ClutchFans Game Thread: Nuggets @ Rockets 11/21/2025

IMPORTANT things that cost this game.

1. KD stood there and watched on Murray's drive to get up by 6, he was in the paint and didn't move to cut off the ball, very lazy.
2. Sengun and his pushing, wtf man stop it
3. Reed - got to hit those FTs....no reason he missed 2 that hurt.
4. Jabari can't step out of bounds.....ridiculous

They don't make those mistakes and win, we have to play smarter, we right now are a work in progress we are GOOD, but not great yet.

We are now 1-3 starting the double big lineup 12 pts in the 1Q cost us....IMe has cost us 3 games with this stupitity.

On the plus side, Reed has proven he should start.

DD

 

I disagree. Our sets were predictable, didnt run any variation in offball movement to get him easier buckets. We didn't use Reed the proper way when he was inserted to the starting lineup in the 2nd half. They made Reed stayed in the corner while he was the main reason we got back into the game in the 2nd quarter!

 

Reed needs to start. Tne offense was a dumpster fire until he came in.

We need to figure out how to get Durant easier shots. Maybe park him off ball like Bari and Amen and let Reed run pnr with Sengun and hit the open man.

 

Blame Ime on bad coaching.

Ime did not make any plays for him.

 

They're now 1-3 when they start the double big lineup and 9-1 when Okogie starts.

I don't think you need to be an analytics guru to know which one to go with.

 

jump scare.

 

I know everyone’s pissed off and rightly so but honestly, our team is still building chemistry and it’s only going to get better from here.

Regardless of how poorly Reed was utilized in the second half, him exploding and bringing us back in the game was incredible to watch and I think it’s safe to say that he’s arrived. Our guys, especially KD, also looked off Reed a bunch of times when he was open so as they play more together I trust them to fix it.

Alpi didn’t play well, but he’s allowed to not be perfect, I think. He’s shown that he usually bounces back well from poor games. And KD is KD, he’ll probably obsessively look at tape of this game and hopefully get something out of it.

Bari showed great resiliency and Amen was a whirlwind. We’ll be good, trust.

 

He's averaging his career high in both assists and points

It was a bad game for him. It happens.

I do think he needs to stop exaggerating contact/complaining to the refs though. Always been the thing that annoys me the most about him.

 

this is the full court play that i always like

inbounder as your shot taker. how you ask? well have at least 1-2 guys close to half court and throw the ball to them. the inbounder then run towards the ball and the player with the ball pass to the inbounder running up. that should give the inbounder a good look.

of course you prolly need like 3-4 seconds on the clock for this to develop.

 

Who? I hope you’re not talking about FVV because he’s out for the year…he’s not relevant to this season

 

I actually disagree. It felt like we actually made a lot of fluke baskets and still lost the games.

 

Reed - 1st half:

8/12 - 20 points, hyped up, yelling, energy. Teammates finding him

Reed - 2nd half

1/2 - 7 points. Did the other starters forget who was leading/ended up leading the team in points? And Ime? Does Ime know how to draw up plays for people?

what a waste of a good game. He should’ve had at least 20 shot attempts, with how he looked. And sorry, but why is Sengun the one taking that last 3? Should’ve been Reed or KD or pretty much anyone else other than him

 

Reed as 6th man is fine especially that's the only time he gets the ball...

 

Ime needs to start trusting Reed and let him run the point, I agree that Amen experiment has failed against top teams. Time to move on.

 

Losing to the Nuggets by 3 with Durant and Sengun having their worst games of the young season is not something I'm going to lose any sleep over

 

More coaching than anything. KD issue was the unforced turnovers.

 

Durant and Sengun sucked all night and we were still in it to the last possession. If we wouldn’t have played the two big lineup at all we would have won. Still don’t get playing Holiday instead of Okogie. I guess it was a reward for last game, but he sucked tonight. Reed great in the first half, Amen sucked in the first half, but was key in the second half. They concentrated on taking Reed out of the game in the second half. Reed is the instant offense we need off the bench, but he has earned starter minutes. Holiday should be absolutely only an emergency player. Double bigs sucks especially along with the double shrimp lineup. Ime needs to get his sh*t together with his rotations. Of course, it’s hard to win when Durant and Sengun both play bad.

 

Even offensively r****ded Demeco would have gotten Reed more shots

 

Yeah, he is cocky, it is the good thing and the bad thing about him.

Joker is humble.