Alperen Sengun just put up numbers that no center in history has done before against Wemby. At the same time he held Wemby to 10 points. Every once in a while somebody really exposes Wemby for being young and thin. Tonight was one of those nights. Wemby is still having a hell of a year though and my pick for rookie of the year.
Alperen Sengun said it himself actually: He said Wemby is too tall but not strong yet. He was able to use his shoulders and got around Wemby. And when Spurs didn't double team him, he could score this great. This season, opponents of Rockets usually double teams Alperen Sengun but Popovich chose not to do that and paid for this mistake handsomely. Wemby could block couple of his shots but Alperen was much better overall.
I guess this would be another weakness of Wemby that other teams might explore. Sengun is not really an extraordinary player, although he's been doing impressive stats this season but he is not included in the MVP conversation yet. Getting 45 points and 16 rebounds against Wemby, that's completely a mismatch and Spurs unfortunately have not made the right adjustment to that.
And Alperen is still so young. Only 21 years and 220 days. He is actually almost 2 months younger than Chet Holmgren.
He is a superstar in the making, thanks to their new coach that they were able to utilize his real talent.
if we look at his previous stats. there was a huge jump in his PPG every season.
9.6, 14.8 and 21.3 this season.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/s/sengual01.html