ClutchFans Game Thread: Rockets @ Timberwolves 3/25/2026

You're literally making things up...why would I be Ime when most of my posts are trashing Ime???

I can tell, you're down there a lot. You post about me as if I'm the subject of the forum lol.

 

We can blame ime but he literally had no one to go to. Everyone was ass. He had to play tate. Which he had good minutes for us but coming into this season no one thought tate would play much at all. But we literally had to play tate because stone stood pat at the deadline. And he signed dfs in the offseason which the lakers warned us about his ankles....

Fire stone it's just that simple.

 

Just watched it again. This wasn't on Ime. Everyone was straight up ass. Both on offense and defense. Lazy defense and horrible shot making. Absolutely disgusting loss.

 

I really don't care if both of them go tbh I'd celebrate it.

I think Stone is mediocre, I do think the picks of Reed and Amen were good and those were difficult picks. Some wanted Castle here but imagine having a backcourt of Castle and Amen? The shooting would be terrible. Beyond terrible.

And Amen got picked over who a lot of the board wanted (Whitmore) the rest of the guys after Amen are all at best decent role players, so he hit on that pick...in a huge way. I can't think of a single player after Amen that I would want in that draft instead of Amen. Looking at that list, Amen might legit be the only potential all-star in that draft after 4, that might have been a 4 player draft and Scoot's been a bust so 3 player draft.

But yeah Stone sucks at everything else. Some say that Ime's behind the signings of DFS and such...could be true, but if I'm the GM and my coach suggests some stupid ass move I ignore him and do whats best of the team so yeah that's still on him. The coach is an idiot that looks at the offense and thinks its good enough for some reason.

 

Ime has some flaws but he was the one who turned us around. Stone on the other hand is lazy in drafting and transactions plus he let Brooklyn off the hook. He deserves to be fired.

Ime must try to stabilize the locker room after another deflating loss. It’s too early to give up.

 

Turned around from a tanking team?


That’s where you’re setting the bar?

 

I’m fine with the Reed pick, but I was always more on the Clingan side. We kept getting bullied by bigger teams—especially when the Wolves had KAT—and it exposed a real weakness. Size hurt us all year.
I went back and watched Stone’s post-deadline interview again, and honestly, the way he talks about “numbers” is frustrating. It’s the same pattern—like after the first-round exit, not really owning that Jalen Green was a big part of the issue, but still speaking on what it takes to win a championship. That’s hard to take seriously when he doesn’t have that kind of experience.
What really bothers me is how passive we were at the deadline. Even with the uncertainty around Tari, that was a chance to be proactive and flip assets for someone who could actually help now. Instead, we just sat on our hands.
And giving the Nets their pick back is always going to sting. that move felt rushed and unnecessary. We still could’ve positioned ourselves to go after Kevin Durant without doing that. That decision is going to hang over this front office for a long time.

 

It such a nightmare to have the dumbest gm in the game. Still could have gotten kd without making that dumb trade with the nets.

 

Stone turned us around by bringing in FVV and Brooks.......Ime is a clap clap play hard guy, he is outcoached every single game, he has to go.

DD

 

First time in 29 years that a team lost a game after leading by double digits in OT.

ONLY THE ROCKETS

CHOKE CITY

 

How could Ime let the Wolves have 15-0 run in the final 2 mins of OT?

I am still shocked.

 

Stone should be fired as well for zero moves at trade deadline.

 

Rox getting primed for playoffs. We would have faired better in December, before the league got tape.





Brooks injury helping Rockets from playing in

 

Ewwme forgot we were only up 12 and not 24. :^)

 

I think Stone has made plenty of mistakes, most of them being trades and FA, so I Wouldn't mind him going at all.

I actually think the KD trade set this team on this path and the team just doesn't work how it is. Maybe FVV is the missing piece, I do think his absence is sorely missing, like I don't think we drop so many games simply due to have FVV slow the pace down and not...give up big leads in minutes because he'd bring the ball up, slow things down, settle the team, and the numbers show he doesn't turn the ball over much. I do think the team misses that a lot...

