OKC Thunder Fall to Houston Rockets, What Went Wrong With Blunders?

[@BigShotPop2]

Release The HOUnds 🚀

[@MRod777-z3r]

Best regards from Jackson and the #rockets 🚀

[@taserienetflix2538]

See you all in the playoff Thunder #GoRockets

[@DakOwnsPhillyFans]

@@taserienetflix2538 dog y’all gon be in the play in houston ain’t keeping this up all yr good win tho

[@Gh0sT_Ek]

@@DakOwnsPhillyFansnaw fr tho 😭 it’s 1-1 and they think they own the conference

[@paquitocauli5229]

Release the HOUnds- Locked on Rockets---Go Rockets!!

[@WSJoey]

Okay, I think you mean "release the red rockets"!!!

[@ZenWaves7]

Hey, Rylan. What do you think explains why our team 3-point percentage is down this year? Recently I heard the stat that OKC is around 21st in the league VS. being #1 last year.

[@LloydTackwell]

should have played dillion brooks a little more but houston is for real.

[@jackduplechain7592]

This dude talking about therapy lmao. -rockets fan so 2x good

[@benwitchamom9632]

Release the HOUnds!!!! 🚀

[@redsnake324]

Release the HOUnds 😤😤😤 🚀

[@jorgesandoval3120]

ROCKETS COMING FOR THAT #1 SEED IN THE WEST. ITS JUST A MATTER OF TIME. TELL CHET TO GET HIS WEIGHT UP!! SENGUN WILL EMBARRASS CHET IN THE POST SENGUN WILL BACK HIM ALL THE WAY OUT OF BOUNDS AND GET AN EASY LAY UP EVERY TIME 🤣 IF WE MEET THEM IN THE PLAYOFFS I SAY ROCKETS IN 5 🏆🥇

[@richardsanchez84rs]

AUUUUUUUUU! GO ROCKETS!

[@ryanruiz9168]

What's with the refs! It's like every team has 10 plus more free throws us every freaking game. Still, I'm actually very impressed with Thunder especially since the Rockets were healthy while we're missing three key rotational players. I can't wait for the next time we match up. This will be a match up to watch.

[@SnakeMaster420]

Funny how OKC fans crying about fouls when it's a foul whenever you breath on SGA and yet OKC can smack sengun in the face multiple times for no foul.

[@nickscope27]

Release the HOUnds

[@Yeahhghjkklll]

Release the hounds😡

[@charlescohen6140]

Somehow I don’t think when Chet and Caruso are playing it will be the same result. Not a big deal.

[@Nelisaac]

The Rockets have more size than OKC

[@rustytv3023]

​​Hey, I really liked your article on S.I. about the player grades. really spot on. every time i read your articles on SI it makes me proud, bro. You're a great basketball mind/mouth.

[@jeremycharles8744]

I think Mark time management on SGA cost us at least four games this year. I don't know why he always takes him out when he's getting hot. In Isaiah Joe, I haven't had more than one good game since March of last year. I 100% agree with you when it comes to Wiggins. I believe he should take more Isaiah Joe minutes. He is not the shooter that people think he is he's too small, we need a shooting around 6'7, not Isaiah Joe size And for the life of me, I don't understand why he keeps putting D Jones in the game he is not ready.

[@dougbrown6952]

Jones comes in because Jay will and Chet are hurt. And he's a big guy

[@jeremycharles8744]

@dougbrown6952 Branden Carlson 7ft and he's a better option than D Jones

[@Monkeyrage22]

@@jeremycharles8744there could be reasons why he isn’t subbed in from practices. They must be training him and adjusting him to the system he went from the g league to the nba itll take time.

[@dougbrown6952]

@@jeremycharles8744 lol nobody knows who Brandon Carlson is. Mostly because he's a waste of height.

[@jeremycharles8744]

@dougbrown6952 And you can say the same thing about DJones. He is scared to shoot the ball. He's bad on defense. There's really no positive when it comes to him. A waste of a draft pick. 🗑🗑🗑

[@daryllewing508]

Chet can never fall again it be over

[@DakOwnsPhillyFans]

refs ROYALLY ROOOOOALLY SCREWED us our whistle is trash with them this season can’t stand it

[@alex77195]

Rockets beat the Thunder and the refs

[@worldwidewally1134]

I was at the game. The Thunder definitely got wayyy more calls than we did. They blew the whistle every time we so much a breathed on SGA. Stop crying and hold this 💁🏾‍♂️L🤣

[@screech517]

@@worldwidewally1134🧂🧂🧂

[@Gh0sT_Ek]

@@worldwidewally1134bro it’s 1-1 stfu. We’re missing Chet and only have a center who we just got this offseason and was injured so we have no size without Chet. So when yall not healthy yall bring it up but when you beat a team not healthy that don’t matter. Yall rockets fans needa be humbled.

[@worldwidewally1134]

@@Gh0sT_Ek BooHoo😢

[@RK.Anthony]

You know, when you've watched this game as long as I have you pick up a few things. This issue with the FT discrepancy is nothing new to an Oklahoma basketball fan. It's nothing new to any small market team's fans. Pro or college. I first saw it with Billy Tubbs' OU Sooner teams in the 80's and Tubbs handled it aggressively. I think Steve Kerr learned it from Tubbs when his Arizona team lost to the Sooners in the Final Four in '88. Rick Carlisle didn't passively take it when the small market Pacers were taking it in the shorts in last season's playoffs and Daigneault shouldn't be taking it now. Fourteen additional free throws. Thats the gap in FT's tonight. Cut that in half and the Thunder probably win this game. Analytics wasn't a thing back in Tubbs day, but he knew one technical may give up a point but if it got a better whistle it was worth 5 to 10 points on his side of the scoreboard before a game was over. It also fired up his team. It's called gamesmanship and Daigneault has to, not could, has to swallow his pride or whatever is holding him back and level the playing field because his team has had a belly full and things almost got out of hand tonight.

