Episode 205: Alperen Sengun (Featuring Trey Murphy III)

The Young Man and the Three

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 85 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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0:08.0	Welcome to the Old Man of the 3 with J.J. Reddick and Tommy Alter brought to you by 342 productions. This is episode 205, Alperon Shengun.
0:17.0	Shengun Tommy is a star in the NBA and I don't want to just, I'm going to put this out there.
0:23.0	We did an episode early in the season before the regular season started.
0:28.0	We said who are the breakout stars?
0:30.0	Potential breakout stars in the NBA this year and and Shengunon was one of my guys.
0:34.0	I think he's one of your man crushes. He's awesome. He's awesome.
0:37.0	This guy's averaging 22 points, 9.2 rebounds, 5 assists. He's 13 in box plus minus, 18th in win shares in the entire NBA,
0:46.4	13th in value of a replacement player. He's having, look, he's having an all-star level
0:51.2	season. I'm not saying he's going to make the all-star game.
0:53.2	Houston has dropped a little bit in the standings as of late, but he's been a big reason why the
0:58.0	Houston Rockets have played highly competitive basketball. We get into a ton of stuff with him. We talk about
1:05.4	EMA Udoca, the additions of Jeff Green and Fred Van Fleet, Dylan Brooks. He's got a
1:11.3	fascinating background and look I think a big takeaway I've had from a
1:18.5	number of young players we've done recently is the league is in great hands. I mean we had the Franz Wagner on
1:26.1	we've got another young guy coming on next week who's an all-star. These guys are
1:30.9	just wired the right way.
1:34.8	And you think about, you know, I mentioned those advanced deaths,
1:38.7	you think about, you know, who has carried the league for the better part of a decade these guys they're
1:46.7	still playing at a high level the bronze the kevans the the Steph curries they're still
1:50.7	playing a high level we've got guys like yoko Ch and Embed and Janus in the
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