How can you have Sengun at PF when he can’t shoot and wants to post in the paint? you have to have a good 3 point shooting C that can also protect the rim How many of those guys are in this league? one of them is also gonna have to defend the perimeter because this ain’t the 90’s or early 2000’s when teams would be trotting out 2 non-shooters as their bigs, and we know Sengun is food when trying to defend out in space
He’s a power forward, and has already said so. That’s why he loved the Rockets getting Adams because it put him back to his normal position he’s always played before he came into the NBA.
Thanks for asking. I love talking bball. Here’s my quick summary. As center, we can punch it to him in the post (but I’m liking that less). I like him at the elbow or above better. It helps us more, with multiple actions we run. His problem there is him not passing enough. He needs to trust the actions, because it’s better for him. He looks for keepers too much, and if he’d pass from our split actions more (in slot or sideline), that will make his keepers better. It’s a loop. As for PF, not much minutes to go on. He and Adams together is a beast. Adams doesn’t cause spacing problems for Alpi like is popular opinion. But that’s unique to Adams, opponents have to drape him (vs other centers), so he has the spacing effect of Amen when near the basket, or other dunker spot centers. Any other talk of PF is too speculative for me.
I don’t even know because he can’t shoot. We have no choice but to play him at Center because of that. He also can’t protect the rim, guard opposing Centers or guard any forwards on the perimeter. He’s also a terrible finisher, even when he’s wide open under the rim. Damn I hate seeing him regress this much, he was one of my favorite players his rookie year.
This is going to be an extremely unpopular take, but I think Alpi is best suited as a scorer off the bench. Ideally, you play him 25 - 30 minutes a game against favorable matchups. He is a good player, but not the kind of player you build around. He is an instant offense player with defensive limitations. If he is coming off the bench and has a scoring threat, it does not matter if he is playing the 4 or the 5. That all changes if he can become a reliable three-point shooter, but I just don't see it.
He shouldn’t be backing down shorter players at the 3 point line That’s not low post breh @Snow Villiers
Neither. Too small / not athletic enough to be a center. Not a good enough shooter from anywhere on the floor and too slow to defend on the perimeter to be a PF. He's a classic tweener.
This is the truth. If Sengun could hit 3’s at a 40% rate, he could play PF on offense. He can’t play it on defense. He is a center and has to get better at shooting and get stronger to even be a good center.
Sengun needs a stretching specialist. He so unlimber he has a hard time finishing in traffic. Most of the flip ups don't work in the Playoffs or Playoff Race. Resorting to friendly bounce or roll in means being a horrible finisher at the rim. The whole team has a like that on long stretches of the game.
Always thought he was more PF in the Chris Webber mode. Mobley and Sengun would have set us up in the paint
Honestly kind of neither, he's one of those tweeners where it means he's stuck in no-man's land moreso than being a versatile guy who can play both positions. But he's closer to being a center. Most modern NBA power forwards would have been called small forwards 10-15 years ago, they just would have been on the bigger end of that position. So you get guys like Jimmy Butler playing PF, who started out as a shooting guard when he first came into the league. Almost all of them can shoot three pointers at passable percentages on volumes that only guards would have shot back in the day. Almost all of them have handles and some level of a face-up game. Sengun can't really fill the typical offensive or defensive requirements of the position these days, he can't shoot threes for the most part, he doesn't guard that well in space, can't fight through the screens well enough to contest jump shots. 15 years ago when guys like LaMarcus Aldridge were more emblematic of who you'd find playing power forward, sure, Sengun would definitely have been a 4 back then. Not today though. At center, he's just not quite big enough or strong enough, that's why he struggles so much offensively against guys with above-average physical traits for the center position, like Ayton, even when they're not the most skilled defenders. He also doesn't provide the level of rim protection you'd like from a championship-caliber center. But he causes fewer issues at center; he can guard his own man well enough, his switchability plays up at the 5 instead of down, he doesn't really hurt your spacing / jump shooting relative to the average NBA center. So he's kind of a center because it's the least-bad option more than because that's the game he'd naturally like to play. Dude should have been born in 1990 instead of 2002. Shame on him for picking the wrong birth year.
dude needs to develop an outside shot so he can be a stretch 4... bc hes too soft to be the primary rim protector...
