Could any 18-year-old center that ever lived have fixed last year's defense?

I'd take a top 5 pick for Alpi. Pass other than that.

 

Young Deckard

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Old Deckard

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BRING ME TARI EASON!

 

Different eras but I think that scrawny dude from Bethlehem could have made a difference under the right coach

 

Sengun's defense is slightly above average? No. It is atrocious. Stop making it as if he's somehow mediocre. He's nowhere near being good defensively

 

He's decent for his age and experience. Room to grow certainly.

There are people that blow by him, but not everyone. A good example of his defense is the HOU-LAL game. Lebron thought he could iso blow by Sengun, but gave up in subsequent plays after realizing Sengun could stay with him and contest.

Sengun is also one of the better blockers on the team. He had a few possessions where he didn't just 'block' but block it to a teammate or grab the rebound off the block. And the defensive effort is there, he tries; can't say about everyone on the team.

I put slightly below to say maybe he could be a neutral, he's not elite. Doesn't help when Wood also doesn't help rim protect, which again with Paolo, could be more of the same.

 

I don't understand why folks want to give up a sengun for a top 4 pick so early.

That's literally giving up on the sengun show a season in for a brand new rookie who has the potential to b bust.

Sengun for sure was drafted too low last season.
Sengun potential and what we seen so far is very encouraging.

Mam is literally the youngest on the team. Only person I would trade him for is wembanyama.
Or a young star. Trading him for draft assets is meh

 

would you also trade away Luka Doncic?

 

Damn man, Sengun is so much better than people think. Going to be fun watching those first 10-20 games.

 

switch sengun for looney and gsw wouldnt miss a beat, while rockets still would be the worst team in nba...and the offensive genius silas would make looney shooting 5-8 3 pointers a game on 20% efficiency
lolololol

TAKE THAT FOR DATA

 

Folks still wanting to trading sengun after such a good end of the season for him makes me wonder y?

 

Anti-vaxxer

 

That was also a very different era of basketball.

Very little switching. If any.

 

But I heard that rim protection doesn't correlate to winning.

And Stone was beyond stupid when he routed JA to Cavs.

 

As poor a defender as Sengun may be, Banchero was less effective less efficient less productive defensively at Duke than Sengun was at Turkey.

Reasons for lack of production may vary but the bottom line is both are low level defenders with similar limitations in same area.

 

It's the nba. If the Rockets have a opportunity to trade anybody but Jalen Green, then do it. Nobody else on this team is untouchable

 

The other teams are also seeing what we're seeing. They won't give up too much for Sengun and JC or KPJ.

 

That's good and all but what about hot-dog @Deckard ?

 

Trading a talented 18 yr old oozing w/ potential for another rookie, makes no sense. we have to spend another year developing the rookie, hoping he would b even better than sengun. Makes no sense.

Just like how Green blossom In a span of a year, I believe sengun could b even greater n3xt season man is wayyyyy to crafty and smart to regress.

Sengun always!