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Exum Injured

colton said:
Yep. I seriously don't understand the guys who are saying, "The Jazz should never have let him play that game!" An injury like that could have happened in ANY game. So you're going to tell the kid not to play any basketball at all during the summer?
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I think I understand. They are the same people that if he didn't play would have been super pissed that Dante had passed up an opportunity to grow. "Playing w/ his national team would have made Exum more confident. Confidence is all he needs to become an all star. DL is a big dumb head."
 
colton said:
Yep. I seriously don't understand the guys who are saying, "The Jazz should never have let him play that game!" An injury like that could have happened in ANY game. So you're going to tell the kid not to play any basketball at all during the summer?
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Agreed. The only thing I might want to see is a player like Exum waiting out the friendlies. Apparently Ingles is sitting out the Boomers’ qualifying games to "recover from a tough first NBA season". Why not Exum? At least it would lessen the probability of injury.
 
My2Cents said:
Agreed. The only thing I might want to see is a player like Exum waiting out the friendlies. Apparently Ingles is sitting out the Boomers’ qualifying games to "recover from a tough first NBA season". Why not Exum? At least it would lessen the probability of injury.
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I think Ingles is sitting out cuz he is getting married.
 
My2Cents said:
Agreed. The only thing I might want to see is a player like Exum waiting out the friendlies. Apparently Ingles is sitting out the Boomers’ qualifying games to "recover from a tough first NBA season". Why not Exum? At least it would lessen the probability of injury.
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Singles played a full season of Euro league, NBA, and international play.
 
zyzz said:
Havent listened yet, but Zach Lowe talks about Exum and the Jazz in his newest podcast

https://grantland.com/the-triangle/...-other-intriguing-teams/?ex_cid=story-twitter
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If anyone is interested in a summary:

- Utah Jazz fans are crazy.
- They were likely a playoffs team before Exum's injury. Everyone who has been paying attention knows this. Losing Exum doesn't change that.
- While it sucks that Dante is set back a year, because he's an intriguing young player who needs play time to grow, he's so far been an unknown quantity.
- Nonetheless, Jazz got Burks back, and a full season of Gobert at center.
- It's not clear whether Exum contributed much to the team's success, and advanced stats show that Burke + Gobert line ups are as good as Exum + Gobert line ups.
- Still, Exum would have been better than Burke, and he would have probably shown improvement. Burke is a chucker who doesn't help defense.
- Neto is better than Burke, and he will earn the starting PG spot sometime this season, but it will take time for him to adapt to NBA basketball.
- Ingles is a nice glue player. It might be a good idea to start him, and bring both Burks and Hood off the bench. But they probably won't.
- Hood has really impressed.
- They talk about baking a cake, and the ingredients that go into cake at length. I mean literal cake baking. His guest mentions salty cakes (??).
- The Jazz tanked to get Exum. They have done a masterful job at it. Fans accept that tanking is sometimes necessary.
 
Siro said:
If anyone is interested in a summary:

- Utah Jazz fans are crazy.
- They were likely a playoffs team before Exum's injury. Everyone who has been paying attention knows this. Losing Exum doesn't change that.
- While it sucks that Dante is set back a year, because he's an intriguing young player who needs play time to grow, he's so far been an unknown quantity.
- Nonetheless, Jazz got Burks back, and a full season of Gobert at center.
- It's not clear whether Exum contributed much to the team's success, and advanced stats show that Burke + Gobert line ups are as good as Exum + Gobert line ups.
- Still, Exum would have been better than Burke, and he would have probably shown improvement. Burke is a chucker who doesn't help defense.
- Neto is better than Burke, and he will earn the starting PG spot sometime this season, but it will take time for him to adapt to NBA basketball.
- Ingles is a nice glue player. It might be a good idea to start him, and bring both Burks and Hood off the bench. But they probably won't.
- Hood has really impressed.
- They talk about baking a cake, and the ingredients that go into cake at length. I mean literal cake baking. His guest mentions salty cakes (??).
- The Jazz tanked to get Exum. They have done a masterful job at it. Fans accept that tanking is sometimes necessary.
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I accept that it's sometimes necessary in the current system, but that's why I also think that it's a failed system. A League should never encourage a team's front office to try to make it so that his team loses as many games as possible in order to draft a better player. This should somehow be punished.
 
Just listened to an Orthopedic sports specialist on the radio. Here's the interview if you want to hear the whole thing talking about Exum's potential injury and path to recovery. He said that there is a good chance for full functional recovery, but the individual knee is never the same as before the injury. He said it's usually at about 95% after recovery(I would guess that's meant performance-wise). So yah, I don't know what to make of it and I don't know what that means exactly.
https://1280thezone.com/index.php/s...w_dr_russ_toronto_the_sports_doc_acl_injuries


So yah... full functional recovery - very likely, full performance - probably not(95% usually).
Time for recovery - probably about a year for grade 3 or grade 2 tear, several months if it's grade 1 tear or some other less serious injury.
 
stitches said:
Just listened to an Orthopedic sports specialist on the radio. Here's the interview if you want to hear the whole thing talking about Exum's potential injury and path to recovery. He said that there is a good chance for full functional recovery, but the individual knee is never the same as before the injury. He said it's usually at about 95% after recovery(I would guess that's meant performance-wise). So yah, I don't know what to make of it and I don't know what that means exactly.
https://1280thezone.com/index.php/s...w_dr_russ_toronto_the_sports_doc_acl_injuries


So yah... full functional recovery - very likely, full performance - probably not(95% usually).
Time for recovery - probably about a year for grade 3 or grade 2 tear, several months if it's grade 1 tear or some other less serious injury.
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Well, FO has 2 choices, keep baking the cake, hope for a successful full recovery and nothing has happened here (2 years)
Or use assets to pick up an experienced contributor in the league and compete NOW. This cycle is ripening fast.
 
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