Sengun can’t reach higher because of peripheral players? I find that strange. I could have sworn I saw something where their (JG/Alpi) synergy numbers are pretty good. Alpi should extend his game past 10 feet. I think that would help not only him, but this team as whole the most over any other improvement within the roster.
Yup. Like I believe Sengun is a better player than Jalen Green. Absolutely. No debate as of now. But why can't Sengun stans not admit to the fact that Sengun extending his range could help his teammates out? Don't flame me Sengun stans but his scoring efficiency numbers are a bit inflated when he does triple pump fakes at the three point line with no defender within a 5 ft radius of him. That harms the team. That is detrimental to the team. He should stop that. And he's still the best player on the team just so people understand my criticism is sincere.
I would also like that. If IG is any indication, however, it looks like his focus in training so far has been more on bulking up.
I don’t think he has to be an elite shooter, he could increase his ability to create for others. It seems like there is an assist ratio that opens up the game a bit. Show that you will hit the open man on a drive and you will open up easier shots at the rim.
Before Alpi, Jalen or whoever is going to play shooting guard should extend his game past 10 feet. Because you're in deep **** when your starting shooting guard is only 3,5% better 3 point shooter than your center who can't shoot.
It doesn't look like he's bulking up as much as trying to add functional strength and make his core stronger--which is probably in response to paint pounding and fatigue issues, including missing late game free throws. We only see glimpses of these workout sessions, nothing from on the court (unless I've missed one or more). I guess we'll know what he's been doing with hoops when we see the first pre-season game.
Do you think NBA defenses guard Jalen Green as if he is a non shooter? NBA defenses definitely guard Sengun as a non shooter. If we are discussing the concept of spacing and helping teammates have space to operate in a half court set, the way NBA defenses guard is what is more important than the actual three point percentage. NBA defenses know Jalen is streaky. The type of dude who sees one or two threes go in and can create a 12-0 run by himself. They don't want Jalen seeing the 3 ball go in. They know that he has the potential to blow out a game from 3. They have zero concern for that in regards to guys like Amen or Sengun. There will never be a situation Jalen is doing multiple pump fakes against a non existent defender at the three point line. Jalen Green needs to improve his scoring efficiency. Sengun needs to expand his range and not worry about dipping his scoring efficiency by taking outside shots. Both players need to improve on shooting but in different ways to different degrees and for different reasons. Jalen needs to improve his 3 pt percentage simply because he's contributing to why our 3 pt percentage is low. Sengun needs to improve because he's absolutely ****ing up the spacing of half court sets when he's doing those stupid pump fakes against non existent defenders.
This is a big thing that a lot of people don't understand. It's why sabonis can shoot "41%" and be a complete non shooter, because nobody cares if he takes shots. Same for draymond, he shot 40% but if he's open, nobody cares.
Nobody in this team creates half the spacing Sengun does on half court sets. Stop using whatever you are using. But I love how you always come up with excuses for Jalen. "Jalen sucks because NBA TEAMS DEFEND HIM"
When Sengun is in the post or painted area, he is a ultimate space creator. Definitely. Draws a lot of attention when the ball is in hands and he's operating in the.midnto low block. Definitely. Teams are deathly afraid of his inside game. He's the exact opposite of a floor spacer when the ball isn't in his hands.
33.3% 3 point-shooter Shooting guard on high volume is much more damaging to spacing than 30% 3 point-shooter Center on low volume. I thought it's blatantly obvious for everyone but apparently I am too naive.
What does this even mean? Jalen Green absolutely needs to improve his three point percentage. My only point is his three point percentage isn't impacting spacing like Sengun not extending his range.
Being confidently incorrect is not cool. NBA teams understand Jalen is streaky and definitely don't want him to get in a rhythm shooting the three. There is no threat of that with Sengun because he literally pump fakes 3 pt shots when defenders aren't anywhere in his vicinity. That explicitly harms spacing because defenders know you will never gain a rhythm from three to make 3 or 4 in a row like Jalen is capable of.
NBA teams understand Jalen is much more likely to miss 3 or 4 wide open threes in a row than he makes them, so most of the time they either double-team Alpi in the low-post or they just overhelp FVV-Alpi Pick and roll and risk the outside shooting. Did you even watch the Rockets this season? LMAO.
Yes and I'm sure you recall a couple of specific plays where Jalen was left wide open from a double team from Sengun in the post. It rarely happens. More often than not if Sengun is doubled in the post and it's Jabari, Green, Dylan and FVV, the help defender comes from the side with the most difficult passing angle for Sengun to pass out of so it's usually the corner three from the opposite side of Sengun posting. That changes when Amen is on the court as they will help off him no matter where he is at the perimeter even in Sengun's direct line of sight for a clean pass. And when Sengun doesn't have the ball and hovering around the perimeter in a five out type swt, forget about it. Defenses pretn d as if Sengun doesn't exist in those scenarios.
Sengun definitely needs to improve his 3 point shooting, his FTs and BB conditioning, imo in that order of importance. Heck, everyone on our team needs to work on 3 point shooting, it was not great, but it would particularly help Sengun open up his game and those of his team mates.
Part of the problem is it seems mostly everyone can't shoot consistently. If players not named Sengun could hit the 3 consistently then the doubling of Sengun would stop.
I'm legitimately confused what you even mean by this. What do you think "spacing" is? Jalen is a bad shooter but he's definitely not hurting the spacing of the team.
If you genuinely believe a 33.2% three point shooter shooting guard who takes 7.4 threes per game doesn't hurt the spacing, then you have no idea about spacing. If you watched the Rockets games and didn't see how every single opponent they faced packed the paint and dared them to shoot, you better don't try to lecture others about what spacing is. Last season, Jalen Green was a net negative shooter, who can't create **** for others. How worse he needs to get to hurt spacing in your opinion?
what? Ofc he’d be better/more valuable if Jalen was better. Not sure that’s a hard thing to comprehend. At the highest level it’s obvious - we value “winners” higher than losers. Frankly, if JG was better this year and the Rockets were say a 4 seed at the time of all star voting it’s much more probably Alpi would have been an all star this past year. For an Alpi “stan” I suspect that’s meaningful to them. I agree he needs to expand his range. I disagree it’s the biggest improvement that can happen in the roster. I’d put Jalen actually being at his highest level as he is for very brief stretches consistently as the biggest improvement followed by Amen actually getting a shot/3pt shot followed by Alpi actually extending his range. Although I might actually put Amen thing first cause if he got that he’d legit be an MVP candidate. If I add actual likelihood of said things happening then I’d put the Alpi thing first…. Cause the other two are way less likely lol
