The Athletic: Bruno Fernando Will Start Over Sengun When He Returns

How many games had Bruno been back from injury against the Hawks?

 

How did that lob threat work out last night?

And Alp can be a very good roll man. He’s not the poor athlete you’re claiming. Stfu with that nonsense.

You want Bruno to play so KPJ can look better, that’s it. That’s because that’s the only player that can make KPJ look like a somewhat passable PG

 

Excuses.

 

Lol. Nobody outside of clutchfans is buying Rockets tickets to see Sengun. Jalen Green is the box office star. Sengun is DMo 2.0. Good offensive post player, no defense whatsoever. Plays good through stretches yall go crazy, plays bad yall blame the coach. Same story different player

 

It worked out to +6 on the court

 

Marriages fall apart, countries are divided, we march on... It's no big deal. In fact, I would be happy if he left.
Just one thing though: Sengun increases the average IQ of the team. Everybody observes that they play better basketball with him on court.
In case he leaves, Silas had better start teaching the guys his system and stick to it.

 

Well, with Bruno on the court, the Rockets were a +6, with Sengun they were a -24....so pretty well.

I want Bruno to play so that the team is playing to the strengths of ALL of their players. It allows the starters to play the style they are best suited to play, and it allows Sengun to do his thing with the second unit.

I get that since you are a player first fan, you'd see the world through that lens, but not everyone is you. I'm team first, always.

Sengun is absolutely a poor athlete by NBA standards and that's why defenses don't respect him as a roll man. Sometimes that complete lack of respect leads to plays where he gets dunks....just like it did for Ryan Anderson occasionally, but that doesn't change the fact that most of the time he's just a big clumsy guy helping defenses clog driving lanes who is too slow and lacks the instincts to get out of the way and make his way to the rim for a lob.....instead he's still trying to post up the whole time.

 

When he was +16 before the 4th. Due to missed shots by GSW.
He did nothing in 4th

 

The team plays better when we are running and gunning. What kind of nonsense is this?
Run and Gun is a fast, freewheeling style of play that features a high number of field goal attempts, resulting in high-scoring games

Rockets:
Field goal attempts: 87.6 17th
Pts: 110.0 25th

Reason why?
KPJ sucks at play making, he is unable to pass it properly to the open man on fast break. KPJ can't utilize the lob threat whatsoever.


Silas whole system is ISO. Iso isn't fast, it's slowed down so the guard can milk the clock and take their sweet a$$ time to score. KPJ defenders literally throwing anything against the wall to justify why Sengun needs to see the bench.

 

Look, you’re a KPJ-OF. It’s ok to admit it. You’re definitely not a fan of the Rockets.

You obviously know nothing about athleticism. Definitely have Uncle Rico vibes. You coulde went pro if the coach didn’t bench you right?

 

Agreed! Our next top pick will matter as well too. I see some Kanter in him too, minus the vision. People forget that Kanter was a beast in the paint and on the boards. He had like 25/20 games at his best

 

Enes was freakishly strong and had his way with the biggest C's in the paint.
Fantastic footwork to boot.
He had this uncanny talent for foreseeing where the ball would end up after a missed shot too.
But he was so, so slow in the head - no BBIQ whatsoever.
He could be the basis of my potential argument that defense can not be taught.
What a waste of a marvellous player. He could've been a star.

 

bullsh*t. Bruno sucks, period. Sengun will be an all star once he gets a coach that doesn’t suck

 

I mean, that's certainly what your projection is leading to you believe, but it's clearly not accurate. A bunch of short sighted posters accuse me of being an "only fan" of a LOT of different players....that's because that's the knee jerk reaction of player first and player only fans to ANY criticism of their deity.

As to me, I was primarily a baseball player. As to going pro, that fantasy took a massive hit when I absolutely destroyed my shoulder greatly limiting my ability to throw and ended completely when I tore basically everything in my knee.

Anyway, the fact that you attempted to go the ad hominem route kind of shows how little you are working with. There's no argument that Sengun is a highly athletic big man. None. I say that as a fan of his. He has other strengths, athleticism is not one of them.

 

Don't bother reading that load of gibberish, folks.

TDLR:
Bruno needs to start since he synergize with KPJ better than Sengun. But i like to pretend i care about the team by including everyone.


No one else is using this supposed lob threat, Green isn't struggling to drive towards lane when sengun is on the court. Noticed the usage of ALL and starters, but in reality this is all for KPJ.


The team is playing to the strengths of ALL of their players. What is the strength?
What does bruno offers to the likes of Smith and kmj?

what is the style we are currently utilizing? it's just iso ball with KPJ pretending to b harden when he lacks the scoring ability and passing ability of the bearded one.

 

I could see how a moron that didn't fully comprehend what they read could think that's what I said. Glad you're here to give that demographic a voice.

Believe it or not, driving lanes are important for Green too. Having a big slow guy that defenses don't respect as a rim runner makes that more difficult. Green is at his best in transition and attacking defenses that are not set....Sengun always wants to attack a set defense in the post, they could not be more stylistically different. Right now, we have Sengun trying to play a post up centric slow half court type of game and all of the other starters trying to play a more athletic type of basketball.

If you look at Green, KPJ, KJ Martin (should be starter), and Jabari Smith....what do they have in common? They are all quick, highly athletic players. Admittedly Jabari less so than the rest, but he's still a lot quicker and more athletic than Sengun who is a 90's throwback.

So really this is all about if you want to cater to one player, Sengun, or everyone else. When it's the 2nd unit, by all means, cater to Sengun, but not when it's the starters.

 

You run your mouth and then try to get cordial when someone answers with the same energy.
Cut the crap.

No one is saying Alp is a highly athletic center. But he’s not below average for the league either.

What should be obvious to anyone, is Alp has the highest potential of any center on this team and is only eclipsed by Green in upside.

 

Okay....so you could just admit that he lacks the athleticism to play a rim running role and his instincts are to post up rather than to get out of the way and get to the rim for a lob.....or you could try to deny and deflect because you can't allow your guy to be criticized in any way.

 

Dude stop acting like Sengun being on the court hinders green from actually scoring. Man aint kpj, he could score at will.

Highly quick athletic players that aren't even doing anything b/c most of the time they are watching KPJ iso the ball.

like if we are good at fast breaks, running and gunning, lobbing the ball, etc. etc. i can see the bs u are trying to paint.

the problem is our offense isn't that, our offense is KPJ iso while the rest watches, defense is already set.


Your problem is trying to paint that its a team need for bruno when it's really boils down to KPJ struggling to utilize sengun properly. If KPJ was as talented or even half as good as harden, we wouldn't b having 52 pages of why bruno need to b started over sengun.

 

Rim running and lob threat are two different roles.
He can play the role of rim runner. As far as being a lob threat, it’s not going to be a strength of his.
And there’s no deflection, I’m responding to haters. Point blank, period.

Fair criticism is fine, that’s not what you and others like the idiot rocketchamp are doing