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ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Lakers 4/29/2026 (Playoffs Round 1, Game 5)

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by Clutch, Apr 28, 2026.

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  1. Shaq2Yao

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    We’re doomed. Perkins just picked us to win the next 2 games.
     
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    Loved to see Bari trying to be more dominant on offense and taking more shots. He needs to remind himself each day that he’s a 3rd overall pick, that was even projected to be 1st. He needs to keep on being that guy he was today.
     
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    Barkley did the same. :confused:
     
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    I think today was a big confidence boost for Jabari and Reed. That they could be clutch in a very meaningful game in the playoffs.
     
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    unfortunately this is true
     
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    b2b games holding the lakers under 100

    that or lakers just missing their shots
     
    #2447 mvpcrossxover, Apr 30, 2026
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    Sam Perkins?
     
    #2448 Buck Turgidson, Apr 30, 2026
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    Big Idiot, not Big Smooth.
     
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    Lol...
     
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    We needed every one of those 3 pointers from DFS and Amen.
     
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    Lakers are probably telling themselves that there’s no problem with the game plan, and that there’s no way Amen and DFS can replicate a game like tonight, two more times in a row.
     
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    Brother no one has ever come back down 0-3. We were doomed after game 3 lol
     
    #2454 Joe Rocket, Apr 30, 2026
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    Right, because if I’m not mistaken, LaBron is 41 years old*.

    * I know that because the announcers said it at least a couple dozen times every game in this series.
     
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    Red Sox did. And 4 different NHL teams.

    But yeah, game 3 killed us. We should be up 3-2 right now.
     
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    Love the heart young guys are showing. I still want Ime to be fired after the season's over though.
     
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    Someone needs to dub the Benny Hill theme over that sequence.
     
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    Smooth lefty 3pter...he gave Hakeem some fits out on the perimeter....wouldn't go inside where he belonged.

    I did love the Sonics in the late 80's: Xman McDaniel, Tom Chambers, Alton Lister, Nate McMillan, Dale Ellis, etc....those were great players on a fun team who were proper matchups for the Rockets

    I absolutely hated the George Karl Sonics in the 90's.
     
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