Alperen Sengun All-Star SNUB | Amen Thompson LEADS Rockets Past Mavs & Kevin Durant CARRIES Vs Hawks
Alperen Sengun All-Star SNUB | Amen Thompson LEADS Rockets Past Mavs & Kevin Durant CARRIES Vs Hawks
Houston Rockets rocked by Alperen Sengun’s All-Star snub—will he get the last laugh after the break? Can Amen Thompson and Houston’s elite role players keep propelling the Rockets, even when stars struggle?
Host Jackson Gatlin (@JTGatlin) unpacks the All-Star selections that ignited fan debate, questioning why Sengun was overlooked in favor of names like Chet Holmgren and LeBron James. The episode breaks down Houston’s gritty 111-107 victory over the Dallas Mavericks, powered by rising star Amen Thompson, a rejuvenated Jabari Smith Jr., and clutch performances from Josh Okogie. Listeners get insight into the Rockets’ dominant home record, Houston’s reliance on its supporting cast, and the potential silver lining of Sengun’s missed All-Star nod: valuable rest before a high-stakes playoff push. Plus, reflection on a convincing win over the Atlanta Hawks and critical analysis of Ime Udoka’s rotations set the stage for a jam-packed trade deadline week.
Is Houston’s underdog mentality the key to their late-season surge?
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32 Comments
Sengun>Chet
That series of collapse losses was bad for the team, fans and Alpi's all star chances. I disagree but hopefully he takes it as motivation.
All star is a popularity contest. As you can see, its LeBron over Kawhi and Harden 🤣🤷♂️ It's okay Alpi, at least you can rest and hoping you'll use it as a fire to improve heading to the post season 😂
Siakam?? Cmonnnnnn
The NBA organisation sucks after Adam Silver is the head. How in the world is a player with these stats and contributions to his team, when the veteran point guard is out for the entire season, not selected? He is 1,4,5 of the team, throwing his body on the floor, he is making clutch shots even during his lousy games…. I can list a lot of good things here for this season about Alperen, including numbers. But what's sickening me is the Rockets' fanbase. Everybody is vomiting their anger over Alperen. Why? Regarding his bad performance for the last 8 games? And call themselves FAN?
I envy OKC fans. They pressured from every social channel d to make him an All-Star. Shame on the Rockets fan base in general. This is so annoying. This kid is 23 y-o, and he is only playing with KD & AS as veterans. He might played better last year, maybe just because FVF was active on the roster. Now he is injured. You are only good-day fans for me, and it feels terrible when I put my inself to Alperen's shoes.
Perfect, he can rest that ankle and come back post break COOKing!!!!
Holmgren and Avdija in Allstar, and Alpi not? Not fair… Shitty judge like each year… always looking for scandals..
All Star voting is international. I was surprised his country did not vote him in.
Okogie is a great piece. If he was a few inches taller he'd be an all star. Hustle God.
I like Sengun but he doesn't deserve to be an all-star. Sometimes he plays too soft, takes terrible shots and causes too many turnovers.
Alp is the only reason I watch the NBA and the Rockets. The refs, the rules, the media, the fans and the corruption now… you can all go to hell. I am here for Alp! Awful fckn league. Don’t even dare compare this crap to 90s!
Alpi hasn’t improved much this season. So I’m not surprised he wasn’t voted an all star. He’s become a turn over machine,finishing poorly at the rim and his defense have been really poor. I’m Dillon Brooks is not an all star this year. I have Dillon Brooks ahead of Alperen Sengun for this year all star selection.
Less waving arms up in the air looking for a foul after every play and not getting back on defense might have gotten him in…
Good. This will anger Sengun!
Sengun hasn’t played well lately should he gotten in over Chet probably. But the reason Chet got in mainly it’s because he playing on the best team in the league and they probably wanted to have two players representing OKC at the all star game.
Unless he an injury replacement I don’t have a problem Sengun can rest and recover and be ready for the second half I still believe maybe that ankle is still bordering him at least a little bit.
Now Kawhi he got screwed definitely he should have been an all star
I wish we had the best home record….but as of now it’s OKC at 21-4. Rockets are 17-4. It’ll be cool at the end of the season to hold that accomplishment. It’ll be good for the playoffs if we end up with the 2nd seed🤘🏾🚀🤘🏾🚀
All Star is for the Rabbit
Alpi has to be too good to ignore for All-Star selections for this year and going forward.
A lot of NBA players are disrespectful and spoiled. They had him 32nd like that’s normal. Coaches and media don’t want to risk picking him unless it’s undeniable. If Houston isn’t top 3 in the West and Alpi isn’t putting up something like 25/10/8, they won’t select him as the second Rocket, and we’ll keep seeing this every year.
Rockets fans also need to vote harder and Alperen should be getting way more votes than random “surprise” names such as Avdija.
So sorry for Kawhi Leonard, too. In the last 2 months he plays like NBA MVP and he doesn't deserve this madness.
Us fan were making a case for Şengün being an all star instead of Sabonis last year due to his play being a factor in winning games to be a 2 seed at the time, and you for sure can make the same case for Chet making it this year. I don’t see a snub here. Pascal Siakam on the other hand.. 😂
Alpi can not score with efficiency. He is far from all-stardom this year.
All-star became a kindergarden activity so it is fine.
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I wonder what percentage of this rockets fan base approve of kd and what percentage doesn’t. Because when this team starts losing which is also a part of basketball those ppl always come out on #BlameKD
1:52 damn bro how do you keep getting sick in Houston?? Isn’t it warm and spacious asl down there? Better take some vitamin C
I'm a rocket 🚀 fan but he did not deserve to be in the allstar game,he has to many lapses in his game this year, but they put whoever they want it it anyway it is what it is
He’s not good enough to be a all star, the only reason he made it last year is because voters felt like the rockets HAD to have one seeing how they had the 2 seed. Clearly that wasn’t going to happen this year because he’s no where near the best player on the team now.
Chet plays in Shai’s orbit. When you’ve got an MVP-level guard collapsing the defense every possession, life gets way easier: cleaner rolls, wide-open spot-ups, fewer double teams, simpler reads. Chet is awesome, but the ecosystem matters.
Sengun, on the other hand, is the ecosystem.
He’s the hub, the bailout option, the playmaker, the guy teams actually game-plan to stop. He creates advantages without elite guard gravity, and defenses load up on him every night. That’s a totally different burden.
Hope Sengun comes back post-recovery playing angry-smart basketball? League’s gonna hear about it whether they want to or not. 🙏🔥
Al-P’s constant complaining to the refs creates a bias against him which can be the difference when it’s close on voting.
Alpi could not become all star just because we dont have a proper pg. We will get a pg soon or later and then you will see true alpi power!! He is having zero 2 man games with a guard this year…
The Rockets already had one All-Star spot, which would naturally go to KD. This isn't about how good Alpi is. If the Rockets were doing exceptionally well as a team and Alpi was performing above average, then they might have had two spots. In any case, hoping for Alpi was pointless. Anyway, he'll recover from his injury during the All-Star break and return stronger. This will definitely ignite his performance.
Alpres sengun was not snubbed imo. He has not been playing as well as he should be.
A Turkish proverb says:
"Gold does not become brass just because it falls to the ground."