I was actually hoping for more touches and playmaking opportunities when he is closer to the rim. I think that’s what mostly people meant by ‘play through Sengun’ or ‘Sengun’. He doesn’t have the skill set to initiate like jokic does, but he has a valuable passing + scoring skill set, just needs to be utilized differently. rockets lack playmaking and players who can beat their man. They need to solve it some how. I think their best bet is still playing through Sengun but not giving him the ball at the3 pt line combined with kd isos.
Senhub back in the Silas days was majority playmaking in the post, not the perimeter. They just have no creativity at all on offense and unfortunately Alpi's not the level of scorer or playmaker where you can just throw the ball at him with no actions and expect him to make something of nothing. Frankly few players are and one of them is a center. In all of history. Maybe 2 if we count Sabonis' daddy.
Eric Gordon was his mentor. The foul protest after every play. Now the real question is he having fun.
I believe in Sengun but I can’t defend his lack of progress these last two seasons. Either his ceiling is not as high as I thought or we are doing a terrible job developing him, or both. But he’s been very disappointing relative to where he should be in year 6. The inability to finish around the rim is the biggest indictment.
He saw that it is the anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 point game. Because he can’t rise to that challenge, he obviously tried the “other” Wilt challenge. Wink Wink
Right. Sengun is not a point center just like Amen is not a point guard because neither of them is an outside shooting threat.
[QUOTE="Aruba77, post: 16075148, member: 589"]I believe in Sengun but I can’t defend his lack of progress these last two seasons. Either his ceiling is not as high as I thought or we are doing a terrible job developing him, or both. But he’s been very disappointing relative to where he should be in year 6. The inability to finish around the rim is the biggest indictment.[/QUOTE] Last two years? Almost sounds like there's a common denominator.
Sengun has a half of dominating against a rookie sighed off the street, then they had a halftime to make adjustments and he sucks. I’ve said it in for the past year. He’s not a hard worker except in spurts. Shows off in offseason photos to give an impression he’s a new man. The reason he was shooting well during the offseason was because he was motivated for the national team and had his personal shooting coach work with him. Other than that, I don’t buy it.
Can only cry like Duncan and dress like Shai after a title and mvp. Until then gotta keep chopping wood.
I don’t think it has anything to do with Euros or his home country or whatever. Udoka is on record saying a few times how he and the coaching staff think they have an advantage w Alpi against anyone. I think it’s just Udoka trying to turn a finesse player into a brute, as he seems to want to do with everyone, scoring over doubles and triples and whatnot, rolling over defenses crushing them just enacting his will. A lot of comments and explanations here ignore how Udoka operates: He wouldn’t tolerate someone just completely ignoring what they have been told to do, and it’s also absolving him of responsibility when we assume the product on the court isn’t what he wants or approves - if not then that’s a worse problem for a coach anyway. This is his offense and his schemes. It’s on him.
