How Bruce Brown totally played Alperen Senggun in the last shot

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The The Denver Nuggets closed out the game against the Houston Rockets 128-125riding on Nikola Jokic’s monster 42-point performance. It came after a failed three-point attempt Alperen Sengunwho finished with a triple-double of 33 points and guarded by Bruce Brown on the final possession.

Brown revealed his antics after the game, claiming he was playing Sengun mentally on the last shot.

“It was inside the 3, so I was letting it go (toward the rim). And then he bounced to the 3. He knew we were going to foul, so he was trying to foul, and I just let him shoot it. He was off balance. He wasn’t even trying to shoot,” he said in Durand’s post on X by Bennett.

The decisive moment came in the final seconds of overtime, when Denver was clinging to a three-point lead and Sengun went up for a contested 3-pointer from far beyond the arc. Brown, reading the situation in real time, resisted the instinct to overplay, bait or foul, choosing instead to trust the imbalance he saw.

The miss sealed Denver’s fifth straight win. Further, Nuggets head coach David Adelman revealed that he instructed his team to foul Sengun on the final possession, with Brown not following the instructions, but it worked out well for the Nuggets.

The match until then was a big duel between Jokić and Sengun, each orchestrating his own attack. Sengun was equally helped by Kevin Durant, who extended his impressive recent form with 25 points, seven assists and five rebounds. For the Nuggets, Jamal Murray also had a commanding game, finishing with 35 points, five assists and three rebounds.

Nonetheless, despite the offensive brilliance on display, the game came down to a high-IQ moment from none other than Brown, who finished with





2025-12-16 18:03:00

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