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

oh? Sheppard with a crazy stupid layup attempt isn’t bad? Amen and Jabari missing FT’s or not completing fast breaks?

 

Can Ime get fired after this game and walk back to Houston?

Also, wasn’t Tari a badass on defense coming out of LSU? What in the ever living **** happened to that dude?

 

Jalen could have done this.

 

Get Durant suited up now!!
MOFO can play 8 minutes

 

Joe Mazzulla ran the offense in Boston as a Assistant not Ime Udoka. Boston Media said this.

Rockets got scammed big time. $30 Million Dollars for Ime Udoka is robbery.

 

All right, I'm done

I thought us playing the wounded Lakers was kind of a win-win, because either major changes would have to be made, or we'd actually win a f***ing playoff series for once

But this team losing to the Lakers with KD going down and giving Stone and Ime an excuse to not get fired might actually be the worst-case scenario. This franchise somehow managed to find a worse outcome than just getting embarrassed.

 

I suggest batteries

 

Houston teams are just the punchline of professional sports.

 

All you have to do is win the home games. Durant being out swung this in the Lakers' favour. People will overreact to game 1 as they always do.

 

Acting like Ime isn't a problem as well is actually being a casual..

 

I don't know how you don’t go into this game running tempo and going small.

Wear down the old man.

 

I don’t see how we get out of the first round. Even with KD coming back, you know our offense is going to struggle.

 

This is all on the coaching! No OFFENSIVE scheme no adjustments LAME

 

Amen has been active but he hasn’t looked good.

 

the worst part about losing in the first round is that Stone's sorry ass won't make changes and say we missed FVV and Adams as an excuse. I hate this dude so much. another wasted year coming up.

 

Well, for positivity, this could be the NBA's way to at least make the series close for revenue but we might still win the series via a gentleman's sweep

 

This is why I get so mad about Sengun - we employ him as an offensive specialist, the stakes couldn't be higher and he is a complete non - factor despite the Lakers having ZERO skilled interior defenders

Turkeys are good in November, not so much in April

 

The question is we have shiit offense.

You can't solve the problem unless firing Ime.

 

you know its tate

 

They'll be really stupid to have Luka return, coming back from those injuries too early, player always regrets it.

They could very well forfeit the next season doing that all to get smashed by OKC.

 

Who’s fukin more groupie la girls tonight ?

Bald Car salesman Kennard or Bieber at Coachella?