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Rockets Finally Gave Sengun The ‘Jokic’ Role



The Houston Rockets have decided: Alperen Sengun is their franchise player. With Ime Udoka taking over as a head coach and Fred Van Vleet as his new point guard, Sengun’s role have gotten much more important offensively. In this video, BasketNews’ Augustas Suliauskas takes a look if Sengun can become an All-Star with a Jokic-type of role this season.

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21 Comments

  1. Jokic is playing with 4 fast (in defense and offense) guys around him. Similar to Jokic, AlPi is not an athlete (although he can dunk on some centers). Rockets need to make cuts and put themselves in shooting opportunities constantly. Otherwise, who are you gonna pass to? And more %FGs from the other 4 means more assists to AlPi.

  2. (according to PER) He is top20 efficient player right now, basicly tied with Sabonis for per minute production.

    If he can keep it up, he can be all-star this season (backup maybe?), obviously it's dependent on votes. But considering he is a highlight machine, that can be good for all-star match.

  3. I don't understand why Centers( tallest playern on a team) didn't always play like Jokić. It just makes sense. Passing isn't that hard if you practice

  4. For the all star game, the rockets record will probably prevent him from making it and there is so much competition at forward: Jokic, AD, Durant, LeBron, Kawhi, George, Sabonis, Markkanen, Wemby, Holmgren

  5. rockets are 1-3 and his defense is at least partially to blame

  6. alpi is the third in the NBA so far among those who often handle the ball in attacking positions behind Embiid and jokic…

  7. Even the preparation of this beautiful analysis video about him excites me as a basketball fan. Endless success to Alperen Şengün, the child of the land where I was born, love from Giresun, he will be a legend, like Paul Gasol and more specially Referee Olajuwan…

  8. He has potential, but all star is quite a stretch and i mean to ever be an all star, this season in the west is absurd. He is really bad on defense and just did not really show enough scoring potential on top of his obviously great playmaking in my eyes.
    Also, the Rockets look like one of the worst 3 teams in the league.

  9. in the conclusion, we can say that Houston has a lot of promise if they employ alpi as their offensive center. i know it won't be easy, but I think this squad and coach can succeed. on the other hand, alpi needs to improve his three-point shooting and become a more effective defensive player.

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