Well, you always need shooters, no matter what kind of offense you play. Shooting gives you spacing for any type of play. This is especially true after Illegal Defense was abolished. Defenses can pack the interior if you can't shoot from outside. You can't have more than one non-shooter on the floor. That's why players who can't shoot had better do everything else exceptionally well or they would be unplayable. That's also why a guy cannot carry a team if he can't shoot. Right now, Sengun is still not a respectable 3pt shooter. He has shown that he can make the middies, which is good. The main thing that separate Jokic and Sengun is not size or court vision. It's the ability to shoot from all the way to the 3pt line.
Also if you carefully observe there were no dynasties after the early Warriors......from Toronto, to LAL in the bubble, Milwaukee, Golden State to Denver...... Teams are either inconsistent enough on a macro level or the NBA power situation is shifting constantly.... With so many young teams coming up, one is almost predestined to field a dynasty caliber team one day...... It actually bodes well for someone like Sengün to win one in the meantime.....shooting is a must have.....
All true. Unfortunately for the Rockets, Jalen Green (shooting guard) is BARELY better than Sengun when it comes to 3-point %. I hope they both improve their 3-point shooting drastically. We have Ben Sullivan, who seems to be very good. Hope that helps.
You are still focusing on the wrong subject (Sengun-wise). 3pt shooting is an ignorable area in Alp's play. Why this guy is not assisting enough is more and more important than 3pt shooting. When he does not help the others (not assisting enough) 3pt shooting percentage of JGreen, Brooks, FVV, Holiday,... going down. JGreen should score, Alp has to assist, Bari must grab rebs, Tari is obliged to hustle, Amen/Cam should adapt. Very basic formula. Minimalist perfection. Lots of people here have a certain template and can't change their mind when they meet a different type of player. Let's go through their strengths. Of course it would be wonderful if Tari was 3 inches taller or having better lay-ups but try to get best whatever he has. Alp won't be 40% 3pt shooter easily and forcing him in that area is waste of resources. Rockets coaching system seems has no second plan, no strategy, just tactical. Late to responding. Alp was forced not to assist, trying too much post-ups (and also box-outs), hence gets tired at the ends. JGreen should focus on mid-range shots rather than 3s, Tari's minutes should go up, Amen&Cam shoud get Holiday's minutes (Aaron becoming different type of KPJ/Nix recently), circa $21M paid back-up bigs are not efficient, $40M+ is way too much for FVV,... There are much more important problems in Rockets than Alp's 3pt shooting. Fix them first as Alp's FT problem solved. Than we go for secondary issues.
Go to Brixton, Tottenham Hale and Hackney. They will handle you very well. Are you going to come back to London after that painful memories, that is the question.
Alp is 24th in "most rebounds by nba player under 22 years old" list. https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/nba-most-rebounds-by-nba-player-under-age-22 As he will play around 50 games more (hope no injury) he will end up 6th to 10th before his birthday, next to Shaquille, LeBron, Anthony Davis. Not bad for an un-athletic big.
EDITING TO AVOID CONFUSION: These are all arguments that anti Sengun folks have made in the previous 500 pages of this thread. I am laying them out to answer the question "who cares if he's the franchise player or not?" or "why does it matter if he reaches superstardom?" - There are plenty of people out there who don't think we should move forward with Sengun on this team. They "know" he will never get to that top level, and it's a waste of this teams time and resources to operate with him as the #1 option. His ceiling is fringe all star, he's useless without the ball in his hands, and he's a poor defender. His only value is to play with him as the hub and number one option, but the team will never be a contender with him in that role, we'd be first round fodder at best. In the short term we should minimize his usage to feature other players, and we should also be looking at trading him while his value is still high, before the league realizes he's just another "can't play Kanter."
