When you exert more energy on defense, you will have less energy on offense. Sengun is clearly exerting more energy on defense this year, so it should come as no surprise that his shooting percentages have suffered at the expense of improved defense. Hopefully, he can improve his conditioning this summer to sustain his improved defensive effort while getting his shooting percentages back to their previous levels. It also doesn’t help that he recently dealt with a back injury.
When it comes to comparing entire seasons, words like "fluke" and "suddenly" rarely apply. Year-over-year on offense, Alpi's production and efficiency are worse. The eye test of watching him shoot is almost painful. It's like he has the yips. REgress as it applies here is to become worse, i.e, the opposite of PROgress. It's silly to even have to explain this.
He is actually the same on steals and slightly better in assists but since his minutes is slightly down, per game is slightly down. These changes are just random noise and doesn’t matter if he is up or down. The hater talk got through the roof for some reason. He literally shoots same as last year at the line and within random noise from his career average, but you would think that his ft shooting has fallen off a cliff. he is also the best free throw shooting center on the team . The whole team is just bad at the line relative to their positions. and 70% ft shooting is quite an efficient offense even though it can be better. It is not the reason we are not winning.
I don't want to argue semantic. If different people have different understands of the meaning of a word, then let's stop using it and talk in plain language. So you are saying that year over year Sengun is getting worse. That is only partially true. ppg: 10, 15, 21, 19 2pt%: 54, 57, 57, 52 at rim%: 67, 68, 69, 65 TS%: 52, 60, 58, 54 His scoring, 2p%, and close range shots, improved from yr 1 to yr 3 and dropped this season. Only TS% you can say he's getting worse every year after the rookie season. His 3rd season was the best production-wise. BTW, a whole season can be a fluke either positively or negatively. We have seen that with players.
What I wonder is the nature of his back injury? It has been around too long and I think it is a serious concern for his career. the other thing is whether udoka can build a system to play the current roster to its max potential? I tend to say no and the piece that is reasonable to change is Sengun.
Why has he stopped the shotput shot he used to take, if was way more accurate than his flamingo … he seems to have lost faith in his scoop shot as well he’s so much better as a help side defender (he has good timing for blocks) that’s when playing him with Adams helps him on the defensive end - I’m so tired of us switching our bigs out on guards when other teams just sit there bigs below 3pt line and dare us to either hit 3s or attack paint
His whole playstyle changed a lot this year. Up until last season he produced so many highlights every game. Now the flashy passes or clever fakes are mostly gone. I suspect this is due to his injury, and maybe teams adapting to him. But I also think it has to do with Uduoka, who publicly said that Alpi shouldn't play like an 'European'. Which was a very dumb thing to say considering that a lot of the top players in the league come from Europe and play a 'European' style.
He's mentally slow as ****ing molasses tonight. This is awful! This is the least decisive, least instinctive, and slowest I've ever seen Sengun operate offensively. And even when he gets a rebound he holds it for a few seconds b/c of that disgusting habit I asked IME to kill 6 weeks ago of Sengun bringing the ball up. That's how you get embarrassed in the playoffs (if not the regular season). I don't care if he has a bad game or a bad few games. He's our boy. But, what is absolutely worth criticizing is his regressive tendencies and - dare I say it - occasionally selfish play on offense. His basketball brain is as fast relative to his peers as his physical movement is slow relative to his peers. If he's not executing mentally then it's just a lop-sided equation. FIX IT IME.
4 turnovers, 3 missed free throws, his +/- is less than Adams who played half the minutes. Got into foul trouble because of his bad defense. He is regressing game by game.
I really don't understand why we don't run the offense through him more down low when teams are trying to single cover him. Its by far his most valuable skill and we only partially utilize it. The Pels were barbeque chicken every time he went into a post move...we just stopped doing it.
Alperen is getting closer to putting some things together. Post ASB has been frustrating, but I like his intention in many areas. He is actually doing a better job than I expected in his PF minutes with Adams. Makes you wonder...
Didn't catch any clutchfanswatch tonight, was the panel obsessing over his every mistake with zero patience and exuberant aggravation or what.
