Alperen Sengun (C, HOU): Week 11 Waiver Wire Pickups

BALLER MOVE: Add in 12+ Team Leagues

ROSTERED IN: 55% of leagues

ANALYSIS: The deeper we get into the season, the more appealing all of the youngsters playing for bad teams will become. Enter Alperen Segun, he of the West-trailing, 10-23 Houston Rockets. I mean, the Texas-based team is going nowhere any time soon, so what's the point in keeping the Christian Wood + Daniel Theis partnership going on heavy minutes of play when those two don't even remotely align with the Rockets' development timeline? And yes, Wood is still young and good, but where there's smoke there's often fire and there have been whispers out there of a potential trade before the deadline.

Sengun, playing his rookie season, only started two games earlier in the season to kick November off on back-to-back nights. He's been on the pine in all other 30 games he's played through Christmas. Segun is averaging 19 MPG, and he can be considered the classic-in-shooting center, modern-in-everything-else big man. That's because the Turkish man is attempting only 1.2 3PA per game (29% accuracy) focusing instead on paint attempts (and putting up a nice FG% of 49.5 on the year).

That said, though, he's been fantastic at rebounding (4.9 RPG, eighth-most among rookies, and top-average among freshmen with fewer than 22 MPG), he's dishing out 2.8 APG (another top-8 mark among rookies--consider this is a Center we're talking about), and putting up almost 2.0 stocks per game (1 SPG, 0.8 BPG) through the year. The minute Sengun hits the starting lineup--and that might not be that far away--he will get rostered in pretty much every league because his numbers will inevitably sky-rocket. And by then, you definitely will want to have already rostered him before it's too late.

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