{"id":101459,"date":"2024-10-16T17:23:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=101459"},"modified":"2024-10-16T17:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T21:23:48","slug":"how-the-rockets-can-leverage-doubles-on-sengun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/10\/16\/how-the-rockets-can-leverage-doubles-on-sengun\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Rockets Can Leverage Doubles on Sengun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Rockets star<\/a> center Alperen Sengun<\/a>\u00a0receives some of the most double teams in the NBA. But how can his team leverage the advantage? Houston head coach Ime Udoka<\/a> recently discussed<\/a> the issue with the media. It’s something he’s certain to be discussing at length with his assistants and players as well. Did the team’s latest preseason game give any insight into how those discussions might be going?<\/p>\n

How the Rockets Can Leverage Doubles on Sengun<\/h2>\n

The New Orleans Pelicans were sadly missing All-Star phenom Zion Williamson<\/a> in their preseason encounter<\/a> with the Rockets. That meant no six-foot-eight, 210lb Herbert Jones<\/a> at center<\/a> for the Pelicans. Instead, they started German journeyman<\/a> Daniel Theis<\/a>, coincidentally also six-foot-eight. Unsurprisingly, the Pelicans still opted to double.<\/p>\n

Sengun and Double Teams<\/h3>\n

Unsurprising because last year, Sengun was doubled on 77% of his post-ups. Udoka claimed<\/a> that the only players who were doubled more often were Giannis Antetokounmpo<\/a> and Joel Embiid<\/a>. He got that a little off, at least according to one metric, which has Embiid at 70%. Instead, the two players ahead of Sengun were Antetekounmpo and Nikola Jokic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the 2023-24 NBA Regular Season, in 376 of his postups, Alperen Sengun was doubled (Defensive Commits or Hard Doubles) in 289 of them. That is 77%.<\/p>\n

77% of every postup he was doubled. This is more than all other bigs such as:
– Joel Embiid (70%) (390 total postups)
– Julius\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/2gNvON6zlZ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Mitty \ud83c\uddf9\ud83c\uddf7 (@MittyData) May 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n