I’m not even going to say what everybody is thinking with regards to Dante Exum. Not even going to say it. There would be no point; every side of the argument is entrenched in their positions. Jazz fans would be like “nuh uh he’s still recovering from injury” and rational NBA observers would be like “but he hasn’t done anything remotely deserving of the 5th overall pick, which makes him a…” and I would be like “don’t use that word around here”.
The Jazz are too good to really let Dante spread his wings and crash straight to the ground this year. I don’t know if they expected their sudden change of fortunes, but they are a good-looking team without much help from their hyped-up Australian PG who isn’t Ben Simmons. He gets a decent amount of minutes still, but not enough to really REALLY see what he has in the tank.
In other news, I really apologize for not doing highlights when Dante had 14 earlier this season. I don’t know what I was thinking, maybe I thought he was in the process of breaking out so 14 points wasn’t worthwhile, maybe I just got lazy, but I’m sorry.