Alperen Sengun (Featuring Trey Murphy III)

The Young Man and the Three

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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This week we welcome Alperen Şengün, the young Turkish NBA star and center of the Houston Rockets. Alperen discusses his experience growing up playing basketball is Turkey and his relationship with past and present Turkish players in the league. He also shares what it means to him as being labeled as “Baby Nikola Jokic”,how he eventually want to move on from being compared to the Denver Nuggets superstar, and his mindset going into matchups against Jokic and 76ers center Joel Embiid. He then discusses the 2023-24 Houston Rockets, including what the addition of point guard Fred VanVleet has meant to the the young team, what’s he’s learned about Dillon Brooks from being his teammate, and how much he enjoys the coaching style of Ime Udoka. He also breaks down his famous one-legged shot. Later in the episode, New Orleans Pelicans guard Trey Murphy joins the show to check-in on the expectations of the Pelicans for the rest of the season, the state of the Western Conference, and more.

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1:08.4	342 Productions. This is episode 205 Alperon Shengungoon Tommy is a star in the NBA and I don't
1:17.4	want to just I'm gonna put this out there we did an episode early in the
1:21.9	season before the regular season started. We said who are the breakout stars,
1:26.4	potential breakout stars in the NBA this year and and Shengun was one of my guys.
1:30.3	I think he's one of your man crushes. He's awesome. He's awesome. This guy's
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