The interesting thing with Sengun is he has gotten less efficient the better the Rockets have gotten

2023: 59.9% TS

2024: 58.5% TS

2025: 54.5% TS

2026: 55.2% TS

The percentage of his shots at the rim has dipped a lot. His most efficient season about 40% of his shots came at the rim, it’s down to 26% now.

Spends all game crying for FTs and only averages 69% from the line lmao

He has horrible touch around the rim, Trey ball broke, and his middy is eh. Hardly ever takes them

That’s why the “baby joker” moniker is so funny. No way you can be compared to the man with arguably the greatest touch ever, when you have hands of steel

People call him Baby Jokic when he’s really just a worse version of Sabonis.

Sengun self creates unlike most bigs who get to feast off of PnR - but his finishing needs to be better and he’s generally been on a cold streak for the last month since tweaking his ankle.

I feel like if you watch sengun it makes sense. He’s not a great scorer like jokic he style looks very clunky.

55 TS% on like 90% post up shot diet

Not all bigs can be nikola jokic

Jabari Smith is flying under the radar as a bust tbh. Dude was expected to be KD lite pre draft

How is Sengun that inefficient as a C?

Two Rockets and two former Rockets as well

Because Derrick White is an elite defender, very good passer and one of rare examples of intangibles that make him good and despite this inefficiency he is loved by advanced stats still

Yeah two things can be true. White is quite literally the ultimate glue guy and Swiss army knife that adds 10 billion intangibles to every game that lead to winning

He’s an elite defender, a good playmaker, and ridiculously intelligent on both ends

And he’s also definitely a little in over his head as a high usage scoring option.

If I was constructing an imaginary team, I would have 3 Derrick Whites in the starting 5 because he just does it all

LaMelo makes the Hornets way better as well. His playmaking opens up the court for everyone else.

in the system White thrives the most he’s probably taking 75% of the shots that he is and he’s making them far more often

White is a winning player. He provides sooo much more that can overcome inefficient scoring.

Efficiency and even scoring in general is obviously important, but considering perception it is overall extremely overrated. And Derrick’s season is THE example to illustrate that, as your stats pointed out. He’s having way more positive team impact than if he was much worse at all the anciliary/margins stuff but made 2 or 3 more shots a game for the season

This is who Brooks is and will always be. Dude will shoot you into or out of games. Hes wildly inconsistent but trends very inefficient. It’s why we refused to give him a bag

Brooks has legit been bad but he’s going to get credit, Suns are 5.2 points better when he sits, he’s a moron on offense and an extremely overrated defender on defense

In Memphis he was much better defensively, now all he does is think he’s a first option way more

Every Suns game i watch they go on a run without him, he’s the perfect example of he trick y’all running around looking like he’s giving 100%

Lmao welcome to our hell. 5 straight seasons of dumbass chucking on 50% TS and people act like he was Kawhi here

Remember they didn’t wanna trade him for Austin reaves not that the lakers ever woukd consider thar

Agreed. But it’s been an issue since the beginning. It’s good he can kinda create his own shot, but a lot of times he shouldn’t

And Ott deserves the most credit.

UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES

He’s a 3&D player who thinks he’s a primary scorer.

The same confidence than can make brooks a good player comes with those shots unfortunately bro is never going to evolve his selection

January is over, hopefully smooth sailing from here on out

He was 0.1% away from making it lol

He’s prob the next person after nembhard lol. Nembhard is at 55.8% Paolo is at 55.9%

As a Sabonis fan, I told Rockets fans to sell high on Sengun because once you start paying him real money, you start having real expectations that he may never achieve, and it won’t be long until you start souring on him.

Advanced stats put him 15-20th best player in the league, on par with KD, so he’s doing something right. And I don’t watch Houston regularly, but all I’ve heard is his defense is good and took a leap last year.

He’s an NBA All-Star too 😭 Dirty Work from Adam Silver

I mean he was way better prior with spacing, he will never ever be an elite great scorer but he’s not this bad i think

But i do agree that he’s not a player you build around, he’s exactly what you don’t want in a big man in 2026

He really needs to be a secondary or third option in my opinion. And I say that as someone who is massively high on him going into the draft

I don’t think enough people are properly appreciating how precarious the rockets entire offense is, and how few obvious pathways there are to them truly breaking through their ceiling on that On that end, considering how much they rely on a still ridiculously good Durant at the Twilight of his career.

They’re going to be a good competitive team as long as they keep that core together because they defend their butts off And have a ridiculous amount of athleticism and defensive talent

But in a post Durant world if sengun is your lead guy on offense? I agree with you… I just don’t see how you can imagine winning a championship like that. And I don’t see anyone else on the roster who’s obviously on the path to surpass him as an offensive engine

People really tried to say he was better than Mobley earlier this year.

I get that Mobley has not met expectations, I also get that Sengun is a different offensive player with a different role.

The reality is though that Mobley has close to the same numbers on offense and is one of the best defensive players in the league, while Sengun is a negative on defense.

