Fansided · Oct 15, 2025
Rockets' Alperen Sengun is playing with a perfect mindset
San Antonio Spurs v Houston Rockets | Tim Warner/GettyImagesWith Fred VanVleet injured, the Houston Rockets will need someone to step up in the playmaking department. It looks like Alperen Sengun is the man for the job.
That won't surprise most fans of the team. Sengun's passing chops are well-documented. That said, he didn't always use them throughout 2024-25.
There are different elements in passing. There's your creativity, but there's also processing speed to consider. Sengun could always see passes that nobody else could, but he's struggled to make them quickly enough at times.
Throughout the Rockets' 3 preseason games, that hasn't been the case.
