He was, however, traded to the Utah Jazz on the draft night. His impressive dimension which was surpassed a year later by Real Madrid basketball player Edy Tavares earned him the nickname ‘ The Stifle Tower‘.Īt the 2013 NBA draft, Gobert was picked as the Denver Nuggets 27th overall pick.
In the 2013/14 season, Gobert entered the 2013 NBA draft, at the NBA Draft Combine, Gobert set a record for wingspan, measuring 7 feet, 8.5 inches and standing reach, measuring 9 feet 7 inches. (Image: Cholet Basket) Utah Jazz (2013–date) This has the potential to be the worst modern trade ever the way this is going.Rudy Gobert (#15) playing for Cholet Basket in 2013. I thought this was a bad trade even if Gobert was the same player as last season. This one ancillary part of the trade alone has to make it one of the worst even forgetting all the other picks and players of value the Jazz heisted. Rudy Gobert is making 30 and making 38 to 46 million in the next 4 seasons. There is no doubt who is producing more value on their contract or who I would prefer to have at this point with Kessler making 2 to 5 million dollars the next 4 years and under team control beyond that at 21 years old.
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I could have seen this decline in a year or two, but even with a new team and trying to figure out how to work with Karl Anthony Townes who has been out much of the year anyway, I would have still expected another solid defensive year but he is giving up a higher percentage of shots at the rim. I expected exactly what Walker Kessler is doing, but I can’t say I expect Rudy Gobert to fall off a cliff this soon. Rudy Gobert 6th and Walker Kessler 14th Ranked Centers (The Jazz may even need to bench him to tank). This will probably only get worse as Townes comes back and Kessler continues to play a bigger role as the season goes. That along with the highest block rate I’ve ever seen in college or the pros cemented it for me. The core makeup may be similar in restarting the clock with a 21 year old for a few million than a 31-year-old, and getting a war chest of picks too.”Īnyone that had that sort of PER in college at a P6 level usually is a pretty successful NBA player I have found. He has the tools to anchor an incredible defense and clean up for Sexton in the same way as Gobert did. It’s almost as elite as Gobert’s was at 9-7″ at the combine. I don’t even really care about the height, it’s the standing reach that really matters, and Kessler had an elite standing reach.
7.425 wingspan, and a 9-5″ standing reach. He had the recruiting pedigree as well as the measurable too. The number is actually 10.0 which I’ve never seen before even as someone that has looked at 1000’s of per 100’s. I’m not making that up or exaggerating it. He’s 7-1, with a 31.4 PER and one of the highest block rates to come out of college ever. I think he is one of the steals of last year’s draft. He could be a poor man’s Rudy Gobert as well in my opinion at 21 years old. “ Kessler isn’t Gobert, but for as a late-round flyer I think he has a lot of the same attributes and could develop into a similar type of defensive stalwart. This is what was said about Walker Kessler before the season….
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