Not sure where you are pulling your data from, but I have a Stathead subscription and I also watched all their games against each other. While the Clippers won all of them, Sengun was definitely better than Zubac. These are the actual head-to-head stats for last season: Zubac didn't even score 43 points in all 4 games combined (he scored 40), so I don't think your stats can be correct.
The fact that Jabari and Mama Eason are so openly excited about Alpi's performances seems like a really good sign of good chemistry between Alpi, Tari, Bari to me. That's great.
This whole height discussion is so utterly stupid. I think he looks shorter than some of those guys because he has a long neck and his shoulders are lower. But at the same time, that seems to give him better balance. He can dribble much better than most centers.
Being Kelly Iko must be so exhausting. The journey he started with Bruno Fernando to replace Alp, continues with Joel Embiid.
Your stats are backwards, I think. On NBA.com, you can view a player's stats vs. another player when they're on offense or defense vs another player. Seems like you're actually quoting what Zubac scored on Sengun in that first line where you say "20 points scored (9-13 from the field) by Sengun with two total assists", isn't it? The problem with using bballref's "head-to-head" stats is that they really aren't "head-to-head". They're just stats where 2 guys happened to play in the same game. For example, was Sengun really being guarded Zubac for all those numbers or vice versa? NBA.com's stats try to at least answer that question. For stats (especially advanced or granular stuff), NBA.com is the best stats site (and it's free!). Well, at least I think so. I just wish they had an API or something. lol. NBA.com's only downfall is that they offer so much information at sometimes such a granular level, you may have to navigate around a lot to find what you're looking for.
When you say Zubac, I immediately remember Sengun making an excellent fake and an extremely quick spin and release to score over Zubac. That one was a beauty. Zubac gave some trouble to Sengun. But I think it was mostly the result of Silas's strategy of not attacking Zubac in return. Green and Sengun could easily put him in foul trouble, before Sengun. But Silas never went that way. Not just with Zubac, but with any big. He was complaining the opposing teams went on Sengun regularly, but he never attacked opposing centers to put them into foul trouble.
You are right with dribbles. More importantly I think it helps him with his post game. Combined with his flexibility his low body center of mass allows him to make sudden stops&change of direction compared to other centers and create space by bending his upper body away from the opposing player without taking a step back or jumping backwards to lose strength.
From now on, I'll just assume that every single person who is so obsessed with an inch or two more or less of Sengun's height and who acts like Sengun cannot be an all-time great if he is not taller than 6'10 actually ran into embarrassing problems in the past when they were made to feel like an inch or two were missing for them to perform their duties. Some kind of psychological trauma they are projecting on Sengun lol. Almost no other logical explanation for this weird obsession with an inch or two.
My obsession with Jalen Green isn't something that makes my moral sensibilities feel strange and uncomfortable.
Nah. You spend 50 hours a week on a NBA team fan message board spamming anti-trans content and I'm done pretending that's normal.
I remember when that photo was taken Sengun had just stepped out of the ice bath: That is the solution to the Mystery of the Missing Inch.
That's so cool of you man! Your own obsessions don't make your moral sensibilities feel strange and uncomfortable, but your suspicion of others does. Wow. You love and accept yourself sooo much, that's way beyond narcissism.
