ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Lakers 4/21/2026 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 2)

Done.

Don't care to watch anymore.

 

KD 9TO and 1-5 in the second half

40% shooting as a team despite 17 more FG attempts

Bums

 

Rockets style of play is so difficult to watch with all of the ISO. Similar to UH.

 

Kevin Durant has never been a primary ball handler, he was never gonna be a primary ball handler. Anybody with the slightest clue could have seen that. You just need the most basic offensive set to get him the ball in a scoring position and a gameplan if they run a double at him.

Udoka's offense is not capable of basic s**t like that.

 

I miss Silas.

At least I wouldn't be so painful.

 

I had reached this point with the JVG teams. That was just horrible. This is also awful to watch.

 

Next year may be our year with Adams and FVV coming back from catastrophic injuries and 38 year old Durant @Salvy

 

I’m not even mad, I’m disgusted and dejected, but this team has absolutely no chance of doing anything against anybody.

Ime just doesn’t run plays. Durant apparently doesn’t know he’s allowed to stand closer than 40 feet from the basket to get the ball. Sengun is lost. Amen is timid bc gotta make sure they feed Durant so he can get his usage up.

It was such a catastrophically stupid decision to trade for KD. We could have ran back the same team and had this result.

Reed Sheppard played like **** because apparently with Durant back it’s back to the bench and if you make one mistake Ime’s gonna sit your ass down. You can’t play a guy like that. He’s like the only player on the team that can create his own ****ing shot. Even KD it’s like pulling teeth, while he struggles like a baby giraffe to get half an inch of space over something named Laravia.

We’re losing in 5. Idk how but Rockets will find a way to win one of these at home, refs probably gonna let us have 42 free throws, and then we’ll lose another close super enraging game and then get blown out in game 5 in LA.

I’ve never disliked a Rockets team so much in my entire life, like I’m only rooting for this team because of the city on the jersey.

 

JVG’s offense was kinda standard for that time…most teams had ugly offense and little to no spacing

Ime out here coaching early 2000’s offense in 2026

 

God I'm so angry....

 

Look, we all knew they weren't going to beat OKC anyway. Losing to this version of the Lakers is embarrassing, but it doesn't change much in the larger scheme of things. They gave up on the season a long time ago. The lack of urgency in acquiring a point guard made it pretty obvious that they weren't serious about actually competing for anything this year. But now jobs are going to be on the line. I expect to see some big changes for next year, I just hope Stone doesn't **** it all up further in the process.

 

For the life of them, they simply cannot put the ball in the basket. How many airball 3s do we have through 2 games? How many missed layups? Wild

 

Yall know KD has a beef going on with Perkins and Killa Kyleon (Houston rapper). Well they just keep going off on him. Even Stephen Jackson joining in.

times are tough.

 

McGrady going in on Sengun’s sorry ass

he’s the “All-Star” out here getting outplayed by Ayton and Jaxon Hayes

 

At least with Silas we know we would suck and the little wins we had were fun.

 

Stone likes to help other teams out but not us lol way to give the nets picks back.

 

Christian Wood >>> Sengun

 

Rockets are still gonna win this series

 

Impressive that this was with Reed shooting 0 points.