ClutchFans Game Thread: Lakers @ Rockets 4/24/2026 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 3)

Are the Rockets better without KD?

 

we are playing Aaron Holiday, DFS, and Unc in a playoff game

Stone failed this team

 

Sengun not even being put in action - still lets Jared Vanderbilt slip in behind & score

Folks - you can't start a Center that does that unless he's putting up 25 -10-10 a game

 

Funnier still is I'm not sure what team will offer him anything serious at this point.

 

He has been playing good defense this game. He has to exert a lot of energy to help keep this team in the game since none of his teammates can hit a ****ing 3.

 

i'm sorry, I just can't, unless you're playing a strech 5 and have amen on the ball. i just don't think he has the talent to justify all that.

if he plays as a PF, we have the same issues we have with him + alpi. paint way too crowded all game.

 

dude won 25k can we have some of his luck?

 

he’s a decent free throw shooter. I don’t see why he couldn’t. He doesn’t take those often though. Not nearly enough imo

 

Can we sign the guy who made the half court shot?

 

But I don't

 

Or Reed hit some of the 8 he's bricked

 

Still, the coach isn't the person who takes the shot, you can't just use it as a blanket excuse when players don't execute basic fundamental **** most of us who played basketball as kids learned around age 11. We're talking wide open shots and gimmes at the rim these bums aren't hitting. We're talking soft as charmin screens that would've got laughed at in the 90's. We play like absolute p*****s, in fact that's an insult to p*****s.

 

Next game KD will be listed as questionable with vaginitis

 

Bench is 1-9

 

You can see the vision with Fred at PG and KD/Bari as your wings, then Amen as PF. Doesn’t work if Amen is paired with Okogie, Tate, DFS, and so on. You don’t even need a stretch 5. Just guards and wings who can actually play.

 

Stone, 'Daishen Nix is a lottery level talent.' Stone is a ****ing moron.

 

He's either the biggest fraud in history or he's a gambler. **** that absolute waste of a contract.

 

and we're losing to a big three of Hachimura, Smart, and Kennard. Lol.

 

Pissing me off, he just looks sad and unconcerned, tired of watching him get beat for layups.

Has no idea that the only reason he was going to get his contract because he was playing like a dawg, he's been playing like a kitten for most of this season.

 

Bronny is checking in, rockets should attack him mercilessly