Dante Exum

mean, what are we talking about? What the fuck? Mark Morris, Dwight Powell.

What are we talking about? Garrett Lively, Garrett Jones, Kyrie Irving, Luka Doncic, Dante Exum.

Seth Curry was not on that team.

Josh Green, Tim Hardaway.

Is he on the team right now? Is he on the team right now? Is he on the team right now? Is he on

the team right now? Okay, he said the team right now.

Are you taking Kevin Carr or are you taking Dante Exum? Dante Exum.

Man, get the fuck up.

Luka Dončić, Kyrie Irving, PJ Washington, Derrick Jones Jr., Derrick Lively II, Daniel Gafford, Josh Green, Maxi Kleber, and Tim Hardaway Jr.

You have Dante Exum, Jaden Hardy, and Dwight Powell as the other fringe rotation guys.

If you wanna compare these rosters a bit closer, statistically, 2024 Luka is the best version of Luka.

If you look at his 2026 numbers versus 2024 numbers, he's better across the board.

Fourth overall, Aaron Gordon.

Fifth, Dante Exum.

Six, Marcus Smart.

Seven, Julius Randle.

Oh, man.

Dante Exum got hurt and shut it down after like...

He shut it down early, right? He didn't even get hurt.

He just had a...

Aaron Gordon at the time to Orlando.

Dante Exum to Utah.

You have one guy in there who became a superstar but has had trouble staying healthy in Embiid.

You have

two guys who basically busted somewhat because of injuries or not, but they only played a combined 630 games together in the NBA.

That's Jabari Parker and Dante Exum.

But then you have two guys who became championship high-level role players, Andrew Wiggins and Aaron Gordon.

Of course, that was in Denver.

69.9% of us said yes.

D'Angelo Russell, Dante Exum, Brandon Williams, and Ryan Nembhard are enough of a replacement for Kyrie, and that could not have been more wrong, and that is one of the reasons why we were so wrong about the Mavs last year.

I mean, I think the biggest thing about the Mavs were we went into last year and Anthony Davis was healthy going into training camp.

Except for his

Remember when we asked the question, would you want LeBron on the Mavs? Because there were some whispers and stuff through there.

Speaking

of Dante Exum, would you rather have Dante Exum or LeBron James?

56% of people.

I mean, obviously, every Would You Rather is a two-parter, but each one of these Would You Rathers has two parts.

Would you rather have Dante DiVincenzo back on the Knicks, but Jalen Brunson goes to the Indiana Pacers? Or would you rather have Dante Exum back on the Knicks and Cat goes to the Philadelphia 76ers?

Oh, my God.

This is something that I will have a nightmare about tonight.

Situation two.

The Pacers that he's going to.

Dante Exum, who was never a Knick, but he was a Knick.

He was a Knick in my fantasy draft on 2K, so I do kind of think of him fondly as a sharpshooter for me.

We can trade him specifically.

Or, like, you know, we've got to get rid of Dante.

I wouldn't be a fan of that.

But, like you said, on a veteran minimum.

Ant's three-point attempts were down from last year, 8.4 from 10.3, the year he was the leading three-point makes.

But he's still tied for fourth in three-point makes last year, even with missing significant points.

amount of time Dante's out this year, meaning there's going to be more attempts for him as well.

And some of those will go to IO and Josh Green and whoever, maybe Trey Lyles.

It was very short stint, and this was, like, very niche player, but he was great in that he was very fast player moving the ball.

It was Dante Exum in Dallas.

I think he was a guy who was very willing to move the ball, but he would run a, he would, I don't know, do an edge dribble, find Luka, play it back, and they would play much faster with him.

I think Luka was having most trail threes coming off Dante Exum passes.

So I don't know if Colin Sexton is that player, but I think if you have a guy who can drive, collapse the play fast, and then kick it out back, I think that, that is something how you can also increase the pace and be more aggressive on offense and play with higher motor on offense.

One of the ways that I think you can win with offensive motor is in scramble situations.

And guys who, it's not even really about speed, D, it's, it's about, like, mental processing of, like, Kevon Looney or Walker Kessler just grabbed this offensive board, and everybody's heads are kinda turned.

You're not locked in your shell the way that you are prior to the shot going up.

Shaq, 10K rebounds and 10 a game per season.

And Nikoli Jokic for 10 a game per season and born outside the U.S. our grid one last time if we want to recap we got richard jefferson for bucks and warriors we got nate thurman for warriors 10 000 career rebounds buddy healed warriors born outside the us uh charlie villanueva for bucks and mavericks deandre jordan for mavericks 10k career rebounds uh dante exum mavericks born outside the u.s oj mayo for bucks 10 points a game per season artist gilmore for 10 a game per season and 10 000 career rebounds and dennis schroeder for 10 points a game per season and born outside the U.S. 50 states in Washington, D.C.

Thank you, everyone, for listening to this episode of the Driving Dish NBA podcast.

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