The last play was for Sengun to go at Draymond and then the whole team crashes the glass in case of a miss. That's our best offense. Unfortunately Jimmy Butler got the rebound. He's a smart player.
Yeah, Draymond got under his skin a bit, but we’ve seen Sengun hit these shots against just about anyone. Something’s not right, maybe his touch is off or he’s worn out from grinding so hard on defense. It's not normal to miss wide open layups, dunks. None has anything to do with Draymond though. I think it’s mostly in his head. One miss, and he starts doubting himself, which leads to mistakes he doesn’t usually make. It’s the same story with his free throws. As he gets older and experienced, I’m sure he’ll work through this. His shooting form and mechanics are solid. There’s no reason he can’t become a serious midrange threat with that post game of his. These playoff games have been a huge chance for him to see where he’s coming up short and step up his game.
Segun got the best of Draymond in the first 2 games. Now these lame posters that don't like Sengun say Draymond is in his head. Nevermind that Draymond could have easily fouled out by hand checking, and jabbing him. Playoff defense, but why not allow Dillon or Amen to do the same. The dislike of Sengun even makes these fools tolerate the tomfoolery of the league. Anyways, people purposely misremembering Big Yao to bring down a current Rocket. First playoff appearance 2003 at age 23. 15pts on 14 shots, 46% shooting.
If you want the exact #s. When guarded by Draymond, Sengun shot 40% in the regular season and is shooting 37.1% in this series. Tough matchup for him. He's certainly not alone though. Brooks has been super efficient at 61.8 ts%, but he's a low volume scorer. The rest of the starters have been horrific. FVV at 51.7 ts%, Sengun at 49.4 ts%, Green at 48.9 ts% and Amen at 45.5 ts%. It's actually amazing that we have been competitive with shooting that bad.
Generally speaking, Sengun is not afraid of being physical on post up. However, it looks like the physicality of Green is affecting Sengun's approach and he is trying to avoid excessive physical contact.
Half the board thinks a lot of things. I honestly thought we could have at least made the playin last season if a couple things had gone a bit better. To me this season the expectation should have been playoffs. And people can do two things simultaneously. We can appreciate the progress that theyve made and still recognize shortcomings preventing us from maximizing our success. The upsetting part isnt about what theyve accomplished as a group. The upsetting part is that certain players we were counting on look like they aren't going to reach the level we need to take the next step.
Adam's is still way more mobile than Yao ever was. Plus he's way more physical to battle with Draymond. They aren't close to same player. Draymond is literally the pro type of players that gave Yao fits. I don't know what games yall were watching back then.
I'm almost positive the last play was actually to get Sengun to go against Gary Payton. He went against him just before this with like 40 seconds left and got an easy bucket. They screened to get the switch, but the warriors didn't switch it.
Yao giving up Offensive boards to Boozer & Okur repeatedly still annoys me. I just looked at the box score of Game 7 - the Jazz had 7 offensive rebounds in the 4th and the Rockets had 7 rebounds total
Theyve already come out and said the last play they were trying to get a switch to get Draymond off Sengun. It didnt happen so Sengun just went with it.
That is it. Ime should have had an alternative in case they did not switch. One of the many brutal mistakes by ime. I like ime but he is not flexible and this is not good for the playoffs. not having a time out at the end of the game to carry the ball towards half court, for the sake of contesting an obvious call is another. Both at the end of a crucial game.
Yao Ming would be just fine roaming the paint and the interior the way Adams does. Yao would be murdered out on the perimeter but the way they play zone negates most of that. I'll agree that Najera was annoying for Yao, but it's not like Yao wasn't still effective against him. It's just that you would expect someone like Yao to dominate Najera which he didn't but his states head to head against Najera were still above average. You're making it sound like Najera was the Yao stopper. Yao would score enough OVER Green where the warriors would have to put a bigger man on him or would be unable to play small ball. Would he be able to do it effectively EVERY game? I think not as the speed of the game would get to Yao from time to time but out of 10 games, I believe Yao would have 7-8 very solid games where he would force them to adapt to him versus him sitting on the bench like Gobert. Which is another player, who if he can be out there playing, then Yao would have no issues playing in today's league.
Imagine the final play being drawn up based on a terrible match up (Sengun could not score on Green) and the back up plan was crashing the boards lol. Doesn't sound like a great strategy no matter how good the Rockets are on the offensive glass. A bit pathetic.
Sengun finished the series 23-59 from the field (39%) when guarded by Draymond shot 45% overall for the series with 49% TS
