ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Pelicans 12/18/2025

So... did I miss something or was all of this done with Zion back on the bench?
Think he's on his way to a change of scenery...

 

we had one tonight that had 7 assists and 0 turnovers. He got benched after KD and Jabari turned it over 7 times combined all because he gambled on a steal.

 

Ime does not trust Reed. Reed will be a +22 and he has some mistakes then he goes right back to holiday.

 

Not sure how real it is but it’s out there.

 

Fred and his 30% shooting percentage ain’t saving us. We still had the same issues then because we have the same coach. There is no ball and body movement in our offense besides Amen. The coach doesn’t understand lineups and how certain players fit/don’t fit with one another. We don’t have a good coach. He’s a good motivator and culture setter but he’s not a head coach.

 

they loafed the last 3 minutes of the 3rd and the entire 4th. Unbelievable.

 

Rockets have forgotten how to win on the road - that’s 4 losses in a row on the road and 3 of them to bad teams. Rockets need to wake up when they play these shitball teams - that’s falls on coaching when you lose to teams that you should beat.

 

Coaching matters in this league.

Rockets should've learnt that in the playoffs last season.

They've had multiple games to learn that lesson so far this season.

Maybe one day they'll learn Ime raising the floor doesn't mean Ime will raise the ceiling for a good team.

All the evidence they need to acknowledge that is there, and repeated time after time.

 

yup…choked big time

28 points on 26 shots against this Pelicans team is absurd as well

 

A
****ING
MEN

DD

 

Second thing that really ***** me off is that most of the players are looking for their own shot, NOT looking for the BEST SHOT. Reed is the only one out actually looking to find the best shot.

JSJ so many times in the first half could have passed to a wide open Reed but chose to make some fukn stupid contested mid range and dribble turnover, WTF. Everyone should be looking to get Shepperd involved and heating up but no, Sengun, JSJ, Amen they're mostly looking for their own shots first.

We have one of the better 3pt players on our team and we are NOT UTILISING HIM

 

Between Amen, KD, Jabari and Sengun we had 16 turnovers….that can’t happen. I don’t know if you need a PG or Depends diapers to make that stop, but that can’t happen. That’s execution ****.

 

It's not even just that, you don't bench a guy for that long and then bring them in to hit a last second shot cold.

A competent coach wouldn't have lost this game, but we have Ime instead.

 

Well that was special.

 

An effort for Trey Murphy the Third would have been good when he was not all that hot and on the rise.

 

You're on drugs if you're trying to make this comparison.

 

10000000%

Udoka is so bad with rotations.

 

Listening at Fred’s podcast KD doesn’t seem like we’re close to contending this year. He knows we’re good team but no chance to compete against OKC. Even when we were rolling KD wasn’t satisfied with the wins since he saw many flaws in our offense so I think he just not giving 110% when he knows that we still gonna make it to playoff but come up short without PG. It’s getting pretty clear Amen is not our PG and opponents are abusing him in late games