Alperen Sengun has started to work with Rockets legend Hakeem Olajuwon on post moves, and the rookie big man — taken at No. 16 overall in the first round of the 2021 NBA draft — says it is already helping.
In comments from Monday’s home practice at Toyota Center in Houston, Sengun told reporters (via a translator):
He taught me the post-up moves, and he taught me the spin moves. I use spin moves a lot in the game, but he told me how I can improve it, how I can do it better.
He told me I need to keep working on it and improve it. I started to work on the moves that he showed me in the practice. I’m trying those moves in the practice and also in the game. When I receive the ball, I am keeping all that he told me in that practice. I’m thinking about those moves in the game, in those positions.
