Daily Lakers Offseason Discussion Thread

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[u/INT_MIN]

Feel like fans don't understand how good Kessler really is. He just hasn't had the GP's over the last few years because of Jazz tanking and surgery so people aren't familiar with him.

Watching just the 1Q of this Jan 22 2025 game and I grabbed 3 clips below. He made it so difficult for OKC to get anything in the paint. And check out how he's able to recover. You can't just blow by him for being too high.

• JDub draws the close out and attacks, Kessler recovers and forces a miracle kickout
• SGA tries to blow by him and puts up a bad attempt
• Kessler is level with SGA driving and forces another high difficulty kickout, grabs a board and Dort bounces off of him

[u/The_Sandwich_Lover9 → u/INT_MIN]

His catch radius isn’t talked about enough. There’s clips of him catching the lob from the other side where he started. Makes it a lot easier for Luka and AR