Alperen Sengun on losing to the Lakers: “We gave them a really hard time. We beat them in every stat, but the experience beat us.”
Every stat except for “points scored” but who cares about that anyways
Except not even most of those…
Reb - TiedAssists - LakersSteals - RocketsBlocks - LakersFG% - Lakers3p% - LakersFT% - RocketsTS% - LakersTurnovers - Lakers had less
Tied in rebounds is crazy considering our personnel
Not crazy when you consider the rockets center.
Simple explanation: Sengun a soft baby boy that needs Steven Adam behind him to rebound
Easier to get defensive rebounds so that’s just a result of the Rockets missing way more.
A team that misses more also gets fewer rebounds the majority of the time.
cuz they kept clanking, hard to get boards when the shots going in
Not really all ayton and vando can do is play defense and get rebounds, bron always good for like 6-9 rebounds,
Only + rebounder on Houston is amen
That’s crazy lmao
Yeah beat them in turnovers checkmate
So, somebody feeding the Rockets personnel bad analytics
You forgot the most important one:Dawg: Lakers
Steals and FT% are the only stats that matter though
Maybe he thinks more turnovers is beating.
You forgot ego, Sengun has them beat by a mile and that’s gotta put them in front.
As Bill Russell once said to Uncle Drew “What these young bloods have to understand is this game has always been and always will be about buckets…”
Maybe Sengun meant they analytically scored more points lol
The pendulum has swung so far.
Same shit happens in football. “Wins aren’t a QB stat”, says the fan of the team whose QB sucks and they go under .500 every season but have a top 10 DE of all time and a consistently great defense. Like if wins aren’t a QB stat, then why do all the good QBs win the majority of their games, but the good defensive players/wide receivers/running backs don’t? Oh yeah, because many of those guys have bad QBs 🤣 JJ Watt, Myles Garrett, Darrelle Revis, the 3 greatest Defensive players of the last 20 years…one superbowl between them all, when post-prime Revis swapped teams and spent a year with Brady.
Or my favorite: “Aaron Rodgers/Justin Herbert/Lamar Jackson/Josh Allen has been let down by his defense, that’s why he sucks in the playoffs”, as if QBs don’t directly impact (1) their defense’s average field position, (2) their defense’s rest, and (3) with offensive success makes the opposing offense one-dimensional and therefore makes it easier on their defense.
Nephews quickly forgot the point of the game. Winning. They point to analytics as a way to excuse shit play, when analytics are meant to be predictors of who will contribute best to winning. Instead, these players think just winning at analytics means you will win, which creates a chicken/egg situation lol
Playing well analytically does not mean you will win, but winning often means you are playing well analytically. Those are not the same.
But wins AREN’T a QB stat? Stafford didn’t win shit in Detroit, and went to LA and won a SB and last year an MVP and has been on a contending team basically since he got there. And Brady wasn’t a great QB early, he developed into one because his team was great so he had time to develop. Also putting Rodgers, Lamar, Josh Allen, and Justin Herbert all in the same category is crazy work lmao. Rodgers straight up has better stats than Brady in the playoffs lmao.
You don’t seem to understand stats, analytics, or football.
If you think Rodgers is greater than Brady because he has better stats in the playoffs you are cooked lol
Jesus it’s like hearing “Well analytically we are out playing them” all over again lol
These players are so dumb and delusional lmao
Source?
Analytics finals Rockets v Cavs who yall got
There’s levels to this the rockets analytically beat us but the Cavs analytically beat the champions
Ya but the Knicks weren’t analytically the champions. Might as well be talking about the Wizards
“We analytically beat them”
god i fucking hate that guy
is this really becoming like the new way to be a sore loser?
“analytically we’re up 2-1”
“we beat them in every stat”
“our domination stints are so dominant but our errors cost us”
like can’t even admit you’re getting outplayed/outcoached by the other team.
Spurs are hanging the “won every first quarter of the finals series” banner as we speak
Have any Spurs players, coaches, or staff said it like Atkinson and Sengun have?
One of their assistants who landed a head coaching job did. Edit: some dumb shit like if the game ended after 40 minutes we win the series.
They played 5 games, spurs had home court for 3 of them and they lost 4. Knicks were just better
Huh? That’s the joke. Spurs fans were boasting about “dominating” the beginning of each game which is worthless because they kept blowing it in the 4th. Making them the worse team.
I have never seen a fanbase win a chip and still act like sore losers before.
Alperen Atkinson
Fire sale loading by December
This team rebuilt at the exact same time as OKC and San Antonio.
They had more top 5 picks than OKC.
How did they botch their rebuild so fast that while those two teams are just getting started, they’re about to enter another rebuild?
okay well to be fair if houston had gotten the #1 pick in 2023 instead of san antonio i think we’d be saying their rebuild is going super well lol. also okc got SGA to kick off their rebuild, houston got victor oladipo.
but jalen green over mobley/scottie and reed sheppard over castle is also a big part of that.
exactly. that right there hurt them. props for sengun on being a steal u don’t usually get 2x all stars before 25 at the 16th pick
Because in the end many teams skip most important thing in tanking
Find REAL franchise player
Do it all over again until get one
Lol it’s not that they skip it… draft picks just don’t hit every time.
I mean the thunder got their main guy through a trade not draft. As for the rockets they didn’t really do anything wrong they drafted well built their core but it just turned out that core just isn’t strong enough to get to that elite level
Bringing in a 40 year old for $44 million/ yr who only plays offensive
Those 2 got MVP level players, Rockets got Jalen Green.
because they just didn’t come out of a single draft with one of the three best players, I would still defend most of their picks though, really the only huge fuckup was Jalen Green over Mobley.
