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Walker Kessler Hype & Appreciation Thread


fishonjazz said:
I bet walker would look pretty good in those comparisons as well. Walker is like a really really good defender/rim protector. It was pretty well established that he was an amazing rim protector in college as well. Im certain that it was not secret to the other teams in his conference that he was amazing at protecting the rim. Didn't make him any less effective. He just has really good instincts and timing and moves well to go along with his size. He is just an amazing rim protector.
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Check above, I found something that shows exactly that.
 


fishonjazz said:
Why isn't Gobert on that list? The list is about players that protect the rim the best right? regardless of frequency of being attacked there. So Rudy should be right near the top right?
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Yeah but he isn't, that is really interesting. I even played with the criteria on the site to try to get him into the list and couldn't. Really not sure why. But I am not a top stat-head guy so I don't know where to find these all the time and this is just one I could find pretty easily so it may be flawed. Or Gobert just isn't having the impact this year. He is having an off-year so it wouldn't be too surprising, tbh.
 
fishonjazz said:
Why isn't Gobert on that list? The list is about players that protect the rim the best right? regardless of frequency of being attacked there. So Rudy should be right near the top right?
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Found him. He is 18th!! Wow, not what I expected. I mean still top 20 but, wow. Kessler with a rim opponent FG% of 51.2% and Rudy at 56.5%.

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LogGrad98 said:
Check above, I found something that shows exactly that.
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Ya that stat seems to show just how awesome Kessler is. I love it. Hopefully he keeps getting challenged the rim as that seems like a successful defensive possession for the jazz more often than not. Keep it coming idiot opponents!
 
LogGrad98 said:
Found him. He is 18th!! Wow, not what I expected. I mean still top 20 but, wow. Kessler with a rim opponent FG% of 51.2% and Rudy at 56.5%.

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The frequency that Gobert gets challenged at the rim is higher than i expected as well. Though guys like rudy and kessler really really hate leaving the rim area on defense so of course they will get challenged more than a lot of the others on the list simply due to how rarely they go out on the perimeter to defend.
 
The truth hurts that Kessler owns Gobert lol thank you Ainge for seeing that Rudy was an overpaid one dimensional stiff
 
Kessler could potentially be a franchise player to build around if he develops his offensive game. We could be looking at an Embiid level bigman in the future.
 
The Fresh Prince said:
Kessler could potentially be a franchise player to build around if he develops his offensive game. We could be looking at an Embiid level bigman in the future.
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That would require a shooting touch he hasn’t shown beyond a couple feet. His free throw shooting isn’t indicative of that happening.
 
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