stitches wrote:LoyalKing wrote:4.7ppg / 2.0 apg @ 37%FG / 30% 3-pointer / 47%TS / 62% FT in 18 minutes.
Not trying to be a smartas.., but he is playing exactly the way I predicted and the way his stats were presented before the draft. The only difference is that he is struggling to score against real men.
He is a very poor shooter (his FT shooting in Rondo bad) and he doesn't have a pass-first mentality at all. He is basically a 6'6 SG that can't shoot that was sold as a 6'6 PG in the draft. (hence the hype)
I still remain with the same opinion. Among the top 5 picks of the past draft, Exum has the biggest bust potential by far.
Lol, have you actually watched him play? Doesn't have pass first mentality? That's pretty much ALL he does. He passes! He's frustrating with that actually... HE PASSES AND PASSES AND PASSES(mainly around the perimeter)! He's shooting 60% of his shots from 3, the huge majority of those spot up open 3s. I recently compared him to Danny Green - when it comes to the shots he's taking he's almost exact copy of him:
3P Danny Green: 60%
3P Dante Exum: 58%
10-23 feet Green: 15%
10-23 feet Dante: 15%
3-10 feet Green: 7%
3-10 feet Dante: 10%
0-3 feet Green: 18%
0-3 feet Dante:17%
The problem with his play right now is not that he doesn't pass. It's that this and shooting spot up 3s is the only things he does. He's extremely passive. I bet the scouting reports on him right now say - "always, 100% of the time looks to pass, never attacks the rim or looks for his own shot" and it's completely killing his game. Right now when he beats his man off the dribble, no secondary defender comes to help on his penetration simply because they know he's going nowhere. He won't go to the rim because he looks scared to enter the paint, he won't pull up and shoot, he always looks for the pass and opponents have pretty much figured that out and cover the passing lanes and he's either forced to retract to the perimeter or pass to the perimeter.
This is his biggest problem right now - he's passive and looks scared to attack. He looks like a boy among men. I really hope as he matures and his body improves, that will change, because all the scouting reports were actually touting his aggression and penetration as one of his best attributes.
I've been watching Exum a lot in FIBA games.
Passing around a lot doesn't equate = great passing skills. Exum's game was NEVER about that. He has never been known as a great facilitator. You take guy like Rubio for example : Even though he struggled a lot with his shooting in the NBA, you could see that his vision/passing skills and his game as a facilitator was always there.
Exum has always been a great scoring guard that attacks the rim. But he needs to dominate the ball, because his lack of shooting hurts his off the ball game.
That's why he is playing so poorly in Utah. He is useless as a passive player. It's like having a scared Tyreke Evans trying to play off the ball on your team. It will never work because he is a horrible shooter and so is Exum.
Exum needs to dominate the ball, plays more aggressive and he needs floor spacers as teammates. The fact that his offensive shots are somehow similar to Green's shots just shows that he is not playing to his strengths. Green is a 3 and D that plays off the ball most of time and shoots 3s at a high rate (44% career 3p shooter). He is supposed to play that way.
Exum is taking a lot of 3s, but he is making only 30% of it. It's terrible. And I am sure that the Jazz didn't draft Exum to become a Danny Green type of player.
Look, i understand Jazz fans standing up for their player, but my opinion hasn't changed a bit. For the hype that Exum had in the draft, he has the biggest bust potential by far.
