Trade Sengun. He deserves a better fanbase, team, and coach. Houston isn't a basketball city, football city. Just look at the crowd at the Sacramento game.
Trade him to another team & let him fail miserably in clutch situations while also letting his man score at will
I thought we got rid of all the weirdo SOFs who cry to trade him any time he gets criticism and were left with the decent fans? Who the **** let them back in?.
Don't worry we know you're a solid fan and contributor, the wackos don't reflect badly on you guys at all any more, we're way past that now.
I do have to give it up to Kings fans that place was rockin last night…felt like a playoff game in the 4th quarter and OT that’s a legitimate home atmosphere only time Toyota Center comes anywhere close in the regular season and most of the playoffs is when free Chick-Fil-A or Whataburger is on the line…
Remember those youtube compilation videos of Sengun's insane passing out of double teams getting players easy buckets out of the post? Ime sure doesn't. Because I can count on one hand the amount of times Ime has put Alpi in position to make those plays this season. That alone should be case to tell Ime to sit down and stfu and listen to another offensive coach. It's just utterly dumbfounding watching a head coach force his best player to play to his weakness.
I think Udoka do some bullshit to take Alpi always of the game when he is cooking! The Rotations are not good i think. In my opinion Alpi didnt played so bad, that he be benched last 16 minutes of the game! His stats are good but Udoka didnt liked his defense, that might be the reason for benching him. But he was surely not the only player who made mistakes in the defense. Blaming him nearly alone is not the right way to win players!
He might suspend himself from the game, because there is nobody left for him to bench at the end of the games.
Sengun is in the doghouse with Udoka. Benching him in the second half when he was well on his way to a triple double by halftime was a sure sign of that. I think this is why though: "Another, simpler fix is just to smoothen out their shot distribution. Per Second Spectrum, Şengün has taken 21 more shots in crunch time than any other teammate, but his effective field-goal percentage is just 40.8 and his true shooting percentage is 44.8. For context, Şengün’s shooting splits would slot in 452nd and 453rd among 454 players averaging at least 20 minutes per game. Could it be that Şengün is still adjusting to an uptick in playing time, the effects of which typically manifest itself late in games? That’s a possible explanation for such a drastic drop in efficiency over the span of clutch time." Between Durant's turnovers and Sengun's horrible crunch time shooting, it's hard to win a close game. But sitting them both when you needed points in a blowout? That was either Udoka sending a message or him giving up on trying to win the game way too early. Not a good sign either way. Something obviously needs to change, because Sengun is too good to not be on the court when it matters.
Ime is showing his tough love again, which I dislike the most about him. These type of qualities on people managers don't belong in this century! Saw couple of X posts a week ago suggesting that Alpi was one of the top performing clutch shooters in the league. Maybe don't put him in a position where he has to shoot 3s ends up plummeting his percentages to the bottom of barrel in a week. Rockets plays like headless chickens. It's not about micro, this isn't about the players. Ime needs to get back to work on a macro level. Benching your best players on what 10-12 pts deficit, giving up a shot on a win isn't how you get there.
