Carbon13
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Mavs gave Wes Mathews a big contract after an achilles but I can see your point.
Dante Exum: shoulder injury
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Mavs gave Wes Mathews a big contract after an achilles but I can see your point.
Shad
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People want to give him 10 million a year for 4 years on this board? If a team offers him that, you let him walk. I'm thinking, at best, a 1 + 1 player option. He's going to miss ANOTHER full year of basketball. He's probably 1 injury away from no one even looking at him sadly
JimLes
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1. He just turned 22.
2. Dante is by all accounts a good kid. Let's show some loyalty and faith by giving him money and assuming he won't get hurt.
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I wouldn't be opposed to giving Dante an extension but it was pups have to be at a steep discount... pre-injury his market may have been 4/40, so maybe I'd go 4/28 with the last year a team option.
None of it has to do with being loyal or him being a good kid. Just I think it could be a bargain when he gets back.
This injury is not career ending and nowhere near as catastrophic as the knee injury.
None of it has to do with being loyal or him being a good kid. Just I think it could be a bargain when he gets back.
This injury is not career ending and nowhere near as catastrophic as the knee injury.
Douchebag K
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Douchebag K
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Last I heard they're going thru the process of getting a couple more opinions to see if here's any posssible course of action that doesn't involve losing the whole season. I'm assuming the initial advice was surgery which means out for season.
Hipporippo
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Not true. Every case is different but shoulder dislocations are typically much more serious than ac separation.
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Carbon13
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Fwiw, the entire city of Houston is collectively depressed after the Watt injury. Its like if John Stockton had gone down with a career ending injury in his prime. Sucks to see Dante go down but watching everyone around me crestfallen really puts his injury in perspective.
Cappy_Smurf
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Inigo Montoya must be rubbing off on you in stating the obvious. Nobody is saying Utah can force him not to take the QO.
Like I have posted before, Utah will take some risk with an overpay, with the idea that Dante will live up to his contract, in order to avoid Dante becoming unrestricted in one year. And Dante, who has now suffered 2 serious injuries, is not going to turn down 35-40 million to gamble on more money. He just watched George Hill get torched by turning down money, and the entire league is aware of what happened with Noel.
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Wtf, Cappy Smurf, you are such a Dante homer that even when I am supporting him, you dislike it because you don't want to hear the realities of his situation.
Shad
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Let me get this straight. I'm not talking about personality or anything like that. Let's just leave his name out and consider this.
People want to give someone (COULD BE ANYONE for this example):
1. Has career averages of 20 mins, 5 pts, 2 assists, shoots 38% from the 2 and 30% form the 3.
2. Has had multiple injuries (basically made of glass).
3. Doesn't look like a leader at all.
4. Has almost as many turnovers per assists.
5. Averages 1 rebound in 20 minutes of play.
6. Looks like a lost puppy the majority of the time playing.
and people want to give this guy 10 million a year? Doesn't matter where someone was drafted. Someone please make sense to me why other than "He's only 22 LOL." or "He has potential."
Most people would give someone the vet minimum with those points.
People want to give someone (COULD BE ANYONE for this example):
1. Has career averages of 20 mins, 5 pts, 2 assists, shoots 38% from the 2 and 30% form the 3.
2. Has had multiple injuries (basically made of glass).
3. Doesn't look like a leader at all.
4. Has almost as many turnovers per assists.
5. Averages 1 rebound in 20 minutes of play.
6. Looks like a lost puppy the majority of the time playing.
and people want to give this guy 10 million a year? Doesn't matter where someone was drafted. Someone please make sense to me why other than "He's only 22 LOL." or "He has potential."
Most people would give someone the vet minimum with those points.
Cappy_Smurf
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They might get him that cheaply, but if they do, I think it will be because they let him go to FA and then matched someone else's offer sheet. If they decide to try and avoid that situation, I think he'll get a little more. I said 8-10 million, so that's 32-40 million, which isn't that far off.
MDAV28
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Why do you pay 6-8 million a year to 19 year olds that have never played a minute of professional basketball?
Contracts are gambles and if you pay attention rarely represent present value, especially in players so young. Throwing away the fact that he is young and has potential is being ignorant.
Because you have to if they are a high pick.
Cappy_Smurf
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I disagree with the idea you label somebody injury prone over a freak accident. Dante could have been in a car accident and some fans would be calling him injury prone. Good for you for supporting him, but I dislike your post. Don't worry though, I dislike other people's posts, and they all seem to get over it, so I think you'll be ok. If not, I'm afraid you might be prone to oversensitivity, which means you might not last as a Jazzfanz poster.
MDAV28
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I mean same logic basically. If the open market dictates your player is worth more than his current value than that is what you pay.
To make this clear I am by no means saying we should extend Exum at that number. The risk of a large contract going Exum's way is so small that the Jazz can sit on their hands and see what happens. I'm saying I could see that being an offer sheet Exum does obtain.
