do you even begin to realize this guy didnt even play 10 (TEN gotta spell for morons not you necessarily) FULL AND REAL(again this translation for morans who think playing 6 minutes a night is nba experience) 30+ minutes games in nba? dont even start me on alpi not playing not even a single nba game with a remotely competent coach or teammates....
its like you have an einstein on your hands and you put him in circus and make him pretend hes just a gorilla trying to increase ticket sales...
I'm ultra excited about Sengun adding that 3pter to his game in the future. Really completes his offensive game. On the defensive side he's going to get there. It will take another year till he's average at anchoring a defense and that's fair. Two seasons is not a lot to learn something like that (and he's only 1.25 seasons in). You always hear how big men need 3 years to come into their own and really understand their role, and that's probably especially true if you're not as athletically gifted as most of the NBA. I'm more worried if a player doesn't appear to care. Alpi seems to want to be a good defender and high IQ players will usually find a way to be effective on defense and play within their strengths. Of course actual strength and muscle are going to help him a lot too. I'm sure now that he should add mass. He's not reliant on speed at all but strength can benefit him a lot. I see a Bogut-like defensive presence from him when he's fully developed. I can see this team shaping up nicely. Green-Sengun-Jabari plus 2-3 excellent perimeter defenders who are happy to just hit open 3's and move the ball. That's our path to contending. Hope we go after some solid team vets like Van Vleet and Anunoby when we have the cap space and done tanking.
Which game are we supposed to look at as a way forward as Rockets fans? The Atlanta game where we beat a playoff team without Sengun and Ego, or the OKC game where we beat a horrible team that had no bigs? Which is a model to go forward? The answer is BOTH - we should just let the guys develop and enjoy the ride..... DD
What do you know, Alperen is our best player (according to ESPN PER/minimum 14 games played) TOP 3 Sengun - 21.79 Tari - 17.22 Garuba - 16.52 Bottom 3 Smith - 9.17 Nix - 6.11 Josh - 4.89 Everyone else is either average or below average. https://www.espn.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/hou/table/game/sort/PER/dir/desc I think Smith will move ahead of Gary before too long.
This is why PER isn't a good measurement of overall talent level, I love Tari and Garuba but they aren't better than Green
PER disproportionately inflates rebounds. Hence why most leaders in per year in and year out are big men who can rebound and score.
FIRST TIME HEARING ABOUT THIS honestly i thought PER is mostly favoring guys that shoot well, shot efficiently and get to the the line a lot and/or have a great shot selection...guys finishing a lot of lobs and not shooting 3 pointers over the hands of defenders
just give ball to sengun...others move around, cut etc and stop dribbling around so much and chucking so many 3 pointers when they aint even practicing them as much as they should for a chuckers team....
NO...this is terrible offense. Sengun is not Hakeem. Give him the ball some as initiator - sure - but not every time down....that would be a disaster. DD
if this is a correct formula then it can also be said it favors 3 point shooters over non shooters more than rebounders , non foulers over foulers etc @fchowd0311
EVERY ****ING TIME! he can be better than hakeem, stop idolizing the past and mere mortals.... terrible offense is what we have now....
