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BTP said:
Slow down. Maybe you should be patient and see if Exum refuses to workout for teams before you attach these tags on him.

But it makes a good story for someone who's cutting himself with regularity...

He probably was asked 2 trick questions like:
1) What's your favorite holiday location in the USA?`
-> “Definitely L.A. is one option,” he said. “I’ve been to L.A. many times and I love the city, and it is a great city."
2) If the Lakers draft you and you get a chance to play with Kobe, are you be excited about it?
-> " If I get the opportunity to go to L.A. and play for the Lakers, I know I’ll have love for the city. But just to be in an environment where you have a great player like Kobe, where you have a mentor in a way as a rookie, I think that would be the best option.”

So now you connect these two quotes and suddenly it can appear on first sight like you're only focused on landing in LA...
That's simply what bad journalists do all the time.( And I know that for a fact)

Maybe you should contact Exum and ask him for an telephone interview for jazzfanz.com
Ask him the homer questions and he'll do you the courtesy and be polite about them. Now you do the tricky part and make a loop out of a rope.

Since it's playoff time right now and prospect business will be slow over the course of the next month until the draft lottery I expect very little valuable input and impact in this thread.
And a lot of: "We're mountain ppl none wants to live here" - QQ

I hope we can get a few background personality stories on the international guys since these kind of cover childhood stories already exist on the college guys.
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Agreed.

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"I don't want to go somewhere like the [LA] Clippers who have Chris Paul and be stuck behind him,'' he said. ''I want to go to a team which is going to want and need me, and hopefully get minutes in my first season."

is really the closest he's come to taking about places he doesn't want to be. Chad Ford has been the one warning about workout availability

Q: Could Dante Exum work as 2 alongside somebody like MCW at the next level? Chad Ford: Yes, he can play both positions. But I know he really wants to be a NBA point guard and I don't think teams that have a young point guard will get a visit from Exum for workouts. I can't see his agent, Rob Pelinka, sending him to Philly for example.
 
UNLV should be really good this year...

Goodluck Okonoboh and Khem Birch would easily be one of the best rim protecting front courts in the nation and Rashad Vaughn and Dwayne Morgan on the wing is about as dynamic as you will find
 
PointGod_AlecBurks said:
April 27 -- NBA Draft Early Entry Eligibility Deadline

still waiting to hear from

Mario Hezonja
K.J. McDaniels
Mitch McGary
Isaiah Austin
Andrew Harrison
Damien Inglis
Spencer Dinwiddie
Aaron Harrison
Alex Poythress
Jordan Mickey
Shaq Goodwin
Khem Birch
LeBryan Nash
Wang Zhelin
Marcus Eriksson
Mateusz Ponitka
Jerian Grant
Dakari Johnson
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Arent we still waiting to hear from jabari?
 
spycam1 said:
Jazz getting Jabari.
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yup, thought about this last night... its happening

Jabari Parker 3rd

Jerami Grant 23rd

Deonte Burton 35th


I've been warming up to the idea of Jerami Grant at 23.. hes an electric athlete to find outside of the lottery, 7'2½" wingspan, 41" vertical with some nice agility, while he isnt particularly skilled hes shown tremendous improvement since last year. With some work on his Jumper and Ball-Handling, and a smooth transition from Zone Defense to man, he could end up being a major steal (sorta reminds me of a SF version of Jeremy Evans, with more potential defensively)
 
Cyrone Torbin said:
There is more background/life story info on Exum than any other prospect.
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I didn't say Exum. I said international. There's Capela, Nurkic, Micic, Saric. I bet all of them have a couple stories to share plus a highlight video.
Maybe even Hezonja if he decides to stay for 3 more years and sign once his rookie scale doesn't limit him any longer.

fishonjazz said:
Arent we still waiting to hear from jabari?
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Don't know if troll. In case you missed it:
He first hand no backchannel no spoiler leak comfirmed that he enters the NBA draft. Said some other (pseudo) emotional things about money, religion, longetivity of athletes and living the dream as well.
 
BTP said:
Don't know if troll. In case you missed it:
He first hand no backchannel no spoiler leak comfirmed that he enters the NBA draft. Said some other (pseudo) emotional things about money, religion, longetivity of athletes and living the dream as well.
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I totally missed it.

thats awesome!
 
PointGod_AlecBurks said:
yup, thought about this last night... its happening

Jabari Parker 3rd

Jerami Grant 23rd

Deonte Burton 35th


I've been warming up to the idea of Jerami Grant at 23.. hes an electric athlete to find outside of the lottery, 7'2½" wingspan, 41" vertical with some nice agility, while he isnt particularly skilled hes shown tremendous improvement since last year. With some work on his Jumper and Ball-Handling, and a smooth transition from Zone Defense to man, he could end up being a major steal (sorta reminds me of a SF version of Jeremy Evans, with more potential defensively)
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There are better choices. The last thing the Jazz need is another SF who can't shoot from outside.
 
the jazz dont really have any SF's under contract for next year though, so unless you feel that all the SF's on the team have to be able to shoot im not sure thats a legit concern. hes clearly a project, thats in part why i made the Jeremy Evans comparison.

I was thinking along the lines of if we had Jabari starting at PF it might be in our best interests to have an alpha athlete at SF just incase

his shooting needs lots of work and he just doesnt have much confidence at this point, often left open for 15-18 footers but he did manage to jump his FT% from .562 to .674, i dont think his shootings hopeless, it looks decent out of his hand (0:40 in the vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVN7L0ik4j0
 
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