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Utah loves Dante Exum at 5

The Thriller said:
Think...

A 6 foot 6 less intense Westbrook with a smoother outside shot and outstanding ball handling skills... Or heck, afro Kobe Bryant.

Penny could have been Kobe Bryant had he never suffered from so many injuries. Penny would be in the HOF had he not suffered injuries.
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I don't recall that being one of Exum's strengths....
 
Can he play SF and is he #hungry? I think I heard Chris Mannix say that he thinks that Exum could be a star. He's the biggest risk/reward player in the draft. It would kill us to wiff on a #5 pick.
 
Hotttnickkk said:
I don't recall that being one of Exum's strengths....
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he was talking about hardaway.

hardaway is exums CEILING so exum would have to greatly improve his shot to reach his ceiling.
understand?
 
It's not hard to see why the Jazz like him. The Jazz get destroyed on pick and rolls and being able to switch with a big PG like Exum makes life so much easier for them.
 
Jazz4ever said:
It's not hard to see why the Jazz like him. The Jazz get destroyed on pick and rolls and being able to switch with a big PG like Exum makes life so much easier for them.
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Long not big. 188lbs is very small in NBA.
 
[video=youtube_share;TBe1hRv4Shc]https://youtu.be/TBe1hRv4Shc

According to this video he's a weak PNR defender.

I just don't see anything speacial about Exum. I try to reserve judgment because there's so little video of him floating around.
 
would be very surprised if exum started ahead of burke. i don't think drafting him makes alec or trey surplus to requirements... yet. give them a couple of years together and then decide who to move.
 
Not sure what I think of Exum at this point. While I understand arguments both sides of the debate, I don't follow enough of what is going on to have a strong opinion.

Honest question, please don't misunderstand what I am trying to ask.

There are some very good players to come straight out of high school to the NBA that were consensus top picks, specifically LBJ comes to mind. I would imagine the same competition arguments would apply to basically any high school player. Is the difference the clear talent level of Lebron, the exposure in the US, talent of High school in some places here vs elsewhere?
 
Mithrandir said:
Not sure what I think of Exum at this point. While I understand arguments both sides of the debate, I don't follow enough of what is going on to have a strong opinion.

Honest question, please don't misunderstand what I am trying to ask.

There are some very good players to come straight out of high school to the NBA that were consensus top picks, specifically LBJ comes to mind. I would imagine the same competition arguments would apply to basically any high school player. Is the difference the clear talent level of Lebron, the exposure in the US, talent of High school in some places here vs elsewhere?
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I agree with you as none of us have seen him play enough. He is the lottery wildcard. For me, I am just not impressed with the other available options that I would like the team to take a risk on him.
 
We haven't seen much of him, but, you can rest assured that NBA scouts have seen enough of him to make an informed judgement.
 
I don't think the jazz are too high on him as they are on vonleh, randle, mcdermott, smart, stauskas.

oh and aaron for sure. his feet on p&r defense is really exciting to see a jazz fast break start up following a steal or a block, then fill the lane and dunk the ball on alley oop.
 
addictionary said:
I don't think the jazz are too high on him as they are on vonleh, randle, mcdermott, smart, stauskas.

oh and aaron for sure. his feet on p&r defense is really exciting to see a jazz fast break start up following a steal or a block, then fill the lane and dunk the ball on alley oop.
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You lose all credit with saying they are high on Randle and Smart.
 
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