ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Lakers 4/18/2026 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 1)

Expect sheppard to play like trash in games 1 and 2

I have closely followed him. Since I like him a lot.
He is very nervous rn trust me lol

 

Is Udoka OK mental health wise? Seriously, does he have something wrong upstairs? This is the most galaxy brain take I have ever seen.



Never in a million years would I have compared Jabari Smith Jr to Kawhi Leonard. There is no overlap in their games. I am so bamboozled by this claim

 

Rocket win 116-105, Durant 28 pts, Sengun 24, 12, 8

 

I think he meant to say Jabari reminds him of Rudy Gay. That's more believable.

 

I remember when basketball analysts actually thought about the game and didn't just troll people constantly for attention. Can we go back?

 

Rockets win if they can figured out how to beat the double team on KD, last time Lakers held KD to 2pts and 6TOs in 2nd half when they started double teaming him.

 

Kevin is the better shooter, Lebron is the better playmaker, the only way the Lakers have one iota of a chance is Lebron get his shooters going.

Too much of a high variance though.....the Chasedown Blocks are just for show.....

 

It's not trolling. He truly believes that.

 

Lebron is trolling us, we're not the best rebounding team in 25 years without Adams.

 

Nick Wright has always had an unhealthy obsession with LeBron.

 

Nick Wright is great at his job. I watch First Take clips pretty much daily. But yeah, he loves him some LeBron.

He was on a podcast with Jason Timpf, another LeBron superfan who happens to be great at his job, and they were talking about LeBron versus Durant. Jason said that he'd take LeBron in the top ten to lead a playoff team. Wright said give me that meat, I mean, hold my beer and said there aren't 5 players he'd take before LeBron to lead a playoff team.

I guess it was Nick Wright teaching Timpf how to properly glaze their king or something.

 

Nick Wright is a terrible self-involved guy who loves to hear himself speak. He used to be a lot better, actively defending Harden with facts when national media was still hating. Ever since then, he’s been bad, to the point where Broussard actually sounds like the smart one without an agenda.

 

Broussard has been compromised.

Everything you said about Nick Wright could be true, he has definitely turned on Harden, but he's still good at his profession. I disagree with a lot of what he says, and he definitely has snake-in-the-grass tendencies, but that show is still the best around.

 

That's what I'm saying, he's so bad, he makes Broussard like he's legit.

 

reedported

 

Be prepared to rip your hair out at all the Marcus Smart flops. He's by far the biggest flopper in the game. Thank god Doncic and Reaves are out because that trio is a master of getting opposing teams in the penalty early and milking soft contact for non stop trips to the line.

 

Prepare yourselves for Durant, Bari, and Amen to play 47.5 minutes a game, and Reed to get about 10.

 

Fify

 

They can be mighty floppable as a unit