That's not even close to being true. Sengun was out and we actually played our best basketball with Jalen looking like the best player in the league
And his defensive rating is worse than Sengun, a mathematical metric that inconveniently destroys your argument and you try to ignore. Talk about delusional!
Ime simplified everything last yr, basic PNRs between Sengun and FVV. Sengun was featured more, I think everyone can agree on that. Jalen was learning most of the yr. Let's not classify who is 1A and 1B just yet. If you say who FLASHED the most last yr, I would say Jalen, despite his slow start. Jalen looked like a star player during the Rockets winning streak
Good point. This was ofcourse with Landale at center stretching the floor & Sengun out. No coincidence
landale doesn't stretch the floor, it was just 2 weeks of lucky shooting from jalen that's all. He's completely sucked for 90% of his 3 seasons so far
Obviously you're set in your assessment of Jalen thus far, however you can not deny that during the winning streak he looked like an All-Star. Was it that everything clicked? Was it that Sengun was out and he had more room to operate? We won't know until the season starts but we can see he has a special talent.
We do know, it was because of his hot shooting. He was a terrible shooter his entire career outside of that brief stretch, the data is what it is. He's TERRIBLE from 3 and TERRIBLE from mid range, even with that crazy 2 weeks where he couldn't miss.
I love Sengun (love all the young rockets) but good god how many times are people going to bring that up? He should just retire and go into the hall of fame at this point from that game.