[@gellebelle1]

I wonder if Daigneault (or Presti) has ever sent the league video clips of players being hit without foul calls -- if not, they need to. I don't recall Daigneault ever throwing a tantrum on the sidelines b/c of a missed call -- he needs to start, and get T'd up in the process b/c that's what other coaches do. OKC needs to learn that the squeaky wheel gets the oil. Not having one single passionate, vocal, hot-head on this team could cost us in the playoffs: The Thunder allows mistreatment that other teams wouldn't accept.

[@RK.Anthony]

@gellebelle1 If these calls don't begin balancing out it isn't a matter of could cost us, it will cost us in the playoffs... and possibly more.

[@DIRA-1319]

Yeah, Dort was electric defensively und he uses his hands really effectively to hit people in the face. Come on! Your guy slaps and getting no flagrant and you are talking about lopsided officiating. Elbowing seems allowed too.

[@worldwidewally1134]

Release the HOUnds! Go Rockets!🤘🏾🚀

[@spfhoops]

Release the Hounds! 🔥 🚀

[@JASONWILLIAMS-de5tg]

Could have really used Chet tonight

[@brettdryburg8857]

Release the HOUnds! #LORNation

[@torenjohnson2585]

Release the hounds 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

[@sarahslifeinflipflops]

Texas an okc problem. Yes. It’s still December. Watch out in April!

[@wolfbane610]

I'm fine with the loss. We won 3 out of 4 on the road against good teams. Houston is a tough/talented second seed and has been resting since before Thanksgiving. We were down 2 of our best players and almost won. There's nothing to worry about. IHart is the real deal.

[@sean321a]

Go Rockets!

[@Richboy9968]

🌩️🥶🔶🌩️🔶🥶🌩️ THUNDER🆙

[@bballhunter2988]

Offense ain't right in the clutch. We need a 3rd creator.

[@charlescohen6140]

Any realistic thoughts? Maybe Chet?

[@vapegod6807]

release the HOUNDS

[@gaitman22]

Hhhhhooollllddd tthhhaattt LLLL

[@J-Hue]

Strangely lopsided officiating, again. But, again, "COTY" Daigneault sits SGA either at the wrong time or for too long. He caught fire and scored 15 in the 3rd. The coach then sits him 5 minures in a close game while the lead dwindles and JDub doesn't have it going. Now SGA has cooled down and the game is too close for comfort. Your #1 player shouldn't be bwhind your #2 player in minutes and fgas on a night where the #1 is on fire and your #2 is struggling. If SGA gets brought back early and gets 38-40 minutes, this is most likely a W. That's what all the other top teams do in games like this. There's no excuse for Daigneault. This is the 3rd time this season he's cost the team a win with these bad substitutions.

[@Webbie00]

The officiating benefitted OKC. AP had received punches and slaps, no calls

[@coltonyates3443]

Take the L, okc lost to a team they should beat…. Don’t care y’all missed Chet, yall have the best player in Shai

[@erickquila2342]

Rockets fans thinking that chet and caruso wont make a difference yet we blew them out by 17 when they both played and we still didnt have ihart 😂

[@HaroldYovannyVarela]

part of the HOUnd army

[@Haqayam]

WE GETS NO REAL FOUL CALLS😙

[@abeltheballer161]

This Rockets is an annoying team they trying to be the Thunder

[@Ian1SB3773R]

Jdub just wasn’t playing to who he is

[@daywalker02]

Role players have to go off, I am tired of only Dallas role players go off.

[@Ian1SB3773R]

@@daywalker02 the role players had too because the head coach didn’t give shai his minutes to clutch

[@justmythoughts101]

Did he score in the first half???​@@Ian1SB3773R

[@Nelisaac]

Wtf 😂😂😂

[@Haqayam]

⚡⚡⚡ THUNDER UP ⚡⚡⚡#1 OKC OKC OKC OKC

[@loganlautenschlager4478]

I hate how Houston fans are acting like they are the best in the west. FVV is not get 35 plus again against okc and a fully healthy okc destroys this team

[@LiamRushworth21]

Rockets fan here, no normal Rockets fan thinks we are the best team in the west so you are making that up we are just happy that we are finally back to being competitive at the top end of the conference and there is nothing wrong with that

[@kevinscott9242]

​@@LiamRushworth21I can live w/ Rockets fans who claim "they're the best" because that's fandom- a strange opinion at worst. But the ones who actually think they're 1st in the standings; that's just a Math problem or a reading problem.

[@TherronBurns]

Who’s to say somebody else doesn’t get 30+ ? And rockets will be better next time you play them quit being salty

[@kikoy11]

Rockets fans are excited we good and won. No rockets fans are saying we are gonna win the chip. Come on!

[@callumsmith5819]

​@@kikoy11i think this comment might be referring to the special type of people who go to other teams channels/accounts and brags/abuses others after their team wins a random game. Not really people who exist in society or have friends, just keyboard warriors who's only joy in life is other's suffering

[@gokalpmetininpapyonlusu5810]

OKC players act as if they are cage fighters and OKC fans complain about the received foul calls. Someone should slap OKC players and they can understand that why refs calling fouls. Meanwhile OKC should find a better commentator than Michael Cage. It is basketball, not "whataboutism". Between 2026-36 OKC and Rockets will collect 6 of the 10 NBA championships. Both are great teams, OKC better at the moment, Rockets has better core. Great rivalry.