How Houston Rockets Alperen Sengun & Steven Adams Lineups DOMINATED Pelicans + Why Tari Over Jabari?
How Houston Rockets Alperen Sengun & Steven Adams Lineups DOMINATED Pelicans + Why Tari Over Jabari?
Can the Houston Rockets Big Lineup Strategy Change the Game? The Houston Rockets are shaking up their strategy with their innovative double and triple big lineups. Featuring Alperen Sengun and Steven Adams, the Rockets are redefining team defense and rebounding tactics with their 109-97 win against Zion Williamson and the New Orleans Pelicans.
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) is joined by weekly cohost and NBA Draft enthusiast Madison Moore (@MadManLeaks) to explore how this approach impacts their offensive dynamics, especially in the absence of Fred VanVleet. The discussion also covers Tari Eason’s surprising starts over Jabari Smith Jr. and the challenges of balancing young talent with veteran presence.
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Can I get aman💪🚀🏆🏆
Locked in working in London – Lets go rockets!
The Rockets should go all out for Lamelo ball. no disrespect to D’Aaron Fox fans like Jackson Gatlin and Devin Bookers fans, Lamelon ball is better than both of them and would fit better. Imagine Lamelo, Amen & sengun🔥🔥🔥
why Amen doesn't passing the Ball everytime Jalen was in The wild and free to shots cause he was so close to the Rim?
I feel like Ime is experimenting with lineups, as well as rewarding players for playing well. Tari has played great up until this point, which is why he's gotten the nod to start. However, I feel like the games when Jabari doesnt start, regardless of who starts over him, we always get off to slow starts. Idk what it is, but it just feels like players know their roles and the team seems more structured when Jabari is starting. What yall think?
All we need is either to make Amen the True Point forward or trade for Lemalo!! I love KD but not for what the suns probably going to want!!!
It's absolutely mind-boggling how Jalen hasn't been benched yet. He has the longest leash I've ever seen for a player. Tired of his extended usage paired with the mediocre production
What the actual f happened to Jaylen Gren
When is this fanbase going to stop coddling Jalen Green? He's simply not the player we thought he was when we drafted him NUMBER 2 OVERALL. Ahead of Mobley, Franz, T Murphy. Not to mention that horrible contract we gave him on top of all the spoiling this organization does for him. I say this genuinely, as someone who was around for his entire career, I was completely wrong about Jalen Green. He is not a dominant scorer, he's a vanilla playmaker, consistently inconsistent and some nights just looks like he's ready to give up. He's very simply NOT THE GUY! The sooner we can get off of him, the better this team will be, I promise you.
The clogged paint for Jalen argument is tired, dried up, and just plain wrong. If you put Jalen on a different team, with shooters, a "traditional post 96 weak, rim running big" , what would you get? NOTHING, more of the same…so wake up people that have the clogged paint arguement are dreaming about what they want to see and not what really is. Small ball babies – that era has past and is not coming back.
In the chess game, one bishop can move only at the certain color of squares so the player holding bishop pair in the middle game is always upper hand. Amen and Tari is the bishop pair of the Rockets.
Madison knows ball