To be fair Exum was picked much higher in "the draft" and would give Perth less than Daniels has so far Imo. Guess that's the price of putting to much stock in draft positions.

They might not have a contractual obligation to keep him, but if they don't NBA teams will have zero incentive to send their guys to Perth in the future.

Mystro do you just look at stats or have you watched extensive footage of Exum ?

Don't bite the bait Mystro. annon always pulls that one liner out of his bag.

what extensive footage annon? I may have been promoting words like "raped" online whilst you were watching all this mythical footage?

he's (Dante) played limited minutes against grown men much like Daniels and struggles with some aspects of the game but has potential and athleticism much like Daniels.

Yes - otherwise NBA teams may be less likely to send players and stash them in Perth/Australia

Can't see them moving him on at this stage.

The P's will ensure that Daniels stays. One P and then a double P.

Politics

And

Perceived potential.

But, purely based on what I’ve seen of Daniels from watching 4 or 5 Perth games, if he was anyone other than Deandre Daniels he’d be skating on very thin ice right now. He doesn’t appear to be the right fit for them.

Their offense better improve, otherwise NZ will have their number come playoff time (and maybe Cairns and Adelaide too. And even United, who were missing Wortho and Tomlinson and got duded by the refs in the 4th yesterday, and still kept it to single digits).

dudded*

lol in 4 games in nov exum has averaged something like 7.8 points and 4 assists in 19mins.

this is compared to wiggins 10 points and 4 rebounds in 22 mins.


saying exum would give perth next to nothing if he was there is silly.

Agreed LV if he wasn't an NBA draft pick I'd get rid of him. He's more a 3/4 when they really need a 2/3 who can shoot it. If McRae wasn't so selfish he'd be the perfect fit. Their defence is winning games right now for them but they need more offence

you are assuming that I meant Daniels has given Perth nothing........

Daniels will get better as the season progresses.You can see he has the tools just needs to mature.Definately wouldn't cut him.

Muo was on fire in the 3rd quarter.

Muo or Ross ? Now that's worth debating.

Muo is a far better shooter than Ross. Ross needs to have a couple of real good games this weekend or he could very well be replaced by Muo when Hire returns.

And Ross had a really good game a couple weeks ago.

It's one of the qualities of the Wildcats; all of the bench players can put up some points if asked. Redhage and Wagstaff had one of their worst games in terms of shooting, everything rimmed out, so a huge scoring load fell on the bench (which did include Daniels), which collectively put up 32pts compared to 4 for the United bench.

Elbow surgery is probably the main reason he's not shooting well. Seems to have lost all confidence in it and is passing up open looks. If his elbow doesn't heal soon at least by christmas they should look to bring in a replacement

Safe as houses.

I think Daniels is a nice player whose finding his niche still. His team mates are not giving him James Ennis opportunities so it's hard to read to much into the fact that his numbers are lower.
I think he'll get significantly better as the season progresses.
Another thing- Ernest Ross should be playing more!

Ennis was so good, despite not being great at creating shots, because he was just so natural at moving off the ball and getting into positions to finish. He is a natural scorer.

Daniels is a natural role-player, last night he showed exactly what he is capable of at the moment with deflections, blocks, boards at both ends and a few baskets here and there.