Ha ha.
Chad Ford on Dante Exum:
"If he sucks, they are going to hate me."
Yeah, I laughed when I heard that too.
He's such a mystery man, but it's hard not to be tantilized by what he could be.
They talked about that, too. I'm not saying he's going to be a bust, because, honestly, I have absolutely no idea. That's the point, though. Nobody really does.
I mean the marketing strategy on this kid has been nothing short of absolutely brilliant. He did very well in some under 18 and under 17 international competitions. Then he shined last year at the Hoop Summit. Since then, he's simply been hidden away. He could have gone to an American college or gone to play professionally in Europe, but instead they hid him away in Australia, paid off Chad Ford to build his mystique as an underground prospect among hoops heads like us, and now all of a sudden, people are talking about him being a top three candidate in one of the strongest drafts in a decade.
I mean he really did look good in that Hoop Summit game, though . . . along with Dennis Schroeder and Livio Jean Charles.