Just because Sengun only had one TO and is "the most high IQ offensive player on the court at time", doesn't mean you get to pin his mistakes on other players(like Bari) - it's still HIS mistake.. Not quite sure why you are off defending Sengun from a mistake even he would admit to and own. He can be a great player and still make mistakes and still be held accountable for them - that's just being human(and young still) ...it's frankly weird that you think we should make excuses for Alpi on something everyone in the building including Alpi would agree is his mistake.
Those Alpi magic passes have become an endangered species this year. If he's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't, he might as well do it.
The TOV was credited to Alperen, no one denies that. My opinion is that Jabari had equal or greater fault.
I don't know how you can blame anybody else on that play. Nobody would expect a fast break in that situation unless there was no defender between you and the basket. It was a 2 on 3 break. Even if the pass was successful, scoring was not guaranteed. You are leading by 3 points with 15 seconds to go. Protecting the ball while running out the clock should be your only goal unless you have an uncontested layup.
...so if Tom Brady is up by 3pts late in a football game and the team discuses in a time out running the ball to run clock then lines up and Brady goes rogue, doesn't hand off to the RB and instead zips a behind the back pass to a receiver to try to score again and the receiver isn't ready - that's GREATER fault to the receiver...by your logic, because they aren't as good as Tom Brady? Really? Is there anyone else in the entire world who would agree with you there let alone on this board? Its such an absurd stance to take - be serious or don't waste my time because you'll get blocked real quick if you are just trolling.
Yeah, agree - that was the best move there. I agree with @Terror-Trips that I wouldn't WANT Tari to have the ball(he truly had some atrocious TOs tonight - I would have benched him) but in the moment with Sengun trying to avoid getting the ball take away from two defenders, I far prefer passing to open Tari and wasting a few more seconds on the clock over trying to pull off a no look pass with nearby defenders when it counted the most.
I agree that the smartest play in this scenario would have been to hold it. All I was saying is that the missed pass was just as much on Jabari as Alp. If that was Amen on the receiving end of Alp's pass the results would be different imo. Again, just my opinion.
it was a sht pass in crunch time, period. Anyone trying to pass blame onto another player aside from sengun just shows how much of a sengun fanboi they are. Sengun had a great game, had one sht pass that could have cost us the game, but we won so onto the next game. I don't even know why folks even attempt to defend such a pass.
