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2025-26 Houston Rockets Thread - Back to Contention?

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  • Went to first game of season last night. Good times. Reed Sheppard seems kinda dumb. Holiday needs more minutes still. KD "off" night and still drilled 2 of the biggest shots As we all know..

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    Lulz  

  • Went tonight. Good to pull that one out...tough win.

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Just now, wildcat09 said:

We need to trade Tari for a legit point guard.

Throw in Sheppard as a filler. Tari looked out of sync and way too hesitant. 

1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I’ll save my officiating bitching for June when they eliminate us from the playoffs. 

Hard to bitch about the officials when the Rockets kept shooting themselves in the foot late in the game. Missed FTs, Reed Sheppard, KD's disappearing act, Reed Sheppard, bad shot selection, Reed Sheppard, silly turnovers. 

Sheppard playing in his first real NBA pressure cooker looked ok. Made some bad decisions, had some flashes. 
 

Tari and Bari are who im worried about. Both far from green. 
 

Tari looked worthless other than a bench energy/d guy and Bari looked the same. Just disappeared for half the game 

4 minutes ago, billfromlaketravis said:

I’ll save my officiating bitching for June when they eliminate us from the playoffs. 

lol

 maybe we just need an assistant coarch upgrade

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1 minute ago, Rockethorn1978 said:

It’s game 1. We will be fine. Relax. 

Yeah I feel ya

KD was trying to get the guys to calm the fuck down but they kinda feed off that wild goon energy lol

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2 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Tari and Bari are who im worried about. Both far from green. 
 

Tari looked worthless other than a bench energy/d guy and Bari looked the same. Just disappeared for half the game 

with you on Tari but could not be more against you on Bari.  He was great tonight.

Just back off em and don’t foul em

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Okogie is a Thunder in spirit. Can’t shoot for shit, but plays his ass off on defense and makes winning plays around the basket. 
 

Tiny sample size, but maybe he can close games at the 2? I wish he could play point guard because the dude is down to scrap. 

15 minutes ago, UDontKnow said:

Hard to bitch about the officials when the Rockets kept shooting themselves in the foot late in the game. Missed FTs, Reed Sheppard, KD's disappearing act, Reed Sheppard, bad shot selection, Reed Sheppard, silly turnovers. 

You said Reed Sheppard thrice 

17 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

with you on Tari but could not be more against you on Bari.  He was great tonight.

By “same” I mean same as last year. Very solid role player. Was hoping to see a step up. 

We win tonight if Fred Vanvleet were healthy and I feel like that will be a common theme throughout the season unless Reed magically learns how to be a competent shooting guard. 

Hopefully Amen is OK. Sheppard isn't ready at all, and Eason is the trade bait. We need another guard badly.

7 hours ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Okogie is a Thunder in spirit. Can’t shoot for shit, but plays his ass off on defense and makes winning plays around the basket. 
 

Tiny sample size, but maybe he can close games at the 2? I wish he could play point guard because the dude is down to scrap. 

 If Josh Okogie is on the floor in crunch time...you arent a serious team. he's that bad on offense . Basically someone who can spare thompson some minutes and guard the other teams best guard in that time frame...but he can't be depended on offense and teams will ignore him 

 

or someone when you sub defense for offense kind of situations. But out there with KD, Sengun, Thompson and Smith? unsustainable 

Edited by MNLonghornFUKM

Damn, that was frustrating. 

OKC is so relentless with on ball defense, which exposed some issues. KD needs to be better late in the game. 

22 turnovers. Way too many. That was what lost the game, imo. 

Everyone  but Jabari was sloppy with the ball at times. KD late, especially. 

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 If Josh Okogie is on the floor in crunch time...you arent a serious team. he's that bad on offense . Basically someone who can spare thompson some minutes and guard the other teams best guard in that time frame...but he can't be depended on offense and teams will ignore him 
 
or someone when you sub defense for offense kind of situations. But out there with KD, Sengun, Thompson and Smith? unsustainable 

Does Finney-Smith take those mins when he returns? Speaking of any time table on when that is?
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33 minutes ago, Horns RD Standard said:


Does Finney-Smith take those mins when he returns? Speaking of any time table on when that is?

man it totally escaped me that he was missing last night.  this team is going to be fucking deep.