But yeah they, outside of the draft I can't think of a move that Stone has made that has worked out for the team.

FVV WAS a benefit for the team sure but...when you contrast it to having Harden...it looks bad...and yea the word is Ime didn't want Harden back but again a GM has to at some point tell his coach he doesn't know what he's talking about and go with Harden. There is no world that FVV is better than Harden and I wonder what the Rockets rebuild looks like with Harden, whose play CONTINUES to enable the growth of young players, vs the journeyman PG that FVV is...and FVV is not a bad PG but he's no Harden.

My biggest fear is that the team will get even more desperate, sell more of this team to get Giannis, and basically we'll be back at a 2 year window before a complete and total tank rebuild again and just like KD, we're going to end up wondering if we should have made that trade.

So I'm not really against firing Stone...I just think Ime is literally a bottom 5 coach in the league. A lot of the moves he makes are actually baffling. I'll never forgive him for some of those KD lineups he put on the floor this year that were basically KD and just a bunch of defensive players, like he really thought KD could just carry an offense alone on tough midrange shots, like a 2026 NBA coach doesn't believe in shooting or spacing the floor or even trying to.

 

Minnesota and the Lakers are not world beaters - but they are better than the Rockets.

Minnesota won two playoff rounds last year. They also beat the Rockets without their best player playing tonight. They are just better.

The Lakers have more fire power. The Rockets don’t have anyone to match up with Luka and he will get buckets late while the Rockets turn the ball over. LBJ and Reeves will get easy buckets. The Rockets lack the fire power to beat them in a 7 game series.

Denver with Jokic and Murray? SA and OKC are way better.

Rockets just make too many mistakes— too many turnovers, poor perimeter shooting, poor post defense and bad coaching on the offensive end.

 

“Move on to the next one”, classic!

 

I guess we'll see, I don't think Minny or the Lakers are that good. My prediction isn't so much the Rockets, I just don't think those teams are that good. I think they are b-tier teams, just like the Rockets, they need A LOT to go their way to reach WCF and then even more to reach the Finals.

Minny made it to the WCFs last year...but it feels like when Portland did it a few years ago. They played the Warriors without Curry so...I'm not really sure that's a playoff series win for them to ever brag about. They then didn't even look to be in the same class as any of the teams left in the playoffs. Randle is their 2nd best player and is a fringe all-star guy and the team, much like the Lakers, are basically just Antman going off.

Which to be fair, that's true of the Rockets too. KD can still win you games. He can still go off for 40 and win you games against anyone. Maybe that's where we differ? I still think KD can win a series, I still think KD can play 3-4 great games, and get you a series.

But I wouldn't be surprised if the Rockets lose to Lakers or Minny sure, I just wouldn't be surprised the other way either.

I still don't trust the Lakers defense, I don't trust Lebron's age, the only thing I trust on that team is Luka. Their role players are worse than ours, which is saying a lot. Hachimura is their version of Tari, Laker fans HAAAAAATE that dude and think he's useless, basically if he's not shooting well gives you nothing else. Smart is also just an old hand, will do some good things, Ayton is basically a complete bum most games and don't look at his playoff performances, it is abysmal...the rest of their team is unremarkable and its all being carried by Luka WHO can do the carrying for sure...but I could definitely see in a playoff series other Rockets going off, because the Lakers defense has been terrible. I could see KD going off, I could see Amen going off, I could see Sengun going off, and if Luka is just good, then what happens? I don't know. I guess I'm like Charles, I think that team is not good, it's being carried by media hype because they are right now playing slightly better than the Nuggets, Minny, and Rockets, but if they see OKC/SAS/DEN in the playoffs it's going to be a quick out for them. Reeves is good, he's a good Robin...but is he better than Sengun? I don't think so at least.

I agree with Denver. Denver is the only team that goes toe to toe with SAS and OKC when matched up.

Those other teams I ask myself...can KD win the Rockets games against them? Sure. I don't think they are that much better if at all than the Rockets I guess. I think the records show that. Denver is the only team I'd be trying to hard avoid because I do think they have a contender level to them despite them dropping bad games here and there.