Why Dante Exum Could Be Key To Potential Mavericks Playoff Success | The Get Right
I did want to talk about this team and obviously we know what you have in your starters when you know what you have or not just in your starters but in your stars rather Luca donic Kyrie Irving we have been gushing over Kyrie in particular in a way that I feel like
He’s he’s been kind of secondary he hasn’t been thought about a lot and it’s been nice that that that crazy hook floater shot thing that put you over the the Denver Nuggets has you know brought him again back to the Forefront of these conversations we all know what LCA donic
Has done as he continues to be a leading scorer in the league racking up triple doubles left and right but outside of that who who do you feel is super important and is Dante exom vital to this uh Jay uh sorry um Jake fiser of Yahoo sports wrote a fantastic feature
About Dante exim and how he returned to the NBA and found success what’s Jake got for us with with these I mean it’s a full feature I’m not going to be able to break it all the way down every word Reggie I want to hear from the Fisher I
Don’t think that’s how that’s going to go but you know he talks about how you know he’s been able to break out of this the slump and he said there wasn’t an a mechanical tweak when it came to his three-point shot he said it’s just comfortability consist consistency
Rather and confidence that’s one thing that I’ve tried to improve but I think a lot of times when you’re shooting you miss one you get kind of in your head a little bit so on so forth and so I was was reading this feature and I was
Thinking is Dante exom vital to these Dallas Mavericks because there was a point in time and of course that point has fluctuated but it’s not it’s still kind of here where Tim was Tim Hardway Jr was having a real tough go right and we were talking about what are some of
The answers that you could possibly have to fixing that especially when you need like that level of shooting in some ways and I know Jaden Hardy was a is a famous as he just hit one answer right he just hit a corner three that was one of those
Answers that a lot of people had and one of the things I was thinking is like is Dante exom that guy cuz he help he can he can in theory help you organize offense he’s been a point guard since he was drafted into lead by the Cavs right
He long arms defensively you can see the F and then when he is shooting we’ve seen the I mean the reason that’s the reason he got back to the NBA is cuz that shooting started going down uh overseas in a way that it hadn’t prior
And that made it more viable do you feel like that Dante exom is vital to this Mavs team yeah Dante exom is is super vital he’s very underrated if you watch the MS uh intensely you realize the impact he had I thought a I thought a great example was that Nuggets game I
Believe it was the actually it might have been the Spurs game when he was dribbling out the they were trying to dribble out the clock and they were getting a little flustered in the back court and he didn’t get flustered he took one or two steps kind of retreated
Had two guys come towards him and then threw the ball uh down the court for a leak away dunk and I would say sometimes even more than Luke Luka is obviously a phenomenal player that’s bold let’s hear what you got but just more than Luka sometimes than just not getting
Flustered I think Luca has great pace and he’s not going to dribble off his foot and whatnot but sometimes Luca can make a a really um fancy pass when it’s not needed like I feel like with exom if I need to dribble out the clock if it’s
Late in the game I just need to hold it for a free throw I feel like Kyrie and exom have the two highest basketball IQs on the four Luca’s basketball when just making plays out of this world but just you know late game situation I feel
Really good with the ball in Dante xom’s hands he he knows when he’s not does have it on to pass it up he knows when he does have it on when he’s three for three to hit four for four and go 100% from the field the other night and hit
His shot so I think Dante XM gives you that IQ factor that we know Jason kid in the Dallas Mavericks as CA talked about they really value that and guys that are really smart basketball players which is why I think you see Dante xam getting so many minutes and looking at cleaning the
Glass here great side if you want to do a little bit of a deeper analytics view on basketball and kind of their Dante exm um onoff splits and kind of their um where they rank percentile wise when it comes to points per 100 possessions um Dante Exon
Right now is at a 8.4 plus which is in the 95th percentile effective field goal percentage uh plus 4.1 97th percentile and then this is the one that’s kind of going back to what I just said turnover percentage what percentage of the team’s possessions end in a turnover when Dante
Xam is on the floor minus 2.8% that is the 99 percentile so that’s the best in the league pretty much he is very good at not turning the ball over so I just feel like you can trust him with the ball um not to mention he’s shooting 50%
From three this year now he only shoots about one or two a game that’s that’s the thing I think 40 of 80 right now I think exactly on the mark of it a 50% doesn’t shoot that many but it feels like they’re always timely he he’s not
Going to make the wrong play you might want him to be like oh make one more play you’re doing so great but he’s not more more times a night he’s going to make it like man what is Dante XM doing he’s just all over the place so he’s a
Calming factor to what do sometimes every once a while out of pace uh uh Dallas Mavericks team can be yeah and I think that’s and maybe the 214 gets to the heart of my thought on this cuz I I don’t know that he’s vital right now
Right we saw him we saw him Miss some time recently and the Mavs were still I mean they were part of it was part of the the up and down streaks that you’ve had but the Mavs have been able to you know weather that but one of the things
About it is it feels like the things that he is capable of doing if he does them especially at the highest level that he’s capable of he can be vital from the 24 they said he can be if he takes on a Draymond Green floor type
Floor General type role I’m not sure if he’ll take on especially that particular type where he’s organizing everybody I don’t know that he’s on the floor enough to be able to affect that but one one of the things that we talked about a lot last year and I don’t know we talked a
Little bit about it earlier on this season and we’ve kind of not talked about it a ton just because they haven’t had a lot of this available to to them which is having a third ball handler yep yep and there and there’s a reason that J kid wanted to insert him in the
Starting lineup remember right after he was going off and he was like hey yeah when exm I I believe it was either I think it was when Kyrie comes back or something like exm is still going to be in the starting yeah cuz Kyrie was hurt
