www.clutchfans.net Alperen Sengun, Fred VanVleet talk to reporters after the Houston Rockets lost in the NBA Cup to the Oklahoma City Thunder on 12/14/2024
Thank you! As a life long fan, I have PTSD from the playoff game where we missed 21 straight and lost a big playoff game. We don’t have to die by the three bro..🤦🏻♂️
I've been saying since last year that you need to get a shooter. No one in the team can shoot open threes, that's why Sengun is constantly getting double pressure under the rim.
Anything but the starting 5. Its nuts Amen Thompson is our most consistent and best all around player but he comes off the bench. Hes a PG. 6"9 has better skills than anyone on this squad but we giving every touch to Fred. He slows our game down to a turtles speed and Ime only preaches Speed and tempo lol!
Amen PG two wings Cam and Tari.. Alpi and Brooks Biggest DAWG lineup that ever existed.. and let Amen run the show.. setting up Cam Tarinand ofc Alpi. It will be a nightmare facing that squad. Literallly we wouldnt lose... would take sometime for them to adjust... but you give me Amen Cam Tari with a decent center and a 4 that can just run the floor at a good speed... and they beat the crap out of this team. Alpi is also good against big centers but if you put a strong 4 on him like Draymond and he gets lost... but wemby and clingan he can play.. alot of work
@arnoncline2398 Honestly it makes no sense to not be playing Sheppard at this point either...I see this offense being bottom 10 by the end of the year if they keep the lineup and minutes all the same. Only second to OKC in defense so that will make up for it on MOST nights but they have no chance against offensive juggernauts who are shooting well that night. Give Sheppard at least 16 minutes a game EVERY game, and play Whitemore around the same. That could dramatically change these outcomes. Offense is atrocious. Even if they both shoot a combined 10 times a game you're likely gonna be getting 2-4 threes a game from them and that would be huge given they have no shooters out there at all right now. Freddy can get hot but is unbelievably inconsistent in that realm.
@@arnoncline2398Once Chet comes back none of this will matter however😅. I dont see them beating OKC even without Chet regardless of roster adjustments. Next year is when I'll really be scared of the Rockets. To beat OKC in a 7 game series though you HAVE to trade Green and try to get a better leading scorer. Rockets fans HAVE to let go of this fantasy that this guy will somehow turn things around and be consistent...no. Three years is long enough this is now his 4th season. It's over. Trade him. Same goes for Jabari in year 3, it wont work on this team, its over. Jalen Green and Jabari Smith alone are a hell of an intriguing package for teams out there. You throw in a future draft pick (IMO Freddy as well) and you have yourself the chance to get an incredible top scorer. Unrealistic most likely but just imagine Giannis on this team...As if the Rockets need more defense, that guy paired with Sengun, Amen, Brooks, and Sheppards shooting would be INSANE. Bringing Tari, Whitemore, Holiday, Adams off the bench are you kidding me? Then I would favor them over anybody.
@@arnoncline2398As historcially great as OKC's defense is, if the Rockets were to aquire Giannis and not lose Freddy(though I think they should) the lineup of Freddy, Tari, Amen, Giannis, and Sengun might be the greatest defensive lineup of all time. Not even kidding. Sengun isn't even a liability defensively anymore...Literally no holes outside of Freddys height but he is as fiesty defensively a 6'0 guard as there is.
We desperately need somebody who can put the ball in the basket consistently. These guys we had out there tonight couldn’t have hit the floor with their shoes
Amen is super consistent. Same thing every night... points per minute etc. Yet he gets less touches than anyone else on the team that starts. Its aboslutely maddening
I am proud of them. They are too young to this stage and they played semifinal against probable winner. We will hear this team' name more in the next 10 years.
This game alone is proof it’s time to trade VANFLEET. That FOX trade sounding more interesting by the day. If the coaching staff didn’t learn anything by this lose I don’t know what will.
During the Warriors game Fred VanVleet had the ball in a Fast Break, Amen Thompson was ahead around the paint Fred VanVleet didn't pass the ball up the floor for the easy dunk for Amen 2 points. So many times Fred VanVleet has not passed the ball to Jalen Green when he is open and shot contested 3 instead. That is bad decision making. Fred VanVleet had only 9 Assists to Jalen Green.
