Rockets Comeback FALLS SHORT Vs Bulls Despite HUGE Games From Kevin Durant & Alperen Sengun
Rockets Comeback FALLS SHORT Vs Bulls Despite HUGE Games From Kevin Durant & Alperen Sengun
Houston Rockets’ furious rally falls short as three-point woes and defensive lapses haunt them in a 132-124 defeat to the Chicago Bulls. Can Kevin Durant’s dominance and Alperen Şengün’s efficiency growth outweigh shooting struggles down the stretch?
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) breaks down the dramatic comeback attempt, highlighting clutch moments from Durant, Şengün’s triple-double, and Amen Thompson’s impact. The discussion spotlights the Rockets’ three-point disparity, bench scoring drought, and Ime Udoka’s rotation decisions—raising questions about late-season stamina and playoff readiness. With the Rockets clinging to the 6th seed and a pivotal matchup against the Minnesota Timberwolves looming, all eyes are on Houston’s defensive focus and whether increased shooting volume can fuel a postseason push.
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42 Comments
DumDoka is consistently inconsistent with his lineups and when your coach doesn't know what lineups he wants to play. How can your players be consistent. I would love to know how many lineup changes throughout the season. Last years team starting lineups had changes but not like this years team and it shows. First Round exit!!!!!
The loss was on the entire Rockets team but whole team did not struggle – KD, Alp and Amen did more than enough to win this game. It was the bench scoring that was MIA again, like they have been all season long. And Jabari was invisible too.
The entire Rockets team has forgotten how to play defense. Starters are EXHAUSTED, playing too many minutes.
More important game vs wolves on Wednesday so I’m not overreacting. It’s was just a bad shooting night vs a rare great shooting game by the bulls . Our offense got good looks . However the defense has been an issue the last two games . Ime need to figure out how to cover for reed and segun and they got to be better themselves
While the shooting was bad, and the refs were worse. They couldn't maintain their play from the last two games. They did better than previous games, but these are the types of matchups were they miss having an athletic combo guard. They need to regain some of that asap. so they can run with these athletic teams that are actually good. Like OKC and t-wolves. And also to maximize Amen. He needs someone on ball he can run with and play off of. Reed, alpi, and jabari would benefit too.
The only consistent thing this team does is turn the ball over.
Just hate how you never know how a game will go with this team
Jabari in year 4 has had more bad games than Reed Sheppard in year 2. FACT.
But agree, Reed needs to continue putting up 10 plus attempts from 3. Same for KD. Same for Aaron Holiday.
This wasn’t our guys losing it, it’s the fault of the organizations disconnect with stone being happy to just punt the season away, ime still trying to win but also not help develop Reed to begin the season. This kind of games could of happened to begin the season but off the bench with a hot JO and tari shooting and less Adams this could of been solved or played through where the team is able to see this and remember how to play through this from the beginning of the season. It’s to much pressure to put on Reed now to be the pg and in games like these when everyone is starting like crap to be the general to bring them back with no kind of experience yet. But I mean with a healthy sengun suddenly and a hot af Kd and amen and Reed being his average self and Bari in the playoffs I mean that can probably make the second round so who knows wats going to happen
Udoka is awful. He's a bully who likes to shame his players publicly. Zero skills as a coach and as a person.
Need some instant offense off the bench – what is Malik Beasley's current status right now? Heck, I'd take Bol Bol at this point.
Honestly Stone not signing a point guard or even a combo guard to get us through this year is a big punt on the whole season. Especially now that Reed starts (which he should) you REALLY feel the lack of depth there. 9 points from the bench is because there is no offensive system outside of playing off Sengun and KD
Jae'sean Tate has had negative BPM every single month this season, except for February. Tate is not a winning player for this team (same for Jeff Green – that is 2 wasted roster spots on team already missing 15th roster spot due to financial reasons plus 2 other players lost to season ending injury – Fred and Stevo).
Rockets only have 10 reliable players on this roster (3 players are semi-reliable). And DFS is barely playable. Although he's been better in March. Starters are overworked and rotation is short because bench is unreliable due to lack of depth as well as being poorly constructed. This all goes back to the GM, Raphael Stone.
The Rockets must have at least three players positioned behind the three-point line, with no more than 3–4 meters between them; they need to run their offense from there. KD and Reed must set screens to create space. If they don’t do this, their three-point shots will be wasted. They need to do exactly what the Chicago Bulls did to extend their lead from 8 points to 11 points with 9.43 seconds left in the first quarter.
