Turkeys national team is unbalanced. Alpi and Bona has no range, also our guards suck big time. Opponents just clug the paint and watch our guards miss. This makes things harder for alpi, but he did well against germany. His dribbling seemed fluid, did well in ft s. Very efficient.
Sengun and his man boobs will be tired come nba playoffs. He’s going to be worn out like Yao Ming. @Snow Villiers
It's stuff like this why I'm like "who fives a **** about a 3 point shot?" Why do we want him to reduce himself to a pedestrian outside shooter when he's an absolute beast in the post and attacking the basket? Just let him do that and kick it out to other people for the 3 if we need one. If teams want to double him then ****ing GREAT, that's kinda the whole point of offense, it means they leave somebody open somewhere else. And our shooters are a LOT better than Türkiye's haha.
Because he can attack the basket more efficiently if people have to close out and play up on him at the 3-point line. It isn't critical - he made the All-Star team without it, and to your point the shooters will be better this year - but it would certainly open up his game a lot.
Sure it would, it'd open up lots of people's games too but trying to fit square pegs in round holes is how you get Jalen Green.
I’m not hoping he camps out all game launching threes. But if he can get to 3-4 attempts per game at 35%, it would allow him to play inside-out or outside-in — the best version of Sengun is one opponents have to account for everywhere on the floor.
I think they should use his passing skill more. He draws a crowd in the post. Place shooters / cutters to take advantage of it.
There we go, that one makes sense. What was the first standout thing that made us all love him in his rookie season? Oh yeah, flashy post passes and creative playmaking. He's not done that under Ime because they don't use him that way. Time to lean into the strengths of our players instead of perpetually have them fail at their weaknesses...
It goes back to Ime’s offensive acumen, which some of us believe is limited. Hopefully, it has been more of a personnel problem than a coaching problem, but I have my doubts. The addition of KD may take us over the top even without much offensive creativity. There is no arguing that we will have a top 5 defense maybe even the best defense in the league and even running the same inept offense with a 60% TS vs. 40 something TS from one high volume player could be enough.
While this is true I actually think the bigger and more important impact is how it opens up other people's games, not his own. Sengun is great with the ball but we aren't going to post him up every possession. There will be plays where other guys have the ball, and there will be plays where Sengun isn't really involved at all. When Sengun is setting a screen for a ball handler, it's a LOT harder to guard this action when he's a threat from 3. Or even if Sengun isn't near the play at all, if Senguns defender can camp the paint and leave Sengun wide open at the 3 point line that's a problem. And it did cause problems for us last year. If his defender actually had to stick to him out at the 3 point line it would really open things up for the rest of the team.
I agree with this, but I do genuinely think 33% on 2.5-3.5 attempts a game (I don't think he even needs as many as 4) and no more pump fakes on the 3pt line and that's all he really needs on that front. I'd much rather he worked on being a lights out free throw shooter than 3pt in all honesty. He should be taking significantly more foul shots than 3s.
If Sengun draws this much traffic during an NBA game, his assists numbers will be through the roof. Durant won't miss those jumpers and Capela can finish in the dunker spot.
It is obvious that a 3 pt shot would be a huge asset for Sengun and the Rockets. Anyone saying otherwise doesn’t understand basketball. That being said, Sengun getting his touch around the basket back and developing at least a decent mid-range shot is more important this year and for the Rockets in general. Sengun becoming a knock down 3 pt shooter would elevate his career to all nba level.
I'm confused as to where I said it it wouldn't be a huge asset for Sengun and the Rockets? Seems weird to argue against something I never actually said...
If Sengun was as efficient in Year 4 as he was in Year 3 around the basket we would've beaten the Warriors.
