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

Blow this up!!!!! Fire Udoka, and trade everyone. Time to tank and hope the NBA can give us a generational talent like Flagg or Wemby in the draft…

 

That's what I thought but the Tillman Years have just been - a series of lows that I figured to be impossible - and I actually went to games where the best player was Terry Teagle

 

Reed Shepard wasn’t the reason we lost. He **** the bed big time, but the reason Alpi was able to go off was because they couldn’t double him like the prior games

this was the closest we were to winning and we were without Katie. Do you think we were better with Okogie?

ironically it was the “defense only player” that came in and fouled a 3pt shooter for no reason when all we had to do was run the clock out

Tari turned it over,
Jabari turned it over
reed turned it over

that’s on coaching and their dogshit inbound plays that seem to happen over and over. You can say Reed was crap but absolving Ime is something his lawyer wouldn’t even be able to convince someone

 

i just want tp keep saying how i knew this series was going to be bad. when big rockets accounts who have watched this team ALL SEASON were in cake walk talks. I was appalled that people would say anything was a cake walk with this team. The ultimate jinx.

i took "Rockets Fan" out of my bio on twitter

 

Bunch of bulllllllllllllllshieeeeet

mother of pearl

this is awful

 

Tate has that udonis haslem contract on this team.

 

Ime never learns

 

10 first round picks since 2021 and trading for a top 5 all time scorer...and still can't win a playoff series.

What a rebuild!

 

I'm just so stunned honestly. Literally sitting here and staring at the ceiling.

 

Game 4 is a must win....

 

Will those that argue Reed Sheppard is:
a star, starting material, great player, Steph Curry like, generational, not that bad of a defender finally admit he just isn’t good right now?

 

fred would tell IME he was an idiot then do what he wanted.. We didnt know how brain dead a coach Ime is

 

Yes without Reed in the game we would have lost in regulation cause we would have been at 80 points at best.

However, Reed also played like sh** and it's fine to expect much better. The fact that we could win while Reed played like **** is hardly a compliment to Reed but more to the fact that the Lakers are mediocre. If Luka/Reaves don't come back they will get swept out of the building by OKC. The Rockets are just that bad.

 

I can't even watch this stupid spurs game. I'm in the rockets space and can't even focus

 

One of the things I liked about D'Antoni is if his opponent had a bad defender he would pick on them over and over. Now we have Ime. Kennard played 45 fricken minutes and dude is a worst defender than Reed. Sorry Reed, but I can't remember Kennard even giving up a basket tonight or being put in the blender. As a matter of fact he was just sitting back watching his man in the corner for 15 plus seconds ever possession. WTF are wee doing?

 

we tanked for years, and the only team I think we might beat in a playoff series out of all the playoff and play-in teams is maybe the Suns

just off the strength of out hustling teams and beating them to death on the offensive boards, we’ll get 48-50 wins in the regular season, but in the playoffs, we are food…we are a bunny to a pack of wolves

 

The Celtics are so lucky for dumping Ime.

 

Of course we should expect better, he’s timid af and does stupid crap.

he absolutely should get criticism, but again he is one reason amongst many, all under this dogschit of a coach who can’t scheme inbounds plays or beat a rookie ex ESPN analyst missing his 2 best players down 0-3

 

Choke city

 

this dude right here is always right. Ime benched JO and Clint Didnt play these lineups at all. played DFS/Holiday/Tate