ClutchFans Game Thread: Warriors @ Rockets 4/30/2025 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 5)

Im expecting the team to come out swinging like game 2. Ime is going to cuss them out before, during and after the game win or loss.

Don't let this 52 win season just fizzle out. Inflict pain on them.

 

Right? Who from the first page is gonna delete their comment so he can end up there? Lol

 

I really hope you're right. Everybody is a lot more optimistic than me right now, so I'm going to assume that the offline issues I've got going right now are colouring my mood. But god damn I hope y'all are right.

 

I hate this because I feel a blowout happening either way.

Either we come out swinging and take the lead early and keep building, never letting go similar to G2 or...

GSW breaks our young guys' spirits with a massive first quarter that we cannot recover from mentally.

We don't get blown out much, our style of play leads to almost always being in a game, but this is a different game.

Praying for the former, I actually think we could still make this a series, but honestly that only happens if Jalen gets 15-20ppg and we hit more than 50% of our FTs.

Its sad that either are tall asks.

 

Hope we change the starting lineup, just start big. The big lineups are our best lineups, just f'n start with them this series, this is not hard.

Kerr has changed his starting lineup like twice now? Now is not the time to be stubborn who plays and who doesn't, now is the time to play whoever helps you win.

This rotation had 4 games to prove it can beat this Warriors team, newsflash, it isn't. Change it up. Come out with the lineup that hurts the Warriors the most, play the lineup that hurts the Warriors the most.

 

With the amount of success we have had with double big line up against Warriors, we may just want to increase that total minutes to 35 to win. This is ofcourse assuming that Warriors have not found effective counter to it.

 

Hope Ime uses his brain tonight

AND HIT YOUR FUKKKIN FREE THROWS

 

Last game thread of the year?

Time to get a boring win so we live another day.

 

Look at what happened to Milwaukee last night. Sometimes the will to fight is (as much as one tries not to let it happen), diminished when there is very little hope.

 

That's different. Milwaukee suffered a devastating loss when Dame went down in Game 4. And their 3-1 comeback would've required 2 road wins.

Also, they had that game won. They choked it away at the end. If the Rockets are up 7 with 40 seconds to go tonight, I trust them to close it out.

 

I want to see pnr with Green and Bari. It’s always with Sengun or Adams so teams know to sag back as there’s no risk for a pick and pop. Bari would require the defender to come to him to prevent the outside shot. This opens up the paint for a quick pass to Amen in the dunkers spot.

 

We need to win even while still shooting 60% from ft. This is what suits Rockets. Suffocate them, devastate them.

Go rockets!

 

If Sengun can’t beat a single defender and no one else is capable of even being a 3rd option, why is Jalen on the hook?

 

Win tonight man so we can talk about another game please...

 

With Jabari on the Bench Unit instead of starting, there is a limited amount of time that Green and Jabari have together.

They have a high Lottery Pick and a huge amount of Future Money invested in Green, so he starts even though he is inconsistent.

Ime loves Thompson, so he starts even.though he doesn't provide much spacing.

Fred is a Veteran and they pay him a huge amount of money, so he starts even though he prefers a slow pace when some of the Youngsters would prefer a quicker Tempo.


To put Jabari back as a starter, one of

• Fred
• Green
• Thompson

will need to come off of the Bench and Ime apparently doesn't want to do that.

 

I hate to say another boring win, but another boring win, probably won't even watch. What time is Blue Bloods on

 

I just want to make this series as punishing as possible for GSW at this point. If that puts us into a winnable game 7, great, but until then one game at a time and at very least make them suffer for it and limp into round 2.

 

It's one of those mantras that gets repeatedly stated: NBA coaches make adjustments. They have to. Here's the big one: Substitute Jabari into the starting lineup and bring Jalen Green off the bench.

We need scoring off the bench in the worst way, especially as Sengun or Brooks take a breather. And Jabari is a matchup problem for some of the smaller guards. Why not go bigger and challenge GS from the start?

 

The magical season ends at the hands of the voodoo squad from the Bay... sad it had to end this way but at least Ant Man gonna destroy them

 

Are you kidding me? Ime would never do anything so radical. At best he might bench Amen for Jabari. FVV, Dillon, Jalen who have all sucked as equally are untouchable. So the guy that actually started to look like he might be breaking out is the only possibility.