Agree to certain extent. Both KPJ and Wood are older but still relatively new to being full time starters, again only half season more starting experience than Green. It's crazy because they are 21 and 26 respectively but they did not have golden tickets their first or even 2nd seasons. Both have come a long way from where they were and their journeys are far from finished, like Green.
You're arguing with the wrong poster, I also believe Sengun is underutilized and incorrectly used. But comparing Sengun to Harden, Lebron or any of the true greats is tangential, unnecessary and weakens your point. A point that can be made without ridiculous comparisons that actually undermine your argument.
Oh I agree on the fact that they've not had the starter play time on court. They've still been in NBA systems with those coaches and training methods though, just means they get cut less slack when they do play bad. I actually don't have any major issues with how KPJ plays, (and he's still young enough where I can cut him more slack for his attitude issues) Wood's glaring issues for me are more frustrating (switching smaller guys on to bigs so he doesn't have to guard them and his refusal to set real picks 80% of the time being the 2 that really bother me) and I definitely cut him less slack for his attitude ****. It's a big shame, I had much higher hopes for Wood, but he just doesn't come across like a team player at all. If he guarded bigs and did more to help his team mates on offense instead of just getting his then I'd be fully advocating we keep him. I'd be sad to see KPJ go tbh.
There is reason why Wood was almost out of NBA before he even got a chance. His maturity and effort were his biggest issues early on in conjunction to his lack of strength.
I'd love to watch a 5-on-5 practice session. I wonder if they tell Alpi to go easy on the matchstick man. Or does he switch over to a smaller player there too?
It's actually a shame tbh. If he bought in, played hard on D and set hard picks he'd probably be a perennial all star. He doesn't seem to get it though. Imagine how much easier both him and any of our guards would have it if he didn't predictably slip the majority of the time? Open looks everywhere. I don't think his strength issues would be as bad either, he's got the agility and length to be a rim protector, it's almost like he's scared sometimes. All he really needs to do is reject the smaller players and hold the bigger bigs (of which there's not that many who are prime scorers) long enough for a double and he'd be more than serviceable on D because he's already a good perimeter defender.
I can only hope that the reason for the ridiculously few minutes for Alpi is indeed to boost Wood's stats as much as possible, and that Wood will be traded and then Alpi will get 28+ minutes and will actuslly be developed on the court, like Green. But somehow I have little confidence in Silas that he will do that, even if Wood gets traded.
do we even know who is alpis agent? perhaps its someone who rockets dont have a good relationship with, so they getting back at him tru alpi... dont think anything you gain from padding woods stats beats anything you lose by screwing with alpis development...woods value is what it is and not only alpis development.. by not playing alpi you screwing jalen greens development because alpi can create a lot of easy points for green...not to even get into holding back their chemistry because you delay and minimize time they play together... the org got nothing for wasting playing time on danuel house and it could have been a life saving playing time for alpi jc or even garuba....they are just lazy and careless you cant even say they wanted to do right by a player ie danuel house by playing him, when they denied another player, ie alpi ROY stakes and he had such a momentum....
It's the system. Rockets need to play more drop coverage and zone because both Wood and Sengun struggle on switches. It's one reason why I was screaming for Mobley to be the pick. It's too bad because I love switch defense but Rockets really do not have personnel to play this D the right way. Coaching matters.
Why do people keep saying he's unathletic? He plays like a true big man, in my opinion. Skilled, but also powerful. People compare him to Scola because of the moves, which is a compliment, but he plays much more above the rim than Scola did.
Love it, from @The Cat. He and Jalen and our other young guys will keep getting better. Their development is all that matters. Give him minutes and let him play through mistakes, Silas. Thanks.
