Any time people are this confident in something that is unproven, they tend to be wrong. That goes for just about anything. Logical people tend to evaluate things and allow room for their opinions to change and for more than one outcome. People who are extremely arrogant and overly confident about projections tend to generally be lower IQ, which is the category where the SOFs fall under. Their opinions tend to be formed with emotion rather than logic, which is very common among uneducated opinionated people.
This is the kind of game that’s made me have concerns. It really showed on both ends. This is good for Sengun bc it’s gonna be part of his growth and where he needs to improve. I’m curious to see how he’ll bounce back.
I’ll say the same thing I say when Jalen struggles...Alpie is a 20 year old kid facing the best players in the world, he’s allowed to have bad games. I think what’s been lost amongst the bickering over him is that he has loads of potential that he hasn’t realized yet—and by all accounts he’s a bright and talented young dude so he’ll figure it out. Patience, patience
Posted this in the game thread but I'll repeat it here for the purpose of discussion. I thought he had a nice first quarter, he had like 5 passes to wide open shooters and came away from it with 2 assists in his first quarter stint, which I think was like 7 minutes. But for the rest of the game he was getting played really physical in the post, working hard for position, and not getting the ball. On the few occasions he did he missed the shot (ended 0/3). And then he got called for an offensive foul once when he tried to play equally physical, which is annoying to see but hey it happens. After that he sorta just stopped trying, I don't know if he's tired on the b2b or just frustrated or maybe a combination of both but he's gotta be better. It was a bad game from him. He can't allow himself to be neutralized like this, he has to learn from this, and I think/hope that he will.
Not assertive enough today against a much better defensive team compared to yesterday. He went from the high and low post to just hanging around the 3pt corner in the 4th. Gotta be better than that.
With 3FGAs is hard to get a feel for the game. Thought they tried to get him involved early. I counted 5 post ups in a 4 minute span. We went like 3 games in a row he had zero. Those posts ups led to some good open threes that were bricked, 1 hit. I'm not even counting a couple of terrible entry passes that led to turnovers. So around 8 set up plays in the first quarter for Alpi, that would have been a whopping 30% usage rate with the slugfest that 1st quarter was. Scalabrini joked, "The hand is part of the ball." When a foul on Brown wasn't called. Here is the problem, 11 minutes before seeing the court again. A player like Sengun has to touch the ball and they never looked for him again. Happens to Green in the 4th a ton.
Did you guys watch the game? I still blame the passers. When you post up and raise your right hand, you expected the ball will be passed to this hand. rockets guards passing to off hand, getting stolen in between, or even don’t want to pass.
Rockets have sucked ass passing into the post since after the Hakeem days. Shane Battier was actually our best passer into the post since IIRC.
Or you know, it could be the fact that they knew it was coming every time so it was easy to disrupt... Y'all are acting like we were playing a scrub team. It's a god damn legit bonafide contender, you don't get to make easy passes in the post when they know what the guy on the end of the pass is capable of.
What? Give him the ball, I know Porter and Silas was not going to play through him. The same song but different verse
If Sengun shot the ball 10 times and layed a goose egg I can understand…but only had the ball three times and let Garuba and Fernando take his minutes…Silas sucks
He was literally the only Rocket to touch the court and not score. If we played Boban for 22 minutes, he'd have scored at least 1.