Y'all Rockets fans not tired of Fred bad shooting over and over,, and JGreen. In the 4th the two combine was 5 for 23 for 13 points. Cam is instant offense. Fred doesn't play like a championship type player.DAMN, 3 for 15 and 1 for 11 is Fred stat line.
SICK and tired of all these blown leads! Amen needs to start and Jalen has to get traded! Also why TF Reed Shep (our third overall pick), catching back to back DNP's especially when the team is in a shooting slump ???????
Rockets have to decide on a offenseive philosophy, this was the reason why i didnt want Stone to commit money to either Sengun or Green. We dont have an offensive identity, if you want Sengun to be the number 1 guy then go get players that can fit around him, if you want run and gun type offense and space out the half court and let your athletes like amen or Jalen get down hill, then go get players to fit with that.. All this trying to mesh together this Jalen and ALP is not going to work and is only decreasing their value. We wasted a draft pick on reed Shepard who was supposed to solve our shooting problems, I wanted Clingan cause i knew his defense would help us immediately, but Stone didnt want to upset the apple card by drafting a Center. At the least we could have drafted Dalton or Dillingham
Why do you always take your alperen out of the game? Udoka??? 😡😡 The team can't score baskets, why alperen when you should remove the ones who can't???? Will you always do this? I started to get really angry.
gotta stop with this "just not hitting shots"mentality. If we cant hit shots why're we shooting them and why aren't we addressing the issue of us not hitting shots by hunting a 3 pt shooter
You and Jalen went 2-19 from deep. You’re both barely over 30% on 3 pointers for the year. Eason, Thompson and whitmore should be getting all y’all’s minutes. It’s ridiculous at this point.
Is our coaching staff blind?? If Amen had as many touches as Fred he would have a triple double every third or fourth game with 2 steals and 2 blocks while shutting down the other teams best player.. but no we gonna play van fleet all year and run the offense thru the guy whos half the size half the speed and half the vision
Bottom line, the rockets have scorers who cant score efficiently. JG is not a good perimeter scorer, Sengun is a Center who can't score in the paint efficiently. The rockets best efficient scorer who isn't even considered a scorer is Amen... Let that sink in... So if i have to start Amen, over a brooks, Vanfleet, or Green, then how will my team get up enough threes to keep up? Spacing will be awful with both Sengun and Amen on the floor together.. we will increase our 2pt efficiency but loose against teams getting up at least 30 threes.. Honestly i think the rockets should build around Amen, with either Bari at the 5 or a lob threat big, and the rest shooters.. similarly like the bucks did with Giannis, i think Amen can be the next Gianni's
As much as I support Alp, this game is on him. This is not the first game the Rockets cannot buy a basket, and we need Alp to be agressive. Stone needs to shield himself from drafting a bust in Jalen Green so he's not going to trade for a better SG. Alp needs to stop being a wussy and goes ahead and shoot the ball. I don't care the shooting percentage but it's unacceptable to only put up 16 shots in a game when he is the #1 option on the team.
Shooting coach?? Bro we will be out played by these younger bigger teams without question. Until we start the young core and bring Cam to play off the bench and maybe even start are gone. I would rather see Cam start instead of Green for a game or two... same player... just Cam is bigger.. swap Amen for Fred and Cam for Jalen. Tari for Jabari... teams might just forfeit 😅
Guys, please respect Vanvleet. You cannot judge a book with its cover. He helps poor people too much. Even the companies in Houston do not do that much...
TRASH HAS COSTED US LIKE 4 WINS.. the inbound pass to Alpi.. the chuck shot from 3 wishing for a whistle?? Guy is toast. And are we still talkong about Amens shot??? Do you see these starters
Alperen neyapıp needip şutunu üçlüğünü geliştirmek zorunda, bu sene, serbest atış ribaund, defans, geliştirmiş gibi, seneyede, şutunu üçlüğünü geliştitcek gibi gözüküyor, bu potansiyel de, onda var, bununla beraber özgüvenide gelişicek, bir iki seneye başka alpi görebiliriz gibi geliyor bana, zaten yapamazsa takaslanır heralde
Kardeş bir de üstüne takımın yemeğini yapsın :) bu adam süpermen değil ki. Şaka bir yana, Takım da iş yok, tek başına savaşıyor, bir süre sonra o da artık bırakıyor. Ama elbette 3 lük de gelse şahane olur.
