Alperen Sengun vs LeBron James

The numbers

Each figure sits next to Sengun's own rate against every defender he faced, which is the only fair comparison for this unit.

Possessions here are partial matchup possessions, only the stretches these two were actually matched up, so points per possession runs far below the roughly 1.1 a full team scores. Every figure is meant to be read against the same player's own season rate in the same unit.

How to read this

These are the possessions the two were matched up, not a clean isolation of one defender against one scorer. Help, coverage calls, foul trouble, rest, and shot luck all live inside the same numbers, and 4 meetings is a small sample for any of them.

So a gap here is a reason to pull the film on these possessions, not evidence that the defender caused it. The useful question is what the offense tried in this matchup and what it stopped trying.

Both scouting reports