Rockets Offensive MELTDOWN Vs Lakers As Kevin Durant DISAPPEARS & Ime Udoka Gets OUTCOACHED… AGAIN
Rockets Offensive MELTDOWN Vs Lakers As Kevin Durant DISAPPEARS & Ime Udoka Gets OUTCOACHED… AGAIN
Houston Rockets collapse late against the Lakers as Kevin Durant vanishes and offensive woes persist. Is coaching—or roster construction—to blame for Houston’s fourth-quarter meltdowns?
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) offers sharp analysis of the Rockets’ 100-92 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers, spotlighting Kevin Durant’s second-half struggles, repetitive double-team coverage issues, and Ime Udoka’s inability to find solutions. The show breaks down alarming turnover numbers, Clint Capela’s underutilization, and the stalled development of Amen Thompson as a lead ball handler. Listeners get a candid review of silver linings—Jabari Smith Jr.’s strong outing, DFS’s defensive communication, and Reed Sheppard’s flashes off the bench—while questioning the front office’s failure to add much-needed playmaking depth after Fred VanVleet’s injury.
Can the Rockets address their chronic late-game issues before the playoffs, or will this become their Achilles’ heel? Don’t miss this honest, hard-hitting Houston Rockets breakdown.
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31 Comments
KD please go away
Start Reed; bench Eason.
Ime should've told KD to pass the ball after KD couldn't get the hint to. His coaching style is immensely rigid on the offensive end.
This game was on Ime and KD.
Tari a bum
Play Davison for gods sake
Everything went downhill when we lost Steve Adams. KD is asked to be the PG bc they cannot give him the ball the defenders allowed to be very aggressive but as soon as KD touch them they flop and he gets the offensive foul. KD needs to go to the post! And get the ball there
Houston is a trash team,they should rebuild.You need 2 way players,most of your players cant shoot or cant defend,some of them can do both but they are not decent,ime tried to create winning team with this trash players but unluckily he lost 2 important pieces,without adams you cant fix paint and use Alp’i effectively,without fvv you cant play at offence,these 2 pieces are very important but with them you still cant win against top teams,this team should rebuild.
KD is the greatest firepower, he needs a competent pg
Jalen strikes again🤷🏾♂️ mannn we got to trade this ninja and get a star who can close games and not make a bunch of turnovers… Jackson you need to personally go to a press conference and insure that we get rid of this bum! He’s holding the whole team back🤷🏾♂️
same problem. too dependent on KD on offense. makes them too easy to game plan against.
Don't care about seeding anymore.
PLEASE FIRE UDOKA…… PLEASEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Kevin want to win playing ISO ball. That trickle to our young guys causing them to explore what ISO ball is for them. Ime is a players coach so he encourages this behavior. It’s very cyclical and it leads to bad play because our young guys don’t have the requisite skills to win playing ISO BALL.
KD has to be the worse "superstar" and future hall of famer I have ever watched play, don't get me wrong he can score and is one of the best at it, but other than that, he is TRASH, destroys team chemistry and blames his short coming on his team mates. I knew when they traded for KD it was over for the Rockets, should have never made that trade, now I don't know what the hell they are going to. Has to be the worst trade I have seen them make in my 30 plus years of watching the Rockets, I can't believe anyone thought that was a good move. They were on track to became a great young franchise, with multiple all-stars, now they will be lucky to make the playoffs the next couple years, if they don't do something fast, before KD finishes the job of destroying this team.
The real frustrating thought is that Ime may be happy with effort because it was a mucked up defensive battle of a game. But the world can see that the offensive has absolutely zero coaching creativity and you cannot win a championship in today's NBA that way.
Trade KD. Fire Ime.
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Sengun is not a phenomenal. Barely avg. player.
Time to let KD and Ime go, build the team around Sengun with proper players who are able to play their part. This building project has failed. New plan is needed without Ime and KD.
KD is the best player on the team and will continue to carry this team on his back despite this horrible performance
Durant has been seeing double teams his whole career…shouldn't b knew to him
Thank you KD. Instead of helping the young core, he made them worst and killed the team chemistry. No wonder, that he changes team every time!
It is hurting me to watch the Houston games lately!
I can't believe u fixed ur mouth to say a real good Lakers team lol smdh….Lakers str8 trash
Being young is no effin excuse Jackson!!!…even Udoka said this 2yrs ago
I've been saying that something changed in Dec. A couple of close games were lost and the team freaked out and stopped playing through Sengun as the first option.
We've been close to .500 since. At this point, them not going back to using KD as an outlet/second option vice the initiator is just arrogance from Ime.
If only the NBA allowed teams to make some kind of trade mid-season to give them a chance to perhaps fix the GLARING fucking hole they have at point guard… oh wait.
The person to blame for our loss Vs Lakers, is coach Ime!!!! Why??? If Ayton is on the court why is Reed guarding him!!! The height is not matching!!! All of our opponents are double TEAMing KD so why are we still running the offense through KD if it’s not working during clutch time, especially if he’s being double TEAM!!! DFS needs to go and take a flight back with the Lakers so he can consistently make his buckets when he did wear purple n gold! Eason can be gone after this season, it happens all of the time during clutch time, Eason does the dumbest mistakes during clutch time when it could have been prevented like the offensive goal tinning. I’m having a hard time understanding why do we take our little sweet time to dribble the ball past half court!!! I said it before we need to run and gun into the paint so that the defense have a hard time setting up!!!! Reed is not PG at all!!! He’s just a spot up shooter!!! We are not ready for the post season, we don’t have grit or the hustle mamba mentality!!!we play like the Harlem Globetrotters too many turnovers killing us softly!!!
Guys, as someone from Massachusetts I watched almost every Celtics game when Ime was coach. I promise you this man is the problem. Anytime there was a close game, Ime would take turns having Tatum and Brown play iso ball and they lost so many games that way. Every single possession for the last 5 minutes of the game was a forced jump shot at the end of the shot clock. He has a very simplistic view of running an offense.. star player = give ball and score
im sorry bro, ime udoka needs to go. i dont care how many injuries they have, ime and his team was literally unable to solve the kd double team the entire 2nd half, against the lakers of all teams. thats not good coaching, thats unacceptable coaching
Rockets are done!! They were better last year & no.drama! Durant have destroyed the Rockets chemistry. Locker room killer! Durant, Durant is the blame!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂. Go Spurs Go
Lol nahhh I’m not letting this slide