If Houston isn’t going to hit those 3’s….they need to stop shooting them
Bro thats what we will get with Fred bringing up the ball
This message needs to get out to Fred.
Thank you! As a life long fan, I have PTSD from the playoff game where we missed 21 straight and lost a big playoff game. We don’t have to die by the three bro..🤦🏻♂️
My coach used to say if you miss 3 3's you have to make a 2 before you can shoot another one
I've been saying since last year that you need to get a shooter. No one in the team can shoot open threes, that's why Sengun is constantly getting double pressure under the rim.
Dillon the villain hit his threes
No one is shooting good, including Sengun, who by position, his fg% is one of the worst
Çift olsa yine iyi. Üçlü sıkıştırma yaptılar bu maçta.
At first i tought it was Chat sitting left😂
Please free Cam it’s clear y’all need a offensive dawg
Anything but the starting 5. Its nuts Amen Thompson is our most consistent and best all around player but he comes off the bench. Hes a PG. 6"9 has better skills than anyone on this squad but we giving every touch to Fred. He slows our game down to a turtles speed and Ime only preaches Speed and tempo lol!
Amen PG two wings Cam and Tari.. Alpi and Brooks
Biggest DAWG lineup that ever existed.. and let Amen run the show.. setting up Cam Tarinand ofc Alpi. It will be a nightmare facing that squad. Literallly we wouldnt lose... would take sometime for them to adjust... but you give me Amen Cam Tari with a decent center and a 4 that can just run the floor at a good speed... and they beat the crap out of this team. Alpi is also good against big centers but if you put a strong 4 on him like Draymond and he gets lost... but wemby and clingan he can play.. alot of work
@arnoncline2398 Honestly it makes no sense to not be playing Sheppard at this point either...I see this offense being bottom 10 by the end of the year if they keep the lineup and minutes all the same. Only second to OKC in defense so that will make up for it on MOST nights but they have no chance against offensive juggernauts who are shooting well that night. Give Sheppard at least 16 minutes a game EVERY game, and play Whitemore around the same. That could dramatically change these outcomes. Offense is atrocious. Even if they both shoot a combined 10 times a game you're likely gonna be getting 2-4 threes a game from them and that would be huge given they have no shooters out there at all right now. Freddy can get hot but is unbelievably inconsistent in that realm.
@@arnoncline2398Once Chet comes back none of this will matter however😅. I dont see them beating OKC even without Chet regardless of roster adjustments. Next year is when I'll really be scared of the Rockets. To beat OKC in a 7 game series though you HAVE to trade Green and try to get a better leading scorer. Rockets fans HAVE to let go of this fantasy that this guy will somehow turn things around and be consistent...no. Three years is long enough this is now his 4th season. It's over. Trade him. Same goes for Jabari in year 3, it wont work on this team, its over. Jalen Green and Jabari Smith alone are a hell of an intriguing package for teams out there. You throw in a future draft pick (IMO Freddy as well) and you have yourself the chance to get an incredible top scorer. Unrealistic most likely but just imagine Giannis on this team...As if the Rockets need more defense, that guy paired with Sengun, Amen, Brooks, and Sheppards shooting would be INSANE. Bringing Tari, Whitemore, Holiday, Adams off the bench are you kidding me? Then I would favor them over anybody.
@@arnoncline2398As historcially great as OKC's defense is, if the Rockets were to aquire Giannis and not lose Freddy(though I think they should) the lineup of Freddy, Tari, Amen, Giannis, and Sengun might be the greatest defensive lineup of all time. Not even kidding. Sengun isn't even a liability defensively anymore...Literally no holes outside of Freddys height but he is as fiesty defensively a 6'0 guard as there is.
They have us thinking they are going to show up but let us down.Play Cam,Reed and Jack McVeigh.
Play Cam Whitmore dammit!!!
