New public-works projects hope to keep visitors shaded and safe when the World Cup comes to Houston next month.
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Fair or unfair?
"You can have one bad defender there, but not two," one Western Conference player told Chron this spring regarding Houston's center and point guard. "It just doesn't work." Houston often mitigated that concern by splitting Şengün and Sheppard, but head coach Ime Udoka (perhaps as a slip of the tongue) frequently noted this season that Houston's wing-heavy, small-ball lineups without Şengün were "where we're good."
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