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Alperen Sengun is the Rockets' franchise player

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by AroundTheWorld, Jan 17, 2023.

  1. DaDakota

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    It can't.

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    Yeah, it's hard to imagine what team it would work against. Maybe the Kings if we somehow end up playing against them? Which looks pretty unlikely at the moment, unfortunately.

    I think most teams would just play 5 out and punish us with their outside shooting.
     
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    How many teams can actually play 5 out without tanking their own defenses?
     
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    In the western conference playoff picture? Most of them, unfortunately.

    If we were out east it might be different.
     
  5. subtomic

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    I think you need to check the regular lineups of the Western Conference playoff teams. Just about all of them consistently run lineups that have at least 1 non-shooter. Even OKC gives a lot of minutes to Hartenstein, who hasn't even shot a 3 all year.

    What's going to kill us more than anything is the lack of steady ball-handling and direction on the perimeter.
     
  6. Tom Bombadillo

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    Enable Alperen confidence... It feels like he is slowly rounding into form.

    The turnovers don't bother me. He is going to be a 2/1 A2T guy at worst. Stay AGGRESSIVE.
     
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    He was absolutely a non-factor tonight. He needs to be much better.
     
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    LOL, when 14 points on 9 shots, 14 rebounds and 4 assists makes you an "absolutely a non-factor". Low key game? Certainly, but non-factor? The Senhaters are so bitter!
     
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    He was absolutely a non-factor after 1st quarter.
     
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    How quickly the goal posts move once the Senhaters realize they got called out. First it's "absolutely a non-factor tonight", then it's "a non-factor after 1st quarter". I guess stats count double in later quarters lol, that must be how he got 11 rebounds in quarters 2 through 4.
     
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    If anything he was too good defensively. 38 minutes. Like give him a breather, Ime.
    Opposing team made 2 from 6 on the threes he contested.

    Scorer's table robbed him a block like Isaac robbed him those entry passes.
     
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    What goal posts are you talking about buddy? I was watching and rooting for him in juniors league when you didn't even know he exists.
     
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    The Magic were all over him after the 1st, which resulted in gravity for all those open threes. That is how basketball works. Shut down the roll man, eat these threes.

    (Play great defense, victory…)
     
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    Against a stifling Magic defense, we still managed to somehow shoot well from three. A large part of that is due to the gravity that Alpi created, and the open shots that resulted from it. He might not have had the gaudiest numbers tonight, but he was absolutely the most important player in tonight's victory, I think.
     
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    After the first (he was 8-3-3 with a block on 4/4 fg), he could not get the ball in many cases and when he got he lost it. Then they stopped giving him the ball. But still a good game. He impacted winning.
     
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    Sengun does not have to score 20s everygame, his gravity and offensive iq makes this team win.
    For this reason, he is all-star others are not.
     
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    Absolutely. There is a reason Ime kept him on the court for 38 minutes. Without him, our team doesn't get as many easy shots. That gravity isn't a joke.
     
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    First, you stated Sengun was a "non-factor all -night" which you were wrong about. Then, once you realized you were wrong you moved the goal post (an American expression) to just the last 3 quarters, which you also were wrong about.

    Basically, typical Senhater statement, dumb, fake, and not based in actual reality. Maybe next time you will think twice before posting Senhateful comments.
     
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