ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Warriors 4/26/2025 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 3)

JG, Bari, Tari and Brooks need to make their 3s. 5 on 8 tonight.

 

Pregame caramel cappuccino soon to be followed up by a wagyu burger

 

With so many assistants, I hope Ime assigns one of them to keep a lookout for moving screens, particularly from Draymond. The Warriors keep getting away with it to free up Curry and their shooters, so someone needs to keep pointing it out to officials every time someone among the Warriors makes a moving screen. In any case, I am keeping away any hard objects around me just in case I am tempted to throw them at my TV when the refs start mucking up the game. Go Rockets!

 

There we go. That’s a little wagyu with white bbq sauce; tomato soup with basil and Parmesan cheese eat your heart out Draymond!

 

That soup looks delicious.

 

It’s magnificent. So thick you can hold your spoon upside down and it sticks to it.

 

Could really use Aaron Holiday with FVV in a slump. Perfect for punishing double teams on Jalen/Sengun.

Adams, Jabari, Tari, Holiday is plenty of bench help. I feel like FVV would shoot better too if we kept him fresher. He and Ime may be in denial about his age.

 

i'm surprised the game is 7:30 houston time.

i was thinking it would be 9pm houston time.

 

@Salvy redo this to say all power to the Turkish President and put Goon on there!

 

I suspect GS will try to stay more connected to Jalen today and make FVV, Jabari, Eason, and Brooks carry the scoring load behind Sengun. All of those guys will have open looks. Can they make them on the road?

The wild card remains Amen. I'd love to see him take over the game.

 

Aight I'll try before the game....

 

why are the thunder playing 4th game sweep before our 3rd game even starts. They are playing vs the 8 seed who played 2 play in games too so why are they given the expedited schedule. 1v8 should get the longer schedule since its usually a sweep.

 

Give us the scouting report @WestendMassive

 

Be prepared. This will likely be the ugliest game of this series. After the last game, an overwhelming amount of Warriors fans have taken to social media to criticize the league for "letting the Rockets do anything they want to injure our players".

Just expect us to completely shackled by the reffing. I very highly doubt we'll be allowed to play physical this game. I'm expecting a loss if Butler plays and it's almost assured he will play, he's always played through injuries in the past and it's not like this was a major injury.

We can say a lot of this or that but the one consistent thing the league is afraid and influenced by over the decades are the actual fans and the Warriors possibly have the 2nd largest if not the largest fanbase globally so they are able to influence the league a lot. It sucks cuz even tho Houston is a big market city, the Rockets fanbase as a whole are tiny in comparison.

 

Nate Williams needs to step up and just knock Draymond out. He would be a Houston Sports legend and beloved across the league.

 

Imagine what these pu$$ies would be wearing if they had to play a 90s championship team...

 

I was going to do more but I got bored....

 

Is that actually true though?
Sure, Steph lead the league in jersey sales, but since the end of the dynasty (Klays injury and departure), has their popularity really been that high? They weren’t in the top 5 teams in viewership, at least not as of all star break. Rockets were though.
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2025/02/12/nba-viewership-down-6/