2026 NBA Playoffs West 1st Round: #4 Los Angeles Lakers vs #5 Houston Rockets (LAL wins 4-2)

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Who wins?

  • Lakers in 4

  • Lakers in 5

  • Lakers in 6

  • Lakers in 7

  • Rockets in 4

  • Rockets in 5

  • Rockets in 6

  • Rockets in 7

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Props to Sengun, Amen and Bari for showing up and trying to put incompetent franchise on their backs


Thats all I got
 
O.G. said:


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If only we had 82 games before the playoffs started to give this guy some reps, develop him and build confidence


Also people wanted him to run point because he was the best option and one of the only people on the roster who can dribble


Obviously he's a flawed player but Udoka jerking him around with his minutes and place in the rotation all season made no sense
 
southsil4lil said:
From a viewing and fan experience this is easily one of my top 5 most hated Rockets teams of all time

Stone and Udoka absolutely should fired
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Stone age finished?

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I kinda don't like how Udoka called out his team to the media. He has done that a few times this season and I think if you keep doing that, you could lose your locker room. I'm sure everything he says at the press conference, he conveys in the locker room to them also. Sometimes it's good to keep that shit in house

It seems through the little bit I've seen, that he doesn't put a lot of blame in public on the way he and the coaching staff approaches games. I'm pretty sure he has and I haven't seen it though.
 
#1hiphopjunki3 said:
I kinda don't like how Udoka called out his team to the media. He has done that a few times this season and I think if you keep doing that, you could lose your locker room. I'm sure everything he says at the press conference, he conveys in the locker room to them also. Sometimes it's good to keep that shit in house

It seems through the little bit I've seen, that he doesn't put a lot of blame in public on the way he and the coaching staff approaches games. I'm pretty sure he has and I haven't seen it though.
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No you're right, you never hear him take accountability and responsibility for things he has direct control over but he's quick to throw the players under the bus


I didn't like that either
 
@southsil4lil

Im assuming you're the resident Rockets fan in here.....did you initially like the KD trade or do you think they should've ran it back with last year's squad that although was young was more defensive oriented than this current squad.

And do you feel had they kept last years squad would this series be different right now or same result?
 
darkboy301 said:
@southsil4lil

Im assuming you're the resident Rockets fan in here.....did you initially like the KD trade or do you think they should've ran it back with last year's squad that although was young was more defensive oriented than this current squad.

And do you feel had they kept last years squad would this series be different right now or same result?
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It's a lot of layers to it


If you just look at the trade itself it was a great trade and you do that 10 times out of 10....Jalen Green sucks, and I love Dillon Brooks but KD is KD

Now the issue is The Rockets young players weren't developed enough to be ready for that kind of move....we were probably a year or 2 away from needing to do something like that

Also we made that move not knowing we were going to lose Fred for the whole season so that drastically changed the dynamics of the team and put players in roles they weren't meant to be in



As far as this series if it was last year's squad? Thats a good question considering we dont have KD right now....so just adding Dillon and Jalen Green would no doubt make us better. Dillon alone would probably swing this series for us if he was here
 
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