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

Amen playing like a scared puss. Jalen- just never know what you're going to get from him, Alpe too. I don't think we can win this series, unfortunately.

 

When our backcourt is terrible, that's when the Rockets lose. Fred was such a **** tease in the first quarter. Jalen was back to game 1 Jalen.

 

It's elusion. If KD is asked to play the grinding defense Rockets is playing, and if he is in a 8 or 7 man rotation every night, and if other team forces him to give up the ball and the coach does not know how to adjust, it still won't work. Look at Kerr. He played guys who don't see the court often. He knows the importance of player combination and spacing. Udoka knows that you have to play hard and have the right altitude. Modern vs ancient style. Offense coach is a must in the summer. Do you remember Rick Adelman made marginal NBA players win games for us?

 

Most teams won game 3 at home, Bucks, Clippers, Timberwolves, Orlando, Warriors. Y'all are overreacting.

 

If we make a move for KD or someone similar, I hope you're right. I just don't think one elite iso player + our current flawed players - whatever we give up to get KD fixes the offense. Good modern defenses can limit an offense based on a single iso scorer. To be honest, I doubt any single player we could get in a trade could get us to the finals, but I would prefer a playmaker with solid shooting over an iso scorer.

 

I think Ben dubose deleted his twitter account.

 

I have to admit it. The experience difference is killing us top to bottom. When you have a young team, they rely on the coach to set the tone and Ime isn’t bringing it. The only reason we were in this game was our amazing defense.

I think if we lose this series it will be a good thing. Failure is a lesson and you always remember big pain.

I’m an optimist. I hope we win. I think we can win this series. But if we don’t, there’s a silver lining.

 

It gets old with the stubborn lineups of Ime. It's so frustrating when he doesn't respect Jabari's shooting skills enough to draw up more plays for him, when he's one of our better shooters. He's also a good rebounder and shot blocker.

Just as frustrating is that we have guys on the bench, like Jeff Green, Holiday, and Cam, who can come in and shoot 3's, make shots in the paint, and make their free throws. Even Lansdale can hit 3's if left open, and is a good free throw shooter.

You know who can't hit 3's and free throws most of the time? Amen, Sengun, and Adams. Adams did make free throws last night, but that's not something you can depend on. Hacking those 3 in close games is always a good option for our opponents. Defenses can also just clog the paint when those 3 are in, double team Jalen, and hope Fred chucks his 3's.

Then there's Sheppard, who just didn't get enough minutes to develop. Sad, because he has great passing skills, and the potential to be a much more consistent 3 PT shooter than Fred. He doesn't turn over the ball much, isn't selfish, and can snag a steal or two, and even block a shot once in awhile.

I'm hoping he takes a bigger role next year, and the same goes for Dante and Cam. Dante is a tough physical center, and has had a very high FG% in college, the G League, and his limited NBA games. He's a good shot blocker and rebounder too, but again, like all our bigs except Jabari and Lansdale, he can't hit free throws.

We have players who can already contribute more in these playoffs, and that's what's most frustrating. We have untapped potential in other players, and I'd hate to see them traded off honestly. Someone just needs to shake that damn stubborn set mentality out of Ime's brain, and hire an great offensive minded assistant to make us more balanced.

 

Rockets are gonna lose to Warriors 5th playoff series? Smh. Embarassed as fans.

 

Yeah no sorry but you can’t spin this in any way possible to get me to believe that losing to the warriors for the 457th time is a good thing.

Nope. Nope nope nope.

 

Ime is a damn good coach, but even I’ll admit that the rotations haven’t been great.

But, let us not forget all too quickly what it was like when Stephen Silas coached the team. Let’s not act like Ime is some moron, he’s done a few things right - but he better not **** this up. This is the damn warriors. Just give me this.

 

Emotions

We're not losing this series

 

Brooks and Jabari are our best outside shooters in Ime's rotation. Brooks played only 27 minutes because he's in foul trouble. Jabari also played only 27 minutes because... he's jabari?.

Fred and Amen shot a combined 10-30 (.300), 7 assists and 7 TO (1.0 assist/TO ratio), and they played 40 and 36 minutes respectively.

 

Fully expected us to lose this one. They didn’t know what a playoff game was like until they knew — game one loss. They didn’t know what an away playoff game was like until they knew — game three loss. I expect them to bounce back, particularly Green and Sengun.

this offense though…yikes.

Ime has to hire an offensive mind and give them latitude. We’ve got our defensive identity. Now we need an offensive system.

 

I’d like to say I’m watching these games but I just can’t because I hate the warriors that much!

 

I’m not sure if it’s Ime to blame or stone but it’s impossible to coach this team at a championship caliber when there’s just an absolute epic flaw in terms of ball handling shot creation and shooting. Had we added one guy we could’ve mostly shored this up, but they decided to run it with the young guys for “development” yet they’re giving no playing time to the young guys that can actually fill that need… heck they are barely even playing Jabari. We definitely need to play these guys more. They can’t be that much worse than amen on defense when he has been a complete zero on offense. It’s not like we are stopping curry

 

Just looking at the playoffs. This was a year to steal a championship and we just screwed it up…. that’s what I’m most mad about like who in their right mind decided not to go after a shooter at least. To me, they single-handedly cost us a championship shot and should be fired. Whoever made that decision.

 

No worries, old man. Things never change and everything is exactly the way it was ‘in your day’

 

The current Warriors team isn't that experienced. Yes there's Curry and Draymond, but the rest of them are just guys (sans Butler who didn't play). Adams, FVV, and Brooks (and Jeff Green) have playoff experience, two of them have championships. The difference is our best guys have played like dog crap.