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Dante Exum: shoulder injury

vossy_3 said:
I invite you to play a game of AFL.

To make it easy for u, I'll let you line up on this bloke.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jjcKy0sx-Ew
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I didn't click on the link - but if it was the Brisbane legend your username indicates - wow what a ferocious player he was! I'll never forget his broken leg at Subiaco way back when.
 
Cappy_Smurf said:
Saint Cy, winner of the 2017 semantics championships.

2 injuries, one of which a freak accident, don't constitute somebody being injury prone. Anyone who thinks it does is a moron.
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I don't think cy said that Dante was injury prone, I think he was just saying that being injury prone doesn't mean having tyne same injury over and over. Injury prone means you get injured a lot. I agree with him.

I don't think 2 injuries (like dante) constitutes injury prone.

But to say it has to be the same reoccurring injury to equal injury prone is incorrect imo. In fact I think it's quite the opposite.

Imo if you keep breaking the same wrist over and over then that would mean you have a bad wrist or that your wrist itself is injury prone.

However, if you break an ankle, then blow out your knee, then injure your hip, then dislocated a shoulder, then break your wrist..... that would signify that someone is injury prone imo.
 
We've invested too much, time and a 5th pick, on this kid. He's shown promise, and we are in no position to be that picky in Utah.

He's our talent, and he belongs here period.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
No one is going to give him that offer sheet because they know the Jazz will just match it.

1. It hurts the Jazz more for him to sit in RFA for as long as possible given his cap hold
2. Teams dont want to overpay for a guy like Exum just so the Jazz wont match
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I think we are in agreement that the ball is in the Jazz court. Of course if Dante is willing to take 4-6 per year then by all means extend him but risk v reward of him entering FA seems to favor the Jazz in this situation. 9-10 million a year isn't outlandish by any stretch though.
 
fishonjazz said:
Because you have to. I think draft picks don't really negotiate contracts. It's already determined based on where you are picked or something iirc.

The question you should be asking is, Do teams pay 22 year olds who have been in the league for 4 years that have produced similarly to Dante and have had multiple major injuries, big time money?

That's the question that is relevant here I think.

I don't know the answer fwiw.
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No you shouldn't. But we have a different definition of big-time money I think. I'd have no qualms paying a guy with Exum's upside 9% of the salary cap, especially with a team option on the last year.
 
Tak said:
That guy looks more like a psychopath than an athlete.
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Ok I looked.
It's big bad bustling 'Barry Hall'. Played for my club in the second half of his career (Sydney).
He will even admit that some of his actions were thuggish and reprehensible. Exceptional footballer though....
 
Et tu Brute said:
Collingwood fan?
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Nah just happy to fight for money. Working nightclubs in Melbourne I've fought enough football players for not a lot of money, most can't fight. Hall might be a bit different, toughest bloke on that old St Kilda team was Aaron Hamill the captain, dude I knew used to be their boxing coach said most of them had no go. Whenever they'd be down the pub ****ing up we'd just talk to Hamill and watch him sort em out, they were all **** scared of him.
 
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