ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Timberwolves 4/21/2018 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 3)

Every single playoff series is different.

We've seen teams struggle to get past an 8th seed and go to the finals. What the Warriors do in their series and what we do in our series is irrelevant should we meet them in the WCF.

 

Refs are by no means the reason we lost at all... but **** these refs.

 

Oh well, hopefully this is enough of a wake up call for the whole playoffs.

 

Yep. Thank goodness I have their game to switch to. Glad baseball is back....

 

lmao. This is the best game they will play all season.

BUT we look inconsistent and lazy. No way around that.

 

Man nvm, I feel a lil bit better after that rose three. These guys are just shooting lights out.

 

Ariza has been so bad this game besides his 1st shot of the game.

Bring on game 4!!

 

Brother I’m one of those massively disappointed fans you speak of. The disinterest or lack of urgency is the worst. As a fan it’s just disappointing and infuriating.

Why not try to go up 3-0 instead of going with the mentality “oh we can still split”. Just no killer instinct.

The issue is exacerbated by the fact that the other west squads are about to sweep when the Rockets in fact had the “most sweepable” series and they are just blowing it.

This will haunt them.

 

Green light with 4

Rocket River

 

Waited too late in this one. Better tighten up in game 4

 

Pretty sure Rockets are like 0-83 whenever PJ scores less than 4 pts or something like that.

 

Ariza is trash. I mean Waste Mangement garbage. Ultimate trash. Makes Ryno look like Larry Bird

 

one of the worst defensive games i've seen the rockets play all year.

on time of just low energy they can't stay in front of anybody which is forcing them to play off heavy and bring help that's giving them wide open shots.

 

The Rockets getting beat by their own game.

 

I mean they aint missing anything

 

Okay Rox win next 2. Wolves killing it from 3 lmao

 

I kind of knew the refs would have a slight bias
NBA needs $$$ and lot of other series are blowouts

having said that, Rockets played terrible

 

Really???....

 

This was a punch. I hope the rockets wake up. Team has played at half speed since they clinched the best record.

 

Wonder if the Rockets thought they we just so damn good that they didn't have to try. They forget without that injury to Butler Minny could easily have been a 3 seed. They deserved it more than the blazers did. We shot average from the 3. We can't expect much better. Now minny shooting 56%? That is WAY above their head. Either way they mopped the floor with us. Hope they are embarrassed by their effort and come out and take the wolves to the woodshed in game 4. They do NOT want to go back home tied up. Harden can't handle the pressure.