1 hour ago, BigOrange1 said:

man it totally escaped me that he was missing last night.  this team is going to be fucking deep.

Need him to spell KD. Get well soon. 

1 hour ago, BigOrange1 said:

man it totally escaped me that he was missing last night.  this team is going to be fucking deep.

Yep me too. We were missing two rotational players, they were missing one.

Basically one FT away from winning in regulation, and it had an 88% chance of going in.

6 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

Love the playoff series game one over reactions. Going to be a fun season. 

No shit. Double OT, one point loss to the best roster in the NBA on fucking ring night and the vaginas are gushing blood like the elevators in The Shining….

18 hours ago, MNLonghornFUKM said:

 If Josh Okogie is on the floor in crunch time...you arent a serious team. he's that bad on offense . Basically someone who can spare thompson some minutes and guard the other teams best guard in that time frame...but he can't be depended on offense and teams will ignore him 

 

or someone when you sub defense for offense kind of situations. But out there with KD, Sengun, Thompson and Smith? unsustainable 

He's a fucking joke. The amount they played him was alarming. I tried to say it in here when HOU signed him. 

That said - this team is going to be really fucking good. They may need to trade for a PG but if that starting frontcourt stays healthy then look out. The rebounding is just absurd.

Scouting the Warriors to see which end of the bench jag will have the luckiest game of his life against the Rockets in the playoffs.

On 10/23/2025 at 12:28 AM, ztejas said:

He's a fucking joke. The amount they played him was alarming. I tried to say it in here when HOU signed him. 

That said - this team is going to be really fucking good. They may need to trade for a PG but if that starting frontcourt stays healthy then look out. The rebounding is just absurd.

It's infuriating that Fred Van Vleet is exactly what we need.

1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

It's infuriating that Fred Van Vleet is exactly what we need.

Y'all are going to be just fine. Your GM has put an absolute monster together. Run a few more games and if Sheppard really can't play point then I'd target a PG.

I'm saying it again - y'all have no idea how good Durant is. If he plays 65 games there are 7 games in there where he just randomly wins you the game. 

People underrate Udoka, too. Dude can coach his fucking balls off. The West is just murder this season. There are like 6 teams that are amazingly constructed and at their best could win a title. 

Durant and Reed were a combined 2-11 from BTA, those are our likely two best shooters, that needs to be 4.5+

Damn, Sengun was +53 in On/Off.

Edited by HtownHorn

Assuming the Red Rowdies young blonde lady isn’t a lesbian (?), I assume the thread would bang.

Pretty sure spacesuit man is 3 putt. 

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1 minute ago, billfromlaketravis said:

Windhurst and Lowe are going to have the Rockets out of the play-in if they drop this game. The daily NBA reactionary takes are a scene. 

They have to talk about something during the pre-season.

Talk about letting KD down Jesus fucking christ Houston. 

This no guard offense just isn't going to work. Stone has built a shit team with not enough shooting or playmaking.

3 minutes ago, perfectchaos007 said:

0-2 to start the season is not ideal. Detroit made the key defensive stops to win tonight. 

It easy to do when you can pack the paint because you have 3 non shooters on the court. Double Durant and pack the paint. Smith, Thompson, and Eason don't scare anyone. Of course the Rockets also missed 11 FTs. You can't be a average FT shooting team on top of all the other weaknesses offensively.

Edited by HtownHorn

Thompson, Sengun and JSJ all completely shit the bed offensively late. Just nothing from any of them.

You can't blame that on missing a point guard. 

Dallas will be probably be looking for a PG too. This isn’t going to a nice and cheap trade. 
 

Schroder at 3 years $45 million is looking better every minute. 
 

DFS taking the first month of the season off is also not ideal. 

Clutchfans should be fun tonight. Oh and the Fire Ime Udoka thread is live.

4 minutes ago, CurlyDumps said:

Clutchfans should be fun tonight. Oh and the Fire Ime Udoka thread is live.

Lulz.

Amen is not ready to be a PG. Fucking up any chance at a rhythm 

Adams needs to come off the bench 

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