Can get you some buckets off the bench
We desperately need somebody who can put the ball in the basket consistently. These guys we had out there tonight couldn’t have hit the floor with their shoes
Amen is super consistent. Same thing every night... points per minute etc. Yet he gets less touches than anyone else on the team that starts. Its aboslutely maddening
I am proud of them. They are too young to this stage and they played semifinal against probable winner. We will hear this team' name more in the next 10 years.
This game alone is proof it’s time to trade VANFLEET. That FOX trade sounding more interesting by the day. If the coaching staff didn’t learn anything by this lose I don’t know what will.
Dude give the ball to Jalen & get out the way!!!
During the Warriors game Fred VanVleet had the ball in a Fast Break, Amen Thompson was ahead around the paint Fred VanVleet didn't pass the ball up the floor for the easy dunk for Amen 2 points.
So many times Fred VanVleet has not passed the ball to Jalen Green when he is open and shot contested 3 instead. That is bad decision making.
Fred VanVleet had only 9 Assists to Jalen Green.
Ifbadams stayed in the game we would have won 6 minutes 6 reb 4 points
1-11 from 3 God damn, Fred is showing no good example for Jalen as well ngl
disgusting performance from those 2 offensively
2 of 19 from 3s from Fred and Jalen, Alpy was bad too. All of them man. Just disgraceful performance.
Y'all Rockets fans not tired of Fred bad shooting over and over,, and JGreen. In the 4th the two combine was 5 for 23 for 13 points. Cam is instant offense. Fred doesn't play like a championship type player.DAMN, 3 for 15 and 1 for 11 is Fred stat line.
SICK and tired of all these blown leads! Amen needs to start and Jalen has to get traded! Also why TF Reed Shep (our third overall pick), catching back to back DNP's especially when the team is in a shooting slump ???????
The FVV and Sengun duo was predictable. Yeah I will be Happier if Jalen will be traded. Actually Houston is just wasting Jalen potential.
@@Lezahfire What is his potential? We can't run offense through Jalen. He has to be a play finisher. He can't create for himself or other people
@@vaudou_ no need to answer you. It will be just wasting my time. You said, you watch basketball for a long time. So your a baby basketball.
@@Lezahfire What? You gotta stop relying on Google Translate. Nothing you said makes sense. You already shown you don't watch the games.
@@vaudou_ if I don't watch the Game, how would I Gave my comment? Pls. Think before your Type.
Rockets have to decide on a offenseive philosophy, this was the reason why i didnt want Stone to commit money to either Sengun or Green. We dont have an offensive identity, if you want Sengun to be the number 1 guy then go get players that can fit around him, if you want run and gun type offense and space out the half court and let your athletes like amen or Jalen get down hill, then go get players to fit with that.. All this trying to mesh together this Jalen and ALP is not going to work and is only decreasing their value. We wasted a draft pick on reed Shepard who was supposed to solve our shooting problems, I wanted Clingan cause i knew his defense would help us immediately, but Stone didnt want to upset the apple card by drafting a Center. At the least we could have drafted Dalton or Dillingham
Why do you always take your alperen out of the game? Udoka??? 😡😡 The team can't score baskets, why alperen when you should remove the ones who can't???? Will you always do this? I started to get really angry.
Alpi Play only 30minutes😤
He was playing like trash all game
Udoka knows better, but the team did not focus on shooting intensely before the match in Vegas...
Yea we gotta start hitting our shots then the sky is the limit
No closer!
Não chegaremos a lugar nenhum com esse anão de armador e com Alperen MÃO DE MANTEIGA 🧈 Sengun. E JG precisa sair !!!
gotta stop with this "just not hitting shots"mentality. If we cant hit shots why're we shooting them and why aren't we addressing the issue of us not hitting shots by hunting a 3 pt shooter
Who’s giving him the bullet points off the sheet
You and Jalen went 2-19 from deep. You’re both barely over 30% on 3 pointers for the year. Eason, Thompson and whitmore should be getting all y’all’s minutes. It’s ridiculous at this point.
