When the very final against Germany entered the last minute of the game, with The Germans ahead 84-83l’Eurobasket Of Alperen Sengun It was practically perfect. Absolute driver of his Türkiyeso far unbeaten and traits overwhelming, the center of Rockets he had long giganticly gigantic the final challenge of the tournament with 28 points and baskets of a pure class. Two mistakeshowever, an easy support and a triple perhaps a little forced, they ended up for Dirty the scoreboard and the path of Sengun and above all to condemn the boys trained by Coach Ergin Atamabeaten 88-83 from one Germania more lucid in managing the decisive moments of the race. A terrible disappointment for the Türkiye all, that He had never won an edition of Eurobasket and did not arrive in the final since 2001and for Sengunvery likely MVP of the tournament in case of success. A disappointment that in any case cannot erase two abundant weeks that launched the former Besiktas in the world basketball Olympus.
Sengun: a star is born
The figures, although rather eloquent, do not tell everything, because behind the 21.6 Points, 10.1 rebounds and 6.6 medium assists per game There have been many, many spectacular games alternating with moments of pure dominion of the individual games. Not that the class and the ability of Sengun were not already known to those who had followed The career in NBA started in 2021 and culminated not by chance last February with the First call to the All-Star Game. Eurobaskethowever, he made the Turkish center known, for the first time authentic fulcrum of the team, to an even wider audience. And now, at 23 years of age recently, Sengun is called to act A role as the protagonist also in Houstonwhere among other things he will have the opportunity to play with a new teammate of the caliber of Kevin Durant.
