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Alperen Sengun is the Rockets' franchise player

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by AroundTheWorld, Jan 17, 2023.

  1. Downtown Sniper

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    I cannot fathom how you continually outdo yourself by making worst post of the year candidate after worst post of the year candidate.

    It has to be trolling, someone cannot be this wrong about seemingly everything they say.
     
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    We WILL run an effective offense this season. I truly believe Green was unable to play within structure. Green’s offense was less than team oriented (Milkhair sticky ball). Sengun’s numbers will go up because the offense will have flow.
     
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    Everybody's efficiency will go up because (1) Jalen is gone [addition by subtraction] and (2) KD is here [addition by addition].
     
  4. hakeemthagreat

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    Um, you can whine yourself outta reality but keep in mind this came from Udoka himself. They had to find away to keep Sengun on the floor because his defensive shortcomings, which was the birth of the double big. Sengun was getting picked on every game & coach figured out a loophole. Just stating facts homie
     
  5. MystikArkitect

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    The double big lineup was to mask the limitations of our terrible offense. Our best possession was often a missed shot into an offensive rebound.
     
  6. REEKO_HTOWN

    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    It did give us extra possessions that’s for sure. I’d say after it became obvious that we could get more possessions without sacrificing points on defense because Sengun could play defense effectively in zone it was a no brainer though. Got to give Sengun props for that.
     
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    You should be with DD cheering for him. I've been worried for him due to DD myself. Even Yao kept breaking his body thanks to DD's fandom.
     
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    I don't disagree entirely but we aren't the only team using a "double big" line up. OKC runs a double big, as do NYK and Boston. I'm sure there might be others. My point is, I don't think it was only to mask Sengun's defense but maybe other reasons. Like exploiting our offensive rebounding superiority when both bigs were on the floor. We didn't win for our efficient offense. We won because we were good for putting the ball in the basket AFTER our inefficient offense missed the shot. At least that's how I remember it.
     
  9. cumutk

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    The double big line up was to mask Houston's terrible offense.
    Sengun had to play with a miserable shooting team.
    A man who would easily average tripple double in any team, at least 50 percent of his asists were wasted by brick breaker Jalen, Jabari, Brooks etc.
    He finally will have a chance to play with real offensive player.
     
  10. hakeemthagreat

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    Yeah but OKC has bigs like Chet that can shoot. We're the only team with 2 traditional bigs that play under the rim. The only main reason was too take away teams isolating Sengun. Other teams has their reasons
     
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    He's part of the terrible shooting
     

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