Is our coaching staff blind?? If Amen had as many touches as Fred he would have a triple double every third or fourth game with 2 steals and 2 blocks while shutting down the other teams best player.. but no we gonna play van fleet all year and run the offense thru the guy whos half the size half the speed and half the vision
Man .... Jalen Green is not HIM)
Jabari isn't (Him )either,
Those two have been here long enough to show more
Sengun let a bench player outwork him in every facet of the game. The rockets paid 2 players that are poor from the perimeter
It nobody won’t to see slow poke offense, give the ball to Jalen & run run run!!!
Fred VanVleet has only 9 Assists to Jalen Green this season.
Wow if true...
Bottom line, the rockets have scorers who cant score efficiently. JG is not a good perimeter scorer, Sengun is a Center who can't score in the paint efficiently. The rockets best efficient scorer who isn't even considered a scorer is Amen... Let that sink in... So if i have to start Amen, over a brooks, Vanfleet, or Green, then how will my team get up enough threes to keep up? Spacing will be awful with both Sengun and Amen on the floor together.. we will increase our 2pt efficiency but loose against teams getting up at least 30 threes.. Honestly i think the rockets should build around Amen, with either Bari at the 5 or a lob threat big, and the rest shooters.. similarly like the bucks did with Giannis, i think Amen can be the next Gianni's
The ref help you to win against gsw
As much as I support Alp, this game is on him. This is not the first game the Rockets cannot buy a basket, and we need Alp to be agressive. Stone needs to shield himself from drafting a bust in Jalen Green so he's not going to trade for a better SG. Alp needs to stop being a wussy and goes ahead and shoot the ball. I don't care the shooting percentage but it's unacceptable to only put up 16 shots in a game when he is the #1 option on the team.
Let smith go
Houston şut yüzdesi düşük bir takım ve istikrar yok dış şutlar çok kötü iki iyi şütörle kafaya oynarlar
Reed Sheppard and Cam Whitmore needs those Bench Minutes. .
PG Reed Sheppard
SG Aaron Holiday
SF Amen Thompson
PF Cam Whitmore
C Tari Eason
Size: XS, and it matters
They are a good defender but they need a coach who will improve their offense and develop reed and cam. Why not get steve nash
BASICALLY JUST NEED WORK ON JUMP SHOT, SHOOTING COACH GARBAGE!! OUT COACHED 😮 TRADE WILL OCCUR ASAP
Shooting coach?? Bro we will be out played by these younger bigger teams without question. Until we start the young core and bring Cam to play off the bench and maybe even start are gone. I would rather see Cam start instead of Green for a game or two... same player... just Cam is bigger.. swap Amen for Fred and Cam for Jalen. Tari for Jabari... teams might just forfeit 😅
Guys, please respect Vanvleet. You cannot judge a book with its cover. He helps poor people too much. Even the companies in Houston do not do that much...
We are talking about winning basketball. Not a personal argument my guy
@@arnoncline2398 no bruh, he's being a dumbass. he's putting useless information to highlight that FVV is useless in his eyes.
They All played like trash
Yabang nyo kase di pa nga nag cchampion o yan
Trade Jalen for a better wing defender and start Cam at SG
Vanfleet is a trash he cant be that leader
Vanvleet is always the best. His family foundation helps thousands regularly...
TRASH HAS COSTED US LIKE 4 WINS.. the inbound pass to Alpi.. the chuck shot from 3 wishing for a whistle?? Guy is toast. And are we still talkong about Amens shot??? Do you see these starters
hes a leader it's just theres no other consistent option that can also lead yet
Alperen neyapıp needip şutunu üçlüğünü geliştirmek zorunda, bu sene, serbest atış ribaund, defans, geliştirmiş gibi, seneyede, şutunu üçlüğünü geliştitcek gibi gözüküyor, bu potansiyel de, onda var, bununla beraber özgüvenide gelişicek, bir iki seneye başka alpi görebiliriz gibi geliyor bana, zaten yapamazsa takaslanır heralde
Kardeş bir de üstüne takımın yemeğini yapsın :) bu adam süpermen değil ki. Şaka bir yana, Takım da iş yok, tek başına savaşıyor, bir süre sonra o da artık bırakıyor. Ama elbette 3 lük de gelse şahane olur.
Ifbadams stayed in the game we would have won 6 minutes 6 reb 4 points