Houston Rockets EMBARASSED In Meltdown Vs Pelicans, Kevin Durant & Alperen Sengun STRUGGLE To Close
Houston Rockets EMBARASSED In Meltdown Vs Pelicans, Kevin Durant & Alperen Sengun STRUGGLE To Close
Houston Rockets suffer a humiliating collapse, blowing a 25-point lead and losing in overtime to the lowly New Orleans Pelicans. Is this the wake-up call the team desperately needs to salvage its contender status? Kevin Durant’s efficient scoring goes overlooked as poor shot selection, defensive lapses, and lack of offensive hierarchy dominate the narrative. Why did Alperen Sengun, Jabari Smith Jr., and even Steven Adams take so many shot attempts, despite KD’s outstanding efficiency?
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) breaks down the Rockets’ alarming execution issues, questionable lineup decisions by Ime Udoka, and how Reed Sheppard’s absence in crunch time impacted offensive flow. Insights on the team’s defensive effort, missing pieces like Tari Eason and Dorian Finney-Smith, and what needs to change before critical matchups against the Denver Nuggets and Sacramento Kings. Can the Houston Rockets regroup and play at the championship level their talent promises—or will their season spiral further?
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35 Comments
The Rockets have to learn that they just can't bullshit their way to the playoffs.
Hi Jackson, I like to watch your videos. Do you think if Alperen play around too much if the other is worse than Rockets?
Sengun has to understand he is not the best player on the team.. in no world or multiverse where Sengun should shoot more shots than KD
We have to get it together this year. This is the year, Durant doesn't have another great season in him, it has to be now. I kinda miss Dillon and Jalen 🙁 long term perspective.
That's what they get for not passing the ball to Steven Adams, everytime he was wide opened in the pick and roll. Udoka is so dum with his coaching. Nobody could stop Adams out there ,lmao 😅
Reed Sheppard is a bum
Jackson I love the show but you need to stop hyping reed Sheppard
This loss hurt so much!! Alpi is my guy but the clutch plays order should be KD first Alpi 2nd
Get a point guard!! Sick of Jabari and Sengun turnovers while trying to play guard. And Durant had 6 TO’s himself. Missed free throws, missed bunnies… terrible
Can't blame Jalen, lol.
The problem is Ime. Bad on offense since day 1. I gave him A LOT of benefit of the doubt. But that’s gone. The roster is extremely talented. The defense is worse. I don’t see him benching players like he used to. All these stupid techs. Ime is starting to give me Mark Jackson vibes.
We started losing when KD started bringing the ball up the court in the 3rd 4th & OT he needs to get OFF the ball
The problem with d Rockets is they don’t take vol 3s. so teams are not gonna respect their threat from 3pt range. Vol 3s like 40-45 @37% is better than 25 3s at 40%. When teams clogged their paints knowing d Rockets are not gonna take 3s,suddenly d Rockets struggle to score. It’s why they collapsed in 4th qtr against a bad pelicans and it’s also why they couldn’t beat the Nuggets that had only two quality players
This one hurt my guy. Lol. Right there with you Jackson. But shit like this happens during the course of a 82 game season.
This is on the coaching staff. The ball has to go to your best player and that’s KD. Don’t throw the doble team excuse because for example, when Jokic get doble team you don’t see whatever player take the shot, they reset their offense over their best player if he gets double team looking for the best situation for him to cook. Houston have to do the same, no way Jabari or Sengun have to take more shots than KD. That’s on the coaching staff
Trade for Giannis
Alpi has no defense and misses free throws
This game was way scarier to me than an off shooting night. There is a problem with the heart and mind of this team.
Even if FVV is healthy before the season starts, I said the Rockets need an elite point guard transfer, but everybody said no we're fine! If there is no head of the snake, the rest is nothing!
Why is Davison, who is a much better player than the other guards, not played and the team is left in the hands of Reed and Holiday with Udoka's strange fantasies every game? It is impossible to beat any team with this coaching mentality.
Between two Nuggets games, after 25 points lead, they started to save their energy and lost their focus and agresiveness. I was expecting this loss.
I miss Dillon Brooks much more than Jalen Green. We lost our consistently competitive, annoying irritating, intimidating, attacking soul. We have become soft.
KD has respectable shooting precision. However, he is not consistently competitive and shy away from dominating and leaderhip. Sengun has the leadership dna but not there yet but feels like he has to take that role since nobody else is talking on floor. Amen, Reed, Jabari, Okogie are skilled but I do not see leadership in them. We miss our floor general Fred.
Sengun developed a bad habit of attempting to steal ball while letting easy layups. Same goes for Sheppard.
Ime gave up zone defense but still too many open 3s allowed. Versions of zone defense must be an option at times.
Jackson I don’t really think Reed is the complete issue on defense, teams have been feasting on Bari even when Reed is on the court, biased Houston and D’andre was noticing it too. Reed still needs to improve on defense but Bari just gets cooked too unfortunately
Coasting too much blows big leads 😂
You switch up every episode, First sangun the best player .. Now it’s KD fault sangun took the last shot smfh
Rockets offense looks terrible. Fighting for offensive boards and playing iso after iso are not sustainable actions for the rockets. This team needs a PG to initiate offense from half court and KD needs to get the ball closer to 3 point line. Alpi needs to be played as offensive hub to open opportunities for others. I would look into return timeline for FVV, DFS and Tari. If it is not soon then discover trade options for PG.
Rockets screaming they need a PG
they could spam KD Alpi two man game w Alpi bringing it up, bcs Kd cant bring ball up.. but they still try to share ball and devlope the others.. i mean its still early in the season..
KD and coach lost another game KD gotta shoot more
this loss is even worse than Silas era. That much embarassing
Crush the boards and still lost. Point guard won't help if KD won't shoot at min 20 shoots
Bottom line we just need a real pg, if not reed needs to finish games as the pg . Despite his defensive, we need him out there . As good as KD is one of his strength at least at this point in his career is not bringing the ball up the court he’s great off ball wise
Coach don't know offense
Why can't JD Davison get some run
Coach still doesn't know what went wrong from his post game interview…. why tf he pulled Reed out he got zero turnovers??
Oh god not the Bari to the bench talk again😂 Let that man be💀
I know his TO’s were bad, but KD is playing absolutely insane, he has 10 blocks in the last 2 games, multiple strip steals, and basically not missing. He looks completely unguardable when in rhythm.