ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Thunder 3/27/2024

he takes a long ****ing time to get to the point. cue it up to 2:58 if you want to skip the Stephen A chatter

 

Rockets have to use their physicality to make the Thunder uncomfortable. Back-to-back for them or not, if the game is a lazy scrimmage like against the depleted Blazers, OKC will free stroke and blow them off the floor. They are very deep and won't run out of energy and focus in the 2nd half.

The Blazers missed so many open 3s it was crazy. OKC will pump those in like practice shots.

(Besides SGA) The Thunder can be thrown off their game by agitation and intensity. That is why they may not win a playoff series.

 

refs will dick ride Chet. We will be in fake foul trouble

 

New Orleans has been on a tear. Hope it's a grueling, physical, 4 overtime battlefight for both teams. Don't care who comes out on top.

 

Jock gonna drop 20/20 on Chet

 

10% winning chance. Rockets need their best defense if they must have some hope to win.

 

Another one for Alpi and Jorge.

Amen.

 

Folks were downplaying our win vs cavs a playoff team. This game and the warriors showdown will show how far we have come as a team

 

Everyone is "hurt" for Miami tonight. Watch them all amped up and ready to play Hou. What a league.

 

I want Max Kellerman's thoughts instead.

 

Somehow win this and it will be the 2nd longest win streak in the nba this season. Win in Utah next and it will tie for the longest.

 

I just wanna see them win.

 

10-game win streak incoming.....

 

The Miami Heat are a weird team. Sometimes they go through the motions fully healthy and lose games they should not. Other times they can be missing 2 key players on the road but they play relentlessly, almost machine-like on both ends and win decisively. The Eastern Conference 6-8 seeds are a tossup so they have a lot to play for.

Warriors are also missing Trayce Jackson, who is a big spark for them. Kevon Looney is pretty bad now and will get more minutes.

 

Wasn’t Ime sexing a white woman?

I have no problem with Steven A regurgitating the nonsense of that fiasco. Zero surprise Boston was the city.

 

The real test of the JG rockets. Esp meaningful cuz if the Rox by some miracle make the playoffs OKC will be their matchup.

I hope everyone rested up and comes out swinging. We can't have guys playing like crap like in the previous game. If we lose this game then season is over IMO.

 

Have to guard them well at the 3pt line. It is strength vs strength. And Giddey is on a hot stretch right now unfortunately, so they cannot really help off him. Cannot take 1 quarter to re-adjust to the switching everything line up they use with Jabari. The switching all 4 and have Landale as rim protector that they used against Portland can work as a change up, but they were so rusty in the 1st half with it, and Chet will be used to spread the court so much, that is cannot be the primary defensive set.

Otherwise, it the classic things of protecting the ball, getting TO, no fast break, and dominating the boards.

I hope the guys take some of the match ups personal, like say Jabari vs Chet, Amen Defense vs SGA/J Williams Offense, and Green's Offense vs SGA/Dort's Defense.

I just worry they will miss the offense from Whitmore and Sengun in this one too much.

 

Nah. I think Denver ends up with the No. 1 seed.