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Do You Allow Exum To Play During The Summer?

fishonjazz said:
the answer of course is health/injuries.

You should have heard dennis Lindseys answer when he was asked if he wants dante to play for his national team. I guarantee you that he doesn't.

He also said that while watching rudy last year for France he was always wishing that the coach would take him out of the game and get him off the court.

You obviously think it's dumb to not want him to play for his national team but a lot of people feel that way.
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DL talked about how he had mixed emotions. He liked seeing them out there getting experience and playing, but at the same time he felt relived when they werent playing. He never said he doesnt want them to play. He sounded like a nervous mom.
 
King Cy said:
DL talked about how he had mixed emotions. He liked seeing them out there getting experience and playing, but at the same time he felt relived when they werent playing. He never said he doesnt want them to play. He sounded like a nervous mom.
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You got that post right. But before that he was asked if he wanted dante to play and he didn't really answer because he isn't supposed to say he doesn't want them to play and so he went the pc route saying that nba is supposed to work with fiba or something and mentioned mark Cuban in some way.
Reading between the lines I feel pretty certain that dl would prefer that dante doesn't play.
 
King Cy said:
DL talked about how he had mixed emotions. He liked seeing them out there getting experience and playing, but at the same time he felt relived when they werent playing. He never said he doesnt want them to play. He sounded like a nervous mom.
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So why do the Jazz care?

Well, there was that Spanish kid we drafted who was supposed to be our new John Stockton, until he blew out his knee while playing for Spain before we even got the chance to see him in a Jazz uniform. The only thing the Jazz got out of that draft pick was his medical bills. And then we lose Exum for an entire year because playing a "friendly" for his national team was just so damn important. And say what you want, but when is Rudy supposed to find the time to work on his strength and conditioning (and free throws, damn it) if he spends the summer playing for France?

Rudy regressed this past season and it my personal opinion that not using last summer to work on his game had a lot to do with it.
 
I want to see him in summer league this year. I don't care to see him play internationally though.


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I think he should play as much as possible.
He needs to get his confidence back.

If he is injury prone then holding him out only prolongs the inevitable.
Like he said himself in the locker clean out interviews, he cant play scared.

Get him out there SL, NT, as much as possible.
Get him back into game situations.
 
Look at Derrick Rose, he held out for a long time and ended up getting re-injured after his torn ACL.

I think the sooner you get back to real game scenario after the doctor cleared you, the better it is to adjust to normal game intensity. there is the a psychological hurdle that you have to overcome the brain would still try to overcompensate to protect the previously injured knee, and that can lead to re-injury when it throws your body out of balance again. The sooner it is to get back in game shape, the more time he gets to re-adjust his brain to playing like the knee is normal again.
 
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