I have seen the future...

[FalseFlagg K]

Exum is about to get big minutes from O'Neale, Burks and Neto. And hopefully a few from Ricky and Donovan. He needs to or else Donovan and Ricky are going to burn out.

It's game on for Dante. He and Quin are going to figure it out and once Ricky, Donovan and Dante click it's gonna get serious.

I more get the feeling that Exum is about to be sat down, sacrificed on David Locke’s altar of the team can’t score with him on the floor. he can’t try point that out quickly enough. He even tried to blame X for Schroeder “getting going” in the 4th. I can see a repeat of last year ... dunno how it bodes for his future

 

[str8line]

I more get the feeling that Exum is about to be sat down, sacrificed on David Locke’s altar of the team can’t score with him on the floor. he can’t try point that out quickly enough. He even tried to blame X for Schroeder “getting going” in the 4th. I can see a repeat of last year ... dunno how it bodes for his future

Ridiculous.

What have we seen from Exum lately?

His playoff Per 36 last year(in limited min.) was: 13.7 PTS, 3.9 AST, 2.1 STL, 40% FG, 33% 3PT

Summer league, 27 MPG AVG: 20 PTS, 6.3 AST, 4.3 REB, 1 BLK, 53% FG, 41% 3PT.

And this year in only 45 minutes total he's showed flashes of brilliance.

WTH do people expect? Last year he was Quin's whipping-boy, yet still showed signs. Then he was fantastic in summer league. Now he's much stronger and just needs a little more time.

 

[fishonjazz]

Maybe we should have started crowder last night? ;-)

Fixed

 

[FalseFlagg K]

Ridiculous.

What have we seen from Exum lately?

His playoff Per 36 last year(in limited min.) was: 13.7 PTS, 3.9 AST, 2.1 STL, 40% FG, 33% 3PT

Summer league, 27 MPG AVG: 20 PTS, 6.3 AST, 4.3 REB, 1 BLK, 53% FG, 41% 3PT.

And this year in only 45 minutes total he's showed flashes of brilliance.

WTH do people expect? Last year he was Quin's whipping-boy, yet still showed signs. Then he was fantastic in summer league. Now he's much stronger and just needs a little more time.

i'm telling you dude, Locke's trying to paint him as the weak link already before any kind of sample size. His words on the pod this morning were "can't score with Dante on the floor" and yesterday on the postcast was "Schroeder got going when Dante was on him" without mentioning how Schroeder waltzed past Ricky all night long. I thought he played ok last night, so i went and watched his minutes again and there were a bunch of bricked Donovan 3's and missed shots by other guys while he was parked in the corner. Defensively he did ok, Schroeder did score on him a couple of times but he stayed with him a few times and did a few nice things. Royce was putrid

Quin's been consistent with him so far which is promising.

 

[Stars Fan]

I am willing to give them a little while to work things out. X has showed promise at times, and at other times...not so much. The only thing that really worries me is that at times he spent too much time pounding the rock out front. If there is an opening he can blow by just about anyone, if there is no opening he has a harder time creating one. I hope he gets a hang of the motion offense, if he doesn't it could be splitsville.

 

[Dali]

I have no problem with how Dante is being handled right now. It's obvious he is incredibly rusty and we can't really expect him to be given the ball and told to go create, possession after possession.

It is more what I've read from here by some Jazz fans. I was concerned that he would be torched by fans after barely 2 games, and that's exactly what happened.

It made me sick to my stomach reading the comments, and now Locke.

 

[Et tu Brute]

I think Dante is easily strong enough physically but his role of every season since he started with the Jazz is play defense and go to the corner. What's bothersome is Dante is way past the rookie status and his role is the same .Some of that's on him ,needing to be more aggressive in looking for his offense on this team (Jazz need it too from someone)and alot of it is on Snyder who is basically running the Gordon Hayward offense with DM. This doesn't leave much room from Exum to be aggressive offensively if he wants minutes BUT without exerting his aggressiveness offensively he's not going to get added minutes,so what is Exum going to do?

Summed it up perfectly. It's a real catch-22

 

[Et tu Brute]

I more get the feeling that Exum is about to be sat down, sacrificed on David Locke’s altar of the team can’t score with him on the floor. he can’t try point that out quickly enough. He even tried to blame X for Schroeder “getting going” in the 4th. I can see a repeat of last year ... dunno how it bodes for his future

Wow FFS are these real takes from Locke after the game. Was it on his daily podcast? That is crazy crazy. It felt like Shroder had to work harder to beat Exum to the rim, and Exum stopped him on two occassions. As for the Jazz not scoring with him on the court ... smfh...

This is my vibe too. Neto (who I do think is a solid basketball citizen - no offense against him) might be getting all Dante's minutes in the near future...

 

[str8line]

Wow FFS are these real takes from Locke after the game. Was it on his daily podcast? That is crazy crazy. It felt like Shroder had to work harder to beat Exum to the rim, and Exum stopped him on two occassions. As for the Jazz not scoring with him on the court ... smfh...

This is my vibe too. Neto (who I do think is a solid basketball citizen - no offense against him) might be getting all Dante's minutes in the near future...

You mean Dante might be getting all Neto's minutes?

 

[Et tu Brute]

You mean Dante might be getting all Neto's minutes?

Nope. I just listened to Locke then. He clearly was preparing the waters..
Saying things like, Jazz can't score with Dante on the floor. Need someone on the bench who can score. Dante has no midrange or 3 point game etc....

We'll see.

 

[str8line]

Nope. I just listened to Locke then. He clearly was preparing the waters..
Saying things like, Jazz can't score with Dante on the floor. Need someone on the bench who can score. Dante has no midrange or 3 point game etc....

We'll see.

Hmmm. Dante just came back!(directed at Locke) You would think our number 5 draft pick who has impressed recently not only stats-wise but with the eye-test would be given the benefit of the doubt for at least his first games back. In my opinion he has a much bigger upside than Neto, and I like Neto. We have never seen Dante like this. He's freaking HUGE compared to before. He's WAY more aggressive. Locke is an idiot. He's so worried about how Dante will fit, I'm more interested in how good he is. The fit will come.

Not to mention Quin basically psychologically abused Dante last year. He'd pull him after every mistake. I think Quin had a method and was trying to make Dante tougher. Well guess what? It worked. This is not the same Dante.

My prediction is that we'll see a few breakout games from Dante before the season is over. Hopefully not too much to garner interest around the league but enough to give Dante confidence.

Actually, it just came to me. Locke is playing reverse psychology with Dante. Challenging him. Well played, Locke. Well played.

 

[Stars Fan]

Let's not rush to judgement. X still shows a ton of promise. Let's let him practice with the team for a week or two before we give up on him.
The challenge is we don't have much margin of error.

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