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Congrats on the mind games coach, your players gave up on you for a reason

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by LosPollosHermanos, Jan 11, 2026.

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  1. LosPollosHermanos

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    nice job moving the guy that played only in garbage time to a starter (w 30 minutes PT) ahead of the guy that's won you games and played his ass off for the team.

    Reed played like a b**** and I called that out.. but something tells me that when coacine curry looks like heroin curry hes just about tired of your passive aggressive punitive lack of consistency bullshit. Never seen that IDGAF energy from Reed until tonight. Not defending his play but something tells me all these loto picks conveniently regress and losing skill under this fraud isn't just chance

    The whole team gave up on this idiot tonight. It was clear as day
     
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    Clap clap, play harder. Bunch of softies
     
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    I think the team is realizing that Ime is not the answer, his coaching is really weak.

    DD
     
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    But what options do they have? I doubt they fire him with something like 5 years remaining. Could they trade him? I have no idea.
     
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    IME got the Rockets in the classification of MENTAL MIDGETS.

    I don't see it getting better either, or I am afraid I don't know what it's going to take to snap out of it.
     
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    toyota center must chant “fire ime”
     
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    It's pretty obvious Ime has completely lost the locker room. Once he gets fired, KD is going to be blamed by the national media for being a coach killer and then KD will get in his feelings and ask to be traded. It's always been like this. Prepare for multiple seasons of drama at this point where our team goes nowhere. Trading for KD was a huge mistake because our young core was not ready to "win now", they're not as mentally strong as the Spurs or Thunder. We drafted a bunch of softies.
     
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    Ime has problems yes, but he isn’t fully to blame.

    Or actually you can blame if you want. Let’s just ignore the fact that Reed is a black hole on defense. Jabari is ass. Amen can’t shoot. DFS forgot how to play basketball. And our starting PG is out. Which stone failed to address. So yeah, if you ignore all those factors then yes, it’s all Ime’s fault.
     
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    Yep, we are still developing only now we are developing bad habits lead by the lazy Durant and Adams

    DD
     
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    Ime has some major say in the transfer politics, that was known......jus saying.

    He vetoed James Harden's return which you can say was fair, but that shows you that he got influence.

     
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    A lot of coincidences that keep happening

    Almost like why franchises like the kings keep sucking on a regular basis. Its not their fault Fox, Cousins etc were not better players right?
     
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    Kd came in doing podcast and now the role players started doing podcast.
     
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    For the record I’m not a Udoka apologist. I just think it’s unfair to put ALL the blame on him.

    Or you can. :)
     
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    Rockets road games are a single Podcast.

     
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    if only we had a SG who could fill in at point and a SF who could fill in at SG and both average 15+ a game....while providing defense and great team chemistry....I think we would be a 2 seed
     
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    Yes.

    Steph is also the same on defense.

    Draymond is literally ass on offense.

    The difference is their coach develops schemes to hide those weaknesses and spam their strengths.
     
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    Don’t forget the fact they had the 2nd best shooter of all time and a guy named Kevin Durant on that team too. A little easier to hide weakness when you have 4 top 75 players of all time on a team.

    Also the Warriors are 3 games behind us. Kerr taking a break?
     
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    Reed got us in the game during the 2nd half vs portland...Jabari had the worst game of his career and that's why we lost. It happens. But Udoka chooses to focus on a gamble he made and starts holiday, a guy with the lowest +/- on the entire team, then relegates Reed to minimal minutes all game long. Then when Reed gets called on a soft foul he benches him the rest of the game and keeps holiday in who does the same repeatedly..without consequence

    How the **** is that player development? We're 60% through the season at some point people aren't going to be keen on you sabotaging them. Even the good christian boy is going to tell you to **** off and not take open shots out of defiance

    And he wasn't wrong because the entire team behaved that way. If its all the players...ITS THE COACHING

    To be a good leader you can be tough..but you have to be consistent
     
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