with more hunger and more drive. Let’s have that hunger and drive.

VanVleet: I think you just got to go out there and play free, play loose and whatever happens will happen. At the end of the day, one team is gonna win it all and the other 15 are gonna go home upset. So once you understand that you just go out and kind of be who you’re gonna be.

Green: To be in the moment. Have fun and be in the moment. I think we get so overwhelmed with just the playoffs in general, we start looking ahead sometimes. Just be in that moment. You can’t move on to Game 2 before Game 1 is over. And just play hard, man. It’s an exciting time in basketball. You have to have fun with it, because one year can be different from the next. Embrace

Adams: Nothing. Nothing. Had some good vets. Nick Collison, Kendrick Perkins and all of them. The advice is OK every now and then, but sometimes you just need to go through the lesson. The lesson is the lesson, you can’t advice your way out of it. Some people just need to learn that lesson.

What’s the most effective way to respond after a bad playoff game?

Brooks: Just wash it away. Watch film, see what adjustments you have to make as a player and then wait for the coach to follow the game plan. And then ultimately, just bring in energy every single night.

VanVleet: You gotta flush it. You gotta get hungry. You gotta look at the film and see if you can be better and then you gotta bounce back. Winning the championship (with Toronto in 2019) taught me that. I think that Philly series was probably the most up and down I’ve seen, as far as we blow them out, they blow us out, close game, blow out. You play seven games and play a team seven times, you’re gonna get a little bit of everything. So, gotta have short-term memory both ways.

Green: Have short-term memory. Every game is going to be different. Every game, teams are going to go in, study the game and see what they did wrong, take away those things and now you have to adjust. So I just try to come in with a different mentality, even in a bad game, even if I had a good game. I know it’s going to be difficult and they’ll take away some things, so just have a short memory.

Adams: I responded well. Now for the performance of the next game, not sure because it’s not the same game. Both team makes adjustments. You could talk about if you felt good, if you felt locked in, sure, maybe. But the response is always a positive one, as in the team itself collectively, even individually, you have a target on what to work on. Here’s where we’re getting exposed, X, Y, Z. This is probably their counter, maybe, and you just work towards those. You don’t have enough time to mess around with this. ‘Oh, I’m not playing well,’ Dude. No, that sh–‘s still after.

Any postseason superstitions?

Brooks: No.

VanVleet: Nah, I don’t think I do.

By the time you get to that point man, you know what it is. You are who you are. You gotta go out there and play — the best team is going to win most of the time, so you just gotta go out there and play your game.

Green: Nope.

Adams: Nah, I don’t do that.

 

… and Clutch started the thread a mere 20 minutes after you asked. You were soooo close, had your patheticism not caused you to fall asleep.

 

we need a patheticism thread. nay . . . we deserve a patheticism thread.

 

[Official] Kerr Patheticism Thread

 

so you’re saying IDIOT ?

 

Anyone else's stomach in knots?

No?

Only me?

Only me.