Alperen Sengun On Getting to Know the Real Dillon Brooks

Alperen Sengun On Getting to Know the Real Dillon Brooks

I am I am a huge Dylan Brooks fan I am I really am I mean that I am a huge Dylan Brooks fan um I like a little bit of crazy and I’m willing I’m willing for the trade-off I like I I I would want

Dylan Brooks on my team and I feel like around the NBA he can be a very divisive meaning uh people either really like him or they really don’t like him yeah anything that has surprised you about Dylan as a teammate a player uh since he came to the Rockets yeah you know when

You play against him you you hate him yeah you hate him you know you don’t know anything about him though you just like seeing him in the court [ __ ] scared of to going to pick pick on him you know because he’s like trying to break your chest and like go like you

Know go trying to inside of you but when he’s he’s in your team you know he just all want to do help you he just want you to get better you know like he just want to help you on defense like and on defense on offense like make the shots

Play the right way you know like he helped us a lot but I can say yeah that surprised me he was like such a that good dude you know the outside of outside of Court you know you can hang out with him like you can talk to him

You can fun with him like you can drink with him like you can do anything with him like you know he’s open everything you he seems like a fun guy to hang out with he seemed like a fun guy and he want to come to Turkey next Sumer so bad

He said yeah for sure I’m going to call for sure you know y’all got to make that happen y’all got to make that happen he needs to put all that [ __ ] on IG too we needs to put all that [ __ ] on IG um I’m fascinated by your one-legged shot like

Fascinated by it why why do you shoot the one-legged shot because hold on because your one-legged shot is a little different and I know you use it in different ways Durk is a great example KD right generally speaking those guys are shooting one-legged shots in the post in

Order to fade away and create separation KD will also shoot his little Runner like he had one the other night against Portland in the fourth quarter from the elbow where the big was in a deep deep drop and he just pulled up and shot a one-legged

Runner you will catch the ball face up have space and literally have no reason to shoot a one-legged shot and you’ll do it and I’m fascinated by it I know I’m literally like thinking about that one like because I’m trying to shoot with normal but like when you shoot normal

And like you know I’m standing I’m holding the ball like that and just like going to shot it’s like little harder for me because like you know bance is different and I feel like better that way I’m like you feel more balanced on

One yes like when I go to bag and like I can take in my side that side and like shoot it but when I do do normal shed is always going short I just can’t figure out that like my power you know but when I do little fade away I just can like

You know can’t keep that balance is that a is this a is this a new thing how many sum how many like offseasons have you worked on this I mean this all summer I just work on that shot like literally every this summer yeah literally this is

A new thing yeah like literally every position I was working on that shot like one leg shot everywhere would you shoot a free throw that way would you shoot a three would you shoot a three that way thinking for three maybe yeah you know like a Wy one-legged three yeah yeah

Yeah maybe but not that free thr yeah I just feel more comfortable when I’m shooting like that um it’s a great answer actually and I’m still fascinated by it cuz you’re the only person that would ever be more comfortable shooting off one leg and feel more balanced and

Feel more power um the three-point shot for you you’re you’re not shooting a lot of them you’re I think you shoot run two a game right now as you look at your career and your development and trying to get better because you seem like a guy who’s wired

The right way yeah how much of an emphasis do you envision for yourself in terms of putting in the work and being able to shoot five threes a game six threes a game at a high clip like is that important to you to be able to space I

Mean I don’t want to shoot five six trees in a game like I think he like if I’m really good shooter like cat you know if I’m shooting like him yeah why not but I mean I know I can finish inside you know I know I can do that

Like Spin and other things I can do some stuff over there like like I don’t want to use my choice in three besides like two you know because it’s like how I can say more scorable I can score in inside you know even I’m really shooter they’re

Going to help me a lot of course in my game I can’t because I’m attacking all the time you know I’m just want to dribble but I’m saying like I want Le sh three three to two three to three three to one but I don’t want to shoot like

Six threes in the game like when I’m of course when I’m feeling good you know I I can shoot that but I don’t want to shoot every game like six threes you know can I give you a prediction yeah my prediction is you’re going to be

Right and you’re going to shoot two or three threes a game for like the next five to eight years yeah for sure and then at some point you’re going to get tired of on the inside and you’re going to spend it whole off seon shooting thre and then

You’re going to be like 32 years old and you’re going to shoot like eight threes a game yes that time maybe you’re right when I’m tired going like all that physical shoulder things yeah maybe that time I’m going to start shooting

In this clip, Alperen Sengun talks about what it’s like to be teammates with Dillon Brooks of The Houston Rockets.

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