Exm got put in and during that time when Kyrie was hurt that was a lot of December K exm shot 53% from three and obviously his volume went up he was shooting three and a half three-pointers and he was very solid I think no one had any push back everyone was like yeah
Keep him in the starting lineup and I think that’s where I’m talking about the idea of he can be if you get him a little bit more volume on the shooting I think that we’ve seen and of course it’s very small sample I can’t say that
Absolutely but I think you can see he’s capable of handling some of that knocking down some of those shots he’s capable of being another guy that you trust to initiate offense and do things outside of just Luke and Kyrie who you want to have the ball in their hands
Primarily but it’s always helpful to have another guy on the floor to be able to do some of those things and then that you know having that wings siiz player even though he’s he’s guard having that middle it seems like you’ve lacked in that middle siiz player PJ Washington is
A little bit bigger but he slots in there um drik Jones Jr a little bit in there but you’re kind of missing in that L quick guys Josh green and xim of the first two guys to come to my mind and Josh King being out when you have a
Really Speedy guard or maybe even a physical guard just a guard that’s going to be a a main ball handler for them and trying to set things up and trying to score throwing Dante X him out there I mean you I I don’t think you can just
Have Kyrie and luuka when you play against the Tyrese Max other worlds and the Damen lillers like these really explosive scores you can’t just be like all right Luca Kyrie Gard you kind of have to have XM out there because you don’t have Josh Green right now so I
Think exm is very vital in guarding kind of those really Shifty guards as well as being a calming Factor on the offensive side of the ball to kind of take the load off of those two guys so I think it’s nice when he plays with both of
Them but I also think a compliments where one of those guys can sit on the bench and now you can have Luca xam Kyrie xam and they can both set up the offense I mean it feels like for the last couple weeks of the season last few
Weeks of the Season he’s going to be important now let me let me push this forward how important do you see Dante XM in the postseason because one of the things we were talking about I think yesterday not even on air is the idea the Mavs are pretty they go pretty deep
Right now right they they usually play the 10 guys in their rotation which is a deep rotation and that doesn’t include Jaden Hardy who in this game is getting a little bit of burn but typically doesn’t right he’s getting some burn because Josh Green who is typically in
That rotation is not because of injury and so when that rotation inevitably shortens up a little bit as it always does in the playoff do you feel like Dante xon will still be important to what you’re doing I think his minutes go up I think his minutes goes up in the
Playoffs he seems like a guy that Jason kid was very high on going into the season talk about it throughout the season he’s he’s a veteran he’s a guy that is like not very like volatile like he’s not going to throw 100 shots up he’s he do have dumb turnover he doesn’t
Really give you a reason to bench him other than you’re like I just don’t want to play play him right now like I want shooting out there I want this or that like I think he’s a guy that’s going to be getting a lot of minutes I I think he will
Be I could see him being the first or second guy off the bench every playoff game oh wow yeah whether it be like Lively in him like I think I think Tim’s minutes are going to continue to decrease in my opinion we’re already seeing it starting to happen I think
Exom and your whoever whatever big is not starting will’ll be the first two guys off the bench and then it’ll be like Josh green and Tim or Josh green and Jon Junior who whoever is not starting in that three spot I’m I’m I’m not entirely disagreeing with you it
Just feels like it feels like Jas kid has in some ways tied himself to Tim Hardway Jr and I mean you can see the ways in which he’s also been a little bit more concerted in you know making sure that that isn’t a ton of time but
Man um if he does that would be really interesting I I I want to see what it looks like and he could be he could be important to what your mths do the 214 did we really just say Dante is more valuable than Luka I think you said in
Some instances he’s more important than luuka and you were trying to make the mention of just like handling the ball some big situations he’s not more valuable than Luka in a v it it threw me it bought me for a second as well in a vacuum now I am saying like late gang
Situations Luca is the best player in the world that not’s a really good that’s not discussion Dante xam is just like going to make the right play nine times out of out of 10 feels like almost all the time whereas luuka might get a little excited and try to make make an
Extra pass I still trust Luca out there like I want him on the bench I don’t know it sounded Rodrigo get him off my team yeah it sounded like he wanted Luca out out of there dur I want I want all three guards out there give me Daniel
Gafford give me PJ give me the championship so yeah I I found that to be interesting shout out to uh Jake fiser Yahoo sports who wrote a really interesting uh just kind of feature on Dante XM his return to the NBA and in his return to the NBA he’s he’s been
Impactful for your Mavs at least in stretches I wonder if he continues to be be that as you get closer and closer to the postseason and once you get there one thing we got to monitor as well as his minutes M cuz Jason kid is even
Mentioned like I want to keep him under 25 minutes and we saw those minutes ramp up when Kyrie was out then the injury happened now he’s coming back he’s obviously trying to keep him under 25 minutes but like how I want him and I I don’t think I’m the only MAV fan that’s
Like oh let’s let’s keep him out there like he he’s doing well and you want his minutes to increase and the playoffs are about to happen and you’re playing a tighter rotation I wonder if he’ll be able to keep with the workload that Jason kid wants if it is over
Expectation of like yeah I want this guy out there a lot or if it’s just hey I just want you in spot minutes give Kyrie and Luca a break and we’re not you’re not really a huge rotational piece it’ll it’ll be something to monitor just with kind of that miniature Sttion
Luka Doncic and Kyrie Irving will carry the Mavs to any potential playoff wins, but backup PG Dante Exum could be more pivotal to said success than you think. Reg & Blake discuss Jake Fischer’s article on Exum, his minutes and importance to the Mavs.
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Did they seriously said, that Exum and Kyrie has better(higher) IQ than Luka? 🤔🤯