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

Rockets suck.

Bad Coach.
Bad GM.
Bad players.

I feel bad for fans.

 

Lakers have the best player in this game and it's not close. If we had KD, we would lose by 3 instead of 11

 

Jalen Green has to be the happiest player today. Great Coach in Ott, Great Backcourt Teammate in Devin Booker.

Ime Udoka offense in the Tank. Jalen Green laughing his ass off.

 

Not sure but Udoka should be fired even if he got that 6 yr extension. Even Doc Rivers is a better coach than Udoka.

 

I think the Rockets will still go on to win this series, about everything went wrong in this game. Not many of our guys played even averagely, their guys all shot well.

Not that it matters because OKC is next but I think they will pull this series off in 5 or 6. I think Sengun will play better, I feel like every time he comes back after a break he has no touch and misses all these shots he usually makes and he'll get better as the series goes on. I doubt he plays like this the rest of the series and if he does, we are toast, with or without KD.

 

Welp. I'm ready for the off-season.

 

****in dominayton showed up tonight lol

 

Yeah, I think KD makes it more competitive but ultimately ive got us losing is 6.

 

What are we without Durant then? They still had LeBron setting up shots

 

Offense was crap this season even with KD. Without him? Might as well not suit up.

 

What an embarrassing ass game, man. I'm so disappointed, pissed, dejected, nauseated....

 

Not gonna lie, going to be tough not feeling down being killed by Luke Kennard. The next game is way to far away.

 

What is Udoka going to say in the presser?

Lakers haven't even out hustled us or played more physically, they have just kicked our asses at every aspect of basketball because we have no game plan

 

What’s even more pathetic is them now showing up with a bit of hustle just for the agenda of making the final score look not that bad. Fcking pathetic. Any real professional team would empty the benches and reset for the next game. Just shows how mentally weak this team is.

 

Rockets and Lakers only have a 1 FTA difference, Rockets attempted 27 MORE SHOT ATTEMPTS, and we lost by 9

 

Tari went 7-7 and everyone else did cardio

61% shooting for the Lakers. Pathetic.

 

Stone and Ime need to be on the hot seat when we lose this series. I swear we have to be the worst offensive team in the playoffs.

 

If udoka is fired, we just pay him out? College coaches get fired everyday after big signings. Do the same.

 

Did we win?

 

Watching the Rockets this season gave me depression.