I know you can’t just say “well these games don’t count” but Lamelo’s stats were pretty rough when he was in/out of the lineup for injury (.507 TS% during that 10 game span).

Funny enough, in our last 11 games (right after he was used off the bench against the Cavs and the whole team stunk), he’s only shooting .518 TS%. But it’s the best our team has been.

Lamelo is shooting 36.3% from 3, which is 100th in the league. Let’s not go crazy

That said, I’d be interested in seeing how much more efficient he could be from 3 if he stopped talking the occasional terrible off balance one leg 3. His biggest weakness is his tendency to take awful attempts and he could really help the team by laying off them

He’s only a league average 3 point shoot both this year and for his career. He does absolutely drill impossible to guard deep stepbacks that pop off the screen, but on balance he’s just OK.

This could just be a poor shot selection thing and maybe it will improve if he can get better there.

A pet peeve of mine (of his) lately that’s almost certainly tanking his TS%, when we get up big we just straight play like trolls lol. Lamelo goes into fuck it chuck it mode and builds houses.

His shot selection is still super questionable

Give me lamelo any day

I swear he was working on this and starting to get better, but after his head injury, he started reverting

His reputation has really started to tank this year. I don’t think anyone sees him that way at this point.

In his defense, the spacing is really bad and Udoka is lost on anything regarding offense, but he really seems to be settling into Sabonis-adjacent.

Narrative and that he’s not on a hugely popular team. Those issues would be highlighted and discussed if he was on the Warriors, Boston or the Lakers

He’s their only guy who can create on offense

His future is bright.

I’m not sure how popular this will be but genuine answers: defensive impact stats have been weirdly positive towards him in recent seasons, to a degree that I’ve found hard to explain; even though he has a terrible FT%, which tends to indicate whether or not a player can ever be 35+% on spot-up 3s and really drive effective offense by shooting, he takes shots, which suggests to people that he’ll develop shooting; and a fair amount of his popularity comes from the matter that he represents a very large country of fans

Things are correcting now, and perhaps overcorrecting because his scoring could easily progress from here, but he is probably presently overpaid and needs to progress in significant ways to be worth his contract. This is not even his athletic prime (age 23!) so he will progress.

All in all? He has basically the right contract imo. There are some non-all-stars I’d have over him this year.

Not a good defender at all. Serviceable at best when he doesn’t have mental lapses. When I say not a good defender, I’m not talking about on the perimeter like the discussion above. That much is obvious.

Off the ball, he gets caught ball watching a lot as opposed to Jabari who is excellent positionally and reads the offense well.

On ball, he’s impatient and swipes at balls too much, committing a lot of unnecessary fouls. He doesn’t extend his arms consistently to contest shots unlike Jabari. Generally way too easy to score over even by smaller players because of poor fundamentals and his mediocre-at-best wing span.

His lateral movement is suspect at times whether it’s lack of mobility or effort.

Basically Sengun seems to be overrated defensively by outsiders, either because of some scouting reports when he was younger or because the Rockets as a whole have other good defenders and typically play good team defense. They are basically hiding Sengun when they can much like they do with Reed who at least has elite hands and anticipation.

Meanwhile, Jabari’s defense tends to be greatly underrated by outsiders. Other than needing to fill out physically and develop more core strength, Jabari has borderline elite defensive potential.

Amen is world-class on that end. As good as you’ll find for his position. He’s a midrange game away from being a borderline MVP once he slides back to his natural position at SF. He’s being forced to take on PG duties but it’s just not in his bag. He puts in the effort but he doesn’t have the handles yet if he ever will. Decent handles for his natural position would probably even be complimentary.

The media overrates post play. It’s flashy and intimidating to muscle your way to the rim even when it’s not efficient. I’ve heard so many pundits focus on Zubac in the post, even though he only did it a few times a game. He and Sengun both get .97 points per post-up which is below average for post players.

Thank you. There was a great video the other day on how he actually opens up the floor for us. There’s times he takes shots we don’t need, but on the whole, he is literally the only reason our top rated offense works. Remove him and watch it fall apart.

It’s not because he chucks he shoots 3s well. It’s because he’s just about the worst finisher in the league. 

That Dallas game probably was what saved him. He’s at 56.1%

I was fully expecting to see Castle on the list.

I’ll never doubt you again sir Stephon 🙂‍↕️

This is just kind of who he is. He’s a good rebounder, a ridiculously awesome playmaker for his position, and an underrated defender

But he’s super miscast as an offensive hub And go to scoring option

He was even less efficient last season.

Well in this case he’s also having to facilitate more of the offensive flow without Hali

55.9 so just barely missed. Still not good for his caliber of player and physical tools though

This is very accurate. His post play is extremely limited (to put it lightly)

6 straight top 10 defenses, 3 of them top 5.

There are 2 sides to the ball. You won’t know that if you only look at the stat sheet and never watch him play though

You can’t win with him on a max and he needs to be an elite 3rd option who basically just defends and doesn’t get any plays. Same with gobert when he was on a max.