KD and Sengun had some few sparks of 2 man game last couple of games which seemed to work well. Coaching staff should come up with something that made use if that
I still don't know why they don't do more Sengun PnR with either KD or Reed. It's so obvious that it would be effective, more effective than the ISO from 3pt line. And the few times they did, it worked.
Seems like they did this a lot earlier in the season, they have gone away from it because, reasons? Idk. Also possible they both hate each other. To call up a P&R is generally on the players involved.
What if Sengun doesn’t want to do PnR and prefers his current style of play? What if Sengun is on some Dwight Howard sh*t?
Actually I just looked up P&R roll man stats, Sengun is something like .93 points per play as the roll man, 26th percentile in the league. He aint' good at it. I figured that must be a one year aberration but nope - he sucked at it last year too, .94 ppp, 28th percentile. He was OK at it 2 years ago (55%) but has been bad for 2 straight seasons now. IDK, just get rid of him. Guy is a fake all star.
I don't like giving up on young players after their first real bad season, but it's hard to ignore just how bad Sengun has been since the first month of the season. On top of how bad he's been, his game is clearly a square peg in the modern NBA as is currently is. When a young player is getting improved results as a player every season you can tolerate that, when they seem to have plateaued it becomes significantly easier to be alarmed by. His offensive game has shown no improvement, and his defense is visibly worse. After being the team MVP the last 3 seasons he's actually been a net negative most of this season. Certainly gonna be an interesting off season.
Sengun's best season was his third, Ime's first. We thought he was finally freed from the Silas blockage and was going to have a bright future with the Rockets. It's been downhill since then. I really don't know why.
How Sengun is supposed to defend a team shooting 50% 3. In the switch any guard in this league can beat any big. If he close the space he is done, if he stays far then got 3 in his face. The Spurs had multiple open 3's, that killed Houston defense. that was the problem.. Someone wrote “he allowed 19 points,” but nobody’s asking who allowed the other 126. If a team is shooting (21/40) 52% from three, you don’t stand a chance. The issue isn’t one guy—it’s the whole defensive scheme collapsing. Letting Brooks go was a mistake. It’s funny how people act like the team was great and only Alp was bad. That’s a lazy take. When the opponent keeps finding open threes, it’s not about one player being “bad,” it’s about rotations breaking down and perimeter defense failing. Blaming a single big man while ignoring the system is missing the point entirely. Instead of thinking about who should be part of the team’s future, people are still stuck on JG, Silas, Harden or this short-term Giannis obsession. With his injuries and age-related decline, chasing Giannis for a quick playoff run is strange. Maybe you get one or two rounds further, but the following seasons will be full of disappointment. There are still people stuck in the past, acting like those guys are still on the team. They don’t realize they’re gone, and the future won’t be built around them anymore. Holding on to old names just blinds you to what really matters—!!how the current roster develops and what pieces should shape the next era''
A center who can't hit a TS% above 60 is like a volume 3 point shooter who can't hit above 30% - simply not good enough. Sengun is 153 out of 205 qualifiers in TS% this year. That is horrible.
Sengun looked so good in the summer and to start the season. He looked like he could do anything he wanted, including play point guard. Lately he's been terrible. Last 10 games he's averaged 5.5 assists to 4.3 turnovers. Many of the turnovers are from no pressure at all. It's like he's in a mental funk. Defense has dropped off too.
