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.
If the starting lineup was Sheppard, Okogie, Smith, Durant, and Sengun I'd be willing to bet the floor spacing would be better and Sengun wouldn't be forced to operate in the paint with 3 defenders.
Two issues with that lineup. 1) Teams would above that lineup putting Reed and Sengun in pick and roll all day 2) There is little to no rim pressure or rebounding. We would likely still get wrecked with that lineup. Okogie shoots a good percentage but he doesn't have enough of a rep to actually provide the kind of spacing we need.
Anyone have a good reason why he completely abandoned that push shot from a couple years ago. It seemed like he got decently confident in it and it would give him an easy 6-8 points a game. No Fred pick and roll but he stopped using it last year as well. Just seems like a shot that an interior post player who struggles with efficiency should look for.
The KD / Sengun pick and roll is very prone to live-ball turnovers. Both of those guys are responsible for a lot of the "pick-6" turnovers that result in uncontested fast break dunks for opponents. It's a nice wrinkle but we are asking for trouble if we design an offense that features that action as the primary driver of ball / player movement. Reed / Amen or Reed / Sengun should be the primary action that we run. Reed is proving to be a good enough decision maker and his sooting scoring threat is enough to keep passing lanes open. I've been more and more impressed with his on ball reps. I am biased toward big guards so I wanted Amen to work as PG but Reed has been so much better than him in that respect. KD should NOT be creating on ball.
We have no rim protection anywhere on our roster. The issue was to solve the spacing for Sengun to be affective, because it's not happening with Thompson and Eason in the lineup.
I hear you, and I get the approach. I just think defense and rebounding without Amen gets much worse than it already is. There isn't a single player in that lineup that is a plus rebounder for their position. I would accept that Bari is solid in that regard when his head is right but he is very up-and-down
