Is Alperen Sengun the most overrated NBA Player? | Morning Shoot Around
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
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Dave DuFour, Es Baraheni and Zena Keita discuss the Athletic players poll and who the most overrated players and coaches are + who are the most underrated players and coaches.
Host: Dave DuFour
With: Zena Keita and Es Baraheni
Producer: Andrew Schlecht
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| 0:00.0 | I love that music. |
| 0:11.2 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the NBA Daily Morning Shootaround, Wednesday morning, still morning here on the West Coast. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Dave DeFore here with aspera henny and |
| 0:21.9 | zina kata what's up guys how are you hello no match chilling oh zena your mic is a little bit hot |
| 0:29.6 | can you crank that down just a touch yeah let me touch it down sorry yeah there we go you know |
| 0:34.0 | what's funny is it wasn't before the stream. There you go. Producing on the fly. |
| 0:38.5 | Here we go. How you guys doing? You guys been watching a lot of Twitch? I don't even know how to do that. |
| 0:47.1 | No, I have happened watching a lot of Twitch. As I would assume that you would be like a big Twitch guy. |
| 0:52.0 | Me too. You know what? I, you would assume I'm a big Twitch guy. You're not much of a video game guy though, right? No. Yeah. You don't have to be like I watch the stud buds on Twitch and you know, it's fun. It's a, you know. So where do you, where do you, how do you, you know what? look, I'm 30 years old, right? So maybe, maybe I should be more in tune with, that's what it is, is that you're 30, I just assumed. I feel like a Twitch guy. Yeah. I need to reassess things. I need to reassess things. I think I need to reassess where I am in my life if I'm, Twitter guidelines. You happen to be so you're online. Right. You're very online. I think of |
| 1:33.1 | the three of us here. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Probably. Yeah. Between the three of us. But that's like |
| 1:38.1 | being like, you know, none of us are, you know what? I'm not taking this. That's fair. |
| 1:43.6 | Okay. Well, ruining my segue here. |
| 1:47.9 | Jalen Brown was fine $50,000 for public criticism of officiating on a live stream on Twitch, which is, that's the most 2026 headline that I've seen on the athletic, possibly. |
| 2:04.1 | Guys, what is going on with Jalen Brown? |
| 2:08.6 | I think he, I think he, I think he liked being the number one option. |
| 2:14.7 | He said it was his favorite year of his career. |
| 2:18.1 | Now, he was hooping. |
| 2:19.3 | Let's be honest, right? |
| 2:20.1 | Like, he was taking every shot that he wanted. |
| 2:22.9 | I understand. |
| 2:25.4 | Was in the MVP conversation for the first time in his career? |
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