To serbia?To old vassal lands ? They rebelled like 200 years ago against turks. I don't think serbs accept him as their ruler again.
If he starts I can see him getting to the line 7 times a game. He already leads all rookies in Freebies attempted, playing limited minutes. That would be elite for a 19 yr rook in Anfernee Senguin. Luka avg 6.7 ftas in his rookie campaign.
I think we all see it: Stop with the ballhogging, get my man two good shooters and he's a walking triple-double.
9. Alperen Sengun, Houston Rockets One of the more dumbfounding things I’ve seen recently in the NBA happened on Wednesday night, when Stephen Silas only played Sengun for a five-minute stretch in the second quarter of the Rockets’ game against Oklahoma City. The Rockets are 1-14 this season. They are horrible and don’t really have any chance to make the playoffs. This ship isn’t turning around for the 2021-22 season. Silas said he thought Daniel Theis was playing too well to take off the court, but that’s such bizarre rationale that doesn’t match the situation the Rockets are in. Sengun is producing at a pretty high level and playing well. Over the past nine games prior to that one, Sengun had averaged 10 points, five rebounds, two assists and a steal in just 20 minutes per game. He’s been outplaying Theis for the last three weeks despite getting fewer minutes. Sengun does get his feet stuck in the mud on defense sometimes, and there are moments where he gets cooked defensively. But his feel for the game and reactivity is outstanding. He’s fifth in the NBA in deflections per minute. Even if he’s still learning how to best use his body to make up for the lack of mobility, he’s not totally useless out there because he creates a lot of transition offensive opportunities. But all of that pales in comparison to what he does offensively, which is where his real value lies. The team is just so much better when he’s out there. He fosters ball movement and has an innate sense of how to find the open areas of the court out of ball screens, knowing when to short roll or roll all the way to the rim to pressure the defense. Right now, he’s best as a high-post initiator who reads the floor, sees what’s available and has real dribble/pass/shoot ability to actually take advantage of it. He essentially allows the Rockets to play four- or five-out while also maintaining a presence on the glass because of how smart and instinctive he is as a rebounder. He also excels at the “spin-and-seal” when teams switch against him. He’ll prep to set a screen, and as soon as he realizes they’re going to switch it, he slips it and gets a body on the ballhandler defender by spinning in order to seal him off and create a post mismatch. He’s pretty lethal as a post mismatch scorer, as he has a ton of tricks. I’d expect that by the end of the year, when he’s playing 25 to 30 minutes per night because the Rockets are truly out of it, he will be among the most productive rookies in the class. Where his ultimate future lies is in his ability to hold up consistently on defense. https://theathletic.com/2960921/202...-struggles-for-the-jalens-hello-franz-wagner/
Great summary of his game, it's the little things like sealing his man on mismatches that you can't just teach. Honestly, I actually think Sengun struggles more on defense against Bigs than on the perimeter. For some odd reason whenever he gets switched onto guards, he guards them surprisingly well. When he is matched up against someone who's similar size, but taller, he struggles, especially on defense and in the post due to lack of length
I suspect that Silas never reads the internet. Or he would have seen tons of people questioning him not playing Sengun more. This is getting more and more weird. It doesn't add up. Nobody is this dense and/or stubborn.
I mean the guy is all of a sudden playing Garrison Mathews 15-18 minutes a night. Like, you have a rookie who could definitely use the floor time in Christopher but you decide "Nope...I think Garrison has paid his dues so he'll get minutes"...like what is going on?