Saying this when your team’s poster for this season looks like the 2018 Cavs except worse
I don’t like the Lakers offseason moves but Sengun has a shocking lack of self-awareness. Coupled with KD’s horrible body language towards him leads me to believe they’re going to have some midseason chaos.
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All KD teams crash and burn eventually
Ask the Suns lol.
I hope these Rockets stay together forever, as does I assume every other playoff team in the West.
It’s in my dreams for sure. Will be really funny when it happens
You should be hoping for it, every team is licking their chops hoping for the Rockets first round and the season hasn’t even started
not when bari is our only tradeable asset
Pretty sure Thompson and Sengun will fetch a good haul, seems to me that the issues aren’t fully on the players but the team’s cohesion as a whole especially adding KD to that volatile mix. Sengun and Thompson would be a perfect fit for certain teams and might push those team to contention imo
Udoka can’t coach a coherent offense. That’s really the biggest problem with the Rockets.
This, I believe in the team a lot more than I believe in Ime’s offensive coaching. Unless we make a very solid playoff run I’m not sold on breaking the whole team up unless/until someone not named Ime Udoka is our HC
Why wasn’t he fired? Team underachieving in the playoffs 2 years in a row, he needs to go
That game 3 was just an inexcusable loss. They win that who knows how the series goes
Yea if things were different they’d be different. The Rockets weren’t doing anything it that series. They were a mess and LeBron was damn nearing toying with them.
It definitely didn’t
I also think FVV is such a huge missing piece for them. Our whole defense revolved around (1) PoA defense on people that couldn’t handle the ball and (2) ball denial on KD. Adding an elite ballhandler and scorer in FVV changes everything about that series.
adding an elite ballhandler and scorer would change everything but unfortunately i don’t think that’s 32 year old FVV coming off a knee explosion
They didn’t need an elite ball handler, they needed a ball handler lmao
That Reed turnover was stupid and costly. A passable NBA-PG would have …
Well no need for further speculation, right?
He’s been rehabbing for an entire year and has the whole season to ramp up to the playoffs. 32 isn’t 36, he will be fine
Wow, respect for saying this.
Him and Kenny Atkinson are a match made in heaven
wasn’t that team entirely assembled then broken up with in one year cuz ayton, smart, kennard were there once and left & bron is now gone with AR and Luka out that series.
they went 7-3 against the rockets all year, if he thinks it just “experience” idk what to tell ya
Every stat except the only one that really matters
And also a lot of other stats like rebounds
And assists. And Blocks. And more than half of them i gues.
bro has a bright future in politics
Alperen “Kenny Atkinson” Sengun
This guy runs like he has tits
ANALYTICALLY
Imagine being a sengun fan
Oh boy
Who won in the most points category?
Funny thing is he has a teammate now (Marcus Smart) that can tell them that he’s full of shit
The level of coping today is incredibly high. What happened to self-reflection?
Analytics would say they won
Atkinson logic
Kenny Atkinson ass quote
Least favorite player in the league, cries so much
Why can’t Sengun just say that the Lakers had the better team and their coaching staff exploited the Rocket’s lack of a healthy point guard throughout the series? It would’ve just been factual.
Except that version of Lakers didn’t have the better roster, Kennard/Ayton 2nd/3rd option hoops. Ayton outplaying Sengun is criminal.
That Game 3 chokejob was insane
He speaks like me when I had to bullshit my way out in a job interview that I’m not supposed to be in.
I also remember Jabari Smith saying the Rockets are “obviously the better team” when they were down 3-1 in the series. I guess young impressionable minds believe every lie Udoka tells them.
I think its totally ok to think that. But Jesus dont say shit like that. Just makes you sound stupid.
I wouldn’t say beat them in every stat, they beat them in the L series stat😭.
It’s ok to say “We lost to LeBron James” bro
Marcus Smart on their side now. Good pickup for them.
I think the only stat they beat us in was Ft%
I would hope u do more than just give a hard time to a team without their best player
Bruh you lost to the Lakers, who themselves are ass
Now do the Warriors Alpi
Pornographically they won
Ayton outplayed him 🤣
Good to know moral Victories are still a thing
Claiming analytical victories is so weak. It’s seems to be trending and it’s not a good look.
That’s crazy, they got spanked and Luka wasn’t even playing!
Sengun is such a little baby. Can’t stand that guy
Nah, we were not worried about the Rockets. Even without Luka we felt like AR & Lebron could carry us. Ayton did his thing too. I like Sengun and his game but this interview ain’t it lol
This guy’s a bitch. That’s all I want to add to this.
I do agree the stat thing is pretty dumb, but if you listen to the entire clip its overall like he acknowledges that they weren’t ready for the moment. i also will give sengun more grace than most English speakers here because the kid started learning english when he was 19. He’s started learning in 2021, so I think he might have a better response in turkish.
It really wasn’t the experience only. The coach is not a good offensive coach, the players on the team struggled , partly due to experience - but not simply because of.
And the worst part for you is they lost the next round 0-4….
But maybe they won in a couple of stats.
It’s still so stupid to me that the Rockets did not beat the Lakers on the glass.
How ‘bout in Ws?
LeXperience
Why so many players/coaches suddenly start to embrace the analytical win mindset? Pathetic
They were one Marcus Smart clutch play and LeBron three pointer away from making the series 3-2
It’s best of 7. There’s no excuses, just results.
The lead in “if “ plays
I mean guys he kinda has a point
If he had more points they might have won