Got to unlock Jabari Smith he's your second best player! Y'all use him like Tracy McGrady in Toronto, James Harden in OKC and Scottie Pippen in Houston. You just use him as a spot up shooter when he can do much more!
I hope this isn’t preview of the playoffs where guys are ridden into the ground… I have no clue why Capela can’t get minutes for us when he’s been good for us
Bulls shot 50% from 3. We shot 27%. End of story. Jabari had six points. Reed didn’t shoot well either. Don’t panic. Stay the course; we’re on to something. Reed Sheppard will drop a 40 bomb before the season is over.
We are down 3 players that brought a lot of dawg to the court and specialized skills. Fred, Adams and Brooks. Kd was an up grade over Jalen, but Dorian Finna Miss was not a replacement for DB.
This team needs more guys in the rotation
7th seed….Suns getting healthy, Dillon and Mark return this week. Houston lacks edge… Best bet is to start holiday in a low minute role. Reed can be 6th man that finshes games. I'd trade KD and Fred in offseason…Need more speed , depth and defense
I think the talent level has taken a hit on this team…. They have to play a perfect game to barely beat mid teams
I always believe that the Rockets outcome will always depend on Jabari and Reed. Even the post season result will depend on how far those 2 will take them.
Bad coaching
KD and Reed are very bad defensively that’s simple reason for the loss
Why does ime always blame the players? Not once has he said yeah i did bad too or its my fault too. Why?
The other day KD held back when saying ask the coach. Good on him. Why cant the coach show some accountability for once????
Collin Sexton is a guy the Rockets need
On this team !!!! Been saying that for 3 years now !!!!
Reed needs to know when he should be going to the stars. Watching him dribble the ball up and shoot 3s early in the possession was painful to watch. Dude you are not Curry. Give the ball to KD and Segun when they are cooking. That’s just common sense. He took to many shots for a 4th option at best 😂
Ime seems like a real asshole to play for. Every winning team I've noticed has a cool, calm coach and the players all look happy. Ime looks like he's in a pissy mood 24/7
😅Reed gets beat the whole game and, according to the other Rockets podcasters, lost the game for us. Jackson: he'll get better. Reed goes 3/14, Jackson: He COULD'VE went 14/14 though. He needs to keep shooting. 😅 Jackson is seriously delusional when it comes to Reed man. I love the kid but he's really terrible on defense EVERY game and when he's missing threes he's really worse than Tari because at last Tari is scared to shoot right now. But Jackson seems to KNOW what Reed is gonna become in the future. What a skill.
Jackson you know how u said start Reed if the season is over. Do you think ime is doing this cause the season is over. If so I know ime is regretting it
5:42 5:47
All the time it’s basketball dork
We've lost to quite a few teams who we were favored over. Has anyone asked if the the prep for these teams is any different than prepping for the nuggets or spurs of the world??
6:10 so he balances off why even bring him up? From the game I seen ya boy Reed and Sengun got cooked bad.
12:57 the help by who? 🤔 conveniently leave that up
13:52 Aaron Holiday was a +25 sounds like stops to me 😂😂😂😂
J. Smith and T. Eason sucks, plain and simple
Why are we always in Giannis trade talks every year Id basically be kd and Gianni’s vs everyone since the bucks want everyone on our team 😂
All that ish y'all was talking last video. Reed Sheppard is 🗑️ and jabari Smith jr. Is Kelvin cato reincarnated. 1st round exit
The rockets re-played the sengun dunk a million times but in the bulls next possession he gets beat off the dribble for an uncontested dunk smh
Watch out! the Wolves demolished the Celtics a couple of night ego with not Ant Man.
Grimes for Eason this summer
Seen this show over and over this season – Sorry defense and terrible 3 point shooting – what else is new?
Sengun's time in Houston is done. Happy hunting with toxic Durant. Sengun needs to be traded to another team. Just so you know your organization and your city sucks. I hope that every one these young guys find a way out of Houston.
DFS and Tari have been awful. They bring no scoring to this team and get burned on defense also. Yes Reed and Bari had an off game but those other guys have to pick them up. Reed makes a mistake and it seems like it’s magnified compared to other guys I saw lots of mistakes from all the starters but Tari and DFS have been consistently bad. 9 points off the bench is ridiculous. Tari and DFS bring nothing to this team right now. Guys are going to have off nights but these 2 have off nights every night running around lost and there in the rotation. An nba team can’t get out of the first round with guys in the rotation like Tari and DFS the way they are playing right now.