In the latest “How ’Bout This Jazz” newsletter, rookie big man Walker Kessler says his blocked shots apparently surprise opponents quite often. Plus, Damian Jones gets his 3-point stroke going, and Talen Horton-Tucker learns from the point god. TakeNote
, and when he became convinced upon seeing the replay that it was a clean block, he delightfully exclaimed: “Oh, I did! I got that! Geez! That’s crazy!”
The coach noted that as he’s examined the film, he hasn’t really come across any commonalities other than some teams simply challenge the rookie more than others. Which is not to say that the games where Kessler hasn’t registered a block — that’s occurred in just 13 of the 72 he’s played, going into Friday’s matchup at Boston — are bad performances by comparison: “Some of the best shot-blockers in the league, sometimes you see where they go through periods where they’re not getting a bunch of blocked shots, and part of that’s because no one’s testing them.”
Hardy suggested that Kessler’s length may have surprised Ayton. Kessler, meanwhile, noted that opponents actually admit to that a lot.
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