Alperen Sengun (C, HOU): Week 23 Waiver Wire Pickups

Alperen Sengun is worth considering as a fantasy basketball waiver wire pickup heading into Week 23 of the NBA season.

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ANALYSIS: Nobody was thinking about Houston flipping things from black to white in a single season, and we were all correct with that easy-peasy prediction to make. The Rockets are on their way to another top-3 pick next June, and that's good! Nothing to hate about that type of thing when even their late first-round pick in Alperen Segun has been arguably better than their early one in Jalen Green. I'm dead serious, folks.

Sengun hasn't started many games in his rookie campaign in Texas, but that doesn't mean he's been very good at this thing called basketball. Approaching the end of his freshman season, Sengun has already bagged six double-double games in his short pro-run, has gotten three of those in the month of March, and is putting up numbers daily to close the year. Sengun has played more this month (24 MPG) than at any point earlier this season and he's been solid for Houston given the context in which the franchise is operating and the depressing surroundings he finds himself as part of.

Among rookies, Sengun is contributing 9+ PPG (13th), 5+ RPG (5th), 2+ APG (9th), and 1+1 stocks per game (4th). The best about Sengun's stats is that he's getting them in fewer than 20 MPG over the full season while his main rookie competitors are almost all playing 30+ minutes a night. I have been a Day-1 Sengun stan and I can only see tons of potential in him going forward. Even if that full skill set is yet to develop, if you need a do-it-all big man ROS you can do much worse than rostering the Turkish biggie. He's getting points, rebounds, and steals in bunches with the lone negative of sky-high fouls and turnovers and not the best free-throw stroke.

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