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Confidence Level in Walker

What does Walker's future hold?

  • Will be better than Gobert

  • Just as good as Gobert

  • He's still a future All Star or DPOY

  • Still a future 30+ MPG player

  • Zubac level starter

  • Bench player

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Walker been playing great lately.
TU sitting around like, hmmm what negative thing could I post about the jazz? Oh I know, I will trash talk Kessler!

Pathetic

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fishonjazz said:
Walker been playing great lately.
TU sitting around like, hmmm what negative thing could I post about the jazz? Oh I know, I will trash talk Kessler!

Pathetic

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Legitimate criticisms are legitimate criticisms. He's a horrible FT shooter who is scared to get to the line
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Legitimate criticisms are legitimate criticisms. He's a horrible FT shooter who is scared to get to the line
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Agreed. A great time to discuss it is while it's happening and causing problems.

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fishonjazz said:
Agreed. A great time to discuss it is while it's happening and causing problems.

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Lmao stop. I get TU can be annoying about somethings, but the idea that you cant make a valid criticism is so stupid.
 
fishonjazz said:
Agreed. A great time to discuss it is while it's happening and causing problems.
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It is happening and causing problems. We really can't afford our starting center to not put pressure on the defense at all. I get that Walker isn't a jump shooter, but he's not going up strong even when he receives the ball within 3 feet of the rim if there's a defender present. As discussed above, I believe the reason is that he doesn't want to get fouled. Kessler tends to get down on himself and he knows very well that he only makes half his free throws.

Zach Lowe just wrote that Jakob Poeltl – who, incidentally, has the same FT% as Kessler – is suffering from a similar fear of low post contact in Toronto. But Poeltl has mastered a push shot he can use instead of banging. Walker doesn't have anything like that yet. It leads to him lobbing too many hand grenades out from the post to his teammates when the clock is ticking down.
 
Tremendous Upside said:
It is happening and causing problems. We really can't afford our starting center to not put pressure on the defense at all. I get that Walker isn't a jump shooter, but he's not going up strong even when he receives the ball within 3 feet of the rim if there's a defender present. As discussed above, I believe the reason is that he doesn't want to get fouled. Kessler tends to get down on himself and he knows very well that he only makes half his free throws.

Zach Lowe just wrote that Jakob Poeltl – who, incidentally, has the same FT% as Kessler – is suffering from a similar fear of low post contact in Toronto. But Poeltl has mastered a push shot he can use instead of banging. Walker doesn't have anything like that yet. It leads to him lobbing too many hand grenades out from the post to his teammates when the clock is ticking down.
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You mean the dude that keeps having the best plus minus on the team having the best impact on winning is the problem? Lol.
He can be super effective and valuable without going to the line. As we have seen time and time again over the last two seasons.

There was once this dude named Shaq. Horrible free throw shooter. Decent player though.

Kessler is nothing like shaq but a player can't be super effective and valuable even if they suck at free throws.

Another player who sucked at free throws but was still pretty good who Kessler has more similarities to is a guy named Ben Wallace.

If Kessler is top 2 in the league at defending the rim and finishes lobs and gets offensive boards and putbacks, like he currently is and does, then he is awesome. Nuff said. That's what he needs to do. Improving his free throw rate and percentage is the cherry on top

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Tremendous Upside said:
It is happening and causing problems. We really can't afford our starting center to not put pressure on the defense at all. I get that Walker isn't a jump shooter, but he's not going up strong even when he receives the ball within 3 feet of the rim if there's a defender present. As discussed above, I believe the reason is that he doesn't want to get fouled. Kessler tends to get down on himself and he knows very well that he only makes half his free throws.

Zach Lowe just wrote that Jakob Poeltl – who, incidentally, has the same FT% as Kessler – is suffering from a similar fear of low post contact in Toronto. But Poeltl has mastered a push shot he can use instead of banging. Walker doesn't have anything like that yet. It leads to him lobbing too many hand grenades out from the post to his teammates when the clock is ticking down.
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We use to think Walker struggled because our guard play is bad, but Walker has a bigger negative impact on them than they have on him
 
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Bottom line is that Cy labeled Kessler a "Career Backup" three games into his pro career. And Kessler has been violently dunking on Cy's ignorant *** for over a year now. This is why Cy is angry whenever Kessler is involved.

He's always going to hate Hendricks, no matter how good Hendricks gets, for the same reason. His hate isn't basketball related.
 
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Literally every other broadcast team of every team we play is happy as hell when Kessler sits.
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Ya I watch the games on methstreams. Seems like I hear the other teams guys a lot more than ours. They all think Kessler is awesome. The stats say he awesome. Couple of jazz fans don't think so though.

He is really bad free throw shooter though and hopefully improves so that he can be even better than he already is

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